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 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 184 57 22
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 29.39% 28.50% 14.86%
As % of the General category 59.55% 50.89% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 46 12
10th Percentile £359 £410 £364
25th Percentile £400 £458 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £423
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +23.08% -23.18%
75th Percentile £526 £555 £541
90th Percentile £625 £600 £559
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £520 £420
% change year-on-year -13.46% +23.81% -23.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £69.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.88 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.38 - -
90th Percentile £76.50 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 309 112 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 49.36% 56.00% 52.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 76 44
10th Percentile £313 £200 £316
25th Percentile £393 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £480 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +9.71% -20.45%
75th Percentile £529 £549 £538
90th Percentile £625 £600 £590
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £445 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -7.29% +6.67% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 7 4
10th Percentile £16.85 £13.60 £15.03
25th Percentile £30.48 £15.38 £16.94
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +128.36% - -1.28%
75th Percentile £69.88 £20.63 £21.31
90th Percentile £70.00 £33.18 £22.33
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £43.96 £18.13 £19.25
% change year-on-year +142.54% -5.84% -1.28%

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 25 August 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 (10.33%) Apache Spark
2 18 (9.78%) Apache
2 18 (9.78%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (8.70%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.17%) Confluence
4 4 (2.17%) SAS
5 2 (1.09%) CMS
5 2 (1.09%) WordPress
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (43.48%) AWS
2 38 (20.65%) Azure
3 21 (11.41%) Power Platform
4 19 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (10.33%) Serverless
5 17 (9.24%) GitHub
6 16 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 15 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (7.61%) Google Analytics
9 13 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (5.43%) GCP
12 9 (4.89%) Firebase
13 8 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (3.26%) Kong
15 6 (3.26%) OCI
16 5 (2.72%) Amazon ECR
16 5 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.89%) Firewall
2 6 (3.26%) BGP
2 6 (3.26%) BIG-IP
2 6 (3.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (3.26%) OSPF
2 6 (3.26%) VXLAN
3 5 (2.72%) DNS
3 5 (2.72%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (2.72%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.17%) Intranet
4 4 (2.17%) WAN
5 3 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.63%) WLAN
6 2 (1.09%) HTTP
6 2 (1.09%) SSL
6 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.09%) VPN
7 1 (0.54%) Network Security
7 1 (0.54%) NGFW
7 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.15%) Power BI
2 13 (7.07%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.43%) Looker
4 5 (2.72%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.72%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.72%) Metadata
4 5 (2.72%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.63%) Big Data
6 3 (1.63%) DocumentDB
6 3 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.09%) Power Query
7 2 (1.09%) Redis
7 2 (1.09%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (23.37%) GitLab
2 14 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.43%) Git
4 9 (4.89%) JIRA
5 8 (4.35%) fastlane
6 6 (3.26%) Selenium
7 5 (2.72%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.72%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.17%) Android Studio
8 4 (2.17%) Crashlytics
8 4 (2.17%) Gradle
8 4 (2.17%) Xcode
9 2 (1.09%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.09%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.54%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.54%) Mocha
10 1 (0.54%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.54%) Postman
General
1 49 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 43 (23.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.35%) Finance
5 7 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.26%) Military
7 4 (2.17%) Legal
7 4 (2.17%) Retail
8 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Publishing
10 1 (0.54%) Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (22.83%) Developer
2 32 (17.39%) Senior
3 29 (15.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (14.67%) Lead
5 20 (10.87%) Analyst
6 14 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (7.61%) Software Developer
7 13 (7.07%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (7.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.43%) Business Analyst
9 10 (5.43%) Performance Analyst
10 9 (4.89%) Architect
10 9 (4.89%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (4.35%) Designer
12 7 (3.80%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.80%) Test Engineer
13 6 (3.26%) Node.js Developer
13 6 (3.26%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.72%) Terraform
2 13 (7.07%) Kafka
3 12 (6.52%) Node.js
3 12 (6.52%) RESTful
4 9 (4.89%) REST
5 6 (3.26%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.72%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.72%) Express.js
6 5 (2.72%) Jest
6 5 (2.72%) React
6 5 (2.72%) Spring
6 5 (2.72%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.72%) SwiftUI
7 4 (2.17%) .NET
7 4 (2.17%) iOS SDK
7 4 (2.17%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (2.17%) OpenID
7 4 (2.17%) PySpark
7 4 (2.17%) UIKit
7 4 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 15 (8.15%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.89%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.26%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.72%) Blog
5 5 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.17%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.54%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.54%) PropTech
8 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.80%) Linux
2 5 (2.72%) Android
2 5 (2.72%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.17%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (52.72%) Agile
2 65 (35.33%) CI/CD
3 58 (31.52%) DevOps
4 43 (23.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (21.74%) Containerisation
6 36 (19.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 35 (19.02%) Analytics
7 35 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (19.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 35 (19.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (16.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 29 (15.76%) Scrum
10 28 (15.22%) Test Automation
11 25 (13.59%) Mentoring
11 25 (13.59%) User Research
12 23 (12.50%) Data Engineering
12 23 (12.50%) Decision-Making
12 23 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (11.41%) Kanban
14 20 (10.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 41 (22.28%) Python
2 24 (13.04%) SQL
3 23 (12.50%) Java
4 11 (5.98%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.35%) Scala
6 7 (3.80%) Bash
6 7 (3.80%) Kotlin
6 7 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.72%) Swift
8 4 (2.17%) C#
9 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.09%) Go
10 2 (1.09%) Groovy
10 2 (1.09%) PHP
10 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 98 (53.26%) Security Cleared
2 84 (45.65%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.54%) CIPD
6 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.54%) PMP
6 1 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.93%) Accessibility
2 21 (11.41%) WCAG
3 11 (5.98%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.80%) QA
5 5 (2.72%) GDPR
6 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 42 (22.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (13.59%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.15%) Grafana
3 11 (5.98%) Ansible
4 9 (4.89%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.09%) Consul
7 2 (1.09%) Kibana
7 2 (1.09%) Packer
7 2 (1.09%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.54%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (10.33%) Google
2 13 (7.07%) Dynatrace
3 8 (4.35%) Splunk
3 8 (4.35%) Trend Micro
4 6 (3.26%) F5
4 6 (3.26%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.26%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.72%) Arista
6 4 (2.17%) Apple
6 4 (2.17%) Aruba
6 4 (2.17%) UiPath
7 3 (1.63%) Confluent
7 3 (1.63%) Databricks
8 2 (1.09%) DataFlux
8 2 (1.09%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.54%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.54%) FIS
9 1 (0.54%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle
9 1 (0.54%) Pega