Public Sector Contracts in the North East

Public Sector
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 8 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 37 80 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 10.95% 18.87% 20.16%
As % of the General category 20.90% 37.91% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 58 91
10th Percentile £405 £294 £145
25th Percentile £475 £468 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +11.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £606
90th Percentile £720 £714 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £503
% change year-on-year -2.78% +7.30% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £15.91 - £15.77
25th Percentile £16.60 - £15.85
Median hourly rate £17.73 - £17.66
75th Percentile £18.87 - £19.62
90th Percentile £19.55 - £19.79
England median hourly rate £21.73 £20.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.38% +0.25% +7.90%

All General Skills
North East

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 177 211 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 52.37% 49.76% 46.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 167 183
10th Percentile £163 £231 £140
25th Percentile £400 £370 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +14.71%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £588
90th Percentile £720 £732 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 0 13
10th Percentile £11.41 - £10.97
25th Percentile £12.13 - £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.41%
75th Percentile £46.69 - £17.50
90th Percentile £49.88 - £19.67
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the North East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the North East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +2 32 £525 -6.25% 13
Durham -1 3 - - 2
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.70%) AWS
1 1 (2.70%) Azure
1 1 (2.70%) GitHub
1 1 (2.70%) Google Analytics
1 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) VSAN
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) HTTP
2 1 (2.70%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.70%) Power BI
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) GitLab
1 1 (2.70%) Gradle
1 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.70%) Liquibase
1 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
1 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 1 (2.70%) Military
3 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) Senior
3 7 (18.92%) Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Senior Developer
4 6 (16.22%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 6 (16.22%) ServiceNow Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Portfolio Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Governance Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Governance Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Portfolio Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Scala Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior PMO
7 2 (5.41%) User Researcher
8 1 (2.70%) Content Designer
8 1 (2.70%) Facilities Assistant
8 1 (2.70%) Lead
8 1 (2.70%) Programme Manager
8 1 (2.70%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Node.js
1 2 (5.41%) RESTful
2 1 (2.70%) CSS
2 1 (2.70%) HTML
2 1 (2.70%) jQuery
2 1 (2.70%) JSON
2 1 (2.70%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.70%) SOAP
2 1 (2.70%) Spring
2 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.70%) Swagger
2 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
1 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Agile
2 9 (24.32%) ITIL
3 5 (13.51%) Quality Management
3 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
4 4 (10.81%) Line Management
4 4 (10.81%) Project Management
4 4 (10.81%) Software Delivery
5 3 (8.11%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.11%) Waterfall
6 2 (5.41%) Change Management
6 2 (5.41%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (5.41%) Customer Service
6 2 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.41%) Service Management
6 2 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (5.41%) Technology Transformation
6 2 (5.41%) User Research
6 2 (5.41%) Validation
7 1 (2.70%) Business Analysis
7 1 (2.70%) Facilities Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) Java
2 2 (5.41%) C#
2 2 (5.41%) Scala
2 2 (5.41%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.70%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (10.81%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.70%) MCSE
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) PMO
2 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.70%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) SLA
3 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
1 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
1 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.41%) vSphere
2 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) vCenter Server
1 2 (5.41%) vRealize
2 1 (2.70%) Anchore
2 1 (2.70%) Ansible
2 1 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (2.70%) Kibana
2 1 (2.70%) Packer
2 1 (2.70%) PowerCLI
2 1 (2.70%) vMotion
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.11%) VMware
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Ericsson
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Huawei
4 1 (2.70%) Nokia
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce