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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 61 46
Rank change year-on-year +29 -15 +15
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,447 873 1,305
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.63% 5.30% 4.77%
As % of the General category 11.12% 7.31% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,198 457 1,039
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,075 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,276 £44,196 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -5.11% +0.81%
75th Percentile £77,481 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,500 £84,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -

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 13,013 11,945 16,741
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.60% 72.47% 61.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8,364 6,695 11,656
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,928 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 26 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 31 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.04%) Apache
3 15 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.76%) SAS
5 9 (0.62%) Confluence
6 8 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.48%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.35%) CMS
8 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.21%) Camunda
9 3 (0.21%) Drupal
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
10 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.14%) WordPress
11 1 (0.069%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.83%) Adobe XD
5 11 (0.76%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.41%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.41%) Civil 3D
7 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.28%) Windchill
8 2 (0.14%) InVision
8 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.14%) Sketch
9 1 (0.069%) InDesign
9 1 (0.069%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.83%) Workday HCM
3 9 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.48%) iTrent
5 4 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.28%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.14%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.069%) HFM
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 283 (19.56%) Azure
2 281 (19.42%) AWS
3 82 (5.67%) GCP
4 65 (4.49%) Power Platform
5 60 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (2.07%) Entra ID
8 29 (2.00%) Google Analytics
8 29 (2.00%) SaaS
9 21 (1.45%) Serverless
10 20 (1.38%) Amazon S3
11 19 (1.31%) GitHub
12 18 (1.24%) Azure AKS
12 18 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
13 16 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (0.97%) Figma
15 11 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (0.76%) iPaaS
15 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.49%) WAN
2 30 (2.07%) LAN
3 28 (1.94%) Firewall
4 27 (1.87%) Network Security
5 16 (1.11%) DNS
5 16 (1.11%) Unified Communications
6 15 (1.04%) VoIP
7 13 (0.90%) DHCP
8 11 (0.76%) CTI
8 11 (0.76%) VLAN
9 10 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (0.62%) MPLS
10 9 (0.62%) WebEx
10 9 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.55%) BGP
11 8 (0.55%) VPN
12 7 (0.48%) SMTP
12 7 (0.48%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (4.15%) Power BI
3 58 (4.01%) MongoDB
4 42 (2.90%) MySQL
5 39 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 35 (2.42%) Metadata
7 22 (1.52%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.11%) BigQuery
9 15 (1.04%) Data Lake
10 14 (0.97%) Relational Database
11 13 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (0.83%) Big Data
13 11 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.76%) Looker
13 11 (0.76%) Tableau
14 10 (0.69%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
18 4 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (2.90%) Git
2 40 (2.76%) GitLab
3 18 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.11%) JIRA
5 8 (0.55%) Selenium
6 7 (0.48%) Balsamiq
7 6 (0.41%) Axure RP
7 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.21%) Gatling
8 3 (0.21%) JMeter
8 3 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.14%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.14%) JUnit
9 2 (0.14%) NUnit
9 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.069%) Bitbucket
General
1 325 (22.46%) Social Skills
2 200 (13.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 189 (13.06%) Finance
4 139 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 129 (8.91%) Law
6 71 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
7 64 (4.42%) Legal
8 56 (3.87%) Local Government
9 52 (3.59%) Marketing
10 48 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (2.49%) Retail
12 32 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (1.94%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.31%) Banking
15 13 (0.90%) Police
16 12 (0.83%) Multimedia
17 9 (0.62%) Environmental Health
18 7 (0.48%) General Ledger
18 7 (0.48%) Welsh Language
19 6 (0.41%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 365 (25.22%) Senior
2 240 (16.59%) Architect
3 138 (9.54%) Lead
4 123 (8.50%) Analyst
5 110 (7.60%) Consultant
6 90 (6.22%) Senior Manager
7 84 (5.81%) Business Analyst
7 84 (5.81%) Developer
8 72 (4.98%) Technical Architect
9 59 (4.08%) Account Manager
10 58 (4.01%) Software Engineer
11 55 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
12 54 (3.73%) Data Architect
13 51 (3.52%) Delivery Manager
14 47 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
