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 10 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 68 46
Rank change year-on-year +41 -22 +16
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,511 827 1,626
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.12% 5.02% 5.03%
As % of the General category 11.97% 6.93% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 409 1,330
10th Percentile £38,984 £33,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £46,696 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -0.80% +0.81%
75th Percentile £75,063 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £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 12,621 11,940 19,860
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.48% 72.50% 61.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8,231 6,684 14,381
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,825 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +5.36% -10.40%
75th Percentile £78,878 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £97,500
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 10 July 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 (2.32%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (0.93%) Apache
4 12 (0.79%) SAS
5 10 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.46%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.26%) Confluence
10 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.20%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Drupal
11 2 (0.13%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) JBoss
11 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.066%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.73%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.73%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.26%) Windchill
6 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.20%) Civil 3D
6 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.13%) InVision
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.13%) Sketch
8 1 (0.066%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) iTrent
4 6 (0.40%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.26%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.066%) HFM
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 295 (19.52%) Azure
2 281 (18.60%) AWS
3 87 (5.76%) Power Platform
4 85 (5.63%) GCP
5 62 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (1.99%) Entra ID
8 27 (1.79%) Google Analytics
8 27 (1.79%) OCI
9 24 (1.59%) SaaS
10 22 (1.46%) PowerApps
11 21 (1.39%) Amazon S3
12 20 (1.32%) Serverless
13 18 (1.19%) Azure AKS
13 18 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (1.13%) GitHub
15 16 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 12 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.85%) Firewall
2 38 (2.51%) WAN
3 31 (2.05%) LAN
4 27 (1.79%) Network Security
5 22 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.06%) Unified Communications
6 16 (1.06%) Wireshark
7 15 (0.99%) NGFW
7 15 (0.99%) VoIP
7 15 (0.99%) VXLAN
8 13 (0.86%) DNS
8 13 (0.86%) VLAN
9 12 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
9 12 (0.79%) VPN
10 11 (0.73%) BGP
10 11 (0.73%) CTI
11 10 (0.66%) Cisco Firepower
11 10 (0.66%) DHCP
11 10 (0.66%) MPLS
12 9 (0.60%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.37%) Power BI
2 64 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (3.84%) MongoDB
4 41 (2.71%) Metadata
5 39 (2.58%) NoSQL
6 38 (2.51%) MySQL
7 19 (1.26%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 15 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 13 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (0.73%) Looker
11 11 (0.73%) Relational Database
11 11 (0.73%) Tableau
12 10 (0.66%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (0.53%) Big Data
15 7 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (2.65%) GitLab
2 35 (2.32%) Git
3 16 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.60%) JIRA
5 8 (0.53%) Selenium
6 5 (0.33%) Axure RP
6 5 (0.33%) 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%) Mocha
9 1 (0.066%) SonarQube
General
1 330 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 201 (13.30%) Finance
3 181 (11.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 149 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 119 (7.88%) Law
6 66 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
7 53 (3.51%) Legal
7 53 (3.51%) Marketing
8 46 (3.04%) Local Government
9 42 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (2.51%) Retail
11 35 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (1.92%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.59%) Banking
14 12 (0.79%) Multimedia
15 9 (0.60%) Advertising
15 9 (0.60%) Environmental Health
16 8 (0.53%) Police
17 7 (0.46%) General Ledger
18 6 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 423 (27.99%) Senior
2 249 (16.48%) Architect
3 155 (10.26%) Senior Manager
4 142 (9.40%) Lead
5 114 (7.54%) Analyst
6 99 (6.55%) Consultant
7 83 (5.49%) Developer
8 78 (5.16%) Business Analyst
9 71 (4.70%) Technical Architect
10 64 (4.24%) Data Architect
11 58 (3.84%) Software Engineer
12 57 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
13 53 (3.51%) Project Manager
14 52 (3.44%) Account Manager
15 50 (3.31%) Senior Architect
16 47 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
17 44 (2.91%) Lead Architect
18 43 (2.85%) Designer
18 43 (2.85%) Portfolio Manager
19 42 (2.78%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.78%) REST
2 41 (2.71%) .NET
