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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 81 37
Rank change year-on-year +53 -44 +75
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 616 325 735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.77% 4.40% 7.64%
As % of the General category 11.02% 6.59% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 400 179 267
10th Percentile £27,975 £28,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,988 £36,250 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,732 £47,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -10.57% +11.81%
75th Percentile £71,991 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £78,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

All General Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,592 4,935 5,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 52.41% 66.77% 61.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,021 2,354 3,089
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,960
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +3.02% +7.28%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £66,140
90th Percentile £75,772 £81,250 £80,000
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 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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 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
Manchester +55 402 £57,965 +12.39% 107
Lancashire +31 97 £62,783 +67.54% 13
Cheshire +20 72 £55,000 +46.67% 16
Merseyside -19 37 £40,000 -14.42% 6
Cumbria - 8 £42,500 - 2
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 17 (2.76%) Confluence
2 11 (1.79%) IIS
2 11 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.46%) Apache
4 8 (1.30%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.65%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.97%) Sketch
5 4 (0.65%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.32%) Fusion 360
6 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.16%) InVision
7 1 (0.16%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 17 (2.76%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 152 (24.68%) Azure
2 117 (18.99%) IBM Cloud
3 77 (12.50%) AWS
4 45 (7.31%) Serverless
5 44 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 41 (6.66%) Azure API Management
6 41 (6.66%) Azure Functions
6 41 (6.66%) Azure Logic Apps
6 41 (6.66%) Azure Service Bus
7 38 (6.17%) OCI
8 36 (5.84%) Amazon ECR
8 36 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (5.84%) Amazon S3
8 36 (5.84%) Route 53
9 20 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (1.46%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.14%) AWS KMS
12 7 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.62%) DNS
2 9 (1.46%) Network Security
3 8 (1.30%) Firewall
3 8 (1.30%) WAN
3 8 (1.30%) Wireless
4 6 (0.97%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (0.65%) TETRA
5 4 (0.65%) VSAN
5 4 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.49%) Internet
6 3 (0.49%) Intranet
6 3 (0.49%) SMS
7 2 (0.32%) LAN
7 2 (0.32%) WPA
8 1 (0.16%) DHCP
8 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (15.91%) NoSQL
2 92 (14.94%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (13.80%) MongoDB
4 78 (12.66%) DB2
5 41 (6.66%) Relational Database
6 37 (6.01%) Power BI
7 36 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (4.71%) SQL Server
9 20 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (2.76%) Oracle Database
12 15 (2.44%) Tableau
13 10 (1.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.14%) MySQL
14 7 (1.14%) Oracle Database 12c
15 5 (0.81%) Big Data
16 4 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
17 3 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
17 3 (0.49%) Data Lake
17 3 (0.49%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 23 (3.73%) JIRA
2 12 (1.95%) GitLab
3 7 (1.14%) Artifactory
4 5 (0.81%) Git
5 3 (0.49%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.49%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.32%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.32%) Maven
6 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.16%) AdminStudio
7 1 (0.16%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 126 (20.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 121 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 117 (18.99%) Finance
4 43 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (6.66%) Local Government
6 25 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (3.41%) Police
8 17 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (2.44%) Retail
10 14 (2.27%) Billing
11 10 (1.62%) Legal
12 9 (1.46%) Back Office
13 8 (1.30%) Marketing
14 6 (0.97%) Electronics
14 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.81%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.65%) Law
16 4 (0.65%) Military
16 4 (0.65%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 121 (19.64%) Senior
2 92 (14.94%) Lead
3 84 (13.64%) Developer
4 46 (7.47%) Architect
4 46 (7.47%) Full Stack Developer
5 44 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (6.98%) Azure Developer
7 39 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
8 37 (6.01%) Full Stack Engineer
8 37 (6.01%) Senior DevOps
8 37 (6.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 27 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (4.38%) Project Manager
10 26 (4.22%) Analyst
11 23 (3.73%) Junior
12 22 (3.57%) Consultant
12 22 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.25%) Designer
13 20 (3.25%) Programme Manager
14 18 (2.92%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (15.10%) .NET
2 88 (14.29%) Web Services
3 87 (14.12%) HTML
4 84 (13.64%) CSS
5 81 (13.15%) ASP.NET
5 81 (13.15%) ASP.NET Core
5 81 (13.15%) REST
6 80 (12.99%) Vue
7 79 (12.82%) AngularJS
7 79 (12.82%) React
8 78 (12.66%) Backbone.js
8 78 (12.66%) Ember.js
8 78 (12.66%) jQuery
8 78 (12.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 45 (7.31%) Node.js
10 7 (1.14%) RESTful
11 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (0.49%) Spring
12 2 (0.32%) SAML
12 2 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 131 (21.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 119 (19.32%) Blockchain
3 78 (12.66%) Algorithms
3 78 (12.66%) Data Structures
4 74 (12.01%) e-Learning
5 43 (6.98%) Public Cloud
6 19 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.92%) NHS
8 16 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.27%) Driving Licence
9 14 (2.27%) Housing Association
10 13 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.95%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.46%) Graphic Design
13 8 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.14%) PKI
15 6 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 4 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
16 4 (0.65%) IoT
16 4 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 112 (18.18%) Windows
2 99 (16.07%) Linux
3 78 (12.66%) Android
3 78 (12.66%) Apple iOS
4 23 (3.73%) Unix
5 8 (1.30%) Solaris
6 7 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.49%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (46.92%) Coaching
2 270 (43.83%) Mentoring
3 196 (31.82%) Agile
4 129 (20.94%) Artificial Intelligence
5 108 (17.53%) DevOps
6 103 (16.72%) Design Patterns
7 102 (16.56%) User Experience
8 94 (15.26%) Co-Creation
9 83 (13.47%) Full Stack Development
10 82 (13.31%) OO
11 81 (13.15%) MVC
11 81 (13.15%) SOLID
12 80 (12.99%) MVVM
12 80 (12.99%) OOP
12 80 (12.99%) Web Development
13 79 (12.82%) Design Thinking
14 78 (12.66%) Responsive Web Design
15 56 (9.09%) Test Automation
16 55 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
17 54 (8.77%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (20.78%) SQL
2 105 (17.05%) C#
3 99 (16.07%) JavaScript
4 68 (11.04%) Java
5 60 (9.74%) Python
6 13 (2.11%) T-SQL
7 8 (1.30%) Shell Script
8 5 (0.81%) C++
8 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.32%) C
10 2 (0.32%) Go
11 1 (0.16%) Bash
11 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 59 (9.58%) Security Cleared
2 42 (6.82%) Degree
3 31 (5.03%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.27%) ACCA
5 12 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (1.62%) APMP
7 9 (1.46%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (0.97%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.97%) BC Cleared
9 6 (0.97%) CCSK
9 6 (0.97%) CCSP
9 6 (0.97%) CISM
9 6 (0.97%) CISSP
10 4 (0.65%) CCNP
10 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.49%) OSCE
11 3 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.17%) Accessibility
2 21 (3.41%) WCAG
3 15 (2.44%) NIST
4 14 (2.27%) GAAP
4 14 (2.27%) IFRS
5 13 (2.11%) QA
6 7 (1.14%) NCSC
6 7 (1.14%) SLA
7 6 (0.97%) PMO
8 5 (0.81%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 21 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.44%) Hyper-V
3 12 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.62%) Docker
5 5 (0.81%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) XenApp
6 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (8.60%) Terraform
2 47 (7.63%) Kubernetes
3 36 (5.84%) Prometheus
4 14 (2.27%) Ansible
5 13 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.14%) CA Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.49%) Nessus
8 3 (0.49%) Nmap
8 3 (0.49%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.32%) SCCM
9 2 (0.32%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.16%) Kiali
10 1 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 117 (18.99%) IBM
1 117 (18.99%) Red Hat
2 80 (12.99%) Microsoft
3 37 (6.01%) Dynatrace
4 28 (4.55%) YouTube
5 21 (3.41%) CA
5 21 (3.41%) Oracle
5 21 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.76%) NEC
7 16 (2.60%) Atlassian
7 16 (2.60%) SAP
8 15 (2.44%) VMware
9 9 (1.46%) Cisco
10 8 (1.30%) BMC
11 7 (1.14%) Aruba
11 7 (1.14%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.97%) HP
12 6 (0.97%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.97%) Splunk
13 5 (0.81%) Fortinet