Public Sector Jobs in Belfast

Public Sector
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Belfast. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 23 65
Rank change year-on-year +8 +42 -50
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 14 41 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 8.33% 8.07% 3.88%
As % of the General category 11.48% 17.98% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 13 37 4
10th Percentile - £31,250 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £33,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -9.68% -44.24%
75th Percentile £87,500 £43,750 £44,688
90th Percentile £93,750 £59,232 £48,625
County Antrim median annual salary £60,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +71.43% -6.67% -46.04%

All General Skills
Belfast

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 122 228 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 72.62% 44.88% 56.68%
Number of salaries quoted 27 118 170
10th Percentile £44,750 £29,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £94,250 £87,500 £70,625
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +6.95%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Belfast

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Belfast.

Salary trend for Public Sector in Belfast

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Belfast over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Belfast

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) nginx
1 5 (35.71%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.14%) Moodle
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Totara
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (35.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (35.71%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) Boomi
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (35.71%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Bitbucket
1 5 (35.71%) Cucumber
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
1 5 (35.71%) JUnit
1 5 (35.71%) Maven
1 5 (35.71%) Mockito
1 5 (35.71%) Postman
1 5 (35.71%) Selenium
1 5 (35.71%) SonarQube
1 5 (35.71%) TestNG
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) German Language
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
1 5 (35.71%) Java Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Business Development Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Business Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Development Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) IT Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Procurement Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (35.71%) Gherkin
1 5 (35.71%) Guice
1 5 (35.71%) JAX-RS
1 5 (35.71%) Kafka
1 5 (35.71%) Mustache
1 5 (35.71%) OpenAPI
1 5 (35.71%) REST
1 5 (35.71%) RESTful
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
1 5 (35.71%) Swagger
1 5 (35.71%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Life Science
2 1 (7.14%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Auto-Scaling
1 5 (35.71%) BDD
1 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
1 5 (35.71%) Code Quality
1 5 (35.71%) Dependency Injection
1 5 (35.71%) Innovative Thinking
1 5 (35.71%) Multithreading
1 5 (35.71%) MVC
1 5 (35.71%) OO
1 5 (35.71%) OOP
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
1 5 (35.71%) Unit Testing
2 3 (21.43%) Business Development
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
3 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 2 (14.29%) Presales
3 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
1 5 (35.71%) Kustomize
1 5 (35.71%) Packer
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
2 4 (28.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) MuleSoft
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow