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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 120 70 27
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.50% 31.53% 13.37%
As % of the General category 49.59% 56.00% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 57 16
10th Percentile £316 £320 £415
25th Percentile £400 £363 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £430 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -21.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £501 £525 £720
90th Percentile £565 £604 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £430 £523
% change year-on-year +4.65% -17.70% -6.70%
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 242 125 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 57.48% 56.31% 49.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 93 60
10th Percentile £281 £305 £225
25th Percentile £376 £356 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £501 £525 £600
90th Percentile £575 £608 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £428 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -14.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 16
10th Percentile £15.85 £14.80 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £14.88 £19.56
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +218.18% -65.26% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £18.13 £51.56
90th Percentile £70.05 £18.20 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £33.63 £14.07 £17.50
% change year-on-year +138.98% -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 16 March 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 3 (2.50%) Apache
2 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 34 (28.33%) AWS
2 9 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (7.50%) Azure
2 9 (7.50%) Serverless
3 7 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (5.00%) GitHub
5 5 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.33%) AWS KMS
6 4 (3.33%) Google Analytics
6 4 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.50%) GCP
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.67%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.67%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.17%) Wireless
2 2 (1.67%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.33%) Power BI
2 3 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.83%) Redis
4 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (12.50%) GitLab
2 10 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 10 (8.33%) REST Assured
3 8 (6.67%) Git
4 5 (4.17%) Selenium
5 4 (3.33%) JIRA
5 4 (3.33%) JMeter
6 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.50%) Mocha
7 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.67%) Gatling
8 1 (0.83%) JUnit
8 1 (0.83%) Postman
8 1 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.83%) TestRail
General
1 35 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (6.67%) Finance
3 6 (5.00%) Electronics
3 6 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.00%) Marketing
3 6 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.50%) Military
5 2 (1.67%) Police
6 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Legal
6 1 (0.83%) Local Government
6 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (15.00%) Analyst
2 15 (12.50%) Product Manager
2 15 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 13 (10.83%) Senior
4 12 (10.00%) Developer
5 11 (9.17%) Business Analyst
5 11 (9.17%) Lead
6 9 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.00%) Architect
7 6 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.00%) Designer
8 5 (4.17%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 5 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.17%) Desktop Support
8 5 (4.17%) IT Support
8 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 5 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (4.17%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.00%) REST
2 10 (8.33%) Node.js
3 8 (6.67%) Spring
3 8 (6.67%) WireMock
4 6 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.50%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.50%) Jest
6 2 (1.67%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.67%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.67%) JSF
6 2 (1.67%) Next.js
6 2 (1.67%) Struts
6 2 (1.67%) Swagger
7 1 (0.83%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.83%) HTML
7 1 (0.83%) JWT
7 1 (0.83%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.83%) Playwright
7 1 (0.83%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.83%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.00%) Android
2 5 (4.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.83%) Windows
3 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (41.67%) Agile
2 24 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 23 (19.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (19.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 21 (17.50%) DevOps
5 20 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 19 (15.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (14.17%) Containerisation
8 16 (13.33%) Service Design
9 15 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (11.67%) TDD
10 14 (11.67%) Workshop Facilitation
11 13 (10.83%) Microservices
11 13 (10.83%) Roadmaps
11 13 (10.83%) User Research
12 12 (10.00%) Product Strategy
13 10 (8.33%) BDD
13 10 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.83%) Java
2 16 (13.33%) Python
3 9 (7.50%) JavaScript
4 7 (5.83%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.00%) SQL
6 4 (3.33%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.50%) Bash
8 2 (1.67%) Ruby
8 2 (1.67%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) Bicep
9 1 (0.83%) Go
9 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.83%) R
9 1 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 63 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 55 (45.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.83%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.83%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (0.83%) CISA
6 1 (0.83%) CISM
6 1 (0.83%) CISSP
6 1 (0.83%) Degree
6 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.83%) QA
3 5 (4.17%) WCAG
4 4 (3.33%) GDPR
5 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.67%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.67%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.83%) NCSC
7 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (18.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (19.17%) Terraform
2 15 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.00%) Grafana
4 4 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (5.00%) Google
1 6 (5.00%) SAP
2 5 (4.17%) Apple
2 5 (4.17%) Cisco
2 5 (4.17%) Dell
2 5 (4.17%) HP
3 3 (2.50%) Databricks
3 3 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.67%) Cellebrite
4 2 (1.67%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.83%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.83%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.83%) IBM
5 1 (0.83%) Sage
5 1 (0.83%) Splunk
5 1 (0.83%) UiPath