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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 73 48
Rank change year-on-year +49 -25 +17
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,393 713 1,680
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.41% 4.88% 5.16%
As % of the General category 13.22% 6.50% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,152 323 1,428
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,696 £45,994 £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 £88,148 £85,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -1.00%

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 10,541 10,962 20,239
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.08% 75.02% 62.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7,017 6,055 15,086
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,750 £31,800
25th Percentile £43,700 £42,125 £41,500
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 £112,000 £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 22 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 35 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 13 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (0.79%) SAS
4 9 (0.65%) Apache
5 8 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.36%) Confluence
6 5 (0.36%) Drupal
7 4 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.29%) CMS
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.22%) nginx
8 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.14%) Camunda
9 2 (0.14%) JBoss
9 2 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.44%) Adobe XD
3 9 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.36%) InVision
4 5 (0.36%) Sketch
5 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Windchill
6 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.14%) Civil 3D
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.072%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.072%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.072%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.072%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.072%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.50%) iTrent
2 7 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.29%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.14%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.072%) HFM
5 1 (0.072%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 283 (20.32%) Azure
2 236 (16.94%) AWS
3 85 (6.10%) Power Platform
4 77 (5.53%) GCP
5 56 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (2.23%) SaaS
8 30 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 29 (2.08%) Serverless
10 26 (1.87%) OCI
11 25 (1.79%) Google Analytics
12 22 (1.58%) Amazon S3
12 22 (1.58%) GitHub
12 22 (1.58%) PowerApps
13 20 (1.44%) Figma
14 18 (1.29%) Azure AKS
15 16 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (1.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 14 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 12 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.09%) Firewall
2 37 (2.66%) WAN
3 31 (2.23%) LAN
4 19 (1.36%) Network Security
5 18 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.15%) Wireshark
7 15 (1.08%) NGFW
7 15 (1.08%) VXLAN
8 14 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (1.01%) Unified Communications
8 14 (1.01%) VLAN
9 10 (0.72%) BGP
9 10 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (0.72%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.65%) SMTP
10 9 (0.65%) VPN
10 9 (0.65%) WebEx
11 8 (0.57%) MPLS
12 6 (0.43%) DMZ
12 6 (0.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.16%) Power BI
2 53 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (3.59%) MongoDB
4 42 (3.02%) Metadata
5 35 (2.51%) NoSQL
6 29 (2.08%) MySQL
7 16 (1.15%) SQL Server
8 14 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.79%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.65%) Tableau
11 8 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.57%) Looker
12 6 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.36%) Big Data
13 5 (0.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (2.80%) GitLab
2 37 (2.66%) Git
3 16 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.01%) Axure RP
5 13 (0.93%) Balsamiq
6 9 (0.65%) Selenium
7 7 (0.50%) JIRA
8 6 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.22%) Gatling
9 3 (0.22%) JMeter
9 3 (0.22%) NUnit
9 3 (0.22%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.22%) Subversion
10 2 (0.14%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.14%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.14%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 314 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 223 (16.01%) Finance
3 201 (14.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 136 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 124 (8.90%) Law
6 56 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
7 55 (3.95%) Marketing
8 48 (3.45%) Local Government
9 42 (3.02%) Legal
10 39 (2.80%) Retail
11 38 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (2.15%) Telecoms
13 28 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.65%) Banking
15 14 (1.01%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.86%) Billing
17 10 (0.72%) Police
18 9 (0.65%) General Ledger
19 7 (0.50%) Environmental Health
20 6 (0.43%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 393 (28.21%) Senior
2 203 (14.57%) Architect
3 158 (11.34%) Senior Manager
4 124 (8.90%) Lead
5 99 (7.11%) Analyst
6 86 (6.17%) Consultant
7 84 (6.03%) Developer
8 75 (5.38%) Business Analyst
9 57 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
