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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 183 53 25
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.96% 26.63% 16.67%
As % of the General category 58.65% 49.07% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 42 12
10th Percentile £356 £402 £364
25th Percentile £400 £458 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £423
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +20.71% -23.18%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £541
90th Percentile £625 £592 £559
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £420
% change year-on-year -10.00% +19.05% -23.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £69.50 - -
25th Percentile £69.88 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £14.69
75th Percentile £75.38 - -
90th Percentile £76.50 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £72.00 - £14.69
% change year-on-year - - -22.68%

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 312 108 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 49.37% 54.27% 51.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 72 42
10th Percentile £313 £200 £314
25th Percentile £386 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £478 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% +9.14% -20.45%
75th Percentile £525 £540 £538
90th Percentile £625 £593 £590
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £440 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.37% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 7 4
10th Percentile £16.82 £13.60 £14.03
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.38 £14.46
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +128.36% +14.28% -13.62%
75th Percentile £69.75 £20.63 £20.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £33.18 £20.53
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £16.85
% change year-on-year +128.36% +14.28% -13.62%

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 1 September 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 19 (10.38%) Apache Spark
2 18 (9.84%) Apache
2 18 (9.84%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (8.74%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.19%) Confluence
4 4 (2.19%) SAS
5 2 (1.09%) CMS
5 2 (1.09%) WordPress
6 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (42.62%) AWS
2 36 (19.67%) Azure
3 19 (10.38%) Power Platform
4 18 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (9.84%) Serverless
5 17 (9.29%) GitHub
6 16 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (8.74%) Amazon S3
7 15 (8.20%) Google Analytics
8 14 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.46%) GCP
11 9 (4.92%) Firebase
12 7 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (3.28%) Kong
13 6 (3.28%) OCI
14 5 (2.73%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (2.73%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.92%) Firewall
2 6 (3.28%) BGP
2 6 (3.28%) BIG-IP
2 6 (3.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (3.28%) OSPF
2 6 (3.28%) VXLAN
3 5 (2.73%) DNS
3 5 (2.73%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (2.73%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.19%) Intranet
4 4 (2.19%) WAN
5 3 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.64%) WLAN
6 2 (1.09%) HTTP
6 2 (1.09%) SSL
6 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.55%) Network Security
7 1 (0.55%) NGFW
7 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.10%) MongoDB
1 13 (7.10%) Power BI
2 10 (5.46%) Looker
3 5 (2.73%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.73%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.73%) Metadata
3 5 (2.73%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.64%) Big Data
5 3 (1.64%) DocumentDB
5 3 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.09%) Power Query
6 2 (1.09%) Redis
6 2 (1.09%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (24.04%) GitLab
2 14 (7.65%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.46%) Git
4 9 (4.92%) JIRA
5 8 (4.37%) fastlane
6 6 (3.28%) Selenium
7 5 (2.73%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.73%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.19%) Android Studio
8 4 (2.19%) Crashlytics
8 4 (2.19%) Gradle
8 4 (2.19%) Xcode
9 2 (1.09%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.09%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.55%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.55%) Mocha
10 1 (0.55%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 50 (27.32%) Social Skills
2 45 (24.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.37%) Finance
5 7 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.28%) Military
7 4 (2.19%) Legal
7 4 (2.19%) Retail
8 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Publishing
10 1 (0.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (22.95%) Developer
2 30 (16.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (16.39%) Senior
3 26 (14.21%) Lead
4 21 (11.48%) Analyst
5 15 (8.20%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (7.65%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (7.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 14 (7.65%) Software Developer
7 11 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.01%) Performance Analyst
7 11 (6.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.46%) Business Analyst
9 9 (4.92%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (4.37%) Designer
11 7 (3.83%) Architect
11 7 (3.83%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.83%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.28%) Node.js Developer
12 6 (3.28%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (28.42%) Terraform
2 13 (7.10%) Kafka
3 12 (6.56%) RESTful
4 11 (6.01%) Node.js
5 9 (4.92%) REST
6 6 (3.28%) Play Framework
7 5 (2.73%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.73%) Express.js
7 5 (2.73%) Jest
7 5 (2.73%) React
7 5 (2.73%) Spring
7 5 (2.73%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.73%) SwiftUI
8 4 (2.19%) .NET
8 4 (2.19%) Android Jetpack
8 4 (2.19%) Android SDK
8 4 (2.19%) Core Data
8 4 (2.19%) Playwright
8 4 (2.19%) PySpark
8 4 (2.19%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.66%) Product Ownership
2 15 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.92%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.28%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.73%) Blog
5 5 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.19%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.55%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.55%) PropTech
8 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.37%) Linux
2 5 (2.73%) Android
2 5 (2.73%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.73%) Unix
3 1 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (54.10%) Agile
2 66 (36.07%) CI/CD
3 59 (32.24%) DevOps
4 44 (24.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (21.86%) Containerisation
6 37 (20.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 36 (19.67%) Analytics
8 35 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (19.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (18.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 31 (16.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 30 (16.39%) Scrum
12 28 (15.30%) Test Automation
13 26 (14.21%) Mentoring
13 26 (14.21%) User Research
14 23 (12.57%) Data Engineering
14 23 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (11.48%) Decision-Making
15 21 (11.48%) Kanban
16 20 (10.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 39 (21.31%) Python
2 25 (13.66%) SQL
3 20 (10.93%) Java
4 11 (6.01%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.37%) Scala
6 7 (3.83%) Bash
6 7 (3.83%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.73%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.73%) Swift
8 4 (2.19%) C#
9 3 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.09%) Go
10 2 (1.09%) Groovy
10 2 (1.09%) PHP
10 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 97 (53.01%) Security Cleared
2 83 (45.36%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.19%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.19%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.55%) CIPD
6 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.55%) PMP
6 1 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.03%) Accessibility
2 21 (11.48%) WCAG
3 9 (4.92%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.83%) QA
5 5 (2.73%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 43 (23.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (14.21%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.74%) Grafana
3 12 (6.56%) Ansible
4 10 (5.46%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.64%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.09%) Consul
7 2 (1.09%) Kibana
7 2 (1.09%) Packer
7 2 (1.09%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.55%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (10.93%) Google
2 13 (7.10%) Dynatrace
3 8 (4.37%) Splunk
3 8 (4.37%) Trend Micro
4 6 (3.28%) F5
4 6 (3.28%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.28%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.73%) Arista
6 4 (2.19%) Apple
6 4 (2.19%) Aruba
6 4 (2.19%) UiPath
7 3 (1.64%) Confluent
7 3 (1.64%) Databricks
8 2 (1.09%) DataFlux
9 1 (0.55%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.55%) FIS
9 1 (0.55%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle
9 1 (0.55%) Pega
9 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow