Hybrid/Remote Public Sector Job Trends

Public Sector
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 69 47
Rank change year-on-year +44 -22 +15
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,481 765 1,719
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.30% 4.92% 4.95%
As % of the General category 12.52% 6.62% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,245 355 1,433
10th Percentile £39,079 £33,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,789 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £59,250 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +2.22% +0.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 11,833 11,558 20,938
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.34% 74.33% 60.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,734 6,390 15,306
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,180 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Sector and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Public Sector job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Public Sector
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Public Sector salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 35 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (0.95%) Apache
4 12 (0.81%) SAS
5 9 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.20%) CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Drupal
9 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.14%) Camunda
10 2 (0.14%) Confluence
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.068%) nginx
Applications
1 29 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.01%) Adobe XD
4 13 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.27%) InVision
5 4 (0.27%) Sketch
5 4 (0.27%) Windchill
6 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.14%) Civil 3D
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.47%) iTrent
4 4 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.068%) HFM
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 283 (19.11%) Azure
2 254 (17.15%) AWS
3 87 (5.87%) GCP
4 86 (5.81%) Power Platform
5 58 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (1.96%) Google Analytics
8 26 (1.76%) OCI
9 25 (1.69%) Entra ID
10 24 (1.62%) SaaS
11 22 (1.49%) PowerApps
12 21 (1.42%) Amazon S3
13 20 (1.35%) Serverless
14 19 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
15 18 (1.22%) Azure AKS
16 17 (1.15%) GitHub
17 16 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (1.01%) Figma
19 13 (0.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 13 (0.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.84%) Firewall
2 34 (2.30%) WAN
3 28 (1.89%) LAN
4 27 (1.82%) Network Security
5 18 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.08%) Unified Communications
6 16 (1.08%) Wireshark
7 15 (1.01%) NGFW
7 15 (1.01%) VXLAN
8 13 (0.88%) VLAN
9 12 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (0.74%) VPN
11 10 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (0.61%) BGP
12 9 (0.61%) SMTP
12 9 (0.61%) WebEx
13 8 (0.54%) DNS
13 8 (0.54%) MPLS
14 6 (0.41%) DMZ
14 6 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (4.25%) Power BI
2 58 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 41 (2.77%) Metadata
5 37 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 32 (2.16%) MySQL
7 17 (1.15%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 16 (1.08%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (0.74%) Looker
12 10 (0.68%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.68%) Tableau
13 8 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.47%) Big Data
14 7 (0.47%) Relational Database
15 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (2.63%) GitLab
2 36 (2.43%) Git
3 15 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.54%) Selenium
5 7 (0.47%) Axure RP
5 7 (0.47%) Balsamiq
6 6 (0.41%) JIRA
7 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.20%) Gatling
8 3 (0.20%) JMeter
8 3 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.14%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.14%) JUnit
9 2 (0.14%) NUnit
9 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.068%) Mocha
10 1 (0.068%) Zephyr
General
1 320 (21.61%) Social Skills
2 203 (13.71%) Finance
3 184 (12.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 144 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (7.83%) Law
6 52 (3.51%) Marketing
7 50 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
7 50 (3.38%) Legal
8 41 (2.77%) Local Government
8 41 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (2.23%) Retail
11 27 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.49%) Banking
13 12 (0.81%) Multimedia
14 9 (0.61%) Advertising
14 9 (0.61%) Environmental Health
15 8 (0.54%) Police
16 7 (0.47%) General Ledger
17 6 (0.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 409 (27.62%) Senior
2 238 (16.07%) Architect
3 152 (10.26%) Senior Manager
4 126 (8.51%) Lead
5 105 (7.09%) Analyst
6 88 (5.94%) Consultant
7 86 (5.81%) Developer
8 76 (5.13%) Business Analyst
9 66 (4.46%) Data Architect
10 59 (3.98%) Technical Architect
11 57 (3.85%) Software Engineer
12 55 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
13 52 (3.51%) Project Manager
14 48 (3.24%) Data Engineer
15 47 (3.17%) Designer
16 46 (3.11%) Account Manager
