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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 67 62
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 +13
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 804 790 923
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.25% 4.57% 4.62%
As % of the General category 8.56% 6.73% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 632 444 760
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £36,747
25th Percentile £41,469 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% +0.81%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,991 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% -4.35%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,392 11,734 12,780
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.34% 67.90% 63.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5,988 6,787 9,928
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,539 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -1.64%

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 December 2025.

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 27 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.36%) Confluence
3 5 (0.62%) Drupal
3 5 (0.62%) nginx
3 5 (0.62%) WordPress
4 4 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.37%) CMS
6 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.25%) SAS
6 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.25%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.12%) Camunda
7 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.12%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 27 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.23%) Adobe XD
3 20 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.37%) Trello
8 2 (0.25%) InVision
8 2 (0.25%) Sketch
9 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.12%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.12%) Revit
9 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
3 6 (0.75%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.37%) Primavera
6 3 (0.37%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.12%) iTrent
8 1 (0.12%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.12%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 143 (17.79%) Azure
2 90 (11.19%) AWS
3 50 (6.22%) Power Platform
4 49 (6.09%) SaaS
5 38 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (4.73%) Serverless
6 29 (3.61%) GCP
7 28 (3.48%) Entra ID
7 28 (3.48%) Figma
8 27 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (2.86%) Power Automate
10 22 (2.74%) GitHub
10 22 (2.74%) PowerApps
11 16 (1.99%) Amazon S3
11 16 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.87%) Google Analytics
12 15 (1.87%) Miro
13 14 (1.74%) PaaS
14 12 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.98%) Network Security
2 15 (1.87%) Firewall
3 10 (1.24%) LAN
3 10 (1.24%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.24%) WAN
4 6 (0.75%) DNS
4 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.62%) DMZ
6 4 (0.50%) Internet
6 4 (0.50%) Wireless
7 3 (0.37%) VPN
7 3 (0.37%) VSAT
8 2 (0.25%) BGP
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.25%) DHCP
8 2 (0.25%) Intranet
8 2 (0.25%) MPLS
8 2 (0.25%) SAN
8 2 (0.25%) SSL
8 2 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.60%) Power BI
2 22 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 19 (2.36%) Metadata
4 9 (1.12%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.87%) Tableau
6 6 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.62%) MariaDB
7 5 (0.62%) Metadata Repository
7 5 (0.62%) MySQL
7 5 (0.62%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.50%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.50%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.50%) MS Access
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
8 4 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 25 (3.11%) Axure RP
2 24 (2.99%) Balsamiq
3 20 (2.49%) JIRA
4 15 (1.87%) Git
5 9 (1.12%) Cypress.io
5 9 (1.12%) GitLab
5 9 (1.12%) Selenium
5 9 (1.12%) Subversion
6 8 (1.00%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.00%) WebDriver
7 7 (0.87%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.87%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.50%) Toad
9 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.25%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.25%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.25%) NUnit
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
General
1 274 (34.08%) Social Skills
2 219 (27.24%) Finance
3 168 (20.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 139 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
5 127 (15.80%) Law
6 100 (12.44%) Telecoms
7 96 (11.94%) Marketing
8 95 (11.82%) Manufacturing
9 74 (9.20%) Electronics
10 51 (6.34%) Local Government
11 41 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (4.98%) Legal
13 29 (3.61%) Retail
14 18 (2.24%) Billing
14 18 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (1.62%) Police
17 8 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 109 (13.56%) Consultant
2 104 (12.94%) Senior
3 92 (11.44%) Architect
4 81 (10.07%) Developer
5 60 (7.46%) Security Consultant
