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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 165 64 24
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 26.83% 32.32% 15.00%
As % of the General category 57.89% 55.17% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 52 15
10th Percentile £325 £375 £368
25th Percentile £389 £434 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £528 £549 £555
90th Percentile £625 £599 £675
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -18.60%
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 285 116 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 46.34% 58.59% 53.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 84 52
10th Percentile £313 £200 £314
25th Percentile £368 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £532 £538 £550
90th Percentile £630 £598 £649
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £443 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -5.85% +4.44% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 4
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.60 £18.08
25th Percentile £37.22 £15.38 £18.19
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 £21.31
90th Percentile - £33.18 £22.33
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £43.96 £17.00 £19.75
% change year-on-year +158.59% -13.92% +1.28%

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 August 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 (10.30%) Apache Spark
2 16 (9.70%) Apache
2 16 (9.70%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (8.48%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.42%) Confluence
4 4 (2.42%) SAS
5 2 (1.21%) CMS
5 2 (1.21%) WordPress
6 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.61%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (41.21%) AWS
2 32 (19.39%) Azure
3 18 (10.91%) Power Platform
4 15 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (9.09%) Serverless
5 14 (8.48%) Google Analytics
6 12 (7.27%) Amazon S3
7 11 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.67%) GitHub
8 9 (5.45%) Firebase
8 9 (5.45%) GCP
9 7 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.64%) Kong
10 6 (3.64%) OCI
11 5 (3.03%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.64%) BGP
1 6 (3.64%) BIG-IP
1 6 (3.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 6 (3.64%) Firewall
1 6 (3.64%) OSPF
1 6 (3.64%) VXLAN
2 5 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
2 5 (3.03%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.42%) Intranet
3 4 (2.42%) WAN
4 3 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.82%) WLAN
5 2 (1.21%) VPN
6 1 (0.61%) DNS
6 1 (0.61%) HTTP
6 1 (0.61%) Network Security
6 1 (0.61%) NGFW
6 1 (0.61%) SSL
6 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.09%) Power BI
2 9 (5.45%) Looker
3 8 (4.85%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.42%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.42%) Metadata
5 4 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.82%) Big Data
6 3 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.82%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.21%) Power Query
7 2 (1.21%) Redis
7 2 (1.21%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.21%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.61%) QlikView
8 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (22.42%) GitLab
2 13 (7.88%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.45%) JIRA
4 8 (4.85%) fastlane
4 8 (4.85%) Git
5 7 (4.24%) Selenium
6 6 (3.64%) Cucumber
6 6 (3.64%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.42%) Android Studio
7 4 (2.42%) Crashlytics
7 4 (2.42%) Gradle
7 4 (2.42%) Xcode
8 2 (1.21%) JMeter
8 2 (1.21%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.21%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.61%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.61%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.61%) Postman
9 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (4.24%) Military
5 3 (1.82%) Finance
5 3 (1.82%) Legal
6 2 (1.21%) Publishing
7 1 (0.61%) Banking
7 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (20.61%) Developer
2 30 (18.18%) Senior
3 26 (15.76%) Lead
4 24 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (10.30%) Analyst
6 12 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.67%) Performance Analyst
7 11 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.06%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.45%) Architect
9 9 (5.45%) Delivery Manager
9 9 (5.45%) Designer
10 8 (4.85%) Test Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.64%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.64%) Node.js Developer
13 5 (3.03%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.88%) Kafka
2 12 (7.27%) Node.js
3 11 (6.67%) RESTful
4 9 (5.45%) REST
5 5 (3.03%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.03%) Express.js
5 5 (3.03%) Jest
5 5 (3.03%) React
5 5 (3.03%) Spring
5 5 (3.03%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.03%) SwiftUI
6 4 (2.42%) Android Jetpack
6 4 (2.42%) Android SDK
6 4 (2.42%) Core Data
6 4 (2.42%) iOS SDK
6 4 (2.42%) Jetpack Compose
6 4 (2.42%) Playwright
6 4 (2.42%) PySpark
6 4 (2.42%) Retrofit
6 4 (2.42%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.55%) Product Ownership
2 15 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.45%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.64%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.61%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.61%) PropTech
8 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.64%) Linux
2 5 (3.03%) Android
2 5 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (53.94%) Agile
2 54 (32.73%) CI/CD
3 52 (31.52%) DevOps
4 37 (22.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (21.21%) Containerisation
6 34 (20.61%) Analytics
6 34 (20.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 34 (20.61%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 32 (19.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (16.97%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 25 (15.15%) Mentoring
10 24 (14.55%) Test Automation
11 22 (13.33%) Data Engineering
11 22 (13.33%) Decision-Making
11 22 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (13.33%) Scrum
12 19 (11.52%) User Research
13 18 (10.91%) Microservices
14 17 (10.30%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.21%) Python
2 24 (14.55%) Java
3 21 (12.73%) SQL
4 11 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.85%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.24%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.03%) Swift
8 3 (1.82%) Bash
8 3 (1.82%) Scala
9 2 (1.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.61%) C#
10 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.61%) Go
10 1 (0.61%) Groovy
10 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (53.94%) Security Cleared
2 75 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 25 (15.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.61%) CIPD
6 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.61%) PMP
6 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.36%) Accessibility
2 20 (12.12%) WCAG
3 10 (6.06%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.24%) QA
5 4 (2.42%) GDPR
6 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 36 (21.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (24.24%) Terraform
2 17 (10.30%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.24%) Ansible
4 6 (3.64%) Grafana
5 5 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.21%) Kibana
7 1 (0.61%) Consul
7 1 (0.61%) Istio
7 1 (0.61%) Packer
7 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (11.52%) Google
2 12 (7.27%) Dynatrace
3 8 (4.85%) Trend Micro
4 6 (3.64%) F5
4 6 (3.64%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.64%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.03%) Arista
6 4 (2.42%) Apple
6 4 (2.42%) Aruba
7 3 (1.82%) Confluent
7 3 (1.82%) Databricks
8 2 (1.21%) DataFlux
8 2 (1.21%) Splunk
8 2 (1.21%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.61%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.61%) IBM
9 1 (0.61%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle
9 1 (0.61%) Pega
9 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow