Public Sector Contract Job Trends in Newport

Public Sector
South Wales > Newport

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Newport. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 9 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 4 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 12.50% 16.92% 8.40%
As % of the General category 19.05% 23.91% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £491 £540
25th Percentile - £518 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year -72.17% -9.80% +10.87%
75th Percentile - £603 £681
90th Percentile - £613 £718
South Wales median daily rate £328 £162 £340
% change year-on-year +102.77% -52.41% -24.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £17.10 £12.73
25th Percentile - £20.25 £12.96
Median hourly rate - £24.25 £13.33
Median % change year-on-year - +81.92% -46.68%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £26.04
90th Percentile - - £33.67
South Wales median hourly rate £27.22 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +4.69% -5.45% +21.57%

All General Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21 46 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 65.63% 70.77% 46.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 35
10th Percentile £279 £202 £188
25th Percentile £405 £350 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -33.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £479 - £650
90th Percentile £584 £546 £683
South Wales median daily rate £400 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 20 9
10th Percentile £78.25 £15.18 £13.18
25th Percentile £79.38 £20.12 £27.08
Median hourly rate £82.50 £21.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +290.67% -57.77% +147.04%
75th Percentile £84.38 £48.13 £55.25
90th Percentile £84.75 £53.88 £55.50
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £25.36 £29.83
% change year-on-year -36.91% -14.99% +48.27%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Newport

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) IT Support
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Apple
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft