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 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 72 78 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 -32 +8
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 306 271 505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.26% 4.03% 6.16%
As % of the General category 6.08% 6.35% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 247 207 353
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,375 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £47,520 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +0.04% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £84,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 5,032 4,267 5,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 53.65% 63.53% 61.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,427 2,340 3,067
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £37,334
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,070 £64,218
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,875 £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 19 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 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
Bristol -15 88 £55,000 - 57
Gloucestershire +23 75 £55,000 -16.98% 23
Wiltshire 0 63 £51,000 +7.37% 28
Somerset +26 28 £47,500 +18.75% 4
Cornwall +5 25 £44,371 +18.32% 3
Dorset -17 16 £52,500 +40.00% 6
Devon -39 7 £63,376 +40.83% 10
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.98%) IIS
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 16 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.29%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.65%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.65%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 51 (16.67%) Azure
2 25 (8.17%) AWS
3 21 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.27%) OneDrive
7 6 (1.96%) IBM Cloud
7 6 (1.96%) OCI
7 6 (1.96%) PaaS
8 5 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.31%) IaaS
10 3 (0.98%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.98%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.98%) GCP
10 3 (0.98%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.98%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.98%) Route 53
10 3 (0.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.90%) Firewall
2 11 (3.59%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.61%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (2.61%) Network Security
3 8 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.61%) Wireless
4 7 (2.29%) SAN
4 7 (2.29%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (1.96%) VoIP
6 4 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.98%) RS-485
7 3 (0.98%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.98%) VSAN
8 2 (0.65%) DHCP
8 2 (0.65%) DNS
8 2 (0.65%) Internet
8 2 (0.65%) PBX
9 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.33%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.88%) Power BI
2 15 (4.90%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.29%) SQLite
8 6 (1.96%) MySQL
9 5 (1.63%) DB2
9 5 (1.63%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (1.63%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.98%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (3.27%) Subversion
2 8 (2.61%) Git
3 7 (2.29%) Eclipse
3 7 (2.29%) Visual Studio
4 5 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.31%) Gradle
6 2 (0.65%) JIRA
6 2 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
General
1 60 (19.61%) Finance
2 58 (18.95%) Social Skills
3 26 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (8.50%) Telecoms
4 18 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 16 (5.23%) Retail
7 15 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (4.58%) Electronics
8 14 (4.58%) Marketing
9 12 (3.92%) Legal
10 10 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.94%) Local Government
11 9 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.61%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.63%) Social Housing
14 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.31%) Police
15 2 (0.65%) Digital Economy
16 1 (0.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 55 (17.97%) Senior
2 41 (13.40%) Consultant
3 37 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (9.80%) Analyst
5 26 (8.50%) Lead
6 22 (7.19%) Developer
7 19 (6.21%) Project Manager
8 14 (4.58%) Architect
9 13 (4.25%) Software Developer
9 13 (4.25%) Team Leader
10 12 (3.92%) Backup Engineer
10 12 (3.92%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.92%) Business Analyst
10 12 (3.92%) Storage and Backup Engineer
10 12 (3.92%) Storage Engineer
10 12 (3.92%) Technical Analyst
11 11 (3.59%) Junior
11 11 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (3.59%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.27%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.92%) HTML
1 12 (3.92%) React
2 9 (2.94%) .NET
3 8 (2.61%) Flask
3 8 (2.61%) RESTful
3 8 (2.61%) Spring
4 7 (2.29%) AngularJS
4 7 (2.29%) ASP.NET
4 7 (2.29%) Spring Boot
5 6 (1.96%) Kafka
5 6 (1.96%) Node.js
6 5 (1.63%) CSS
6 5 (1.63%) JSON
6 5 (1.63%) Laravel
6 5 (1.63%) Qt
6 5 (1.63%) XML
7 4 (1.31%) CakePHP
7 4 (1.31%) Django
7 4 (1.31%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (1.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.92%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.59%) Driving Licence
2 11 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (2.94%) PMI
4 8 (2.61%) EMC VNX
4 8 (2.61%) NHS
4 8 (2.61%) Replication
5 7 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.96%) Blockchain
6 6 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.96%) e-Learning
6 6 (1.96%) Freedom of Information
6 6 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.63%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.63%) Housing Association
8 4 (1.31%) BBC
8 4 (1.31%) Fibre Optics
8 4 (1.31%) FPGA
8 4 (1.31%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 69 (22.55%) Windows
2 52 (16.99%) Linux
3 23 (7.52%) Windows Server
4 20 (6.54%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.98%) Android
8 2 (0.65%) CentOS
8 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.33%) Rocky
9 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (18.30%) Agile
2 41 (13.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 38 (12.42%) Mentoring
4 33 (10.78%) Project Management
5 32 (10.46%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (10.13%) Roadmaps
7 30 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (8.17%) DevOps
8 25 (8.17%) Service Delivery
9 24 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (7.52%) Migration
11 21 (6.86%) Project Delivery
11 21 (6.86%) Software Engineering
12 19 (6.21%) ITIL
12 19 (6.21%) Scrum
13 17 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
13 17 (5.56%) Full Stack Development
13 17 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (5.23%) Coaching
14 16 (5.23%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.40%) Python
2 37 (12.09%) SQL
3 32 (10.46%) PowerShell
4 31 (10.13%) Java
5 25 (8.17%) Bash
6 15 (4.90%) C
7 13 (4.25%) C++
8 12 (3.92%) PHP
9 11 (3.59%) JavaScript
10 10 (3.27%) C#
11 8 (2.61%) Ruby
12 5 (1.63%) Perl
13 4 (1.31%) Embedded C
13 4 (1.31%) Embedded C++
13 4 (1.31%) Go
13 4 (1.31%) Lua
13 4 (1.31%) Rust
13 4 (1.31%) Scala
13 4 (1.31%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 87 (28.43%) Security Cleared
2 37 (12.09%) Degree
3 34 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 32 (10.46%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.27%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.96%) HND
7 4 (1.31%) CISSP
7 4 (1.31%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.98%) 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 (0.33%) HNC
10 1 (0.33%) ISEB
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.29%) Accessibility
1 7 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (2.29%) GRC
2 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.63%) PMO
3 4 (1.31%) 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 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 37 (12.09%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (5.23%) Docker
5 10 (3.27%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.29%) Firmware
7 4 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.98%) Forefront TMG
8 3 (0.98%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (0.98%) vSphere
9 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (4.58%) SCCM
2 13 (4.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.59%) EMC NetWorker
4 9 (2.94%) Nagios
4 9 (2.94%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.61%) ZABBIX
6 7 (2.29%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.96%) Ansible
8 5 (1.63%) Terraform
9 4 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.31%) Puppet
9 4 (1.31%) vRealize
10 3 (0.98%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.98%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.98%) SCOM
10 3 (0.98%) WSUS
11 2 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 51 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 43 (14.05%) VMware
3 26 (8.50%) Cisco
4 20 (6.54%) Red Hat
5 14 (4.58%) SAP
6 11 (3.59%) Brocade
6 11 (3.59%) EMC
6 11 (3.59%) Veeam
7 9 (2.94%) Oracle
7 9 (2.94%) SolarWinds
8 8 (2.61%) IBM
8 8 (2.61%) NetApp
9 6 (1.96%) Google
10 5 (1.63%) Dell
10 5 (1.63%) Juniper
10 5 (1.63%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.31%) Aruba
11 4 (1.31%) NEC
11 4 (1.31%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.98%) HP