Job market27 July 202632 reads

6114 Public-Sector Jobs Open Now

The UK public-sector job market is active, with a range of opportunities available. The current open vacancies span across different sectors, including:

NHS: 220
Schools/education: 1239
Councils/local government: 3916
Central government: 341

Some of the largest employers with open roles include the Ministry of Justice, Lancashire County Council, Leicestershire County Council, East Sussex County Council, and Suffolk County Council. Top locations for these jobs include Manchester, London, Salford, Leicestershire, Edinburgh, and Midlothian.

With 1114 roles closing within the next 7 days, it's essential for jobseekers to act quickly. Additionally, 2515 new roles have been added in the last 7 days, and 1345 distinct employers are currently hiring. These are live figures that change daily, so we invite you to search our live jobs to find the latest public-sector opportunities that match your skills and interests.

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.

Worth reading first: NHS Agenda for Change pay bands explained and How to write an NHS personal statement.

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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