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 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 59 85 59
Rank change year-on-year +26 -26 +36
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 2,950 2,201 3,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.88% 3.89% 4.97%
As % of the General category 6.98% 5.72% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,063 1,305 1,783
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £48,300
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.45% +1.68%
75th Percentile £67,968 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 42,255 38,446 45,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 55.62% 68.00% 61.04%
Number of salaries quoted 27,055 18,057 24,502
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,400 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £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 £62,200 £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 1 June 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 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% 237
South East +55 633 £52,500 +2.69% 184
North West +53 616 £57,732 +21.54% 142
Midlands +11 431 £51,250 -5.09% 124
Yorkshire +37 359 £57,965 +23.99% 58
South West -4 316 £51,000 +7.14% 147
West Midlands -1 273 £55,000 - 89
North East +35 181 £50,001 +4.71% 39
Scotland -82 165 £42,592 -15.66% 89
East Midlands +27 158 £47,500 -2.19% 34
East of England -11 107 £47,500 +11.76% 44
Wales +6 97 £52,956 +18.56% 38
Northern Ireland +20 52 £35,000 -12.50% 25
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 99 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 57 (1.93%) Confluence
3 44 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (1.36%) nginx
5 34 (1.15%) Camunda
6 27 (0.92%) Apache
6 27 (0.92%) IIS
7 16 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 15 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.20%) JBoss
9 6 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
10 5 (0.17%) Office Communications Server
11 4 (0.14%) CMS
11 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.10%) Totara
13 2 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.068%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.034%) WordPress
Applications
1 120 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 79 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.41%) Sketch
7 10 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.34%) 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%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.034%) Revit
14 1 (0.034%) Simulink
14 1 (0.034%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 54 (1.83%) NEC Housing
2 17 (0.58%) 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 Payroll
4 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.10%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.068%) iTrent
6 2 (0.068%) Magento
6 2 (0.068%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
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 Receivables
7 1 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.034%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 729 (24.71%) Azure
2 359 (12.17%) IBM Cloud
3 305 (10.34%) AWS
4 239 (8.10%) Power Platform
5 184 (6.24%) Azure DevOps
6 155 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
7 153 (5.19%) Serverless
8 121 (4.10%) Azure API Management
9 119 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
10 117 (3.97%) Azure Functions
11 115 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 72 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
13 61 (2.07%) OCI
14 57 (1.93%) GitHub
15 56 (1.90%) Amazon S3
16 47 (1.59%) Amazon ECR
16 47 (1.59%) Route 53
17 45 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
18 42 (1.42%) Entra ID
18 42 (1.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.07%) Firewall
2 45 (1.53%) DNS
3 39 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
4 37 (1.25%) Wireless
5 35 (1.19%) Network Security
6 25 (0.85%) HTTP
7 22 (0.75%) Internet
8 18 (0.61%) WAN
9 17 (0.58%) Intranet
9 17 (0.58%) SAN
10 14 (0.47%) MQTT
11 13 (0.44%) LAN
12 12 (0.41%) iSCSI
13 11 (0.37%) Modbus
13 11 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
14 10 (0.34%) LTE
14 10 (0.34%) TCP/IP
15 9 (0.31%) 4G
15 9 (0.31%) Fibre Channel
15 9 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 300 (10.17%) MongoDB
3 297 (10.07%) NoSQL
4 241 (8.17%) DB2
5 211 (7.15%) Power BI
6 156 (5.29%) Relational Database
7 155 (5.25%) SQL Server
8 113 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
9 107 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 73 (2.47%) Oracle Database
11 55 (1.86%) Tableau
12 49 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
13 37 (1.25%) MySQL
14 30 (1.02%) GIS
15 15 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.51%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.47%) Oracle Database 12c
17 10 (0.34%) Big Data
17 10 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 116 (3.93%) JIRA
2 77 (2.61%) Git
3 39 (1.32%) GitLab
4 38 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 37 (1.25%) CircleCI
6 22 (0.75%) Artifactory
7 17 (0.58%) Visual Studio
8 16 (0.54%) JUnit
9 14 (0.47%) Maven
9 14 (0.47%) Subversion
10 12 (0.41%) Selenium
11 11 (0.37%) Eclipse
12 10 (0.34%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.34%) JMeter
13 9 (0.31%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.17%) Mockito
14 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.17%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.17%) TestNG
14 5 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 731 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 653 (22.14%) Finance
3 388 (13.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 248 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (5.36%) Marketing
6 149 (5.05%) Telecoms
7 144 (4.88%) Manufacturing
8 141 (4.78%) Local Government
9 138 (4.68%) Retail
10 132 (4.47%) Electronics
11 119 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
12 95 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
13 94 (3.19%) Police
14 80 (2.71%) Legal
15 72 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
16 32 (1.08%) Billing
17 22 (0.75%) Law
18 20 (0.68%) Aerospace
19 19 (0.64%) Back Office
20 14 (0.47%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 474 (16.07%) Senior
2 402 (13.63%) Developer
3 354 (12.00%) Lead
4 227 (7.69%) Consultant
5 202 (6.85%) Analyst
6 198 (6.71%) Architect
7 164 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
7 164 (5.56%) Project Manager
8 152 (5.15%) Full Stack Engineer
9 128 (4.34%) Azure Developer
10 118 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
11 109 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
12 108 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 81 (2.75%) Software Engineer
14 78 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 71 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
16 69 (2.34%) IT Manager
17 67 (2.27%) Junior
18 65 (2.20%) Category Manager
19 61 (2.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (11.29%) React
2 322 (10.92%) .NET
3 315 (10.68%) HTML
4 291 (9.86%) CSS
5 287 (9.73%) AngularJS
6 275 (9.32%) REST
7 273 (9.25%) Web Services
8 244 (8.27%) ASP.NET
9 235 (7.97%) Vue
10 234 (7.93%) jQuery
11 233 (7.90%) ASP.NET Core
12 231 (7.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 228 (7.73%) Backbone.js
13 228 (7.73%) Ember.js
14 189 (6.41%) Node.js
15 72 (2.44%) RESTful
16 48 (1.63%) Spring
17 36 (1.22%) Swagger
18 34 (1.15%) KeystoneJS
19 33 (1.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 393 (13.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 364 (12.34%) Blockchain
3 234 (7.93%) Algorithms
4 231 (7.83%) Data Structures
5 203 (6.88%) e-Learning
6 137 (4.64%) Public Cloud
7 106 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
8 103 (3.49%) Management Information System
9 84 (2.85%) NHS
10 83 (2.81%) Driving Licence
11 66 (2.24%) Product Ownership
11 66 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
12 41 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
13 35 (1.19%) Housing Association
13 35 (1.19%) IoT
14 26 (0.88%) Data Centre
15 19 (0.64%) PMI
16 18 (0.61%) Onboarding
16 18 (0.61%) PKI
17 16 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 437 (14.81%) Linux
2 429 (14.54%) Windows
3 230 (7.80%) Apple iOS
4 229 (7.76%) Android
5 65 (2.20%) Unix
6 56 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 42 (1.42%) CentOS
8 40 (1.36%) Alpine Linux
8 40 (1.36%) Debian
9 29 (0.98%) Windows 10
10 17 (0.58%) Solaris
11 15 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.14%) AIX
15 4 (0.14%) VMS
16 3 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 813 (27.56%) Mentoring
2 781 (26.47%) Coaching
3 712 (24.14%) Agile
4 512 (17.36%) Artificial Intelligence
5 393 (13.32%) DevOps
6 369 (12.51%) Business Intelligence
7 363 (12.31%) Full Stack Development
8 342 (11.59%) User Experience
9 333 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
10 318 (10.78%) Co-Creation
11 299 (10.14%) Design Patterns
12 270 (9.15%) Project Management
13 268 (9.08%) Web Development
14 258 (8.75%) OO
15 253 (8.58%) OOP
16 245 (8.31%) MVC
17 244 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
18 240 (8.14%) SOLID
19 230 (7.80%) MVVM
19 230 (7.80%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 554 (18.78%) SQL
2 413 (14.00%) JavaScript
3 362 (12.27%) C#
4 317 (10.75%) Java
5 283 (9.59%) Python
6 51 (1.73%) PowerShell
7 48 (1.63%) C
8 43 (1.46%) C++
9 38 (1.29%) Lua
10 33 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 31 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 26 (0.88%) Bash
13 24 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 16 (0.54%) Embedded C
14 16 (0.54%) Ruby
15 14 (0.47%) Go
15 14 (0.47%) PHP
16 10 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.31%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.27%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 439 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 301 (10.20%) Degree
3 219 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 73 (2.47%) DV Cleared
5 63 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 57 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 45 (1.53%) MCSE
8 42 (1.42%) DBS Check
9 40 (1.36%) MCSA
10 36 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 35 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
12 31 (1.05%) ACCA
12 31 (1.05%) PMI Certification
13 25 (0.85%) CISSP
14 18 (0.61%) PMP
15 17 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (0.58%) CCNP
15 17 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
16 16 (0.54%) AWS Certification
16 16 (0.54%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 66 (2.24%) QA
3 62 (2.10%) WCAG
4 46 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.42%) SLA
6 35 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 32 (1.08%) PMO
8 31 (1.05%) GAAP
8 31 (1.05%) IFRS
9 28 (0.95%) ISO 9001
10 26 (0.88%) Data Quality
11 24 (0.81%) NIST
12 22 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 15 (0.51%) GDPR
13 15 (0.51%) GRC
14 14 (0.47%) NCSC
15 11 (0.37%) ITGC
16 9 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.24%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 190 (6.44%) Docker
2 100 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 54 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 36 (1.22%) Firmware
6 18 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 12 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
8 12 (0.41%) vSphere
9 11 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.24%) XenApp
10 7 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.10%) Forefront TMG
12 3 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.034%) NFS
13 1 (0.034%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.034%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 182 (6.17%) Terraform
2 181 (6.14%) Kubernetes
3 59 (2.00%) Ansible
4 54 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 22 (0.75%) EnCase
6 20 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.51%) SCCM
9 12 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (0.41%) Grafana
10 11 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 11 (0.37%) ZABBIX
11 10 (0.34%) Nagios
12 7 (0.24%) Kibana
12 7 (0.24%) SysTrack
13 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.14%) Puppet
14 4 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 525 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 373 (12.64%) Red Hat
3 367 (12.44%) IBM
4 172 (5.83%) SAP
5 131 (4.44%) Oracle
6 88 (2.98%) VMware
7 60 (2.03%) Cisco
8 58 (1.97%) NEC
9 55 (1.86%) Dynatrace
9 55 (1.86%) YouTube
10 47 (1.59%) Atlassian
11 46 (1.56%) CA
12 43 (1.46%) ServiceNow
13 32 (1.08%) EMC
14 25 (0.85%) Salesforce
15 23 (0.78%) Splunk
16 21 (0.71%) Aruba
16 21 (0.71%) Google
17 20 (0.68%) Veeam
18 15 (0.51%) WSO2