Public Sector Jobs in the North West

Public Sector
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 26 77
Rank change year-on-year -213 +51 -41
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 60 614 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.74% 6.16% 4.25%
As % of the General category 1.05% 11.53% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 37 401 188
10th Percentile £41,926 £28,000 £29,650
25th Percentile £52,000 £40,988 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,965 £47,025
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% +23.26% -11.86%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,991 £65,000
90th Percentile £108,250 £84,964 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,692 5,323 5,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.57% 53.44% 67.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,518 3,939 2,415
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,225 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the North West

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in the North West

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the North West over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the North West

Public Sector
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Manchester -101 42 £64,564 +11.39% 144
Cheshire -53 8 - - 31
Lancashire -137 5 £91,389 +45.56% 61
Merseyside -1 4 £65,000 +62.50% 27
Cumbria -79 1 £52,500 +23.53% 3
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) AWS
1 7 (11.67%) Azure
2 4 (6.67%) SaaS
3 3 (5.00%) GCP
3 3 (5.00%) OCI
4 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.67%) GitHub
5 1 (1.67%) IaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Kong
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.67%) PaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Firewall
1 3 (5.00%) VoIP
2 2 (3.33%) MPLS
2 2 (3.33%) VPN
3 1 (1.67%) BGP
3 1 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.67%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.67%) DHCP
3 1 (1.67%) DNS
3 1 (1.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.67%) HSRP
3 1 (1.67%) IPsec
3 1 (1.67%) LAN
3 1 (1.67%) Modbus
3 1 (1.67%) OSPF
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Big Data
1 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.67%) MySQL
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) GitLab
2 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.00%) Finance
3 11 (18.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Local Government
6 5 (8.33%) Legal
7 3 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.33%) Automotive
8 2 (3.33%) Electronics
8 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.33%) Marketing
9 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Police
9 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Retail
9 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Lead
2 8 (13.33%) Architect
3 7 (11.67%) Senior
4 4 (6.67%) Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.67%) Senior Architect
5 3 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Head of Business Transformation
5 3 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Administrator
6 2 (3.33%) Author
6 2 (3.33%) Business Development Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Consultant
6 2 (3.33%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Development Manager
6 2 (3.33%) IT Consultant
6 2 (3.33%) Procurement Consultant
6 2 (3.33%) Services Director
6 2 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) COM+
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.33%) CCTV
3 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (3.33%) Housing Association
3 2 (3.33%) NHS
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Android
3 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 10 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (15.00%) Project Management
3 9 (15.00%) Roadmaps
4 8 (13.33%) ITIL
4 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 7 (11.67%) Risk Assessment
6 6 (10.00%) Agile
6 6 (10.00%) Business Case
6 6 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 6 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 6 (10.00%) Service Management
7 5 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (8.33%) BCP
7 5 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (6.67%) Analytics
8 4 (6.67%) Business Continuity Planning
8 4 (6.67%) Business Transformation
8 4 (6.67%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.33%) PHP
2 1 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) Degree
3 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.33%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (5.00%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.67%) RHEV
1 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Functional Safety
1 3 (5.00%) Terraform
2 2 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Cisco
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.33%) Apple
4 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.33%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) Aruba
5 1 (1.67%) Avaya
5 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.67%) Citrix
5 1 (1.67%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (1.67%) Monzo
5 1 (1.67%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) Samsung
5 1 (1.67%) Veeam
5 1 (1.67%) VMware