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 10 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 152 73 28
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 25.89% 32.44% 15.14%
As % of the General category 55.88% 58.40% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 60 18
10th Percentile £356 £362 £371
25th Percentile £400 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -5.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £558
90th Percentile £638 £603 £656
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £473 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £69.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.88 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £20.00
75th Percentile £75.38 - -
90th Percentile £76.50 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.50 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 272 125 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 46.34% 55.56% 55.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 94 61
10th Percentile £313 £208 £313
25th Percentile £384 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -15.04%
75th Percentile £538 £532 £550
90th Percentile £625 £598 £638
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £490
% change year-on-year - -8.16% -13.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 11
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.06 £16.25
25th Percentile £43.96 £15.31 £17.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £18.13 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +258.62% -9.38% +2.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.46 £48.75
90th Percentile - £36.31 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £62.50 £16.75 £15.75
% change year-on-year +273.13% +6.38% -19.26%

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 10 July 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 17 (11.18%) Apache
1 17 (11.18%) Apache Spark
2 16 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (9.21%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.63%) SAS
5 3 (1.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.66%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (38.16%) AWS
2 27 (17.76%) Azure
3 15 (9.87%) Power Platform
4 10 (6.58%) GitHub
4 10 (6.58%) Google Analytics
5 9 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.92%) Firebase
6 8 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.26%) Serverless
7 6 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.95%) GCP
7 6 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.95%) OCI
8 5 (3.29%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.63%) Google Play
10 3 (1.97%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.95%) BGP
1 6 (3.95%) BIG-IP
1 6 (3.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 6 (3.95%) Firewall
1 6 (3.95%) OSPF
1 6 (3.95%) VXLAN
2 5 (3.29%) Ethernet VPN
2 5 (3.29%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.63%) WAN
4 3 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.97%) WLAN
5 2 (1.32%) VPN
6 1 (0.66%) DNS
6 1 (0.66%) HTTP
6 1 (0.66%) Intranet
6 1 (0.66%) Network Security
6 1 (0.66%) NGFW
6 1 (0.66%) SSL
6 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.55%) Power BI
2 6 (3.95%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.29%) Looker
4 4 (2.63%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.97%) Big Data
5 3 (1.97%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.32%) Metadata
6 2 (1.32%) Power Query
6 2 (1.32%) Redis
6 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.32%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 2 (1.32%) Tableau
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.66%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.66%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 35 (23.03%) GitLab
2 12 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.26%) fastlane
4 7 (4.61%) Selenium
5 6 (3.95%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.95%) JIRA
5 6 (3.95%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.63%) Android Studio
6 4 (2.63%) Crashlytics
6 4 (2.63%) Git
6 4 (2.63%) Gradle
6 4 (2.63%) Xcode
7 2 (1.32%) JMeter
7 2 (1.32%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (1.32%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.66%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.66%) Postman
8 1 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.29%) Military
5 4 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.97%) Finance
6 3 (1.97%) Legal
7 1 (0.66%) Banking
7 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (19.08%) Developer
2 26 (17.11%) Senior
3 23 (15.13%) Lead
4 20 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (11.84%) Analyst
6 11 (7.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.58%) Performance Analyst
8 9 (5.92%) Architect
9 8 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.26%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (4.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) Designer
10 7 (4.61%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.95%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.95%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (3.95%) Java Developer
12 5 (3.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.92%) Spring
2 8 (5.26%) Node.js
2 8 (5.26%) RESTful
3 6 (3.95%) Kafka
3 6 (3.95%) REST
4 5 (3.29%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.29%) SwiftUI
5 4 (2.63%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (2.63%) Android SDK
5 4 (2.63%) Core Data
5 4 (2.63%) iOS SDK
5 4 (2.63%) Jetpack Compose
5 4 (2.63%) Playwright
5 4 (2.63%) PySpark
5 4 (2.63%) Retrofit
5 4 (2.63%) UIKit
6 3 (1.97%) OpenID
6 3 (1.97%) Swagger
7 2 (1.32%) Jest
7 2 (1.32%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.47%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.24%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.92%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.61%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.66%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.66%) PropTech
8 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.29%) Android
1 5 (3.29%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.63%) Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (44.08%) Agile
2 45 (29.61%) CI/CD
3 42 (27.63%) DevOps
4 31 (20.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (19.74%) Containerisation
6 28 (18.42%) Analytics
7 27 (17.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 24 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (13.82%) Test Automation
10 20 (13.16%) Data Engineering
11 17 (11.18%) Mentoring
11 17 (11.18%) Scrum
11 17 (11.18%) TDD
12 16 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (10.53%) Decision-Making
12 16 (10.53%) User Research
13 15 (9.87%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 13 (8.55%) Microservices
14 13 (8.55%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.37%) Python
2 28 (18.42%) Java
3 17 (11.18%) SQL
4 7 (4.61%) Kotlin
5 5 (3.29%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.29%) Swift
5 5 (3.29%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.97%) Bash
6 3 (1.97%) Scala
7 2 (1.32%) Ruby
8 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.66%) Go
8 1 (0.66%) Groovy
8 1 (0.66%) R
8 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (53.95%) Security Cleared
2 69 (45.39%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.66%) CIPD
5 1 (0.66%) Degree
5 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.18%) Accessibility
2 13 (8.55%) WCAG
3 8 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.32%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 33 (21.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (23.68%) Terraform
2 16 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.61%) Ansible
4 3 (1.97%) Grafana
5 2 (1.32%) Kibana
5 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.66%) Consul
6 1 (0.66%) Istio
6 1 (0.66%) Packer
6 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (9.21%) Google
2 10 (6.58%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.26%) Trend Micro
4 6 (3.95%) F5
4 6 (3.95%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.29%) Arista
5 5 (3.29%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.63%) Apple
6 4 (2.63%) Aruba
7 3 (1.97%) Databricks
7 3 (1.97%) Splunk
8 2 (1.32%) DataFlux
8 2 (1.32%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.66%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.66%) Confluent
9 1 (0.66%) IBM
9 1 (0.66%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle
9 1 (0.66%) Pega
9 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow