Public Sector Jobs in West Yorkshire

Public Sector
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 56 24 63
Rank change year-on-year -32 +39 -23
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 59 227 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.36% 7.53% 5.01%
As % of the General category 5.91% 12.58% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 51 188 167
10th Percentile £28,875 £31,611 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.22% -
75th Percentile £64,375 £69,500 £65,125
90th Percentile £78,000 £87,500 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £57,965 £46,750
% change year-on-year -13.74% +23.99% +8.72%

All General Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 999 1,805 3,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 73.84% 59.89% 74.85%
Number of salaries quoted 559 1,345 1,599
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,850 £31,914
25th Percentile £31,625 £37,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,886 £69,500 £72,365
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in West Yorkshire

Public Sector
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in West Yorkshire

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Salary histogram for Public Sector in West Yorkshire

Public Sector
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -17 45 £54,228 -1.40% 62
Wakefield +14 2 £48,042 -19.26% 7
Bradford -4 1 £50,000 +33.33% 8
Huddersfield - 1 £62,500 -
Public Sector
Yorkshire

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (8.47%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.69%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) Azure
2 10 (16.95%) AWS
3 9 (15.25%) GCP
4 8 (13.56%) Entra ID
5 7 (11.86%) GitHub
5 7 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.39%) Serverless
9 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.69%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Firewall
1 6 (10.17%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
1 5 (8.47%) MySQL
2 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.08%) Power BI
4 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.39%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) CircleCI
2 5 (8.47%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) ERwin
4 1 (1.69%) Git
General
1 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Finance
3 5 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.69%) Law
5 1 (1.69%) Legal
5 1 (1.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Lead
1 11 (18.64%) Senior
2 10 (16.95%) Analyst
3 7 (11.86%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Service Desk Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Developer
5 4 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Designer
6 3 (5.08%) Information Security Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) IT Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Security Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Information Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Information Security Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Security Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Service Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) AngularJS
1 5 (8.47%) React
2 4 (6.78%) .NET
3 3 (5.08%) .NET Core
3 3 (5.08%) RESTful
4 2 (3.39%) Node.js
4 2 (3.39%) Vue
5 1 (1.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.08%) NHS
3 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.39%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Windows
2 6 (10.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (20.34%) Agile
2 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (15.25%) CI/CD
3 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
3 9 (15.25%) Deployment Automation
3 9 (15.25%) DevOps
4 7 (11.86%) Project Management
5 6 (10.17%) Mentoring
5 6 (10.17%) Scrum
5 6 (10.17%) Service Delivery
5 6 (10.17%) Test Automation
6 5 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (8.47%) Data Security
6 5 (8.47%) Open Source
6 5 (8.47%) Project Delivery
6 5 (8.47%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (8.47%) Software Engineering
6 5 (8.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 4 (6.78%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.42%) SQL
2 5 (8.47%) C#
3 4 (6.78%) Python
4 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.08%) Scala
5 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) CISM
3 3 (5.08%) CISSP
3 3 (5.08%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.08%) GRC
2 3 (5.08%) NIST
3 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Docker
2 8 (13.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.08%) Databricks
2 3 (5.08%) Oracle
2 3 (5.08%) Palantir
3 2 (3.39%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (3.39%) Sparx
4 1 (1.69%) Atlassian