Public Sector Contract Job Trends 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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 2
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 68 40 51
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 22.59% 14.18% 21.79%
As % of the General category 45.33% 25.97% 36.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 18 37
10th Percentile £375 £185 £350
25th Percentile £425 £403 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% +2.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £650
90th Percentile £600 £711 £720
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £14.75 -
25th Percentile - £14.85 £18.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £15.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.80% -21.05% -
75th Percentile - £20.75 £23.63
90th Percentile - £24.20 £29.70
England median hourly rate £22.05 £23.99 £21.00
% change year-on-year -8.09% +14.24% +5.00%

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 150 154 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 49.83% 54.61% 59.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 65 105
10th Percentile £200 £299 £257
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -16.67%
75th Percentile £541 £625 £575
90th Percentile £588 £723 £702
England median daily rate £500 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -6.19% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 7
10th Percentile £12.21 £11.90 £17.60
25th Percentile £13.56 £13.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £15.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.80% -23.08% +47.17%
75th Percentile £20.63 £20.00 £26.13
90th Percentile - £42.24 £32.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £28.88
% change year-on-year -32.93% +29.87% +15.50%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Public Sector job vacancy trend in the North East

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Public Sector

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 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the North East

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Public Sector

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 October 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 +2 63 £500 -4.76% 16
Northumberland +8 2 - -
Durham +1 1 £650 +333.33% 2
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 10 (14.71%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Documentum
2 2 (2.94%) FileNet
3 1 (1.47%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.71%) AWS
2 6 (8.82%) Serverless
3 5 (7.35%) Azure
4 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.88%) GCP
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.94%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.47%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.47%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.47%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) DHCP
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) SSL
2 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.47%) VoIP
2 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.35%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.88%) MySQL
5 2 (2.94%) Power BI
6 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 13 (19.12%) Git
2 11 (16.18%) JIRA
3 9 (13.24%) GitLab
4 8 (11.76%) Cucumber
5 6 (8.82%) REST Assured
6 5 (7.35%) Selenium
7 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
8 2 (2.94%) JMeter
8 2 (2.94%) Mocha
8 2 (2.94%) Postman
9 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.47%) Gatling
9 1 (1.47%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.47%) TestRail
General
1 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.82%) Military
3 3 (4.41%) Marketing
4 2 (2.94%) Electronics
4 2 (2.94%) Finance
4 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (1.47%) Local Government
5 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (16.18%) Developer
2 10 (14.71%) Senior
3 9 (13.24%) Test Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Analyst
5 6 (8.82%) Business Analyst
6 5 (7.35%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.88%) Architect
7 4 (5.88%) Lead
7 4 (5.88%) Product Manager
8 3 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Security Architect
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Architect
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Manager
8 3 (4.41%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (2.94%) QA Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Supply Chain Manager
9 2 (2.94%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) Node.js
2 8 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 7 (10.29%) REST
4 5 (7.35%) Spring
5 4 (5.88%) Jest
5 4 (5.88%) RESTful
5 4 (5.88%) WireMock
6 3 (4.41%) Gherkin
6 3 (4.41%) Spring MVC
6 3 (4.41%) Web Services
7 2 (2.94%) CSS
7 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.94%) HTML
7 2 (2.94%) Sass
8 1 (1.47%) Keycloak
8 1 (1.47%) Playwright
8 1 (1.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
1 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
1 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
1 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.47%) Blog
3 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.47%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.47%) Digital Signage
3 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.47%) NHS
3 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.47%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Android
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
1 2 (2.94%) Mac OS
1 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (2.94%) Windows
2 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) Agile
2 20 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 13 (19.12%) Microservices
4 12 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (17.65%) TDD
4 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 10 (14.71%) DevOps
6 8 (11.76%) BDD
6 8 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 7 (10.29%) API Testing
7 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (10.29%) Migration
8 6 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (8.82%) Performance Testing
8 6 (8.82%) Scrum
8 6 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (8.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 5 (7.35%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (7.35%) Mentoring
9 5 (7.35%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.47%) Java
2 8 (11.76%) Bash
2 8 (11.76%) Python
3 5 (7.35%) SQL
4 4 (5.88%) Go
4 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.88%) Perl
5 2 (2.94%) Rust
6 1 (1.47%) COBOL
6 1 (1.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 39 (57.35%) Security Cleared
2 33 (48.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.94%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.47%) CSPO
5 1 (1.47%) Degree
5 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) QA
2 5 (7.35%) WCAG
3 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.94%) GDPR
5 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (20.59%) Terraform
2 12 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 10 (14.71%) Ansible
4 4 (5.88%) Grafana
5 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.47%) Argo
6 1 (1.47%) Istio
6 1 (1.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (5.88%) Google
2 3 (4.41%) Dell
2 3 (4.41%) HP
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle
3 2 (2.94%) SAP
3 2 (2.94%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.47%) Apple
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco
4 1 (1.47%) Computacenter
4 1 (1.47%) Facebook
4 1 (1.47%) OpenText
4 1 (1.47%) Pega
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat