Public Sector Jobs in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 113 142
Rank change year-on-year +23 +29 -24
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 200 136 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.71% 2.43% 2.12%
As % of the General category 5.22% 3.80% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 126 66 92
10th Percentile £38,691 £28,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,245 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,250 £74,235 £70,938
90th Percentile £86,875 £88,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -1.92% +4.00%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 3,831 3,583 4,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.00% 64.05% 59.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,234 1,667 2,090
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,150 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £53,672
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.84% +7.34%
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,200 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.33% +7.50%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Berkshire +32 120 £62,500 -3.85% 38
Oxfordshire +24 53 £57,789 +10.07% 9
Buckinghamshire -15 27 £47,500 +47.08% 19
Public Sector
South East

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 14 (7.00%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.00%) JBoss
2 6 (3.00%) Red Hat Fuse
3 5 (2.50%) Apache
4 3 (1.50%) Confluence
5 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 47 (23.50%) Azure
2 37 (18.50%) AWS
3 23 (11.50%) Serverless
4 21 (10.50%) Amazon EKS
5 20 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (5.50%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.50%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.50%) SaaS
10 4 (2.00%) GitHub
11 3 (1.50%) GCP
11 3 (1.50%) PaaS
11 3 (1.50%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (1.00%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (1.00%) Azure API Management
12 2 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.00%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.00%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.50%) Internet
2 9 (4.50%) DNS
3 3 (1.50%) DHCP
4 2 (1.00%) Firewall
5 1 (0.50%) 5G
5 1 (0.50%) LTE
5 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.50%) VPN
5 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.00%) Relational Database
2 21 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.00%) Power BI
4 7 (3.50%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.00%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.00%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.00%) DTS
7 3 (1.50%) GIS
7 3 (1.50%) Redis
8 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.00%) MySQL
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (11.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.50%) Git
2 17 (8.50%) JUnit
3 7 (3.50%) JMeter
4 6 (3.00%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.00%) JIRA
4 6 (3.00%) Mockito
4 6 (3.00%) Selenium
5 5 (2.50%) TestNG
5 5 (2.50%) WebDriver
6 4 (2.00%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.00%) GitLab
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (12.50%) Finance
4 10 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (3.50%) Retail
6 5 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.00%) Legal
8 3 (1.50%) Electronics
8 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.50%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.50%) Marketing
9 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Local Government
9 2 (1.00%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 42 (21.00%) Developer
2 31 (15.50%) Senior
3 23 (11.50%) Consultant
4 20 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 18 (9.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 18 (9.00%) Java Developer
5 18 (9.00%) Lead
6 14 (7.00%) Principal Consultant
6 14 (7.00%) Technical Consultant
7 13 (6.50%) Principal Technical Consultant
8 12 (6.00%) Analyst
8 12 (6.00%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (5.50%) Project Manager
9 11 (5.50%) Service Delivery Manager
9 11 (5.50%) Service Manager
10 9 (4.50%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 9 (4.50%) Software Developer
10 9 (4.50%) Team Leader
11 8 (4.00%) Architect
11 8 (4.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.00%) REST
2 27 (13.50%) Spring
3 21 (10.50%) Web Services
4 20 (10.00%) Apache Camel
4 20 (10.00%) React
4 20 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 15 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (7.00%) AngularJS
6 14 (7.00%) Node.js
7 11 (5.50%) RESTful
8 10 (5.00%) WireMock
9 9 (4.50%) JSON
9 9 (4.50%) SOAP
10 8 (4.00%) HTML
10 8 (4.00%) XML
11 6 (3.00%) .NET
11 6 (3.00%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (3.00%) Hibernate
11 6 (3.00%) J2EE
11 6 (3.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.50%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.50%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (4.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (4.50%) Fibre Optics
4 6 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.00%) NHS
5 4 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.50%) PKI
7 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.50%) CCTV
8 1 (0.50%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.50%) FPGA
8 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.50%) Windows
2 5 (2.50%) Linux
3 2 (1.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (33.50%) Agile
2 47 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (17.00%) DevOps
4 32 (16.00%) Scrum
5 31 (15.50%) Full Stack Development
6 30 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 26 (13.00%) Microservices
8 25 (12.50%) BDD
8 25 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (12.00%) Kanban
10 23 (11.50%) Service Delivery
10 23 (11.50%) TDD
11 21 (10.50%) Artificial Intelligence
11 21 (10.50%) Mentoring
11 21 (10.50%) Project Delivery
11 21 (10.50%) Project Management
12 19 (9.50%) Roadmaps
13 18 (9.00%) Collaborative Working
13 18 (9.00%) Machine Learning
14 17 (8.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 46 (23.00%) JavaScript
2 44 (22.00%) Java
3 42 (21.00%) Python
4 22 (11.00%) SQL
5 11 (5.50%) Shell Script
6 8 (4.00%) C#
7 6 (3.00%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.50%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.00%) R
9 2 (1.00%) Ruby
10 1 (0.50%) C
10 1 (0.50%) C++
10 1 (0.50%) Go
10 1 (0.50%) Groovy
10 1 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (33.50%) Security Cleared
2 37 (18.50%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.00%) Degree
4 16 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.00%) CCNA
6 6 (3.00%) CCNP
6 6 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CCSK
9 1 (0.50%) CISA
9 1 (0.50%) CISM
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.00%) SLA
2 4 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.50%) PMO
4 2 (1.00%) QA
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (17.50%) Docker
2 8 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.50%) XenApp
3 3 (1.50%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.50%) Firmware
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (13.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.50%) Ansible
3 11 (5.50%) Terraform
4 6 (3.00%) Kibana
5 3 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.50%) Packer
7 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.00%) WSO2
3 7 (3.50%) Cisco
4 6 (3.00%) Dynatrace
4 6 (3.00%) SAP
4 6 (3.00%) Splunk
5 5 (2.50%) YouTube
6 4 (2.00%) Citrix
7 2 (1.00%) Cadence
7 2 (1.00%) F5
7 2 (1.00%) Google
7 2 (1.00%) Oracle
8 1 (0.50%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) Apple
8 1 (0.50%) Aruba
8 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.50%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.50%) IBM
8 1 (0.50%) Juniper
8 1 (0.50%) NEC