3 38 (2.51%) Node.js
4 33 (2.18%) RESTful
5 24 (1.59%) Spring
6 23 (1.52%) React
7 22 (1.46%) SOAP
8 17 (1.13%) Middleware
8 17 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (0.99%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.86%) CSS
10 13 (0.86%) HTML
11 11 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
11 11 (0.73%) Visualforce
12 10 (0.66%) Kafka
12 10 (0.66%) PySpark
12 10 (0.66%) SAML
13 9 (0.60%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.60%) XMPP
14 8 (0.53%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 98 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.84%) Product Ownership
3 49 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
4 48 (3.18%) Onboarding
5 46 (3.04%) Management Information System
6 37 (2.45%) e-Learning
7 35 (2.32%) Virtual Team
8 33 (2.18%) Data Centre
9 30 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
11 28 (1.85%) NHS
11 28 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.79%) PKI
13 23 (1.52%) Security Posture
14 19 (1.26%) CMDB
14 19 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (1.19%) Public Cloud
16 16 (1.06%) Blog
17 15 (0.99%) Low-Code
18 14 (0.93%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 72 (4.77%) Windows
2 62 (4.10%) Linux
3 36 (2.38%) Unix
4 17 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.53%) Android
5 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.20%) VME
7 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (34.08%) Mentoring
2 476 (31.50%) Agile
3 454 (30.05%) Coaching
4 292 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 189 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
6 181 (11.98%) CI/CD
7 172 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 165 (10.92%) Analytics
9 159 (10.52%) Community of Practice
10 150 (9.93%) DevOps
11 149 (9.86%) AI
12 134 (8.87%) Roadmaps
13 132 (8.74%) Decision-Making
14 127 (8.41%) Technology Strategy
15 114 (7.54%) Cybersecurity
16 109 (7.21%) Software Engineering
17 107 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
18 103 (6.82%) Test Automation
19 98 (6.49%) ITIL
20 95 (6.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 129 (8.54%) Java
2 112 (7.41%) Python
3 110 (7.28%) SQL
4 91 (6.02%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.51%) C#
6 18 (1.19%) Bash
7 15 (0.99%) PowerShell
8 14 (0.93%) VBA
9 11 (0.73%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.66%) R
11 9 (0.60%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.53%) C++
13 7 (0.46%) Scala
14 5 (0.33%) Bicep
14 5 (0.33%) PHP
15 4 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.26%) Perl
15 4 (0.26%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.20%) COBOL
16 3 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 347 (22.96%) Security Cleared
2 297 (19.66%) SC Cleared
3 193 (12.77%) Degree
4 66 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 54 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.38%) CISSP
7 26 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.65%) CISM
9 22 (1.46%) PMI Certification
10 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 11 (0.73%) CREST Certified
13 10 (0.66%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.60%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.60%) PMP
15 8 (0.53%) CCNP
16 7 (0.46%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.46%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.40%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.15%) Accessibility
2 63 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (4.10%) QA
4 60 (3.97%) Data Quality
5 36 (2.38%) NCSC
6 34 (2.25%) GDPR
7 29 (1.92%) NIST
8 28 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
9 19 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 18 (1.19%) GRC
11 13 (0.86%) P3O
11 13 (0.86%) WCAG
12 12 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.66%) SLA
14 8 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.46%) PMO
16 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 6 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 46 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.71%) Docker
3 23 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.93%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.66%) vSphere
6 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 83 (5.49%) Terraform
2 51 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 42 (2.78%) Ansible
4 15 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.93%) Argo
6 13 (0.86%) Grafana
7 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (0.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.26%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.20%) OpenView
11 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.13%) MIIS
12 2 (0.13%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.066%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.066%) Kibana
13 1 (0.066%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.066%) SCCM
Vendors
1 188 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.71%) Google
3 51 (3.38%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.04%) Oracle
5 34 (2.25%) Cisco
6 30 (1.99%) VMware
7 25 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.13%) CyberArk
9 15 (0.99%) Arista
9 15 (0.99%) Aruba
9 15 (0.99%) NetScout
9 15 (0.99%) Splunk
10 14 (0.93%) Avaya
11 13 (0.86%) Databricks
11 13 (0.86%) SAP
12 12 (0.79%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.79%) Palo Alto
12 12 (0.79%) Pega
12 12 (0.79%) Workday
13 11 (0.73%) MuleSoft