Public Sector Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Sector
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 73 28 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 32.59% 14.14% 23.95%
As % of the General category 57.94% 27.45% 47.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 17 40
10th Percentile £362 £392 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £641
90th Percentile £603 £663 £678
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £473 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.50% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.00
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.62%
75th Percentile - - £23.63
90th Percentile - - £29.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.62%

All General Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 126 102 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 56.25% 51.52% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 60 86
10th Percentile £210 £324 £334
25th Percentile £375 £404 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -13.27% +5.12%
75th Percentile £530 £553 £650
90th Percentile £598 £639 £750
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £563
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.11% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 7
10th Percentile £14.06 £16.25 £17.60
25th Percentile £15.31 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £23.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +17.95% +32.20%
75th Percentile £20.46 £48.75 £26.13
90th Percentile £36.31 - £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.75 £17.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -4.29% -10.26% +39.29%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 7 (9.59%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) Documentum
2 2 (2.74%) FileNet
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.37%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.51%) AWS
2 5 (6.85%) Azure
3 4 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (5.48%) Kong
3 4 (5.48%) Serverless
4 3 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (4.11%) GCP
4 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.74%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.37%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.37%) Google Docs
6 1 (1.37%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.37%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) DNS
1 1 (1.37%) Network Security
1 1 (1.37%) SSL
1 1 (1.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.07%) MongoDB
1 11 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (13.70%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.96%) MySQL
4 3 (4.11%) Power BI
5 2 (2.74%) Tableau
6 1 (1.37%) Big Data
6 1 (1.37%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.37%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.37%) Looker
6 1 (1.37%) Metadata
6 1 (1.37%) Redis
6 1 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Git
2 8 (10.96%) GitLab
2 8 (10.96%) JIRA
3 7 (9.59%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.22%) SonarQube
5 5 (6.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (5.48%) Artifactory
6 4 (5.48%) gulp
6 4 (5.48%) Maven
7 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.74%) JUnit
9 1 (1.37%) ERwin
9 1 (1.37%) Postman
9 1 (1.37%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.37%) Selenium
General
1 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.85%) Military
3 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Brand Awareness
4 2 (2.74%) Finance
4 2 (2.74%) Marketing
4 2 (2.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (21.92%) Developer
2 9 (12.33%) Product Manager
3 8 (10.96%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (8.22%) Analyst
4 6 (8.22%) Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (6.85%) Designer
5 5 (6.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (6.85%) Senior
6 4 (5.48%) Content Designer
6 4 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Lead
7 3 (4.11%) QA Tester
7 3 (4.11%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Tester
8 2 (2.74%) Documentum Developer
8 2 (2.74%) React Developer
8 2 (2.74%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.81%) Node.js
2 8 (10.96%) Spring
3 7 (9.59%) Spring Boot
4 5 (6.85%) Kafka
4 5 (6.85%) React
5 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.48%) Apache CXF
5 4 (5.48%) CSS
5 4 (5.48%) Dropwizard
5 4 (5.48%) Express.js
5 4 (5.48%) Hibernate
5 4 (5.48%) HTML
5 4 (5.48%) JAX-RS
5 4 (5.48%) MEAN Stack
5 4 (5.48%) MERN Stack
5 4 (5.48%) Mongoose
5 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (5.48%) RESTful
5 4 (5.48%) Sass
5 4 (5.48%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Blog
4 2 (2.74%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.74%) Digital Signage
4 2 (2.74%) Social Media
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.37%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) Android
3 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.99%) Agile
2 10 (13.70%) Microservices
2 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (10.96%) CI/CD
5 7 (9.59%) DevOps
5 7 (9.59%) Roadmaps
5 7 (9.59%) Scrum
5 7 (9.59%) User Experience
6 6 (8.22%) Test Automation
7 5 (6.85%) API Testing
7 5 (6.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (6.85%) Event-Driven
7 5 (6.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (6.85%) Front End Development
7 5 (6.85%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (6.85%) TDD
8 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (5.48%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (5.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.66%) Java
2 11 (15.07%) SQL
3 8 (10.96%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.22%) Python
5 4 (5.48%) Bash
6 2 (2.74%) Rust
7 1 (1.37%) COBOL
7 1 (1.37%) Go
7 1 (1.37%) Groovy
7 1 (1.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (43.84%) Security Cleared
2 25 (34.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.11%) CSPO
5 2 (2.74%) CISSP
5 2 (2.74%) Degree
6 1 (1.37%) CISM
6 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) QA
1 5 (6.85%) WCAG
2 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.74%) GDPR
2 2 (2.74%) NCSC
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Terraform
2 8 (10.96%) Ansible
3 7 (9.59%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.74%) Packer
5 1 (1.37%) Argo
5 1 (1.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (17.81%) Virgin Media
2 4 (5.48%) Oracle
3 3 (4.11%) Databricks
3 3 (4.11%) Google
4 2 (2.74%) Facebook
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.37%) IBM
5 1 (1.37%) OpenText
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.37%) VMware