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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 180 57 23
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.94% 29.08% 15.44%
As % of the General category 59.80% 50.89% 29.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 46 15
10th Percentile £337 £425 £368
25th Percentile £400 £458 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £525 £570 £555
90th Percentile £625 £613 £675
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £520 £438
% change year-on-year -13.46% +18.86% -20.45%
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 301 112 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 48.39% 57.14% 52.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 78 47
10th Percentile £313 £200 £320
25th Percentile £368 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £544
90th Percentile £625 £608 £643
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £440 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 7 5
10th Percentile £16.70 £13.60 £15.45
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £19.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +211.69% -1.28% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £20.75
90th Percentile - £33.18 £22.10
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £43.96 £17.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +158.59% -12.82% -

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 15 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 18 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 17 (9.44%) Apache
2 17 (9.44%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (8.33%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.22%) Confluence
4 4 (2.22%) SAS
5 2 (1.11%) CMS
5 2 (1.11%) WordPress
6 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (43.33%) AWS
2 36 (20.00%) Azure
3 20 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 18 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (10.00%) Serverless
5 16 (8.89%) GitHub
6 15 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 15 (8.33%) Google Analytics
7 14 (7.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (5.56%) GCP
12 9 (5.00%) Firebase
13 8 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (3.33%) Kong
15 6 (3.33%) OCI
16 5 (2.78%) Amazon ECR
16 5 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.44%) Firewall
2 6 (3.33%) BGP
2 6 (3.33%) BIG-IP
2 6 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (3.33%) OSPF
2 6 (3.33%) VXLAN
3 5 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (2.78%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.22%) DNS
4 4 (2.22%) Intranet
4 4 (2.22%) WAN
5 3 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.67%) WLAN
6 2 (1.11%) HTTP
6 2 (1.11%) SSL
6 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.11%) VPN
7 1 (0.56%) Network Security
7 1 (0.56%) NGFW
7 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.33%) Power BI
2 12 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.56%) Looker
4 5 (2.78%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.78%) Metadata
4 5 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.67%) Big Data
6 3 (1.67%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.11%) Power Query
7 2 (1.11%) Redis
7 2 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.11%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (22.78%) GitLab
2 14 (7.78%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.56%) Git
4 9 (5.00%) JIRA
5 8 (4.44%) fastlane
6 6 (3.33%) Selenium
7 5 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.78%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.22%) Android Studio
8 4 (2.22%) Crashlytics
8 4 (2.22%) Gradle
8 4 (2.22%) Xcode
9 2 (1.11%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.11%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.56%) Mocha
10 1 (0.56%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.56%) Postman
General
1 49 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.89%) Finance
4 7 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (3.33%) Military
6 3 (1.67%) Legal
7 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.11%) Publishing
7 2 (1.11%) Retail
8 1 (0.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (22.22%) Developer
2 31 (17.22%) Senior
3 28 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (15.00%) Lead
5 19 (10.56%) Analyst
6 14 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (7.22%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (7.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (7.22%) Software Developer
8 11 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.11%) Performance Analyst
8 11 (6.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.00%) Architect
9 9 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
9 9 (5.00%) Designer
10 8 (4.44%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.89%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.89%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.33%) Node.js Developer
12 6 (3.33%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.22%) Kafka
2 12 (6.67%) Node.js
3 11 (6.11%) RESTful
4 9 (5.00%) REST
5 5 (2.78%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.78%) Express.js
5 5 (2.78%) Jest
5 5 (2.78%) Play Framework
5 5 (2.78%) React
5 5 (2.78%) Spring
5 5 (2.78%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.78%) SwiftUI
6 4 (2.22%) Android Jetpack
6 4 (2.22%) Android SDK
6 4 (2.22%) Core Data
6 4 (2.22%) Jetpack Compose
6 4 (2.22%) Playwright
6 4 (2.22%) PySpark
6 4 (2.22%) Retrofit
6 4 (2.22%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 15 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.22%) Blog
6 4 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.11%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.56%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.56%) PropTech
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.89%) Linux
2 5 (2.78%) Android
2 5 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.22%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (53.89%) Agile
2 62 (34.44%) CI/CD
3 57 (31.67%) DevOps
4 41 (22.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (21.67%) Containerisation
6 37 (20.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 35 (19.44%) Analytics
7 35 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (18.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 33 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 27 (15.00%) Scrum
12 26 (14.44%) Mentoring
12 26 (14.44%) Test Automation
13 25 (13.89%) User Research
14 24 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (12.78%) Data Engineering
15 23 (12.78%) Decision-Making
16 20 (11.11%) Kanban
16 20 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 40 (22.22%) Python
2 24 (13.33%) SQL
3 23 (12.78%) Java
4 11 (6.11%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.44%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.89%) Kotlin
6 7 (3.89%) Scala
7 6 (3.33%) Bash
8 5 (2.78%) Swift
9 3 (1.67%) C#
10 2 (1.11%) Go
10 2 (1.11%) Groovy
10 2 (1.11%) PHP
10 2 (1.11%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 95 (52.78%) Security Cleared
2 81 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.56%) CIPD
6 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.56%) PMP
6 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.78%) Accessibility
2 20 (11.11%) WCAG
3 11 (6.11%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.89%) QA
5 5 (2.78%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 40 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (26.67%) Terraform
2 24 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.22%) Grafana
4 10 (5.56%) Ansible
5 8 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.11%) Consul
7 2 (1.11%) Kibana
7 2 (1.11%) Packer
7 2 (1.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.11%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (11.11%) Google
2 13 (7.22%) Dynatrace
3 8 (4.44%) Trend Micro
4 7 (3.89%) Splunk
5 6 (3.33%) F5
5 6 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.78%) Arista
7 4 (2.22%) Apple
7 4 (2.22%) Aruba
8 3 (1.67%) Confluent
8 3 (1.67%) Databricks
8 3 (1.67%) UiPath
9 2 (1.11%) DataFlux
9 2 (1.11%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.56%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.56%) FIS
10 1 (0.56%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle
10 1 (0.56%) Pega