Job market20 July 202659 reads

6249 UK Public-Sector Jobs Open Now

Current Hiring Landscape

The public sector is currently hiring for a wide range of roles. As of now, there are 6249 open vacancies across different sectors, including:

NHS: 354
Schools/education: 843
Councils/local government: 4575
Central government: 129

Urgent Opportunities

For those looking to apply soon, there are 1276 roles closing within the next 7 days. Additionally, 2592 new roles have been added in the last 7 days, providing a constant stream of fresh opportunities.

Largest Employers and Locations

Some of the largest employers by open roles include Lancashire County Council, Leicestershire County Council, Suffolk County Council, Nottingham City Council, and East Sussex County Council. Top locations for these jobs include London, Manchester, Leicestershire, Edinburgh, and Salford, among others, with a total of 1408 distinct employers hiring.

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These figures are live and change daily. To find the latest public-sector job opportunities, we invite you to search our live jobs index, which is updated regularly to reflect the current hiring landscape.

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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