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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 59 44
Rank change year-on-year +27 -15 +22
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,483 879 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.68% 5.32% 4.76%
As % of the General category 11.15% 7.32% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,219 464 986
10th Percentile £37,450 £33,125 £37,199
25th Percentile £46,276 £44,196 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -5.11% +0.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £84,964
UK median annual salary £61,741 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% +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 13,299 12,005 15,922
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.87% 72.59% 61.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,558 6,727 10,957
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1 August 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 (2.29%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.01%) Apache
2 15 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 14 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.61%) Confluence
4 9 (0.61%) SAS
5 8 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.47%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.40%) CMS
8 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.20%) Camunda
9 3 (0.20%) Drupal
9 3 (0.20%) WordPress
10 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.067%) JBoss
11 1 (0.067%) nginx
Applications
1 31 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.88%) Adobe XD
5 11 (0.74%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.47%) Civil 3D
7 4 (0.27%) Windchill
8 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.13%) Navisworks
9 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
9 2 (0.13%) Revit
9 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.067%) InDesign
10 1 (0.067%) InVision
10 1 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.067%) Sketch
10 1 (0.067%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 14 (0.94%) Workday HCM
2 9 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.47%) iTrent
4 4 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
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 Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.067%) HFM
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 288 (19.42%) AWS
2 282 (19.02%) Azure
3 83 (5.60%) GCP
4 66 (4.45%) Power Platform
5 61 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (2.43%) SaaS
8 32 (2.16%) Google Analytics
9 28 (1.89%) Entra ID
10 21 (1.42%) Serverless
11 19 (1.28%) Amazon S3
11 19 (1.28%) GitHub
12 18 (1.21%) Azure AKS
12 18 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (1.01%) Figma
14 11 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (0.74%) iPaaS
14 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.49%) WAN
2 31 (2.09%) LAN
3 28 (1.89%) Firewall
4 27 (1.82%) Network Security
5 16 (1.08%) DNS
5 16 (1.08%) Unified Communications
6 14 (0.94%) VoIP
7 13 (0.88%) DHCP
8 12 (0.81%) VLAN
9 11 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (0.74%) CTI
10 10 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
10 10 (0.67%) WebEx
11 9 (0.61%) MPLS
12 8 (0.54%) BGP
12 8 (0.54%) VPN
12 8 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.47%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.40%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.34%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (4.18%) Power BI
3 58 (3.91%) MongoDB
4 43 (2.90%) MySQL
5 38 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 36 (2.43%) Metadata
7 22 (1.48%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 15 (1.01%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.01%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (0.81%) Big Data
11 12 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (0.74%) Looker
12 11 (0.74%) Tableau
13 10 (0.67%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
16 5 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (2.90%) Git
2 40 (2.70%) GitLab
3 18 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.08%) JIRA
5 9 (0.61%) Balsamiq
6 8 (0.54%) Axure RP
6 8 (0.54%) Selenium
7 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.20%) Gatling
8 3 (0.20%) JMeter
8 3 (0.20%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.13%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.13%) NUnit
9 2 (0.13%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.067%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.067%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.067%) Zephyr
General
1 337 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 207 (13.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 202 (13.62%) Finance
4 142 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 137 (9.24%) Law
6 71 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
7 66 (4.45%) Legal
8 62 (4.18%) Local Government
9 54 (3.64%) Marketing
10 52 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (2.63%) Retail
12 35 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.35%) Banking
15 12 (0.81%) Police
16 11 (0.74%) Multimedia
17 9 (0.61%) Environmental Health
18 8 (0.54%) Aerospace
19 7 (0.47%) Welsh Language
20 6 (0.40%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 371 (25.02%) Senior
2 249 (16.79%) Architect
3 150 (10.11%) Lead
4 123 (8.29%) Analyst
5 116 (7.82%) Consultant
6 90 (6.07%) Senior Manager
7 84 (5.66%) Business Analyst
7 84 (5.66%) Developer
