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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 93 90
Rank change year-on-year +41 -3 +12
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 3,563 3,067 5,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.12% 3.46% 3.73%
As % of the General category 6.97% 5.08% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,576 1,921 2,547
10th Percentile £28,906 £32,500 £32,898
25th Percentile £40,988 £41,250 £41,129
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,991 £73,751 £72,875
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,554 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.00% +1.01% -

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 51,151 60,373 87,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.13% 68.19% 64.55%
Number of salaries quoted 35,748 32,941 45,164
10th Percentile £27,500 £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 £105,000 £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 19 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 19 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 +51 1,144 £57,965 +23.92% 232
London +39 902 £60,000 -10.45% 387
South East +63 634 £51,000 +2.00% 244
North West +51 616 £57,965 +21.26% 143
Midlands +13 427 £50,000 -9.09% 154
Yorkshire +46 348 £57,965 +24.65% 59
South West +6 306 £51,000 +7.32% 135
West Midlands +5 273 £55,000 - 110
North East +35 181 £51,500 +10.75% 31
East Midlands +30 154 £47,500 -2.19% 43
East of England -2 114 £47,500 +10.22% 59
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 95 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.82%) Confluence
3 51 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 44 (1.23%) Apache
5 43 (1.21%) IIS
6 42 (1.18%) nginx
7 36 (1.01%) Camunda
8 25 (0.70%) OpenStack
9 24 (0.67%) Tomcat
10 14 (0.39%) JBoss
10 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
11 12 (0.34%) Apache Spark
11 12 (0.34%) CMS
12 8 (0.22%) Drupal
12 8 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
13 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 4 (0.11%) WordPress
15 3 (0.084%) Totara
Applications
1 128 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 102 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 80 (2.25%) Spreadsheet
4 52 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.45%) Adobe XD
5 16 (0.45%) Sketch
6 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.39%) Trello
7 11 (0.31%) InVision
8 9 (0.25%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.17%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.11%) Doxygen
12 3 (0.084%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.056%) Fusion 360
14 1 (0.028%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.028%) Simulink
14 1 (0.028%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.028%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 62 (1.74%) NEC Housing
2 34 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.084%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.084%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.056%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.056%) iTrent
8 2 (0.056%) Magento
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.056%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.056%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.056%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.028%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.028%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.028%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 880 (24.70%) Azure
2 446 (12.52%) AWS
3 386 (10.83%) IBM Cloud
4 304 (8.53%) Power Platform
5 216 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
6 190 (5.33%) Serverless
7 174 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 137 (3.85%) Azure Functions
9 136 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 136 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 128 (3.59%) Azure API Management
11 97 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
12 72 (2.02%) OCI
12 72 (2.02%) PowerApps
13 70 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
13 70 (1.96%) GCP
14 68 (1.91%) Power Automate
15 67 (1.88%) Amazon S3
16 62 (1.74%) GitHub
17 58 (1.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 85 (2.39%) Firewall
2 52 (1.46%) DNS
3 46 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
4 38 (1.07%) Network Security
5 33 (0.93%) WAN
