Public Sector Jobs with Work from Home Options

Public Sector
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 61 61
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 +26
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,761 2,154 3,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.21% 5.04% 5.29%
As % of the General category 8.50% 7.62% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,437 1,395 1,756
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £73,632
90th Percentile £84,964 £89,392 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,480 £54,500
% change year-on-year -2.62% +3.63% -0.91%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,727 28,269 42,283
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.30% 66.10% 62.57%
Number of salaries quoted 15,129 18,810 24,329
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Public Sector
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Public Sector trend for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Sector.

Public Sector salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Public Sector salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (3.12%) Confluence
2 38 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.42%) IIS
5 20 (1.14%) Apache
6 14 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 14 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 13 (0.74%) CMS
8 12 (0.68%) Anypoint
9 8 (0.45%) JBoss
9 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
10 6 (0.34%) nginx
11 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.23%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.17%) Totara
14 2 (0.11%) Drupal
14 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.11%) WordPress
15 1 (0.057%) Appian
Applications
1 46 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.80%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.34%) InVision
6 6 (0.34%) Sketch
7 4 (0.23%) Trello
8 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.057%) Blender
10 1 (0.057%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 19 (1.08%) NEC Housing
2 14 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
3 11 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.11%) iTrent
9 2 (0.11%) Magento
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.11%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.11%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
10 1 (0.057%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.057%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 414 (23.51%) Azure
2 236 (13.40%) AWS
3 235 (13.34%) Power Platform
4 86 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (2.50%) GCP
6 41 (2.33%) PowerApps
7 40 (2.27%) Serverless
8 35 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
9 33 (1.87%) Power Automate
10 32 (1.82%) Entra ID
11 31 (1.76%) SaaS
12 30 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (1.59%) PaaS
14 27 (1.53%) GitHub
15 26 (1.48%) IaaS
16 25 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
18 23 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
19 19 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 17 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.44%) Firewall
2 33 (1.87%) Network Security
3 26 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (1.31%) DNS
5 21 (1.19%) WAN
6 19 (1.08%) SAN
7 15 (0.85%) LAN
7 15 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.74%) MQTT
9 12 (0.68%) Wireless
10 11 (0.62%) HTTP
11 9 (0.51%) Internet
12 7 (0.40%) Intranet
12 7 (0.40%) LTE
12 7 (0.40%) SSL
12 7 (0.40%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.34%) BGP
13 6 (0.34%) LoRaWAN
13 6 (0.34%) MPLS
13 6 (0.34%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (12.72%) Power BI
2 128 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 100 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (5.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 71 (4.03%) NoSQL
6 67 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (3.58%) Relational Database
8 62 (3.52%) Tableau
9 48 (2.73%) MySQL
10 41 (2.33%) MongoDB
11 19 (1.08%) Data Lake
11 19 (1.08%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.91%) GIS
13 15 (0.85%) Power Query
14 14 (0.80%) DB2
15 13 (0.74%) Metadata
15 13 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (0.68%) Redis
17 10 (0.57%) QlikView
18 7 (0.40%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 83 (4.71%) JIRA
2 72 (4.09%) Git
3 46 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 40 (2.27%) GitLab
5 22 (1.25%) Visual Studio
6 21 (1.19%) Artifactory
7 13 (0.74%) Axure RP
7 13 (0.74%) Balsamiq
8 12 (0.68%) Subversion
9 8 (0.45%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.45%) git-flow
9 8 (0.45%) JUnit
10 7 (0.40%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.34%) JMeter
11 6 (0.34%) Metasploit
12 5 (0.28%) Maven
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
12 5 (0.28%) Postman
12 5 (0.28%) REST Assured
13 4 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 526 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 492 (27.94%) Finance
3 198 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 175 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
5 122 (6.93%) Retail
6 117 (6.64%) Marketing
7 89 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
8 84 (4.77%) Telecoms
9 83 (4.71%) Manufacturing
10 79 (4.49%) Electronics
11 58 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
12 53 (3.01%) Police
13 48 (2.73%) Local Government
14 21 (1.19%) Legal
15 17 (0.97%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.85%) Law
17 14 (0.80%) French Language
17 14 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.40%) Automotive
18 7 (0.40%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 377 (21.41%) Senior
2 264 (14.99%) Lead
3 217 (12.32%) Architect
4 170 (9.65%) Developer
5 165 (9.37%) Consultant
6 159 (9.03%) Analyst
7 101 (5.74%) Project Manager
