Public Sector Jobs in Manchester

Public Sector
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 25 90
Rank change year-on-year -84 +65 -44
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 53 391 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.35% 7.55% 3.97%
As % of the General category 3.26% 13.75% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 31 219 114
10th Percentile £41,064 £25,000 £32,188
25th Percentile £52,000 £40,988 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,779 £57,965 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% +12.39% -4.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,991 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,964 £80,000
North West median annual salary £63,889 £57,965 £46,525
% change year-on-year +10.22% +24.59% -12.40%

All General Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,627 2,843 3,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.15% 54.87% 67.67%
Number of salaries quoted 897 2,122 1,529
10th Percentile £29,900 £26,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -8.18% +2.66%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £81,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Manchester

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in Manchester

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Manchester

Public Sector
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 10 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Rochdale -4 1 £42,616 -
Altrincham -10 1 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Sale - 1 £50,000 -
Public Sector
North West

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (15.09%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.09%) AWS
1 8 (15.09%) Azure
2 4 (7.55%) GCP
2 4 (7.55%) SaaS
3 3 (5.66%) OCI
4 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.89%) GitHub
5 1 (1.89%) IaaS
5 1 (1.89%) Kong
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.89%) PaaS
5 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) VoIP
2 2 (3.77%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) MPLS
2 2 (3.77%) VPN
3 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.89%) DHCP
3 1 (1.89%) DNS
3 1 (1.89%) LAN
3 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Big Data
1 2 (3.77%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
1 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
1 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.89%) MySQL
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) GitLab
2 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (33.96%) Finance
2 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.75%) Local Government
4 9 (16.98%) Police
5 7 (13.21%) Telecoms
6 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (7.55%) Social Housing
8 2 (3.77%) Automotive
8 2 (3.77%) Electronics
8 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.77%) Legal
8 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.77%) Marketing
8 2 (3.77%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (18.87%) Senior
2 9 (16.98%) Consultant
3 8 (15.09%) Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Lead
5 6 (11.32%) Implementation Consultant
6 4 (7.55%) Project Manager
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Business Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (3.77%) Administrator
8 2 (3.77%) Business Development Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Development Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Product Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Consultant
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Support Consultant
8 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Support Consultant
8 2 (3.77%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) .NET
1 1 (1.89%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Housing Association
2 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.66%) NHS
4 2 (3.77%) CCTV
4 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.77%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.89%) Robotics
5 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.21%) Windows
2 4 (7.55%) Linux
2 4 (7.55%) Unix
3 2 (3.77%) Solaris
3 2 (3.77%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.89%) Android
4 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
1 7 (13.21%) Risk Assessment
2 6 (11.32%) Agile
2 6 (11.32%) Housing Management
2 6 (11.32%) ITIL
2 6 (11.32%) PRINCE2
2 6 (11.32%) Roadmaps
3 5 (9.43%) BCP
3 5 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (9.43%) Project Management
4 4 (7.55%) Analytics
4 4 (7.55%) Business Continuity
4 4 (7.55%) Business Continuity Planning
4 4 (7.55%) Coaching
4 4 (7.55%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (7.55%) Data Strategy
4 4 (7.55%) Digital Strategy
4 4 (7.55%) ITSM
4 4 (7.55%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.09%) SQL
2 2 (3.77%) PHP
2 2 (3.77%) PL/SQL
2 2 (3.77%) Python
3 1 (1.89%) C#
3 1 (1.89%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) DBS Check
2 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) Degree
4 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.77%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.75%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.77%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.89%) RHEV
1 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Terraform
2 2 (3.77%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) NEC
2 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.43%) Oracle
4 3 (5.66%) Cisco
4 3 (5.66%) Citrix
4 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.77%) Apple
5 2 (3.77%) SAP
6 1 (1.89%) Aruba
6 1 (1.89%) Avaya
6 1 (1.89%) Google
6 1 (1.89%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (1.89%) Monzo
6 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.89%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.89%) Samsung
6 1 (1.89%) Veeam
6 1 (1.89%) VMware