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 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 105 48 37
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 33.23% 25.00% 22.29%
As % of the General category 56.76% 45.71% 43.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 26 29
10th Percentile £328 £305 £404
25th Percentile £400 £335 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £423 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -29.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £520 £560 £720
90th Percentile £550 £630 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £445 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +4.71% -22.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £14.69 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - -18.39% -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £14.69 £18.00
% change year-on-year - -18.39% -

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 common skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 185 105 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 58.54% 54.69% 51.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 58 59
10th Percentile £203 £293 £208
25th Percentile £380 £335 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £501 £550 £673
90th Percentile £575 £633 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £450 £523
% change year-on-year -2.78% -13.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile £13.67 - £22.20
25th Percentile £17.88 £13.75 £28.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £15.60 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% -60.01% +212.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.75 £49.50
90th Percentile - £19.83 £55.80
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £15.60 £17.75
% change year-on-year +23.44% -12.14% +42.00%

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 16 December 2025.

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 5 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) Apache
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.38%) AWS
2 8 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (7.62%) Serverless
3 6 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (5.71%) Azure
4 5 (4.76%) GitHub
5 4 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.86%) AWS KMS
6 3 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.90%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (1.90%) GCP
7 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.76%) Wireless
2 2 (1.90%) Firewall
3 1 (0.95%) DHCP
3 1 (0.95%) DNS
3 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.81%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (13.33%) GitLab
2 11 (10.48%) Cucumber
3 10 (9.52%) Git
3 10 (9.52%) REST Assured
4 8 (7.62%) JIRA
5 5 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.76%) Selenium
6 4 (3.81%) JMeter
7 3 (2.86%) Gatling
7 3 (2.86%) Mocha
8 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.90%) Postman
8 2 (1.90%) TestRail
9 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.67%) Finance
3 6 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.71%) Electronics
3 6 (5.71%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.71%) Marketing
3 6 (5.71%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.90%) Police
5 1 (0.95%) Legal
5 1 (0.95%) Military
5 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (15.24%) Test Engineer
2 15 (14.29%) Product Manager
3 14 (13.33%) Analyst
4 13 (12.38%) Business Analyst
4 13 (12.38%) Senior
5 10 (9.52%) Lead
6 9 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Developer
8 6 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.71%) Senior Business Analyst
8 6 (5.71%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 5 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (4.76%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.76%) Designer
9 5 (4.76%) Desktop Support
9 5 (4.76%) IT Support
9 5 (4.76%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 5 (4.76%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.48%) REST
2 8 (7.62%) WireMock
3 7 (6.67%) Node.js
4 5 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.81%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.86%) Jest
6 3 (2.86%) Spring
7 2 (1.90%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.95%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.95%) CSS
8 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.95%) Express.js
8 1 (0.95%) Flask
8 1 (0.95%) HTML
8 1 (0.95%) Kafka
8 1 (0.95%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.95%) Next.js
8 1 (0.95%) Playwright
8 1 (0.95%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.76%) Android
1 5 (4.76%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.95%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (46.67%) Agile
2 29 (27.62%) CI/CD
3 23 (21.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (20.00%) DevOps
5 20 (19.05%) Test Automation
6 17 (16.19%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 16 (15.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 14 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (13.33%) TDD
10 13 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (12.38%) Microservices
10 13 (12.38%) Service Design
11 12 (11.43%) Product Strategy
12 11 (10.48%) BDD
12 11 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.48%) Roadmaps
12 11 (10.48%) Workshop Facilitation
13 9 (8.57%) Product Management
14 8 (7.62%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.10%) Java
2 17 (16.19%) Python
3 9 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.62%) Bash
5 4 (3.81%) Go
5 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.86%) Perl
6 3 (2.86%) SQL
7 1 (0.95%) Bicep
7 1 (0.95%) COBOL
7 1 (0.95%) Groovy
7 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.95%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (56.19%) Security Cleared
2 55 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.86%) CISSP
5 2 (1.90%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.95%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.95%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (0.95%) CISA
6 1 (0.95%) CISM
6 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) QA
2 8 (7.62%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.81%) WCAG
4 3 (2.86%) GDPR
5 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.90%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.90%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.95%) NCSC
6 1 (0.95%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (17.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (24.76%) Terraform
2 15 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.67%) Ansible
4 6 (5.71%) Grafana
5 4 (3.81%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.95%) Argo
6 1 (0.95%) Istio
6 1 (0.95%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (5.71%) SAP
2 5 (4.76%) Apple
2 5 (4.76%) Cisco
2 5 (4.76%) Dell
2 5 (4.76%) HP
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.90%) Cellebrite
5 1 (0.95%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.95%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.95%) Databricks
5 1 (0.95%) Google
5 1 (0.95%) Pega
5 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.95%) UiPath