Public Sector Jobs in the South East

Public Sector
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 126 173
Rank change year-on-year +62 +47 -19
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 637 375 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.80% 2.57% 2.14%
As % of the General category 6.70% 4.03% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 342 222 240
10th Percentile £27,965 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £37,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,666
90th Percentile £84,850 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,100
% change year-on-year - +1.66% -1.64%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,508 9,302 11,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 56.65% 63.69% 58.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,031 4,489 6,505
10th Percentile £25,625 £28,450 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,713 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,375
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the South East.

Salary trend for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 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
Hampshire +80 278 £45,828 +5.96% 43
Thames Valley +54 197 £55,000 -12.00% 61
Berkshire +46 121 £52,500 -19.23% 33
Surrey +1 82 £50,000 -20.00% 20
Oxfordshire +49 52 £57,500 -21.29% 14
Kent -23 35 £27,965 -20.10% 9
East Sussex +27 25 £62,822 +7.39% 4
Buckinghamshire -18 24 £47,500 +26.67% 14
West Sussex +38 13 £55,000 +9.62% 5
Home Counties +14 3 - -
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 40 (6.28%) nginx
2 34 (5.34%) Camunda
3 20 (3.14%) OpenStack
4 11 (1.73%) Apache
5 10 (1.57%) JBoss
5 10 (1.57%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (1.41%) Confluence
7 7 (1.10%) IIS
7 7 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (3.30%) Spreadsheet
2 20 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.94%) InVision
4 6 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.94%) OrCAD
4 6 (0.94%) Sketch
5 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.63%) Doxygen
7 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.16%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.16%) Simulink
7 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 214 (33.59%) Azure
2 157 (24.65%) IBM Cloud
3 121 (19.00%) Azure DevOps
4 101 (15.86%) Serverless
5 76 (11.93%) Azure API Management
5 76 (11.93%) Azure Functions
6 74 (11.62%) Azure Logic Apps
6 74 (11.62%) Azure Service Bus
7 56 (8.79%) AWS
8 37 (5.81%) Power Platform
9 34 (5.34%) OpenShift
10 28 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (2.04%) GitHub
12 13 (2.04%) PaaS
12 13 (2.04%) SaaS
13 8 (1.26%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.10%) Power Automate
15 6 (0.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.67%) Internet
2 16 (2.51%) DNS
3 10 (1.57%) Wireless
4 7 (1.10%) Modbus
5 6 (0.94%) 3G
5 6 (0.94%) 4G
5 6 (0.94%) GPRS
5 6 (0.94%) Intranet
6 5 (0.78%) Network Security
7 4 (0.63%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.63%) LTE
8 3 (0.47%) 5G
8 3 (0.47%) DHCP
8 3 (0.47%) SAN
8 3 (0.47%) SSL
8 3 (0.47%) VPN
9 2 (0.31%) Firewall
9 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.16%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (18.21%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (17.90%) MongoDB
3 107 (16.80%) Relational Database
4 86 (13.50%) NoSQL
5 76 (11.93%) DB2
6 42 (6.59%) Oracle Database
7 34 (5.34%) SQL Server
8 33 (5.18%) Power BI
9 27 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.73%) GIS
12 8 (1.26%) Redis
13 4 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.63%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.47%) DTS
15 2 (0.31%) Data Lake
15 2 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.31%) MySQL
15 2 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (7.38%) Git
2 34 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 24 (3.77%) JIRA
4 17 (2.67%) JUnit
5 12 (1.88%) Maven
6 7 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.10%) Selenium
7 6 (0.94%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.94%) GitLab
7 6 (0.94%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.78%) JMeter
8 5 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
8 5 (0.78%) TestNG
9 4 (0.63%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.63%) Mockito
9 4 (0.63%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.63%) Subversion
9 4 (0.63%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.31%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
General
1 156 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 140 (21.98%) Finance
3 60 (9.42%) Marketing
3 60 (9.42%) Telecoms
4 58 (9.11%) Electronics
4 58 (9.11%) Manufacturing
5 55 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (4.24%) Retail
8 19 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.94%) Local Government
11 5 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.78%) Police
12 4 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.63%) Legal
13 3 (0.47%) Fire and Rescue
14 2 (0.31%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.16%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 157 (24.65%) Developer
2 97 (15.23%) Full Stack Developer
3 79 (12.40%) Azure Developer
4 69 (10.83%) Senior
5 49 (7.69%) Consultant