8 82 (4.66%) Business Analyst
9 80 (4.54%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 74 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
11 60 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 59 (3.35%) Senior Architect
13 57 (3.24%) Designer
14 56 (3.18%) Software Engineer
15 54 (3.07%) IT Manager
16 52 (2.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 51 (2.90%) Senior Developer
18 49 (2.78%) Programme Manager
19 48 (2.73%) Agile Coach
20 43 (2.44%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (4.77%) .NET
2 77 (4.37%) RESTful
3 76 (4.32%) HTML
4 65 (3.69%) CSS
5 46 (2.61%) Web Services
6 40 (2.27%) AngularJS
6 40 (2.27%) Node.js
7 39 (2.21%) React
8 29 (1.65%) Spring
9 26 (1.48%) REST
10 24 (1.36%) Spring Boot
11 22 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
12 21 (1.19%) .NET Core
12 21 (1.19%) SOAP
13 19 (1.08%) Django
13 19 (1.08%) Flask
14 18 (1.02%) XML
15 16 (0.91%) .NET Framework
16 15 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
17 14 (0.80%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.74%) Public Cloud
2 79 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 56 (3.18%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.39%) Onboarding
5 33 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (1.59%) NHS
7 28 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (1.42%) IoT
9 23 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 12 (0.68%) PKI
11 11 (0.62%) Driving Licence
12 10 (0.57%) Cloud Native
12 10 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.51%) Mobile App
13 9 (0.51%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.40%) Arduino
14 7 (0.40%) Raspberry Pi
14 7 (0.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 135 (7.67%) Windows
2 116 (6.59%) Linux
3 46 (2.61%) Unix
4 38 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.80%) Solaris
5 14 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.23%) AIX
9 3 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.11%) VMS
11 1 (0.057%) Android
11 1 (0.057%) CentOS
11 1 (0.057%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (30.78%) Agile
2 486 (27.60%) Mentoring
3 459 (26.06%) Coaching
4 314 (17.83%) Business Intelligence
5 227 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 221 (12.55%) Project Management
7 208 (11.81%) Roadmaps
8 201 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
9 162 (9.20%) Migration
9 162 (9.20%) Project Delivery
10 155 (8.80%) Artificial Intelligence
11 150 (8.52%) Machine Learning
12 142 (8.06%) Microservices
13 131 (7.44%) DevOps
14 130 (7.38%) Programme Management
15 126 (7.16%) Analytics
16 125 (7.10%) ETL
17 120 (6.81%) Service Delivery
18 114 (6.47%) Decision-Making
18 114 (6.47%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 295 (16.75%) SQL
2 141 (8.01%) Java
3 137 (7.78%) JavaScript
4 117 (6.64%) C#
4 117 (6.64%) Python
5 29 (1.65%) PowerShell
6 27 (1.53%) TypeScript
7 26 (1.48%) Shell Script
8 20 (1.14%) C
9 16 (0.91%) C++
10 15 (0.85%) Bash
10 15 (0.85%) PHP
11 13 (0.74%) T-SQL
12 12 (0.68%) Go
13 11 (0.62%) Ruby
14 10 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.40%) Embedded C
15 7 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.34%) Embedded C++
16 6 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 392 (22.26%) Security Cleared
2 303 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 235 (13.34%) Degree
4 70 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 62 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 48 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 45 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 16 (0.91%) CISA
9 16 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.80%) CISSP
11 13 (0.74%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.62%) CCNP
13 11 (0.62%) CCSP
14 10 (0.57%) CISM
15 8 (0.45%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (7.44%) Accessibility
2 74 (4.20%) WCAG
3 72 (4.09%) QA
4 42 (2.39%) PMO
5 33 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 23 (1.31%) NIST
7 17 (0.97%) NCSC
8 14 (0.80%) ITGC
9 13 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.62%) SLA
11 8 (0.45%) GDPR
11 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.40%) GRC
13 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.23%) ISO 14000
15 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
17 1 (0.057%) HL7
17 1 (0.057%) NIST 800
17 1 (0.057%) RMADS
System Software
1 80 (4.54%) Docker
2 60 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.02%) Firmware
6 8 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.34%) Forefront TMG
7 6 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.17%) vSphere
11 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.057%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.057%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 72 (4.09%) Terraform
2 63 (3.58%) Kubernetes
3 57 (3.24%) Ansible
4 18 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.68%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.45%) SCCM
8 7 (0.40%) SysTrack
9 6 (0.34%) Nessus
9 6 (0.34%) SCOM
9 6 (0.34%) WSUS
10 5 (0.28%) Grafana
11 4 (0.23%) Kibana
11 4 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.23%) Puppet
11 4 (0.23%) vRealize
12 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.17%) Nmap
13 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.057%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 387 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.42%) SAP
3 61 (3.46%) Oracle
4 44 (2.50%) Atlassian
4 44 (2.50%) VMware
5 41 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 38 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 35 (1.99%) Cisco
8 33 (1.87%) Google
9 26 (1.48%) Adobe
10 19 (1.08%) NEC
11 18 (1.02%) Splunk
12 15 (0.85%) Aruba
13 14 (0.80%) Sage
13 14 (0.80%) WSO2
14 13 (0.74%) BMC
14 13 (0.74%) CA
15 12 (0.68%) CyberArk
15 12 (0.68%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.62%) Databricks