10 53 (3.80%) Software Engineer
11 51 (3.66%) Designer
12 50 (3.59%) Project Manager
13 48 (3.45%) Data Engineer
14 45 (3.23%) Technical Architect
15 43 (3.09%) Data Architect
15 43 (3.09%) Portfolio Manager
16 42 (3.02%) Digital Project Manager
17 41 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
17 41 (2.94%) Senior Project Manager
17 41 (2.94%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (2.87%) .NET
2 36 (2.58%) REST
3 33 (2.37%) RESTful
4 30 (2.15%) Node.js
5 22 (1.58%) React
5 22 (1.58%) Spring
6 21 (1.51%) SOAP
7 20 (1.44%) CSS
7 20 (1.44%) HTML
8 19 (1.36%) Middleware
9 14 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
9 14 (1.01%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (0.93%) Visualforce
11 11 (0.79%) EDI
12 10 (0.72%) PySpark
13 9 (0.65%) Playwright
13 9 (0.65%) SAML
13 9 (0.65%) XMPP
14 8 (0.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 74 (5.31%) Cloud Native
2 67 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 44 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 31 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 29 (2.08%) Blog
8 29 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
9 28 (2.01%) NHS
9 28 (2.01%) PKI
10 23 (1.65%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.65%) Security Posture
11 16 (1.15%) CMDB
11 16 (1.15%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
12 15 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.01%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.88%) Linux
2 51 (3.66%) Windows
3 26 (1.87%) Unix
4 12 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.65%) Android
6 8 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.22%) VME
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (32.88%) Mentoring
2 411 (29.50%) Agile
3 403 (28.93%) Coaching
4 227 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 180 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
6 161 (11.56%) Community of Practice
7 153 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 150 (10.77%) CI/CD
9 145 (10.41%) Analytics
10 144 (10.34%) AI
11 136 (9.76%) DevOps
12 115 (8.26%) Technology Strategy
13 110 (7.90%) Roadmaps
14 107 (7.68%) Cybersecurity
15 103 (7.39%) Decision-Making
16 101 (7.25%) Collaborative Culture
17 93 (6.68%) Software Engineering
18 87 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
19 86 (6.17%) Stakeholder Management
20 83 (5.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (8.04%) Java
1 112 (8.04%) Python
2 99 (7.11%) SQL
3 91 (6.53%) JavaScript
4 41 (2.94%) C#
5 14 (1.01%) Bash
5 14 (1.01%) VBA
6 13 (0.93%) Apex Code
6 13 (0.93%) PowerShell
7 12 (0.86%) Scala
8 11 (0.79%) R
9 8 (0.57%) C++
9 8 (0.57%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.36%) Bicep
10 5 (0.36%) PHP
11 4 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.29%) Perl
12 3 (0.22%) COBOL
12 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 356 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 297 (21.32%) SC Cleared
3 195 (14.00%) Degree
4 53 (3.80%) DV Cleared
5 47 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.30%) CISSP
7 26 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.79%) CISM
9 24 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.29%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.01%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.86%) ACCA
14 11 (0.79%) CREST Certified
15 9 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 9 (0.65%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.57%) AWS Certification
17 7 (0.50%) CHECK Team Member
17 7 (0.50%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.67%) Accessibility
2 59 (4.24%) QA
3 57 (4.09%) Data Quality
4 48 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (2.23%) GDPR
6 25 (1.79%) NIST
7 24 (1.72%) GRC
8 23 (1.65%) NCSC
9 19 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (1.29%) WCAG
11 15 (1.08%) PCI DSS
12 14 (1.01%) SLA
13 13 (0.93%) P3O
14 11 (0.79%) GAAP
14 11 (0.79%) IFRS
15 8 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.43%) JSP 440
System Software
1 42 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.51%) Docker
3 21 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.08%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.72%) vSphere
6 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.072%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (5.74%) Terraform
2 41 (2.94%) Ansible
3 35 (2.51%) Kubernetes
4 15 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.01%) Argo
6 13 (0.93%) Grafana
7 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.65%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.29%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.22%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.22%) Control-M
10 3 (0.22%) OpenView
10 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.14%) MIIS
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) Nmap
11 2 (0.14%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.072%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.072%) SCCM
12 1 (0.072%) WSUS
Vendors
1 201 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.38%) Google
3 42 (3.02%) Oracle
4 36 (2.58%) ServiceNow
5 31 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 25 (1.79%) VMware
7 23 (1.65%) Cisco
8 22 (1.58%) Adobe
8 22 (1.58%) SAP
9 16 (1.15%) CyberArk
10 15 (1.08%) Arista
10 15 (1.08%) Aruba
10 15 (1.08%) NetScout
10 15 (1.08%) Splunk
11 13 (0.93%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.72%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.65%) Apple
13 9 (0.65%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.57%) Samsung
15 7 (0.50%) HubSpot