Public Sector Job Trends in Yorkshire

Public Sector
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 63 30
Rank change year-on-year +27 -33 +45
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 267 88 339
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.35% 3.58% 6.02%
As % of the General category 8.69% 4.90% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 244 76 306
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,769 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,447 £38,500 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -13.74% +27.94%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,603 £75,772
90th Percentile £77,147 £72,625 £84,964
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

All General Skills
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 general skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,072 1,795 3,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 50.03% 72.94% 58.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,639 965 2,556
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,313 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £30,000 £34,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.85% -12.50%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Yorkshire

Public Sector
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
West Yorkshire +7 123 £55,000 +11.11% 47
South Yorkshire +21 111 £52,130 +13.33% 12
North Yorkshire +2 15 £50,000 - 2
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.87%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.50%) CMS
2 4 (1.50%) Drupal
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.50%) nginx
2 4 (1.50%) WordPress
3 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.75%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) FrameMaker
2 1 (0.37%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 46 (17.23%) AWS
2 41 (15.36%) Azure
3 21 (7.87%) Power Platform
3 21 (7.87%) SaaS
4 11 (4.12%) GCP
5 10 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.00%) Azure AKS
6 8 (3.00%) PowerApps
7 7 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (2.62%) OCI
7 7 (2.62%) Serverless
8 6 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.87%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.87%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.50%) GitHub
11 3 (1.12%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.62%) Firewall
2 5 (1.87%) LAN
2 5 (1.87%) NGFW
2 5 (1.87%) VXLAN
2 5 (1.87%) WAN
2 5 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (1.87%) Wireshark
3 4 (1.50%) SMTP
4 2 (0.75%) Intranet
4 2 (0.75%) VPN
5 1 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.24%) MongoDB
2 13 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.49%) Power BI
4 7 (2.62%) Metadata
4 7 (2.62%) MySQL
4 7 (2.62%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.25%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.87%) Looker
7 4 (1.50%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.12%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.37%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.37%) GIS
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (4.49%) GitLab
2 7 (2.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.50%) Git
4 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.37%) Gatling
4 1 (0.37%) JIRA
4 1 (0.37%) JMeter
4 1 (0.37%) JUnit
4 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 59 (22.10%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (10.86%) Finance
4 10 (3.75%) Health Technology
4 10 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (2.62%) Marketing
6 6 (2.25%) Local Government
7 4 (1.50%) Brand Awareness
7 4 (1.50%) Legal
7 4 (1.50%) Police
8 3 (1.12%) Aviation
8 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.12%) Retail
9 2 (0.75%) Advertising
9 2 (0.75%) Banking
9 2 (0.75%) Billing
9 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (28.46%) Senior
2 40 (14.98%) Senior Manager
3 34 (12.73%) Analyst
4 21 (7.87%) Architect
4 21 (7.87%) Developer
5 17 (6.37%) Business Analyst
5 17 (6.37%) Portfolio Manager
6 15 (5.62%) Digital Project Manager
6 15 (5.62%) Project Manager
7 13 (4.87%) Lead
7 13 (4.87%) Product Manager
7 13 (4.87%) Senior Portfolio Manager
8 12 (4.49%) Senior Digital Project Manager
8 12 (4.49%) Senior Project Manager
9 10 (3.75%) SOC Engineer
10 9 (3.37%) Consultant
10 9 (3.37%) Designer
10 9 (3.37%) Security Manager
11 8 (3.00%) IT Manager
11 8 (3.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.37%) Node.js
2 8 (3.00%) React
2 8 (3.00%) REST
2 8 (3.00%) RESTful
3 5 (1.87%) Vue
4 4 (1.50%) CSS
4 4 (1.50%) HTML
4 4 (1.50%) SAML
5 3 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.12%) Spring
5 3 (1.12%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.75%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.75%) Django
6 2 (0.75%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.75%) FHIR
6 2 (0.75%) Java EE
6 2 (0.75%) JPA
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.75%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.62%) Onboarding
2 13 (4.87%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.37%) Legacy Applications
3 9 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (2.62%) NHS
5 6 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.25%) Low-Code
5 6 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.25%) PKI
6 5 (1.87%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.87%) PMI
7 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.12%) Robotics
8 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.75%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.99%) Windows
2 8 (3.00%) Linux
3 7 (2.62%) Unix
4 4 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.75%) Android
5 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.75%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (43.07%) Coaching
1 115 (43.07%) Mentoring
2 77 (28.84%) Agile
3 40 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (10.11%) CI/CD
6 24 (8.99%) Decision-Making
7 23 (8.61%) Roadmaps
8 22 (8.24%) Analytics
9 21 (7.87%) E-Procurement
9 21 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (7.49%) DevOps
11 19 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (7.12%) Test Automation
11 19 (7.12%) User Experience
12 17 (6.37%) Collaborative Working
12 17 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (6.37%) Microservices
13 16 (5.99%) Project Delivery
13 16 (5.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.24%) SQL
2 17 (6.37%) Python
3 16 (5.99%) Java
4 9 (3.37%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.25%) VBA
6 3 (1.12%) Bash
6 3 (1.12%) R
7 2 (0.75%) C#
7 2 (0.75%) COBOL
7 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.75%) Scala
7 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (4.49%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.12%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.37%) Degree
4 5 (1.87%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.50%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (1.50%) NVQ Level 3
6 2 (0.75%) ACCA
6 2 (0.75%) CISSP
6 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.37%) CBAP
7 1 (0.37%) CCNA
7 1 (0.37%) CCNP
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.37%) CISM
7 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.49%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.00%) QA
4 6 (2.25%) GDPR
5 4 (1.50%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.50%) P3O
6 3 (1.12%) NCSC
6 3 (1.12%) WCAG
7 2 (0.75%) GAAP
7 2 (0.75%) IFRS
8 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.37%) HL7
8 1 (0.37%) PMO
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (6.74%) Terraform
2 8 (3.00%) Ansible
3 7 (2.62%) Argo
4 5 (1.87%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.75%) Kibana
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.37%) Oracle
3 8 (3.00%) Google
3 8 (3.00%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.62%) Palantir
5 6 (2.25%) CyberArk
6 5 (1.87%) Arista
6 5 (1.87%) Aruba
6 5 (1.87%) NetScout
6 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.50%) Databricks
8 3 (1.12%) SAP
8 3 (1.12%) Sparx
9 2 (0.75%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.75%) Apple
9 2 (0.75%) IBM
9 2 (0.75%) Samsung
10 1 (0.37%) Okta
10 1 (0.37%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.37%) Palo Alto