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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 196 57 29
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 30.48% 26.27% 18.01%
As % of the General category 59.04% 48.72% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 45 14
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.49% -6.77%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £558
90th Percentile £625 £586 £726
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.49% -6.77%
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 332 117 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 51.63% 53.92% 54.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 75 43
10th Percentile £321 £200 £315
25th Percentile £400 £375 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +2.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £536 £555
90th Percentile £625 £591 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £444 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -2.47% -4.21% -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 18 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 (9.69%) Apache Spark
2 18 (9.18%) Apache
2 18 (9.18%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (8.16%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.55%) Confluence
5 4 (2.04%) SAS
6 2 (1.02%) CMS
6 2 (1.02%) WordPress
7 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (42.35%) AWS
2 33 (16.84%) Azure
3 20 (10.20%) Power Platform
4 19 (9.69%) GitHub
5 18 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (9.18%) Serverless
6 17 (8.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (8.16%) Amazon S3
7 16 (8.16%) Google Analytics
8 15 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.59%) GCP
10 9 (4.59%) Kong
11 8 (4.08%) Firebase
12 7 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (3.06%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (3.06%) OCI
14 5 (2.55%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.59%) Firewall
2 6 (3.06%) BGP
2 6 (3.06%) BIG-IP
2 6 (3.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (3.06%) OSPF
2 6 (3.06%) VXLAN
3 5 (2.55%) DNS
3 5 (2.55%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (2.55%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.04%) WAN
5 3 (1.53%) Intranet
5 3 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.53%) WLAN
6 2 (1.02%) HTTP
6 2 (1.02%) SSL
6 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.51%) Network Security
7 1 (0.51%) NGFW
7 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.18%) MongoDB
2 14 (7.14%) Power BI
3 10 (5.10%) Looker
4 6 (3.06%) Metadata
5 5 (2.55%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.55%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.04%) DocumentDB
6 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.53%) Big Data
7 3 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.53%) Tableau
8 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.02%) Power Query
8 2 (1.02%) QlikView
8 2 (1.02%) Redis
8 2 (1.02%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (22.96%) GitLab
2 13 (6.63%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.61%) Git
4 8 (4.08%) fastlane
4 8 (4.08%) JIRA
5 6 (3.06%) Selenium
6 5 (2.55%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.04%) Android Studio
7 4 (2.04%) Crashlytics
7 4 (2.04%) Gradle
7 4 (2.04%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.04%) Xcode
8 3 (1.53%) ScalaTest
9 2 (1.02%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.02%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.51%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.51%) JMeter
10 1 (0.51%) Mocha
General
1 57 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 49 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.61%) Finance
5 8 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.57%) Military
7 5 (2.55%) Retail
8 4 (2.04%) Legal
9 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (24.49%) Developer
2 35 (17.86%) Senior
3 32 (16.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (14.29%) Lead
5 25 (12.76%) Analyst
6 17 (8.67%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (8.67%) Software Developer
7 16 (8.16%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (8.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.12%) Performance Analyst
9 11 (5.61%) Business Analyst
9 11 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.10%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.57%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Designer
11 7 (3.57%) Node.js Developer
11 7 (3.57%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.06%) Scala Developer
12 6 (3.06%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (29.59%) Terraform
2 15 (7.65%) Node.js
2 15 (7.65%) RESTful
3 14 (7.14%) Kafka
4 9 (4.59%) Play Framework
4 9 (4.59%) REST
5 7 (3.57%) Express.js
5 7 (3.57%) Jest
6 6 (3.06%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.06%) Spring
6 6 (3.06%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.55%) Nunjucks
7 5 (2.55%) React
8 4 (2.04%) Android Jetpack
8 4 (2.04%) Android SDK
8 4 (2.04%) Core Data
8 4 (2.04%) HTML
8 4 (2.04%) MEAN Stack
8 4 (2.04%) PySpark
8 4 (2.04%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 16 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.08%) Blog
3 8 (4.08%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.55%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.51%) PropTech
8 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.59%) Linux
2 5 (2.55%) Unix
3 4 (2.04%) Android
3 4 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (55.10%) Agile
2 74 (37.76%) CI/CD
3 61 (31.12%) DevOps
4 46 (23.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (20.92%) Containerisation
5 41 (20.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (20.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 39 (19.90%) Analytics
7 39 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (19.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 35 (17.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 33 (16.84%) Test Automation
10 31 (15.82%) Scrum
11 30 (15.31%) Mentoring
12 28 (14.29%) User Research
13 25 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (12.24%) TDD
15 23 (11.73%) Data Engineering
15 23 (11.73%) Decision-Making
15 23 (11.73%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.90%) Python
2 28 (14.29%) SQL
3 19 (9.69%) Java
4 14 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.61%) Scala
6 8 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.57%) Bash
8 4 (2.04%) C#
8 4 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.04%) Swift
9 3 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.02%) Go
10 2 (1.02%) Groovy
10 2 (1.02%) PHP
10 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 102 (52.04%) Security Cleared
2 88 (44.90%) SC Cleared
3 30 (15.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.51%) CIPD
6 1 (0.51%) Degree
6 1 (0.51%) IIBA
6 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PMP
6 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.51%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (18.37%) Accessibility
2 22 (11.22%) WCAG
3 12 (6.12%) Data Quality
4 10 (5.10%) QA
5 4 (2.04%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 45 (22.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.69%) Grafana
3 12 (6.12%) Ansible
4 10 (5.10%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.53%) Kibana
6 3 (1.53%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.02%) Consul
7 2 (1.02%) Packer
7 2 (1.02%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.51%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (10.71%) Google
2 14 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 13 (6.63%) Splunk
4 8 (4.08%) Trend Micro
5 7 (3.57%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.06%) F5
6 6 (3.06%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.55%) Arista
8 4 (2.04%) Apple
8 4 (2.04%) Aruba
8 4 (2.04%) Confluent
8 4 (2.04%) Databricks
8 4 (2.04%) UiPath
9 2 (1.02%) Adobe
9 2 (1.02%) DataFlux
10 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.51%) FIS
10 1 (0.51%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle
10 1 (0.51%) Pega