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 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 108 50 36
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 32.43% 25.38% 22.78%
As % of the General category 54.27% 45.05% 43.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 28 29
10th Percentile £334 £305 £404
25th Percentile £400 £335 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -29.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £504 £573 £720
90th Percentile £550 £622 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.69 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £14.69 -

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 common skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 199 111 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 59.76% 56.35% 51.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 60 59
10th Percentile £228 £298 £208
25th Percentile £380 £335 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £501 £550 £685
90th Percentile £575 £629 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £450 £523
% change year-on-year -2.78% -13.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 1
10th Percentile £13.67 - -
25th Percentile £17.88 £13.75 -
Median hourly rate £19.25 £15.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% -74.01% +380.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.75 -
90th Percentile - £19.83 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £15.60 £17.50
% change year-on-year +23.44% -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 24 December 2025.

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 6 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.63%) AWS
2 8 (7.41%) Azure
2 8 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (6.48%) Serverless
4 6 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (4.63%) GitHub
6 4 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.78%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.85%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.85%) GCP
8 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) Wireless
2 2 (1.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.93%) DHCP
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (12.04%) GitLab
2 11 (10.19%) Cucumber
3 10 (9.26%) REST Assured
4 9 (8.33%) Git
4 9 (8.33%) JIRA
5 5 (4.63%) Selenium
6 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.70%) JMeter
7 3 (2.78%) Gatling
7 3 (2.78%) Mocha
8 2 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.85%) Postman
8 2 (1.85%) TestRail
9 1 (0.93%) SoapUI
General
1 36 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.41%) Finance
3 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.56%) Electronics
3 6 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.56%) Marketing
3 6 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.85%) Police
5 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.93%) Legal
5 1 (0.93%) Local Government
5 1 (0.93%) Military
5 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.81%) Test Engineer
2 15 (13.89%) Analyst
2 15 (13.89%) Product Manager
3 14 (12.96%) Business Analyst
4 13 (12.04%) Senior
5 9 (8.33%) Lead
6 8 (7.41%) Developer
6 8 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 5 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.63%) Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.63%) Designer
8 5 (4.63%) Desktop Support
8 5 (4.63%) IT Support
8 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.19%) REST
2 8 (7.41%) WireMock
3 6 (5.56%) Node.js
4 5 (4.63%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.70%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.78%) Jest
6 3 (2.78%) Spring
7 2 (1.85%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.93%) CSS
8 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.93%) Express.js
8 1 (0.93%) Flask
8 1 (0.93%) HTML
8 1 (0.93%) Kafka
8 1 (0.93%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.93%) Next.js
8 1 (0.93%) Playwright
8 1 (0.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.63%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.63%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Android
1 5 (4.63%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.93%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (45.37%) Agile
2 28 (25.93%) CI/CD
3 24 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (18.52%) DevOps
4 20 (18.52%) Test Automation
5 18 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 16 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (12.96%) Containerisation
8 14 (12.96%) Service Design
8 14 (12.96%) TDD
9 13 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (11.11%) Microservices
10 12 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (11.11%) Product Strategy
10 12 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
11 11 (10.19%) BDD
11 11 (10.19%) Roadmaps
12 9 (8.33%) Product Management
12 9 (8.33%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.74%) Java
2 16 (14.81%) Python
3 9 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.48%) Bash
5 4 (3.70%) Go
5 4 (3.70%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.78%) Perl
6 3 (2.78%) SQL
7 1 (0.93%) Bicep
7 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (54.63%) Security Cleared
2 55 (50.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.78%) CISSP
5 2 (1.85%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.93%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.93%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (0.93%) CISA
6 1 (0.93%) CISM
6 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 9 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) WCAG
3 3 (2.78%) GDPR
4 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.85%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.85%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) NCSC
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (15.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (23.15%) Terraform
2 13 (12.04%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.56%) Ansible
3 6 (5.56%) Grafana
4 4 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.93%) Argo
5 1 (0.93%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (5.56%) SAP
2 5 (4.63%) Apple
2 5 (4.63%) Cisco
2 5 (4.63%) Dell
2 5 (4.63%) HP
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.78%) Databricks
5 2 (1.85%) Cellebrite
5 2 (1.85%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.93%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.93%) Pega
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.93%) Sage
6 1 (0.93%) UiPath