Public Sector Jobs in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 87 56
Rank change year-on-year +27 -31 +38
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 2,937 2,194 3,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.10% 3.72% 5.03%
As % of the General category 7.17% 5.42% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,035 1,310 1,755
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,733 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +2.08% +1.05%
75th Percentile £67,968 £65,000 £64,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,554 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.00% +1.01% -

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,940 40,486 43,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.17% 68.66% 60.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,522 18,466 24,237
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,284 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England +51 1,144 £57,965 +24.65% 210
South East +66 634 £51,000 +2.00% 237
North West +56 616 £57,965 +23.26% 125
Midlands +13 428 £51,250 -6.82% 147
Yorkshire +48 348 £57,965 +24.65% 57
South West +1 306 £51,000 +7.32% 121
West Midlands +4 274 £55,000 - 106
North East +33 181 £51,500 +12.57% 29
Scotland -86 170 £42,683 -15.48% 99
East Midlands +34 154 £47,500 -2.19% 40
East of England -1 114 £47,500 +10.22% 54
Wales +7 93 £52,978 +18.61% 33
Northern Ireland +33 54 £35,000 -9.68% 28
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 100 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.87%) Confluence
3 49 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (1.36%) nginx
5 34 (1.16%) Camunda
6 28 (0.95%) Apache
6 28 (0.95%) IIS
7 19 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 17 (0.58%) JBoss
8 17 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
9 16 (0.54%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.17%) Office Communications Server
12 4 (0.14%) CMS
12 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.10%) Totara
14 2 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.068%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.034%) Documentum
Applications
1 121 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
2 83 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.41%) Sketch
7 11 (0.37%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.37%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.31%) Trello
9 7 (0.24%) InVision
10 6 (0.20%) OrCAD
11 5 (0.17%) InfoPath
12 4 (0.14%) Doxygen
13 2 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.068%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.068%) Fusion 360
14 1 (0.034%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.034%) Revit
14 1 (0.034%) Simulink
14 1 (0.034%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 50 (1.70%) NEC Housing
2 19 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.10%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.068%) iTrent
6 2 (0.068%) Magento
6 2 (0.068%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.068%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.068%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.068%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.034%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.034%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 727 (24.75%) Azure
2 359 (12.22%) IBM Cloud
3 298 (10.15%) AWS
4 242 (8.24%) Power Platform
5 182 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
6 157 (5.35%) Serverless
7 156 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (4.12%) Azure API Management
9 119 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
10 117 (3.98%) Azure Functions
11 115 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 76 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (2.01%) OCI
14 55 (1.87%) Amazon S3
15 47 (1.60%) Amazon ECR
15 47 (1.60%) Route 53
16 45 (1.53%) GitHub
17 41 (1.40%) Entra ID
17 41 (1.40%) SaaS
18 37 (1.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.21%) Firewall
2 43 (1.46%) DNS
3 42 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
4 36 (1.23%) Wireless
5 35 (1.19%) Network Security
6 25 (0.85%) HTTP
7 23 (0.78%) Internet
8 21 (0.72%) WAN
9 18 (0.61%) SAN
10 17 (0.58%) Intranet
11 15 (0.51%) MQTT
12 13 (0.44%) LAN
13 11 (0.37%) iSCSI
13 11 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
13 11 (0.37%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
14 10 (0.34%) LTE
14 10 (0.34%) Modbus
15 9 (0.31%) 4G
15 9 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (10.86%) PostgreSQL
2 301 (10.25%) MongoDB
2 301 (10.25%) NoSQL
3 241 (8.21%) DB2
4 211 (7.18%) Power BI
5 159 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 155 (5.28%) SQL Server
7 115 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
8 107 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 75 (2.55%) Oracle Database
10 54 (1.84%) Tableau
11 48 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
12 37 (1.26%) MySQL
13 30 (1.02%) GIS
14 18 (0.61%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 14 (0.48%) Oracle Database 12c
16 14 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 10 (0.34%) Power Query
17 10 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 116 (3.95%) JIRA
2 83 (2.83%) Git
3 43 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.23%) GitLab
5 29 (0.99%) CircleCI
6 22 (0.75%) Artifactory
7 20 (0.68%) Visual Studio
8 16 (0.54%) JUnit
9 15 (0.51%) Subversion
10 14 (0.48%) Maven
11 11 (0.37%) Eclipse
11 11 (0.37%) Selenium
12 10 (0.34%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.34%) IntelliJ
13 8 (0.27%) JMeter
14 7 (0.24%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.20%) WebDriver
16 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
16 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.17%) TestNG
General
1 751 (25.57%) Social Skills
2 667 (22.71%) Finance
3 389 (13.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 247 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (5.55%) Marketing
6 154 (5.24%) Telecoms
7 150 (5.11%) Manufacturing
8 140 (4.77%) Retail
9 137 (4.66%) Electronics
10 135 (4.60%) Local Government
11 116 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
12 112 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
13 90 (3.06%) Police
14 79 (2.69%) Legal
15 72 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
16 32 (1.09%) Billing
17 21 (0.72%) Law
18 20 (0.68%) Aerospace
19 19 (0.65%) Back Office
20 13 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 479 (16.31%) Senior
2 395 (13.45%) Developer
3 351 (11.95%) Lead
4 217 (7.39%) Analyst
4 217 (7.39%) Consultant
5 187 (6.37%) Architect
6 166 (5.65%) Full Stack Developer
7 165 (5.62%) Project Manager
8 152 (5.18%) Full Stack Engineer
9 128 (4.36%) Azure Developer
10 118 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
11 109 (3.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 98 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
13 91 (3.10%) Software Engineer
14 78 (2.66%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 72 (2.45%) Business Analyst
16 71 (2.42%) IT Manager
17 67 (2.28%) Junior
18 65 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
19 60 (2.04%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (11.27%) React
2 319 (10.86%) .NET
3 315 (10.73%) HTML
4 300 (10.21%) AngularJS
5 293 (9.98%) CSS
6 289 (9.84%) REST
7 285 (9.70%) Web Services
8 244 (8.31%) ASP.NET
9 235 (8.00%) Vue
10 233 (7.93%) ASP.NET Core
10 233 (7.93%) jQuery
11 231 (7.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 228 (7.76%) Backbone.js
12 228 (7.76%) Ember.js
13 196 (6.67%) Node.js
14 81 (2.76%) RESTful
15 64 (2.18%) Spring
16 42 (1.43%) JSON
17 39 (1.33%) XML
18 38 (1.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 392 (13.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 364 (12.39%) Blockchain
3 233 (7.93%) Algorithms
4 231 (7.87%) Data Structures
5 203 (6.91%) e-Learning
6 130 (4.43%) Public Cloud
7 99 (3.37%) Management Information System
8 98 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
9 87 (2.96%) Driving Licence
10 82 (2.79%) NHS
11 69 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
12 67 (2.28%) Product Ownership
13 43 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
14 36 (1.23%) Housing Association
15 35 (1.19%) IoT
16 20 (0.68%) Data Centre
17 19 (0.65%) PMI
18 18 (0.61%) PKI
19 17 (0.58%) Onboarding
20 16 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 437 (14.88%) Linux
2 430 (14.64%) Windows
3 230 (7.83%) Apple iOS
4 229 (7.80%) Android
5 65 (2.21%) Unix
6 61 (2.08%) Windows Server
7 42 (1.43%) CentOS
8 40 (1.36%) Alpine Linux
8 40 (1.36%) Debian
9 28 (0.95%) Windows 10
10 17 (0.58%) Solaris
11 16 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
12 14 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.14%) AIX
16 4 (0.14%) VMS
17 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (27.89%) Mentoring
2 778 (26.49%) Coaching
3 730 (24.86%) Agile
4 509 (17.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 388 (13.21%) DevOps
6 374 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
7 361 (12.29%) Full Stack Development
8 351 (11.95%) User Experience
9 350 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
10 317 (10.79%) Co-Creation
11 299 (10.18%) Design Patterns
12 268 (9.12%) Web Development
13 264 (8.99%) Project Management
14 258 (8.78%) OO
15 253 (8.61%) OOP
16 249 (8.48%) Stakeholder Management
17 245 (8.34%) MVC
18 240 (8.17%) SOLID
19 230 (7.83%) MVVM
19 230 (7.83%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 555 (18.90%) SQL
2 417 (14.20%) JavaScript
3 359 (12.22%) C#
4 335 (11.41%) Java
5 290 (9.87%) Python
6 51 (1.74%) C
6 51 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 46 (1.57%) C++
8 38 (1.29%) Lua
9 33 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 32 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 29 (0.99%) Bash
12 23 (0.78%) T-SQL
13 17 (0.58%) Ruby
14 16 (0.54%) Embedded C
15 14 (0.48%) PHP
16 12 (0.41%) Go
17 10 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.31%) Apex Code
19 8 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 453 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 288 (9.81%) Degree
3 231 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 70 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 63 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 51 (1.74%) DBS Check
8 46 (1.57%) MCSE
9 41 (1.40%) MCSA
10 38 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.09%) PMI Certification
13 31 (1.06%) ACCA
14 24 (0.82%) CISSP
15 20 (0.68%) CCNP
16 18 (0.61%) CCNA
17 17 (0.58%) AWS Certification
17 17 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
18 16 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (4.70%) Accessibility
2 64 (2.18%) QA
3 62 (2.11%) WCAG
4 49 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.46%) SLA
6 37 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 33 (1.12%) PMO
8 32 (1.09%) ISO 9001
9 31 (1.06%) GAAP
9 31 (1.06%) IFRS
10 28 (0.95%) GDPR
11 27 (0.92%) Data Quality
12 26 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 23 (0.78%) NIST
14 16 (0.54%) GRC
15 13 (0.44%) NCSC
16 11 (0.37%) ITGC
17 9 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 7 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.24%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 182 (6.20%) Docker
2 104 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 37 (1.26%) Firmware
6 17 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
8 13 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.34%) vSphere
11 5 (0.17%) XenApp
11 5 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.10%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.068%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.034%) NFS
15 1 (0.034%) Time Sharing Option
15 1 (0.034%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 180 (6.13%) Terraform
2 171 (5.82%) Kubernetes
3 59 (2.01%) Ansible
4 52 (1.77%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.89%) EnCase
6 19 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.58%) SCCM
9 12 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
11 10 (0.34%) Grafana
11 10 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 9 (0.31%) Nagios
12 9 (0.31%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.24%) SysTrack
14 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.20%) Kibana
15 5 (0.17%) SCOM
16 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 539 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 376 (12.80%) Red Hat
3 368 (12.53%) IBM
4 178 (6.06%) SAP
5 128 (4.36%) Oracle
6 91 (3.10%) VMware
7 67 (2.28%) Cisco
8 55 (1.87%) YouTube
9 54 (1.84%) Dynatrace
9 54 (1.84%) NEC
10 46 (1.57%) CA
11 45 (1.53%) Atlassian
12 43 (1.46%) ServiceNow
13 30 (1.02%) EMC
14 25 (0.85%) Salesforce
15 22 (0.75%) Aruba
15 22 (0.75%) Splunk
16 20 (0.68%) Veeam
17 19 (0.65%) Google
17 19 (0.65%) WSO2