8 79 (5.33%) Technical Architect
9 60 (4.05%) Software Engineer
10 59 (3.98%) Account Manager
11 56 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
12 55 (3.71%) Data Architect
13 53 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
14 49 (3.30%) Lead Architect
15 48 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
16 46 (3.10%) Senior Architect
17 45 (3.03%) Designer
18 44 (2.97%) Technical Leader
19 39 (2.63%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.97%) .NET
2 42 (2.83%) Node.js
3 36 (2.43%) REST
4 33 (2.23%) RESTful
5 29 (1.96%) React
6 26 (1.75%) CSS
7 24 (1.62%) HTML
7 24 (1.62%) Spring
8 19 (1.28%) SOAP
9 17 (1.15%) Middleware
10 16 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
11 15 (1.01%) Kafka
11 15 (1.01%) Spring Boot
12 14 (0.94%) PySpark
13 12 (0.81%) AngularJS
14 10 (0.67%) .NET Core
14 10 (0.67%) XMPP
15 9 (0.61%) SAML
16 8 (0.54%) Entity Framework
16 8 (0.54%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 101 (6.81%) Cloud Native
2 65 (4.38%) Product Ownership
3 58 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 40 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (2.49%) e-Learning
7 34 (2.29%) NHS
7 34 (2.29%) Virtual Team
8 33 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.48%) Blog
10 19 (1.28%) CMDB
10 19 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.28%) Security Posture
11 16 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
13 14 (0.94%) Data Centre
14 13 (0.88%) PKI
14 13 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
15 12 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.06%) Windows
2 65 (4.38%) Linux
3 42 (2.83%) Unix
4 20 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.47%) Android
5 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.20%) VME
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (32.57%) Agile
2 467 (31.49%) Mentoring
3 397 (26.77%) Coaching
4 308 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 180 (12.14%) CI/CD
6 177 (11.94%) Community of Practice
7 176 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
8 170 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 167 (11.26%) Analytics
10 162 (10.92%) AI
11 150 (10.11%) DevOps
12 149 (10.05%) Technology Strategy
13 132 (8.90%) Decision-Making
14 130 (8.77%) Roadmaps
15 124 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
16 123 (8.29%) Scrum
16 123 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
17 121 (8.16%) Software Engineering
18 103 (6.95%) Test Automation
19 97 (6.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 133 (8.97%) Java
2 113 (7.62%) SQL
3 101 (6.81%) Python
4 99 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 45 (3.03%) C#
6 15 (1.01%) Bash
7 12 (0.81%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 9 (0.61%) R
10 8 (0.54%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.54%) C++
10 8 (0.54%) PHP
11 6 (0.40%) Scala
12 5 (0.34%) Bicep
13 4 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.27%) Perl
13 4 (0.27%) Ruby
14 3 (0.20%) C
14 3 (0.20%) COBOL
14 3 (0.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 387 (26.10%) Security Cleared
2 318 (21.44%) SC Cleared
3 211 (14.23%) Degree
4 81 (5.46%) DV Cleared
5 59 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.70%) CISSP
7 34 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (1.89%) CISM
9 19 (1.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.81%) CREST Certified
12 11 (0.74%) DBS Check
12 11 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.67%) PMP
14 9 (0.61%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.54%) AWS Certification
15 8 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.47%) CCNP
17 6 (0.40%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (7.82%) Accessibility
2 68 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (3.51%) QA
4 47 (3.17%) Data Quality
5 40 (2.70%) NCSC
6 34 (2.29%) NIST
7 30 (2.02%) GDPR
8 28 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.62%) WCAG
10 19 (1.28%) GRC
11 18 (1.21%) PCI DSS
12 16 (1.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (0.74%) SLA
14 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.47%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 7 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 4 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 45 (3.03%) Docker
2 42 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.74%) vSphere
6 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 72 (4.86%) Terraform
2 53 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.96%) Ansible
4 14 (0.94%) Argo
4 14 (0.94%) Grafana
4 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
6 7 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 4 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.20%) OpenView
8 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.20%) SCCM
9 2 (0.13%) MIIS
9 2 (0.13%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.067%) Kibana
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 171 (11.53%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.51%) Google
3 51 (3.44%) ServiceNow
4 41 (2.76%) Oracle
5 30 (2.02%) VMware
6 29 (1.96%) Cisco
7 21 (1.42%) Workday
8 20 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.08%) Splunk
10 14 (0.94%) Adobe
10 14 (0.94%) Databricks
10 14 (0.94%) SAP
11 13 (0.88%) Avaya
11 13 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 13 (0.88%) Palo Alto
11 13 (0.88%) Pega
12 11 (0.74%) Genesys
13 10 (0.67%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.61%) Apple
14 9 (0.61%) CyberArk