Public Sector Job Trends in the North of England

Public Sector
England > North of England

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 128 32
Rank change year-on-year +97 -96 +37
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 898 229 803
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.07% 2.39% 5.29%
As % of the General category 9.78% 3.52% 9.65%
Number of salaries quoted 763 167 521
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,400 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,625 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +17.02%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,125 £69,500
90th Percentile £94,220 £85,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £61,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.03% +5.45% +4.76%

All General Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,178 6,508 8,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 41.57% 67.88% 54.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,144 2,881 4,996
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,300 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,438 £31,250 £35,372
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Public Sector job vacancy trend in the North of England

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the North of England

Public Sector
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
North West +91 374 £65,000 +23.81% 252
Yorkshire +54 268 £53,500 +7.00% 149
North East +36 256 £60,000 -7.69% 81
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 22 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.00%) Apache
3 9 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.78%) Confluence
4 7 (0.78%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.67%) CMS
5 6 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.33%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.33%) WordPress
7 2 (0.22%) SAS
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.89%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.45%) Sketch
6 3 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.33%) Civil 3D
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.22%) InVision
7 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 173 (19.27%) AWS
2 145 (16.15%) Azure
3 35 (3.90%) GCP
4 34 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (3.79%) Power Platform
4 34 (3.79%) SaaS
5 28 (3.12%) GitHub
6 24 (2.67%) Serverless
7 18 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 18 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (1.78%) Azure AKS
8 16 (1.78%) Google Analytics
9 13 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (1.22%) Firebase
12 10 (1.11%) Entra ID
13 9 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (1.00%) Figma
13 9 (1.00%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.01%) WAN
2 23 (2.56%) LAN
3 11 (1.22%) Firewall
3 11 (1.22%) SD-WAN
4 9 (1.00%) Broadband
4 9 (1.00%) VoIP
5 8 (0.89%) CTI
6 7 (0.78%) Network Security
6 7 (0.78%) Wireless
6 7 (0.78%) WLAN
7 5 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (0.56%) Cisco Wireless
7 5 (0.56%) WebEx
8 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.22%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (0.22%) DHCP
9 2 (0.22%) DNS
9 2 (0.22%) SMTP
9 2 (0.22%) VLAN
9 2 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.45%) MongoDB
2 38 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (3.23%) Power BI
4 22 (2.45%) MySQL
5 21 (2.34%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.78%) Looker
7 15 (1.67%) BigQuery
8 13 (1.45%) Metadata
9 12 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.22%) Big Data
11 10 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.11%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.00%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.00%) Tableau
13 8 (0.89%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.56%) SQL Server
16 4 (0.45%) Data Mining
16 4 (0.45%) GIS
Development Applications
1 49 (5.46%) GitLab
2 38 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.79%) Git
4 17 (1.89%) JIRA
5 13 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (1.22%) fastlane
7 6 (0.67%) Xcode
8 5 (0.56%) Android Studio
8 5 (0.56%) Crashlytics
8 5 (0.56%) Gradle
8 5 (0.56%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.33%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.22%) Balsamiq
10 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.22%) Gatling
10 2 (0.22%) JMeter
10 2 (0.22%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 166 (18.49%) Social Skills
2 86 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
2 86 (9.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 69 (7.68%) Finance
4 36 (4.01%) Legal
5 30 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
6 26 (2.90%) Local Government
6 26 (2.90%) Marketing
7 22 (2.45%) Retail
8 16 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.00%) Fire and Rescue
12 8 (0.89%) Health Technology
12 8 (0.89%) Law
12 8 (0.89%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.45%) Brand Awareness
13 4 (0.45%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.33%) Aviation
14 3 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 204 (22.72%) Senior
2 104 (11.58%) Lead
3 102 (11.36%) Architect
4 89 (9.91%) Analyst
5 64 (7.13%) Developer
6 54 (6.01%) Software Engineer
7 53 (5.90%) Business Analyst
8 48 (5.35%) Senior Manager
9 46 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 46 (5.12%) Technical Architect
10 44 (4.90%) Consultant
11 37 (4.12%) Business Manager
12 36 (4.01%) Development Manager
13 35 (3.90%) Business Development Manager
14 34 (3.79%) Account Manager
15 33 (3.67%) Technical Leader
16 31 (3.45%) Sales Manager
17 30 (3.34%) Designer
17 30 (3.34%) IT Manager
17 30 (3.34%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (5.90%) Node.js
2 34 (3.79%) RESTful
3 21 (2.34%) CSS
4 19 (2.12%) HTML
5 18 (2.00%) .NET
6 14 (1.56%) React
7 10 (1.11%) PySpark
7 10 (1.11%) REST
8 8 (0.89%) Express.js
8 8 (0.89%) Kafka
8 8 (0.89%) Web Services
9 7 (0.78%) Playwright
10 6 (0.67%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.67%) Core Data
10 6 (0.67%) iOS SDK
10 6 (0.67%) Middleware
10 6 (0.67%) Spring
10 6 (0.67%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.67%) SwiftUI
10 6 (0.67%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.01%) Cloud Native
2 39 (4.34%) Onboarding
3 38 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.00%) NHS
7 16 (1.78%) e-Learning
8 13 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.45%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.34%) IVR
9 12 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
9 12 (1.34%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.11%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.78%) AI Agents
11 7 (0.78%) CMDB
11 7 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.67%) Blog
12 6 (0.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.45%) Windows
2 35 (3.90%) Linux
3 20 (2.23%) Unix
4 13 (1.45%) CentOS
4 13 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.00%) Android
7 7 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.33%) VME
9 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (32.07%) Mentoring
2 276 (30.73%) Agile
3 241 (26.84%) Coaching
4 155 (17.26%) CI/CD
5 142 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 124 (13.81%) DevOps
7 106 (11.80%) Analytics
8 104 (11.58%) AI
9 98 (10.91%) Decision-Making
10 93 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
11 84 (9.35%) Roadmaps
12 82 (9.13%) Scrum
13 80 (8.91%) Test Automation
14 78 (8.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 77 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
16 70 (7.80%) Microservices
17 69 (7.68%) User Experience
18 68 (7.57%) Software Engineering
19 62 (6.90%) Business Development
20 58 (6.46%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 86 (9.58%) Java
2 77 (8.57%) SQL
3 61 (6.79%) JavaScript
4 57 (6.35%) Python
5 17 (1.89%) TypeScript
6 14 (1.56%) C#
6 14 (1.56%) Kotlin
7 11 (1.22%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.11%) Bash
9 7 (0.78%) R
10 6 (0.67%) C++
10 6 (0.67%) Swift
11 5 (0.56%) PHP
12 4 (0.45%) Bicep
13 3 (0.33%) COBOL
13 3 (0.33%) Ruby
14 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.22%) Scala
14 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 102 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.68%) Degree
4 36 (4.01%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.00%) CISSP
7 8 (0.89%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.89%) Postgraduate
8 6 (0.67%) CISM
9 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.45%) CCNP
10 4 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.45%) NVQ Level 3
11 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.33%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 42 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 36 (4.01%) QA
4 27 (3.01%) WCAG
5 20 (2.23%) GDPR
6 15 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.89%) NCSC
8 8 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.67%) NIST
10 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.22%) COBIT
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.22%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) HL7
12 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (3.79%) Docker
2 16 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (6.79%) Terraform
2 36 (4.01%) Kubernetes
3 22 (2.45%) Ansible
4 13 (1.45%) Argo
5 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.22%) Grafana
6 2 (0.22%) Kibana
6 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (5.68%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.12%) ServiceNow
3 25 (2.78%) Google
4 15 (1.67%) Cisco
5 14 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 12 (1.34%) Oracle
7 8 (0.89%) Apple
7 8 (0.89%) Avaya
7 8 (0.89%) Genesys
7 8 (0.89%) Pega
8 7 (0.78%) Fortinet
9 5 (0.56%) Aruba
9 5 (0.56%) CyberArk
9 5 (0.56%) Databricks
9 5 (0.56%) Juniper
10 4 (0.45%) Dell
10 4 (0.45%) HP
10 4 (0.45%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.33%) BT
11 3 (0.33%) Informatica