Public Sector Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Public Sector
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 48 15 45
Rank change year-on-year -33 +30 +4
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 12 154 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.93% 9.82% 5.92%
As % of the General category 2.95% 16.67% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6 147 27
10th Percentile £41,875 £35,000 £33,900
25th Percentile £43,438 £41,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,965 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +18.29% -21.60%
75th Percentile £55,313 £71,991 £69,649
90th Percentile £65,625 £84,964 £72,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,001 £49,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.01% -10.00%

All General Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 407 924 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 65.54% 58.89% 59.91%
Number of salaries quoted 257 758 237
10th Percentile £24,542 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £33,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £47,234 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.66% -3.60% +0.97%
75th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £69,250 £75,750 £73,800
North East median annual salary £27,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -40.00% - -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Tyne and Wear

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Public Sector in Tyne and Wear

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Tyne and Wear

Public Sector
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -27 12 £47,500 -18.05% 54
Public Sector
North East

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (25.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) GitHub
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (16.67%) Serverless
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (8.33%) Bitrise
6 1 (8.33%) Firebase
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (25.00%) Big Data
1 3 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (25.00%) HBase
1 3 (25.00%) Impala
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
1 3 (25.00%) Neo4j
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
1 3 (25.00%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (25.00%) QlikView
1 3 (25.00%) Spark SQL
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (25.00%) SQLite
1 3 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Jasmine
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (8.33%) Protractor
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 2 (16.67%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Civil Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Development Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Director
3 1 (8.33%) Android Developer
3 1 (8.33%) iOS Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Android Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
1 3 (25.00%) Plotly
1 3 (25.00%) PySpark
1 3 (25.00%) Regular Expression
1 3 (25.00%) Shiny
2 2 (16.67%) React
2 2 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) Android SDK
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) iOS SDK
3 1 (8.33%) Jest
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) SwiftUI
3 1 (8.33%) Vue
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) NHS
1 2 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (16.67%) SCADA
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Android
2 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Business Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Coaching
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (25.00%) Data Validation
5 3 (25.00%) ETL
5 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (25.00%) PROC SQL
3 3 (25.00%) R
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (8.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Postgraduate
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Flume
1 3 (25.00%) HDFS
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kibana
1 3 (25.00%) logstash
1 3 (25.00%) Oozie
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
1 3 (25.00%) Informatica
1 3 (25.00%) MicroStrategy
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Facebook
2 2 (16.67%) YouTube