Public Sector Job Trends in the North East

Public Sector
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 50 19
Rank change year-on-year +42 -31 +17
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 232 21 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.73% 2.54% 7.79%
As % of the General category 19.85% 4.67% 13.65%
Number of salaries quoted 217 14 142
10th Percentile £44,972 £43,625 £35,009
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £80,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% +38.02% +15.93%
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £83,750 - £84,217
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% +3.77%

All General Skills
North East

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 general skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,169 450 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 44.00% 54.35% 57.09%
Number of salaries quoted 732 277 894
10th Percentile £30,000 £24,570 £25,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £26,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,652 £62,200
90th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in the North East

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the North East over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the North East region over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear +39 223 £60,000 +17.07% 58
Durham -14 8 £55,000 -31.25% 2
Northumberland 0 1 £27,835 - 2
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.02%) Apache
2 7 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.02%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.29%) CMS
3 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.86%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.86%) InVision
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Sketch
2 2 (0.86%) Trello
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (23.71%) AWS
2 50 (21.55%) Azure
3 18 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.60%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.74%) Firebase
6 10 (4.31%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.45%) GitHub
8 7 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (3.02%) GCP
9 6 (2.59%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (2.59%) Google Analytics
10 5 (2.16%) Figma
10 5 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.16%) Google Play
11 4 (1.72%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.72%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (1.72%) OCI
12 3 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.29%) Broadband
1 3 (1.29%) CTI
1 3 (1.29%) Firewall
1 3 (1.29%) NGFW
1 3 (1.29%) VoIP
1 3 (1.29%) VXLAN
1 3 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.29%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.47%) MongoDB
2 14 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.74%) MySQL
4 10 (4.31%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.31%) Power BI
5 8 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.45%) Metadata
6 6 (2.59%) Looker
6 6 (2.59%) Tableau
7 5 (2.16%) Big Data
7 5 (2.16%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.72%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.43%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.19%) GitLab
2 16 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.74%) fastlane
4 7 (3.02%) JIRA
5 6 (2.59%) Xcode
6 5 (2.16%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.16%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.16%) Gradle
7 4 (1.72%) Git
7 4 (1.72%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.29%) Postman
9 2 (0.86%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.43%) Gatling
10 1 (0.43%) JMeter
10 1 (0.43%) Selenium
10 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.43%) TestComplete
10 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (21.12%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.90%) Legal
5 13 (5.60%) Finance
6 10 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.86%) Retail
9 1 (0.43%) Games
9 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (28.02%) Senior
2 37 (15.95%) Architect
3 28 (12.07%) Developer
4 25 (10.78%) Lead
5 24 (10.34%) Senior Manager
6 20 (8.62%) Analyst
7 16 (6.90%) Technical Architect
8 15 (6.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.03%) Data Architect
9 14 (6.03%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.17%) Project Manager
10 12 (5.17%) Senior Architect
11 11 (4.74%) Business Analyst
11 11 (4.74%) Senior Project Manager
11 11 (4.74%) Technical Leader
12 10 (4.31%) Data Engineer
12 10 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.31%) Test Engineer
13 9 (3.88%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.90%) RESTful
2 15 (6.47%) Node.js
3 9 (3.88%) CSS
3 9 (3.88%) HTML
4 6 (2.59%) Core Data
4 6 (2.59%) iOS SDK
4 6 (2.59%) SwiftUI
4 6 (2.59%) UIKit
5 5 (2.16%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (2.16%) Android SDK
5 5 (2.16%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (2.16%) Playwright
5 5 (2.16%) PySpark
5 5 (2.16%) Retrofit
6 3 (1.29%) Express.js
7 2 (0.86%) Framer.js
7 2 (0.86%) Next.js
7 2 (0.86%) React
8 1 (0.43%) Jest
8 1 (0.43%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.48%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.33%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.74%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.16%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.72%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.29%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.29%) IVR
7 3 (1.29%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.29%) PKI
8 2 (0.86%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.86%) PropTech
8 2 (0.86%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.86%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.45%) Apple iOS
1 8 (3.45%) Linux
2 7 (3.02%) Android
3 5 (2.16%) Unix
3 5 (2.16%) Windows
4 3 (1.29%) CentOS
4 3 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.97%) Agile
2 92 (39.66%) Mentoring
3 78 (33.62%) Coaching
4 58 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 48 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (18.97%) DevOps
7 39 (16.81%) Analytics
7 39 (16.81%) Test Automation
8 34 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 27 (11.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (11.21%) User Experience
11 26 (11.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 23 (9.91%) AI
13 22 (9.48%) Scrum
14 20 (8.62%) Roadmaps
15 18 (7.76%) TDD
15 18 (7.76%) User Research
16 16 (6.90%) Microservices
16 16 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.66%) Java
2 22 (9.48%) SQL
3 20 (8.62%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.90%) Python
5 6 (2.59%) Bash
5 6 (2.59%) Swift
5 6 (2.59%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.16%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.29%) VBA
8 2 (0.86%) R
8 2 (0.86%) Scala
9 1 (0.43%) C#
9 1 (0.43%) C++
9 1 (0.43%) PHP
9 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.02%) Degree
4 6 (2.59%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.43%) CISSP
6 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.24%) Accessibility
2 20 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.62%) QA
3 19 (8.19%) WCAG
4 4 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.29%) GDPR
6 2 (0.86%) PMO
7 1 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) P3O
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (5.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (7.76%) Terraform
2 9 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.02%) Ansible
4 3 (1.29%) Argo
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (5.60%) Google
2 12 (5.17%) Dynatrace
2 12 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.45%) Apple
4 4 (1.72%) Oracle
5 3 (1.29%) Arista
5 3 (1.29%) Aruba
5 3 (1.29%) Avaya
5 3 (1.29%) BT
5 3 (1.29%) Cisco
5 3 (1.29%) Genesys
5 3 (1.29%) NetScout
5 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.86%) Adobe
6 2 (0.86%) Pega
6 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.86%) Samsung
6 2 (0.86%) Xero
7 1 (0.43%) Databricks
7 1 (0.43%) Splunk