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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 68 46
Rank change year-on-year +42 -22 +14
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,529 811 1,636
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.25% 5.00% 4.97%
As % of the General category 12.24% 6.86% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,291 395 1,347
10th Percentile £38,984 £33,000 £37,199
25th Percentile £46,789 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £58,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +0.06% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,750 £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 12,493 11,824 20,113
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.25% 72.83% 61.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,186 6,618 14,621
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +8.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,989 £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 7 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 34 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (0.92%) Apache
4 12 (0.78%) SAS
5 9 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.52%) 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 (0.065%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.72%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.26%) Windchill
7 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.20%) Civil 3D
7 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.13%) InVision
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.13%) Sketch
9 1 (0.065%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) iTrent
4 6 (0.39%) 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 (0.065%) HFM
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 291 (19.03%) Azure
2 279 (18.25%) AWS
3 89 (5.82%) GCP
4 85 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 59 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (1.83%) Entra ID
8 27 (1.77%) Google Analytics
8 27 (1.77%) OCI
9 24 (1.57%) SaaS
10 22 (1.44%) PowerApps
11 21 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 20 (1.31%) Serverless
13 18 (1.18%) Azure AKS
13 18 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (1.11%) GitHub
15 16 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (0.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 12 (0.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.75%) Firewall
2 37 (2.42%) WAN
3 30 (1.96%) LAN
4 28 (1.83%) Network Security
5 21 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.05%) Unified Communications
6 16 (1.05%) Wireshark
7 15 (0.98%) NGFW
7 15 (0.98%) VXLAN
8 13 (0.85%) VLAN
9 12 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
9 12 (0.78%) DNS
10 11 (0.72%) VoIP
10 11 (0.72%) VPN
11 10 (0.65%) BGP
11 10 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (0.59%) DHCP
12 9 (0.59%) MPLS
12 9 (0.59%) SMTP
12 9 (0.59%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.19%) Power BI
2 63 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (3.73%) MongoDB
4 41 (2.68%) Metadata
5 38 (2.49%) NoSQL
6 37 (2.42%) MySQL
7 19 (1.24%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.05%) BigQuery
9 14 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 13 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (0.72%) Looker
11 11 (0.72%) Relational Database
12 10 (0.65%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.65%) Tableau
13 9 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.46%) Big Data
15 6 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (2.55%) GitLab
2 35 (2.29%) Git
3 16 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.52%) Selenium
5 7 (0.46%) JIRA
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 (0.065%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.065%) Zephyr
General
1 328 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 205 (13.41%) Finance
3 183 (11.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 149 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 120 (7.85%) Law
6 59 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
7 53 (3.47%) Legal
7 53 (3.47%) Marketing
8 45 (2.94%) Local Government
9 43 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (2.35%) Retail
11 29 (1.90%) Telecoms
12 23 (1.50%) Banking
13 12 (0.78%) Multimedia
14 9 (0.59%) Advertising
14 9 (0.59%) Environmental Health
15 8 (0.52%) General Ledger
15 8 (0.52%) Police
16 6 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 431 (28.19%) Senior
2 255 (16.68%) Architect
3 155 (10.14%) Senior Manager
4 140 (9.16%) Lead
5 112 (7.33%) Analyst
6 99 (6.47%) Consultant
7 83 (5.43%) Developer
8 78 (5.10%) Business Analyst
9 72 (4.71%) Data Architect
10 67 (4.38%) Technical Architect
11 57 (3.73%) Software Engineer
11 57 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
12 52 (3.40%) Project Manager
13 50 (3.27%) Account Manager
13 50 (3.27%) Senior Architect
14 49 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
15 48 (3.14%) Data Engineer
16 44 (2.88%) Designer
16 44 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
17 43 (2.81%) Portfolio Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.75%) REST
