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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 142 71 27
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 24.91% 33.65% 13.78%
As % of the General category 52.40% 59.17% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 60 16
10th Percentile £358 £362 £389
25th Percentile £400 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -8.29% -4.65%
75th Percentile £578 £528 £567
90th Percentile £639 £603 £669
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% -6.98%
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 £41.60 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%

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 271 120 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 47.54% 56.87% 52.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 92 59
10th Percentile £313 £203 £373
25th Percentile £377 £372 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £589
90th Percentile £628 £586 £640
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 15
10th Percentile - £15.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £19.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £19.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +237.66% -59.47% +140.51%
75th Percentile £69.81 £20.63 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £39.45 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £51.98 £17.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +205.76% -2.86% -11.39%

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 June 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 17 (11.97%) Apache
1 17 (11.97%) Apache Spark
2 16 (11.27%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (9.86%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.82%) SAS
5 3 (2.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.70%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (35.92%) AWS
2 25 (17.61%) Azure
3 13 (9.15%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (6.34%) Firebase
4 9 (6.34%) Google Analytics
5 8 (5.63%) Amazon S3
5 8 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (5.63%) GitHub
5 8 (5.63%) Serverless
6 6 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.23%) OCI
7 5 (3.52%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.52%) GCP
8 4 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.82%) Google Play
9 3 (2.11%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.23%) BGP
1 6 (4.23%) BIG-IP
1 6 (4.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 6 (4.23%) Firewall
1 6 (4.23%) OSPF
1 6 (4.23%) VXLAN
2 5 (3.52%) Ethernet VPN
2 5 (3.52%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.82%) WAN
4 3 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.11%) WLAN
5 2 (1.41%) VPN
6 1 (0.70%) DNS
6 1 (0.70%) HTTP
6 1 (0.70%) Intranet
6 1 (0.70%) Network Security
6 1 (0.70%) NGFW
6 1 (0.70%) SSL
6 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.75%) Power BI
2 6 (4.23%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.82%) Looker
4 3 (2.11%) Big Data
4 3 (2.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.41%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.41%) Metadata
5 2 (1.41%) Redis
5 2 (1.41%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.41%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 2 (1.41%) Tableau
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.70%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.70%) Power Query
6 1 (0.70%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 30 (21.13%) GitLab
2 12 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.63%) fastlane
4 7 (4.93%) Selenium
5 6 (4.23%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.23%) JIRA
5 6 (4.23%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.82%) Android Studio
6 4 (2.82%) Crashlytics
6 4 (2.82%) Git
6 4 (2.82%) Gradle
6 4 (2.82%) Xcode
7 2 (1.41%) JMeter
7 2 (1.41%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (1.41%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.70%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.70%) Postman
8 1 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.52%) Military
5 4 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.11%) Finance
6 3 (2.11%) Legal
7 1 (0.70%) Banking
7 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (19.72%) Developer
2 25 (17.61%) Senior
3 23 (16.20%) Lead
4 17 (11.97%) Analyst
5 14 (9.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (7.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.34%) Performance Analyst
8 8 (5.63%) Architect
8 8 (5.63%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.23%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (4.23%) Designer
10 6 (4.23%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.52%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.52%) User Researcher
12 4 (2.82%) SAS Developer
12 4 (2.82%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.34%) Spring
2 8 (5.63%) Node.js
2 8 (5.63%) RESTful
3 6 (4.23%) Kafka
3 6 (4.23%) REST
4 5 (3.52%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.52%) SwiftUI
5 4 (2.82%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (2.82%) Android SDK
5 4 (2.82%) Core Data
5 4 (2.82%) iOS SDK
5 4 (2.82%) Jetpack Compose
5 4 (2.82%) Playwright
5 4 (2.82%) PySpark
5 4 (2.82%) Retrofit
5 4 (2.82%) UIKit
6 3 (2.11%) Swagger
7 2 (1.41%) Jest
7 2 (1.41%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.79%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.75%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.34%) Mobile App
4 8 (5.63%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.70%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.70%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.52%) Android
1 5 (3.52%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.41%) Linux
2 2 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (45.77%) Agile
2 45 (31.69%) CI/CD
3 35 (24.65%) DevOps
4 28 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (19.01%) Analytics
5 27 (19.01%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 26 (18.31%) Containerisation
7 21 (14.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (14.79%) Test Automation
8 20 (14.08%) Data Engineering
9 17 (11.97%) Scrum
9 17 (11.97%) TDD
10 16 (11.27%) Mentoring
11 15 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.56%) Decision-Making
11 15 (10.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 15 (10.56%) User Research
12 13 (9.15%) Kanban
12 13 (9.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.54%) Python
2 28 (19.72%) Java
3 16 (11.27%) SQL
4 7 (4.93%) Kotlin
5 5 (3.52%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.52%) Swift
5 5 (3.52%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.11%) Scala
7 2 (1.41%) Ruby
8 1 (0.70%) Bash
8 1 (0.70%) Go
8 1 (0.70%) Groovy
8 1 (0.70%) R
8 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (53.52%) Security Cleared
2 64 (45.07%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.70%) CIPD
5 1 (0.70%) Degree
5 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.97%) Accessibility
2 13 (9.15%) WCAG
3 8 (5.63%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.41%) GDPR
4 2 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 30 (21.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (21.83%) Terraform
2 11 (7.75%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.93%) Ansible
4 3 (2.11%) Grafana
5 2 (1.41%) Kibana
5 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.70%) Consul
6 1 (0.70%) Istio
6 1 (0.70%) Packer
6 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (9.15%) Google
2 10 (7.04%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.63%) Trend Micro
4 6 (4.23%) F5
4 6 (4.23%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.52%) Arista
5 5 (3.52%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.82%) Apple
6 4 (2.82%) Aruba
7 3 (2.11%) Splunk
8 2 (1.41%) DataFlux
8 2 (1.41%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.70%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.70%) Confluent
9 1 (0.70%) Databricks
9 1 (0.70%) IBM
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle
9 1 (0.70%) Pega
9 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow