Job market13 July 202665 reads

6283 Public-Sector Jobs Live in July 2026

The UK public sector is currently hiring for a wide range of roles. The total number of open vacancies stands at 6283, with opportunities available in:

NHS: 263
Schools/education: 926
Councils/local government: 4650
Central government: 128

Some of the largest employers by open roles include Leicestershire County Council, Lancashire County Council, Suffolk County Council, East Sussex County Council, and Nottingham City Council. Top locations for these jobs include London, Leicestershire, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Bolton.

With 1686 roles closing within the next 7 days and 3602 new roles added in the last 7 days, it's essential to stay up-to-date with the latest job openings. A total of 1549 distinct employers are hiring, offering a diverse range of opportunities for jobseekers.

These are live figures that change daily. To explore the latest public-sector job openings, we invite you to search the live jobs on our site.

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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