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 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 192 53 27
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 30.14% 25.24% 16.56%
As % of the General category 58.90% 46.90% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 41 13
10th Percentile £353 £375 £365
25th Percentile £400 £435 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £510 £549 £550
90th Percentile £625 £594 £672
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £423
% change year-on-year -10.00% +18.34% -23.18%
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 326 113 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 51.18% 53.81% 52.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 70 42
10th Percentile £315 £200 £314
25th Percentile £400 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% +3.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £594 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £448 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -3.76% +3.33% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 8 7
10th Percentile £16.96 £13.64 -
25th Percentile £31.48 £16.19 £13.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £14.69
Median % change year-on-year +128.36% +31.04% -24.67%
75th Percentile £69.88 £20.63 £19.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £30.04 £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 14 September 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 (9.90%) Apache Spark
2 18 (9.38%) Apache
2 18 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (8.33%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.08%) Confluence
4 4 (2.08%) SAS
5 2 (1.04%) CMS
5 2 (1.04%) WordPress
6 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (41.67%) AWS
2 35 (18.23%) Azure
3 19 (9.90%) GitHub
3 19 (9.90%) Power Platform
4 18 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (9.38%) Serverless
5 17 (8.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 17 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 15 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (7.81%) Google Analytics
8 14 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.69%) GCP
10 8 (4.17%) Firebase
11 7 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.65%) Kong
12 6 (3.13%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (3.13%) OCI
13 5 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.69%) Firewall
2 6 (3.13%) BGP
2 6 (3.13%) BIG-IP
2 6 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (3.13%) OSPF
2 6 (3.13%) VXLAN
3 5 (2.60%) DNS
3 5 (2.60%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (2.60%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.08%) Intranet
4 4 (2.08%) WAN
5 3 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.56%) WLAN
6 2 (1.04%) HTTP
6 2 (1.04%) SSL
6 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.52%) Network Security
7 1 (0.52%) NGFW
7 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.85%) MongoDB
2 13 (6.77%) Power BI
3 10 (5.21%) Looker
4 5 (2.60%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.60%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.60%) Metadata
5 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.08%) DocumentDB
5 4 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.56%) Big Data
6 3 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.04%) Power Query
7 2 (1.04%) Redis
7 2 (1.04%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 2 (1.04%) Tableau
8 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (23.44%) GitLab
2 13 (6.77%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.73%) Git
4 9 (4.69%) JIRA
5 8 (4.17%) fastlane
6 6 (3.13%) Selenium
7 5 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.60%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.08%) Android Studio
8 4 (2.08%) Crashlytics
8 4 (2.08%) Gradle
8 4 (2.08%) Xcode
9 3 (1.56%) ScalaTest
10 2 (1.04%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.04%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.52%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.52%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.52%) Postman
11 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.73%) Finance
5 7 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.13%) Military
7 5 (2.60%) Retail
8 4 (2.08%) Legal
9 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Publishing
11 1 (0.52%) Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (24.48%) Developer
2 35 (18.23%) Senior
3 30 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (13.54%) Lead
5 24 (12.50%) Analyst
6 17 (8.85%) Software Developer
7 15 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (7.29%) AWS DevOps
8 14 (7.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 11 (5.73%) Business Analyst
9 11 (5.73%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.73%) Performance Analyst
9 11 (5.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.17%) Designer
11 7 (3.65%) Node.js Developer
11 7 (3.65%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.13%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.13%) Product Manager
12 6 (3.13%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (29.17%) Terraform
2 15 (7.81%) RESTful
3 14 (7.29%) Kafka
3 14 (7.29%) Node.js
4 9 (4.69%) Play Framework
4 9 (4.69%) REST
5 6 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.13%) Express.js
5 6 (3.13%) Jest
6 5 (2.60%) React
6 5 (2.60%) Spring
6 5 (2.60%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.08%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (2.08%) Android SDK
7 4 (2.08%) Core Data
7 4 (2.08%) MEAN Stack
7 4 (2.08%) Nunjucks
7 4 (2.08%) Playwright
7 4 (2.08%) PySpark
7 4 (2.08%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.06%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.17%) Blog
3 8 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.60%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.52%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.52%) PropTech
8 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.69%) Linux
2 5 (2.60%) Unix
3 4 (2.08%) Android
3 4 (2.08%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (55.73%) Agile
2 72 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 60 (31.25%) DevOps
4 44 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 40 (20.83%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 39 (20.31%) Containerisation
7 38 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (18.75%) Analytics
9 34 (17.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 34 (17.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 32 (16.67%) Scrum
10 32 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 29 (15.10%) Mentoring
12 28 (14.58%) User Research
13 25 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (12.50%) Kanban
14 24 (12.50%) TDD
15 22 (11.46%) Data Engineering
15 22 (11.46%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 39 (20.31%) Python
2 25 (13.02%) SQL
3 19 (9.90%) Java
4 14 (7.29%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.73%) Scala
6 8 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.65%) Bash
8 4 (2.08%) C#
8 4 (2.08%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.08%) Swift
9 3 (1.56%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.04%) Go
10 2 (1.04%) Groovy
10 2 (1.04%) PHP
10 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 99 (51.56%) Security Cleared
2 86 (44.79%) SC Cleared
3 31 (16.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.52%) CIPD
6 1 (0.52%) Degree
6 1 (0.52%) IIBA
6 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.52%) PMP
6 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (19.27%) Accessibility
2 23 (11.98%) WCAG
3 10 (5.21%) QA
4 9 (4.69%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.08%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 43 (22.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.90%) Grafana
3 12 (6.25%) Ansible
4 10 (5.21%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.56%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.04%) Consul
7 2 (1.04%) Kibana
7 2 (1.04%) Packer
7 2 (1.04%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (10.42%) Google
2 14 (7.29%) Dynatrace
3 12 (6.25%) Splunk
4 8 (4.17%) Trend Micro
5 6 (3.13%) F5
5 6 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.13%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.60%) Arista
7 4 (2.08%) Apple
7 4 (2.08%) Aruba
7 4 (2.08%) Confluent
7 4 (2.08%) UiPath
8 3 (1.56%) Databricks
9 2 (1.04%) DataFlux
10 1 (0.52%) Adobe
10 1 (0.52%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.52%) FIS
10 1 (0.52%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle
10 1 (0.52%) Pega