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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 49 65
Rank change year-on-year +23 +16 -4
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,810 936 957
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.32% 5.68% 4.15%
As % of the General category 11.93% 7.96% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 513 583
10th Percentile £37,000 £33,000 £37,213
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,497 £41,975
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £91,269 £87,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +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 15,167 11,766 14,445
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.38% 71.37% 62.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,235 6,295 8,225
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.14% -5.00%

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 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 45 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.72%) Apache
5 13 (0.72%) Confluence
6 11 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.33%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) MS Project Server
9 5 (0.28%) SAS
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.055%) Moodle
13 1 (0.055%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 50 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.72%) AutoCAD
4 13 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 11 (0.61%) Adobe XD
5 11 (0.61%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.50%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.50%) Navisworks
7 9 (0.50%) Revit
8 4 (0.22%) Windchill
9 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.17%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.11%) InDesign
10 2 (0.11%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.055%) Elementor
11 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.055%) Sketch
11 1 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
2 16 (0.88%) Workday HCM
3 15 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.77%) Oracle Cash Management
4 14 (0.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 14 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.44%) iTrent
6 6 (0.33%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.17%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 3 (0.17%) SAP PSCD
10 1 (0.055%) HFM
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 346 (19.12%) AWS
2 317 (17.51%) Azure
3 95 (5.25%) GCP
4 92 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 77 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
6 65 (3.59%) SaaS
7 48 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (2.32%) Entra ID
9 38 (2.10%) GitHub
9 38 (2.10%) Serverless
10 32 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
12 28 (1.55%) Azure AKS
13 26 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (1.33%) Google Analytics
15 21 (1.16%) Amazon EMR
15 21 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (1.05%) Slack
17 18 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (0.99%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.43%) Network Security
2 41 (2.27%) WAN
3 38 (2.10%) LAN
4 35 (1.93%) Firewall
5 27 (1.49%) DNS
6 23 (1.27%) DHCP
7 15 (0.83%) VLAN
8 14 (0.77%) VPN
9 13 (0.72%) BGP
9 13 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.66%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.66%) Unified Communications
11 11 (0.61%) CTI
11 11 (0.61%) VoIP
12 10 (0.55%) OSPF
13 9 (0.50%) MPLS
14 7 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (0.39%) Intranet
14 7 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
14 7 (0.39%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.31%) Power BI
2 65 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (2.60%) MongoDB
4 39 (2.15%) Metadata
4 39 (2.15%) MySQL
5 28 (1.55%) NoSQL
6 27 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 22 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.94%) Spark SQL
9 16 (0.88%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (0.77%) Big Data
10 14 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 13 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (0.55%) Tableau
14 9 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
15 8 (0.44%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.39%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 72 (3.98%) Git
2 42 (2.32%) GitLab
3 25 (1.38%) JIRA
4 17 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.44%) Balsamiq
6 6 (0.33%) Axure RP
7 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.17%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.11%) Selenium
11 1 (0.055%) Flyway
11 1 (0.055%) Mocha
11 1 (0.055%) Ranorex
11 1 (0.055%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.055%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 443 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 263 (14.53%) Finance
3 233 (12.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 188 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 143 (7.90%) Law
6 93 (5.14%) Local Government
7 89 (4.92%) Legal
8 87 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
9 76 (4.20%) Marketing
10 71 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.65%) Retail
12 39 (2.15%) Telecoms
13 36 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.71%) Police
15 24 (1.33%) Banking
16 22 (1.22%) General Ledger
17 12 (0.66%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.66%) Multimedia
18 8 (0.44%) Environmental Health
18 8 (0.44%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 454 (25.08%) Senior
2 299 (16.52%) Architect
3 194 (10.72%) Lead
4 143 (7.90%) Analyst
5 136 (7.51%) Consultant
6 102 (5.64%) Developer
7 101 (5.58%) Technical Architect
