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 advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 76 41
Rank change year-on-year +51 -35 +38
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,144 732 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.47% 4.33% 6.91%
As % of the General category 11.68% 6.18% 11.74%
Number of salaries quoted 878 432 576
10th Percentile £31,579 £30,525 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,988 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £46,775 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.92% -1.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £71,991 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £74,598 £89,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

All General Skills
North of England

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,798 11,845 10,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 55.41% 70.12% 58.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7,400 5,102 6,108
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,525 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,200 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

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 19 May 2024.

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 19 May 2024. 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
North West +51 616 £57,965 +21.26% 125
Yorkshire +46 348 £57,965 +24.65% 56
North East +35 181 £51,500 +10.75% 29
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 38 (3.32%) Confluence
2 24 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.96%) IIS
5 9 (0.79%) Apache
6 8 (0.70%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.44%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.26%) CMS
9 3 (0.26%) JBoss
9 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 31 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.52%) Sketch
5 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.35%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.17%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.087%) InVision
8 1 (0.087%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 22 (1.92%) NEC Housing
2 11 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.17%) iTrent
6 2 (0.17%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.17%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.17%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 258 (22.55%) Azure
2 146 (12.76%) AWS
3 117 (10.23%) IBM Cloud
4 113 (9.88%) Power Platform
5 52 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (4.20%) Serverless
7 46 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (3.58%) Azure API Management
8 41 (3.58%) Azure Functions
8 41 (3.58%) Azure Logic Apps
8 41 (3.58%) Azure Service Bus
9 38 (3.32%) OCI
10 37 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 36 (3.15%) Amazon ECR
11 36 (3.15%) Route 53
12 32 (2.80%) GitHub
13 29 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (1.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
2 23 (2.01%) Firewall
3 13 (1.14%) DNS
3 13 (1.14%) Network Security
4 12 (1.05%) WAN
5 8 (0.70%) SD-WAN
5 8 (0.70%) Wireless
6 6 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (0.52%) Intranet
7 4 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (0.35%) TETRA
7 4 (0.35%) VSAN
8 3 (0.26%) 4G
8 3 (0.26%) 5G
8 3 (0.26%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.26%) Internet
8 3 (0.26%) LAN
8 3 (0.26%) SMS
8 3 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (11.45%) NoSQL
2 109 (9.53%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (8.74%) MongoDB
3 100 (8.74%) Power BI
4 78 (6.82%) DB2
5 54 (4.72%) SQL Server
6 43 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 40 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (3.50%) Tableau
8 37 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
9 34 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (1.84%) MySQL
11 17 (1.49%) Oracle Database
12 14 (1.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.79%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.79%) Power Query
14 7 (0.61%) Oracle Database 12c
14 7 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.52%) QlikView
16 5 (0.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 51 (4.46%) JIRA
2 29 (2.53%) CircleCI
2 29 (2.53%) GitLab
3 21 (1.84%) Artifactory
4 13 (1.14%) Git
5 5 (0.44%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.26%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.26%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.26%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.26%) Selenium
7 3 (0.26%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.17%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.17%) Maven
8 2 (0.17%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 249 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 233 (20.37%) Finance
3 152 (13.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 98 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (5.77%) Local Government
6 47 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 43 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (3.50%) Police
9 37 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (2.80%) Retail
11 27 (2.36%) Billing
12 13 (1.14%) Marketing
13 12 (1.05%) Legal
14 11 (0.96%) Back Office
15 10 (0.87%) Law
16 9 (0.79%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.70%) Banking
18 7 (0.61%) Electronics
18 7 (0.61%) Games
18 7 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 276 (24.13%) Senior
2 213 (18.62%) Lead
3 151 (13.20%) Developer
4 100 (8.74%) Architect
5 73 (6.38%) Analyst
6 62 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (5.24%) Full Stack Developer
8 55 (4.81%) Project Manager
9 52 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 49 (4.28%) Azure Developer
11 47 (4.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 45 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
12 45 (3.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 44 (3.85%) Consultant
14 41 (3.58%) Agile Coach
14 41 (3.58%) Designer
14 41 (3.58%) Programme Manager
15 40 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
16 38 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (3.23%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (11.45%) .NET
2 100 (8.74%) AngularJS
3 99 (8.65%) React
4 96 (8.39%) HTML
5 92 (8.04%) CSS
6 91 (7.95%) Web Services
7 85 (7.43%) ASP.NET
7 85 (7.43%) REST
8 83 (7.26%) Vue
9 82 (7.17%) ASP.NET Core
10 78 (6.82%) Backbone.js
10 78 (6.82%) Ember.js
10 78 (6.82%) jQuery
10 78 (6.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 50 (4.37%) Node.js
12 40 (3.50%) RESTful
13 16 (1.40%) .NET Core
14 10 (0.87%) Spring
15 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
16 6 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 150 (13.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 122 (10.66%) Blockchain
3 113 (9.88%) Public Cloud
4 78 (6.82%) Algorithms
4 78 (6.82%) Data Structures
5 74 (6.47%) e-Learning
6 39 (3.41%) NHS
7 31 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
8 29 (2.53%) Management Information System
9 27 (2.36%) Housing Association
10 23 (2.01%) Driving Licence
11 21 (1.84%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.05%) PKI
14 11 (0.96%) Graphic Design
15 9 (0.79%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.61%) IoT
17 6 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 5 (0.44%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 140 (12.24%) Windows
2 128 (11.19%) Linux
3 78 (6.82%) Android
3 78 (6.82%) Apple iOS
4 33 (2.88%) Unix
5 10 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.70%) Solaris
8 6 (0.52%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.26%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) AIX
10 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.087%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.087%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (44.41%) Coaching
2 497 (43.44%) Mentoring
3 332 (29.02%) Agile
4 156 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
5 152 (13.29%) DevOps
6 135 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
7 131 (11.45%) Design Patterns
8 123 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 118 (10.31%) Full Stack Development
9 118 (10.31%) User Experience
10 115 (10.05%) Business Intelligence
11 114 (9.97%) Co-Creation
12 101 (8.83%) Service Management
13 95 (8.30%) Project Management
14 91 (7.95%) ITIL
15 87 (7.60%) Roadmaps
16 85 (7.43%) MVC
17 84 (7.34%) Web Development
18 82 (7.17%) OO
19 81 (7.08%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 208 (18.18%) SQL
2 135 (11.80%) C#
3 120 (10.49%) JavaScript
4 92 (8.04%) Java
5 70 (6.12%) Python
6 21 (1.84%) T-SQL
7 11 (0.96%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.52%) C++
10 6 (0.52%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.26%) Bash
12 2 (0.17%) C
13 1 (0.087%) JCL
13 1 (0.087%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.087%) PHP
13 1 (0.087%) REXX
Qualifications
1 94 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 58 (5.07%) Degree
3 56 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.36%) ACCA
5 15 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (0.96%) APMP
6 11 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.70%) CISM
7 8 (0.70%) CISSP
7 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.61%) CCSP
8 7 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (0.52%) CCNP
9 6 (0.52%) CCSK
10 5 (0.44%) BC Cleared
11 4 (0.35%) A+ Certification
11 4 (0.35%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.91%) Accessibility
2 56 (4.90%) WCAG
3 27 (2.36%) GAAP
3 27 (2.36%) IFRS
3 27 (2.36%) QA
4 17 (1.49%) NIST
5 13 (1.14%) SLA
6 10 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.87%) NCSC
7 8 (0.70%) PMO
8 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.17%) GRC
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.087%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.087%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.087%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.087%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (4.11%) Docker
2 45 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.35%) vSphere
8 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.087%) Firmware
9 1 (0.087%) NFS
9 1 (0.087%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 98 (8.57%) Terraform
2 82 (7.17%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.50%) Prometheus
4 31 (2.71%) Ansible
5 18 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (1.05%) CA Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.70%) Grafana
8 7 (0.61%) SysTrack
9 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.26%) Nessus
11 3 (0.26%) Nmap
12 2 (0.17%) Kibana
12 2 (0.17%) SCCM
12 2 (0.17%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.087%) HP ALM
13 1 (0.087%) Istio
13 1 (0.087%) Kiali
13 1 (0.087%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 193 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 120 (10.49%) IBM
3 119 (10.40%) Red Hat
4 40 (3.50%) CA
5 39 (3.41%) Dynatrace
6 37 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 35 (3.06%) Atlassian
8 32 (2.80%) Oracle
9 31 (2.71%) VMware
10 28 (2.45%) YouTube
11 27 (2.36%) SAP
12 22 (1.92%) NEC
13 19 (1.66%) Cisco
14 15 (1.31%) Aruba
15 14 (1.22%) Splunk
16 13 (1.14%) BMC
17 12 (1.05%) CyberArk
17 12 (1.05%) Palo Alto
18 9 (0.79%) EMC
19 7 (0.61%) HP