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 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 59 46
Rank change year-on-year +35 -13 +16
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,340 757 1,678
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.31% 5.36% 5.17%
As % of the General category 13.16% 7.29% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,097 354 1,432
10th Percentile £39,594 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £46,486 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -1.79%

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 10,182 10,382 20,111
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.56% 73.49% 61.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,777 6,511 15,101
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,913 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 6 May 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 40 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (0.82%) SAS
4 8 (0.60%) Apache
4 8 (0.60%) Confluence
5 7 (0.52%) Drupal
6 6 (0.45%) CMS
7 5 (0.37%) nginx
8 4 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.30%) WordPress
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 2 (0.15%) JBoss
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 26 (1.94%) Adobe XD
2 23 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.37%) InVision
5 5 (0.37%) Sketch
6 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.15%) Civil 3D
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.075%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.075%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.075%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.075%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.075%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.52%) iTrent
3 5 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.30%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 252 (18.81%) Azure
2 216 (16.12%) AWS
3 82 (6.12%) GCP
4 80 (5.97%) Power Platform
5 55 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (2.24%) Entra ID
8 29 (2.16%) SaaS
9 28 (2.09%) Serverless
10 26 (1.94%) Figma
10 26 (1.94%) OCI
10 26 (1.94%) PowerApps
11 25 (1.87%) Google Analytics
12 23 (1.72%) GitHub
13 19 (1.42%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.34%) Azure AKS
14 18 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
15 17 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 16 (1.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.13%) Firewall
2 34 (2.54%) WAN
3 28 (2.09%) LAN
4 19 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (1.27%) Network Security
6 16 (1.19%) Wireshark
7 15 (1.12%) NGFW
7 15 (1.12%) VXLAN
8 13 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (0.97%) VLAN
9 12 (0.90%) Unified Communications
10 11 (0.82%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.75%) BGP
11 10 (0.75%) VPN
12 9 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (0.67%) SMTP
13 8 (0.60%) MPLS
13 8 (0.60%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.60%) WebEx
14 6 (0.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.96%) Power BI
2 38 (2.84%) MongoDB
3 37 (2.76%) Metadata
4 36 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 14 (1.04%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.90%) MySQL
9 11 (0.82%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.60%) Looker
11 7 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.52%) Tableau
12 6 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.37%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.37%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 39 (2.91%) GitLab
2 20 (1.49%) Axure RP
2 20 (1.49%) Git
3 19 (1.42%) Balsamiq
4 14 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.82%) JIRA
6 7 (0.52%) Selenium
6 7 (0.52%) Subversion
7 6 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.45%) Burp Suite
7 6 (0.45%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.30%) NUnit
9 3 (0.22%) Gatling
9 3 (0.22%) JMeter
9 3 (0.22%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.15%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 322 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 253 (18.88%) Finance
3 204 (15.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 145 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 126 (9.40%) Law
6 73 (5.45%) Marketing
7 54 (4.03%) Local Government
8 53 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
9 51 (3.81%) Telecoms
10 48 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (2.84%) Legal
11 38 (2.84%) Retail
12 35 (2.61%) Manufacturing
13 30 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.87%) Banking
15 24 (1.79%) Electronics
16 18 (1.34%) Billing
17 13 (0.97%) Police
18 10 (0.75%) General Ledger
19 6 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 364 (27.16%) Senior
2 195 (14.55%) Architect
3 153 (11.42%) Senior Manager
4 107 (7.99%) Lead
5 92 (6.87%) Consultant
6 89 (6.64%) Analyst
7 84 (6.27%) Developer
8 72 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
9 67 (5.00%) Business Analyst
10 55 (4.10%) Designer
11 49 (3.66%) Project Manager
12 45 (3.36%) Data Engineer
13 43 (3.21%) Portfolio Manager
14 42 (3.13%) Digital Project Manager
15 40 (2.99%) Senior Project Manager
16 37 (2.76%) Data Architect
16 37 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
16 37 (2.76%) Senior Digital Project Manager
16 37 (2.76%) Senior Portfolio Manager
