Job market6 July 202625 reads

5412 UK Public-Sector Jobs Open Now

Current Hiring Landscape

The public sector is actively recruiting, with a total of 5412 open vacancies available. These opportunities span multiple sectors, including:

NHS: 466 vacancies
Schools/education: 757 vacancies
Councils/local government: 3721 vacancies
Central government: 152 vacancies

Urgent and New Opportunities

Many roles are closing soon, with 1448 vacancies set to expire within the next 7 days. Conversely, 3967 new roles have been added in the last week, providing fresh opportunities for jobseekers.

Major Employers and Locations

Some of the largest employers currently hiring include Lancashire County Council, East Sussex County Council, Leicestershire County Council, Suffolk County Council, and Nottingham City Council. Top locations for these vacancies include London, Leicestershire, Edinburgh, Birmingham, and Ipswich. With 1358 distinct employers hiring, the range of options is diverse.

Search Live Jobs

These figures are live and change daily. To find the latest public-sector job opportunities, search our live jobs database now and explore the 5412 current vacancies across various sectors and locations.

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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