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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 177 57 24
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.55% 29.38% 15.79%
As % of the General category 59.20% 50.89% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 46 15
10th Percentile £328 £425 £368
25th Percentile £400 £458 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £525 £570 £555
90th Percentile £625 £613 £675
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £520 £438
% change year-on-year -13.46% +18.86% -20.45%
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 299 112 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 48.23% 57.73% 53.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 78 48
10th Percentile £313 £200 £321
25th Percentile £368 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £608 £641
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £441 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -8.07% +6.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 7 5
10th Percentile £16.70 £13.60 £15.45
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £19.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +211.69% -1.28% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £20.75
90th Percentile - £33.18 £22.10
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £43.96 £17.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +158.59% -12.82% -

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 14 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 18 (10.17%) Apache Spark
2 17 (9.60%) Apache
2 17 (9.60%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (8.47%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.26%) Confluence
4 4 (2.26%) SAS
5 2 (1.13%) CMS
5 2 (1.13%) WordPress
6 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (42.94%) AWS
2 36 (20.34%) Azure
3 20 (11.30%) Power Platform
4 18 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (10.17%) Serverless
5 15 (8.47%) Amazon S3
5 15 (8.47%) Google Analytics
6 14 (7.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (7.91%) GitHub
7 13 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.65%) GCP
8 10 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (5.08%) Firebase
10 8 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.39%) Kong
12 6 (3.39%) OCI
13 5 (2.82%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.52%) Firewall
2 6 (3.39%) BGP
2 6 (3.39%) BIG-IP
2 6 (3.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (3.39%) OSPF
2 6 (3.39%) VXLAN
3 5 (2.82%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (2.82%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.26%) DNS
4 4 (2.26%) Intranet
4 4 (2.26%) WAN
5 3 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.69%) WLAN
6 2 (1.13%) HTTP
6 2 (1.13%) SSL
6 2 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.56%) Network Security
7 1 (0.56%) NGFW
7 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.47%) Power BI
2 10 (5.65%) Looker
2 10 (5.65%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.82%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.82%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.82%) Metadata
3 5 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.69%) Big Data
5 3 (1.69%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.13%) Power Query
6 2 (1.13%) Redis
6 2 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.13%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.56%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 41 (23.16%) GitLab
2 14 (7.91%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.65%) Git
4 9 (5.08%) JIRA
5 8 (4.52%) fastlane
6 6 (3.39%) Selenium
7 5 (2.82%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.82%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.26%) Android Studio
8 4 (2.26%) Crashlytics
8 4 (2.26%) Gradle
8 4 (2.26%) Xcode
9 2 (1.13%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.56%) Mocha
10 1 (0.56%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.56%) Postman
General
1 49 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (3.39%) Military
6 5 (2.82%) Finance
7 3 (1.69%) Legal
8 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.13%) Publishing
9 1 (0.56%) Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (22.03%) Developer
2 31 (17.51%) Senior
3 28 (15.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (15.25%) Lead
5 18 (10.17%) Analyst
6 14 (7.91%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (7.34%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (7.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.78%) Software Developer
9 11 (6.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (6.21%) Performance Analyst
9 11 (6.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.08%) Architect
10 9 (5.08%) Delivery Manager
10 9 (5.08%) Designer
11 7 (3.95%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.95%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) Node.js Developer
12 6 (3.39%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.34%) Kafka
2 12 (6.78%) Node.js
3 11 (6.21%) RESTful
4 9 (5.08%) REST
5 5 (2.82%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.82%) Express.js
5 5 (2.82%) Jest
5 5 (2.82%) React
5 5 (2.82%) Spring
5 5 (2.82%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.82%) SwiftUI
6 4 (2.26%) Android Jetpack
6 4 (2.26%) Android SDK
6 4 (2.26%) Core Data
6 4 (2.26%) iOS SDK
6 4 (2.26%) Jetpack Compose
6 4 (2.26%) OpenID
6 4 (2.26%) Playwright
6 4 (2.26%) PySpark
6 4 (2.26%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.56%) Product Ownership
2 15 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.08%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.26%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.13%) Blog
7 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.56%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.56%) PropTech
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.95%) Linux
2 5 (2.82%) Android
2 5 (2.82%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (53.67%) Agile
2 60 (33.90%) CI/CD
3 57 (32.20%) DevOps
4 41 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (22.03%) Containerisation
6 35 (19.77%) Analytics
6 35 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (19.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 34 (19.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 33 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (16.95%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 26 (14.69%) Mentoring
10 26 (14.69%) Test Automation
11 25 (14.12%) Scrum
12 24 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (12.99%) Data Engineering
13 23 (12.99%) Decision-Making
13 23 (12.99%) User Research
14 18 (10.17%) Kanban
14 18 (10.17%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 40 (22.60%) Python
2 24 (13.56%) SQL
3 23 (12.99%) Java
4 11 (6.21%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.52%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.95%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.39%) Bash
8 5 (2.82%) Scala
8 5 (2.82%) Swift
9 3 (1.69%) C#
10 2 (1.13%) Go
10 2 (1.13%) Groovy
10 2 (1.13%) PHP
10 2 (1.13%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 95 (53.67%) Security Cleared
2 81 (45.76%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.26%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.26%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.56%) CIPD
6 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.56%) PMP
6 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.95%) Accessibility
2 20 (11.30%) WCAG
3 11 (6.21%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.95%) QA
5 5 (2.82%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 40 (22.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (25.99%) Terraform
2 22 (12.43%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.21%) Grafana
4 10 (5.65%) Ansible
5 8 (4.52%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.13%) Consul
7 2 (1.13%) Kibana
7 2 (1.13%) Packer
7 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.13%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (11.30%) Google
2 13 (7.34%) Dynatrace
3 8 (4.52%) Trend Micro
4 6 (3.39%) F5
4 6 (3.39%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.39%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.82%) Arista
5 5 (2.82%) Splunk
6 4 (2.26%) Apple
6 4 (2.26%) Aruba
7 3 (1.69%) Confluent
7 3 (1.69%) Databricks
7 3 (1.69%) UiPath
8 2 (1.13%) DataFlux
8 2 (1.13%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.56%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.56%) FIS
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle
9 1 (0.56%) Pega
9 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow