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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 75 47
Rank change year-on-year +50 -28 +16
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,408 704 1,684
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.43% 4.84% 5.12%
As % of the General category 13.18% 6.45% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,163 318 1,431
10th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,789 £45,872 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,688 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,250 £84,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.60%

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 10,679 10,918 20,279
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.39% 75.03% 61.70%
Number of salaries quoted 7,087 5,987 15,113
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,800
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,492
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 26 May 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 35 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (0.78%) Apache
3 11 (0.78%) SAS
4 8 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.28%) Confluence
7 4 (0.28%) Drupal
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.21%) CMS
8 3 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.14%) Camunda
9 2 (0.14%) JBoss
9 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.42%) Adobe XD
4 10 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.36%) InVision
5 5 (0.36%) Sketch
6 4 (0.28%) Windchill
7 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.14%) Civil 3D
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.071%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.071%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.50%) iTrent
4 4 (0.28%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.071%) HFM
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 283 (20.10%) Azure
2 237 (16.83%) AWS
3 85 (6.04%) Power Platform
4 77 (5.47%) GCP
5 55 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (2.20%) SaaS
8 30 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 29 (2.06%) Serverless
10 26 (1.85%) Google Analytics
10 26 (1.85%) OCI
11 24 (1.70%) Amazon S3
12 23 (1.63%) GitHub
13 22 (1.56%) PowerApps
14 21 (1.49%) Figma
15 18 (1.28%) Azure AKS
16 16 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 14 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.05%) Firewall
2 37 (2.63%) WAN
3 31 (2.20%) LAN
4 23 (1.63%) Network Security
5 18 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.14%) Wireshark
7 15 (1.07%) NGFW
7 15 (1.07%) VXLAN
8 14 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (0.99%) Unified Communications
8 14 (0.99%) VLAN
9 10 (0.71%) BGP
9 10 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.64%) SMTP
10 9 (0.64%) VPN
10 9 (0.64%) WebEx
11 8 (0.57%) MPLS
12 7 (0.50%) DNS
13 6 (0.43%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.12%) Power BI
2 53 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (3.55%) MongoDB
4 42 (2.98%) Metadata
5 35 (2.49%) NoSQL
6 29 (2.06%) MySQL
7 17 (1.21%) SQL Server
8 15 (1.07%) Data Lake
9 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (0.78%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (0.64%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.57%) Looker
13 8 (0.57%) Tableau
14 6 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.43%) Big Data
14 6 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (2.91%) GitLab
2 38 (2.70%) Git
3 15 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.99%) Axure RP
5 13 (0.92%) Balsamiq
6 9 (0.64%) Selenium
7 7 (0.50%) JIRA
8 6 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.21%) Gatling
9 3 (0.21%) JMeter
9 3 (0.21%) NUnit
9 3 (0.21%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.21%) Subversion
10 2 (0.14%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.14%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.14%) JUnit
10 2 (0.14%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 320 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 222 (15.77%) Finance
3 198 (14.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 139 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 125 (8.88%) Law
6 57 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
7 56 (3.98%) Marketing
8 47 (3.34%) Local Government
9 43 (3.05%) Legal
10 39 (2.77%) Retail
11 37 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.63%) Banking
15 14 (0.99%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.85%) Billing
17 10 (0.71%) Police
18 9 (0.64%) General Ledger
19 8 (0.57%) Environmental Health
20 7 (0.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 398 (28.27%) Senior
2 207 (14.70%) Architect
3 159 (11.29%) Senior Manager
4 127 (9.02%) Lead
5 101 (7.17%) Analyst
6 91 (6.46%) Consultant
7 84 (5.97%) Developer
8 76 (5.40%) Business Analyst
9 57 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
10 53 (3.76%) Software Engineer
11 52 (3.69%) Designer
12 51 (3.62%) Project Manager
13 49 (3.48%) Data Engineer
14 48 (3.41%) Technical Architect
15 43 (3.05%) Data Architect
15 43 (3.05%) Portfolio Manager
16 42 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
16 42 (2.98%) Digital Project Manager
16 42 (2.98%) Senior Project Manager
17 41 (2.91%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.05%) .NET
2 36 (2.56%) REST
3 33 (2.34%) RESTful
4 30 (2.13%) Node.js
5 22 (1.56%) React
5 22 (1.56%) Spring
6 21 (1.49%) SOAP
