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 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 104 77 29
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.86% 35.32% 14.08%
As % of the General category 44.83% 60.16% 27.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 64 18
10th Percentile £338 £335 £419
25th Percentile £400 £372 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -14.42% -4.02%
75th Percentile £500 £523 £699
90th Percentile £575 £590 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £460 £525
% change year-on-year -2.17% -12.38% -6.25%
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 232 128 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 50.99% 58.72% 51.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 99 63
10th Percentile £306 £273 £313
25th Percentile £380 £353 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -19.05% -7.08%
75th Percentile £501 £525 £600
90th Percentile £575 £602 £670
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £448 £428 £510
% change year-on-year +4.68% -16.18% -9.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 16
10th Percentile £16.55 £18.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.06 £19.56
Median hourly rate £48.00 £34.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.15% -27.89% -
75th Percentile £61.60 £43.56 £51.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £48.63 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.25 £14.07 £17.50
% change year-on-year +22.60% -19.60% -

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 21 April 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 2 (1.92%) Apache
1 2 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.96%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.96%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.96%) AWS
2 8 (7.69%) Azure
2 8 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 7 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (6.73%) Serverless
4 5 (4.81%) Google Analytics
5 4 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (3.85%) GitHub
5 4 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.88%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.88%) AWS KMS
6 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) VPN
2 1 (0.96%) Firewall
2 1 (0.96%) Intranet
2 1 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.81%) Power BI
2 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.96%) Big Data
5 1 (0.96%) DB2
5 1 (0.96%) Metadata
5 1 (0.96%) Redis
5 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.62%) GitLab
2 7 (6.73%) JIRA
3 6 (5.77%) Git
4 5 (4.81%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.81%) REST Assured
5 4 (3.85%) Selenium
6 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.88%) JMeter
7 2 (1.92%) Gatling
8 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.96%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.96%) ERwin
8 1 (0.96%) JUnit
8 1 (0.96%) Postman
8 1 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.96%) TestRail
8 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.85%) Finance
4 4 (3.85%) Military
5 2 (1.92%) Legal
5 2 (1.92%) Police
6 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Electronics
6 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Local Government
6 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.96%) Marketing
6 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (18.27%) Analyst
2 13 (12.50%) Senior
3 11 (10.58%) Business Analyst
4 10 (9.62%) Product Manager
5 9 (8.65%) Designer
5 9 (8.65%) Developer
5 9 (8.65%) Test Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Lead
7 7 (6.73%) Architect
8 6 (5.77%) User Researcher
9 5 (4.81%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.81%) Performance Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Senior Manager
10 4 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.85%) Node.js Developer
10 4 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.85%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.62%) Node.js
2 7 (6.73%) Spring
3 4 (3.85%) REST
4 3 (2.88%) WireMock
5 2 (1.92%) Express.js
5 2 (1.92%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.92%) JSF
5 2 (1.92%) Kafka
5 2 (1.92%) Next.js
5 2 (1.92%) Playwright
5 2 (1.92%) Struts
5 2 (1.92%) Swagger
6 1 (0.96%) Akka
6 1 (0.96%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.96%) Apache Commons
6 1 (0.96%) Flask
6 1 (0.96%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.96%) Guava
6 1 (0.96%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.96%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.92%) Android
2 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (47.12%) Agile
2 22 (21.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 22 (21.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 19 (18.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (16.35%) CI/CD
6 16 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (15.38%) User Research
7 15 (14.42%) DevOps
8 14 (13.46%) Service Design
9 13 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 12 (11.54%) Roadmaps
10 12 (11.54%) Workshop Facilitation
11 10 (9.62%) Containerisation
12 9 (8.65%) Analytics
12 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.65%) TDD
13 8 (7.69%) Decision-Making
14 7 (6.73%) Performance Metrics
14 7 (6.73%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.19%) Java
2 12 (11.54%) Python
3 8 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.73%) SQL
4 7 (6.73%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.85%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.92%) Ruby
6 2 (1.92%) Scala
7 1 (0.96%) Bash
7 1 (0.96%) Bicep
7 1 (0.96%) Go
7 1 (0.96%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.96%) R
7 1 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 54 (51.92%) Security Cleared
2 44 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.96%) CIPD
5 1 (0.96%) CISA
5 1 (0.96%) CISM
5 1 (0.96%) CISSP
5 1 (0.96%) Degree
5 1 (0.96%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.62%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.81%) WCAG
3 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.88%) QA
4 2 (1.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.96%) NIST
5 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (16.35%) Terraform
2 11 (10.58%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.92%) Grafana
3 2 (1.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (5.77%) Google
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.88%) Databricks
4 2 (1.92%) Cellebrite
4 2 (1.92%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.96%) Apple
5 1 (0.96%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.96%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.96%) Cisco
5 1 (0.96%) Dell
5 1 (0.96%) HP
5 1 (0.96%) IBM
5 1 (0.96%) Sage
5 1 (0.96%) SAP
5 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.96%) Splunk
5 1 (0.96%) UiPath