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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 110 69 28
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 25.76% 31.51% 13.66%
As % of the General category 46.03% 55.65% 27.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 56 17
10th Percentile £306 £319 £393
25th Percentile £400 £362 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -19.05% -5.41%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £720
90th Percentile £564 £595 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £442 £425 £520
% change year-on-year +4.00% -18.27% -6.31%
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 239 124 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 55.97% 56.62% 49.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 93 63
10th Percentile £269 £301 £233
25th Percentile £375 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -15.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £600
90th Percentile £575 £608 £716
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £440 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +3.53% -15.00% -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 16
10th Percentile - £14.80 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.88 £19.56
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +218.18% -65.26% -
75th Percentile £69.44 £18.13 £51.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £18.20 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £33.63 £14.07 £17.50
% change year-on-year +138.98% -19.60% -

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 26 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 (2.73%) Apache
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.91%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 29 (26.36%) AWS
2 9 (8.18%) Azure
3 7 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.45%) Serverless
5 5 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.64%) GitHub
6 4 (3.64%) Google Analytics
6 4 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.73%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.82%) Figma
8 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) Wireless
2 2 (1.82%) VPN
3 1 (0.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.91%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.64%) Power BI
2 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.91%) Redis
4 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.09%) GitLab
2 7 (6.36%) Git
2 7 (6.36%) REST Assured
3 6 (5.45%) Cucumber
3 6 (5.45%) JIRA
4 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.73%) JMeter
4 3 (2.73%) Selenium
5 2 (1.82%) Gatling
6 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.91%) JUnit
6 1 (0.91%) Mocha
6 1 (0.91%) Postman
6 1 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.91%) TestRail
General
1 30 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (7.27%) Finance
3 5 (4.55%) Electronics
3 5 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 5 (4.55%) Marketing
3 5 (4.55%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.73%) Military
6 2 (1.82%) Police
7 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.91%) Legal
7 1 (0.91%) Local Government
7 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (15.45%) Analyst
2 13 (11.82%) Product Manager
2 13 (11.82%) Senior
3 11 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 10 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 10 (9.09%) Lead
5 9 (8.18%) Developer
5 9 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) Designer
6 7 (6.36%) User Researcher
7 6 (5.45%) Architect
7 6 (5.45%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.55%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 5 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.55%) Desktop Support
8 5 (4.55%) IT Support
8 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 5 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) Node.js
2 7 (6.36%) Spring
3 6 (5.45%) REST
4 5 (4.55%) WireMock
5 2 (1.82%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.82%) JSF
5 2 (1.82%) Next.js
5 2 (1.82%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.82%) Struts
5 2 (1.82%) Swagger
6 1 (0.91%) Akka
6 1 (0.91%) Apache Commons
6 1 (0.91%) CSS
6 1 (0.91%) Express.js
6 1 (0.91%) Flask
6 1 (0.91%) HTML
6 1 (0.91%) OAuth
6 1 (0.91%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.91%) OpenID
6 1 (0.91%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.18%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.36%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.45%) Android
2 5 (4.55%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.91%) Windows
3 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.82%) Agile
2 23 (20.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 19 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (15.45%) DevOps
5 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (15.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 16 (14.55%) CI/CD
6 16 (14.55%) User Research
7 14 (12.73%) Service Design
8 13 (11.82%) Roadmaps
8 13 (11.82%) Test Automation
9 12 (10.91%) Workshop Facilitation
10 11 (10.00%) Containerisation
11 10 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (8.18%) Product Strategy
12 9 (8.18%) TDD
13 8 (7.27%) Analytics
13 8 (7.27%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.09%) Java
2 14 (12.73%) Python
3 8 (7.27%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.36%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.45%) SQL
6 4 (3.64%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.82%) Ruby
7 2 (1.82%) Scala
8 1 (0.91%) Bash
8 1 (0.91%) Bicep
8 1 (0.91%) Go
8 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.91%) R
8 1 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 58 (52.73%) Security Cleared
2 50 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.91%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (0.91%) CHECK Team Member
5 1 (0.91%) CISA
5 1 (0.91%) CISM
5 1 (0.91%) CISSP
5 1 (0.91%) Degree
5 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.91%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.64%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) WCAG
3 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.73%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.91%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) NCSC
4 1 (0.91%) NIST
4 1 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (12.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (18.18%) Terraform
2 11 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.82%) Grafana
3 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.91%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (4.55%) Apple
1 5 (4.55%) Cisco
1 5 (4.55%) Dell
1 5 (4.55%) Google
1 5 (4.55%) HP
1 5 (4.55%) SAP
2 3 (2.73%) Databricks
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.82%) Cellebrite
3 2 (1.82%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.91%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.91%) Checkmarx
4 1 (0.91%) IBM
4 1 (0.91%) Sage
4 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.91%) Splunk
4 1 (0.91%) UiPath