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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 143 71 27
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 24.96% 33.02% 13.64%
As % of the General category 52.19% 57.72% 25.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 60 16
10th Percentile £358 £362 £389
25th Percentile £400 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -8.29% -4.65%
75th Percentile £576 £528 £567
90th Percentile £639 £603 £669
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% -6.98%
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 £41.60 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%

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 274 123 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 47.82% 57.21% 52.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 93 60
10th Percentile £313 £204 £374
25th Percentile £381 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £590
90th Percentile £625 £585 £639
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 15
10th Percentile - £15.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £19.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £19.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +237.66% -59.47% +140.51%
75th Percentile £69.81 £20.63 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £39.45 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £51.98 £17.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +205.76% -2.86% -11.39%

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 18 June 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 (11.89%) Apache
1 17 (11.89%) Apache Spark
2 16 (11.19%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (9.79%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.80%) SAS
5 3 (2.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.70%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.70%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 51 (35.66%) AWS
2 26 (18.18%) Azure
3 13 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (6.29%) Firebase
4 9 (6.29%) Google Analytics
5 8 (5.59%) Amazon S3
5 8 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (5.59%) GitHub
5 8 (5.59%) Serverless
6 6 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.20%) OCI
7 5 (3.50%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.50%) GCP
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.80%) Google Play
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) BGP
1 6 (4.20%) BIG-IP
1 6 (4.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 6 (4.20%) Firewall
1 6 (4.20%) OSPF
1 6 (4.20%) VXLAN
2 5 (3.50%) Ethernet VPN
2 5 (3.50%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.80%) WAN
4 3 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.10%) WLAN
5 2 (1.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.70%) DNS
6 1 (0.70%) HTTP
6 1 (0.70%) Intranet
6 1 (0.70%) Network Security
6 1 (0.70%) NGFW
6 1 (0.70%) SSL
6 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.69%) Power BI
2 6 (4.20%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.80%) Looker
4 3 (2.10%) Big Data
4 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.40%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.40%) Metadata
5 2 (1.40%) Redis
5 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 2 (1.40%) Tableau
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.70%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 30 (20.98%) GitLab
2 12 (8.39%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.59%) fastlane
4 7 (4.90%) Selenium
5 6 (4.20%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.20%) JIRA
5 6 (4.20%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.80%) Android Studio
6 4 (2.80%) Crashlytics
6 4 (2.80%) Git
6 4 (2.80%) Gradle
6 4 (2.80%) Xcode
7 2 (1.40%) JMeter
7 2 (1.40%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (1.40%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.70%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.70%) Postman
8 1 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.50%) Military
5 4 (2.80%) Finance
5 4 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.10%) Legal
7 1 (0.70%) Banking
7 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (19.58%) Developer
2 25 (17.48%) Senior
3 23 (16.08%) Lead
4 17 (11.89%) Analyst
5 14 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (6.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.29%) Performance Analyst
8 8 (5.59%) Architect
8 8 (5.59%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.20%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (4.20%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.50%) Designer
11 5 (3.50%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.50%) User Researcher
12 4 (2.80%) Android Developer
12 4 (2.80%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.29%) Spring
2 8 (5.59%) Node.js
2 8 (5.59%) RESTful
3 6 (4.20%) Kafka
3 6 (4.20%) REST
4 5 (3.50%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.50%) SwiftUI
5 4 (2.80%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (2.80%) Android SDK
5 4 (2.80%) Core Data
5 4 (2.80%) iOS SDK
5 4 (2.80%) Jetpack Compose
5 4 (2.80%) Playwright
5 4 (2.80%) PySpark
5 4 (2.80%) Retrofit
5 4 (2.80%) UIKit
6 3 (2.10%) Swagger
7 2 (1.40%) Jest
7 2 (1.40%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.40%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.69%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.29%) Mobile App
4 8 (5.59%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.80%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.70%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.70%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.50%) Android
1 5 (3.50%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.40%) Linux
2 2 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (44.76%) Agile
2 45 (31.47%) CI/CD
3 35 (24.48%) DevOps
4 28 (19.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (18.88%) Analytics
6 26 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 26 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 22 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 21 (14.69%) Test Automation
9 20 (13.99%) Data Engineering
9 20 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (11.89%) Scrum
10 17 (11.89%) TDD
11 16 (11.19%) Mentoring
12 15 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (10.49%) Decision-Making
12 15 (10.49%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 14 (9.79%) User Research
14 13 (9.09%) Kanban
14 13 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.38%) Python
2 28 (19.58%) Java
3 16 (11.19%) SQL
4 7 (4.90%) Kotlin
5 5 (3.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.50%) Swift
5 5 (3.50%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.10%) Scala
7 2 (1.40%) Ruby
8 1 (0.70%) Bash
8 1 (0.70%) Go
8 1 (0.70%) Groovy
8 1 (0.70%) R
8 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 65 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.70%) CIPD
5 1 (0.70%) Degree
5 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.89%) Accessibility
2 13 (9.09%) WCAG
3 8 (5.59%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.40%) GDPR
4 2 (1.40%) QA
System Software
1 30 (20.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (21.68%) Terraform
2 11 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.90%) Ansible
4 3 (2.10%) Grafana
5 2 (1.40%) Kibana
5 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.70%) Consul
6 1 (0.70%) Istio
6 1 (0.70%) Packer
6 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (9.09%) Google
2 10 (6.99%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.59%) Trend Micro
4 6 (4.20%) F5
4 6 (4.20%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.50%) Arista
5 5 (3.50%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.80%) Apple
6 4 (2.80%) Aruba
7 3 (2.10%) Splunk
8 2 (1.40%) Databricks
8 2 (1.40%) DataFlux
8 2 (1.40%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.70%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.70%) Confluent
9 1 (0.70%) IBM
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle
9 1 (0.70%) Pega
9 1 (0.70%) Sage
9 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow