Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.92% 1.01% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 2.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £454 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.65% - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile £735 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £575 £454 -
% change year-on-year +26.65% - -

All Cloud Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 139 87 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 42.64% 43.94% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 46 36
10th Percentile £260 £305 £163
25th Percentile £388 £357 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £407
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +10.57% -29.22%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £543
90th Percentile £700 £625 £610
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £454 £407
% change year-on-year -0.88% +11.55% -29.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £39.40 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.89%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.50 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.89%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in Newcastle upon Tyne

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Munging
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Blue Prism
1 1 (33.33%) UiPath