15 45 (3.11%) Lead Architect
16 44 (3.04%) Designer
17 42 (2.90%) Senior Architect
18 41 (2.83%) Project Manager
19 38 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (2.97%) .NET
2 41 (2.83%) Node.js
3 40 (2.76%) REST
4 34 (2.35%) RESTful
5 27 (1.87%) React
6 25 (1.73%) Spring
7 20 (1.38%) CSS
7 20 (1.38%) SOAP
8 19 (1.31%) HTML
9 17 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (1.11%) Middleware
10 16 (1.11%) Spring Boot
11 15 (1.04%) Kafka
12 14 (0.97%) PySpark
13 11 (0.76%) AngularJS
13 11 (0.76%) SAML
14 9 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
14 9 (0.62%) Visualforce
14 9 (0.62%) XMPP
15 8 (0.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 101 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 64 (4.42%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.66%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.56%) e-Learning
6 35 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (2.42%) Virtual Team
7 34 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.35%) NHS
8 22 (1.52%) Blog
9 19 (1.31%) CMDB
9 19 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.31%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.04%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (0.97%) PKI
13 12 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
14 11 (0.76%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.25%) Windows
2 65 (4.49%) Linux
3 42 (2.90%) Unix
4 19 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.55%) Android
5 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.21%) VME
6 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (32.96%) Agile
2 454 (31.38%) Mentoring
3 385 (26.61%) Coaching
4 298 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 182 (12.58%) CI/CD
6 176 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
7 174 (12.02%) Community of Practice
8 169 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 162 (11.20%) Analytics
10 158 (10.92%) AI
11 150 (10.37%) DevOps
12 146 (10.09%) Technology Strategy
13 132 (9.12%) Roadmaps
14 124 (8.57%) Decision-Making
15 123 (8.50%) Scrum
16 119 (8.22%) Software Engineering
17 118 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
18 108 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
19 105 (7.26%) Test Automation
20 97 (6.70%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 134 (9.26%) Java
2 115 (7.95%) SQL
3 99 (6.84%) Python
4 97 (6.70%) JavaScript
5 41 (2.83%) C#
6 16 (1.11%) Bash
7 13 (0.90%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.76%) TypeScript
9 9 (0.62%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.62%) R
10 8 (0.55%) C++
11 7 (0.48%) PHP
11 7 (0.48%) Scala
12 5 (0.35%) Bicep
13 4 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.28%) Perl
14 3 (0.21%) COBOL
14 3 (0.21%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.21%) Ruby
15 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 376 (25.98%) Security Cleared
2 319 (22.05%) SC Cleared
3 208 (14.37%) Degree
4 73 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 60 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.76%) CISSP
7 33 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (1.94%) CISM
9 19 (1.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.83%) CREST Certified
12 11 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 11 (0.76%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.69%) PMP
14 9 (0.62%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.62%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.55%) AWS Certification
15 8 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.48%) CCNP
17 6 (0.41%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.74%) Accessibility
2 67 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (3.66%) QA
4 46 (3.18%) Data Quality
5 40 (2.76%) NCSC
6 34 (2.35%) NIST
7 30 (2.07%) GDPR
8 28 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
9 20 (1.38%) WCAG
10 19 (1.31%) GRC
11 18 (1.24%) PCI DSS
12 16 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.69%) SLA
14 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.41%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.41%) PMO
16 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 4 (0.28%) JSP 440
System Software
1 46 (3.18%) Docker
2 45 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.83%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.69%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (4.70%) Terraform
2 54 (3.73%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.00%) Ansible
4 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.97%) Argo
6 13 (0.90%) Grafana
7 9 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (0.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.28%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.21%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.21%) OpenView
11 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.21%) SCCM
12 2 (0.14%) MIIS
12 2 (0.14%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.069%) Kibana
13 1 (0.069%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 167 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 50 (3.46%) ServiceNow
3 47 (3.25%) Google
4 42 (2.90%) Oracle
5 30 (2.07%) VMware
6 28 (1.94%) Cisco
7 22 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.38%) Workday
9 15 (1.04%) Splunk
10 14 (0.97%) Databricks
10 14 (0.97%) SAP
11 13 (0.90%) Adobe
11 13 (0.90%) Avaya
11 13 (0.90%) Pega
12 12 (0.83%) CyberArk
12 12 (0.83%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.83%) Palo Alto
13 11 (0.76%) Genesys
14 10 (0.69%) Apple
14 10 (0.69%) MuleSoft