8 95 (5.25%) Business Analyst
9 78 (4.31%) Senior Manager
10 66 (3.65%) Data Architect
11 65 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
12 64 (3.54%) Senior Architect
13 62 (3.43%) Lead Architect
14 61 (3.37%) Data Engineer
15 60 (3.31%) Technical Leader
16 58 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
17 57 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
17 57 (3.15%) Software Engineer
18 56 (3.09%) Designer
19 52 (2.87%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (5.25%) Terraform
2 74 (4.09%) .NET
3 50 (2.76%) Node.js
4 38 (2.10%) CSS
5 34 (1.88%) React
6 33 (1.82%) HTML
7 32 (1.77%) PySpark
7 32 (1.77%) REST
8 30 (1.66%) Middleware
9 24 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
9 24 (1.33%) Spring
10 20 (1.10%) RESTful
10 20 (1.10%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.05%) .NET Core
11 19 (1.05%) AngularJS
12 18 (0.99%) Web Services
13 16 (0.88%) Kafka
14 15 (0.83%) XML
15 14 (0.77%) Entity Framework
15 14 (0.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.19%) Cloud Native
2 71 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 62 (3.43%) Management Information System
4 60 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 57 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (2.65%) NHS
7 38 (2.10%) e-Learning
8 37 (2.04%) Blog
9 36 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.49%) Data Centre
12 27 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.10%) CMDB
13 20 (1.10%) PKI
14 19 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.05%) Public Cloud
15 18 (0.99%) AI Agents
15 18 (0.99%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.88%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 82 (4.53%) Windows
2 75 (4.14%) Linux
3 56 (3.09%) Unix
4 23 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.055%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (31.38%) Agile
2 549 (30.33%) Mentoring
3 508 (28.07%) Coaching
4 391 (21.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 241 (13.31%) CI/CD
6 239 (13.20%) Decision-Making
7 234 (12.93%) AI
8 226 (12.49%) Analytics
9 212 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
10 208 (11.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 203 (11.22%) Community of Practice
12 201 (11.10%) DevOps
13 200 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 173 (9.56%) Technology Strategy
15 166 (9.17%) Cybersecurity
16 160 (8.84%) Scrum
16 160 (8.84%) Technical Leadership
17 150 (8.29%) Roadmaps
18 142 (7.85%) Software Engineering
19 135 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 150 (8.29%) Java
2 148 (8.18%) SQL
3 126 (6.96%) Python
4 118 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 68 (3.76%) C#
6 26 (1.44%) Bash
7 25 (1.38%) C++
8 23 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 20 (1.10%) PL/SQL
10 17 (0.94%) PowerShell
11 13 (0.72%) Bicep
12 8 (0.44%) PHP
12 8 (0.44%) Scala
13 7 (0.39%) Ruby
14 6 (0.33%) R
15 5 (0.28%) ABAP
16 4 (0.22%) C
16 4 (0.22%) Perl
17 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.17%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 459 (25.36%) Security Cleared
2 359 (19.83%) SC Cleared
3 215 (11.88%) Degree
4 86 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 50 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (2.43%) CISSP
7 37 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.93%) CISM
9 22 (1.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 17 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 14 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.66%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.55%) PMI Certification
17 9 (0.50%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.50%) PMP
18 8 (0.44%) APMP
19 7 (0.39%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (8.29%) Accessibility
2 76 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (4.03%) Data Quality
4 59 (3.26%) NCSC
5 56 (3.09%) QA
6 44 (2.43%) NIST
7 36 (1.99%) GDPR
8 34 (1.88%) Actionable Recommendations
9 29 (1.60%) WCAG
10 28 (1.55%) GRC
11 20 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 19 (1.05%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.72%) PMO
14 13 (0.72%) SLA
15 10 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 9 (0.50%) ISO 19650
16 9 (0.50%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 6 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 57 (3.15%) Docker
2 46 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.55%) Hyper-V
4 10 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.33%) vSphere
6 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (3.76%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.10%) Ansible
3 20 (1.10%) Grafana
4 15 (0.83%) Argo
5 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (0.61%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 7 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.22%) FTK
9 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.17%) SCCM
10 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.055%) Cisco UCCE
11 1 (0.055%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.055%) Kibana
11 1 (0.055%) logstash
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.055%) Packer
Vendors
1 233 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 78 (4.31%) Oracle
3 56 (3.09%) Google
4 52 (2.87%) ServiceNow
5 35 (1.93%) Workday
6 34 (1.88%) Cisco
7 28 (1.55%) VMware
7 28 (1.55%) YouTube
8 25 (1.38%) SAP
9 24 (1.33%) Adobe
10 16 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 15 (0.83%) Splunk
12 13 (0.72%) Avaya
12 13 (0.72%) Databricks
12 13 (0.72%) Pega
13 12 (0.66%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.66%) Genesys
14 9 (0.50%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.44%) Dynatrace
16 6 (0.33%) Blue Prism