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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 119 70 28
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.67% 29.79% 13.86%
As % of the General category 49.17% 52.24% 28.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 56 16
10th Percentile £306 £319 £415
25th Percentile £400 £362 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £428 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -22.27% -0.90%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £720
90th Percentile £558 £624 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £430 £523
% change year-on-year +4.65% -17.70% -5.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.69 - £20.00

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 242 134 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 58.31% 57.02% 49.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 93 60
10th Percentile £231 £305 £225
25th Percentile £369 £356 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% -15.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £500 £534 £600
90th Percentile £575 £623 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £446 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +3.72% -14.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 15
10th Percentile £17.88 £13.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £37.84 £14.00 £21.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +218.18% -65.26% -
75th Percentile £57.67 £19.38 £54.38
90th Percentile £70.36 £19.75 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £48.00 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +209.68% -11.43% -

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 9 March 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 3 (2.52%) Apache
2 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.84%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 33 (27.73%) AWS
2 9 (7.56%) Azure
3 8 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (6.72%) Serverless
4 7 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (4.20%) GitHub
7 4 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.36%) AWS KMS
7 4 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.36%) Google Analytics
7 4 (3.36%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.52%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.68%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) Wireless
2 2 (1.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.52%) Power BI
2 2 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.68%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.84%) Redis
3 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (12.61%) GitLab
2 11 (9.24%) Cucumber
2 11 (9.24%) REST Assured
3 8 (6.72%) Git
4 5 (4.20%) JIRA
4 5 (4.20%) Selenium
5 4 (3.36%) JMeter
6 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.52%) Mocha
7 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.68%) Gatling
7 2 (1.68%) Postman
8 1 (0.84%) JUnit
8 1 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.84%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.84%) TestRail
General
1 36 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (6.72%) Finance
3 6 (5.04%) Electronics
3 6 (5.04%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.04%) Marketing
3 6 (5.04%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.52%) Military
5 2 (1.68%) Police
6 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.84%) Legal
6 1 (0.84%) Local Government
6 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (15.13%) Analyst
2 16 (13.45%) Test Engineer
3 15 (12.61%) Product Manager
4 13 (10.92%) Senior
5 12 (10.08%) Developer
6 11 (9.24%) Business Analyst
7 10 (8.40%) Lead
8 9 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Designer
9 6 (5.04%) User Researcher
10 5 (4.20%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 5 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (4.20%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 5 (4.20%) Architect
10 5 (4.20%) Desktop Support
10 5 (4.20%) IT Support
10 5 (4.20%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 5 (4.20%) Senior Business Analyst
10 5 (4.20%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.24%) REST
2 10 (8.40%) Node.js
3 8 (6.72%) Spring
3 8 (6.72%) WireMock
4 6 (5.04%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.52%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.52%) Jest
6 2 (1.68%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.68%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.68%) JSF
6 2 (1.68%) Next.js
6 2 (1.68%) Struts
6 2 (1.68%) Swagger
7 1 (0.84%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.84%) CSS
7 1 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.84%) HTML
7 1 (0.84%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.84%) Playwright
7 1 (0.84%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.56%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.36%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.20%) Android
1 5 (4.20%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.84%) Windows
2 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.02%) Agile
2 24 (20.17%) CI/CD
2 24 (20.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 23 (19.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (17.65%) DevOps
5 20 (16.81%) Test Automation
6 18 (15.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (14.29%) Service Design
8 16 (13.45%) Containerisation
9 15 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (11.76%) TDD
10 14 (11.76%) User Research
11 13 (10.92%) Microservices
11 13 (10.92%) Workshop Facilitation
12 12 (10.08%) Product Strategy
12 12 (10.08%) Roadmaps
13 10 (8.40%) BDD
13 10 (8.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.01%) Java
2 16 (13.45%) Python
3 9 (7.56%) JavaScript
4 7 (5.88%) SQL
4 7 (5.88%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.52%) Bash
5 3 (2.52%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.68%) Ruby
7 1 (0.84%) Bicep
7 1 (0.84%) Go
7 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.84%) R
7 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 56 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.52%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.84%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.84%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (0.84%) CISA
6 1 (0.84%) CISM
6 1 (0.84%) CISSP
6 1 (0.84%) Degree
6 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.88%) QA
3 5 (4.20%) WCAG
4 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.52%) GDPR
5 2 (1.68%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.68%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.84%) NCSC
6 1 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (19.33%) Terraform
2 15 (12.61%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.04%) Grafana
4 4 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (5.04%) Google
1 6 (5.04%) SAP
2 5 (4.20%) Apple
2 5 (4.20%) Cisco
2 5 (4.20%) Dell
2 5 (4.20%) HP
3 3 (2.52%) Databricks
3 3 (2.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.68%) Cellebrite
4 2 (1.68%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.84%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.84%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.84%) IBM
5 1 (0.84%) Sage
5 1 (0.84%) Splunk
5 1 (0.84%) UiPath