Public Sector Jobs in England

Public Sector
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. 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 54 92 91
Rank change year-on-year +38 -1 +15
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 3,549 2,960 5,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.90% 3.52% 3.71%
As % of the General category 6.75% 5.19% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,561 1,874 2,564
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,724
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,991 £73,751 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 52,555 57,045 91,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 57.76% 67.80% 65.08%
Number of salaries quoted 36,197 31,816 45,649
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,282 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the England 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
North of England +47 1,155 £57,965 +23.92% 244
London +33 879 £60,000 -10.45% 339
South East +55 633 £52,500 +2.69% 184
North West +53 616 £57,732 +21.54% 149
Midlands +11 431 £51,250 -5.09% 125
Yorkshire +37 359 £57,965 +23.99% 58
South West -4 316 £51,000 +7.14% 151
West Midlands -1 273 £55,000 - 89
North East +35 181 £50,001 +4.71% 39
East Midlands +27 158 £47,500 -2.19% 35
East of England -11 107 £47,500 +11.76% 45
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 96 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 68 (1.92%) Confluence
3 44 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (1.21%) Apache
4 43 (1.21%) nginx
5 39 (1.10%) IIS
6 36 (1.01%) Camunda
7 25 (0.70%) Tomcat
8 20 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 13 (0.37%) CMS
10 12 (0.34%) Apache Spark
11 8 (0.23%) Drupal
11 8 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.23%) Office Communications Server
12 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.17%) JBoss
12 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
13 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.11%) WordPress
14 3 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 127 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
2 100 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.51%) Adobe XD
5 18 (0.51%) Sketch
6 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.39%) Trello
7 13 (0.37%) InVision
8 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 6 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.17%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.11%) Doxygen
11 3 (0.085%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.056%) Fusion 360
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.028%) Simulink
13 1 (0.028%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 65 (1.83%) NEC Housing
2 31 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.085%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.085%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.056%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.056%) iTrent
8 2 (0.056%) Magento
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.056%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.056%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.056%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.028%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.028%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.028%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 881 (24.82%) Azure
2 450 (12.68%) AWS
3 386 (10.88%) IBM Cloud
4 299 (8.42%) Power Platform
5 220 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (5.16%) Serverless
7 176 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
8 137 (3.86%) Azure Functions
9 136 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 136 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
10 128 (3.61%) Azure API Management
11 93 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
12 79 (2.23%) GCP
13 74 (2.09%) GitHub
14 72 (2.03%) PowerApps
15 70 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
15 70 (1.97%) OCI
16 67 (1.89%) Amazon S3
16 67 (1.89%) Power Automate
17 58 (1.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 81 (2.28%) Firewall
2 51 (1.44%) DNS
3 43 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
4 38 (1.07%) Network Security
5 30 (0.85%) WAN
6 28 (0.79%) Internet
6 28 (0.79%) Wireless
7 23 (0.65%) LAN
8 17 (0.48%) Intranet
9 16 (0.45%) SAN
10 12 (0.34%) DHCP
10 12 (0.34%) iSCSI
10 12 (0.34%) TCP/IP
11 11 (0.31%) HTTP
11 11 (0.31%) Modbus
12 10 (0.28%) LTE
12 10 (0.28%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.25%) 4G
13 9 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
14 8 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
2 335 (9.44%) MongoDB
3 333 (9.38%) NoSQL
4 272 (7.66%) Power BI
5 256 (7.21%) DB2
6 207 (5.83%) Relational Database
7 192 (5.41%) SQL Server
8 117 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
9 107 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 88 (2.48%) Oracle Database
11 64 (1.80%) Tableau
12 60 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
13 51 (1.44%) MySQL
14 33 (0.93%) GIS
15 21 (0.59%) Oracle Database 12c
16 19 (0.54%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.45%) Data Lake
17 16 (0.45%) Power Query
17 16 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 14 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 131 (3.69%) JIRA
2 108 (3.04%) Git
3 96 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.66%) GitLab
5 37 (1.04%) CircleCI
6 28 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 22 (0.62%) Artifactory
8 19 (0.54%) JUnit
9 17 (0.48%) Axure RP
9 17 (0.48%) JMeter
9 17 (0.48%) Maven
10 16 (0.45%) Subversion
11 15 (0.42%) Selenium
12 14 (0.39%) Cucumber
13 13 (0.37%) Balsamiq
13 13 (0.37%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.37%) Eclipse
14 12 (0.34%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.28%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 956 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 731 (20.60%) Finance
3 549 (15.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 311 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 202 (5.69%) Local Government
6 185 (5.21%) Marketing
7 172 (4.85%) Retail
8 148 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 134 (3.78%) Manufacturing
10 129 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
11 126 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
12 120 (3.38%) Electronics
13 95 (2.68%) Police
14 78 (2.20%) Legal
15 77 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
16 38 (1.07%) Digital Economy
17 33 (0.93%) Back Office
17 33 (0.93%) Law
18 32 (0.90%) Billing
19 24 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 558 (15.72%) Senior
2 446 (12.57%) Developer
3 387 (10.90%) Lead
4 295 (8.31%) Consultant
5 279 (7.86%) Architect
6 224 (6.31%) Analyst
7 187 (5.27%) Full Stack Developer
8 181 (5.10%) Project Manager
9 153 (4.31%) Full Stack Engineer
10 148 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
11 138 (3.89%) Azure Developer
12 125 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
13 106 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 100 (2.82%) Software Engineer
15 86 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
16 84 (2.37%) IT Manager
17 78 (2.20%) Business Intelligence Consultant
17 78 (2.20%) Junior
17 78 (2.20%) Senior DevOps
18 71 (2.00%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (10.45%) .NET
2 350 (9.86%) React
3 337 (9.50%) HTML
4 314 (8.85%) CSS
5 301 (8.48%) AngularJS
6 300 (8.45%) Web Services
7 296 (8.34%) REST
8 261 (7.35%) ASP.NET
9 249 (7.02%) ASP.NET Core
10 244 (6.88%) jQuery
11 243 (6.85%) Vue
12 241 (6.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (6.71%) Backbone.js
13 238 (6.71%) Ember.js
14 208 (5.86%) Node.js
15 91 (2.56%) RESTful
16 68 (1.92%) Spring
17 43 (1.21%) Spring Boot
18 40 (1.13%) .NET Core
18 40 (1.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 420 (11.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 391 (11.02%) Blockchain
3 245 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 242 (6.82%) Data Structures
5 216 (6.09%) e-Learning
6 154 (4.34%) Public Cloud
7 153 (4.31%) Management Information System
8 121 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
9 107 (3.01%) Product Ownership
9 107 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
10 98 (2.76%) NHS
11 84 (2.37%) Driving Licence
12 50 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 50 (1.41%) Social Media
13 42 (1.18%) IoT
14 39 (1.10%) Housing Association
15 38 (1.07%) Data Centre
16 28 (0.79%) Onboarding
17 27 (0.76%) PKI
18 20 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 472 (13.30%) Windows
2 468 (13.19%) Linux
3 247 (6.96%) Apple iOS
4 244 (6.88%) Android
5 77 (2.17%) Unix
6 61 (1.72%) Windows Server
7 42 (1.18%) CentOS
8 40 (1.13%) Alpine Linux
8 40 (1.13%) Debian
9 37 (1.04%) Windows 10
10 24 (0.68%) Solaris
11 18 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.25%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.23%) VMS
16 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.11%) AIX
17 4 (0.11%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (25.13%) Agile
2 876 (24.68%) Mentoring
3 823 (23.19%) Coaching
4 577 (16.26%) Artificial Intelligence
5 517 (14.57%) DevOps
6 425 (11.98%) Business Intelligence
7 418 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
8 396 (11.16%) Full Stack Development
9 365 (10.28%) User Experience
10 328 (9.24%) Project Management
11 327 (9.21%) Co-Creation
12 311 (8.76%) Design Patterns
13 278 (7.83%) Web Development
14 273 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 269 (7.58%) OO
16 264 (7.44%) OOP
17 261 (7.35%) MVC
18 260 (7.33%) Roadmaps
19 257 (7.24%) CI/CD
19 257 (7.24%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 593 (16.71%) SQL
2 484 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 441 (12.43%) C#
4 407 (11.47%) Java
5 354 (9.97%) Python
6 63 (1.78%) PowerShell
7 57 (1.61%) C
8 47 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 44 (1.24%) C++
10 41 (1.16%) Bash
11 40 (1.13%) Lua
12 34 (0.96%) TypeScript
13 27 (0.76%) PHP
14 26 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 16 (0.45%) Embedded C
15 16 (0.45%) Ruby
16 14 (0.39%) Go
16 14 (0.39%) MATLAB
16 14 (0.39%) Scala
17 13 (0.37%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 663 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 447 (12.60%) Degree
3 363 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 124 (3.49%) DV Cleared
5 114 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 83 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 68 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 65 (1.83%) DBS Check
9 49 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 47 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 44 (1.24%) CISSP
12 43 (1.21%) MCSE
13 40 (1.13%) MCSA
14 38 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (0.96%) PMI Certification
16 32 (0.90%) ACCA
17 24 (0.68%) AWS Certification
18 23 (0.65%) CISM
19 21 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
20 19 (0.54%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (4.87%) Accessibility
2 79 (2.23%) QA
3 75 (2.11%) WCAG
4 70 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (1.30%) SLA
6 44 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 42 (1.18%) GDPR
8 41 (1.16%) PMO
9 34 (0.96%) Data Quality
10 31 (0.87%) GAAP
10 31 (0.87%) IFRS
10 31 (0.87%) NIST
11 29 (0.82%) ISO 9001
11 29 (0.82%) NCSC
12 24 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 22 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 19 (0.54%) GRC
15 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.31%) ISO 14000
16 10 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 289 (8.14%) Docker
2 107 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.76%) Firmware
6 19 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.42%) vSphere
8 14 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
9 11 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.20%) XenApp
10 7 (0.20%) XenDesktop
11 6 (0.17%) Forefront TMG
11 6 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
12 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
13 3 (0.085%) NFS
14 2 (0.056%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 262 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 260 (7.33%) Terraform
3 90 (2.54%) Ansible
4 70 (1.97%) Prometheus
5 22 (0.62%) EnCase
6 21 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (0.56%) SCCM
8 18 (0.51%) Grafana
9 13 (0.37%) Kibana
9 13 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
10 12 (0.34%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
11 10 (0.28%) Nagios
12 9 (0.25%) Puppet
13 7 (0.20%) SCOM
13 7 (0.20%) SysTrack
14 6 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 625 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 403 (11.36%) Red Hat
3 394 (11.10%) IBM
4 161 (4.54%) SAP
5 158 (4.45%) Oracle
6 94 (2.65%) VMware
7 83 (2.34%) YouTube
8 73 (2.06%) Cisco
9 70 (1.97%) Dynatrace
10 65 (1.83%) NEC
11 63 (1.78%) Google
12 50 (1.41%) ServiceNow
13 47 (1.32%) Atlassian
13 47 (1.32%) CA
14 40 (1.13%) Salesforce
15 32 (0.90%) Adobe
15 32 (0.90%) EMC
16 29 (0.82%) Splunk
17 21 (0.59%) Aruba
18 20 (0.56%) WSO2