Public Sector Jobs in London

Public Sector
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. 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 70 109 169
Rank change year-on-year +39 +60 -38
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 902 1,058 1,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.81% 3.13% 2.62%
As % of the General category 5.61% 4.56% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 686 657 861
10th Percentile £27,965 £43,162 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,003 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +3.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 16,074 23,185 47,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.87% 68.70% 68.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,374 16,066 22,555
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the London 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
Central London -44 68 £61,500 -5.38% 42
South London +31 61 £40,036 +63.41% 4
East London +16 33 £27,965 -53.39% 41
West London -58 7 £44,500 -1.11% 18
North London -12 2 £60,500 - 3
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 29 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.22%) Apache
3 17 (1.88%) OpenStack
4 13 (1.44%) IIS
5 12 (1.33%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.22%) Confluence
7 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (1.00%) CMS
9 8 (0.89%) Drupal
9 8 (0.89%) JBoss
9 8 (0.89%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.89%) Red Hat Fuse
9 8 (0.89%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.44%) Office Communications Server
11 3 (0.33%) WordPress
12 2 (0.22%) Camunda
12 2 (0.22%) nginx
13 1 (0.11%) Documentum
13 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (4.99%) Spreadsheet
2 28 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.44%) Adobe XD
5 10 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.55%) Trello
7 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.33%) InVision
7 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.33%) Sketch
8 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.11%) Blender
Business Applications
1 19 (2.11%) NEC Housing
2 17 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 166 (18.40%) Azure
2 158 (17.52%) AWS
3 68 (7.54%) Power Platform
4 54 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
6 45 (4.99%) Serverless
7 41 (4.55%) Power Automate
7 41 (4.55%) PowerApps
8 37 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
9 34 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (3.77%) GCP
10 27 (2.99%) dbt
10 27 (2.99%) IBM Cloud
11 25 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 21 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
13 20 (2.22%) Azure Functions
14 18 (2.00%) OCI
14 18 (2.00%) SaaS
15 16 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.99%) Firewall
2 15 (1.66%) LAN
2 15 (1.66%) WAN
3 14 (1.55%) DNS
4 11 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.89%) DHCP
5 8 (0.89%) VPLS
6 7 (0.78%) Internet
7 6 (0.67%) BGP
7 6 (0.67%) IGRP
7 6 (0.67%) MPLS
7 6 (0.67%) VRRP
8 5 (0.55%) Network Security
9 4 (0.44%) VPN
9 4 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.33%) IPv4
10 3 (0.33%) IPv6
10 3 (0.33%) Wireless
10 3 (0.33%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (7.32%) Relational Database
2 60 (6.65%) Power BI
3 49 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (4.43%) NoSQL
5 39 (4.32%) MongoDB
6 34 (3.77%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.88%) DB2
8 18 (2.00%) Oracle Database
9 15 (1.66%) RDBMS
10 14 (1.55%) Metadata
11 11 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.22%) MySQL
12 7 (0.78%) Oracle Database 12c
13 6 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.55%) Big Data
14 5 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (7.54%) Jenkins
2 49 (5.43%) Git
3 20 (2.22%) JIRA
4 18 (2.00%) JUnit
5 15 (1.66%) GitLab
6 14 (1.55%) JMeter
7 13 (1.44%) Axure RP
7 13 (1.44%) Balsamiq
8 12 (1.33%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.89%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.89%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.78%) Selenium
10 7 (0.78%) SoapUI
10 7 (0.78%) TestNG
11 6 (0.67%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.55%) Gatling
12 5 (0.55%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.44%) Mockito
13 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 297 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 176 (19.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 175 (19.40%) Finance
4 80 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (8.43%) Local Government
6 69 (7.65%) Marketing
7 49 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
8 42 (4.66%) Retail
9 31 (3.44%) Digital Economy
10 26 (2.88%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.33%) Police
12 20 (2.22%) Legal
12 20 (2.22%) Manufacturing
13 18 (2.00%) Law
14 15 (1.66%) Electronics
15 14 (1.55%) Back Office
16 11 (1.22%) Automotive
16 11 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.00%) Brand Awareness
18 5 (0.55%) French Language
Job Titles
1 119 (13.19%) Senior
2 105 (11.64%) Architect
3 100 (11.09%) Developer
4 82 (9.09%) Consultant
5 58 (6.43%) Analyst
5 58 (6.43%) Lead
6 37 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 36 (3.99%) Java Developer
8 35 (3.88%) Full Stack Developer
