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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 108 74 33
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.69% 32.74% 15.64%
As % of the General category 47.37% 55.22% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 60 21
10th Percentile £355 £349 £405
25th Percentile £400 £375 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -11.43% -6.25%
75th Percentile £545 £525 £700
90th Percentile £625 £591 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% -11.43% -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 228 134 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 47.90% 59.29% 52.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 102 65
10th Percentile £307 £263 £372
25th Percentile £388 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -16.67% -7.08%
75th Percentile £538 £532 £600
90th Percentile £625 £599 £690
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £440 £523
% change year-on-year +2.27% -15.79% -7.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 16
10th Percentile £16.48 £18.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.06 £19.56
Median hourly rate £17.25 £34.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.64% -27.89% -
75th Percentile £68.96 £43.56 £51.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £48.63 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.00 £14.07 £17.50
% change year-on-year +20.82% -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 6 May 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 4 (3.70%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.85%) SAS
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.93%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.63%) AWS
2 12 (11.11%) Azure
3 9 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (6.48%) Serverless
5 5 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (4.63%) GitHub
5 5 (4.63%) Google Analytics
5 5 (4.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.78%) OCI
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.85%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.70%) Firewall
2 3 (2.78%) BGP
2 3 (2.78%) BIG-IP
2 3 (2.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (2.78%) OSPF
2 3 (2.78%) VXLAN
3 2 (1.85%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (1.85%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.85%) VPN
3 2 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.85%) WLAN
4 1 (0.93%) DNS
4 1 (0.93%) HTTP
4 1 (0.93%) Intranet
4 1 (0.93%) Network Security
4 1 (0.93%) NGFW
4 1 (0.93%) SSL
4 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.93%) WAN
4 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.56%) Power BI
2 4 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.78%) Big Data
3 3 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.85%) Tableau
5 1 (0.93%) DB2
5 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.93%) Metadata
5 1 (0.93%) Power Query
5 1 (0.93%) QlikView
5 1 (0.93%) Redis
5 1 (0.93%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 16 (14.81%) GitLab
2 7 (6.48%) JIRA
3 6 (5.56%) Git
4 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.78%) REST Assured
5 3 (2.78%) Selenium
6 2 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.85%) JMeter
7 1 (0.93%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.93%) ERwin
7 1 (0.93%) Gatling
7 1 (0.93%) JUnit
7 1 (0.93%) Postman
7 1 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.70%) Military
5 3 (2.78%) Finance
5 3 (2.78%) Legal
6 2 (1.85%) Police
7 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Local Government
7 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (18.52%) Analyst
2 18 (16.67%) Senior
3 14 (12.96%) Lead
4 12 (11.11%) Developer
5 11 (10.19%) Business Analyst
6 9 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) Designer
8 7 (6.48%) Architect
9 6 (5.56%) Performance Analyst
9 6 (5.56%) Product Manager
9 6 (5.56%) User Researcher
10 5 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.63%) Test Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.70%) Node.js Developer
11 4 (3.70%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.26%) Node.js
1 10 (9.26%) Spring
2 3 (2.78%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.85%) Express.js
3 2 (1.85%) Hibernate
3 2 (1.85%) JSF
3 2 (1.85%) Kafka
3 2 (1.85%) Next.js
3 2 (1.85%) OpenID
3 2 (1.85%) Playwright
3 2 (1.85%) REST
3 2 (1.85%) Struts
3 2 (1.85%) Swagger
4 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.93%) cloud-init
4 1 (0.93%) JWT
4 1 (0.93%) OAuth
4 1 (0.93%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.93%) SAML
4 1 (0.93%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.63%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.93%) PropTech
6 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.85%) Linux
1 2 (1.85%) Unix
2 1 (0.93%) Android
2 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (44.44%) Agile
2 27 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 20 (18.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 19 (17.59%) CI/CD
4 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (13.89%) DevOps
7 15 (13.89%) User Research
8 14 (12.96%) Service Design
9 13 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (10.19%) Containerisation
10 11 (10.19%) Test Automation
10 11 (10.19%) Workshop Facilitation
11 10 (9.26%) Decision-Making
12 9 (8.33%) Analytics
12 9 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 8 (7.41%) Mentoring
13 8 (7.41%) Roadmaps
14 7 (6.48%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.44%) Java
2 16 (14.81%) Python
3 9 (8.33%) SQL
4 7 (6.48%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.63%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.70%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.78%) Scala
8 2 (1.85%) Bash
8 2 (1.85%) Go
8 2 (1.85%) Ruby
9 1 (0.93%) Bicep
9 1 (0.93%) Groovy
9 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.93%) R
9 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 59 (54.63%) Security Cleared
2 49 (45.37%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.93%) CIPD
5 1 (0.93%) CISA
5 1 (0.93%) CISM
5 1 (0.93%) CISSP
5 1 (0.93%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.63%) WCAG
3 4 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (17.59%) Terraform
2 13 (12.04%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.70%) Ansible
4 3 (2.78%) Grafana
4 3 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.93%) Consul
5 1 (0.93%) Packer
5 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (5.56%) Google
2 4 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.78%) Databricks
3 3 (2.78%) F5
3 3 (2.78%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.85%) Arista
4 2 (1.85%) Cellebrite
4 2 (1.85%) Splunk
4 2 (1.85%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.93%) Aruba
5 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.93%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.93%) DataFlux
5 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.93%) IBM
5 1 (0.93%) Sage
5 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.93%) UiPath