Job market3 August 202618 reads

6306 UK Public-Sector Jobs Open Now

The UK public sector is hiring, with a total of 6306 open vacancies right now. These roles are spread across various sectors, including:

NHS: 111
Schools/education: 1318
Councils/local government: 4164
Central government: 298

Some of the largest employers by 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 London, Manchester, Leicestershire, Salford, Edinburgh, and Midlothian.

With 2246 new roles added in the last 7 days and 1240 closing within the next 7 days, it's essential to stay up-to-date with the latest job openings. A total of 1373 distinct employers are currently hiring.

These are live figures that change daily. To explore the latest public-sector job opportunities, search our live jobs now and find the perfect role for you.

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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