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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 86 46
Rank change year-on-year +60 -40 +17
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,208 468 1,673
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.91% 3.57% 5.21%
As % of the General category 12.26% 4.99% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 981 338 1,443
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,924 £82,500 £84,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -2.65%

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 9,855 9,372 19,913
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.40% 71.52% 61.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,545 6,423 15,101
10th Percentile £30,141 £30,767 £31,579
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year - +6.54% -9.89%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 15 April 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 39 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.99%) Confluence
3 10 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.75%) SAS
5 8 (0.66%) Drupal
6 6 (0.50%) CMS
7 5 (0.41%) Apache
7 5 (0.41%) nginx
7 5 (0.41%) WordPress
8 4 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.17%) Camunda
10 2 (0.17%) JBoss
10 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.17%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.083%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (2.32%) Adobe XD
2 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.41%) InVision
4 5 (0.41%) Sketch
5 4 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.17%) Trello
8 1 (0.083%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.083%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.083%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.083%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.41%) iTrent
4 4 (0.33%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.17%) Primavera
5 2 (0.17%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.083%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.083%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 230 (19.04%) Azure
2 192 (15.89%) AWS
3 81 (6.71%) GCP
4 80 (6.62%) Power Platform
5 53 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (3.06%) SaaS
7 33 (2.73%) Serverless
8 31 (2.57%) Entra ID
9 28 (2.32%) Figma
9 28 (2.32%) OCI
9 28 (2.32%) PowerApps
10 26 (2.15%) Google Analytics
11 25 (2.07%) GitHub
12 23 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
14 18 (1.49%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 18 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 15 (1.24%) Power Automate
16 14 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.23%) Firewall
2 25 (2.07%) WAN
3 20 (1.66%) LAN
4 19 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (1.32%) Wireshark
6 15 (1.24%) NGFW
6 15 (1.24%) VXLAN
7 14 (1.16%) Network Security
8 11 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (0.83%) BGP
9 10 (0.83%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.83%) VLAN
9 10 (0.83%) VPN
10 9 (0.75%) SMTP
10 9 (0.75%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.75%) Unified Communications
11 8 (0.66%) MPLS
12 7 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.50%) WebEx
14 5 (0.41%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.39%) Power BI
2 30 (2.48%) Metadata
3 25 (2.07%) MongoDB
4 24 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.90%) NoSQL
6 15 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.08%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.99%) MySQL
9 11 (0.91%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.75%) Tableau
11 8 (0.66%) Looker
12 7 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.50%) Power Query
13 6 (0.50%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.41%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (2.07%) GitLab
2 24 (1.99%) Axure RP
3 23 (1.90%) Balsamiq
4 20 (1.66%) Git
5 15 (1.24%) JIRA
6 11 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 9 (0.75%) Selenium
7 9 (0.75%) Subversion
8 8 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.58%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.58%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.58%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.33%) NUnit
10 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.25%) Gatling
11 3 (0.25%) JMeter
11 3 (0.25%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 2 (0.17%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 320 (26.49%) Social Skills
2 251 (20.78%) Finance
3 208 (17.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 135 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (10.84%) Law
6 77 (6.37%) Marketing
7 56 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
8 55 (4.55%) Telecoms
9 51 (4.22%) Local Government
10 44 (3.64%) Legal
11 43 (3.56%) Manufacturing
11 43 (3.56%) Retail
12 42 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (2.40%) Electronics
14 28 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (1.82%) Banking
16 17 (1.41%) Billing
17 13 (1.08%) Police
18 10 (0.83%) General Ledger
19 8 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 326 (26.99%) Senior
2 162 (13.41%) Architect
3 142 (11.75%) Senior Manager
4 98 (8.11%) Lead
5 91 (7.53%) Developer
6 86 (7.12%) Consultant
7 62 (5.13%) Analyst
8 60 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
9 51 (4.22%) Project Manager
10 49 (4.06%) Designer
11 43 (3.56%) Data Engineer
12 42 (3.48%) Digital Project Manager
13 40 (3.31%) Business Analyst
13 40 (3.31%) Portfolio Manager
13 40 (3.31%) Senior Project Manager
14 37 (3.06%) Senior Digital Project Manager
14 37 (3.06%) Senior Portfolio Manager
15 36 (2.98%) Software Engineer
16 30 (2.48%) Technical Architect