2 41 (2.68%) .NET
3 37 (2.42%) Node.js
4 33 (2.16%) RESTful
5 24 (1.57%) Spring
6 22 (1.44%) React
6 22 (1.44%) SOAP
7 17 (1.11%) Middleware
7 17 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (0.98%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.85%) CSS
9 13 (0.85%) HTML
10 11 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (0.72%) Visualforce
11 10 (0.65%) Kafka
12 9 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.59%) PySpark
12 9 (0.59%) SAML
12 9 (0.59%) XMPP
13 8 (0.52%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 99 (6.47%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.79%) Product Ownership
3 48 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 46 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 37 (2.42%) e-Learning
7 35 (2.29%) Virtual Team
8 32 (2.09%) Data Centre
9 30 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 29 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
11 28 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.77%) PKI
13 26 (1.70%) NHS
14 24 (1.57%) Security Posture
15 19 (1.24%) CMDB
16 18 (1.18%) Public Cloud
17 17 (1.11%) Blog
17 17 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
18 15 (0.98%) Low-Code
19 14 (0.92%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 69 (4.51%) Windows
2 66 (4.32%) Linux
3 36 (2.35%) Unix
4 17 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.52%) Android
5 8 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.20%) VME
7 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (33.03%) Mentoring
2 471 (30.80%) Agile
3 444 (29.04%) Coaching
4 283 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 187 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
6 180 (11.77%) CI/CD
7 170 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 160 (10.46%) Community of Practice
9 159 (10.40%) Analytics
10 152 (9.94%) DevOps
11 143 (9.35%) AI
12 132 (8.63%) Decision-Making
13 128 (8.37%) Roadmaps
13 128 (8.37%) Technology Strategy
14 113 (7.39%) Cybersecurity
15 108 (7.06%) Software Engineering
16 105 (6.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 102 (6.67%) Test Automation
18 96 (6.28%) Scrum
19 93 (6.08%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 129 (8.44%) Java
2 110 (7.19%) Python
3 108 (7.06%) SQL
4 90 (5.89%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.49%) C#
6 17 (1.11%) Bash
7 14 (0.92%) PowerShell
7 14 (0.92%) VBA
8 11 (0.72%) Apex Code
9 10 (0.65%) R
10 8 (0.52%) C++
10 8 (0.52%) 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 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 308 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 194 (12.69%) Degree
4 67 (4.38%) DV Cleared
5 54 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.35%) CISSP
7 26 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.64%) CISM
9 22 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 11 (0.72%) CREST Certified
13 10 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.59%) PMP
15 8 (0.52%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.52%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.46%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.46%) CCNP
17 6 (0.39%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.74%) Accessibility
2 63 (4.12%) QA
3 60 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (3.86%) Data Quality
5 37 (2.42%) NCSC
6 33 (2.16%) GDPR
7 30 (1.96%) NIST
8 28 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 20 (1.31%) GRC
10 19 (1.24%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.85%) P3O
11 13 (0.85%) WCAG
12 12 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.65%) SLA
14 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.46%) PMO
15 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.33%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 43 (2.81%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.68%) Docker
3 23 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.65%) vSphere
6 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 83 (5.43%) Terraform
2 51 (3.34%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.68%) Ansible
4 15 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.92%) Argo
6 13 (0.85%) Grafana
7 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.26%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.20%) OpenView
10 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.13%) MIIS
11 2 (0.13%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.065%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.065%) Kibana
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.065%) SCCM
Vendors
1 184 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 57 (3.73%) Google
3 51 (3.34%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.01%) Oracle
5 29 (1.90%) Cisco
5 29 (1.90%) VMware
6 25 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.05%) CyberArk
8 15 (0.98%) Arista
8 15 (0.98%) Aruba
8 15 (0.98%) NetScout
8 15 (0.98%) Splunk
9 14 (0.92%) SAP
10 12 (0.78%) Databricks
10 12 (0.78%) Pega
10 12 (0.78%) Workday
11 11 (0.72%) Adobe
11 11 (0.72%) Fortinet
11 11 (0.72%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.72%) Palo Alto