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

6 months to
13 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 209 68 33
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 32.81% 28.33% 18.54%
As % of the General category 61.29% 52.31% 36.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 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% -19.05%
75th Percentile £538 £549 £553
90th Percentile £637 £597 £719
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -19.05%
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 341 130 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 53.53% 54.17% 51.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 83 41
10th Percentile £318 £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 £644 £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 13 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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 18 (8.61%) Apache
2 18 (8.61%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (7.66%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.39%) Confluence
5 4 (1.91%) SAS
6 2 (0.96%) CMS
6 2 (0.96%) WordPress
7 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 88 (42.11%) AWS
2 36 (17.22%) Azure
3 19 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (9.09%) GitHub
3 19 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 19 (9.09%) Serverless
4 18 (8.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (8.61%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (8.61%) Google Analytics
5 17 (8.13%) Amazon S3
6 15 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.74%) GCP
9 10 (4.78%) Kong
10 8 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.83%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.83%) Firebase
11 7 (3.35%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (2.87%) OCI
13 5 (2.39%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.31%) Firewall
2 6 (2.87%) BGP
2 6 (2.87%) BIG-IP
2 6 (2.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (2.87%) OSPF
2 6 (2.87%) VXLAN
3 5 (2.39%) DNS
3 5 (2.39%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (2.39%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.91%) WAN
5 3 (1.44%) Intranet
5 3 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.44%) WLAN
6 2 (0.96%) HTTP
6 2 (0.96%) SSL
6 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.48%) Network Security
7 1 (0.48%) NGFW
7 1 (0.48%) VoIP
7 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.61%) MongoDB
2 15 (7.18%) Power BI
3 10 (4.78%) Looker
4 5 (2.39%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.39%) DocumentDB
4 5 (2.39%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.39%) Metadata
4 5 (2.39%) Tableau
5 4 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.44%) Big Data
7 2 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.96%) Power Query
7 2 (0.96%) PowerCenter
7 2 (0.96%) QlikView
7 2 (0.96%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 46 (22.01%) GitLab
2 13 (6.22%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.74%) Git
4 8 (3.83%) fastlane
4 8 (3.83%) JIRA
5 6 (2.87%) Selenium
6 5 (2.39%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.39%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.91%) Android Studio
7 4 (1.91%) Crashlytics
7 4 (1.91%) Gradle
7 4 (1.91%) Xcode
8 3 (1.44%) ScalaTest
9 2 (0.96%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.48%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.48%) JMeter
10 1 (0.48%) Mocha
10 1 (0.48%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.26%) Finance
5 8 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.35%) Military
7 5 (2.39%) Retail
8 4 (1.91%) Legal
9 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (22.49%) Developer
2 39 (18.66%) Senior
3 33 (15.79%) Lead
4 32 (15.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (13.40%) Analyst
6 18 (8.61%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.13%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (7.66%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (7.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.70%) Performance Analyst
10 12 (5.74%) Architect
11 11 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Business Analyst
13 9 (4.31%) Technical Architect
13 9 (4.31%) Test Engineer
14 7 (3.35%) Node.js Developer
14 7 (3.35%) Senior Developer
15 6 (2.87%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.23%) Terraform
2 19 (9.09%) RESTful
3 18 (8.61%) Node.js
4 15 (7.18%) Kafka
5 14 (6.70%) REST
6 10 (4.78%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.31%) Play Framework
7 9 (4.31%) Spring
8 7 (3.35%) Express.js
8 7 (3.35%) Jest
8 7 (3.35%) Web Services
9 6 (2.87%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.87%) Nunjucks
10 5 (2.39%) CSS
10 5 (2.39%) HTML
10 5 (2.39%) MEAN Stack
10 5 (2.39%) React
11 4 (1.91%) Android SDK
11 4 (1.91%) PySpark
11 4 (1.91%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.88%) Product Ownership
2 24 (11.48%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.83%) Blog
3 8 (3.83%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.87%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.39%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.48%) PropTech
8 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.83%) Linux
2 5 (2.39%) Android
2 5 (2.39%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.91%) Unix
4 2 (0.96%) macOS
5 1 (0.48%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (55.98%) Agile
2 80 (38.28%) CI/CD
3 69 (33.01%) DevOps
4 49 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (22.49%) Containerisation
6 43 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (20.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 42 (20.10%) Stakeholder Management
7 42 (20.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 41 (19.62%) Analytics
9 36 (17.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 35 (16.75%) Mentoring
11 34 (16.27%) Test Automation
12 32 (15.31%) Scrum
13 29 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (13.40%) SFIA
14 28 (13.40%) User Research
15 26 (12.44%) Data Engineering
16 24 (11.48%) Kanban
17 23 (11.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.10%) Python
2 31 (14.83%) SQL
3 21 (10.05%) Java
4 14 (6.70%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.26%) Scala
5 11 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.35%) Bash
7 4 (1.91%) C#
7 4 (1.91%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.91%) Swift
8 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.96%) Go
9 2 (0.96%) Groovy
9 2 (0.96%) PHP
9 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 106 (50.72%) Security Cleared
2 94 (44.98%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.35%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.87%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.96%) Degree
7 2 (0.96%) IIBA
7 2 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.48%) PMP
8 1 (0.48%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (18.66%) Accessibility
2 22 (10.53%) WCAG
3 12 (5.74%) Data Quality
4 11 (5.26%) QA
5 5 (2.39%) GDPR
6 4 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (22.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (15.31%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.09%) Grafana
3 12 (5.74%) Ansible
4 10 (4.78%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.44%) Kibana
6 3 (1.44%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.96%) Consul
7 2 (0.96%) Packer
7 2 (0.96%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.48%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (11.48%) Google
2 15 (7.18%) Dynatrace
2 15 (7.18%) Splunk
3 8 (3.83%) Trend Micro
4 6 (2.87%) F5
4 6 (2.87%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.87%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.39%) Arista
5 5 (2.39%) Confluent
6 4 (1.91%) Adobe
6 4 (1.91%) Apple
6 4 (1.91%) Aruba
6 4 (1.91%) Databricks
6 4 (1.91%) UiPath
7 3 (1.44%) Oracle
8 2 (0.96%) DataFlux
8 2 (0.96%) Informatica
9 1 (0.48%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.48%) Pega
9 1 (0.48%) SAP