7 20 (1.42%) CSS
7 20 (1.42%) HTML
8 19 (1.35%) Middleware
9 16 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (0.99%) Spring Boot
11 13 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
11 13 (0.92%) Visualforce
12 12 (0.85%) PySpark
13 11 (0.78%) EDI
14 9 (0.64%) Playwright
14 9 (0.64%) SAML
14 9 (0.64%) XMPP
15 8 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 77 (5.47%) Cloud Native
2 68 (4.83%) Product Ownership
3 48 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 44 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.41%) Virtual Team
7 31 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 29 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
9 28 (1.99%) NHS
9 28 (1.99%) PKI
10 25 (1.78%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.70%) Blog
11 24 (1.70%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.14%) CMDB
12 16 (1.14%) Low-Code
12 16 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
13 15 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.99%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.84%) Linux
2 51 (3.62%) Windows
3 26 (1.85%) Unix
4 12 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.64%) Android
6 8 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.21%) VME
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (32.74%) Mentoring
2 418 (29.69%) Agile
3 404 (28.69%) Coaching
4 236 (16.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 181 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (11.51%) Community of Practice
7 159 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 154 (10.94%) CI/CD
9 146 (10.37%) Analytics
10 141 (10.01%) AI
11 139 (9.87%) DevOps
12 115 (8.17%) Technology Strategy
13 113 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
14 112 (7.95%) Roadmaps
15 107 (7.60%) Decision-Making
16 102 (7.24%) Collaborative Culture
17 96 (6.82%) Software Engineering
18 90 (6.39%) Stakeholder Management
19 87 (6.18%) Business Intelligence
20 85 (6.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 114 (8.10%) Java
2 113 (8.03%) Python
3 101 (7.17%) SQL
4 92 (6.53%) JavaScript
5 42 (2.98%) C#
6 15 (1.07%) Bash
7 14 (0.99%) VBA
8 13 (0.92%) Apex Code
8 13 (0.92%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.92%) Scala
9 10 (0.71%) R
10 8 (0.57%) C++
10 8 (0.57%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.36%) Bicep
11 5 (0.36%) PHP
12 4 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.28%) Perl
13 3 (0.21%) COBOL
13 3 (0.21%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 366 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 307 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 192 (13.64%) Degree
4 59 (4.19%) DV Cleared
5 47 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.56%) CISSP
7 29 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.78%) CISM
9 24 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.35%) PMI Certification
11 15 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 12 (0.85%) ACCA
12 12 (0.85%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.78%) CREST Certified
13 11 (0.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 9 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.64%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.50%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.50%) CHECK Team Member
15 7 (0.50%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.68%) Accessibility
2 62 (4.40%) QA
3 57 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 53 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (2.41%) GDPR
6 29 (2.06%) NIST
7 25 (1.78%) GRC
7 25 (1.78%) NCSC
8 21 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 19 (1.35%) PCI DSS
10 18 (1.28%) WCAG
11 14 (0.99%) SLA
12 13 (0.92%) P3O
13 11 (0.78%) GAAP
13 11 (0.78%) IFRS
14 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.43%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 42 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.56%) Docker
3 21 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.07%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.71%) vSphere
6 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.071%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.071%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (5.75%) Terraform
2 41 (2.91%) Ansible
3 35 (2.49%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.99%) Argo
6 13 (0.92%) Grafana
7 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.64%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.28%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.21%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.21%) Control-M
10 3 (0.21%) OpenView
10 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.14%) MIIS
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) Nmap
11 2 (0.14%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.071%) SCCM
12 1 (0.071%) WSUS
Vendors
1 203 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.26%) Google
3 44 (3.13%) Oracle
4 36 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 31 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 25 (1.78%) VMware
7 23 (1.63%) Cisco
7 23 (1.63%) SAP
8 21 (1.49%) Adobe
9 16 (1.14%) CyberArk
10 15 (1.07%) Arista
10 15 (1.07%) Aruba
10 15 (1.07%) NetScout
10 15 (1.07%) Splunk
11 13 (0.92%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.71%) Apple
12 10 (0.71%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.64%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.57%) Samsung
15 7 (0.50%) Databricks