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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 71 48
Rank change year-on-year +45 -23 +14
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,463 753 1,710
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.28% 4.88% 4.93%
As % of the General category 12.50% 6.55% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 347 1,429
10th Percentile £40,550 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,789 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +3.51% +0.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,700 £84,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 11,708 11,502 20,934
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.27% 74.53% 60.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,633 6,340 15,331
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,615 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,207 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 19 June 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 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (0.96%) Apache
4 12 (0.82%) SAS
5 9 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.48%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.21%) CMS
9 3 (0.21%) Drupal
9 3 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.14%) Camunda
10 2 (0.14%) Confluence
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.068%) nginx
Applications
1 30 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.09%) Adobe XD
4 13 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.27%) InVision
5 4 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.27%) Sketch
5 4 (0.27%) Windchill
6 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.14%) Civil 3D
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.48%) iTrent
4 4 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
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 (0.068%) HFM
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 286 (19.55%) Azure
2 252 (17.22%) AWS
3 88 (6.02%) GCP
4 86 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 58 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (1.98%) Google Analytics
8 26 (1.78%) OCI
9 25 (1.71%) Entra ID
10 23 (1.57%) SaaS
11 22 (1.50%) PowerApps
11 22 (1.50%) Serverless
12 21 (1.44%) Amazon S3
13 19 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
14 18 (1.23%) Azure AKS
15 17 (1.16%) GitHub
16 16 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (1.09%) Figma
17 13 (0.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 13 (0.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.94%) Firewall
2 35 (2.39%) WAN
3 29 (1.98%) LAN
4 27 (1.85%) Network Security
5 18 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.09%) Unified Communications
6 16 (1.09%) Wireshark
7 15 (1.03%) NGFW
7 15 (1.03%) VXLAN
8 13 (0.89%) VLAN
9 12 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (0.75%) VPN
11 10 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (0.62%) BGP
12 9 (0.62%) MPLS
12 9 (0.62%) SMTP
12 9 (0.62%) WebEx
13 8 (0.55%) DNS
14 7 (0.48%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.41%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (4.31%) Power BI
2 58 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (3.55%) MongoDB
4 41 (2.80%) Metadata
5 37 (2.53%) NoSQL
6 32 (2.19%) MySQL
7 17 (1.16%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 16 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (0.75%) Looker
12 10 (0.68%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.68%) Tableau
13 8 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.48%) Big Data
14 7 (0.48%) Relational Database
15 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (2.67%) GitLab
2 36 (2.46%) Git
3 15 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.55%) Axure RP
4 8 (0.55%) Balsamiq
4 8 (0.55%) Selenium
5 6 (0.41%) JIRA
6 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.21%) Gatling
7 3 (0.21%) JMeter
7 3 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.14%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.14%) JUnit
8 2 (0.14%) NUnit
8 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.068%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.068%) Zephyr
General
1 319 (21.80%) Social Skills
2 198 (13.53%) Finance
3 189 (12.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 142 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 119 (8.13%) Law
6 52 (3.55%) Marketing
7 51 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
8 49 (3.35%) Legal
9 42 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (2.80%) Local Government
11 35 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.26%) Retail
13 26 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.44%) Banking
15 12 (0.82%) Multimedia
16 9 (0.62%) Advertising
16 9 (0.62%) Environmental Health
17 8 (0.55%) Police
18 7 (0.48%) General Ledger
19 6 (0.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 402 (27.48%) Senior
2 236 (16.13%) Architect
3 152 (10.39%) Senior Manager
4 125 (8.54%) Lead
5 103 (7.04%) Analyst
6 87 (5.95%) Consultant
6 87 (5.95%) Developer
7 74 (5.06%) Business Analyst
8 62 (4.24%) Data Architect
9 59 (4.03%) Technical Architect
10 57 (3.90%) Software Engineer
11 55 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
12 52 (3.55%) Project Manager
13 49 (3.35%) Data Engineer
14 48 (3.28%) Designer
15 45 (3.08%) Account Manager
15 45 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