6 30 (0.84%) Internet
7 29 (0.81%) Wireless
8 25 (0.70%) LAN
9 18 (0.51%) SAN
10 17 (0.48%) Intranet
11 14 (0.39%) DHCP
11 14 (0.39%) TCP/IP
12 12 (0.34%) HTTP
12 12 (0.34%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.31%) iSCSI
14 10 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
14 10 (0.28%) LTE
14 10 (0.28%) Modbus
15 9 (0.25%) 4G
15 9 (0.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 337 (9.46%) NoSQL
3 335 (9.40%) MongoDB
4 273 (7.66%) Power BI
5 256 (7.18%) DB2
6 210 (5.89%) Relational Database
7 190 (5.33%) SQL Server
8 120 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
9 106 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 91 (2.55%) Oracle Database
11 62 (1.74%) Tableau
12 59 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
13 49 (1.38%) MySQL
14 33 (0.93%) GIS
15 21 (0.59%) Oracle Database 12c
16 19 (0.53%) Data Lake
16 19 (0.53%) RDBMS
17 17 (0.48%) Power Query
18 15 (0.42%) Metadata
19 14 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 130 (3.65%) JIRA
2 113 (3.17%) Git
3 101 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.60%) GitLab
5 31 (0.87%) Visual Studio
6 29 (0.81%) CircleCI
7 22 (0.62%) Artifactory
8 18 (0.51%) JUnit
9 17 (0.48%) Subversion
10 16 (0.45%) JMeter
10 16 (0.45%) Maven
11 15 (0.42%) Axure RP
12 14 (0.39%) Selenium
13 13 (0.36%) Balsamiq
13 13 (0.36%) Cucumber
13 13 (0.36%) Eclipse
13 13 (0.36%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.28%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.28%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.25%) IntelliJ
General
1 954 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 763 (21.41%) Finance
3 554 (15.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 307 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 199 (5.59%) Local Government
5 199 (5.59%) Marketing
6 173 (4.86%) Retail
7 159 (4.46%) Telecoms
8 142 (3.99%) Manufacturing
9 135 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
10 129 (3.62%) Electronics
11 123 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
12 92 (2.58%) Police
13 78 (2.19%) Legal
14 77 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
15 38 (1.07%) Digital Economy
16 33 (0.93%) Back Office
17 32 (0.90%) Billing
18 30 (0.84%) Law
19 24 (0.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 564 (15.83%) Senior
2 441 (12.38%) Developer
3 384 (10.78%) Lead
4 293 (8.22%) Consultant
5 274 (7.69%) Architect
6 230 (6.46%) Analyst
7 189 (5.30%) Full Stack Developer
8 183 (5.14%) Project Manager
9 153 (4.29%) Full Stack Engineer
10 138 (3.87%) Azure Developer
11 137 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 128 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
13 107 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 107 (3.00%) Software Engineer
14 85 (2.39%) IT Manager
15 84 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
16 79 (2.22%) Junior
17 78 (2.19%) Business Intelligence Consultant
18 73 (2.05%) Senior DevOps
19 71 (1.99%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (10.30%) .NET
2 347 (9.74%) React
3 334 (9.37%) HTML
4 313 (8.78%) CSS
5 310 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 310 (8.70%) Web Services
6 307 (8.62%) REST
7 261 (7.33%) ASP.NET
8 249 (6.99%) ASP.NET Core
9 243 (6.82%) jQuery
9 243 (6.82%) Vue
10 241 (6.76%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 238 (6.68%) Backbone.js
11 238 (6.68%) Ember.js
12 215 (6.03%) Node.js
13 96 (2.69%) RESTful
14 81 (2.27%) Spring
15 51 (1.43%) JSON
16 49 (1.38%) Spring Boot
17 39 (1.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 419 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 391 (10.97%) Blockchain
3 244 (6.85%) Algorithms
4 242 (6.79%) Data Structures
5 216 (6.06%) e-Learning
6 151 (4.24%) Management Information System
7 150 (4.21%) Public Cloud
8 113 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
9 109 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
10 108 (3.03%) Product Ownership
11 97 (2.72%) NHS
12 86 (2.41%) Driving Licence
13 52 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
14 50 (1.40%) Social Media
15 42 (1.18%) IoT
16 39 (1.09%) Housing Association
17 33 (0.93%) Data Centre
18 27 (0.76%) PKI
19 26 (0.73%) Onboarding
20 19 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 475 (13.33%) Windows
2 470 (13.19%) Linux
3 245 (6.88%) Apple iOS
4 243 (6.82%) Android
5 77 (2.16%) Unix
6 66 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 42 (1.18%) CentOS
8 40 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
8 40 (1.12%) Debian
9 35 (0.98%) Windows 10
10 24 (0.67%) Solaris
11 18 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 17 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
13 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.25%) VMS
15 8 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
16 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.11%) AIX
18 4 (0.11%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 899 (25.23%) Agile
2 879 (24.67%) Mentoring
3 820 (23.01%) Coaching
4 577 (16.19%) Artificial Intelligence
5 510 (14.31%) DevOps
6 431 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
7 423 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
8 394 (11.06%) Full Stack Development
9 365 (10.24%) User Experience
10 326 (9.15%) Co-Creation
10 326 (9.15%) Project Management
11 311 (8.73%) Design Patterns
12 277 (7.77%) Web Development
13 266 (7.47%) OO
14 264 (7.41%) Roadmaps
15 263 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
16 261 (7.33%) OOP
17 260 (7.30%) MVC
18 257 (7.21%) SOLID
19 243 (6.82%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 598 (16.78%) SQL
2 486 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 436 (12.24%) C#
4 422 (11.84%) Java
5 361 (10.13%) Python
6 67 (1.88%) PowerShell
7 60 (1.68%) C
8 48 (1.35%) Shell Script
9 46 (1.29%) C++
10 45 (1.26%) Bash
11 40 (1.12%) Lua
12 34 (0.95%) TypeScript
13 26 (0.73%) PHP
14 25 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 17 (0.48%) Ruby
16 16 (0.45%) Embedded C
17 15 (0.42%) MATLAB
18 14 (0.39%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.39%) Scala
19 12 (0.34%) Go
Qualifications
1 673 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 431 (12.10%) Degree
3 374 (10.50%) SC Cleared
4 121 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 117 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 105 (2.95%) DBS Check
7 83 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 68 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 48 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 44 (1.23%) MCSE
11 42 (1.18%) CISSP
12 41 (1.15%) MCSA
13 40 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 33 (0.93%) PMI Certification
15 32 (0.90%) ACCA
16 23 (0.65%) AWS Certification
17 22 (0.62%) CISM
18 21 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
19 19 (0.53%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (4.69%) Accessibility
2 87 (2.44%) GDPR
3 75 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (2.10%) QA
3 75 (2.10%) WCAG
4 47 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 47 (1.32%) SLA
5 42 (1.18%) PMO
6 36 (1.01%) Data Quality
7 32 (0.90%) IFRS
7 32 (0.90%) ISO 9001
8 31 (0.87%) GAAP
8 31 (0.87%) NIST
9 28 (0.79%) NCSC
10 25 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 24 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 21 (0.59%) GRC
13 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.31%) ISO 14000
14 10 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 280 (7.86%) Docker
2 112 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 28 (0.79%) Firmware
6 18 (0.51%) 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%) XenApp
13 5 (0.14%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.11%) NFS
14 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 255 (7.16%) Terraform
2 250 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 88 (2.47%) Ansible
4 68 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.70%) EnCase
6 21 (0.59%) SCCM
7 20 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (0.45%) Grafana
10 12 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.34%) Kibana
10 12 (0.34%) ZABBIX
11 11 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
11 11 (0.31%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.25%) Nagios
13 9 (0.25%) Puppet
14 8 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.22%) SCOM
15 7 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 645 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 405 (11.37%) Red Hat
3 396 (11.11%) IBM
4 171 (4.80%) SAP
5 163 (4.57%) Oracle
6 98 (2.75%) VMware
7 83 (2.33%) YouTube
8 79 (2.22%) Cisco
9 69 (1.94%) Dynatrace
10 62 (1.74%) Google
10 62 (1.74%) NEC
11 49 (1.38%) ServiceNow
12 47 (1.32%) CA
13 45 (1.26%) Atlassian
14 42 (1.18%) Salesforce
15 30 (0.84%) Adobe
15 30 (0.84%) EMC
16 29 (0.81%) Splunk
17 25 (0.70%) WSO2
18 22 (0.62%) Aruba