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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 27 74
Rank change year-on-year -173 +47 -33
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 161 1,150 736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.37% 6.23% 4.50%
As % of the General category 1.94% 11.49% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 115 882 428
10th Percentile £36,400 £31,579 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,890 £40,988 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,965 £46,775
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +23.92% -1.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,991 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £84,964 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 8,296 10,010 11,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.50% 54.20% 69.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,769 7,485 4,989
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -7.90% +3.15%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,772 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -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 31 May 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 31 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
Yorkshire -51 85 £49,500 -14.60% 92
North West -200 64 £67,319 +16.14% 197
North East -42 11 £55,000 +8.91% 56
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 6 (3.73%) Confluence
2 5 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (6.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.24%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.62%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.36%) Azure
2 24 (14.91%) AWS
3 13 (8.07%) Entra ID
3 13 (8.07%) GCP
4 11 (6.83%) GitHub
5 10 (6.21%) Serverless
6 8 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.97%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.48%) OCI
7 4 (2.48%) SaaS
8 3 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.24%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.24%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.62%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (0.62%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.07%) Firewall
2 11 (6.83%) LAN
3 3 (1.86%) VoIP
4 2 (1.24%) MPLS
4 2 (1.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.62%) BGP
5 1 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.62%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.62%) DHCP
5 1 (0.62%) DNS
5 1 (0.62%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.62%) IPsec
5 1 (0.62%) Modbus
5 1 (0.62%) Network Security
5 1 (0.62%) OSPF
5 1 (0.62%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.59%) MongoDB
2 8 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (4.97%) MySQL
3 7 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.73%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.73%) Power BI
5 4 (2.48%) Big Data
6 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.24%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.24%) Tableau
8 1 (0.62%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.62%) GIS
8 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.62%) HBase
8 1 (0.62%) QlikView
8 1 (0.62%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (5.59%) JIRA
2 7 (4.35%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.86%) Git
4 2 (1.24%) ERwin
4 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.62%) GitLab
5 1 (0.62%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.62%) Protractor
General
1 62 (38.51%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.50%) Finance
3 15 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (8.07%) Local Government
5 12 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.45%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.97%) Legal
8 7 (4.35%) Marketing
9 6 (3.73%) Electronics
10 5 (3.11%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.24%) Automotive
12 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.24%) Law
12 2 (1.24%) Police
12 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.24%) Retail
13 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (15.53%) Senior
2 21 (13.04%) Analyst
3 19 (11.80%) Lead
4 15 (9.32%) Developer
5 12 (7.45%) Project Manager
6 10 (6.21%) Service Desk Engineer
7 9 (5.59%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.97%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.35%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) Architect
11 5 (3.11%) Consultant
11 5 (3.11%) Designer
11 5 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.11%) Senior Python Developer
12 4 (2.48%) Business Manager
12 4 (2.48%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.35%) React
2 5 (3.11%) AngularJS
2 5 (3.11%) Node.js
3 4 (2.48%) RESTful
4 3 (1.86%) .NET
4 3 (1.86%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.86%) CSS
4 3 (1.86%) REST
4 3 (1.86%) Spring
4 3 (1.86%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.86%) Vue
5 2 (1.24%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.24%) HTML
5 2 (1.24%) Plotly
5 2 (1.24%) PySpark
5 2 (1.24%) XML
6 1 (0.62%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.62%) AWS SAM
6 1 (0.62%) Shiny
6 1 (0.62%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.35%) NHS
2 7 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.73%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.11%) CCTV
4 5 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.86%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.86%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.24%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.24%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.24%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.24%) SCADA
7 1 (0.62%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.62%) IoT
7 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.32%) Windows
2 11 (6.83%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.24%) Android
3 2 (1.24%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (20.50%) Agile
2 30 (18.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 22 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (12.42%) Project Management
6 18 (11.18%) Mentoring
7 15 (9.32%) CI/CD
8 14 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (8.70%) Software Engineering
9 12 (7.45%) Containerisation
9 12 (7.45%) DevOps
9 12 (7.45%) Service Delivery
10 11 (6.83%) Change Management
10 11 (6.83%) Risk Assessment
11 10 (6.21%) Business Development
11 10 (6.21%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (6.21%) ITIL
11 10 (6.21%) PRINCE2
11 10 (6.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.66%) SQL
2 17 (10.56%) Python
3 9 (5.59%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.97%) C#
5 6 (3.73%) Java
5 6 (3.73%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.48%) Scala
7 3 (1.86%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.24%) PHP
9 1 (0.62%) Bash
9 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.62%) PROC SQL
9 1 (0.62%) R
9 1 (0.62%) Swift
9 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.80%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.18%) Degree
4 5 (3.11%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (2.48%) ACCA
5 4 (2.48%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.86%) CISM
6 3 (1.86%) CISSP
6 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.24%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.62%) APMP
8 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.11%) QA
4 4 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.48%) GAAP
4 4 (2.48%) IFRS
4 4 (2.48%) NIST
5 3 (1.86%) GRC
5 3 (1.86%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.86%) ISO 14001
5 3 (1.86%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (8.07%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.21%) Docker
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.62%) HDFS
3 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.62%) RHEV
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.21%) Terraform
3 3 (1.86%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.24%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.62%) Ansible
5 1 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.62%) Kibana
5 1 (0.62%) logstash
5 1 (0.62%) Oozie
5 1 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.21%) Oracle
3 6 (3.73%) SAP
4 5 (3.11%) Databricks
5 4 (2.48%) Cisco
5 4 (2.48%) Palantir
6 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.24%) Apple
7 2 (1.24%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.24%) Facebook
7 2 (1.24%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.24%) Sparx
7 2 (1.24%) YouTube
8 1 (0.62%) Avaya
8 1 (0.62%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.62%) Informatica
8 1 (0.62%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.62%) Monzo
8 1 (0.62%) Salesforce