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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 65 47
Rank change year-on-year +38 -18 +14
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,523 830 1,559
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.13% 5.02% 4.88%
As % of the General category 12.01% 6.93% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 413 1,267
10th Percentile £38,984 £33,100 £37,199
25th Percentile £46,696 £44,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £57,435 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% -0.91% +0.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £84,500 £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 12,681 11,973 19,570
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.40% 72.39% 61.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,277 6,714 14,105
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £31,762
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.65% -9.60%
75th Percentile £78,800 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,375 £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 13 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 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (0.92%) Apache
3 14 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.79%) SAS
5 8 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.46%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.26%) CMS
8 4 (0.26%) Confluence
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.20%) Drupal
10 2 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.13%) JBoss
10 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.066%) nginx
11 1 (0.066%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.72%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.72%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.26%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.26%) Civil 3D
5 4 (0.26%) Windchill
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 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.53%) Workday HCM
3 7 (0.46%) iTrent
4 4 (0.26%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.066%) HFM
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 303 (19.89%) Azure
2 290 (19.04%) AWS
3 87 (5.71%) GCP
3 87 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 62 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (2.04%) Entra ID
7 27 (1.77%) Google Analytics
7 27 (1.77%) OCI
8 24 (1.58%) SaaS
9 22 (1.44%) PowerApps
10 21 (1.38%) Amazon S3
11 20 (1.31%) Serverless
12 18 (1.18%) Azure AKS
12 18 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (1.12%) GitHub
14 16 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 12 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.82%) Firewall
2 38 (2.50%) WAN
3 32 (2.10%) LAN
4 28 (1.84%) Network Security
5 23 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.05%) Unified Communications
6 16 (1.05%) Wireshark
7 15 (0.98%) NGFW
7 15 (0.98%) VoIP
7 15 (0.98%) VXLAN
8 14 (0.92%) DNS
9 13 (0.85%) VLAN
10 12 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (0.79%) VPN
11 11 (0.72%) BGP
11 11 (0.72%) CTI
11 11 (0.72%) DHCP
12 10 (0.66%) Cisco Firepower
12 10 (0.66%) MPLS
13 9 (0.59%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.33%) Power BI
2 64 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (3.81%) MongoDB
4 42 (2.76%) Metadata
5 39 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 38 (2.50%) MySQL
7 19 (1.25%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.05%) BigQuery
9 15 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 13 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (0.79%) Big Data
12 11 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (0.72%) Looker
12 11 (0.72%) Relational Database
12 11 (0.72%) Tableau
13 10 (0.66%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (2.63%) GitLab
2 35 (2.30%) Git
3 16 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.59%) 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%) TestComplete
General
1 334 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 202 (13.26%) Finance
3 185 (12.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 149 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 121 (7.94%) Law
6 66 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
7 54 (3.55%) Legal
8 53 (3.48%) Marketing
9 47 (3.09%) Local Government
10 43 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (2.50%) Retail
12 34 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
13 29 (1.90%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.58%) Banking
15 12 (0.79%) Multimedia
16 9 (0.59%) Advertising
16 9 (0.59%) Environmental Health
17 8 (0.53%) General Ledger
17 8 (0.53%) Police
18 6 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 432 (28.37%) Senior
2 251 (16.48%) Architect
3 158 (10.37%) Senior Manager
4 142 (9.32%) Lead
5 116 (7.62%) Analyst
6 101 (6.63%) Consultant
7 84 (5.52%) Developer
8 79 (5.19%) Business Analyst
9 72 (4.73%) Technical Architect
10 65 (4.27%) Data Architect
11 57 (3.74%) Software Engineer
12 56 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
13 54 (3.55%) Account Manager
14 53 (3.48%) Project Manager
15 51 (3.35%) Senior Architect
