Job market17 August 202636 reads

9096 Public-Sector Jobs Open Now

Current Hiring Landscape

The public sector is currently hiring for a wide range of roles, with a total of 9096 open vacancies. These opportunities are spread across different sectors, including:

NHS: 2533 vacancies
Schools/education: 1290 vacancies
Councils/local government: 4521 vacancies
Central government: 358 vacancies

Urgent Opportunities and New Listings

For jobseekers who need to act quickly, there are 2011 roles that are closing within the next 7 days. On the other hand, 4809 new roles have been added in the last 7 days, providing fresh opportunities for those looking to join the public sector.

Key Employers and Locations

Some of the largest employers by open roles include the Ministry of Justice, Leicestershire County Council, East Sussex County Council, Suffolk County Council, and City of Edinburgh Council. Top locations for public-sector jobs include London, Manchester, Edinburgh, and others. With 1893 distinct employers hiring, there are numerous possibilities to find the right fit.

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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 database, where you can explore the current vacancies and apply for roles 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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