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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 200 68 29
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 31.55% 28.69% 17.79%
As % of the General category 59.70% 53.13% 32.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 55 14
10th Percentile £350 £385 £375
25th Percentile £400 £430 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.49% -6.77%
75th Percentile £525 £549 £558
90th Percentile £625 £598 £726
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £69.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.88 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £14.69
75th Percentile £75.38 - -
90th Percentile £76.50 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £72.00 - £14.69
% change year-on-year - - -22.68%

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 335 128 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 52.84% 54.01% 55.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 84 43
10th Percentile £315 £200 £329
25th Percentile £381 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £471 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +4.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £536 £555
90th Percentile £625 £586 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £444 £466 £475
% change year-on-year -4.77% -1.89% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 8 7
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.64 -
25th Percentile £43.96 £16.19 £13.75
Median hourly rate £51.98 £19.25 £14.69
Median % change year-on-year +170.03% +31.04% -24.67%
75th Percentile £69.94 £20.63 £19.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £30.04 £19.85
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £14.69
% change year-on-year +128.36% +31.04% -24.67%

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 25 September 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 (9.50%) Apache Spark
2 18 (9.00%) Apache
2 18 (9.00%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (8.00%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.50%) Confluence
5 4 (2.00%) SAS
6 2 (1.00%) CMS
6 2 (1.00%) WordPress
7 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 85 (42.50%) AWS
2 34 (17.00%) Azure
3 21 (10.50%) Power Platform
4 19 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (9.50%) GitHub
4 19 (9.50%) Serverless
5 18 (9.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (8.50%) Amazon S3
6 17 (8.50%) Google Analytics
7 15 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.00%) GCP
9 10 (5.00%) Kong
10 8 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (4.00%) Firebase
11 7 (3.50%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (3.00%) OCI
13 5 (2.50%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.50%) Firewall
2 6 (3.00%) BGP
2 6 (3.00%) BIG-IP
2 6 (3.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (3.00%) OSPF
2 6 (3.00%) VXLAN
3 5 (2.50%) DNS
3 5 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (2.50%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.00%) WAN
5 3 (1.50%) Intranet
5 3 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.50%) WLAN
6 2 (1.00%) HTTP
6 2 (1.00%) SSL
6 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.50%) Network Security
7 1 (0.50%) NGFW
7 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.50%) MongoDB
2 15 (7.50%) Power BI
3 10 (5.00%) Looker
4 6 (3.00%) Metadata
5 5 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.50%) DocumentDB
5 5 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.00%) Tableau
7 3 (1.50%) Big Data
7 3 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.00%) Power Query
8 2 (1.00%) QlikView
8 2 (1.00%) Redis
8 2 (1.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 46 (23.00%) GitLab
2 13 (6.50%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.00%) Git
4 8 (4.00%) fastlane
4 8 (4.00%) JIRA
5 6 (3.00%) Selenium
6 5 (2.50%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.00%) Android Studio
7 4 (2.00%) Crashlytics
7 4 (2.00%) Gradle
7 4 (2.00%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.00%) Xcode
8 3 (1.50%) ScalaTest
9 2 (1.00%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.00%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.50%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.50%) Mocha
10 1 (0.50%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 50 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.50%) Finance
5 8 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.50%) Military
7 5 (2.50%) Retail
8 4 (2.00%) Legal
9 3 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Publishing
11 1 (0.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (24.50%) Developer
2 36 (18.00%) Senior
3 32 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (14.50%) Lead
5 28 (14.00%) Analyst
6 18 (9.00%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Performance Analyst
10 12 (6.00%) Business Analyst
11 11 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (5.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
13 8 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
14 7 (3.50%) Data Engineer
14 7 (3.50%) Designer
14 7 (3.50%) Senior Developer
15 6 (3.00%) Architect
15 6 (3.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (29.50%) Terraform
2 18 (9.00%) Node.js
3 17 (8.50%) RESTful
4 15 (7.50%) Kafka
5 11 (5.50%) REST
6 9 (4.50%) Play Framework
7 8 (4.00%) Express.js
7 8 (4.00%) Jest
8 7 (3.50%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.50%) Spring
8 7 (3.50%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.00%) Nunjucks
10 5 (2.50%) CSS
10 5 (2.50%) HTML
10 5 (2.50%) MEAN Stack
10 5 (2.50%) React
10 5 (2.50%) Web Services
11 4 (2.00%) .NET
11 4 (2.00%) Android SDK
11 4 (2.00%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.50%) Product Ownership
2 19 (9.50%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.00%) Blog
3 8 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.50%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.50%) PropTech
9 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.50%) Linux
2 5 (2.50%) Unix
3 4 (2.00%) Android
3 4 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (56.00%) Agile
2 78 (39.00%) CI/CD
3 64 (32.00%) DevOps
4 47 (23.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (21.50%) Containerisation
6 42 (21.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (20.00%) Analytics
7 40 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 39 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (19.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 37 (18.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 35 (17.50%) Test Automation
11 32 (16.00%) Mentoring
12 31 (15.50%) Scrum
13 26 (13.00%) User Research
14 25 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (12.00%) Data Engineering
15 24 (12.00%) TDD
16 23 (11.50%) Kanban
17 22 (11.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.00%) Python
2 29 (14.50%) SQL
3 20 (10.00%) Java
4 16 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.50%) Scala
6 10 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.50%) Bash
8 4 (2.00%) C#
8 4 (2.00%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.00%) Swift
9 3 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.00%) Go
10 2 (1.00%) Groovy
10 2 (1.00%) PHP
10 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 106 (53.00%) Security Cleared
2 92 (46.00%) SC Cleared
3 32 (16.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.00%) Degree
6 2 (1.00%) IIBA
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.50%) CIPD
7 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.50%) PMP
7 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.50%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.50%) Accessibility
2 22 (11.00%) WCAG
3 12 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 12 (6.00%) QA
4 4 (2.00%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (23.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.50%) Grafana
3 12 (6.00%) Ansible
4 10 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.50%) Kibana
6 3 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.00%) Consul
7 2 (1.00%) Packer
7 2 (1.00%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (11.00%) Google
2 15 (7.50%) Dynatrace
3 14 (7.00%) Splunk
4 8 (4.00%) Trend Micro
5 7 (3.50%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.00%) F5
6 6 (3.00%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.50%) Arista
7 5 (2.50%) Confluent
8 4 (2.00%) Apple
8 4 (2.00%) Aruba
8 4 (2.00%) Databricks
8 4 (2.00%) UiPath
9 3 (1.50%) Adobe
10 2 (1.00%) DataFlux
11 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.50%) FIS
11 1 (0.50%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.50%) Oracle
11 1 (0.50%) Pega