Job market10 August 202664 reads

4736 Public-Sector Jobs Live Now

Current Hiring Landscape

The public sector is actively hiring, with a total of 4736 open vacancies. These roles span multiple sectors, including:

NHS: 214
Schools/education: 1247
Councils/local government: 3027
Central government: 49

Urgent Opportunities

For those looking to apply soon, 1266 roles are closing within the next 7 days. On the other hand, 1930 new roles have been added in the last 7 days, providing fresh opportunities for job seekers.

Largest Employers and Locations

The largest employers by open roles include East Lothian Council, Aberdeenshire Council, Salford Council, Perth and Kinross Council, and Wigan Council. Top locations for these jobs are Manchester, London, Salford, Wigan, and Rochdale.

Search Live Jobs

These figures are live and change daily. To explore the latest public-sector job opportunities, we invite you to search our live jobs index, where you can find the most up-to-date listings from 1323 distinct employers.

What this means if you're looking for NHS work

GovJobs is tracking 3,997 open NHS vacancies today, 3,974 of them added in the past seven days. Across the adverts that publish a salary, the median advertised starting figure is £39,000.

The organisations recruiting most heavily right now are Barchester Healthcare (117), Avery Healthcare Group Ltd. (74), Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (73) and Cygnet Health Care (57).

Geographically the roles cluster in London (658), South East (614), North West (483), South West (467).

Recruitment announcements tend to lead the adverts by weeks or months. Rather than waiting for a campaign to open, a saved search on NHS roles will tell you when the postings actually appear.

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These figures are counted from the GovJobs index at the time you loaded this page, not from official statistics, and they change daily. They are our own analysis and are not part of the announcement summarised above.

Summarised by GovJobs from GovJobs data. Drafted with AI from the official source material.

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