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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 49 59
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 +2
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,697 924 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.10% 5.69% 4.32%
As % of the General category 11.73% 7.94% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,297 509 673
10th Percentile £37,000 £32,900 £37,199
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,497 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £91,269 £85,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £63,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.43% +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 14,471 11,641 14,615
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.52% 71.72% 62.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8,988 6,430 8,649
10th Percentile £32,428 £28,750 £34,874
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -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 12 September 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 41 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 14 (0.82%) Apache
4 13 (0.77%) Confluence
5 12 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.29%) CMS
7 5 (0.29%) MS Project Server
7 5 (0.29%) SAS
8 4 (0.24%) WordPress
9 3 (0.18%) Camunda
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.059%) Moodle
11 1 (0.059%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 43 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.71%) Adobe XD
4 12 (0.71%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.53%) Civil 3D
6 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.47%) Navisworks
7 8 (0.47%) Revit
8 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.24%) Windchill
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) PlantUML
9 2 (0.12%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.059%) Elementor
10 1 (0.059%) InVision
10 1 (0.059%) Sketch
10 1 (0.059%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 16 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.88%) Workday HCM
3 12 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
5 9 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 7 (0.41%) iTrent
7 4 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.059%) HFM
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.059%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 334 (19.68%) AWS
2 295 (17.38%) Azure
3 93 (5.48%) GCP
4 70 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (4.12%) Power Platform
5 56 (3.30%) SaaS
6 40 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (2.00%) Serverless
8 31 (1.83%) Entra ID
9 30 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
9 30 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
10 27 (1.59%) Azure AKS
11 26 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (1.53%) GitHub
12 25 (1.47%) Google Analytics
13 21 (1.24%) Amazon EMR
14 19 (1.12%) Slack
15 17 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (0.94%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.42%) WAN
2 39 (2.30%) Network Security
3 35 (2.06%) LAN
4 32 (1.89%) Firewall
5 24 (1.41%) DNS
6 21 (1.24%) DHCP
7 16 (0.94%) VLAN
8 14 (0.82%) BGP
9 12 (0.71%) Unified Communications
10 11 (0.65%) CTI
10 11 (0.65%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.65%) VoIP
11 10 (0.59%) MPLS
11 10 (0.59%) OSPF
11 10 (0.59%) VPN
11 10 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
13 7 (0.41%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (3.54%) Power BI
3 50 (2.95%) MongoDB
4 40 (2.36%) MySQL
5 37 (2.18%) Metadata
6 29 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 26 (1.53%) SQL Server
8 20 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.00%) Spark SQL
10 15 (0.88%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.82%) Big Data
12 12 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (0.65%) Tableau
14 10 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (0.53%) Metadata Repository
15 9 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 8 (0.47%) DynamoDB
17 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 61 (3.59%) Git
2 41 (2.42%) GitLab
3 23 (1.36%) JIRA
4 17 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.53%) Balsamiq
6 7 (0.41%) Axure RP
7 4 (0.24%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.24%) Selenium
7 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.24%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.18%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.059%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.059%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.059%) Mocha
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.059%) TestComplete
General
1 401 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 233 (13.73%) Finance
3 227 (13.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 168 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 143 (8.43%) Law
6 87 (5.13%) Local Government
7 84 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
8 79 (4.66%) Legal
9 65 (3.83%) Marketing
10 63 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (2.59%) Retail
12 38 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (2.18%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.36%) Banking
14 23 (1.36%) Police
15 16 (0.94%) General Ledger
16 14 (0.82%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.71%) Multimedia
18 10 (0.59%) Social Housing
19 8 (0.47%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 422 (24.87%) Senior
2 292 (17.21%) Architect
3 184 (10.84%) Lead
4 138 (8.13%) Analyst
4 138 (8.13%) Consultant
5 99 (5.83%) Technical Architect
6 97 (5.72%) Business Analyst
7 88 (5.19%) Developer
8 82 (4.83%) Senior Manager
9 65 (3.83%) Data Architect
10 61 (3.59%) Lead Architect
11 60 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
12 58 (3.42%) Technical Leader
13 57 (3.36%) Senior Architect
13 57 (3.36%) Software Engineer
14 56 (3.30%) Data Engineer
15 55 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
16 54 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
16 54 (3.18%) Designer
17 46 (2.71%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.07%) Terraform
2 72 (4.24%) .NET
3 50 (2.95%) Node.js
4 39 (2.30%) CSS
5 35 (2.06%) React
6 34 (2.00%) HTML
7 32 (1.89%) PySpark
8 27 (1.59%) REST
9 24 (1.41%) Middleware
9 24 (1.41%) Spring
10 23 (1.36%) RESTful
11 19 (1.12%) .NET Core
11 19 (1.12%) AngularJS
12 18 (1.06%) Spring Boot
13 17 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
14 16 (0.94%) Kafka
15 14 (0.82%) Entity Framework
15 14 (0.82%) SOAP
16 13 (0.77%) Web Services
17 10 (0.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.54%) Cloud Native
2 73 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 58 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 53 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
5 46 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.47%) NHS
7 38 (2.24%) Blog
7 38 (2.24%) e-Learning
8 31 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.83%) Virtual Team
9 25 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 25 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.18%) CMDB
11 19 (1.12%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 17 (1.00%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.00%) PKI
14 16 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 81 (4.77%) Windows
2 73 (4.30%) Linux
3 54 (3.18%) Unix
4 24 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.18%) VME
5 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.059%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.059%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (32.70%) Agile
2 516 (30.41%) Mentoring
3 474 (27.93%) Coaching
4 340 (20.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 222 (13.08%) CI/CD
6 214 (12.61%) AI
7 200 (11.79%) Analytics
7 200 (11.79%) Community of Practice
8 199 (11.73%) Decision-Making
9 197 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 194 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
11 179 (10.55%) DevOps
12 172 (10.14%) Technology Strategy
13 166 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 162 (9.55%) Scrum
15 149 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
16 139 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
17 135 (7.96%) Roadmaps
18 131 (7.72%) Project Delivery
19 127 (7.48%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 145 (8.54%) Java
2 124 (7.31%) SQL
3 121 (7.13%) JavaScript
4 113 (6.66%) Python
5 66 (3.89%) C#
6 25 (1.47%) C++
7 24 (1.41%) Bash
8 22 (1.30%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 14 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.47%) Bicep
11 8 (0.47%) PHP
11 8 (0.47%) Scala
12 7 (0.41%) Ruby
13 5 (0.29%) R
14 4 (0.24%) C
14 4 (0.24%) Perl
15 3 (0.18%) COBOL
15 3 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.18%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 433 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 346 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 214 (12.61%) Degree
4 87 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 55 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.65%) CISSP
7 38 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (2.12%) CISM
9 24 (1.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 12 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.65%) CREST Certified
12 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.59%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.53%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.53%) PMP
14 7 (0.41%) CISMP
14 7 (0.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 7 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (8.66%) Accessibility
2 78 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 69 (4.07%) Data Quality
4 57 (3.36%) QA
5 54 (3.18%) NCSC
6 43 (2.53%) NIST
7 37 (2.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 30 (1.77%) WCAG
9 28 (1.65%) GRC
10 27 (1.59%) GDPR
11 20 (1.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 17 (1.00%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.71%) SLA
15 9 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 8 (0.47%) ISO 19650
16 8 (0.47%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 8 (0.47%) PMO
17 5 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 56 (3.30%) Docker
2 45 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.47%) vSphere
6 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.06%) Ansible
3 14 (0.82%) Argo
4 13 (0.77%) Grafana
5 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 7 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.24%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.18%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.18%) FTK
10 3 (0.18%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.18%) SCCM
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.059%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.059%) Kibana
12 1 (0.059%) MIIS
Vendors
1 204 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 57 (3.36%) Oracle
3 56 (3.30%) Google
4 45 (2.65%) ServiceNow
5 32 (1.89%) Cisco
6 30 (1.77%) VMware
7 29 (1.71%) Workday
8 24 (1.41%) Adobe
9 22 (1.30%) YouTube
10 21 (1.24%) SAP
11 16 (0.94%) Splunk
12 15 (0.88%) Salesforce
13 13 (0.77%) Avaya
13 13 (0.77%) Databricks
13 13 (0.77%) Pega
14 11 (0.65%) Genesys
15 10 (0.59%) Fortinet
15 10 (0.59%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.35%) Citrix
16 6 (0.35%) NetApp