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 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 160 66 23
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 26.53% 32.20% 14.38%
As % of the General category 57.55% 56.90% 26.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 53 14
10th Percentile £346 £375 £366
25th Percentile £386 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% -9.30%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £558
90th Percentile £625 £599 £681
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £69.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.88 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £20.00
75th Percentile £75.38 - -
90th Percentile £76.50 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £72.00 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 278 116 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 46.10% 56.59% 53.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 84 53
10th Percentile £313 £208 £313
25th Percentile £368 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £464 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +3.06% -19.64%
75th Percentile £538 £536 £550
90th Percentile £625 £598 £648
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £464 £463
% change year-on-year -2.96% +0.27% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 7 4
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.60 £18.08
25th Percentile £43.96 £15.38 £18.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £19.25 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +237.66% -2.53% +1.28%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £21.31
90th Percentile - £33.18 £22.33
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £43.96 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year +158.59% +3.06% -15.41%

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 23 July 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 17 (10.63%) Apache Spark
2 16 (10.00%) Apache
2 16 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (8.75%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.50%) Confluence
4 4 (2.50%) SAS
5 2 (1.25%) CMS
5 2 (1.25%) WordPress
6 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.63%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (39.38%) AWS
2 29 (18.13%) Azure
3 15 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 13 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (8.13%) Serverless
5 12 (7.50%) Google Analytics
6 11 (6.88%) Amazon S3
6 11 (6.88%) GitHub
7 10 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (5.63%) Firebase
9 8 (5.00%) GCP
10 7 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.75%) OCI
12 5 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.50%) Kong
13 4 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.75%) BGP
1 6 (3.75%) BIG-IP
1 6 (3.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 6 (3.75%) Firewall
1 6 (3.75%) OSPF
1 6 (3.75%) VXLAN
2 5 (3.13%) Ethernet VPN
2 5 (3.13%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.50%) Intranet
3 4 (2.50%) WAN
4 3 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.88%) WLAN
5 2 (1.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.63%) DNS
6 1 (0.63%) HTTP
6 1 (0.63%) Network Security
6 1 (0.63%) NGFW
6 1 (0.63%) SSL
6 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.13%) Power BI
2 7 (4.38%) Looker
2 7 (4.38%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.13%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.50%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.50%) Metadata
4 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.88%) Big Data
5 3 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.25%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.25%) Power Query
6 2 (1.25%) Redis
6 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.25%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (22.50%) GitLab
2 13 (8.13%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.00%) fastlane
3 8 (5.00%) JIRA
4 7 (4.38%) Selenium
5 6 (3.75%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.75%) REST Assured
6 5 (3.13%) Git
7 4 (2.50%) Android Studio
7 4 (2.50%) Crashlytics
7 4 (2.50%) Gradle
7 4 (2.50%) Xcode
8 2 (1.25%) JMeter
8 2 (1.25%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.25%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.63%) ERwin
9 1 (0.63%) JUnit
9 1 (0.63%) Mocha
9 1 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
General
1 47 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.38%) Military
5 6 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.88%) Finance
6 3 (1.88%) Legal
7 2 (1.25%) Publishing
8 1 (0.63%) Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (18.75%) Developer
2 29 (18.13%) Senior
3 26 (16.25%) Lead
4 22 (13.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (10.63%) Analyst
6 11 (6.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (6.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (6.25%) Performance Analyst
8 9 (5.63%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (5.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.00%) Architect
9 8 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
9 8 (5.00%) Designer
9 8 (5.00%) Software Developer
9 8 (5.00%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.38%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.75%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.75%) User Researcher
12 5 (3.13%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.25%) Kafka
2 9 (5.63%) Node.js
3 8 (5.00%) RESTful
4 7 (4.38%) REST
5 5 (3.13%) SwiftUI
6 4 (2.50%) Android Jetpack
6 4 (2.50%) Android SDK
6 4 (2.50%) Core Data
6 4 (2.50%) Express.js
6 4 (2.50%) iOS SDK
6 4 (2.50%) Jest
6 4 (2.50%) Jetpack Compose
6 4 (2.50%) Playwright
6 4 (2.50%) PySpark
6 4 (2.50%) Retrofit
6 4 (2.50%) Spring
6 4 (2.50%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.50%) UIKit
7 3 (1.88%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.75%) Product Ownership
2 13 (8.13%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.63%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.38%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.63%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.63%) PropTech
9 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.13%) Android
1 5 (3.13%) Apple iOS
1 5 (3.13%) Linux
2 3 (1.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (51.25%) Agile
2 50 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 47 (29.38%) DevOps
4 34 (21.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (20.63%) Containerisation
5 33 (20.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 32 (20.00%) Analytics
7 31 (19.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 30 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (14.38%) Test Automation
11 22 (13.75%) Data Engineering
11 22 (13.75%) Mentoring
12 21 (13.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 20 (12.50%) Decision-Making
14 19 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (11.88%) Scrum
14 19 (11.88%) User Research
15 17 (10.63%) User Experience
16 16 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.88%) Python
2 23 (14.38%) Java
3 18 (11.25%) SQL
4 8 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.38%) Kotlin
6 5 (3.13%) Swift
6 5 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.88%) Bash
7 3 (1.88%) Scala
8 2 (1.25%) PHP
9 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.63%) Go
9 1 (0.63%) Groovy
9 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (54.38%) Security Cleared
2 72 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.63%) CIPD
6 1 (0.63%) Degree
6 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.63%) PMP
6 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.63%) Accessibility
2 19 (11.88%) WCAG
3 10 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.13%) QA
5 4 (2.50%) GDPR
6 2 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 33 (20.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (23.13%) Terraform
2 15 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.38%) Ansible
4 5 (3.13%) Grafana
5 4 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.25%) Kibana
7 1 (0.63%) Consul
7 1 (0.63%) Istio
7 1 (0.63%) Packer
7 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (10.00%) Google
2 11 (6.88%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.00%) Trend Micro
4 6 (3.75%) F5
4 6 (3.75%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.75%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.13%) Arista
6 4 (2.50%) Apple
6 4 (2.50%) Aruba
7 3 (1.88%) Databricks
8 2 (1.25%) Confluent
8 2 (1.25%) DataFlux
8 2 (1.25%) Splunk
8 2 (1.25%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.63%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.63%) FIS
9 1 (0.63%) IBM
9 1 (0.63%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle
9 1 (0.63%) Pega