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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 4 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 73 33 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 32.74% 15.71% 21.71%
As % of the General category 56.59% 30.00% 46.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 21 53
10th Percentile £340 £405 £374
25th Percentile £375 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -6.25% +9.27%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £675
90th Percentile £591 £720 £700
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £464 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -11.67% -6.25% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £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 common skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 129 110 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 57.85% 52.38% 47.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 65 125
10th Percentile £263 £372 £311
25th Percentile £357 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -7.08% +13.00%
75th Percentile £527 £600 £675
90th Percentile £601 £690 £757
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £523 £565
% change year-on-year -13.88% -7.52% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 0
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.25 -
25th Percentile £24.06 £19.56 -
Median hourly rate £34.25 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.89% - -
75th Percentile £43.56 £51.56 -
90th Percentile £48.63 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £14.07 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -19.60% - -

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 1 May 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 5 (6.85%) nginx
2 2 (2.74%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.37%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.66%) AWS
2 10 (13.70%) Azure
3 7 (9.59%) Kong
4 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (4.11%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.74%) GCP
5 2 (2.74%) Serverless
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.37%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (1.37%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (1.37%) GitHub
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) SSL
2 1 (1.37%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) Network Security
2 1 (1.37%) SMS
2 1 (1.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) NoSQL
1 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.48%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.48%) MySQL
3 3 (4.11%) Big Data
4 2 (2.74%) Metadata
4 2 (2.74%) Tableau
5 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.37%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.37%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.37%) Power BI
5 1 (1.37%) Redis
5 1 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (17.81%) GitLab
2 9 (12.33%) Git
3 7 (9.59%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.85%) Cucumber
4 5 (6.85%) SonarQube
5 4 (5.48%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.48%) gulp
5 4 (5.48%) Maven
5 4 (5.48%) REST Assured
5 4 (5.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.11%) ERwin
6 3 (4.11%) JIRA
6 3 (4.11%) JUnit
6 3 (4.11%) Selenium
7 2 (2.74%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (1.37%) Postman
General
1 12 (16.44%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Finance
3 10 (13.70%) Marketing
4 8 (10.96%) Electronics
4 8 (10.96%) Manufacturing
4 8 (10.96%) Telecoms
5 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Military
6 2 (2.74%) Brand Awareness
6 2 (2.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Developer
2 9 (12.33%) Product Manager
3 8 (10.96%) Analyst
3 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (6.85%) Designer
5 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (6.85%) Lead
5 5 (6.85%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (5.48%) Content Designer
7 3 (4.11%) Architect
7 3 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Data Modeller
7 3 (4.11%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (4.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) QA Tester
7 3 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.11%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) Node.js
2 6 (8.22%) CSS
2 6 (8.22%) HTML
2 6 (8.22%) Jest
2 6 (8.22%) Kafka
2 6 (8.22%) Sass
3 5 (6.85%) React
3 5 (6.85%) Spring
3 5 (6.85%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.48%) Apache CXF
4 4 (5.48%) Dropwizard
4 4 (5.48%) Express.js
4 4 (5.48%) Hibernate
4 4 (5.48%) JAX-RS
4 4 (5.48%) MEAN Stack
4 4 (5.48%) Mongoose
4 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.48%) REST
4 4 (5.48%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.11%) Smartphone
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%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
2 3 (4.11%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.74%) Windows
4 1 (1.37%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.37%) Android
4 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.29%) Agile
2 13 (17.81%) DevOps
3 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (13.70%) CI/CD
4 10 (13.70%) Digital Marketing
5 9 (12.33%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (12.33%) Test Automation
6 8 (10.96%) Programme Management
7 7 (9.59%) Decision-Making
7 7 (9.59%) Front End Development
7 7 (9.59%) Microservices
7 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (9.59%) User Experience
8 6 (8.22%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.22%) TDD
9 5 (6.85%) API Testing
9 5 (6.85%) BDD
9 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (6.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) Java
2 11 (15.07%) JavaScript
3 9 (12.33%) SQL
4 6 (8.22%) Python
5 2 (2.74%) Bash
6 1 (1.37%) Bicep
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (41.10%) Security Cleared
2 25 (34.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.11%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.74%) CSPO
4 2 (2.74%) Degree
5 1 (1.37%) CISM
5 1 (1.37%) CISSP
5 1 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.37%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) WCAG
2 5 (6.85%) QA
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) NCSC
4 1 (1.37%) GDPR
4 1 (1.37%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (15.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (23.29%) Terraform
2 11 (15.07%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.85%) Ansible
3 5 (6.85%) Grafana
3 5 (6.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.74%) Packer
5 1 (1.37%) Kibana
5 1 (1.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (17.81%) Virgin Media
2 8 (10.96%) SAP
3 4 (5.48%) Databricks
3 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.11%) Google
5 2 (2.74%) Facebook
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) Pega
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) VMware