17 34 (2.54%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.61%) .NET
2 34 (2.54%) REST
3 23 (1.72%) RESTful
4 21 (1.57%) CSS
4 21 (1.57%) HTML
5 20 (1.49%) Middleware
5 20 (1.49%) Node.js
5 20 (1.49%) React
5 20 (1.49%) Spring
6 19 (1.42%) SOAP
7 15 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (1.12%) Visualforce
8 12 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
8 12 (0.90%) SAP CAF
9 11 (0.82%) Spring Boot
10 10 (0.75%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (0.75%) PySpark
11 9 (0.67%) Kafka
11 9 (0.67%) SAML
12 8 (0.60%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.22%) Product Ownership
2 68 (5.07%) Cloud Native
3 45 (3.36%) Virtual Team
4 43 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 39 (2.91%) Blog
6 38 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 36 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.69%) NHS
8 33 (2.46%) Data Centre
9 28 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (2.09%) PKI
9 28 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
12 20 (1.49%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.19%) Low-Code
14 14 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.04%) PMI
15 12 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
16 10 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.81%) Windows
2 49 (3.66%) Linux
3 26 (1.94%) Unix
4 12 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.75%) Android
6 9 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.22%) VME
8 1 (0.075%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (30.97%) Mentoring
2 367 (27.39%) Agile
3 366 (27.31%) Coaching
4 222 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 192 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
6 165 (12.31%) Community of Practice
7 158 (11.79%) AI
8 150 (11.19%) Analytics
9 145 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 127 (9.48%) CI/CD
11 126 (9.40%) DevOps
12 115 (8.58%) Technology Strategy
13 110 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
14 109 (8.13%) Collaborative Culture
15 108 (8.06%) Decision-Making
16 102 (7.61%) Roadmaps
17 99 (7.39%) Business Intelligence
18 90 (6.72%) Project Management
19 83 (6.19%) Business Development
19 83 (6.19%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 106 (7.91%) Python
2 85 (6.34%) SQL
3 82 (6.12%) Java
4 60 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 37 (2.76%) C#
6 15 (1.12%) Apex Code
6 15 (1.12%) Bash
6 15 (1.12%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.04%) VBA
8 12 (0.90%) Scala
9 11 (0.82%) R
10 9 (0.67%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.37%) Bicep
12 4 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.22%) COBOL
13 3 (0.22%) PHP
13 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.15%) ABAP
14 2 (0.15%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 344 (25.67%) Security Cleared
2 290 (21.64%) SC Cleared
3 211 (15.75%) Degree
4 46 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.84%) CISSP
7 31 (2.31%) CISM
8 27 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.42%) ACCA
11 16 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.19%) PMI Certification
12 15 (1.12%) CREST Certified
12 15 (1.12%) DBS Check
12 15 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 12 (0.90%) CHECK Team Member
14 10 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.67%) Cyber Scheme
15 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (5.45%) Accessibility
2 55 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (3.66%) QA
5 33 (2.46%) GDPR
6 30 (2.24%) GRC
6 30 (2.24%) NIST
7 26 (1.94%) WCAG
8 19 (1.42%) GAAP
8 19 (1.42%) IFRS
9 15 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (1.12%) NCSC
9 15 (1.12%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.97%) P3O
11 12 (0.90%) SLA
12 10 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 6 (0.45%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 42 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.76%) Docker
3 23 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.27%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.75%) vSphere
6 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.075%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.075%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (5.82%) Terraform
2 39 (2.91%) Ansible
3 34 (2.54%) Kubernetes
4 18 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.04%) Argo
6 12 (0.90%) Grafana
7 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (0.45%) Nessus
9 6 (0.45%) Nmap
10 4 (0.30%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.22%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.22%) Control-M
11 3 (0.22%) OpenView
11 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.15%) MIIS
12 2 (0.15%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.075%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.075%) SCCM
13 1 (0.075%) WSUS
Vendors
1 200 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.85%) Google
3 39 (2.91%) Oracle
4 37 (2.76%) SAP
5 32 (2.39%) Salesforce
6 28 (2.09%) Adobe
7 27 (2.01%) VMware
8 23 (1.72%) Cisco
9 22 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.19%) CyberArk
10 16 (1.19%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.12%) Arista
11 15 (1.12%) Aruba
11 15 (1.12%) NetScout
12 12 (0.90%) Splunk
13 10 (0.75%) Fortinet
14 8 (0.60%) Apple
14 8 (0.60%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.60%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.60%) Samsung