Public Sector Contracts 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 67 26 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 31.31% 13.90% 22.57%
As % of the General category 54.92% 26.80% 49.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 15 42
10th Percentile £359 £404 £217
25th Percentile £400 £438 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £538 £606 £647
90th Percentile £585 £675 £675
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £465 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £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 common skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 122 97 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 57.01% 51.87% 45.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 55 94
10th Percentile £220 £378 £289
25th Percentile £362 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £655
90th Percentile £575 £650 £738
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £560
% change year-on-year -10.00% -10.71% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 0
10th Percentile £15.65 £16.25 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.13 -
Median hourly rate £19.25 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.47% - -
75th Percentile £20.63 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £39.45 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.46%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) Documentum
2 2 (2.99%) FileNet
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.49%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.49%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.87%) AWS
2 6 (8.96%) Azure
3 5 (7.46%) Kong
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (5.97%) Serverless
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.99%) GCP
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.49%) GitHub
7 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.49%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) DNS
1 1 (1.49%) Network Security
1 1 (1.49%) SMS
1 1 (1.49%) SSL
1 1 (1.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) NoSQL
1 7 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.96%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.96%) MySQL
3 3 (4.48%) Power BI
4 2 (2.99%) Metadata
4 2 (2.99%) Tableau
5 1 (1.49%) Big Data
5 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.49%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.49%) Redis
5 1 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (14.93%) GitLab
2 8 (11.94%) Git
3 6 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.96%) JIRA
4 5 (7.46%) SonarQube
5 4 (5.97%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.97%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.97%) gulp
5 4 (5.97%) Maven
5 4 (5.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.48%) JUnit
6 3 (4.48%) Selenium
7 2 (2.99%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.49%) ERwin
8 1 (1.49%) Postman
General
1 10 (14.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (5.97%) Finance
2 4 (5.97%) Marketing
3 2 (2.99%) Brand Awareness
3 2 (2.99%) Electronics
3 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.99%) Military
3 2 (2.99%) Retail
3 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Developer
2 10 (14.93%) Product Manager
3 6 (8.96%) Analyst
3 6 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (7.46%) Designer
4 5 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (5.97%) Content Designer
5 4 (5.97%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (5.97%) Test Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Architect
6 3 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (4.48%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) Lead
6 3 (4.48%) QA Tester
6 3 (4.48%) Tester
7 2 (2.99%) Documentum Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Marketing Manager
7 2 (2.99%) Risk Manager
7 2 (2.99%) Supply Chain Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) Node.js
2 7 (10.45%) Spring
3 6 (8.96%) Kafka
3 6 (8.96%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.46%) React
5 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.97%) Apache CXF
5 4 (5.97%) CSS
5 4 (5.97%) Dropwizard
5 4 (5.97%) Express.js
5 4 (5.97%) Hibernate
5 4 (5.97%) HTML
5 4 (5.97%) JAX-RS
5 4 (5.97%) Jest
5 4 (5.97%) MEAN Stack
5 4 (5.97%) MERN Stack
5 4 (5.97%) Mongoose
5 4 (5.97%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (5.97%) Sass
5 4 (5.97%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) Blog
4 2 (2.99%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.99%) Digital Signage
4 2 (2.99%) Social Media
5 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.49%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.99%) Windows
4 1 (1.49%) Android
4 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) Agile
2 10 (14.93%) CI/CD
3 8 (11.94%) DevOps
3 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
4 7 (10.45%) User Experience
5 6 (8.96%) API Testing
5 6 (8.96%) Microservices
5 6 (8.96%) Scrum
6 5 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (7.46%) Decision-Making
6 5 (7.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (7.46%) Front End Development
6 5 (7.46%) Roadmaps
6 5 (7.46%) TDD
7 4 (5.97%) Event-Driven
7 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) Java
2 9 (13.43%) SQL
3 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.96%) Python
5 3 (4.48%) Bash
6 2 (2.99%) Rust
7 1 (1.49%) Bicep
7 1 (1.49%) Go
7 1 (1.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (35.82%) Security Cleared
2 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.48%) CSPO
4 2 (2.99%) Degree
5 1 (1.49%) CISM
5 1 (1.49%) CISSP
5 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.49%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
1 5 (7.46%) WCAG
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) NCSC
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) Terraform
2 7 (10.45%) Ansible
3 6 (8.96%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (1.49%) Packer
4 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (19.40%) Virgin Media
2 4 (5.97%) Databricks
2 4 (5.97%) Oracle
3 2 (2.99%) Facebook
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.99%) SAP
4 1 (1.49%) Google
4 1 (1.49%) IBM
4 1 (1.49%) OpenText
4 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.49%) VMware