16 43 (2.94%) Portfolio Manager
17 42 (2.87%) Digital Project Manager
17 42 (2.87%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.87%) .NET
2 40 (2.73%) REST
3 32 (2.19%) RESTful
4 30 (2.05%) Node.js
5 25 (1.71%) Spring
6 21 (1.44%) React
6 21 (1.44%) SOAP
7 18 (1.23%) Middleware
8 17 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (1.09%) Spring Boot
10 15 (1.03%) CSS
10 15 (1.03%) HTML
11 12 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
11 12 (0.82%) Visualforce
12 10 (0.68%) Kafka
13 9 (0.62%) EDI
13 9 (0.62%) SAML
13 9 (0.62%) XMPP
14 8 (0.55%) AngularJS
14 8 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 91 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 61 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 44 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
3 44 (3.01%) Management Information System
3 44 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 34 (2.32%) Virtual Team
5 31 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 30 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
8 28 (1.91%) PKI
9 27 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (1.78%) e-Learning
11 25 (1.71%) NHS
12 24 (1.64%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.44%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.23%) Blog
15 17 (1.16%) CMDB
16 15 (1.03%) Low-Code
17 14 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.96%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.69%) Linux
2 53 (3.62%) Windows
3 23 (1.57%) Unix
4 14 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.62%) Android
6 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.21%) VME
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (32.19%) Mentoring
2 441 (30.14%) Agile
3 409 (27.96%) Coaching
4 250 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 174 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
6 163 (11.14%) CI/CD
7 162 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 156 (10.66%) Community of Practice
9 146 (9.98%) Analytics
10 133 (9.09%) AI
11 132 (9.02%) DevOps
12 119 (8.13%) Roadmaps
12 119 (8.13%) Technology Strategy
13 118 (8.07%) Decision-Making
14 115 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
15 103 (7.04%) Software Engineering
16 93 (6.36%) Collaborative Culture
17 91 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 86 (5.88%) Scrum
19 85 (5.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 125 (8.54%) Java
2 108 (7.38%) Python
3 103 (7.04%) SQL
4 87 (5.95%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.67%) C#
6 17 (1.16%) Bash
7 14 (0.96%) VBA
8 13 (0.89%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.82%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.68%) R
11 8 (0.55%) C++
11 8 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.48%) Scala
13 5 (0.34%) Bicep
13 5 (0.34%) PHP
14 4 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.27%) Perl
14 4 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.21%) COBOL
15 3 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 367 (25.09%) Security Cleared
2 310 (21.19%) SC Cleared
3 189 (12.92%) Degree
4 64 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.46%) CISSP
7 28 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.71%) CISM
9 20 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 10 (0.68%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (0.68%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.62%) CREST Certified
14 8 (0.55%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.48%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.48%) CCNP
16 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.43%) Accessibility
2 63 (4.31%) QA
3 58 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (3.76%) Data Quality
5 35 (2.39%) NCSC
6 31 (2.12%) GDPR
7 29 (1.98%) NIST
8 28 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
9 20 (1.37%) GRC
10 19 (1.30%) PCI DSS
11 16 (1.09%) WCAG
12 13 (0.89%) P3O
13 10 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.55%) SLA
15 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.41%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.34%) GAAP
16 5 (0.34%) IFRS
16 5 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (2.73%) Docker
2 38 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.82%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.68%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 81 (5.54%) Terraform
2 44 (3.01%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.80%) Ansible
4 16 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.96%) Argo
6 13 (0.89%) Grafana
7 9 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.21%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.21%) OpenView
10 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.14%) MIIS
11 2 (0.14%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.068%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.068%) Kibana
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.068%) SCCM
Vendors
1 190 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.10%) Google
3 44 (3.01%) ServiceNow
4 43 (2.94%) Oracle
5 30 (2.05%) Salesforce
6 26 (1.78%) VMware
7 23 (1.57%) Cisco
8 16 (1.09%) Adobe
8 16 (1.09%) CyberArk
9 15 (1.03%) Arista
9 15 (1.03%) Aruba
9 15 (1.03%) NetScout
9 15 (1.03%) Splunk
10 14 (0.96%) SAP
11 12 (0.82%) MuleSoft
12 11 (0.75%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.68%) Apple
13 10 (0.68%) Databricks
13 10 (0.68%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.55%) Samsung