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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 5 1
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 86 32 46
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 32.58% 18.50% 30.46%
As % of the General category 55.84% 36.36% 52.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 16 32
10th Percentile £319 £303 £352
25th Percentile £400 £346 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £418 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -20.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £524 £480 £668
90th Percentile £575 £649 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -9.09%
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 154 88 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 58.33% 50.87% 57.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 42 56
10th Percentile £172 £301 £266
25th Percentile £364 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £425 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% -18.27% -5.45%
75th Percentile £520 £478 £621
90th Percentile £581 £613 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £439 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +3.24% -15.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 7
10th Percentile £13.75 - £17.60
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £15.60 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% -20.03% +59.18%
75th Percentile £36.06 £19.75 £26.13
90th Percentile £53.75 £19.83 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £15.60 £19.50
% change year-on-year +23.44% -20.03% +56.00%

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 2 November 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 10 (11.63%) Confluence
2 2 (2.33%) Apache
2 2 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.16%) Documentum
3 1 (1.16%) FileNet
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (37.21%) AWS
2 7 (8.14%) Azure
2 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.81%) Serverless
4 4 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.49%) GCP
6 2 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.33%) GitHub
6 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.16%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.16%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.16%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) Wireless
2 1 (1.16%) DHCP
2 1 (1.16%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) Firewall
2 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) MongoDB
2 7 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.98%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.65%) MySQL
5 2 (2.33%) Power BI
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.16%) Looker
6 1 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (15.12%) Git
1 13 (15.12%) JIRA
2 12 (13.95%) Cucumber
3 9 (10.47%) REST Assured
4 7 (8.14%) GitLab
5 5 (5.81%) Selenium
6 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.49%) JMeter
6 3 (3.49%) Mocha
7 2 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.33%) Gatling
7 2 (2.33%) Postman
7 2 (2.33%) TestRail
8 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.98%) Electronics
2 6 (6.98%) Finance
2 6 (6.98%) Manufacturing
2 6 (6.98%) Marketing
2 6 (6.98%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.49%) Military
4 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (16.28%) Test Engineer
2 12 (13.95%) Product Manager
2 12 (13.95%) Senior
3 10 (11.63%) Developer
4 7 (8.14%) Analyst
4 7 (8.14%) Business Analyst
4 7 (8.14%) Delivery Manager
4 7 (8.14%) Lead
5 6 (6.98%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 5 (5.81%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.81%) Desktop Support
6 5 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) IT Support
6 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 4 (4.65%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.65%) Architect
7 4 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (4.65%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.65%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.63%) REST
2 8 (9.30%) Spring Boot
3 7 (8.14%) Node.js
3 7 (8.14%) WireMock
4 5 (5.81%) Spring
5 4 (4.65%) Gherkin
5 4 (4.65%) RESTful
6 3 (3.49%) Jest
6 3 (3.49%) Spring MVC
6 3 (3.49%) Web Services
7 2 (2.33%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.16%) CSS
8 1 (1.16%) HTML
8 1 (1.16%) Keycloak
8 1 (1.16%) Playwright
8 1 (1.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.14%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.81%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.16%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Android
1 5 (5.81%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.00%) Agile
2 24 (27.91%) CI/CD
3 17 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (19.77%) Test Automation
4 15 (17.44%) DevOps
5 14 (16.28%) Microservices
6 13 (15.12%) TDD
7 12 (13.95%) BDD
7 12 (13.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 11 (12.79%) Containerisation
9 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (10.47%) Roadmaps
10 9 (10.47%) Service Delivery
11 8 (9.30%) API Testing
11 8 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (9.30%) Scrum
12 7 (8.14%) Functional Testing
12 7 (8.14%) Mentoring
12 7 (8.14%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.42%) Java
2 13 (15.12%) Python
3 8 (9.30%) Bash
4 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.98%) SQL
6 4 (4.65%) Go
6 4 (4.65%) Perl
7 1 (1.16%) COBOL
7 1 (1.16%) Groovy
7 1 (1.16%) Rust
7 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (58.14%) Security Cleared
2 47 (54.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.33%) CISSP
4 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.33%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.16%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (1.16%) CHECK Team Member
5 1 (1.16%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.63%) QA
2 5 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.49%) GDPR
4 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.33%) WCAG
5 1 (1.16%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.16%) NCSC
5 1 (1.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (17.44%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (22.09%) Terraform
2 12 (13.95%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.47%) Ansible
4 4 (4.65%) Grafana
5 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.16%) Argo
6 1 (1.16%) Istio
6 1 (1.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (6.98%) SAP
2 5 (5.81%) Apple
2 5 (5.81%) Cisco
2 5 (5.81%) Dell
2 5 (5.81%) HP
3 3 (3.49%) Google
4 1 (1.16%) Databricks
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.16%) OpenText
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle
4 1 (1.16%) Pega
4 1 (1.16%) Red Hat