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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 215 64 31
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 33.28% 28.07% 18.24%
As % of the General category 61.96% 52.46% 34.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 53 14
10th Percentile £350 £323 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.49% -6.77%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £558
90th Percentile £625 £599 £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 347 122 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 53.72% 53.51% 52.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 80 40
10th Percentile £320 £199 £310
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £471 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +4.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £541
90th Percentile £640 £588 £653
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £466 £465
% change year-on-year -3.43% +0.32% -9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 8 7
10th Percentile £16.54 £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 £69.81 £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 7 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 (8.84%) Apache Spark
2 18 (8.37%) Apache
2 18 (8.37%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (7.44%) Jupyter
4 6 (2.79%) Confluence
5 4 (1.86%) SAS
6 2 (0.93%) CMS
6 2 (0.93%) WordPress
7 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (41.86%) AWS
2 37 (17.21%) Azure
3 21 (9.77%) Power Platform
4 19 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (8.84%) GitHub
4 19 (8.84%) Serverless
5 18 (8.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (8.37%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (8.37%) Google Analytics
6 17 (7.91%) Amazon S3
7 15 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.58%) GCP
10 10 (4.65%) Kong
11 8 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (3.72%) Firebase
12 7 (3.26%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (2.79%) OCI
14 5 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.19%) Firewall
2 6 (2.79%) BGP
2 6 (2.79%) BIG-IP
2 6 (2.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (2.79%) OSPF
2 6 (2.79%) VXLAN
3 5 (2.33%) DNS
3 5 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (2.33%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.86%) WAN
5 3 (1.40%) Intranet
5 3 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.40%) WLAN
6 2 (0.93%) HTTP
6 2 (0.93%) SSL
6 2 (0.93%) 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 19 (8.84%) MongoDB
2 15 (6.98%) Power BI
3 10 (4.65%) Looker
4 5 (2.33%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.33%) DocumentDB
4 5 (2.33%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.33%) Metadata
4 5 (2.33%) Tableau
5 4 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.40%) Big Data
6 3 (1.40%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.93%) Power Query
7 2 (0.93%) PowerCenter
7 2 (0.93%) QlikView
7 2 (0.93%) Redis
7 2 (0.93%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 46 (21.40%) GitLab
2 13 (6.05%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.58%) Git
4 9 (4.19%) JIRA
5 8 (3.72%) fastlane
6 7 (3.26%) Selenium
7 6 (2.79%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.33%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.86%) Android Studio
9 4 (1.86%) Crashlytics
9 4 (1.86%) Gradle
9 4 (1.86%) Xcode
10 3 (1.40%) ScalaTest
11 2 (0.93%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.93%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.47%) Mocha
12 1 (0.47%) NeoLoad
12 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (28.84%) Social Skills
2 51 (23.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.12%) Finance
5 8 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.26%) Military
7 5 (2.33%) Retail
8 4 (1.86%) Legal
9 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (22.79%) Developer
2 38 (17.67%) Senior
3 33 (15.35%) Lead
4 32 (14.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (13.49%) Analyst
6 18 (8.37%) Software Developer
7 17 (7.91%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (7.44%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (7.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.51%) Performance Analyst
10 12 (5.58%) Architect
11 11 (5.12%) Business Analyst
11 11 (5.12%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (5.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (5.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.19%) Test Engineer
13 8 (3.72%) Node.js Developer
13 8 (3.72%) Technical Architect
14 7 (3.26%) Designer
14 7 (3.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.44%) Terraform
2 20 (9.30%) Node.js
3 19 (8.84%) RESTful
4 15 (6.98%) Kafka
5 14 (6.51%) REST
6 10 (4.65%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.19%) Play Framework
7 9 (4.19%) Spring
8 8 (3.72%) Express.js
8 8 (3.72%) Jest
9 7 (3.26%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.26%) Web Services
10 6 (2.79%) Nunjucks
11 5 (2.33%) CSS
11 5 (2.33%) HTML
11 5 (2.33%) MEAN Stack
11 5 (2.33%) React
12 4 (1.86%) Android SDK
12 4 (1.86%) iOS SDK
12 4 (1.86%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.49%) Product Ownership
2 24 (11.16%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.72%) Blog
3 8 (3.72%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.79%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.33%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.93%) 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%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.19%) Linux
2 5 (2.33%) Android
2 5 (2.33%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.33%) Unix
3 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (55.81%) Agile
2 83 (38.60%) CI/CD
3 69 (32.09%) DevOps
4 49 (22.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (22.33%) Containerisation
6 45 (20.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 43 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (19.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 40 (18.60%) Analytics
10 36 (16.74%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 36 (16.74%) Test Automation
11 35 (16.28%) Mentoring
12 32 (14.88%) Scrum
13 29 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (13.02%) SFIA
14 28 (13.02%) User Research
15 26 (12.09%) Data Engineering
16 25 (11.63%) TDD
17 24 (11.16%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.53%) Python
2 32 (14.88%) SQL
3 23 (10.70%) Java
4 16 (7.44%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.58%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.12%) Scala
7 7 (3.26%) Bash
8 4 (1.86%) C#
8 4 (1.86%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.86%) Swift
9 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.93%) Go
10 2 (0.93%) Groovy
10 2 (0.93%) PHP
10 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 109 (50.70%) Security Cleared
2 95 (44.19%) SC Cleared
3 39 (18.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.26%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.33%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.93%) Degree
7 2 (0.93%) IIBA
7 2 (0.93%) 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 39 (18.14%) Accessibility
2 23 (10.70%) WCAG
3 12 (5.58%) Data Quality
3 12 (5.58%) QA
4 4 (1.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.86%) GDPR
5 3 (1.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (21.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (15.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.84%) Grafana
3 12 (5.58%) Ansible
4 10 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.40%) Kibana
6 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.93%) Consul
7 2 (0.93%) Packer
7 2 (0.93%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.47%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (11.16%) Google
2 15 (6.98%) Dynatrace
2 15 (6.98%) Splunk
3 8 (3.72%) Trend Micro
4 7 (3.26%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.79%) F5
5 6 (2.79%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.33%) Arista
6 5 (2.33%) Confluent
7 4 (1.86%) Adobe
7 4 (1.86%) Apple
7 4 (1.86%) Aruba
7 4 (1.86%) Databricks
7 4 (1.86%) UiPath
8 3 (1.40%) Oracle
9 2 (0.93%) DataFlux
9 2 (0.93%) Informatica
10 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.47%) FIS
10 1 (0.47%) Pega