9 34 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
10 31 (3.44%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.10%) Technical Architect
11 28 (3.10%) Trainer
12 26 (2.88%) IT Manager
13 23 (2.55%) Business Analyst
13 23 (2.55%) Software Engineer
14 21 (2.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
14 21 (2.33%) Senior DevOps
14 21 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.22%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.32%) .NET
2 47 (5.21%) Web Services
3 42 (4.66%) Spring
4 40 (4.43%) REST
5 37 (4.10%) HTML
6 35 (3.88%) Node.js
7 34 (3.77%) CSS
8 32 (3.55%) AngularJS
9 30 (3.33%) RESTful
10 26 (2.88%) React
10 26 (2.88%) Spring Boot
11 21 (2.33%) Apache Camel
12 20 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (1.88%) JSON
14 15 (1.66%) ASP.NET
15 14 (1.55%) ASP.NET Core
15 14 (1.55%) jQuery
16 12 (1.33%) HTML5 Canvas
17 11 (1.22%) SOAP
18 10 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 49 (5.43%) Social Media
3 46 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 46 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (2.99%) Blockchain
5 27 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (1.66%) Public Cloud
7 14 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.44%) e-Learning
8 13 (1.44%) IoT
8 13 (1.44%) NHS
9 12 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.22%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.11%) Cyberattack
12 9 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.00%) PKI
13 8 (0.89%) BBC
14 7 (0.78%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.21%) Windows
2 45 (4.99%) Linux
3 24 (2.66%) Unix
4 17 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.22%) Android
7 8 (0.89%) Solaris
8 7 (0.78%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (25.61%) Agile
2 131 (14.52%) DevOps
3 112 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
4 111 (12.31%) Mentoring
5 107 (11.86%) Project Management
6 92 (10.20%) Project Delivery
7 88 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
8 84 (9.31%) CI/CD
9 82 (9.09%) Scrum
10 81 (8.98%) Coaching
11 77 (8.54%) Decision-Making
12 71 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 70 (7.76%) Microservices
13 70 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 69 (7.65%) Artificial Intelligence
15 68 (7.54%) Cybersecurity
16 63 (6.98%) Customer Service
17 62 (6.87%) Test Automation
18 58 (6.43%) Programme Management
18 58 (6.43%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 118 (13.08%) Java
2 94 (10.42%) JavaScript
3 86 (9.53%) Python
4 80 (8.87%) C#
5 75 (8.31%) SQL
6 23 (2.55%) Shell Script
7 15 (1.66%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.44%) PHP
9 11 (1.22%) Bash
9 11 (1.22%) C
10 10 (1.11%) Scala
11 8 (0.89%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.67%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.55%) Perl
14 3 (0.33%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.33%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.22%) C++
15 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.22%) R
15 2 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 250 (27.72%) Security Cleared
2 191 (21.18%) Degree
3 168 (18.63%) SC Cleared
4 62 (6.87%) DBS Check
5 51 (5.65%) DV Cleared
6 48 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (3.44%) Master's Degree
10 29 (3.22%) Azure Certification
11 19 (2.11%) CISSP
12 10 (1.11%) AWS Certification
12 10 (1.11%) CISM
13 8 (0.89%) CISA
13 8 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.78%) CREST Certified
14 7 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.67%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.54%) GDPR
2 41 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.22%) PMO
4 20 (2.22%) QA
5 15 (1.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 13 (1.44%) WCAG
7 11 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.22%) NCSC
8 10 (1.11%) Data Quality
9 9 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.89%) NIST
11 7 (0.78%) SLA
12 6 (0.67%) ITGC
13 5 (0.55%) GRC
14 4 (0.44%) ISO 14000
15 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 2 (0.22%) WAI
17 1 (0.11%) IFRS
17 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 107 (11.86%) Docker
2 16 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.33%) Forefront TMG
5 3 (0.33%) NFS
5 3 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 66 (7.32%) Terraform
3 41 (4.55%) Ansible
4 15 (1.66%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.11%) Kibana
6 6 (0.67%) Grafana
7 5 (0.55%) Puppet
8 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.44%) SCCM
9 3 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.33%) Nessus
9 3 (0.33%) Packer
9 3 (0.33%) SCOM
9 3 (0.33%) WSUS
10 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.22%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.11%) Istio
Vendors
1 182 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 54 (5.99%) Oracle
3 29 (3.22%) Red Hat
4 28 (3.10%) Google
4 28 (3.10%) IBM
4 28 (3.10%) YouTube
5 26 (2.88%) SAP
6 19 (2.11%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.11%) NEC
7 18 (2.00%) Capita
8 17 (1.88%) Adobe
8 17 (1.88%) WSO2
9 14 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.44%) Cisco
11 11 (1.22%) VMware
12 10 (1.11%) Sybase
13 8 (0.89%) Splunk
14 7 (0.78%) Databricks
14 7 (0.78%) Meraki
15 6 (0.67%) IFS