Public Sector Jobs in Leeds

Public Sector
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 17 30
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +11
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 51 202 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 6.51% 8.46% 8.18%
As % of the General category 9.64% 15.14% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 42 165 135
10th Percentile £28,763 £38,934 £33,260
25th Percentile £42,688 £46,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -0.34%
75th Percentile £69,500 £71,991 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,800 £92,500 £80,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £49,500 £51,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -2.17%

All General Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 529 1,334 1,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 67.47% 55.89% 68.51%
Number of salaries quoted 355 978 1,077
10th Percentile £25,313 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £51,500 £54,590
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -5.66% +3.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £94,511 £86,625 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year - -8.90% +9.76%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Leeds

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in Leeds

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Leeds over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Leeds

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (9.80%) Confluence
2 4 (7.84%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.96%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 15 (29.41%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) AWS
3 10 (19.61%) GCP
4 7 (13.73%) GitHub
4 7 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.84%) Serverless
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.96%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 6 (11.76%) MySQL
2 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.92%) Power BI
3 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.96%) Big Data
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) CircleCI
2 5 (9.80%) JIRA
3 2 (3.92%) ERwin
4 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.96%) Law
5 1 (1.96%) Legal
5 1 (1.96%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Senior
2 11 (21.57%) Analyst
3 6 (11.76%) Developer
3 6 (11.76%) Lead
4 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Designer
5 4 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Service Designer
6 3 (5.88%) Information Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Information Security Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) IT Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Security Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Information Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Information Security Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Security Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Service Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
1 5 (9.80%) React
2 4 (7.84%) RESTful
3 3 (5.88%) .NET
3 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.92%) Node.js
4 2 (3.92%) Vue
5 1 (1.96%) ADO
5 1 (1.96%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.96%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.88%) NHS
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (19.61%) Agile
2 10 (19.61%) CI/CD
2 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
3 9 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
3 9 (17.65%) DevOps
4 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
5 7 (13.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 6 (11.76%) Open Source
6 6 (11.76%) Scrum
6 6 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 5 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
7 5 (9.80%) Project Management
7 5 (9.80%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (7.84%) Data Science
8 4 (7.84%) Microservices
8 4 (7.84%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) Python
2 7 (13.73%) SQL
3 5 (9.80%) C#
4 4 (7.84%) Scala
5 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) CISM
1 3 (5.88%) CISSP
1 3 (5.88%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.92%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.88%) GRC
2 3 (5.88%) NIST
3 2 (3.92%) QA
4 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) Databricks
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle
2 4 (7.84%) Palantir
3 2 (3.92%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (3.92%) Sparx
4 1 (1.96%) Atlassian