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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 50 61
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 -1
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,658 918 996
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.03% 5.67% 4.21%
As % of the General category 11.67% 7.92% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,275 500 692
10th Percentile £37,000 £33,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,688 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% - -0.76%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,813 £71,991
90th Percentile £91,269 £85,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £63,076 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.70% +4.55% -

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 14,202 11,594 14,633
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.21% 71.59% 61.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,885 6,426 8,925
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £43,806
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -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 6 September 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 36 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 14 (0.84%) Apache
4 12 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.72%) Confluence
5 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.48%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.48%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.36%) CMS
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.30%) MS Project Server
8 5 (0.30%) SAS
9 4 (0.24%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) WordPress
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.060%) Drupal
11 1 (0.060%) Moodle
11 1 (0.060%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 39 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.72%) Adobe XD
5 11 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.60%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.54%) Civil 3D
8 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.30%) Navisworks
9 5 (0.30%) Revit
10 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.24%) Windchill
11 2 (0.12%) InDesign
11 2 (0.12%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.060%) Elementor
12 1 (0.060%) InVision
12 1 (0.060%) ProjectWise
12 1 (0.060%) Sketch
12 1 (0.060%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 16 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.90%) Workday HCM
3 11 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.42%) iTrent
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 1 (0.060%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.060%) HFM
10 1 (0.060%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 331 (19.96%) AWS
2 292 (17.61%) Azure
3 94 (5.67%) GCP
4 67 (4.04%) Power Platform
5 60 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (3.32%) SaaS
7 40 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (1.93%) Serverless
9 28 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (1.63%) Azure AKS
10 27 (1.63%) Entra ID
11 26 (1.57%) GitHub
12 25 (1.51%) Google Analytics
12 25 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
13 24 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (1.21%) Amazon EMR
15 19 (1.15%) Slack
16 17 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (0.97%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.35%) WAN
2 38 (2.29%) Network Security
3 33 (1.99%) LAN
4 30 (1.81%) Firewall
5 20 (1.21%) DNS
6 17 (1.03%) DHCP
7 14 (0.84%) VLAN
8 12 (0.72%) BGP
8 12 (0.72%) Unified Communications
8 12 (0.72%) VoIP
9 11 (0.66%) CTI
9 11 (0.66%) MPLS
10 9 (0.54%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.54%) VPN
10 9 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (0.48%) OSPF
12 7 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
12 7 (0.42%) WebEx
13 6 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (3.50%) Power BI
3 50 (3.02%) MongoDB
4 40 (2.41%) MySQL
5 37 (2.23%) Metadata
6 28 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 27 (1.63%) SQL Server
8 20 (1.21%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.97%) Spark SQL
10 14 (0.84%) Big Data
10 14 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 11 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (0.66%) Tableau
12 10 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (0.54%) Metadata Repository
14 8 (0.48%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.42%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 57 (3.44%) Git
2 43 (2.59%) GitLab
3 22 (1.33%) JIRA
4 18 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.54%) Balsamiq
6 7 (0.42%) Axure RP
6 7 (0.42%) Selenium
7 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.30%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.18%) Gatling
10 3 (0.18%) JMeter
10 3 (0.18%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.18%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.12%) NUnit
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 391 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 216 (13.03%) Finance
3 215 (12.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 169 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 143 (8.62%) Law
6 86 (5.19%) Local Government
7 82 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
8 73 (4.40%) Legal
9 65 (3.92%) Marketing
10 64 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (2.65%) Retail
12 38 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (2.11%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.39%) Banking
15 20 (1.21%) Police
16 14 (0.84%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.72%) Multimedia
18 11 (0.66%) General Ledger
19 10 (0.60%) Social Housing
20 8 (0.48%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 403 (24.31%) Senior
2 284 (17.13%) Architect
3 178 (10.74%) Lead
4 141 (8.50%) Consultant
5 137 (8.26%) Analyst
6 97 (5.85%) Business Analyst
7 95 (5.73%) Technical Architect
8 90 (5.43%) Developer
9 79 (4.76%) Senior Manager
10 65 (3.92%) Data Architect
11 58 (3.50%) Account Manager
12 57 (3.44%) Lead Architect
12 57 (3.44%) Software Engineer
12 57 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
13 56 (3.38%) Senior Architect
14 55 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
15 54 (3.26%) Designer
15 54 (3.26%) Technical Leader
16 52 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
17 50 (3.02%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (5.07%) Terraform
2 70 (4.22%) .NET
3 50 (3.02%) Node.js
4 39 (2.35%) CSS
5 36 (2.17%) React
6 34 (2.05%) HTML
7 31 (1.87%) PySpark
8 29 (1.75%) REST
9 25 (1.51%) Spring
10 24 (1.45%) RESTful
11 20 (1.21%) Middleware
12 19 (1.15%) .NET Core
12 19 (1.15%) AngularJS
13 17 (1.03%) Kafka
13 17 (1.03%) Spring Boot
14 14 (0.84%) Entity Framework
14 14 (0.84%) SOAP
15 13 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
16 10 (0.60%) .NET Framework
16 10 (0.60%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.49%) Cloud Native
2 73 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 58 (3.50%) Onboarding
4 51 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.41%) Blog
6 40 (2.41%) NHS
7 38 (2.29%) e-Learning
8 31 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 25 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.33%) Data Centre
11 22 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.21%) CMDB
13 19 (1.15%) Security Posture
14 18 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.03%) PKI
15 17 (1.03%) Public Cloud
16 16 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
17 14 (0.84%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 82 (4.95%) Windows
2 75 (4.52%) Linux
3 54 (3.26%) Unix
4 24 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.18%) VME
5 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (32.99%) Agile
2 494 (29.79%) Mentoring
3 446 (26.90%) Coaching
4 320 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 217 (13.09%) CI/CD
6 203 (12.24%) Community of Practice
7 200 (12.06%) AI
8 192 (11.58%) Analytics
9 189 (11.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 187 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
11 181 (10.92%) Decision-Making
12 175 (10.55%) DevOps
13 171 (10.31%) Technology Strategy
14 161 (9.71%) Scrum
15 154 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
16 144 (8.69%) Cybersecurity
16 144 (8.69%) Roadmaps
17 132 (7.96%) Technical Leadership
18 128 (7.72%) Software Engineering
19 125 (7.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 149 (8.99%) Java
2 120 (7.24%) JavaScript
3 118 (7.12%) SQL
4 107 (6.45%) Python
5 64 (3.86%) C#
6 24 (1.45%) C++
7 23 (1.39%) Bash
8 22 (1.33%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.97%) PowerShell
10 10 (0.60%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.48%) Bicep
11 8 (0.48%) PHP
11 8 (0.48%) Scala
12 7 (0.42%) Ruby
13 5 (0.30%) R
14 4 (0.24%) C
14 4 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.24%) Perl
15 3 (0.18%) COBOL
15 3 (0.18%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 416 (25.09%) Security Cleared
2 333 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 211 (12.73%) Degree
4 91 (5.49%) DV Cleared
5 56 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (2.65%) CISSP
7 39 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (2.11%) CISM
9 24 (1.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 13 (0.78%) CREST Certified
10 13 (0.78%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.72%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.60%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.54%) PMP
14 8 (0.48%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.42%) CCNP
15 7 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.42%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (8.75%) Accessibility
2 79 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (3.98%) Data Quality
4 57 (3.44%) QA
5 53 (3.20%) NCSC
6 41 (2.47%) NIST
7 37 (2.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 30 (1.81%) WCAG
9 27 (1.63%) GRC
10 26 (1.57%) GDPR
11 20 (1.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 20 (1.21%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.72%) SLA
14 9 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 8 (0.48%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 8 (0.48%) PMO
16 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 57 (3.44%) Docker
2 44 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.48%) vSphere
6 5 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 65 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.93%) Ansible
3 14 (0.84%) Argo
4 13 (0.78%) Grafana
5 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 7 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.24%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.18%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.18%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.18%) SCCM
11 2 (0.12%) FTK
11 2 (0.12%) MIIS
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.060%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.060%) Kibana
12 1 (0.060%) OpenView
12 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 185 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.38%) Google
3 45 (2.71%) Oracle
4 42 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 30 (1.81%) Cisco
6 29 (1.75%) VMware
7 23 (1.39%) Workday
8 22 (1.33%) Adobe
9 18 (1.09%) YouTube
10 16 (0.97%) SAP
10 16 (0.97%) Splunk
11 15 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.78%) Avaya
12 13 (0.78%) Pega
13 12 (0.72%) Databricks
14 11 (0.66%) Genesys
15 10 (0.60%) Fortinet
15 10 (0.60%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.36%) NetApp
17 5 (0.30%) Red Hat