Public Sector Jobs in London

Public Sector
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 111 169
Rank change year-on-year +33 +58 -35
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 879 994 1,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.64% 3.11% 2.66%
As % of the General category 5.42% 4.55% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 661 630 853
10th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 £42,181
25th Percentile £43,997 £51,231 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,003 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +3.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

All General Skills
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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 16,222 21,862 50,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.14% 68.50% 69.02%
Number of salaries quoted 11,382 15,350 22,828
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -51 66 £63,287 -2.64% 47
South London +30 57 £50,000 +102.02% 8
East London +3 13 £27,965 -53.39% 13
West London -49 7 £44,500 -2.20% 15
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 31 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.28%) Apache
3 14 (1.59%) OpenStack
4 13 (1.48%) IIS
5 12 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.37%) Confluence
6 10 (1.14%) CMS
6 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.02%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.91%) Drupal
8 8 (0.91%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.68%) JBoss
9 6 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
10 4 (0.46%) Office Communications Server
11 3 (0.34%) nginx
11 3 (0.34%) WordPress
12 2 (0.23%) Camunda
13 1 (0.11%) Documentum
13 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
4 14 (1.59%) Adobe XD
5 12 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.57%) Trello
7 4 (0.46%) InVision
7 4 (0.46%) Sketch
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.11%) Blender
Business Applications
1 19 (2.16%) NEC Housing
2 18 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 166 (18.89%) Azure
2 157 (17.86%) AWS
3 69 (7.85%) Power Platform
4 55 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (6.03%) Dynamics 365
6 43 (4.89%) Power Automate
6 43 (4.89%) PowerApps
6 43 (4.89%) Serverless
7 36 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
8 35 (3.98%) GCP
9 27 (3.07%) dbt
9 27 (3.07%) IBM Cloud
10 23 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.28%) Azure Functions
13 17 (1.93%) OCI
14 16 (1.82%) GitHub
14 16 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.07%) Firewall
2 15 (1.71%) WAN
3 13 (1.48%) LAN
4 11 (1.25%) DNS
5 8 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.91%) VPLS
6 6 (0.68%) BGP
6 6 (0.68%) DHCP
6 6 (0.68%) IGRP
6 6 (0.68%) Internet
6 6 (0.68%) MPLS
6 6 (0.68%) VRRP
7 5 (0.57%) Network Security
8 4 (0.46%) VPN
8 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.34%) IPv4
9 3 (0.34%) IPv6
9 3 (0.34%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.23%) Intranet
10 2 (0.23%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.39%) Relational Database
2 61 (6.94%) Power BI
3 50 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (4.44%) MongoDB
4 39 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 36 (4.10%) SQL Server
6 26 (2.96%) DB2
7 17 (1.93%) Oracle Database
8 15 (1.71%) RDBMS
9 13 (1.48%) MySQL
10 12 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.37%) Metadata
11 7 (0.80%) Oracle Database 12c
11 7 (0.80%) Tableau
12 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (0.57%) Big Data
13 5 (0.57%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 67 (7.62%) Jenkins
2 48 (5.46%) Git
3 21 (2.39%) JIRA
4 19 (2.16%) JUnit
5 15 (1.71%) GitLab
5 15 (1.71%) JMeter
6 14 (1.59%) Axure RP
7 13 (1.48%) Balsamiq
8 12 (1.37%) Visual Studio
9 9 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.91%) REST Assured
10 8 (0.91%) Selenium
10 8 (0.91%) TestNG
11 7 (0.80%) SoapUI
12 6 (0.68%) Mockito
12 6 (0.68%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.57%) Gatling
13 5 (0.57%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 301 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 174 (19.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 160 (18.20%) Finance
4 84 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (8.53%) Local Government
6 64 (7.28%) Marketing
7 45 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
8 42 (4.78%) Retail
9 31 (3.53%) Digital Economy
10 25 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.39%) Police
12 20 (2.28%) Legal
12 20 (2.28%) Manufacturing
13 19 (2.16%) Law
14 14 (1.59%) Back Office
14 14 (1.59%) Electronics
15 11 (1.25%) Automotive
16 10 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.02%) Brand Awareness
18 5 (0.57%) French Language
Job Titles
1 120 (13.65%) Senior
2 103 (11.72%) Architect
3 101 (11.49%) Developer
4 81 (9.22%) Consultant
5 60 (6.83%) Lead
6 55 (6.26%) Analyst
7 37 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 35 (3.98%) Full Stack Developer
9 34 (3.87%) Delivery Manager
10 33 (3.75%) Java Developer
11 31 (3.53%) Project Manager
12 29 (3.30%) Technical Architect
13 28 (3.19%) Trainer
14 26 (2.96%) IT Manager
15 23 (2.62%) Senior DevOps
16 22 (2.50%) Software Engineer
17 20 (2.28%) Business Analyst
17 20 (2.28%) Platform Architect
17 20 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (2.28%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.46%) .NET
2 45 (5.12%) Web Services
3 40 (4.55%) HTML
3 40 (4.55%) Spring
4 38 (4.32%) REST
5 36 (4.10%) CSS
6 32 (3.64%) Node.js
7 29 (3.30%) AngularJS
7 29 (3.30%) RESTful
8 27 (3.07%) React
9 25 (2.84%) Spring Boot
10 19 (2.16%) Apache Camel
11 18 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (1.71%) ASP.NET
12 15 (1.71%) jQuery
13 14 (1.59%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
14 13 (1.48%) JSON
15 12 (1.37%) WireMock
16 10 (1.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.17%) Management Information System
2 49 (5.57%) Social Media
3 46 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
4 45 (5.12%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (3.07%) Blockchain
6 27 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (1.59%) NHS
7 14 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.48%) e-Learning
8 13 (1.48%) IoT
8 13 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.37%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.02%) Cyberattack
11 9 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.02%) PKI
12 8 (0.91%) BBC
13 7 (0.80%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.60%) Windows
2 44 (5.01%) Linux
3 24 (2.73%) Unix
4 18 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.37%) Android
7 8 (0.91%) Solaris
7 8 (0.91%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (26.96%) Agile
2 131 (14.90%) DevOps
3 117 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (12.51%) Mentoring
5 107 (12.17%) Project Management
6 91 (10.35%) CI/CD
7 89 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
8 88 (10.01%) Project Delivery
9 81 (9.22%) Coaching
9 81 (9.22%) Scrum
10 76 (8.65%) Decision-Making
11 74 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 72 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence
13 69 (7.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 68 (7.74%) Microservices
15 65 (7.39%) Customer Service
15 65 (7.39%) Cybersecurity
16 64 (7.28%) Test Automation
17 58 (6.60%) Thought Leadership
18 57 (6.48%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 116 (13.20%) Java
2 96 (10.92%) JavaScript
3 88 (10.01%) Python
4 83 (9.44%) C#
5 72 (8.19%) SQL
6 24 (2.73%) Shell Script
7 14 (1.59%) PHP
8 13 (1.48%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.25%) Bash
9 11 (1.25%) C
10 10 (1.14%) Scala
11 8 (0.91%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.68%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.57%) Perl
14 3 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.34%) C++
14 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.23%) Lua
15 2 (0.23%) R
15 2 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 250 (28.44%) Security Cleared
2 195 (22.18%) Degree
3 168 (19.11%) SC Cleared
4 51 (5.80%) DV Cleared
5 45 (5.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 42 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (3.64%) DBS Check
9 30 (3.41%) Master's Degree
10 29 (3.30%) Azure Certification
11 20 (2.28%) CISSP
12 12 (1.37%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.14%) CISM
14 8 (0.91%) CISA
14 8 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.91%) CREST Certified
15 7 (0.80%) CESG Certified Professional
15 7 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.80%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.01%) Accessibility
2 28 (3.19%) GDPR
3 24 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.62%) QA
5 21 (2.39%) PMO
6 15 (1.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 13 (1.48%) WCAG
8 11 (1.25%) NCSC
9 9 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.02%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.80%) NIST
10 7 (0.80%) SLA
11 6 (0.68%) ITGC
12 4 (0.46%) GRC
12 4 (0.46%) ISO 14000
13 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.23%) WAI
15 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 109 (12.40%) Docker
2 15 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.34%) Forefront TMG
5 3 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (0.34%) vSphere
6 2 (0.23%) NFS
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 91 (10.35%) Kubernetes
2 69 (7.85%) Terraform
3 41 (4.66%) Ansible
4 15 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.25%) Kibana
6 6 (0.68%) Grafana
7 5 (0.57%) Puppet
7 5 (0.57%) SCCM
8 4 (0.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.46%) Packer
9 3 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.34%) Nessus
9 3 (0.34%) SCOM
9 3 (0.34%) WSUS
10 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.23%) SCDPM
10 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 178 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.03%) Oracle
3 30 (3.41%) Red Hat
4 29 (3.30%) Google
5 28 (3.19%) YouTube
6 27 (3.07%) IBM
7 25 (2.84%) SAP
8 20 (2.28%) Dynatrace
9 19 (2.16%) NEC
10 18 (2.05%) Adobe
10 18 (2.05%) Capita
11 14 (1.59%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.59%) WSO2
12 13 (1.48%) Cisco
13 11 (1.25%) VMware
14 10 (1.14%) Sybase
15 9 (1.02%) Splunk
16 8 (0.91%) Meraki
17 7 (0.80%) Apple
18 6 (0.68%) Mercator