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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 52 55
Rank change year-on-year +23 +3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,582 911 1,111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.83% 5.50% 4.48%
As % of the General category 11.34% 7.71% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 491 830
10th Percentile £36,457 £33,000 £36,507
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £55,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £92,008 £85,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -

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 13,945 11,811 15,202
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.22% 71.37% 61.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,777 6,569 9,830
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,800 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% -1.02% -8.33%

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 25 August 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 37 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 15 (0.95%) Apache
4 13 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.76%) Confluence
6 8 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.44%) CMS
8 5 (0.32%) SAS
9 4 (0.25%) Camunda
9 4 (0.25%) MS Project Server
9 4 (0.25%) WordPress
10 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) Drupal
11 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.063%) JBoss
12 1 (0.063%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.82%) Adobe XD
5 11 (0.70%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.57%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.57%) Civil 3D
7 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.25%) Revit
8 4 (0.25%) Windchill
9 2 (0.13%) InDesign
9 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.063%) Elementor
10 1 (0.063%) InVision
10 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.063%) Sketch
10 1 (0.063%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 16 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.95%) Workday HCM
3 10 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.44%) iTrent
5 4 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.063%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.063%) HFM
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.063%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.063%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 302 (19.09%) AWS
2 273 (17.26%) Azure
3 85 (5.37%) GCP
4 67 (4.24%) Power Platform
5 60 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
6 53 (3.35%) SaaS
7 37 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (1.64%) Google Analytics
9 25 (1.58%) Azure AKS
9 25 (1.58%) GitHub
10 23 (1.45%) Entra ID
11 21 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (1.26%) Serverless
13 19 (1.20%) Slack
14 17 (1.07%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.07%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (1.07%) Figma
15 16 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.47%) WAN
2 36 (2.28%) Network Security
3 33 (2.09%) LAN
4 31 (1.96%) Firewall
5 18 (1.14%) DNS
6 15 (0.95%) DHCP
7 14 (0.88%) VLAN
8 13 (0.82%) Unified Communications
9 12 (0.76%) BGP
9 12 (0.76%) VoIP
10 11 (0.70%) CTI
10 11 (0.70%) MPLS
11 10 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (0.57%) VPN
13 8 (0.51%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (0.51%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.51%) WebEx
13 8 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.44%) OSPF
15 6 (0.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (3.86%) Power BI
3 50 (3.16%) MongoDB
4 40 (2.53%) MySQL
5 33 (2.09%) Metadata
6 29 (1.83%) NoSQL
7 27 (1.71%) SQL Server
8 20 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.88%) Big Data
9 14 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.70%) Tableau
11 10 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.57%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.32%) Looker
15 4 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
15 4 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 55 (3.48%) Git
2 42 (2.65%) GitLab
3 22 (1.39%) JIRA
4 19 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.63%) Balsamiq
6 8 (0.51%) Axure RP
7 7 (0.44%) Selenium
8 6 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.32%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.19%) Gatling
11 3 (0.19%) JMeter
11 3 (0.19%) Mercurial
11 3 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.13%) NUnit
12 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 375 (23.70%) Social Skills
2 220 (13.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 206 (13.02%) Finance
4 157 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 143 (9.04%) Law
6 81 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
6 81 (5.12%) Local Government
7 73 (4.61%) Legal
8 65 (4.11%) Marketing
9 58 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (2.84%) Retail
11 39 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.28%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.52%) Banking
14 20 (1.26%) Police
15 14 (0.88%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.70%) Multimedia
17 8 (0.51%) Environmental Health
18 7 (0.44%) Social Housing
18 7 (0.44%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 377 (23.83%) Senior
2 274 (17.32%) Architect
3 168 (10.62%) Lead
4 133 (8.41%) Analyst
5 130 (8.22%) Consultant
6 95 (6.01%) Business Analyst
7 90 (5.69%) Technical Architect
8 88 (5.56%) Developer
9 73 (4.61%) Senior Manager
10 60 (3.79%) Data Architect
11 58 (3.67%) Account Manager
11 58 (3.67%) Software Engineer
12 55 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
13 54 (3.41%) Designer
14 53 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
14 53 (3.35%) Lead Architect
15 49 (3.10%) Senior Architect
15 49 (3.10%) Technical Leader
16 47 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
17 39 (2.47%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (5.12%) Terraform
2 55 (3.48%) .NET
3 46 (2.91%) Node.js
4 37 (2.34%) CSS
4 37 (2.34%) React
5 32 (2.02%) HTML
6 29 (1.83%) REST
7 25 (1.58%) Spring
8 24 (1.52%) RESTful
9 20 (1.26%) Middleware
10 19 (1.20%) .NET Core
10 19 (1.20%) AngularJS
11 17 (1.07%) Kafka
11 17 (1.07%) Spring Boot
12 16 (1.01%) PySpark
13 15 (0.95%) SOAP
14 14 (0.88%) Entity Framework
15 13 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
16 10 (0.63%) .NET Framework
16 10 (0.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.75%) Cloud Native
2 73 (4.61%) Product Ownership
3 60 (3.79%) Onboarding
4 51 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (2.72%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.53%) Blog
7 39 (2.47%) NHS
8 37 (2.34%) e-Learning
9 32 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
10 30 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 20 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 19 (1.20%) CMDB
13 18 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.07%) PKI
14 17 (1.07%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
16 15 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
17 14 (0.88%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.87%) Windows
2 71 (4.49%) Linux
3 49 (3.10%) Unix
4 25 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.19%) VME
5 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.063%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (32.62%) Agile
2 451 (28.51%) Mentoring
3 398 (25.16%) Coaching
4 306 (19.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 197 (12.45%) AI
6 196 (12.39%) Community of Practice
7 190 (12.01%) CI/CD
8 186 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 181 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
10 179 (11.31%) Analytics
11 170 (10.75%) Technology Strategy
12 167 (10.56%) DevOps
13 155 (9.80%) Decision-Making
14 153 (9.67%) Scrum
15 143 (9.04%) Roadmaps
16 139 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
17 135 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
18 131 (8.28%) Software Engineering
19 121 (7.65%) Project Delivery
20 113 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 135 (8.53%) Java
2 107 (6.76%) Python
3 106 (6.70%) JavaScript
4 97 (6.13%) SQL
5 50 (3.16%) C#
6 21 (1.33%) Bash
7 18 (1.14%) TypeScript
8 14 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 9 (0.57%) C++
10 8 (0.51%) PHP
10 8 (0.51%) Scala
11 7 (0.44%) Ruby
12 5 (0.32%) Bicep
12 5 (0.32%) R
13 4 (0.25%) C
13 4 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.25%) Perl
13 4 (0.25%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.19%) ABAP
14 3 (0.19%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 417 (26.36%) Security Cleared
2 332 (20.99%) SC Cleared
3 213 (13.46%) Degree
4 92 (5.82%) DV Cleared
5 58 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.59%) CISSP
7 40 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (2.02%) CISM
9 22 (1.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 13 (0.82%) CREST Certified
10 13 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.70%) DBS Check
12 11 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.63%) PMP
14 7 (0.44%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.44%) CISMP
14 7 (0.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (8.72%) Accessibility
2 76 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (3.54%) QA
4 50 (3.16%) NCSC
5 47 (2.97%) Data Quality
6 39 (2.47%) NIST
7 32 (2.02%) Actionable Recommendations
8 28 (1.77%) WCAG
9 26 (1.64%) GRC
10 24 (1.52%) GDPR
11 20 (1.26%) PCI DSS
12 19 (1.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (0.76%) SLA
14 10 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 8 (0.51%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 7 (0.44%) PMO
18 6 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 5 (0.32%) JSP 440
System Software
1 55 (3.48%) Docker
2 43 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.76%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.57%) vSphere
6 8 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 63 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 32 (2.02%) Ansible
3 14 (0.88%) Argo
3 14 (0.88%) Grafana
4 8 (0.51%) Cisco CUCM
4 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.25%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.19%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.19%) SCCM
9 2 (0.13%) MIIS
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.063%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.063%) Kibana
10 1 (0.063%) OpenView
10 1 (0.063%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 181 (11.44%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.54%) Google
3 40 (2.53%) ServiceNow
4 34 (2.15%) Oracle
5 31 (1.96%) Cisco
5 31 (1.96%) VMware
6 23 (1.45%) Workday
7 22 (1.39%) Adobe
8 17 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.07%) Splunk
9 15 (0.95%) SAP
9 15 (0.95%) YouTube
10 13 (0.82%) Avaya
10 13 (0.82%) Databricks
10 13 (0.82%) Pega
11 11 (0.70%) Fortinet
11 11 (0.70%) Genesys
11 11 (0.70%) Palo Alto
12 7 (0.44%) NetApp
13 6 (0.38%) HubSpot