Public Sector Jobs in England

Public Sector
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 93 90
Rank change year-on-year +40 -3 +10
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 3,569 3,132 4,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.19% 3.46% 3.69%
As % of the General category 7.07% 5.08% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,592 1,955 2,539
10th Percentile £27,965 £32,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,988 £40,966 £40,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year - +1.66% -1.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,235 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £86,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,480 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.62% +2.69% -

All General Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 50,469 61,696 85,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.25% 68.21% 64.03%
Number of salaries quoted 35,505 33,426 44,983
10th Percentile £27,445 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in England.

Salary trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +50 1,133 £57,965 +25.40% 204
London +47 909 £60,000 -10.45% 332
South East +64 636 £50,000 - 163
North West +52 608 £57,965 +24.59% 126
Midlands +18 430 £52,500 -4.55% 116
Yorkshire +44 346 £57,965 +27.94% 59
South West -2 307 £51,000 +7.37% 98
West Midlands +12 277 £55,000 - 93
North East +36 180 £50,001 +7.53% 19
East Midlands +33 153 £47,500 +4.90% 23
East of England +11 119 £47,500 +10.22% 66
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 91 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.82%) Confluence
3 52 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.18%) nginx
5 36 (1.01%) Camunda
6 32 (0.90%) IIS
7 31 (0.87%) Apache
8 26 (0.73%) OpenStack
9 25 (0.70%) JBoss
9 25 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
10 12 (0.34%) Apache Spark
10 12 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.31%) CMS
12 8 (0.22%) Drupal
12 8 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
13 7 (0.20%) Anypoint
14 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 141 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 114 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 102 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
4 65 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.45%) Adobe XD
5 16 (0.45%) Sketch
6 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.39%) Trello
8 11 (0.31%) InVision
9 10 (0.28%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.17%) OrCAD
12 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Doxygen
13 3 (0.084%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.056%) Fusion 360
15 1 (0.028%) PTC Creo
15 1 (0.028%) Simulink
15 1 (0.028%) SOLIDWORKS
15 1 (0.028%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 42 (1.18%) NEC Housing
2 35 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.084%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.084%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.056%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.056%) iTrent
7 2 (0.056%) Magento
7 2 (0.056%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.056%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.056%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.056%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.028%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.028%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.028%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 872 (24.43%) Azure
2 441 (12.36%) AWS
3 386 (10.82%) IBM Cloud
4 298 (8.35%) Power Platform
5 216 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
6 191 (5.35%) Serverless
7 173 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
8 137 (3.84%) Azure Functions
9 136 (3.81%) Azure Logic Apps
9 136 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
10 128 (3.59%) Azure API Management
11 98 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
12 73 (2.05%) OCI
13 67 (1.88%) Amazon S3
13 67 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
13 67 (1.88%) PowerApps
14 66 (1.85%) GCP
15 63 (1.77%) Power Automate
16 58 (1.63%) GitHub
16 58 (1.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.44%) Firewall
2 51 (1.43%) DNS
3 46 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
4 39 (1.09%) Network Security
5 34 (0.95%) WAN
6 31 (0.87%) Internet
7 29 (0.81%) Wireless
8 25 (0.70%) LAN
9 18 (0.50%) SAN
10 17 (0.48%) Intranet
11 16 (0.45%) TCP/IP
12 14 (0.39%) DHCP
13 13 (0.36%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.34%) HTTP
14 12 (0.34%) VPN
15 11 (0.31%) 4G
15 11 (0.31%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (0.31%) iSCSI
16 10 (0.28%) LTE
16 10 (0.28%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
2 336 (9.41%) NoSQL
3 334 (9.36%) MongoDB
4 267 (7.48%) Power BI
5 256 (7.17%) DB2
6 212 (5.94%) Relational Database
7 185 (5.18%) SQL Server
8 118 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
9 108 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 74 (2.07%) Oracle Database
11 62 (1.74%) Tableau
12 59 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
13 51 (1.43%) MySQL
14 35 (0.98%) GIS
15 19 (0.53%) Data Lake
15 19 (0.53%) RDBMS
16 18 (0.50%) Power Query
17 17 (0.48%) Metadata
18 16 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 15 (0.42%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 131 (3.67%) JIRA
2 110 (3.08%) Git
3 100 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.43%) GitLab
5 31 (0.87%) Visual Studio
6 25 (0.70%) CircleCI
7 22 (0.62%) Artifactory
8 19 (0.53%) JUnit
9 18 (0.50%) IntelliJ
10 17 (0.48%) Subversion
11 16 (0.45%) Maven
12 15 (0.42%) Axure RP
12 15 (0.42%) JMeter
13 13 (0.36%) Balsamiq
13 13 (0.36%) Cucumber
13 13 (0.36%) Eclipse
13 13 (0.36%) Selenium
13 13 (0.36%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.28%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 960 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 750 (21.01%) Finance
3 549 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 301 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (5.80%) Marketing
6 177 (4.96%) Local Government
7 173 (4.85%) Retail
8 163 (4.57%) Telecoms
9 147 (4.12%) Manufacturing
10 139 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
11 134 (3.75%) Electronics
12 121 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
13 79 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
14 77 (2.16%) Legal
15 71 (1.99%) Police
16 38 (1.06%) Digital Economy
17 32 (0.90%) Billing
18 30 (0.84%) Law
19 27 (0.76%) Back Office
20 24 (0.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 569 (15.94%) Senior
2 432 (12.10%) Developer
3 379 (10.62%) Lead
4 283 (7.93%) Consultant
5 279 (7.82%) Architect
6 233 (6.53%) Analyst
7 187 (5.24%) Full Stack Developer
8 183 (5.13%) Project Manager
9 153 (4.29%) Full Stack Engineer
10 138 (3.87%) Azure Developer
11 130 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
11 130 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
12 120 (3.36%) Software Engineer
13 107 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 90 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
15 87 (2.44%) IT Manager
16 79 (2.21%) Java Engineer
16 79 (2.21%) Junior
17 78 (2.19%) Business Intelligence Consultant
18 71 (1.99%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (10.17%) .NET
2 345 (9.67%) React
3 333 (9.33%) HTML
4 318 (8.91%) AngularJS
5 317 (8.88%) REST
6 312 (8.74%) CSS
7 308 (8.63%) Web Services
8 261 (7.31%) ASP.NET
9 249 (6.98%) ASP.NET Core
10 243 (6.81%) jQuery
10 243 (6.81%) Vue
11 241 (6.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 238 (6.67%) Backbone.js
12 238 (6.67%) Ember.js
13 216 (6.05%) Node.js
14 104 (2.91%) RESTful
15 91 (2.55%) Spring
16 61 (1.71%) JSON
17 51 (1.43%) Spring Boot
18 45 (1.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 419 (11.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 391 (10.96%) Blockchain
3 244 (6.84%) Algorithms
4 242 (6.78%) Data Structures
5 216 (6.05%) e-Learning
6 154 (4.31%) Management Information System
7 134 (3.75%) Public Cloud
8 110 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
9 104 (2.91%) Product Ownership
9 104 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
10 97 (2.72%) NHS
11 92 (2.58%) Driving Licence
12 52 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
13 50 (1.40%) Social Media
14 42 (1.18%) IoT
15 40 (1.12%) Housing Association
16 28 (0.78%) Data Centre
16 28 (0.78%) PKI
17 26 (0.73%) Onboarding
18 19 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 464 (13.00%) Windows
2 452 (12.66%) Linux
3 244 (6.84%) Android
3 244 (6.84%) Apple iOS
