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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 4 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 68 33 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 28.45% 14.60% 19.50%
As % of the General category 52.31% 27.73% 42.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 21 43
10th Percentile £359 £403 £376
25th Percentile £400 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% +7.06%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £650
90th Percentile £604 £720 £695
North East median daily rate £465 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% +10.00%
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 130 119 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 54.39% 52.65% 45.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 64 105
10th Percentile £224 £372 £280
25th Percentile £358 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £565
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -9.29% +13.00%
75th Percentile £534 £606 £650
90th Percentile £603 £693 £736
North East median daily rate £460 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -12.38% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 27 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £19.97 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £39.19 £56.75 -
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 23 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 23 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 68 £465 -15.45% 79
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 4 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Documentum
2 2 (2.94%) FileNet
2 2 (2.94%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.47%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.47%) AWS
2 6 (8.82%) Azure
3 5 (7.35%) Kong
4 4 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (5.88%) Serverless
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.94%) GCP
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.47%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) SSL
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) Network Security
2 1 (1.47%) SMS
2 1 (1.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) NoSQL
1 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.35%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.35%) MySQL
3 3 (4.41%) Power BI
4 2 (2.94%) Metadata
4 2 (2.94%) Tableau
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.47%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.47%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.47%) Redis
5 1 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) GitLab
2 7 (10.29%) Git
3 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.35%) JIRA
4 5 (7.35%) SonarQube
5 4 (5.88%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.88%) gulp
5 4 (5.88%) Maven
5 4 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.41%) JUnit
6 3 (4.41%) Selenium
7 2 (2.94%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.47%) ERwin
8 1 (1.47%) Postman
General
1 11 (16.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (5.88%) Finance
2 4 (5.88%) Marketing
3 2 (2.94%) Brand Awareness
3 2 (2.94%) Electronics
3 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.94%) Military
3 2 (2.94%) Retail
3 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Developer
2 10 (14.71%) Product Manager
3 6 (8.82%) Analyst
3 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (7.35%) Designer
4 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (5.88%) Content Designer
5 4 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (5.88%) Lead
5 4 (5.88%) Test Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) QA Tester
6 3 (4.41%) Tester
7 2 (2.94%) Documentum Developer
7 2 (2.94%) Marketing Manager
7 2 (2.94%) Risk Manager
7 2 (2.94%) Supply Chain Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) Node.js
2 6 (8.82%) Kafka
2 6 (8.82%) Spring
2 6 (8.82%) Spring Boot
3 5 (7.35%) React
4 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.88%) Apache CXF
4 4 (5.88%) CSS
4 4 (5.88%) Dropwizard
4 4 (5.88%) Express.js
4 4 (5.88%) Hibernate
4 4 (5.88%) HTML
4 4 (5.88%) JAX-RS
4 4 (5.88%) Jest
4 4 (5.88%) MEAN Stack
4 4 (5.88%) MERN Stack
4 4 (5.88%) Mongoose
4 4 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.88%) Sass
4 4 (5.88%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.94%) Blog
4 2 (2.94%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.94%) Digital Signage
4 2 (2.94%) Social Media
5 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.47%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.94%) Windows
4 1 (1.47%) Android
4 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.35%) Agile
2 10 (14.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (13.24%) DevOps
4 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (10.29%) Test Automation
5 7 (10.29%) User Experience
6 6 (8.82%) API Testing
6 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (8.82%) Microservices
6 6 (8.82%) Roadmaps
6 6 (8.82%) Scrum
7 5 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.35%) Decision-Making
7 5 (7.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (7.35%) Front End Development
7 5 (7.35%) TDD
8 4 (5.88%) BDD
8 4 (5.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.53%) Java
2 9 (13.24%) JavaScript
3 8 (11.76%) SQL
4 6 (8.82%) Python
5 3 (4.41%) Bash
6 2 (2.94%) Rust
7 1 (1.47%) Bicep
7 1 (1.47%) Go
7 1 (1.47%) Perl
7 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (36.76%) Security Cleared
2 20 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.41%) CSPO
4 2 (2.94%) Degree
5 1 (1.47%) CISM
5 1 (1.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.47%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 5 (7.35%) WCAG
3 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) NCSC
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (22.06%) Terraform
2 8 (11.76%) Ansible
3 7 (10.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.94%) Packer
5 1 (1.47%) Grafana
5 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Virgin Media
2 4 (5.88%) Databricks
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (2.94%) Facebook
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (1.47%) Google
4 1 (1.47%) IBM
4 1 (1.47%) OpenText
4 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.47%) VMware