6 40 (6.28%) Full Stack Engineer
7 37 (5.81%) Lead
8 35 (5.49%) Analyst
9 29 (4.55%) Java Developer
10 27 (4.24%) Project Manager
11 26 (4.08%) Senior Developer
12 22 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
13 21 (3.30%) Business Analyst
13 21 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 20 (3.14%) Service Delivery Manager
14 20 (3.14%) Service Manager
15 18 (2.83%) Software Engineer
15 18 (2.83%) Technical Analyst
16 17 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
16 17 (2.67%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (21.19%) Node.js
1 135 (21.19%) React
2 117 (18.37%) REST
3 107 (16.80%) AngularJS
4 106 (16.64%) Web Services
5 101 (15.86%) HTML
6 98 (15.38%) .NET
7 97 (15.23%) CSS
8 80 (12.56%) ASP.NET
8 80 (12.56%) jQuery
9 77 (12.09%) ASP.NET Core
10 76 (11.93%) Backbone.js
10 76 (11.93%) Ember.js
10 76 (11.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 76 (11.93%) Vue
11 35 (5.49%) Swagger
12 34 (5.34%) KeystoneJS
12 34 (5.34%) Spring
13 26 (4.08%) Spring Boot
14 24 (3.77%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 157 (24.65%) Blockchain
1 157 (24.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 79 (12.40%) Algorithms
3 76 (11.93%) Data Structures
4 67 (10.52%) Distributed Systems
5 43 (6.75%) e-Learning
6 25 (3.92%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.67%) NHS
7 17 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
9 12 (1.88%) IoT
10 11 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.73%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.57%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
12 9 (1.41%) Fibre Optics
13 7 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.10%) NB-IoT
14 5 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.78%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 151 (23.70%) Linux
2 98 (15.38%) Windows
3 76 (11.93%) Android
3 76 (11.93%) Apple iOS
4 40 (6.28%) Alpine Linux
4 40 (6.28%) CentOS
4 40 (6.28%) Debian
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.63%) VMS
7 2 (0.31%) AIX
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Unix
8 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (32.18%) Artificial Intelligence
2 178 (27.94%) DevOps
3 146 (22.92%) Full Stack Development
4 119 (18.68%) Co-Creation
5 109 (17.11%) Agile
6 105 (16.48%) User Experience
7 93 (14.60%) Business Intelligence
8 87 (13.66%) Design Patterns
8 87 (13.66%) Technology Transformation
9 85 (13.34%) SOLID
9 85 (13.34%) Web Development
10 83 (13.03%) OO
11 81 (12.72%) MVC
12 80 (12.56%) OOP
13 79 (12.40%) Mentoring
14 78 (12.24%) CI/CD
15 76 (11.93%) Design Thinking
15 76 (11.93%) MVVM
15 76 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
15 76 (11.93%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 181 (28.41%) Java
2 178 (27.94%) JavaScript
3 137 (21.51%) Python
3 137 (21.51%) SQL
4 107 (16.80%) C#
5 34 (5.34%) Lua
6 21 (3.30%) C
7 17 (2.67%) C++
8 12 (1.88%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.57%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.26%) Go
10 8 (1.26%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.10%) Embedded C
11 7 (1.10%) MATLAB
11 7 (1.10%) Ruby
12 6 (0.94%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.78%) Assembly Language
14 4 (0.63%) Bicep
15 3 (0.47%) R
16 1 (0.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 131 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 84 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 79 (12.40%) Degree
4 48 (7.54%) Azure Certification
5 44 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 43 (6.75%) MCSE
7 41 (6.44%) MCSA
8 27 (4.24%) DV Cleared
9 24 (3.77%) DBS Check
10 13 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.41%) CISSP
13 8 (1.26%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.26%) CCNA
14 7 (1.10%) CESG Certified Professional
14 7 (1.10%) CISMP
14 7 (1.10%) CREST Certified
14 7 (1.10%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.45%) GDPR
2 20 (3.14%) SLA
3 12 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.73%) QA
5 8 (1.26%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 7 (1.10%) GRC
6 7 (1.10%) PMO
7 6 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.63%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.63%) IEC 61131
8 4 (0.63%) ISO 14001
8 4 (0.63%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.63%) JTAG
9 2 (0.31%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 119 (18.68%) Docker
2 12 (1.88%) Hyper-V
3 10 (1.57%) Firmware
4 7 (1.10%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.47%) XenApp
6 3 (0.47%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (11.46%) Kubernetes
2 67 (10.52%) Terraform
3 23 (3.61%) Ansible
4 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (0.63%) Kibana
5 2 (0.31%) SCOM
6 1 (0.16%) Packer
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 161 (25.27%) IBM
2 158 (24.80%) Red Hat
3 90 (14.13%) Microsoft
4 63 (9.89%) SAP
5 47 (7.38%) Oracle
6 20 (3.14%) WSO2
7 8 (1.26%) YouTube
8 7 (1.10%) Adobe
8 7 (1.10%) Cisco
8 7 (1.10%) EMC
8 7 (1.10%) Google
9 6 (0.94%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.63%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.63%) Splunk
11 3 (0.47%) Cadence
11 3 (0.47%) Citrix
11 3 (0.47%) webMethods
12 2 (0.31%) Dell
12 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.16%) PTC