Public Sector Jobs 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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 16 48
Rank change year-on-year -40 +32 -1
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 16 185 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.45% 8.47% 5.16%
As % of the General category 2.23% 14.88% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9 169 36
10th Percentile £42,250 £35,000 £33,032
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,988 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,001 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.01% -10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £71,991 £68,750
90th Percentile - £84,964 £69,824
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 common skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 716 1,243 714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 64.68% 56.91% 60.41%
Number of salaries quoted 362 973 323
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,000 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - -
75th Percentile £50,000 £62,200 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the North East.

Salary trend for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the North East over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

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 14 June 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
Tyne and Wear -33 12 £47,500 -18.05% 71
Durham -1 3 £80,000 +72.97% 6
Northumberland 0 1 - - 2
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
1 3 (18.75%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) GitHub
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.25%) Bitrise
6 1 (6.25%) Firebase
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) LAN
1 3 (18.75%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Hive
1 3 (18.75%) Big Data
1 3 (18.75%) BigQuery
1 3 (18.75%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
1 3 (18.75%) HBase
1 3 (18.75%) Impala
1 3 (18.75%) Metadata
1 3 (18.75%) Metadata Repository
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
1 3 (18.75%) Neo4j
1 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (18.75%) QlikView
1 3 (18.75%) Spark SQL
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
1 3 (18.75%) SQLite
1 3 (18.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jasmine
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (6.25%) Protractor
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Marketing
3 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Local Government
5 1 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Marketing Director
1 3 (18.75%) Sales Director
1 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Civil Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Development Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Director
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Android Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (6.25%) iOS Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Android Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
1 3 (18.75%) Plotly
1 3 (18.75%) PySpark
1 3 (18.75%) Regular Expression
1 3 (18.75%) Shiny
2 2 (12.50%) React
2 2 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) Android SDK
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) iOS SDK
3 1 (6.25%) Jest
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) SwiftUI
3 1 (6.25%) Vue
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
1 2 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Mentoring
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Business Development
3 5 (31.25%) Business Strategy
3 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Coaching
5 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
5 3 (18.75%) Data Validation
5 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
5 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Validation
5 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) PROC SQL
3 3 (18.75%) R
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
5 1 (6.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
1 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Postgraduate
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
3 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Flume
1 3 (18.75%) HDFS
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kibana
1 3 (18.75%) logstash
1 3 (18.75%) Oozie
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Databricks
1 3 (18.75%) Informatica
1 3 (18.75%) MicroStrategy
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Facebook
2 2 (12.50%) YouTube