Public Sector Contract Job Trends 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 16 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 117 73 31
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 23.21% 32.88% 15.58%
As % of the General category 48.55% 55.30% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 58 19
10th Percentile £364 £354 £405
25th Percentile £407 £376 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -15.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £559 £525 £710
90th Percentile £636 £583 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £465 £538
% change year-on-year -3.23% -13.49% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.69 - £20.00

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 general skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 241 132 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 47.82% 59.46% 51.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 98 59
10th Percentile £332 £224 £374
25th Percentile £400 £357 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -16.67% -7.08%
75th Percentile £544 £525 £625
90th Percentile £625 £591 £700
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £435 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -17.14% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 15
10th Percentile £16.63 £15.79 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.36 £19.13
Median hourly rate £41.25 £19.97 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +106.56% -57.96% -
75th Percentile £69.58 £35.99 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £45.59 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.25 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.71% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Public Sector

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 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (3.42%) Apache
1 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.42%) Confluence
2 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.56%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.85%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 34 (29.06%) AWS
2 18 (15.38%) Azure
3 10 (8.55%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.13%) GitHub
4 6 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (5.13%) Google Analytics
4 6 (5.13%) Serverless
5 5 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.27%) Firebase
6 4 (3.42%) OCI
6 4 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.56%) GCP
7 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.27%) Firewall
2 4 (3.42%) BGP
2 4 (3.42%) BIG-IP
2 4 (3.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 4 (3.42%) OSPF
2 4 (3.42%) VXLAN
3 3 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (2.56%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.71%) VPN
4 2 (1.71%) WAN
4 2 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.71%) WLAN
5 1 (0.85%) DNS
5 1 (0.85%) HTTP
5 1 (0.85%) Intranet
5 1 (0.85%) Network Security
5 1 (0.85%) NGFW
5 1 (0.85%) SSL
5 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.98%) Power BI
2 4 (3.42%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.56%) Big Data
3 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.71%) Redis
4 2 (1.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.71%) Tableau
5 1 (0.85%) DB2
5 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.85%) Looker
5 1 (0.85%) Metadata
5 1 (0.85%) Power Query
5 1 (0.85%) QlikView
5 1 (0.85%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 17 (14.53%) GitLab
2 8 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.98%) JIRA
4 5 (4.27%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.27%) Git
5 4 (3.42%) fastlane
5 4 (3.42%) REST Assured
5 4 (3.42%) Selenium
6 2 (1.71%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.71%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.71%) Gradle
6 2 (1.71%) JMeter
6 2 (1.71%) Xcode
7 1 (0.85%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.85%) ERwin
7 1 (0.85%) Gatling
7 1 (0.85%) JUnit
7 1 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.85%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.42%) Finance
4 4 (3.42%) Military
5 3 (2.56%) Legal
6 2 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) Local Government
7 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (17.09%) Developer
2 19 (16.24%) Analyst
2 19 (16.24%) Senior
3 17 (14.53%) Lead
4 10 (8.55%) Business Analyst
5 9 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.98%) Architect
6 7 (5.98%) Performance Analyst
7 6 (5.13%) Designer
7 6 (5.13%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.13%) Product Manager
7 6 (5.13%) Test Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.27%) User Researcher
9 4 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.42%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.42%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.42%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.40%) Spring
2 10 (8.55%) Node.js
3 5 (4.27%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.42%) REST
4 4 (3.42%) RESTful
5 3 (2.56%) Kafka
5 3 (2.56%) Swagger
5 3 (2.56%) SwiftUI
6 2 (1.71%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (1.71%) Android SDK
6 2 (1.71%) Core Data
6 2 (1.71%) Express.js
6 2 (1.71%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (1.71%) Next.js
6 2 (1.71%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.71%) OpenID
6 2 (1.71%) Playwright
6 2 (1.71%) Retrofit
6 2 (1.71%) UIKit
6 2 (1.71%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.40%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.27%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.85%) PropTech
7 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.56%) Android
1 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.71%) Linux
2 2 (1.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.44%) Agile
2 27 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 23 (19.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 21 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (16.24%) DevOps
6 18 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (12.82%) Containerisation
7 15 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (12.82%) TDD
7 15 (12.82%) Test Automation
8 14 (11.97%) Analytics
8 14 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (11.11%) User Research
10 11 (9.40%) Scrum
11 10 (8.55%) Decision-Making
11 10 (8.55%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 10 (8.55%) Service Design
11 10 (8.55%) User Experience
12 9 (7.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.37%) Java
2 19 (16.24%) Python
3 10 (8.55%) SQL
4 6 (5.13%) Kotlin
4 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.42%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.42%) Scala
6 3 (2.56%) Swift
7 2 (1.71%) Go
7 2 (1.71%) Ruby
8 1 (0.85%) Bash
8 1 (0.85%) Bicep
8 1 (0.85%) Groovy
8 1 (0.85%) R
8 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 55 (47.01%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.71%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) CIPD
5 1 (0.85%) CISA
5 1 (0.85%) CISM
5 1 (0.85%) CISSP
5 1 (0.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.26%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.69%) WCAG
3 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.71%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (14.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (17.09%) Terraform
2 13 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.27%) Ansible
4 3 (2.56%) Grafana
4 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Consul
5 1 (0.85%) Istio
5 1 (0.85%) Kibana
5 1 (0.85%) Packer
5 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (7.69%) Google
2 5 (4.27%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.42%) F5
3 4 (3.42%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.56%) Arista
4 3 (2.56%) Databricks
5 2 (1.71%) Apple
5 2 (1.71%) Aruba
5 2 (1.71%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.71%) Splunk
5 2 (1.71%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.85%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.85%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.85%) DataFlux
6 1 (0.85%) IBM
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle
6 1 (0.85%) Pega
6 1 (0.85%) Sage
6 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.85%) UiPath