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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 30 69
Rank change year-on-year -141 +39 -21
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 203 1,041 640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.54% 5.53% 4.51%
As % of the General category 2.37% 10.26% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 137 763 406
10th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,965 £46,950
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +23.46% -1.16%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,991 £63,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £75,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% +3.77% -3.64%

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 common skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,549 10,145 9,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 64.79% 53.93% 67.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,873 6,997 4,978
10th Percentile £25,084 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £34,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £51,634
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -8.01% +3.27%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,100 £81,250
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the North of England

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in the North of England

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 July 2025.

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 July 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
North West -158 94 £54,285 -9.15% 189
Yorkshire -71 88 £49,000 -15.47% 143
North East -34 21 £80,000 +38.02% 55
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 7 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.96%) Confluence
3 4 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.48%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.48%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.97%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (17.73%) Azure
2 22 (10.84%) AWS
3 14 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.91%) Entra ID
4 12 (5.91%) GCP
5 10 (4.93%) Serverless
6 9 (4.43%) GitHub
7 8 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.46%) SaaS
9 3 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.99%) Google Docs
10 2 (0.99%) Google Drive
10 2 (0.99%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.99%) OCI
10 2 (0.99%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.88%) LAN
2 13 (6.40%) Firewall
3 3 (1.48%) PuTTY
3 3 (1.48%) VoIP
4 2 (0.99%) MPLS
4 2 (0.99%) Network Security
4 2 (0.99%) VPN
5 1 (0.49%) BGP
5 1 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.49%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.49%) DHCP
5 1 (0.49%) DNS
5 1 (0.49%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.49%) HSRP
5 1 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.49%) IPsec
5 1 (0.49%) OSPF
5 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (4.93%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.93%) MySQL
3 9 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.43%) Power BI
4 6 (2.96%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.46%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.46%) Tableau
6 4 (1.97%) Big Data
7 3 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.48%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.48%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.48%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.48%) HBase
7 3 (1.48%) Impala
7 3 (1.48%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.48%) Qlik Sense
7 3 (1.48%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (4.43%) JIRA
2 5 (2.46%) Git
3 4 (1.97%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.49%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.49%) Protractor
General
1 66 (32.51%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.75%) Local Government
3 30 (14.78%) Finance
4 18 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.42%) Marketing
6 11 (5.42%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.43%) Legal
8 7 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.46%) Electronics
10 4 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.97%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.97%) Police
11 3 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.99%) Law
13 1 (0.49%) Advertising
13 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 44 (21.67%) Senior
2 26 (12.81%) Analyst
3 23 (11.33%) Lead
4 20 (9.85%) Audit Manager
4 20 (9.85%) Senior Audit Manager
4 20 (9.85%) Senior Manager
5 15 (7.39%) Developer
6 11 (5.42%) Data Engineer
7 10 (4.93%) Service Desk Engineer
8 9 (4.43%) Business Analyst
8 9 (4.43%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.45%) Architect
9 7 (3.45%) Business Manager
9 7 (3.45%) Project Manager
9 7 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (2.96%) Business Development Manager
10 6 (2.96%) Marketing Director
10 6 (2.96%) Sales Director
10 6 (2.96%) Service Analyst
10 6 (2.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.45%) React
2 5 (2.46%) AngularJS
2 5 (2.46%) Node.js
3 4 (1.97%) Plotly
3 4 (1.97%) PySpark
3 4 (1.97%) RESTful
4 3 (1.48%) .NET
4 3 (1.48%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.48%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (1.48%) CSS
4 3 (1.48%) Kafka
4 3 (1.48%) Regular Expression
4 3 (1.48%) REST
4 3 (1.48%) Shiny
4 3 (1.48%) Software Packaging
4 3 (1.48%) Spring
4 3 (1.48%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.48%) Vue
5 2 (0.99%) HTML
5 2 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.40%) NHS
2 7 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.46%) CCTV
3 5 (2.46%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.46%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.97%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.99%) Housing Association
6 2 (0.99%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.99%) SCADA
7 1 (0.49%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.39%) Windows
2 11 (5.42%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.48%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) Android
4 2 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (26.11%) Agile
2 31 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (12.32%) Coaching
6 24 (11.82%) Project Delivery
7 20 (9.85%) Business Development
7 20 (9.85%) Mentoring
7 20 (9.85%) Project Management
7 20 (9.85%) Service Delivery
8 17 (8.37%) Software Engineering
9 16 (7.88%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (7.39%) Change Management
11 14 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence
11 14 (6.90%) Business Strategy
12 13 (6.40%) ITIL
12 13 (6.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 12 (5.91%) Customer Service
13 12 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (5.91%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 30 (14.78%) SQL
2 20 (9.85%) Python
3 9 (4.43%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.94%) C#
4 8 (3.94%) Java
5 6 (2.96%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.97%) R
6 4 (1.97%) Scala
7 3 (1.48%) Bash
7 3 (1.48%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.48%) PROC SQL
8 2 (0.99%) PHP
9 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.49%) Swift
9 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.81%) Degree
3 21 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 20 (9.85%) ACCA
5 5 (2.46%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.46%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.46%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (1.97%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.48%) CISM
7 3 (1.48%) CISSP
7 3 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.99%) CBAP
8 2 (0.99%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.99%) MCP
8 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.49%) APMP
9 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.85%) GAAP
1 20 (9.85%) IFRS
2 8 (3.94%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.45%) QA
4 6 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.97%) NIST
6 3 (1.48%) GDPR
6 3 (1.48%) GRC
6 3 (1.48%) IEC 61508
6 3 (1.48%) ISO 14001
6 3 (1.48%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.99%) SLA
8 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.45%) Docker
3 3 (1.48%) Apache Flume
3 3 (1.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.49%) RHEV
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.46%) Terraform
3 3 (1.48%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.48%) Kibana
3 3 (1.48%) logstash
3 3 (1.48%) Oozie
4 2 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.43%) Oracle
3 7 (3.45%) Databricks
3 7 (3.45%) SAP
4 6 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.97%) Cisco
5 4 (1.97%) Informatica
5 4 (1.97%) Palantir
6 3 (1.48%) Google
6 3 (1.48%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.99%) Apple
7 2 (0.99%) Facebook
7 2 (0.99%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (0.99%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.99%) YouTube
8 1 (0.49%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.49%) Monzo
8 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.49%) Sparx