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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 74 48
Rank change year-on-year +49 -26 +12
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,420 711 1,672
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.38% 4.79% 4.99%
As % of the General category 12.84% 6.39% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,177 327 1,423
10th Percentile £41,150 £34,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,789 £46,244 £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 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,050 £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 11,063 11,133 20,436
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.48% 74.99% 60.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,222 6,115 15,108
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,273 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -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 4 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 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (0.92%) Apache
4 12 (0.85%) SAS
5 8 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.21%) Camunda
9 3 (0.21%) CMS
9 3 (0.21%) Drupal
9 3 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.14%) Confluence
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.070%) nginx
Applications
1 31 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.27%) Adobe XD
4 13 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.35%) InVision
5 5 (0.35%) Sketch
6 4 (0.28%) Windchill
7 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.14%) Civil 3D
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 13 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.56%) iTrent
2 8 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.28%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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 (0.070%) HFM
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 282 (19.86%) Azure
2 244 (17.18%) AWS
3 85 (5.99%) Power Platform
4 79 (5.56%) GCP
5 57 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (2.11%) SaaS
8 29 (2.04%) Entra ID
9 28 (1.97%) Serverless
10 27 (1.90%) Google Analytics
11 26 (1.83%) Amazon S3
11 26 (1.83%) OCI
12 22 (1.55%) PowerApps
13 19 (1.34%) GitHub
14 18 (1.27%) Azure AKS
14 18 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
14 18 (1.27%) Figma
15 16 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 14 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.03%) Firewall
2 38 (2.68%) WAN
3 32 (2.25%) LAN
4 25 (1.76%) Network Security
5 18 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.13%) Unified Communications
6 16 (1.13%) Wireshark
7 15 (1.06%) NGFW
7 15 (1.06%) VXLAN
8 14 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (0.99%) VLAN
9 10 (0.70%) BGP
9 10 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (0.63%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.63%) SMTP
10 9 (0.63%) VPN
10 9 (0.63%) WebEx
11 8 (0.56%) MPLS
12 7 (0.49%) DNS
13 6 (0.42%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (4.23%) Power BI
2 56 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (3.59%) MongoDB
4 44 (3.10%) Metadata
5 36 (2.54%) NoSQL
6 30 (2.11%) MySQL
7 16 (1.13%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.13%) SQL Server
8 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.70%) DynamoDB
11 9 (0.63%) Tableau
12 8 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.56%) Looker
13 7 (0.49%) Big Data
14 6 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.42%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (2.82%) GitLab
2 38 (2.68%) Git
3 15 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.77%) Axure RP
5 10 (0.70%) Balsamiq
6 9 (0.63%) Selenium
7 6 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.35%) JIRA
9 3 (0.21%) Gatling
9 3 (0.21%) JMeter
9 3 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.14%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.14%) JUnit
10 2 (0.14%) NUnit
10 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.070%) Maven
11 1 (0.070%) Subversion
General
1 323 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 213 (15.00%) Finance
3 195 (13.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 141 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 126 (8.87%) Law
6 56 (3.94%) Marketing
7 54 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
8 46 (3.24%) Legal
9 42 (2.96%) Local Government
10 41 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (2.82%) Retail
12 30 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.55%) Banking
15 10 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.63%) Advertising
17 8 (0.56%) Environmental Health
17 8 (0.56%) Police
18 7 (0.49%) Billing
18 7 (0.49%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 402 (28.31%) Senior
2 214 (15.07%) Architect
3 160 (11.27%) Senior Manager
4 127 (8.94%) Lead
5 108 (7.61%) Analyst
6 87 (6.13%) Developer
7 86 (6.06%) Consultant
8 82 (5.77%) Business Analyst
9 57 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
10 54 (3.80%) Software Engineer
11 53 (3.73%) Technical Architect
12 52 (3.66%) Data Engineer
13 51 (3.59%) Designer
13 51 (3.59%) Project Manager
14 45 (3.17%) Data Architect
15 44 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
16 43 (3.03%) Portfolio Manager
17 42 (2.96%) Digital Project Manager
17 42 (2.96%) Senior Project Manager
