Public Sector
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies. 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 58 88 83
Rank change year-on-year +30 -5 +18
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 4,084 3,719 6,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.09% 3.75% 4.13%
As % of the General category 6.86% 5.50% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,932 2,266 2,977
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,988 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,554 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +1.01% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,502 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +2.08% +1.05%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,575 67,663 103,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.63% 68.23% 64.52%
Number of salaries quoted 39,717 36,616 51,172
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,059 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Top 17 Job Locations

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 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
England +42 3,564 £55,000 - 1,150
UK excluding London +27 2,937 £52,500 +7.14% 931
Work from Home +15 1,746 £57,965 -3.39% 595
North of England +51 1,144 £57,965 +24.65% 212
London +43 902 £60,000 -10.45% 367
South East +66 634 £51,000 +2.00% 244
North West +56 616 £57,965 +23.26% 126
Midlands +13 428 £51,250 -6.82% 148
Yorkshire +48 348 £57,965 +24.65% 58
South West +1 306 £51,000 +7.32% 123
West Midlands +4 274 £55,000 - 106
North East +33 181 £51,500 +12.57% 29
Scotland -86 170 £42,683 -15.48% 100
East Midlands +34 154 £47,500 -2.19% 41
East of England -1 114 £47,500 +10.22% 59
Wales +7 93 £52,978 +18.61% 35
Northern Ireland +33 54 £35,000 -9.68% 31

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 132 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.59%) Confluence
3 61 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 47 (1.15%) Apache
5 46 (1.13%) IIS
6 42 (1.03%) nginx
7 36 (0.88%) Camunda
8 27 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 26 (0.64%) OpenStack
10 19 (0.47%) JBoss
10 19 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
11 14 (0.34%) CMS
12 12 (0.29%) Apache Spark
13 9 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
14 8 (0.20%) Drupal
14 8 (0.20%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.15%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.098%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.098%) WordPress
17 3 (0.073%) Totara
Applications
1 148 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
2 116 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 80 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
4 64 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.39%) Adobe XD
5 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.39%) Sketch
6 14 (0.34%) Trello
7 11 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 11 (0.27%) InVision
8 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.15%) OrCAD
9 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.12%) InfoPath
10 4 (0.098%) Doxygen
11 3 (0.073%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.049%) Fusion 360
13 1 (0.024%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.024%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 73 (1.79%) NEC Housing
2 40 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
4 14 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.098%) Misys Midas
8 4 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.073%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.049%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.049%) iTrent
10 2 (0.049%) Magento
10 2 (0.049%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.049%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.049%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.049%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle Receivables
11 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 979 (23.97%) Azure
2 511 (12.51%) AWS
3 386 (9.45%) IBM Cloud
4 329 (8.06%) Power Platform
5 225 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
6 218 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
7 209 (5.12%) Serverless
8 142 (3.48%) Azure Service Bus
9 138 (3.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 137 (3.35%) Azure Functions
11 132 (3.23%) Azure API Management
12 104 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
13 90 (2.20%) GCP
14 88 (2.15%) OCI
15 83 (2.03%) PowerApps
16 74 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
17 73 (1.79%) Power Automate
18 72 (1.76%) SaaS
