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 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 67 46
Rank change year-on-year +42 -21 +16
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,515 783 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.37% 4.97% 5.00%
As % of the General category 12.57% 6.74% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 370 1,389
10th Percentile £38,984 £33,000 £37,266
25th Percentile £46,789 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £59,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +6.01% +2.65% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76,201 £69,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,750 £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 12,057 11,609 20,487
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.67% 73.74% 61.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,923 6,450 14,957
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,229 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £96,539
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 28 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 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (0.92%) Apache
4 12 (0.79%) SAS
5 9 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.46%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.20%) CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Confluence
9 3 (0.20%) Drupal
9 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.066%) nginx
Applications
1 29 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.86%) Adobe XD
3 13 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.26%) Windchill
6 3 (0.20%) InVision
6 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.20%) Sketch
7 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.13%) Civil 3D
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.066%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) iTrent
4 4 (0.26%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.13%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.066%) HFM
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 288 (19.01%) Azure
2 271 (17.89%) AWS
3 89 (5.87%) GCP
4 85 (5.61%) Power Platform
5 59 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (1.85%) Google Analytics
8 27 (1.78%) OCI
9 26 (1.72%) Entra ID
10 25 (1.65%) SaaS
11 22 (1.45%) PowerApps
12 21 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 19 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
13 19 (1.25%) Serverless
14 18 (1.19%) Azure AKS
15 17 (1.12%) GitHub
16 16 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (0.86%) Figma
17 13 (0.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 13 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.71%) Firewall
2 35 (2.31%) WAN
3 29 (1.91%) LAN
4 27 (1.78%) Network Security
5 20 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.06%) Unified Communications
6 16 (1.06%) Wireshark
7 15 (0.99%) NGFW
7 15 (0.99%) VXLAN
8 13 (0.86%) VLAN
9 12 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (0.73%) VPN
11 10 (0.66%) Cisco Firepower
11 10 (0.66%) DNS
12 9 (0.59%) BGP
12 9 (0.59%) SMTP
12 9 (0.59%) VoIP
12 9 (0.59%) WebEx
13 8 (0.53%) MPLS
14 7 (0.46%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (4.16%) Power BI
2 61 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (3.63%) MongoDB
4 41 (2.71%) Metadata
5 37 (2.44%) NoSQL
6 35 (2.31%) MySQL
7 19 (1.25%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 15 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 13 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (0.73%) Looker
12 10 (0.66%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.66%) Relational Database
12 10 (0.66%) Tableau
13 9 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.46%) Big Data
15 6 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (2.57%) GitLab
2 36 (2.38%) Git
3 16 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.53%) JIRA
4 8 (0.53%) Selenium
5 6 (0.40%) Axure RP
5 6 (0.40%) Balsamiq
6 5 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.20%) Gatling
7 3 (0.20%) JMeter
7 3 (0.20%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.13%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.13%) JUnit
8 2 (0.13%) NUnit
8 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.066%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.066%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 329 (21.72%) Social Skills
2 205 (13.53%) Finance
3 184 (12.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 147 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 119 (7.85%) Law
6 55 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
7 52 (3.43%) Marketing
8 51 (3.37%) Legal
9 42 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (2.71%) Local Government
11 36 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.18%) Retail
13 27 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.45%) Banking
15 12 (0.79%) Multimedia
16 9 (0.59%) Advertising
16 9 (0.59%) Environmental Health
17 8 (0.53%) General Ledger
17 8 (0.53%) Police
18 6 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 422 (27.85%) Senior
2 249 (16.44%) Architect
3 153 (10.10%) Senior Manager
4 137 (9.04%) Lead
5 108 (7.13%) Analyst
6 90 (5.94%) Consultant
7 86 (5.68%) Developer
8 77 (5.08%) Business Analyst
9 71 (4.69%) Data Architect
10 63 (4.16%) Technical Architect
11 61 (4.03%) Software Engineer
12 55 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
13 52 (3.43%) Project Manager
14 47 (3.10%) Account Manager
14 47 (3.10%) Data Engineer
15 46 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
16 45 (2.97%) Designer
16 45 (2.97%) Senior Architect
17 43 (2.84%) Portfolio Manager
18 42 (2.77%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (2.84%) .NET
1 43 (2.84%) REST
2 34 (2.24%) Node.js
3 32 (2.11%) RESTful
4 26 (1.72%) Spring
5 23 (1.52%) SOAP
6 21 (1.39%) React
7 18 (1.19%) Middleware
8 17 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
8 17 (1.12%) Spring Boot
9 14 (0.92%) CSS
9 14 (0.92%) HTML
10 12 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
10 12 (0.79%) Visualforce
11 10 (0.66%) Kafka
12 9 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.59%) EDI
12 9 (0.59%) SAML
12 9 (0.59%) XMPP
13 8 (0.53%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 94 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 60 (3.96%) Product Ownership
3 46 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (2.97%) Management Information System
4 45 (2.97%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.44%) e-Learning
6 35 (2.31%) Virtual Team
7 31 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 29 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
10 27 (1.78%) PKI
11 26 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.58%) NHS
12 24 (1.58%) Security Posture
13 19 (1.25%) CMDB
14 18 (1.19%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.12%) Blog
16 16 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
17 15 (0.99%) Low-Code
18 14 (0.92%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 65 (4.29%) Linux
1 65 (4.29%) Windows
2 35 (2.31%) Unix
3 15 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.53%) Android
4 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.20%) VME
6 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (32.74%) Mentoring
2 465 (30.69%) Agile
3 439 (28.98%) Coaching
4 266 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 184 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
6 179 (11.82%) CI/CD
7 163 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 158 (10.43%) Community of Practice
9 153 (10.10%) Analytics
10 152 (10.03%) DevOps
11 139 (9.17%) AI
12 128 (8.45%) Decision-Making
13 125 (8.25%) Technology Strategy
14 124 (8.18%) Roadmaps
15 114 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
16 111 (7.33%) Software Engineering
17 100 (6.60%) Stakeholder Management
18 99 (6.53%) Test Automation
19 96 (6.34%) Scrum
20 92 (6.07%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 130 (8.58%) Java
2 110 (7.26%) Python
3 106 (7.00%) SQL
4 90 (5.94%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.57%) C#
6 17 (1.12%) Bash
7 14 (0.92%) PowerShell
7 14 (0.92%) VBA
8 12 (0.79%) Apex Code
9 10 (0.66%) R
10 8 (0.53%) C++
10 8 (0.53%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.46%) Scala
12 5 (0.33%) Bicep
12 5 (0.33%) PHP
13 4 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.26%) Perl
13 4 (0.26%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.20%) COBOL
14 3 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 368 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 309 (20.40%) SC Cleared
3 194 (12.81%) Degree
4 66 (4.36%) DV Cleared
5 53 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.38%) CISSP
7 26 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.65%) CISM
9 19 (1.25%) PMI Certification
10 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 11 (0.73%) CREST Certified
13 10 (0.66%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.53%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.53%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.46%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.40%) CCNP
16 6 (0.40%) CHECK Team Member
16 6 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (7.00%) Accessibility
2 64 (4.22%) QA
3 58 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 58 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (2.38%) NCSC
5 31 (2.05%) GDPR
6 29 (1.91%) NIST
7 28 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 20 (1.32%) GRC
9 18 (1.19%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.92%) WCAG
11 13 (0.86%) P3O
12 11 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.53%) SLA
14 7 (0.46%) PMO
15 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.33%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.26%) GAAP
17 4 (0.26%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 42 (2.77%) Docker
2 41 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.79%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.66%) vSphere
6 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 82 (5.41%) Terraform
2 50 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 40 (2.64%) Ansible
4 16 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.92%) Argo
6 13 (0.86%) Grafana
7 9 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.26%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.20%) OpenView
9 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.13%) MIIS
10 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.13%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.066%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.066%) Kibana
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.066%) SCCM
Vendors
1 187 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 60 (3.96%) Google
3 50 (3.30%) ServiceNow
4 44 (2.90%) Oracle
5 29 (1.91%) Salesforce
6 27 (1.78%) VMware
7 26 (1.72%) Cisco
8 16 (1.06%) CyberArk
9 15 (0.99%) Arista
9 15 (0.99%) Aruba
9 15 (0.99%) NetScout
9 15 (0.99%) Splunk
10 14 (0.92%) SAP
11 13 (0.86%) Adobe
12 12 (0.79%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.73%) Databricks
13 11 (0.73%) Pega
14 10 (0.66%) Apple
14 10 (0.66%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.66%) Palo Alto