AWS Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 130 45 18
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.93% 21.33% 8.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 58.30% 54.22% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 35 6
10th Percentile £360 £408 £500
25th Percentile £388 £443 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £650
90th Percentile £625 £633 £663
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £480 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% -16.52% -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.44 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

AWS 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 223 83 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 39.33% 39.34% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 61 17
10th Percentile £313 £400 £175
25th Percentile £363 £430 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £596 £638 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.75 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.75 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +436.54% - -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Newcastle upon Tyne

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing AWS

AWS
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:

Application Platforms
1 28 (21.54%) Apache Spark
2 26 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (19.23%) Apache
4 19 (14.62%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.31%) Confluence
5 3 (2.31%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 62 (47.69%) Azure
2 23 (17.69%) OCI
3 21 (16.15%) GCP
4 14 (10.77%) Amazon S3
4 14 (10.77%) Serverless
5 13 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 10 (7.69%) SaaS
7 9 (6.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (6.15%) Amazon EMR
8 8 (6.15%) GitHub
9 6 (4.62%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.08%) IaaS
11 4 (3.08%) PaaS
11 4 (3.08%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.62%) Firewall
2 13 (10.00%) BGP
2 13 (10.00%) BIG-IP
2 13 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (10.00%) OSPF
2 13 (10.00%) VXLAN
3 12 (9.23%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (9.23%) SD-WAN
4 11 (8.46%) WAN
5 6 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.62%) WLAN
6 2 (1.54%) DNS
6 2 (1.54%) Internet
6 2 (1.54%) SSL
6 2 (1.54%) VPN
7 1 (0.77%) HTTP
7 1 (0.77%) IPsec
7 1 (0.77%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.15%) Big Data
2 8 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.15%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.62%) DynamoDB
3 6 (4.62%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.62%) Power BI
4 5 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (3.85%) Redis
5 4 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.08%) Delta Lake
5 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.31%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.31%) Metadata
6 3 (2.31%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 63 (48.46%) GitLab
2 20 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 19 (14.62%) Git
4 13 (10.00%) Selenium
5 10 (7.69%) Cucumber
6 9 (6.92%) JIRA
7 7 (5.38%) REST Assured
8 4 (3.08%) Postman
8 4 (3.08%) Serenity BDD
8 4 (3.08%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.31%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.54%) Gatling
10 2 (1.54%) JMeter
11 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.77%) Maven
11 1 (0.77%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (40.77%) Public Sector
2 23 (17.69%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.54%) Military
5 2 (1.54%) Publishing
6 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (27.69%) Senior
2 25 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (13.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (13.08%) Developer
5 17 (13.08%) Lead
6 13 (10.00%) Test Engineer
7 11 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Architect
9 7 (5.38%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.62%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (4.62%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 6 (4.62%) Senior Manager
10 6 (4.62%) Software Developer
11 5 (3.85%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 5 (3.85%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.08%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.38%) Kafka
2 13 (10.00%) Spring
3 12 (9.23%) Node.js
4 11 (8.46%) Playwright
5 8 (6.15%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.62%) PySpark
6 6 (4.62%) REST
7 5 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.31%) HTML
8 3 (2.31%) Keycloak
8 3 (2.31%) LangChain
8 3 (2.31%) Middleware
8 3 (2.31%) OpenID
8 3 (2.31%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 3 (2.31%) PyTorch
8 3 (2.31%) SOAP
8 3 (2.31%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.54%) SailPoint
9 2 (1.54%) SAML
9 2 (1.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.92%) Data Centre
2 19 (14.62%) Cloud Native
3 12 (9.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.08%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.31%) Replication
8 2 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.54%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.77%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.77%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.46%) Linux
2 4 (3.08%) Android
2 4 (3.08%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.31%) AIX
3 3 (2.31%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.31%) Unix
3 3 (2.31%) Windows
4 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 59 (45.38%) DevOps
3 57 (43.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (29.23%) Agile
5 31 (23.85%) Containerisation
6 30 (23.08%) Data Engineering
7 27 (20.77%) Test Automation
8 23 (17.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (17.69%) Microservices
9 19 (14.62%) Analytics
9 19 (14.62%) Zero Trust
10 17 (13.08%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (10.77%) AI
11 14 (10.77%) High Availability
11 14 (10.77%) Machine Learning
11 14 (10.77%) Roadmaps
12 13 (10.00%) Mentoring
12 13 (10.00%) Migration
13 12 (9.23%) ETL
13 12 (9.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (49.23%) Python
2 32 (24.62%) Java
3 19 (14.62%) SQL
4 9 (6.92%) Bash
5 7 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.85%) Groovy
8 3 (2.31%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.31%) Scala
9 2 (1.54%) Ruby
10 1 (0.77%) C++
10 1 (0.77%) COBOL
10 1 (0.77%) Go
10 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.77%) Swift
Qualifications
1 81 (62.31%) Security Cleared
2 65 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.31%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.77%) Degree
6 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.77%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.92%) QA
3 7 (5.38%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.54%) GDPR
4 2 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (33.85%) Docker
2 4 (3.08%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.77%) RACF
Systems Management
1 67 (51.54%) Terraform
2 29 (22.31%) Ansible
3 27 (20.77%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.15%) Grafana
5 7 (5.38%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.62%) Data Guard
6 6 (4.62%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (2.31%) Packer
7 3 (2.31%) Rancher
8 2 (1.54%) Kibana
8 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.77%) Argo
9 1 (0.77%) Consul
9 1 (0.77%) Istio
9 1 (0.77%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (14.62%) Palo Alto
2 13 (10.00%) F5
3 12 (9.23%) Arista
4 11 (8.46%) Aruba
5 10 (7.69%) Databricks
5 10 (7.69%) Trend Micro
6 9 (6.92%) Oracle
6 9 (6.92%) ServiceNow
7 7 (5.38%) Dynatrace
8 5 (3.85%) Google
9 4 (3.08%) Splunk
10 3 (2.31%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.54%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.54%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.77%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.77%) Confluent
12 1 (0.77%) Informatica
12 1 (0.77%) Talend
12 1 (0.77%) VMware