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 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 184 57 23
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 29.39% 28.64% 15.33%
As % of the General category 59.74% 50.44% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 46 15
10th Percentile £356 £413 £368
25th Percentile £400 £458 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -12.20%
75th Percentile £526 £555 £555
90th Percentile £625 £600 £675
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £510 £438
% change year-on-year -11.76% +16.57% -14.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £69.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.88 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £20.00
75th Percentile £75.38 - -
90th Percentile £76.50 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £72.00 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 308 113 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 49.20% 56.78% 52.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 78 48
10th Percentile £313 £200 £321
25th Percentile £388 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +6.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £529 £546 £541
90th Percentile £625 £600 £641
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £445 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -7.29% +6.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 7 5
10th Percentile £16.78 £13.60 £15.45
25th Percentile £23.74 £15.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £51.98 £19.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +170.03% -1.28% -
75th Percentile £69.94 £20.63 £20.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £33.18 £22.10
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £43.96 £18.13 £19.50
% change year-on-year +142.54% -7.05% -

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 20 August 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 19 (10.33%) Apache Spark
2 18 (9.78%) Apache
2 18 (9.78%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (8.70%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.17%) Confluence
4 4 (2.17%) SAS
5 2 (1.09%) CMS
5 2 (1.09%) WordPress
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (43.48%) AWS
2 38 (20.65%) Azure
3 21 (11.41%) Power Platform
4 19 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (10.33%) Serverless
5 16 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 16 (8.70%) GitHub
6 15 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (8.15%) Google Analytics
7 14 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.43%) GCP
10 9 (4.89%) Firebase
11 8 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (3.26%) Kong
13 6 (3.26%) OCI
14 5 (2.72%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.89%) Firewall
2 6 (3.26%) BGP
2 6 (3.26%) BIG-IP
2 6 (3.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (3.26%) OSPF
2 6 (3.26%) VXLAN
3 5 (2.72%) DNS
3 5 (2.72%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (2.72%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.17%) Intranet
4 4 (2.17%) WAN
5 3 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.63%) WLAN
6 2 (1.09%) HTTP
6 2 (1.09%) SSL
6 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.09%) VPN
7 1 (0.54%) Network Security
7 1 (0.54%) NGFW
7 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.15%) Power BI
2 12 (6.52%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.43%) Looker
4 5 (2.72%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.72%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.72%) Metadata
4 5 (2.72%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.63%) Big Data
6 3 (1.63%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.09%) Power Query
7 2 (1.09%) Redis
7 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.09%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (23.37%) GitLab
2 14 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.98%) Git
4 9 (4.89%) JIRA
5 8 (4.35%) fastlane
6 6 (3.26%) Selenium
7 5 (2.72%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.72%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.17%) Android Studio
8 4 (2.17%) Crashlytics
8 4 (2.17%) Gradle
8 4 (2.17%) Xcode
9 2 (1.09%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.09%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.54%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.54%) Mocha
10 1 (0.54%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.54%) Postman
General
1 50 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 41 (22.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.80%) Finance
4 7 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (3.26%) Military
6 4 (2.17%) Retail
7 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.63%) Legal
8 2 (1.09%) Publishing
9 1 (0.54%) Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (22.83%) Developer
2 31 (16.85%) Senior
3 29 (15.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (14.67%) Lead
5 21 (11.41%) Analyst
6 14 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (7.61%) Software Developer
7 13 (7.07%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (7.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.98%) Performance Analyst
8 11 (5.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.43%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.89%) Architect
10 9 (4.89%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (4.35%) Designer
12 7 (3.80%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.80%) Test Engineer
13 6 (3.26%) Node.js Developer
13 6 (3.26%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (27.17%) Terraform
2 13 (7.07%) Kafka
3 12 (6.52%) Node.js
4 11 (5.98%) RESTful
5 9 (4.89%) REST
6 5 (2.72%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.72%) Express.js
6 5 (2.72%) Jest
6 5 (2.72%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.72%) React
6 5 (2.72%) Spring
6 5 (2.72%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.72%) SwiftUI
7 4 (2.17%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (2.17%) Android SDK
7 4 (2.17%) Core Data
7 4 (2.17%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (2.17%) Playwright
7 4 (2.17%) PySpark
7 4 (2.17%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 15 (8.15%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.89%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.26%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.17%) Blog
6 4 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.17%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.54%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.54%) PropTech
8 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.80%) Linux
2 5 (2.72%) Android
2 5 (2.72%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.17%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (53.26%) Agile
2 64 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 59 (32.07%) DevOps
4 43 (23.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (22.28%) Containerisation
6 37 (20.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 35 (19.02%) Analytics
7 35 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (19.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 35 (19.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (16.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 28 (15.22%) Scrum
10 27 (14.67%) Test Automation
11 26 (14.13%) Mentoring
12 25 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (13.04%) User Research
14 23 (12.50%) Data Engineering
14 23 (12.50%) Decision-Making
15 20 (10.87%) Kanban
15 20 (10.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (22.83%) Python
2 25 (13.59%) SQL
3 23 (12.50%) Java
4 11 (5.98%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.80%) Bash
6 7 (3.80%) Kotlin
6 7 (3.80%) Scala
7 5 (2.72%) Swift
8 4 (2.17%) C#
9 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.09%) Go
10 2 (1.09%) Groovy
10 2 (1.09%) PHP
10 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 98 (53.26%) Security Cleared
2 84 (45.65%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.54%) CIPD
6 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.54%) PMP
6 1 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.39%) Accessibility
2 20 (10.87%) WCAG
3 11 (5.98%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.80%) QA
5 5 (2.72%) GDPR
6 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 42 (22.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (13.59%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.61%) Grafana
3 11 (5.98%) Ansible
4 9 (4.89%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.09%) Consul
7 2 (1.09%) Kibana
7 2 (1.09%) Packer
7 2 (1.09%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.54%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (10.87%) Google
2 13 (7.07%) Dynatrace
3 8 (4.35%) Trend Micro
4 7 (3.80%) Splunk
5 6 (3.26%) F5
5 6 (3.26%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.26%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.72%) Arista
7 4 (2.17%) Apple
7 4 (2.17%) Aruba
7 4 (2.17%) UiPath
8 3 (1.63%) Confluent
8 3 (1.63%) Databricks
9 2 (1.09%) DataFlux
9 2 (1.09%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.54%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.54%) FIS
10 1 (0.54%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.54%) Oracle
10 1 (0.54%) Pega