Public Sector Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Public Sector
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 6 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 73 34 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 29.92% 13.99% 20.98%
As % of the General category 53.68% 26.15% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 22 53
10th Percentile £340 £407 £374
25th Percentile £375 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -6.25% +12.00%
75th Percentile £525 £684 £675
90th Percentile £591 £720 £700
North East median daily rate £463 £525 £555
% change year-on-year -11.90% -5.41% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
North East median hourly rate £18.87 £17.73 -
% change year-on-year +6.43% - -

All General Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 136 130 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 55.74% 53.50% 47.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 70 131
10th Percentile £268 £364 £280
25th Percentile £356 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £523 £565
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% -7.52% +13.00%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £666
90th Percentile £596 £678 £756
North East median daily rate £465 £523 £538
% change year-on-year -11.00% -2.79% +10.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 29 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £14.07 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% - -
75th Percentile £26.69 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £41.88 £61.75 -
North East median hourly rate £11.64 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -33.49% - -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Tyne and Wear

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Tyne and Wear

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Tyne and Wear

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Tyne and Wear

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +3 73 £464 -11.67% 19
Public Sector
North East

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (6.85%) nginx
2 2 (2.74%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.37%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.66%) AWS
2 10 (13.70%) Azure
3 7 (9.59%) Kong
4 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (4.11%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.74%) GCP
5 2 (2.74%) Serverless
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.37%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (1.37%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (1.37%) GitHub
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) SSL
2 1 (1.37%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) Network Security
2 1 (1.37%) SMS
2 1 (1.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) NoSQL
1 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.48%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.48%) MySQL
3 3 (4.11%) Big Data
4 2 (2.74%) Metadata
4 2 (2.74%) Tableau
5 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.37%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.37%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.37%) Power BI
5 1 (1.37%) Redis
5 1 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (17.81%) GitLab
2 9 (12.33%) Git
3 7 (9.59%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.85%) Cucumber
4 5 (6.85%) SonarQube
5 4 (5.48%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.48%) gulp
5 4 (5.48%) Maven
5 4 (5.48%) REST Assured
5 4 (5.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.11%) ERwin
6 3 (4.11%) JIRA
6 3 (4.11%) JUnit
6 3 (4.11%) Selenium
7 2 (2.74%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (1.37%) Postman
General
1 12 (16.44%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Finance
3 10 (13.70%) Marketing
4 8 (10.96%) Electronics
4 8 (10.96%) Manufacturing
4 8 (10.96%) Telecoms
5 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Military
6 2 (2.74%) Brand Awareness
6 2 (2.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Developer
2 9 (12.33%) Product Manager
3 8 (10.96%) Analyst
3 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (6.85%) Designer
5 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (6.85%) Lead
5 5 (6.85%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (5.48%) Content Designer
7 3 (4.11%) Architect
7 3 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Data Modeller
7 3 (4.11%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (4.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) QA Tester
7 3 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.11%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) Node.js
2 6 (8.22%) CSS
2 6 (8.22%) HTML
2 6 (8.22%) Jest
2 6 (8.22%) Kafka
2 6 (8.22%) Sass
3 5 (6.85%) React
3 5 (6.85%) Spring
3 5 (6.85%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.48%) Apache CXF
4 4 (5.48%) Dropwizard
4 4 (5.48%) Express.js
4 4 (5.48%) Hibernate
4 4 (5.48%) JAX-RS
4 4 (5.48%) MEAN Stack
4 4 (5.48%) Mongoose
4 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.48%) REST
4 4 (5.48%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.11%) Smartphone
4 2 (2.74%) Blog
4 2 (2.74%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.74%) Digital Signage
4 2 (2.74%) Social Media
5 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
2 3 (4.11%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.74%) Windows
4 1 (1.37%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.37%) Android
4 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.29%) Agile
2 13 (17.81%) DevOps
3 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (13.70%) CI/CD
4 10 (13.70%) Digital Marketing
5 9 (12.33%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (12.33%) Test Automation
6 8 (10.96%) Programme Management
7 7 (9.59%) Decision-Making
7 7 (9.59%) Front End Development
7 7 (9.59%) Microservices
7 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (9.59%) User Experience
8 6 (8.22%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.22%) TDD
9 5 (6.85%) API Testing
9 5 (6.85%) BDD
9 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (6.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) Java
2 11 (15.07%) JavaScript
3 9 (12.33%) SQL
4 6 (8.22%) Python
5 2 (2.74%) Bash
6 1 (1.37%) Bicep
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (41.10%) Security Cleared
2 25 (34.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.11%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.74%) CSPO
4 2 (2.74%) Degree
5 1 (1.37%) CISM
5 1 (1.37%) CISSP
5 1 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.37%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) WCAG
2 5 (6.85%) QA
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) NCSC
4 1 (1.37%) GDPR
4 1 (1.37%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (15.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (23.29%) Terraform
2 11 (15.07%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.85%) Ansible
3 5 (6.85%) Grafana
3 5 (6.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.74%) Packer
5 1 (1.37%) Kibana
5 1 (1.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (17.81%) Virgin Media
2 8 (10.96%) SAP
3 4 (5.48%) Databricks
3 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.11%) Google
5 2 (2.74%) Facebook
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) Pega
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) VMware