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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 118 76 32
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 23.74% 33.33% 15.61%
As % of the General category 48.96% 55.88% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 61 20
10th Percentile £365 £350 £405
25th Percentile £405 £375 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -13.49% -3.15%
75th Percentile £566 £525 £705
90th Percentile £638 £600 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% -11.43% -5.41%
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 241 136 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 48.49% 59.65% 50.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 103 60
10th Percentile £313 £233 £375
25th Percentile £398 £357 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -17.14% -7.08%
75th Percentile £539 £530 £625
90th Percentile £625 £598 £700
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £435 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -17.14% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 16
10th Percentile £16.63 £18.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.06 £19.56
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -27.89% -
75th Percentile £67.99 £43.56 £51.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £48.63 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.25 £14.07 £17.50
% change year-on-year +22.60% -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 11 May 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 4 (3.39%) Apache
1 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.39%) Confluence
2 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.54%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.54%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.85%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.51%) AWS
2 16 (13.56%) Azure
3 9 (7.63%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.93%) Serverless
5 6 (5.08%) GitHub
6 5 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.24%) Google Analytics
6 5 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.39%) OCI
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.54%) Firebase
8 3 (2.54%) GCP
8 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) Firewall
2 4 (3.39%) BGP
2 4 (3.39%) BIG-IP
2 4 (3.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 4 (3.39%) OSPF
2 4 (3.39%) VXLAN
3 3 (2.54%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (2.54%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.69%) VPN
4 2 (1.69%) WAN
4 2 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.69%) WLAN
5 1 (0.85%) DNS
5 1 (0.85%) HTTP
5 1 (0.85%) Intranet
5 1 (0.85%) Network Security
5 1 (0.85%) NGFW
5 1 (0.85%) SSL
5 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.08%) Power BI
2 4 (3.39%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.39%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.54%) Big Data
3 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.69%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.69%) Redis
4 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.69%) Tableau
5 1 (0.85%) DB2
5 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.85%) Metadata
5 1 (0.85%) Power Query
5 1 (0.85%) QlikView
5 1 (0.85%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 18 (15.25%) GitLab
2 7 (5.93%) JIRA
3 6 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.24%) Git
5 4 (3.39%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.54%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.54%) Selenium
7 2 (1.69%) fastlane
7 2 (1.69%) JMeter
8 1 (0.85%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.85%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.85%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.85%) ERwin
8 1 (0.85%) Gradle
8 1 (0.85%) JUnit
8 1 (0.85%) Postman
8 1 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.85%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.85%) Xcode
General
1 35 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.39%) Legal
4 4 (3.39%) Military
5 3 (2.54%) Finance
6 2 (1.69%) Police
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Local Government
7 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (17.80%) Analyst
1 21 (17.80%) Senior
2 17 (14.41%) Lead
3 16 (13.56%) Developer
4 13 (11.02%) Business Analyst
5 11 (9.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Architect
7 6 (5.08%) Designer
7 6 (5.08%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.08%) Performance Analyst
7 6 (5.08%) Product Manager
7 6 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (5.08%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.24%) Test Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) User Researcher
9 4 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (3.39%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.32%) Spring
2 10 (8.47%) Node.js
3 4 (3.39%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.54%) Kafka
4 3 (2.54%) REST
4 3 (2.54%) Swagger
5 2 (1.69%) Express.js
5 2 (1.69%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.69%) JSF
5 2 (1.69%) Next.js
5 2 (1.69%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.69%) OpenID
5 2 (1.69%) Playwright
5 2 (1.69%) RESTful
5 2 (1.69%) Struts
5 2 (1.69%) SwiftUI
6 1 (0.85%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.85%) Jest
6 1 (0.85%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (0.85%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.08%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.85%) PropTech
6 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.69%) Android
1 2 (1.69%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.69%) Linux
1 2 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.07%) Agile
2 26 (22.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 25 (21.19%) CI/CD
4 21 (17.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 20 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (16.10%) DevOps
7 17 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (12.71%) Containerisation
10 13 (11.02%) Test Automation
11 12 (10.17%) Service Design
11 12 (10.17%) TDD
11 12 (10.17%) User Research
12 11 (9.32%) Analytics
12 11 (9.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 10 (8.47%) Decision-Making
14 9 (7.63%) Data Engineering
14 9 (7.63%) Scrum
15 8 (6.78%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.49%) Java
2 19 (16.10%) Python
3 9 (7.63%) SQL
4 6 (5.08%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.24%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.39%) Scala
7 2 (1.69%) Bash
7 2 (1.69%) Go
7 2 (1.69%) Ruby
7 2 (1.69%) Swift
8 1 (0.85%) Bicep
8 1 (0.85%) Groovy
8 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.85%) R
8 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (55.93%) Security Cleared
2 56 (47.46%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.85%) CIPD
5 1 (0.85%) CISA
5 1 (0.85%) CISM
5 1 (0.85%) CISSP
5 1 (0.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.63%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.08%) WCAG
3 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.69%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (13.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (18.64%) Terraform
2 14 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.24%) Ansible
4 4 (3.39%) Grafana
4 4 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Consul
5 1 (0.85%) Istio
5 1 (0.85%) Kibana
5 1 (0.85%) Packer
5 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (5.93%) Google
2 4 (3.39%) F5
2 4 (3.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.39%) Palo Alto
3 3 (2.54%) Arista
3 3 (2.54%) Databricks
3 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.69%) Aruba
4 2 (1.69%) Cellebrite
4 2 (1.69%) Splunk
4 2 (1.69%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.85%) Apple
5 1 (0.85%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.85%) DataFlux
5 1 (0.85%) IBM
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle
5 1 (0.85%) Pega
5 1 (0.85%) Sage
5 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.85%) UiPath