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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 157 69 28
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 26.43% 32.70% 16.00%
As % of the General category 56.07% 57.50% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 56 18
10th Percentile £356 £375 £371
25th Percentile £393 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £547 £541 £558
90th Percentile £631 £613 £656
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -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 £72.00 - £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 280 120 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 47.14% 56.87% 56.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 88 61
10th Percentile £313 £218 £313
25th Percentile £379 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £464 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -2.37% -15.93%
75th Percentile £538 £536 £550
90th Percentile £629 £608 £638
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £464 £475
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.37% -14.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 7 6
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.60 £17.13
25th Percentile £43.96 £15.38 £18.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £19.25 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +237.66% -2.53% +1.28%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £22.44
90th Percentile - £33.18 £35.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £51.98 £17.00 £15.75
% change year-on-year +205.76% +7.97% -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 18 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 (10.83%) Apache Spark
2 16 (10.19%) Apache
2 16 (10.19%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (8.92%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.55%) Confluence
4 4 (2.55%) SAS
5 1 (0.64%) CMS
5 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.64%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (38.22%) AWS
2 29 (18.47%) Azure
3 16 (10.19%) Power Platform
4 12 (7.64%) Google Analytics
5 10 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (6.37%) GitHub
5 10 (6.37%) Serverless
6 9 (5.73%) Amazon S3
6 9 (5.73%) Firebase
7 7 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (4.46%) GCP
8 6 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.82%) OCI
9 5 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.18%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (2.55%) Google Play
10 4 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.91%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.82%) BGP
1 6 (3.82%) BIG-IP
1 6 (3.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 6 (3.82%) Firewall
1 6 (3.82%) OSPF
1 6 (3.82%) VXLAN
2 5 (3.18%) Ethernet VPN
2 5 (3.18%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.55%) Intranet
3 4 (2.55%) WAN
4 3 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.91%) WLAN
5 2 (1.27%) VPN
6 1 (0.64%) DNS
6 1 (0.64%) HTTP
6 1 (0.64%) Network Security
6 1 (0.64%) NGFW
6 1 (0.64%) SSL
6 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.92%) Power BI
2 6 (3.82%) Looker
2 6 (3.82%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.55%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.91%) Big Data
4 3 (1.91%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.91%) Metadata
4 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.27%) Power Query
5 2 (1.27%) Redis
5 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.27%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 2 (1.27%) Tableau
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.64%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 34 (21.66%) GitLab
2 12 (7.64%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.10%) fastlane
4 7 (4.46%) JIRA
4 7 (4.46%) Selenium
5 6 (3.82%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.82%) REST Assured
6 5 (3.18%) Git
7 4 (2.55%) Android Studio
7 4 (2.55%) Crashlytics
7 4 (2.55%) Gradle
7 4 (2.55%) Xcode
8 2 (1.27%) JMeter
8 2 (1.27%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.27%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.64%) ERwin
9 1 (0.64%) JUnit
9 1 (0.64%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
General
1 44 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.46%) Military
5 6 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.91%) Finance
6 3 (1.91%) Legal
7 1 (0.64%) Banking
7 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (17.83%) Senior
2 27 (17.20%) Developer
3 24 (15.29%) Lead
4 22 (14.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (11.46%) Analyst
6 11 (7.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.37%) Performance Analyst
8 9 (5.73%) Architect
8 9 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (5.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (4.46%) Designer
10 7 (4.46%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.82%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.82%) User Researcher
12 5 (3.18%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.10%) RESTful
2 7 (4.46%) Kafka
2 7 (4.46%) Node.js
3 6 (3.82%) REST
4 5 (3.18%) Spring
4 5 (3.18%) SwiftUI
5 4 (2.55%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (2.55%) Android SDK
5 4 (2.55%) Core Data
5 4 (2.55%) iOS SDK
5 4 (2.55%) Jetpack Compose
5 4 (2.55%) Playwright
5 4 (2.55%) PySpark
5 4 (2.55%) Retrofit
5 4 (2.55%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.55%) UIKit
6 3 (1.91%) OpenID
7 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.27%) Express.js
7 2 (1.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.38%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.64%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.73%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.46%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.55%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.64%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.64%) PropTech
8 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.18%) Android
1 5 (3.18%) Apple iOS
1 5 (3.18%) Linux
2 3 (1.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (47.77%) Agile
2 47 (29.94%) CI/CD
3 45 (28.66%) DevOps
4 33 (21.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (20.38%) Analytics
6 31 (19.75%) Containerisation
6 31 (19.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 29 (18.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (13.38%) Data Engineering
9 21 (13.38%) Test Automation
10 20 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (12.10%) Mentoring
12 18 (11.46%) Decision-Making
12 18 (11.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 18 (11.46%) Scrum
12 18 (11.46%) User Research
13 16 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (10.19%) User Experience
14 15 (9.55%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 35 (22.29%) Python
2 24 (15.29%) Java
3 18 (11.46%) SQL
4 7 (4.46%) Kotlin
5 6 (3.82%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.18%) Swift
7 3 (1.91%) Bash
7 3 (1.91%) Scala
7 3 (1.91%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.64%) Go
8 1 (0.64%) Groovy
8 1 (0.64%) PHP
8 1 (0.64%) R
8 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (54.14%) Security Cleared
2 70 (44.59%) SC Cleared
3 21 (13.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.64%) CIPD
5 1 (0.64%) Degree
5 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.64%) PMP
5 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.64%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.38%) Accessibility
2 17 (10.83%) WCAG
3 9 (5.73%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.91%) GDPR
4 3 (1.91%) QA
5 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 31 (19.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (22.93%) Terraform
2 14 (8.92%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.10%) Ansible
4 4 (2.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.91%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.27%) Kibana
7 1 (0.64%) Consul
7 1 (0.64%) Istio
7 1 (0.64%) Packer
7 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (10.19%) Google
2 10 (6.37%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.10%) Trend Micro
4 6 (3.82%) F5
4 6 (3.82%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.82%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.18%) Arista
6 4 (2.55%) Apple
6 4 (2.55%) Aruba
7 3 (1.91%) Databricks
7 3 (1.91%) Splunk
8 2 (1.27%) DataFlux
8 2 (1.27%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.64%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.64%) Confluent
9 1 (0.64%) IBM
9 1 (0.64%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle
9 1 (0.64%) Pega
9 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow