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 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 113 57 34
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 29.74% 26.76% 17.44%
As % of the General category 48.71% 48.72% 35.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 35 26
10th Percentile £339 £305 £406
25th Percentile £400 £353 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -23.64% -
75th Percentile £501 £549 £720
90th Percentile £550 £634 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.69 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.69 £14.69 -
% change year-on-year -6.81% - -

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 232 117 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 61.05% 54.93% 48.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 67 61
10th Percentile £203 £305 £225
25th Percentile £380 £348 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £620
90th Percentile £575 £636 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £440 £425 £518
% change year-on-year +3.47% -17.87% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £17.88 - £16.25
25th Percentile £31.19 £13.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £15.60 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +236.65% -67.17% +171.43%
75th Percentile £53.75 £18.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.25 £19.75 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £33.63 £15.60 £17.50
% change year-on-year +115.61% -10.89% -

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 23 January 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 5 (4.42%) Confluence
2 3 (2.65%) Apache
3 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 32 (28.32%) AWS
2 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (6.19%) Azure
3 7 (6.19%) Serverless
4 6 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (4.42%) GitHub
6 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.65%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.77%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.77%) GCP
8 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) Wireless
2 2 (1.77%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) DHCP
3 1 (0.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.77%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.77%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.88%) Power BI
2 1 (0.88%) Redis
2 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) GitLab
2 11 (9.73%) Cucumber
3 10 (8.85%) REST Assured
4 9 (7.96%) Git
5 8 (7.08%) JIRA
6 5 (4.42%) Selenium
7 4 (3.54%) JMeter
8 3 (2.65%) Gatling
8 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.65%) Mocha
9 2 (1.77%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.77%) Postman
9 2 (1.77%) TestRail
10 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.08%) Finance
3 7 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.31%) Electronics
4 6 (5.31%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.31%) Marketing
4 6 (5.31%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.77%) Police
6 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.88%) Legal
6 1 (0.88%) Local Government
6 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.16%) Test Engineer
2 15 (13.27%) Analyst
2 15 (13.27%) Product Manager
3 13 (11.50%) Business Analyst
4 11 (9.73%) Developer
5 10 (8.85%) Senior
6 9 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Lead
7 6 (5.31%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.31%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 5 (4.42%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.42%) Desktop Support
8 5 (4.42%) IT Support
8 5 (4.42%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.73%) REST
2 9 (7.96%) Node.js
3 8 (7.08%) Spring
3 8 (7.08%) WireMock
4 6 (5.31%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.54%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.65%) Jest
7 2 (1.77%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.77%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.77%) JSF
7 2 (1.77%) Struts
7 2 (1.77%) Swagger
8 1 (0.88%) Apache Commons
8 1 (0.88%) CSS
8 1 (0.88%) Express.js
8 1 (0.88%) Flask
8 1 (0.88%) Guava
8 1 (0.88%) HTML
8 1 (0.88%) Kafka
8 1 (0.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.19%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.31%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.42%) Android
1 5 (4.42%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.88%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.48%) Agile
2 27 (23.89%) CI/CD
3 24 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (17.70%) DevOps
4 20 (17.70%) Test Automation
5 18 (15.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 15 (13.27%) Containerisation
6 15 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (13.27%) TDD
7 14 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (12.39%) Service Design
8 12 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (10.62%) Product Strategy
8 12 (10.62%) Workshop Facilitation
9 11 (9.73%) BDD
9 11 (9.73%) Microservices
10 10 (8.85%) Roadmaps
11 9 (7.96%) Product Management
11 9 (7.96%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.47%) Java
2 15 (13.27%) Python
3 9 (7.96%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.31%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.42%) Bash
6 4 (3.54%) SQL
7 3 (2.65%) Go
8 2 (1.77%) Perl
8 2 (1.77%) Ruby
9 1 (0.88%) Bicep
9 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.88%) R
9 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (53.10%) Security Cleared
2 57 (50.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.77%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.88%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.88%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (0.88%) CISA
6 1 (0.88%) CISM
6 1 (0.88%) CISSP
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.96%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.08%) QA
3 4 (3.54%) WCAG
4 3 (2.65%) GDPR
5 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.77%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.77%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (18.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (23.01%) Terraform
2 16 (14.16%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.31%) Grafana
4 5 (4.42%) Ansible
5 4 (3.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (5.31%) SAP
2 5 (4.42%) Apple
2 5 (4.42%) Cisco
2 5 (4.42%) Dell
2 5 (4.42%) HP
3 4 (3.54%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.65%) Databricks
4 3 (2.65%) Google
5 2 (1.77%) Cellebrite
6 1 (0.88%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.88%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.88%) Pega
6 1 (0.88%) Sage
6 1 (0.88%) Splunk
6 1 (0.88%) UiPath