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 7 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 48 66
Rank change year-on-year +24 +18 -3
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,818 941 880
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.29% 5.60% 4.03%
As % of the General category 11.89% 7.93% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,338 511 495
10th Percentile £37,350 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,780 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,269 £87,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £64,500 £57,435 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.30% +4.43% -

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 15,286 11,865 13,709
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.31% 70.59% 62.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,223 6,180 7,651
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 7 October 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 43 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
3 19 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.77%) Apache
4 14 (0.77%) Confluence
5 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.44%) CMS
8 8 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.28%) MS Project Server
9 5 (0.28%) SAS
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
13 1 (0.055%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.72%) AutoCAD
4 13 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.61%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.55%) Adobe XD
8 9 (0.50%) Civil 3D
8 9 (0.50%) Navisworks
8 9 (0.50%) Revit
9 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.22%) Windchill
10 3 (0.17%) ProjectWise
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
11 2 (0.11%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.055%) Elementor
12 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.055%) SPSS
12 1 (0.055%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 20 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
2 18 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.88%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
5 14 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.77%) Oracle Cash Management
5 14 (0.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 7 (0.39%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 7 (0.39%) iTrent
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
9 4 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
10 3 (0.17%) Elite 3E
10 3 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
12 1 (0.055%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 357 (19.64%) AWS
2 317 (17.44%) Azure
3 93 (5.12%) GCP
4 91 (5.01%) Power Platform
5 74 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (3.47%) SaaS
7 51 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 42 (2.31%) GitHub
10 40 (2.20%) Serverless
11 35 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
13 29 (1.60%) Azure AKS
14 28 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
15 23 (1.27%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (1.16%) Amazon S3
17 21 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (1.16%) Google Analytics
18 19 (1.05%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.42%) Network Security
2 35 (1.93%) Firewall
2 35 (1.93%) LAN
2 35 (1.93%) WAN
3 29 (1.60%) DNS
4 23 (1.27%) DHCP
5 14 (0.77%) VPN
5 14 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.66%) VLAN
7 11 (0.61%) BGP
7 11 (0.61%) CTI
7 11 (0.61%) Unified Communications
7 11 (0.61%) VoIP
8 10 (0.55%) OSPF
9 7 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (0.39%) Intranet
9 7 (0.39%) MPLS
9 7 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
9 7 (0.39%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.13%) Power BI
2 68 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (2.64%) MongoDB
4 41 (2.26%) MySQL
5 38 (2.09%) Metadata
6 29 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 25 (1.38%) SQL Server
8 20 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.94%) Spark SQL
10 16 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (0.77%) Big Data
11 14 (0.77%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 13 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.61%) Tableau
15 10 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
17 7 (0.39%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 73 (4.02%) Git
2 44 (2.42%) GitLab
3 27 (1.49%) JIRA
4 15 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.44%) Balsamiq
6 6 (0.33%) Axure RP
7 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.17%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.11%) Flyway
10 2 (0.11%) Selenium
11 1 (0.055%) JUnit
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.055%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.055%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 442 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 275 (15.13%) Finance
3 224 (12.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 191 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
5 136 (7.48%) Law
6 95 (5.23%) Local Government
7 92 (5.06%) Legal
8 82 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
9 76 (4.18%) Marketing
10 73 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.59%) Retail
12 38 (2.09%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (1.82%) Police
15 22 (1.21%) Banking
15 22 (1.21%) General Ledger
16 12 (0.66%) Multimedia
17 9 (0.50%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.44%) Environmental Health
18 8 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 470 (25.85%) Senior
2 286 (15.73%) Architect
3 186 (10.23%) Lead
4 144 (7.92%) Analyst
5 139 (7.65%) Consultant
6 105 (5.78%) Developer
7 97 (5.34%) Technical Architect
8 94 (5.17%) Business Analyst
9 93 (5.12%) Senior Manager
10 66 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 66 (3.63%) Senior Architect
10 66 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
11 65 (3.58%) Data Architect
12 59 (3.25%) Software Engineer
13 58 (3.19%) Data Engineer
13 58 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
13 58 (3.19%) Technical Leader
14 56 (3.08%) User Researcher
15 54 (2.97%) Lead Architect
16 53 (2.92%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (5.45%) Terraform
2 76 (4.18%) .NET
3 52 (2.86%) Node.js
4 39 (2.15%) CSS
5 33 (1.82%) HTML
6 31 (1.71%) REST
7 30 (1.65%) Middleware
7 30 (1.65%) PySpark
7 30 (1.65%) React
8 24 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 24 (1.32%) Spring
9 23 (1.27%) Spring Boot
10 22 (1.21%) RESTful
11 19 (1.05%) .NET Core
12 17 (0.94%) Web Services
13 16 (0.88%) XML
14 15 (0.83%) AngularJS
14 15 (0.83%) Kafka
15 14 (0.77%) Entity Framework
15 14 (0.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.34%) Cloud Native
2 70 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 61 (3.36%) Management Information System
4 59 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 50 (2.75%) NHS
7 38 (2.09%) e-Learning
8 35 (1.93%) Blog
8 35 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 29 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (1.43%) Data Centre
12 25 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.10%) CMDB
14 19 (1.05%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.05%) PKI
14 19 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.05%) Security Posture
15 18 (0.99%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.24%) Windows
2 74 (4.07%) Linux
3 58 (3.19%) Unix
4 19 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.055%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (31.57%) Agile
2 545 (29.98%) Mentoring
3 505 (27.78%) Coaching
4 400 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 261 (14.36%) CI/CD
6 243 (13.37%) Decision-Making
7 236 (12.98%) AI
8 229 (12.60%) Analytics
9 217 (11.94%) DevOps
10 216 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 208 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 193 (10.62%) Community of Practice
14 165 (9.08%) Technology Strategy
15 164 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
15 164 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
16 158 (8.69%) Scrum
17 148 (8.14%) Roadmaps
17 148 (8.14%) Software Engineering
18 132 (7.26%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 154 (8.47%) Java
2 148 (8.14%) SQL
3 128 (7.04%) Python
4 120 (6.60%) JavaScript
5 69 (3.80%) C#
6 29 (1.60%) Bash
7 25 (1.38%) C++
8 23 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 19 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 16 (0.88%) Bicep
10 16 (0.88%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.44%) PHP
11 8 (0.44%) Scala
12 7 (0.39%) ABAP
12 7 (0.39%) Ruby
13 4 (0.22%) C
14 3 (0.17%) Go
14 3 (0.17%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.17%) Perl
14 3 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 471 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 361 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 198 (10.89%) Degree
4 86 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.20%) CISSP
7 37 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (1.76%) CISM
9 22 (1.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 20 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 18 (0.99%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 16 (0.88%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.55%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.50%) APMP
16 9 (0.50%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.50%) PMP
17 8 (0.44%) ACCA
17 8 (0.44%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (8.58%) Accessibility
2 71 (3.91%) Data Quality
2 71 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (3.19%) NCSC
4 56 (3.08%) QA
5 42 (2.31%) NIST
6 38 (2.09%) GDPR
7 30 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 30 (1.65%) GRC
8 29 (1.60%) WCAG
9 19 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 17 (0.94%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.72%) PMO
12 13 (0.72%) SLA
13 10 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 9 (0.50%) ISO 19650
14 9 (0.50%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 6 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 59 (3.25%) Docker
2 43 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.76%) Ansible
3 20 (1.10%) Grafana
4 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.83%) Argo
6 13 (0.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 6 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.22%) FTK
9 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.11%) Packer
11 2 (0.11%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.11%) SCCM
12 1 (0.055%) Cisco UCCE
12 1 (0.055%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.055%) logstash
12 1 (0.055%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 230 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 77 (4.24%) Oracle
3 53 (2.92%) Google
4 52 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 37 (2.04%) Workday
6 31 (1.71%) Cisco
7 30 (1.65%) SAP
7 30 (1.65%) YouTube
8 25 (1.38%) VMware
9 23 (1.27%) Adobe
10 14 (0.77%) Databricks
11 13 (0.72%) Pega
11 13 (0.72%) Salesforce
12 12 (0.66%) Avaya
12 12 (0.66%) Genesys
13 11 (0.61%) Splunk
14 10 (0.55%) Dynatrace
14 10 (0.55%) Fortinet
15 7 (0.39%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.33%) Citrix