Public Sector Jobs in the South West

Public Sector
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 77 77 47
Rank change year-on-year 0 -30 +3
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 308 274 491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.31% 4.01% 6.08%
As % of the General category 6.14% 6.33% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 248 209 347
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,161
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,000 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £79,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,100
% change year-on-year - +1.66% -1.64%

All General Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,015 4,331 4,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 53.95% 63.46% 60.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,398 2,381 3,022
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £29,924
25th Percentile £32,816 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,638
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,225 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -13 89 £56,250 +3.02% 52
Gloucestershire +27 76 £55,000 -15.38% 13
Wiltshire -6 60 £51,000 +7.37% 14
Somerset +29 28 £47,500 +18.75% 3
Cornwall +1 25 £44,371 +18.32% 2
Dorset -8 19 £52,500 +64.06% 4
Devon -39 7 £63,376 +40.83% 11
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 17 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.97%) IIS
4 2 (0.65%) JBoss
4 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
Applications
1 16 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.65%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.65%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 51 (16.56%) Azure
2 27 (8.77%) AWS
3 21 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.84%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.25%) OneDrive
7 6 (1.95%) IBM Cloud
7 6 (1.95%) OCI
7 6 (1.95%) PaaS
8 5 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.30%) IaaS
10 3 (0.97%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.97%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.97%) GCP
10 3 (0.97%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.97%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.97%) Route 53
10 3 (0.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.87%) Firewall
2 11 (3.57%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.60%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (2.60%) Network Security
3 8 (2.60%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.60%) Wireless
4 7 (2.27%) SAN
4 7 (2.27%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (1.95%) VoIP
6 4 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.97%) RS-485
7 3 (0.97%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.97%) VSAN
8 2 (0.65%) DHCP
8 2 (0.65%) DNS
8 2 (0.65%) Internet
8 2 (0.65%) PBX
9 1 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.32%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.84%) Power BI
2 15 (4.87%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.60%) MySQL
7 7 (2.27%) SQLite
8 5 (1.62%) DB2
8 5 (1.62%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (1.62%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.97%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (3.25%) Subversion
2 8 (2.60%) Git
3 7 (2.27%) Eclipse
3 7 (2.27%) Visual Studio
4 5 (1.62%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.30%) Gradle
6 2 (0.65%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.65%) JIRA
6 2 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
General
1 62 (20.13%) Finance
2 59 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (8.77%) Telecoms
4 18 (5.84%) Manufacturing
4 18 (5.84%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (5.19%) Retail
6 15 (4.87%) Electronics
6 15 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.87%) Marketing
7 12 (3.90%) Legal
8 11 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.92%) Local Government
9 9 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.60%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.62%) Social Housing
12 4 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.30%) Police
13 2 (0.65%) Digital Economy
14 1 (0.32%) Billing
Job Titles
1 56 (18.18%) Senior
2 39 (12.66%) Consultant
3 37 (12.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (9.42%) Analyst
5 25 (8.12%) Lead
6 22 (7.14%) Developer
7 20 (6.49%) Project Manager
8 15 (4.87%) Architect
9 14 (4.55%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.22%) Software Developer
11 12 (3.90%) Team Leader
11 12 (3.90%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (3.57%) Backup Engineer
12 11 (3.57%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.57%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.57%) Junior
12 11 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (3.57%) Storage and Backup Engineer
12 11 (3.57%) Storage Engineer