19 71 (1.74%) GitHub
20 67 (1.64%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.38%) Firewall
2 57 (1.40%) DNS
3 51 (1.25%) LAN
4 48 (1.18%) Network Security
5 47 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
6 43 (1.05%) WAN
7 39 (0.95%) Wireless
8 33 (0.81%) Internet
9 27 (0.66%) HTTP
10 26 (0.64%) SAN
11 20 (0.49%) TCP/IP
12 19 (0.47%) Intranet
12 19 (0.47%) SD-WAN
13 15 (0.37%) MQTT
14 14 (0.34%) DHCP
14 14 (0.34%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.27%) iSCSI
15 11 (0.27%) Modbus
15 11 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
16 10 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (8.69%) PostgreSQL
2 345 (8.45%) MongoDB
3 341 (8.35%) NoSQL
4 284 (6.95%) Power BI
5 267 (6.54%) DB2
6 226 (5.53%) Relational Database
7 198 (4.85%) SQL Server
8 123 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
9 111 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 99 (2.42%) Oracle Database
11 64 (1.57%) Tableau
12 59 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
12 59 (1.44%) MySQL
13 33 (0.81%) GIS
14 25 (0.61%) Redis
15 22 (0.54%) Oracle Database 12c
16 19 (0.47%) Data Lake
16 19 (0.47%) RDBMS
17 17 (0.42%) Big Data
17 17 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 135 (3.31%) JIRA
2 132 (3.23%) Git
3 108 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 66 (1.62%) GitLab
5 39 (0.95%) Visual Studio
6 34 (0.83%) CircleCI
7 22 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 18 (0.44%) JMeter
8 18 (0.44%) JUnit
9 17 (0.42%) Subversion
10 16 (0.39%) Maven
11 15 (0.37%) Axure RP
12 14 (0.34%) IntelliJ
12 14 (0.34%) Selenium
13 13 (0.32%) Balsamiq
13 13 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 13 (0.32%) Eclipse
13 13 (0.32%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.24%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 1,138 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 900 (22.04%) Finance
3 625 (15.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 357 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 269 (6.59%) Marketing
6 222 (5.44%) Local Government
7 212 (5.19%) Telecoms
8 198 (4.85%) Manufacturing
9 190 (4.65%) Retail
10 182 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
11 174 (4.26%) Electronics
12 146 (3.57%) Police
13 126 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
14 101 (2.47%) Legal
15 88 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
16 42 (1.03%) Law
17 38 (0.93%) Digital Economy
18 34 (0.83%) Back Office
19 32 (0.78%) Billing
20 24 (0.59%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 652 (15.96%) Senior
2 533 (13.05%) Developer
3 439 (10.75%) Lead
4 344 (8.42%) Architect
5 333 (8.15%) Consultant
6 289 (7.08%) Analyst
7 215 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
8 214 (5.24%) Project Manager
9 154 (3.77%) Full Stack Engineer
10 143 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
11 139 (3.40%) Azure Developer
12 128 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
13 122 (2.99%) Software Engineer
14 114 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 102 (2.50%) Business Analyst
16 101 (2.47%) IT Manager
17 100 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
18 86 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
19 83 (2.03%) Lead Developer
20 80 (1.96%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (9.60%) .NET
2 367 (8.99%) HTML
3 366 (8.96%) React
4 344 (8.42%) CSS
5 338 (8.28%) Web Services
6 330 (8.08%) AngularJS
7 315 (7.71%) REST
8 268 (6.56%) ASP.NET
9 254 (6.22%) ASP.NET Core
10 247 (6.05%) Node.js
11 245 (6.00%) jQuery
11 245 (6.00%) Vue
12 241 (5.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (5.83%) Backbone.js
13 238 (5.83%) Ember.js
14 118 (2.89%) RESTful
15 99 (2.42%) Spring
16 59 (1.44%) JSON
17 51 (1.25%) Spring Boot
18 50 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 419 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 391 (9.57%) Blockchain
3 244 (5.97%) Algorithms
4 242 (5.93%) Data Structures
5 216 (5.29%) e-Learning
6 196 (4.80%) Management Information System
7 153 (3.75%) Public Cloud
8 121 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 120 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
10 114 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
11 104 (2.55%) Driving Licence
12 101 (2.47%) NHS
13 75 (1.84%) Onboarding
14 59 (1.44%) Social Media
15 56 (1.37%) Data Centre
16 53 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
16 53 (1.30%) IoT
17 39 (0.95%) Housing Association
18 27 (0.66%) Cyberattack
18 27 (0.66%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 515 (12.61%) Windows
2 496 (12.14%) Linux