6 55 (6.84%) Lead
7 52 (6.47%) Analyst
8 48 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (4.23%) Designer
10 30 (3.73%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 29 (3.61%) IT Manager
12 28 (3.48%) Senior Developer
13 25 (3.11%) Business Analyst
14 22 (2.74%) Account Manager
14 22 (2.74%) Senior Manager
15 21 (2.61%) Service Designer
16 20 (2.49%) IT Support
17 19 (2.36%) Audit Manager
18 16 (1.99%) Business Manager
19 15 (1.87%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.23%) .NET
2 28 (3.48%) React
3 26 (3.23%) CSS
3 26 (3.23%) HTML
4 25 (3.11%) SAP CAF
5 20 (2.49%) REST
6 19 (2.36%) Spring
7 17 (2.11%) SOAP
8 15 (1.87%) HTML5 Canvas
9 14 (1.74%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.49%) .NET Framework
11 11 (1.37%) .NET Core
12 10 (1.24%) Django
12 10 (1.24%) Entity Framework
12 10 (1.24%) JSON
12 10 (1.24%) Node.js
12 10 (1.24%) Web Services
13 8 (1.00%) AngularJS
13 8 (1.00%) Middleware
13 8 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.22%) Self-Motivation
2 48 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 47 (5.85%) Cloud Native
4 43 (5.35%) Blog
5 31 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 25 (3.11%) NHS
7 24 (2.99%) Virtual Team
8 22 (2.74%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.87%) Enterprise Cloud
10 14 (1.74%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.24%) Social Media
13 9 (1.12%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 7 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.87%) Reference Data
16 6 (0.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.99%) Windows
2 17 (2.11%) Linux
3 14 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.62%) Unix
5 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.62%) Rocky
7 3 (0.37%) Android
8 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (23.88%) Agile
2 148 (18.41%) AI
3 138 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 131 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (15.55%) Mentoring
6 115 (14.30%) Business Intelligence
7 107 (13.31%) Cybersecurity
8 99 (12.31%) Analytics
9 94 (11.69%) Community of Practice
10 89 (11.07%) Business Development
11 87 (10.82%) Collaborative Culture
12 86 (10.70%) Decision-Making
12 86 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 85 (10.57%) Programme Management
14 78 (9.70%) DevOps
14 78 (9.70%) Technology Strategy
15 74 (9.20%) Digital Marketing
16 73 (9.08%) Customer Service
17 72 (8.96%) Coaching
18 66 (8.21%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (7.84%) JavaScript
2 56 (6.97%) Python
3 54 (6.72%) SQL
4 53 (6.59%) C#
5 43 (5.35%) Java
6 16 (1.99%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.12%) Scala
9 8 (1.00%) Bash
9 8 (1.00%) Bicep
10 7 (0.87%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.50%) VB
12 3 (0.37%) Go
12 3 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.37%) R
12 3 (0.37%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.12%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 258 (32.09%) Security Cleared
2 208 (25.87%) SC Cleared
3 184 (22.89%) Degree
4 64 (7.96%) CISSP
5 39 (4.85%) CISM
5 39 (4.85%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 32 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (3.48%) Azure Certification
9 26 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
10 25 (3.11%) CEH
11 23 (2.86%) ACCA
12 21 (2.61%) DBS Check
13 17 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (1.99%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.12%) CHECK Team Member
15 9 (1.12%) CRISC
15 9 (1.12%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (8.21%) NIST
3 61 (7.59%) Accessibility
4 44 (5.47%) GRC
5 38 (4.73%) QA
6 33 (4.10%) PCI DSS
7 32 (3.98%) WCAG
8 20 (2.49%) GDPR
9 15 (1.87%) GAAP
9 15 (1.87%) IFRS
10 14 (1.74%) Data Quality
10 14 (1.74%) ISO 9001
11 10 (1.24%) JSP 440
12 9 (1.12%) NCSC
13 8 (1.00%) SLA
14 7 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.87%) PMO
15 6 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 4 (0.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 26 (3.23%) Docker
3 13 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.75%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.73%) Terraform
3 8 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.87%) Nessus
4 7 (0.87%) Nmap
5 6 (0.75%) Ansible
6 4 (0.50%) Grafana
7 3 (0.37%) Control-M
7 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.37%) SCOM
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.12%) Kibana
9 1 (0.12%) OpenView
9 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.12%) WSUS
9 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 136 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 96 (11.94%) SAP
3 30 (3.73%) Adobe
4 28 (3.48%) Google
4 28 (3.48%) Oracle
5 17 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 16 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.62%) VMware
8 11 (1.37%) NEC
9 10 (1.24%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.12%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.87%) Cisco
11 7 (0.87%) Talend
11 7 (0.87%) Workday
12 6 (0.75%) Dell
12 6 (0.75%) Mercator
13 5 (0.62%) Ariba
14 4 (0.50%) IBM
14 4 (0.50%) Northgate
14 4 (0.50%) Red Hat