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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 101 46 44
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 33.22% 23.47% 24.86%
As % of the General category 57.71% 42.59% 45.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 25 33
10th Percentile £336 £305 £374
25th Percentile £400 £335 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £520 £560 £720
90th Percentile £553 £634 -
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 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.00
Median hourly rate - £14.69 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -22.68% -
75th Percentile - - £23.63
90th Percentile - - £29.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £14.69 £19.00
% 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 common skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 175 108 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 57.57% 55.10% 54.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 59 62
10th Percentile £195 £305 £221
25th Percentile £376 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £501 £514 £624
90th Percentile £575 £631 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £438 £508
% change year-on-year - -13.79% -7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 8
10th Percentile £13.67 - £17.70
25th Percentile £17.88 £13.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £15.60 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% -21.04% +61.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.75 £32.44
90th Percentile - £19.83 £41.63
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £15.60 £19.50
% change year-on-year +23.44% -20.03% +59.18%

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 2 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 7 (6.93%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) Apache
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.65%) AWS
2 8 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (6.93%) Serverless
4 6 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (5.94%) Azure
5 5 (4.95%) GitHub
6 4 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.97%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.98%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.98%) GCP
8 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.99%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) Wireless
2 2 (1.98%) Firewall
3 1 (0.99%) DHCP
3 1 (0.99%) DNS
3 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.96%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.98%) MySQL
5 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (11.88%) GitLab
2 11 (10.89%) Cucumber
2 11 (10.89%) Git
3 10 (9.90%) JIRA
3 10 (9.90%) REST Assured
4 5 (4.95%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.95%) Selenium
5 4 (3.96%) JMeter
6 3 (2.97%) Gatling
6 3 (2.97%) Mocha
7 2 (1.98%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.98%) Postman
7 2 (1.98%) TestRail
8 1 (0.99%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.93%) Finance
3 6 (5.94%) Electronics
3 6 (5.94%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.94%) Marketing
3 6 (5.94%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.97%) Military
6 2 (1.98%) Police
7 1 (0.99%) Legal
7 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (14.85%) Test Engineer
2 13 (12.87%) Senior
3 12 (11.88%) Product Manager
4 11 (10.89%) Analyst
5 10 (9.90%) Business Analyst
6 9 (8.91%) Developer
6 9 (8.91%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Lead
8 6 (5.94%) Architect
8 6 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (5.94%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 5 (4.95%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.95%) Designer
9 5 (4.95%) Desktop Support
9 5 (4.95%) IT Support
9 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 5 (4.95%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.89%) REST
2 8 (7.92%) WireMock
3 7 (6.93%) Node.js
3 7 (6.93%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.96%) Gherkin
4 4 (3.96%) Spring
5 3 (2.97%) Jest
6 2 (1.98%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.98%) RESTful
6 2 (1.98%) Spring MVC
6 2 (1.98%) Web Services
7 1 (0.99%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.99%) CSS
7 1 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.99%) Flask
7 1 (0.99%) HTML
7 1 (0.99%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.99%) Playwright
7 1 (0.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.93%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.95%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Android
1 5 (4.95%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.99%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (46.53%) Agile
2 27 (26.73%) CI/CD
3 20 (19.80%) DevOps
4 19 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (18.81%) Test Automation
5 15 (14.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 14 (13.86%) Containerisation
6 14 (13.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (13.86%) Microservices
7 13 (12.87%) TDD
8 12 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (11.88%) Service Design
8 12 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (10.89%) BDD
10 10 (9.90%) Roadmaps
10 10 (9.90%) Workshop Facilitation
11 9 (8.91%) Product Strategy
12 8 (7.92%) Performance Testing
12 8 (7.92%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (7.92%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.80%) Java
2 17 (16.83%) Python
3 9 (8.91%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.92%) Bash
5 5 (4.95%) SQL
6 4 (3.96%) Go
6 4 (3.96%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.97%) Perl
8 1 (0.99%) Bicep
8 1 (0.99%) COBOL
8 1 (0.99%) Groovy
8 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 58 (57.43%) Security Cleared
2 54 (53.47%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.97%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.97%) CISSP
5 2 (1.98%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.99%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.99%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (0.99%) CISA
6 1 (0.99%) CISM
6 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) QA
2 8 (7.92%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.96%) WCAG
4 3 (2.97%) GDPR
5 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.98%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.98%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.99%) NCSC
6 1 (0.99%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (16.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (23.76%) Terraform
2 15 (14.85%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.93%) Ansible
4 6 (5.94%) Grafana
5 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.99%) Argo
6 1 (0.99%) Istio
6 1 (0.99%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (5.94%) SAP
2 5 (4.95%) Apple
2 5 (4.95%) Cisco
2 5 (4.95%) Dell
2 5 (4.95%) HP
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.98%) Cellebrite
4 2 (1.98%) Google
5 1 (0.99%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.99%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.99%) Databricks
5 1 (0.99%) Pega
5 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.99%) UiPath