3 246 (6.02%) Apple iOS
4 244 (5.97%) Android
5 94 (2.30%) Unix
6 79 (1.93%) Windows Server
7 42 (1.03%) CentOS
8 40 (0.98%) Alpine Linux
8 40 (0.98%) Debian
9 35 (0.86%) Windows 10
10 28 (0.69%) Solaris
11 18 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 17 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
13 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.22%) VMS
15 8 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
16 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.098%) AIX
18 4 (0.098%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,024 (25.07%) Agile
2 957 (23.43%) Mentoring
3 889 (21.77%) Coaching
4 598 (14.64%) Artificial Intelligence
5 551 (13.49%) DevOps
6 496 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
7 493 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
8 427 (10.46%) Full Stack Development
9 400 (9.79%) User Experience
10 398 (9.75%) Project Management
11 369 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 328 (8.03%) Co-Creation
13 313 (7.66%) Design Patterns
14 296 (7.25%) Roadmaps
15 286 (7.00%) Web Development
16 277 (6.78%) Programme Management
17 271 (6.64%) CI/CD
18 270 (6.61%) OO
19 269 (6.59%) MVC
20 265 (6.49%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 645 (15.79%) SQL
2 532 (13.03%) JavaScript
3 484 (11.85%) C#
4 464 (11.36%) Java
5 392 (9.60%) Python
6 71 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 62 (1.52%) C
8 57 (1.40%) Shell Script
9 51 (1.25%) C++
9 51 (1.25%) TypeScript
10 45 (1.10%) Bash
11 40 (0.98%) Lua
12 37 (0.91%) PHP
13 29 (0.71%) Go
14 26 (0.64%) T-SQL
15 19 (0.47%) Ruby
16 16 (0.39%) Embedded C
17 15 (0.37%) MATLAB
18 14 (0.34%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 822 (20.13%) Security Cleared
2 516 (12.63%) Degree
3 499 (12.22%) SC Cleared
4 130 (3.18%) DV Cleared
5 122 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 113 (2.77%) DBS Check
7 105 (2.57%) Azure Certification
8 94 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 84 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 59 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
10 59 (1.44%) CISSP
11 51 (1.25%) Master's Degree
12 46 (1.13%) MCSE
13 41 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 41 (1.00%) MCSA
14 39 (0.95%) CISM
14 39 (0.95%) PMI Certification
15 32 (0.78%) ACCA
16 30 (0.73%) CCNP
17 25 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (4.85%) Accessibility
2 107 (2.62%) QA
3 89 (2.18%) GDPR
4 76 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (1.84%) WCAG
6 58 (1.42%) PMO
7 53 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 50 (1.22%) SLA
9 39 (0.95%) Data Quality
10 33 (0.81%) ISO 9001
11 32 (0.78%) IFRS
11 32 (0.78%) NIST
12 31 (0.76%) GAAP
13 29 (0.71%) NCSC
14 26 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 24 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 21 (0.51%) GRC
17 17 (0.42%) ITGC
18 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 11 (0.27%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 294 (7.20%) Docker
2 145 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 37 (0.91%) Firmware
6 18 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 13 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
8 13 (0.32%) vSphere
9 11 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (0.15%) Forefront TMG
11 6 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
12 5 (0.12%) XenApp
12 5 (0.12%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.098%) NFS
13 4 (0.098%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.024%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 266 (6.51%) Terraform
2 261 (6.39%) Kubernetes
3 98 (2.40%) Ansible
4 68 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.64%) EnCase
6 21 (0.51%) Grafana
6 21 (0.51%) SCCM
7 20 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (0.39%) Kibana
10 12 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.29%) ZABBIX
11 11 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
11 11 (0.27%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.22%) Nagios
13 9 (0.22%) Puppet
14 8 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.20%) SCOM
15 7 (0.17%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 756 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 405 (9.92%) Red Hat
3 396 (9.70%) IBM
4 232 (5.68%) SAP
5 197 (4.82%) Oracle
6 108 (2.64%) VMware
7 83 (2.03%) YouTube
8 80 (1.96%) Cisco
9 77 (1.89%) NEC
10 70 (1.71%) Google
11 69 (1.69%) Dynatrace
12 55 (1.35%) ServiceNow
13 48 (1.18%) CA
14 46 (1.13%) Atlassian
15 45 (1.10%) Salesforce
16 33 (0.81%) Splunk
17 31 (0.76%) Adobe
18 30 (0.73%) EMC
19 26 (0.64%) WSO2
20 22 (0.54%) Aruba