17 42 (2.96%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.96%) .NET
2 39 (2.75%) REST
3 33 (2.32%) RESTful
4 30 (2.11%) Node.js
5 26 (1.83%) Spring
6 21 (1.48%) React
6 21 (1.48%) SOAP
7 19 (1.34%) Middleware
8 18 (1.27%) CSS
8 18 (1.27%) HTML
9 17 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (1.13%) Spring Boot
11 14 (0.99%) PySpark
12 13 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (0.92%) Visualforce
13 11 (0.77%) EDI
14 9 (0.63%) Kafka
14 9 (0.63%) Playwright
14 9 (0.63%) SAML
14 9 (0.63%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 83 (5.85%) Cloud Native
2 66 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 46 (3.24%) Management Information System
4 45 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 44 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (2.39%) Virtual Team
7 32 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 29 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
9 28 (1.97%) PKI
10 25 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.69%) NHS
11 24 (1.69%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.27%) Blog
14 16 (1.13%) CMDB
14 16 (1.13%) Low-Code
15 14 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.99%) PMI
15 14 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.80%) Linux
2 51 (3.59%) Windows
3 25 (1.76%) Unix
4 13 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.63%) Android
6 8 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.21%) VME
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (32.75%) Mentoring
2 431 (30.35%) Agile
3 403 (28.38%) Coaching
4 239 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 176 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
6 164 (11.55%) Community of Practice
7 160 (11.27%) CI/CD
8 157 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 146 (10.28%) Analytics
10 137 (9.65%) AI
11 136 (9.58%) DevOps
12 118 (8.31%) Technology Strategy
13 114 (8.03%) Roadmaps
14 111 (7.82%) Cybersecurity
14 111 (7.82%) Decision-Making
15 98 (6.90%) Software Engineering
16 95 (6.69%) Collaborative Culture
17 94 (6.62%) Stakeholder Management
18 87 (6.13%) Business Intelligence
19 86 (6.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 122 (8.59%) Java
2 115 (8.10%) Python
3 105 (7.39%) SQL
4 91 (6.41%) JavaScript
5 41 (2.89%) C#
6 17 (1.20%) Bash
7 14 (0.99%) VBA
8 13 (0.92%) Apex Code
8 13 (0.92%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.92%) Scala
9 10 (0.70%) R
10 8 (0.56%) C++
11 7 (0.49%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.35%) Bicep
12 5 (0.35%) PHP
13 4 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.28%) Perl
13 4 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.21%) COBOL
14 3 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 368 (25.92%) Security Cleared
2 312 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 187 (13.17%) Degree
4 61 (4.30%) DV Cleared
5 49 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (2.46%) CISSP
7 28 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.69%) CISM
8 24 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.34%) PMI Certification
10 15 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 13 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 11 (0.77%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.70%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.63%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.49%) ACCA
15 7 (0.49%) CITP
16 6 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.70%) Accessibility
2 63 (4.44%) QA
3 59 (4.15%) Data Quality
4 52 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (2.25%) GDPR
6 28 (1.97%) NCSC
7 27 (1.90%) NIST
8 22 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 21 (1.48%) GRC
10 19 (1.34%) PCI DSS
11 17 (1.20%) WCAG
12 13 (0.92%) P3O
12 13 (0.92%) SLA
13 8 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.42%) GAAP
14 6 (0.42%) IFRS
14 6 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 6 (0.42%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 42 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.75%) Docker
3 22 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.99%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.70%) vSphere
6 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.070%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 86 (6.06%) Terraform
2 40 (2.82%) Ansible
3 39 (2.75%) Kubernetes
4 17 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.99%) Argo
6 13 (0.92%) Grafana
7 9 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.28%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.21%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.21%) Control-M
9 3 (0.21%) OpenView
9 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.14%) MIIS
10 2 (0.14%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.070%) Kibana
11 1 (0.070%) Nessus
11 1 (0.070%) Nmap
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.070%) SCCM
Vendors
1 204 (14.37%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.23%) Google
3 46 (3.24%) Oracle
4 37 (2.61%) ServiceNow
5 32 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 26 (1.83%) VMware
7 23 (1.62%) Cisco
8 20 (1.41%) SAP
9 19 (1.34%) Adobe
10 16 (1.13%) CyberArk
11 15 (1.06%) Arista
11 15 (1.06%) Aruba
11 15 (1.06%) NetScout
11 15 (1.06%) Splunk
12 13 (0.92%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.70%) Apple
13 10 (0.70%) Fortinet
14 9 (0.63%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.56%) Samsung
16 7 (0.49%) Databricks