17 29 (2.40%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.23%) .NET
2 33 (2.73%) REST
3 25 (2.07%) CSS
3 25 (2.07%) HTML
4 24 (1.99%) React
4 24 (1.99%) RESTful
4 24 (1.99%) Spring
5 19 (1.57%) Middleware
6 18 (1.49%) SOAP
7 17 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
7 17 (1.41%) Visualforce
8 14 (1.16%) Spring Boot
9 13 (1.08%) SAP CAF
10 12 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (0.83%) .NET Core
11 10 (0.83%) PySpark
12 9 (0.75%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.75%) ASP.NET
12 9 (0.75%) Kafka
12 9 (0.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 67 (5.55%) Cloud Native
2 65 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 51 (4.22%) Blog
4 40 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (3.23%) NHS
6 36 (2.98%) Management Information System
7 34 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 33 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (2.57%) Virtual Team
10 30 (2.48%) Data Centre
11 27 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 27 (2.24%) PKI
12 21 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
13 20 (1.66%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.41%) Low-Code
14 17 (1.41%) Security Posture
15 15 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
15 15 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (1.16%) PMI
17 11 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 43 (3.56%) Windows
2 40 (3.31%) Linux
3 17 (1.41%) Unix
4 12 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.83%) Android
6 9 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.25%) VME
8 1 (0.083%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (29.14%) Mentoring
2 331 (27.40%) Agile
3 305 (25.25%) Coaching
4 221 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 184 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (13.41%) AI
7 153 (12.67%) Community of Practice
8 134 (11.09%) Analytics
9 120 (9.93%) DevOps
10 116 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 115 (9.52%) CI/CD
12 110 (9.11%) Technology Strategy
13 108 (8.94%) Decision-Making
14 104 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
15 103 (8.53%) Collaborative Culture
16 100 (8.28%) Business Intelligence
17 98 (8.11%) Roadmaps
18 84 (6.95%) Project Management
19 83 (6.87%) Stakeholder Management
20 82 (6.79%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 96 (7.95%) Python
2 80 (6.62%) SQL
3 74 (6.13%) Java
4 68 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 42 (3.48%) C#
6 17 (1.41%) Apex Code
7 16 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.16%) VBA
9 11 (0.91%) Bash
9 11 (0.91%) R
10 10 (0.83%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.66%) Scala
12 5 (0.41%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.33%) Bicep
13 4 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.25%) COBOL
15 2 (0.17%) ABAP
15 2 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.17%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 337 (27.90%) Security Cleared
2 285 (23.59%) SC Cleared
3 222 (18.38%) Degree
4 47 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.81%) CISSP
7 29 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (2.24%) CISM
9 25 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.57%) ACCA
11 18 (1.49%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 15 (1.24%) CREST Certified
13 15 (1.24%) DBS Check
13 15 (1.24%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.99%) CHECK Team Member
15 11 (0.91%) AWS Certification
16 10 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
17 9 (0.75%) Cyber Scheme
18 7 (0.58%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 50 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.06%) QA
4 48 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (2.73%) GRC
6 31 (2.57%) GDPR
7 27 (2.24%) NIST
7 27 (2.24%) WCAG
8 19 (1.57%) GAAP
8 19 (1.57%) IFRS
9 15 (1.24%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (1.08%) P3O
11 11 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.83%) NCSC
13 8 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.66%) SLA
14 7 (0.58%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.58%) PMO
15 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 45 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.06%) Docker
3 20 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.16%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.83%) vSphere
6 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.083%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.083%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (5.63%) Terraform
2 35 (2.90%) Ansible
2 35 (2.90%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.83%) Grafana
4 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.58%) Nessus
5 7 (0.58%) Nmap
6 6 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.33%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.25%) Argo
8 3 (0.25%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.25%) Control-M
8 3 (0.25%) OpenView
8 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.17%) Kibana
9 2 (0.17%) MIIS
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.17%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.083%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 194 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.38%) Google
3 42 (3.48%) SAP
4 35 (2.90%) Oracle
4 35 (2.90%) Salesforce
5 30 (2.48%) Adobe
6 24 (1.99%) VMware
7 21 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 20 (1.66%) Cisco
9 18 (1.49%) MuleSoft
10 16 (1.32%) CyberArk
11 15 (1.24%) Arista
11 15 (1.24%) Aruba
11 15 (1.24%) NetScout
12 10 (0.83%) Splunk
13 8 (0.66%) Apple
13 8 (0.66%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.66%) Fortinet
13 8 (0.66%) Samsung
14 7 (0.58%) HubSpot