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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 211 68 33
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 32.92% 28.10% 18.54%
As % of the General category 61.52% 51.91% 36.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 56 16
10th Percentile £350 £319 £338
25th Percentile £400 £425 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £549 £553
90th Percentile £634 £597 £719
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -15.00%
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 343 131 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 53.51% 54.13% 51.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 83 41
10th Percentile £319 £192 £310
25th Percentile £400 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £466 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +9.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £550 £536 £500
90th Percentile £642 £586 £626
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 9 7
10th Percentile £16.91 £13.67 -
25th Percentile £43.96 £17.00 £13.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £19.25 £14.69
Median % change year-on-year +224.68% +31.04% -24.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £19.75
90th Percentile - £26.90 £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 14 October 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 (9.00%) Apache Spark
2 18 (8.53%) Apache
2 18 (8.53%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (7.58%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.37%) Confluence
5 4 (1.90%) SAS
6 2 (0.95%) CMS
6 2 (0.95%) WordPress
7 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 88 (41.71%) AWS
2 37 (17.54%) Azure
3 20 (9.48%) Power Platform
4 19 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (9.00%) GitHub
4 19 (9.00%) Serverless
5 18 (8.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (8.53%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (8.53%) Google Analytics
6 17 (8.06%) Amazon S3
7 15 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (5.69%) GCP
9 10 (4.74%) Kong
10 8 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.79%) Firebase
11 7 (3.32%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (2.84%) OCI
13 5 (2.37%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.27%) Firewall
2 6 (2.84%) BGP
2 6 (2.84%) BIG-IP
2 6 (2.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (2.84%) OSPF
2 6 (2.84%) VXLAN
3 5 (2.37%) DNS
3 5 (2.37%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (2.37%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.90%) WAN
5 3 (1.42%) Intranet
5 3 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.42%) WLAN
6 2 (0.95%) HTTP
6 2 (0.95%) SSL
6 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.47%) Network Security
7 1 (0.47%) NGFW
7 1 (0.47%) VoIP
7 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.53%) MongoDB
2 15 (7.11%) Power BI
3 10 (4.74%) Looker
4 5 (2.37%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.37%) DocumentDB
4 5 (2.37%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.37%) Metadata
4 5 (2.37%) Tableau
5 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.42%) Big Data
7 2 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.95%) Power Query
7 2 (0.95%) PowerCenter
7 2 (0.95%) QlikView
7 2 (0.95%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (21.80%) GitLab
2 13 (6.16%) Git
2 13 (6.16%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.79%) fastlane
3 8 (3.79%) JIRA
4 6 (2.84%) Selenium
5 5 (2.37%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.37%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.90%) Android Studio
6 4 (1.90%) Crashlytics
6 4 (1.90%) Gradle
6 4 (1.90%) Xcode
7 3 (1.42%) ScalaTest
8 2 (0.95%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.47%) Mocha
9 1 (0.47%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 61 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 52 (24.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.21%) Finance
5 8 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.32%) Military
7 5 (2.37%) Retail
8 4 (1.90%) Legal
9 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Publishing
11 1 (0.47%) Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (22.75%) Developer
2 39 (18.48%) Senior
3 33 (15.64%) Lead
4 32 (15.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (13.27%) Analyst
6 18 (8.53%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (7.58%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (7.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.64%) Performance Analyst
10 12 (5.69%) Architect
11 11 (5.21%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.74%) Business Analyst
13 9 (4.27%) Technical Architect
13 9 (4.27%) Test Engineer
14 7 (3.32%) Node.js Developer
14 7 (3.32%) Senior Developer
15 6 (2.84%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.96%) Terraform
2 20 (9.48%) RESTful
3 19 (9.00%) Node.js
4 15 (7.11%) Kafka
4 15 (7.11%) REST
5 11 (5.21%) Spring Boot
6 10 (4.74%) Spring
7 9 (4.27%) Play Framework
8 8 (3.79%) Web Services
9 7 (3.32%) Express.js
9 7 (3.32%) Jest
10 6 (2.84%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.84%) Nunjucks
11 5 (2.37%) .NET
11 5 (2.37%) CSS
11 5 (2.37%) HTML
11 5 (2.37%) MEAN Stack
11 5 (2.37%) React
12 4 (1.90%) Core Data
12 4 (1.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.74%) Product Ownership
2 25 (11.85%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.79%) Blog
3 8 (3.79%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.37%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.47%) PropTech
8 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.79%) Linux
2 5 (2.37%) Android
2 5 (2.37%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.90%) Unix
4 2 (0.95%) macOS
5 1 (0.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (56.40%) Agile
2 81 (38.39%) CI/CD
3 71 (33.65%) DevOps
4 49 (23.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (22.75%) Containerisation
6 45 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (20.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 42 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (19.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 41 (19.43%) Analytics
10 37 (17.54%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 35 (16.59%) Mentoring
12 34 (16.11%) Test Automation
13 32 (15.17%) Scrum
14 30 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (13.74%) SFIA
16 28 (13.27%) User Research
17 26 (12.32%) Data Engineering
18 24 (11.37%) Kanban
18 24 (11.37%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.91%) Python
2 32 (15.17%) SQL
3 22 (10.43%) Java
4 14 (6.64%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.69%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.21%) Scala
7 7 (3.32%) Bash
8 5 (2.37%) C#
9 4 (1.90%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.90%) Swift
10 3 (1.42%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.95%) Go
11 2 (0.95%) Groovy
11 2 (0.95%) PHP
11 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 108 (51.18%) Security Cleared
2 96 (45.50%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.32%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.95%) Degree
7 2 (0.95%) IIBA
7 2 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.47%) PMP
8 1 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (18.96%) Accessibility
2 22 (10.43%) WCAG
3 12 (5.69%) Data Quality
4 11 (5.21%) QA
5 5 (2.37%) GDPR
6 4 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (21.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.00%) Grafana
3 12 (5.69%) Ansible
4 10 (4.74%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.42%) Kibana
6 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.95%) Consul
7 2 (0.95%) Packer
7 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.47%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (11.37%) Google
2 15 (7.11%) Dynatrace
2 15 (7.11%) Splunk
3 8 (3.79%) Trend Micro
4 6 (2.84%) F5
4 6 (2.84%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.84%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.37%) Arista
5 5 (2.37%) Confluent
5 5 (2.37%) UiPath
6 4 (1.90%) Adobe
6 4 (1.90%) Apple
6 4 (1.90%) Aruba
6 4 (1.90%) Databricks
7 3 (1.42%) Oracle
8 2 (0.95%) DataFlux
8 2 (0.95%) Informatica
9 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.47%) Pega
9 1 (0.47%) SAP