13 10 (3.25%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.90%) HTML
1 12 (3.90%) React
2 9 (2.92%) .NET
2 9 (2.92%) RESTful
2 9 (2.92%) Spring
2 9 (2.92%) Spring Boot
3 8 (2.60%) AngularJS
3 8 (2.60%) Flask
3 8 (2.60%) Kafka
4 7 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 6 (1.95%) JSON
5 6 (1.95%) Node.js
5 6 (1.95%) XML
6 5 (1.62%) CSS
6 5 (1.62%) Laravel
6 5 (1.62%) Qt
6 5 (1.62%) REST
6 5 (1.62%) Web Services
7 4 (1.30%) CakePHP
7 4 (1.30%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.90%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.57%) Driving Licence
2 11 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (2.92%) NHS
3 9 (2.92%) PMI
4 8 (2.60%) EMC VNX
4 8 (2.60%) Replication
5 7 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.95%) Blockchain
6 6 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.95%) e-Learning
6 6 (1.95%) Freedom of Information
6 6 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.62%) Housing Association
8 4 (1.30%) BBC
8 4 (1.30%) Fibre Optics
8 4 (1.30%) FPGA
8 4 (1.30%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 70 (22.73%) Windows
2 53 (17.21%) Linux
3 24 (7.79%) Windows Server
4 20 (6.49%) Windows 10
5 15 (4.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.97%) Android
8 2 (0.65%) CentOS
8 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.32%) Rocky
9 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (19.16%) Agile
2 41 (13.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 39 (12.66%) Mentoring
4 34 (11.04%) Project Management
5 33 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (10.39%) Roadmaps
7 25 (8.12%) Service Delivery
8 24 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (7.79%) DevOps
8 24 (7.79%) Software Engineering
9 23 (7.47%) Migration
9 23 (7.47%) Project Delivery
10 21 (6.82%) Scrum
11 19 (6.17%) ITIL
12 17 (5.52%) Artificial Intelligence
12 17 (5.52%) Full Stack Development
12 17 (5.52%) Programme Management
12 17 (5.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (5.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 42 (13.64%) Python
2 37 (12.01%) SQL
3 34 (11.04%) Java
4 33 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 26 (8.44%) Bash
6 15 (4.87%) C
7 13 (4.22%) C++
8 12 (3.90%) PHP
9 11 (3.57%) JavaScript
10 10 (3.25%) C#
11 8 (2.60%) Ruby
12 5 (1.62%) Perl
13 4 (1.30%) Embedded C
13 4 (1.30%) Embedded C++
13 4 (1.30%) Go
13 4 (1.30%) Lua
13 4 (1.30%) Rust
13 4 (1.30%) Scala
13 4 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.30%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 89 (28.90%) Security Cleared
2 38 (12.34%) Degree
3 34 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 33 (10.71%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.25%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.95%) HND
7 4 (1.30%) CISSP
7 4 (1.30%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.65%) CCNP
9 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.65%) RIBA
9 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.32%) CISA
10 1 (0.32%) CISM
10 1 (0.32%) ECDL
10 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.27%) Accessibility
1 7 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (2.27%) GRC
1 7 (2.27%) PMO
2 5 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.30%) NIST
4 2 (0.65%) GDPR
4 2 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.65%) NCSC
4 2 (0.65%) SLA
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 38 (12.34%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.84%) Docker
4 17 (5.52%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (3.25%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.27%) Firmware
7 4 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.97%) Forefront TMG
8 3 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (0.97%) vSphere
9 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (4.55%) SCCM
2 13 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
4 9 (2.92%) Nagios
4 9 (2.92%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.60%) ZABBIX
6 7 (2.27%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.95%) Ansible
8 5 (1.62%) Terraform
9 4 (1.30%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.30%) Puppet
9 4 (1.30%) vRealize
10 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.97%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.97%) SCOM
10 3 (0.97%) WSUS
11 2 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 51 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 44 (14.29%) VMware
3 27 (8.77%) Cisco
4 21 (6.82%) Red Hat
5 15 (4.87%) SAP
6 11 (3.57%) Brocade
6 11 (3.57%) EMC
6 11 (3.57%) Veeam
7 9 (2.92%) Oracle
7 9 (2.92%) SolarWinds
8 8 (2.60%) IBM
8 8 (2.60%) NetApp
9 6 (1.95%) Google
10 5 (1.62%) Dell
10 5 (1.62%) Juniper
10 5 (1.62%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.30%) Aruba
11 4 (1.30%) NEC
11 4 (1.30%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.97%) Draytek