4 68 (1.91%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.49%) Unix
6 42 (1.18%) CentOS
7 40 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
7 40 (1.12%) Debian
8 33 (0.92%) Windows 10
9 17 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.34%) Solaris
12 9 (0.25%) VMS
13 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.11%) AIX
15 4 (0.11%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 894 (25.05%) Agile
2 882 (24.71%) Mentoring
3 813 (22.78%) Coaching
4 574 (16.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 496 (13.90%) DevOps
6 442 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
7 430 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
8 390 (10.93%) Full Stack Development
9 372 (10.42%) User Experience
10 329 (9.22%) Project Management
11 326 (9.13%) Co-Creation
12 310 (8.69%) Design Patterns
13 277 (7.76%) Web Development
14 264 (7.40%) OO
15 262 (7.34%) Roadmaps
16 260 (7.28%) MVC
17 259 (7.26%) OOP
18 257 (7.20%) SOLID
19 256 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
20 243 (6.81%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 599 (16.78%) SQL
2 484 (13.56%) JavaScript
3 432 (12.10%) Java
4 429 (12.02%) C#
5 363 (10.17%) Python
6 69 (1.93%) PowerShell
7 63 (1.77%) C
8 46 (1.29%) Bash
9 45 (1.26%) C++
10 40 (1.12%) Lua
11 36 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 35 (0.98%) TypeScript
13 27 (0.76%) PHP
13 27 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 17 (0.48%) Ruby
15 16 (0.45%) Embedded C
16 15 (0.42%) MATLAB
17 14 (0.39%) Apex Code
18 13 (0.36%) Scala
19 12 (0.34%) Go
Qualifications
1 674 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 412 (11.54%) Degree
3 382 (10.70%) SC Cleared
4 126 (3.53%) DBS Check
5 122 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 116 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 81 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 65 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 48 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 44 (1.23%) MCSE
12 42 (1.18%) CISSP
13 41 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
13 41 (1.15%) MCSA
14 33 (0.92%) PMI Certification
15 32 (0.90%) ACCA
16 22 (0.62%) CISM
17 21 (0.59%) AWS Certification
18 20 (0.56%) CCNA
19 18 (0.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (4.06%) Accessibility
2 110 (3.08%) GDPR
3 87 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 75 (2.10%) QA
4 75 (2.10%) WCAG
5 60 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 52 (1.46%) SLA
7 44 (1.23%) ISO 9001
7 44 (1.23%) PMO
8 37 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 36 (1.01%) Data Quality
10 32 (0.90%) IFRS
10 32 (0.90%) NIST
11 31 (0.87%) GAAP
12 28 (0.78%) NCSC
13 24 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 21 (0.59%) GRC
15 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.31%) ISO 14000
16 10 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 278 (7.79%) Docker
2 113 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 28 (0.78%) Firmware
6 18 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 13 (0.36%) vSphere
9 12 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
12 6 (0.17%) Forefront TMG
12 6 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.11%) NFS
15 3 (0.084%) XenApp
15 3 (0.084%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 246 (6.89%) Kubernetes
1 246 (6.89%) Terraform
2 88 (2.47%) Ansible
3 62 (1.74%) Prometheus
4 37 (1.04%) EnCase
5 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.56%) SCCM
5 20 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.34%) ZABBIX
7 11 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
7 11 (0.31%) Kibana
7 11 (0.31%) vCenter Server
8 10 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (0.25%) Grafana
9 9 (0.25%) Nagios
9 9 (0.25%) Puppet
10 8 (0.22%) SCOM
11 7 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 642 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 406 (11.38%) Red Hat
3 396 (11.10%) IBM
4 176 (4.93%) SAP
5 148 (4.15%) Oracle
6 100 (2.80%) VMware
7 83 (2.33%) YouTube
8 81 (2.27%) Cisco
9 69 (1.93%) Dynatrace
10 60 (1.68%) Google
11 49 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 48 (1.34%) ServiceNow
13 47 (1.32%) CA
14 45 (1.26%) Atlassian
15 42 (1.18%) NEC
16 31 (0.87%) EMC
17 30 (0.84%) Adobe
18 29 (0.81%) Splunk
19 26 (0.73%) WSO2
20 22 (0.62%) Aruba