17 44 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
18 43 (2.90%) Portfolio Manager
19 42 (2.84%) Digital Project Manager
19 42 (2.84%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.84%) .NET
2 41 (2.77%) REST
3 32 (2.16%) RESTful
4 30 (2.03%) Node.js
5 25 (1.69%) Spring
6 22 (1.49%) SOAP
7 21 (1.42%) React
8 18 (1.22%) Middleware
9 17 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (1.08%) Spring Boot
11 15 (1.01%) CSS
11 15 (1.01%) HTML
12 12 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
12 12 (0.81%) Visualforce
13 10 (0.68%) Kafka
14 9 (0.61%) EDI
14 9 (0.61%) SAML
14 9 (0.61%) XMPP
15 8 (0.54%) AngularJS
15 8 (0.54%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 91 (6.14%) Cloud Native
2 60 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 44 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
3 44 (2.97%) Management Information System
3 44 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 37 (2.50%) e-Learning
5 34 (2.30%) Virtual Team
6 31 (2.09%) Data Centre
7 30 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
9 28 (1.89%) PKI
10 27 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.69%) NHS
11 25 (1.69%) Security Posture
12 19 (1.28%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.22%) Blog
13 18 (1.22%) CMDB
14 15 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.01%) Low-Code
15 14 (0.95%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.85%) Linux
2 56 (3.78%) Windows
3 26 (1.76%) Unix
4 14 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.54%) Android
5 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.20%) VME
7 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (32.01%) Mentoring
2 443 (29.91%) Agile
3 416 (28.09%) Coaching
4 251 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 175 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (11.21%) CI/CD
7 161 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 153 (10.33%) Community of Practice
9 147 (9.93%) Analytics
10 136 (9.18%) DevOps
11 135 (9.12%) AI
12 122 (8.24%) Decision-Making
13 117 (7.90%) Roadmaps
14 116 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
14 116 (7.83%) Technology Strategy
15 103 (6.95%) Software Engineering
16 92 (6.21%) Collaborative Culture
17 91 (6.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 88 (5.94%) Scrum
18 88 (5.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 124 (8.37%) Java
2 107 (7.22%) Python
3 103 (6.95%) SQL
4 87 (5.87%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.63%) C#
6 17 (1.15%) Bash
7 14 (0.95%) VBA
8 13 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.68%) R
11 8 (0.54%) C++
11 8 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.47%) Scala
13 5 (0.34%) Bicep
13 5 (0.34%) PHP
14 4 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.27%) Perl
14 4 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.20%) COBOL
15 3 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 365 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 306 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 189 (12.76%) Degree
4 66 (4.46%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.43%) CISSP
7 27 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.69%) CISM
9 19 (1.28%) PMI Certification
10 18 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 11 (0.74%) CREST Certified
13 10 (0.68%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.54%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.47%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.41%) CHECK Team Member
17 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
17 6 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.95%) Accessibility
2 65 (4.39%) QA
3 59 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 36 (2.43%) NCSC
6 32 (2.16%) GDPR
7 29 (1.96%) NIST
8 28 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
9 21 (1.42%) GRC
10 19 (1.28%) PCI DSS
11 15 (1.01%) WCAG
12 13 (0.88%) P3O
13 10 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.54%) SLA
15 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.41%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.34%) GAAP
16 5 (0.34%) IFRS
16 5 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (2.70%) Docker
2 39 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.68%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 81 (5.47%) Terraform
2 44 (2.97%) Kubernetes
3 40 (2.70%) Ansible
4 16 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.95%) Argo
6 13 (0.88%) Grafana
7 9 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.20%) OpenView
10 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.14%) MIIS
11 2 (0.14%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.068%) Kibana
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.068%) SCCM
Vendors
1 190 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.12%) Google
3 46 (3.11%) ServiceNow
4 43 (2.90%) Oracle
5 30 (2.03%) Salesforce
6 26 (1.76%) VMware
7 22 (1.49%) Cisco
8 16 (1.08%) CyberArk
9 15 (1.01%) Adobe
9 15 (1.01%) Arista
9 15 (1.01%) Aruba
9 15 (1.01%) NetScout
9 15 (1.01%) Splunk
10 14 (0.95%) SAP
11 12 (0.81%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.68%) Apple
12 10 (0.68%) Databricks
12 10 (0.68%) Fortinet
12 10 (0.68%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.54%) Samsung