16 49 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
17 44 (2.89%) Lead Architect
18 43 (2.82%) Designer
18 43 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
18 43 (2.82%) Portfolio Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.76%) REST
2 41 (2.69%) .NET
3 39 (2.56%) Node.js
4 33 (2.17%) RESTful
5 24 (1.58%) Spring
6 23 (1.51%) React
7 22 (1.44%) SOAP
8 17 (1.12%) Middleware
8 17 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (0.98%) Spring Boot
10 14 (0.92%) CSS
10 14 (0.92%) HTML
10 14 (0.92%) Kafka
10 14 (0.92%) PySpark
11 11 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
11 11 (0.72%) Visualforce
12 10 (0.66%) SAML
13 9 (0.59%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.59%) XMPP
14 8 (0.53%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 99 (6.50%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.81%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (3.22%) Onboarding
5 47 (3.09%) Management Information System
6 37 (2.43%) e-Learning
7 35 (2.30%) Virtual Team
8 33 (2.17%) Data Centre
9 29 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 29 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
9 29 (1.90%) NHS
10 28 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.77%) PKI
12 23 (1.51%) Security Posture
13 19 (1.25%) CMDB
13 19 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.05%) Blog
15 16 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.98%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 73 (4.79%) Windows
2 63 (4.14%) Linux
3 37 (2.43%) Unix
4 18 (1.18%) 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
1 522 (34.27%) Mentoring
2 483 (31.71%) Agile
3 459 (30.14%) Coaching
4 303 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 192 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
6 183 (12.02%) CI/CD
7 175 (11.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 169 (11.10%) Analytics
9 162 (10.64%) Community of Practice
10 152 (9.98%) DevOps
11 149 (9.78%) AI
12 134 (8.80%) Roadmaps
13 133 (8.73%) Decision-Making
14 130 (8.54%) Technology Strategy
15 114 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
16 109 (7.16%) Software Engineering
17 107 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
18 103 (6.76%) Test Automation
19 98 (6.43%) Scrum
20 97 (6.37%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 130 (8.54%) Java
2 117 (7.68%) Python
3 115 (7.55%) SQL
4 92 (6.04%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.50%) C#
6 18 (1.18%) Bash
7 16 (1.05%) PowerShell
8 14 (0.92%) VBA
9 11 (0.72%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.66%) R
11 9 (0.59%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.53%) C++
13 7 (0.46%) Scala
14 6 (0.39%) PHP
15 5 (0.33%) Bicep
16 4 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.26%) Perl
16 4 (0.26%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.20%) COBOL
17 3 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 352 (23.11%) Security Cleared
2 303 (19.89%) SC Cleared
3 197 (12.93%) Degree
4 66 (4.33%) DV Cleared
5 56 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (2.43%) CISSP
7 26 (1.71%) CISM
8 25 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 11 (0.72%) CREST Certified
13 10 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.66%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.59%) PMP
15 8 (0.53%) CCNP
16 7 (0.46%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.46%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.39%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.09%) Accessibility
2 64 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (4.07%) QA
4 60 (3.94%) Data Quality
5 36 (2.36%) NCSC
6 34 (2.23%) GDPR
7 30 (1.97%) NIST
8 28 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
9 19 (1.25%) PCI DSS
10 18 (1.18%) GRC
11 14 (0.92%) WCAG
12 13 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (0.85%) P3O
13 10 (0.66%) SLA
14 8 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.46%) PMO
16 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 47 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.69%) Docker
3 24 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.66%) vSphere
6 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 82 (5.38%) Terraform
2 51 (3.35%) Kubernetes
3 42 (2.76%) Ansible
4 15 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.92%) Argo
6 13 (0.85%) Grafana
6 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (0.39%) 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 (0.066%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.066%) Kibana
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.066%) SCCM
Vendors
1 189 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.68%) Google
3 52 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.02%) Oracle
5 33 (2.17%) Cisco
6 31 (2.04%) VMware
7 25 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.12%) CyberArk
9 15 (0.98%) Arista
9 15 (0.98%) Aruba
9 15 (0.98%) NetScout
9 15 (0.98%) Splunk
9 15 (0.98%) Workday
10 14 (0.92%) Avaya
11 13 (0.85%) Databricks
11 13 (0.85%) SAP
12 12 (0.79%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.79%) Palo Alto
12 12 (0.79%) Pega
13 11 (0.72%) MuleSoft