Public Sector Contracts in the North East

Public Sector
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 7 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 80 39 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 25.00% 11.54% 18.91%
As % of the General category 43.24% 22.03% 38.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 22 58
10th Percentile £336 £407 £294
25th Percentile £375 £481 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -5.41% +11.00%
75th Percentile £525 £684 £675
90th Percentile £598 £720 £714
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.73 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% - -
England median hourly rate £22.27 £22.12 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.70% +10.58% -

All General Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 185 177 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 57.81% 52.37% 49.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 88 167
10th Percentile £244 £189 £231
25th Percentile £355 £402 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £523 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -2.79% +10.54%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £625
90th Percentile £617 £720 £732
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 40 0
10th Percentile - £11.41 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £11.64 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.49% - -
75th Percentile £18.72 £46.69 -
90th Percentile £22.64 £49.88 -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +5 73 £464 -11.67% 24
Durham +2 3 £438 - 1
Northumberland - 2 - - 2
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (6.25%) nginx
2 3 (3.75%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.50%) AWS
2 10 (12.50%) Azure
3 7 (8.75%) Kong
4 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.75%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.50%) GCP
5 2 (2.50%) Serverless
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.25%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (1.25%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.25%) Miro
6 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) SSL
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) Network Security
2 1 (1.25%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.25%) SMS
2 1 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.00%) MySQL
3 3 (3.75%) Big Data
4 2 (2.50%) Metadata
4 2 (2.50%) Tableau
5 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.25%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.25%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.25%) Power BI
5 1 (1.25%) Redis
5 1 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (17.50%) GitLab
2 9 (11.25%) Git
3 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 5 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 4 (5.00%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.00%) gulp
5 4 (5.00%) JIRA
5 4 (5.00%) JUnit
5 4 (5.00%) Maven
5 4 (5.00%) REST Assured
5 4 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.75%) ERwin
6 3 (3.75%) Selenium
7 2 (2.50%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (1.25%) Postman
General
1 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Finance
3 10 (12.50%) Marketing
4 8 (10.00%) Electronics
4 8 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 8 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.50%) Military
6 2 (2.50%) Brand Awareness
6 2 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Developer
2 9 (11.25%) Analyst
2 9 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (11.25%) Product Manager
3 7 (8.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (6.25%) Designer
4 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (6.25%) Lead
4 5 (6.25%) Test Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 4 (5.00%) Content Designer
6 3 (3.75%) Architect
6 3 (3.75%) Data Modeller
6 3 (3.75%) Field Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (3.75%) QA Tester
6 3 (3.75%) Service Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) Node.js
2 6 (7.50%) CSS
2 6 (7.50%) HTML
2 6 (7.50%) Jest
2 6 (7.50%) Kafka
2 6 (7.50%) Sass
2 6 (7.50%) Spring
2 6 (7.50%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.25%) React
4 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.00%) Apache CXF
4 4 (5.00%) Dropwizard
4 4 (5.00%) Express.js
4 4 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (5.00%) JAX-RS
4 4 (5.00%) MEAN Stack
4 4 (5.00%) Mongoose
4 4 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.00%) REST
4 4 (5.00%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Smartphone
4 2 (2.50%) Blog
4 2 (2.50%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.50%) Digital Signage
4 2 (2.50%) Social Media
5 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.25%) NHS
5 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Windows
4 1 (1.25%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Android
4 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) Agile
2 14 (17.50%) DevOps
3 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
5 10 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
6 9 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (11.25%) Programme Management
6 9 (11.25%) Test Automation
7 8 (10.00%) Microservices
7 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
8 7 (8.75%) Front End Development
8 7 (8.75%) TDD
8 7 (8.75%) User Experience
9 6 (7.50%) Roadmaps
10 5 (6.25%) API Testing
10 5 (6.25%) BDD
10 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (6.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.00%) Java
2 11 (13.75%) JavaScript
3 9 (11.25%) SQL
4 6 (7.50%) Python
5 2 (2.50%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) Bicep
6 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.50%) CSPO
4 2 (2.50%) Degree
5 1 (1.25%) CISM
5 1 (1.25%) CISSP
5 1 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) WCAG
2 5 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) NCSC
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (21.25%) Terraform
2 12 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.25%) Ansible
3 5 (6.25%) Grafana
3 5 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.50%) Packer
5 1 (1.25%) Kibana
5 1 (1.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Virgin Media
2 8 (10.00%) SAP
3 4 (5.00%) Databricks
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.75%) Google
5 2 (2.50%) Dell
5 2 (2.50%) Facebook
5 2 (2.50%) HP
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle
6 1 (1.25%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.25%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.25%) Huawei
6 1 (1.25%) IBM
6 1 (1.25%) Nokia
6 1 (1.25%) Pega
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) VMware