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 22 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 115 70 32
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 27.91% 29.79% 15.92%
As % of the General category 48.12% 52.63% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 50 19
10th Percentile £319 £312 £421
25th Percentile £400 £358 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -29.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £522 £720
90th Percentile £550 £614 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +5.88% -26.09% +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £14.69 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.55% -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.69 £14.69 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.81% -26.55% -

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 239 133 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 58.01% 56.60% 49.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 86 60
10th Percentile £216 £305 £225
25th Percentile £373 £352 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -18.66% -5.86%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £625
90th Percentile £575 £625 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £17.88 £13.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £37.84 £14.22 £26.56
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +218.18% -65.26% +280.00%
75th Percentile £57.67 £19.00 £57.19
90th Percentile £70.36 £19.75 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £48.00 £15.60 £17.50
% change year-on-year +207.79% -10.89% +40.00%

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 22 February 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 (2.61%) Apache
2 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.87%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.22%) AWS
2 7 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (6.09%) Azure
2 7 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (6.09%) Serverless
3 6 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (4.35%) GitHub
5 4 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.61%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.61%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.74%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.74%) GCP
7 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) Wireless
2 1 (0.87%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.87%) Power BI
2 1 (0.87%) Redis
2 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (13.04%) GitLab
2 12 (10.43%) Cucumber
3 11 (9.57%) REST Assured
4 7 (6.09%) Git
5 6 (5.22%) JIRA
5 6 (5.22%) Selenium
6 5 (4.35%) JMeter
7 3 (2.61%) Gatling
7 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.61%) Mocha
8 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.74%) Postman
8 2 (1.74%) TestRail
9 1 (0.87%) JUnit
9 1 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (6.96%) Finance
3 6 (5.22%) Electronics
3 6 (5.22%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.22%) Marketing
3 6 (5.22%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.74%) Military
4 2 (1.74%) Police
5 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.87%) Legal
5 1 (0.87%) Local Government
5 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (14.78%) Test Engineer
2 16 (13.91%) Analyst
3 15 (13.04%) Product Manager
4 12 (10.43%) Business Analyst
5 11 (9.57%) Developer
5 11 (9.57%) Senior
6 9 (7.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.83%) Lead
7 7 (6.09%) User Researcher
8 6 (5.22%) Designer
8 6 (5.22%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 5 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (4.35%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Desktop Support
9 5 (4.35%) IT Support
9 5 (4.35%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.57%) REST
2 9 (7.83%) Node.js
3 8 (6.96%) Spring
3 8 (6.96%) WireMock
4 6 (5.22%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.48%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.61%) Jest
7 2 (1.74%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.74%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.74%) JSF
7 2 (1.74%) Struts
7 2 (1.74%) Swagger
8 1 (0.87%) Apache Commons
8 1 (0.87%) CSS
8 1 (0.87%) Express.js
8 1 (0.87%) Flask
8 1 (0.87%) Guava
8 1 (0.87%) HTML
8 1 (0.87%) Kafka
8 1 (0.87%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Data Centre
1 7 (6.09%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.35%) Android
1 5 (4.35%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.87%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.74%) Agile
2 25 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 23 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (18.26%) Test Automation
4 21 (18.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 20 (17.39%) DevOps
6 17 (14.78%) Service Design
7 16 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (13.04%) Containerisation
8 15 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (11.30%) TDD
10 13 (11.30%) Workshop Facilitation
11 12 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (10.43%) Product Strategy
11 12 (10.43%) User Research
12 11 (9.57%) BDD
12 11 (9.57%) Microservices
13 10 (8.70%) Roadmaps
14 9 (7.83%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.00%) Java
2 13 (11.30%) Python
3 9 (7.83%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.48%) SQL
6 3 (2.61%) Bash
7 2 (1.74%) Ruby
8 1 (0.87%) Bicep
8 1 (0.87%) Go
8 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.87%) R
8 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (53.91%) Security Cleared
2 56 (48.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.61%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.87%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.87%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (0.87%) CISA
6 1 (0.87%) CISM
6 1 (0.87%) CISSP
6 1 (0.87%) Degree
6 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.96%) QA
3 5 (4.35%) WCAG
4 3 (2.61%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.74%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.74%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.87%) NCSC
6 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (18.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (20.00%) Terraform
2 14 (12.17%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.22%) Grafana
4 4 (3.48%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (5.22%) SAP
2 5 (4.35%) Apple
2 5 (4.35%) Cisco
2 5 (4.35%) Dell
2 5 (4.35%) HP
3 3 (2.61%) Databricks
3 3 (2.61%) Google
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.74%) Cellebrite
5 1 (0.87%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.87%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.87%) IBM
5 1 (0.87%) Sage
5 1 (0.87%) Splunk
5 1 (0.87%) UiPath