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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 81 44 14
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 19.24% 19.91% 6.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.86% 50.00% 35.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 32 13
10th Percentile £354 £358 £400
25th Percentile £400 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +14.71% -29.17%
75th Percentile £578 £590 £525
90th Percentile £625 £624 £628
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £481 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +1.32% +11.76% -29.17%
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 145 88 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 34.44% 39.82% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 63 28
10th Percentile £260 £325 £163
25th Percentile £375 £371 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £419
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +16.42% -26.70%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £542
90th Percentile £625 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £481 £409
% change year-on-year -6.49% +17.67% -27.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile £68.47 - £16.50
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £60.00 £13.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +361.54% -18.75% -

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 19 March 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 7 (8.64%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (8.64%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.41%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.33%) Azure
2 15 (18.52%) Serverless
3 14 (17.28%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (16.05%) GCP
5 9 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (11.11%) GitHub
6 8 (9.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (9.88%) Amazon S3
6 8 (9.88%) Power Platform
6 8 (9.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.94%) AWS KMS
10 4 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.70%) Google Gemini
11 3 (3.70%) Vertex AI
12 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) DNS
2 2 (2.47%) VPN
3 1 (1.23%) IPsec
3 1 (1.23%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 9 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.17%) Big Data
3 5 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.17%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.94%) Delta Lake
4 4 (4.94%) Power BI
4 4 (4.94%) Redis
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.47%) Metadata
6 2 (2.47%) MySQL
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (35.80%) GitLab
2 17 (20.99%) Jenkins
3 14 (17.28%) Git
4 6 (7.41%) REST Assured
5 5 (6.17%) Mocha
6 4 (4.94%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.94%) Selenium
7 3 (3.70%) JIRA
7 3 (3.70%) Postman
8 2 (2.47%) Gatling
8 2 (2.47%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.23%) JMeter
9 1 (1.23%) Serenity BDD
General
1 33 (40.74%) Public Sector
2 10 (12.35%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.47%) Finance
3 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.23%) Banking
4 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Developer
2 16 (19.75%) Lead
3 15 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (13.58%) Senior
5 9 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) Test Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (8.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Architect
8 6 (7.41%) Node.js Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Penetration Tester
10 4 (4.94%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Tester
11 3 (3.70%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.28%) Node.js
2 13 (16.05%) Kafka
2 13 (16.05%) Spring
3 8 (9.88%) REST
4 7 (8.64%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.17%) HTML
5 5 (6.17%) Jest
5 5 (6.17%) React
6 4 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.94%) Express.js
6 4 (4.94%) Next.js
7 3 (3.70%) CSS
7 3 (3.70%) LangChain
7 3 (3.70%) Playwright
7 3 (3.70%) PyTorch
7 3 (3.70%) RESTful
7 3 (3.70%) TensorFlow
8 2 (2.47%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.47%) Swagger
8 2 (2.47%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.23%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.94%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Android
3 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (49.38%) CI/CD
2 35 (43.21%) DevOps
3 25 (30.86%) Microservices
4 22 (27.16%) Agile
5 21 (25.93%) Containerisation
5 21 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 17 (20.99%) Coaching
8 16 (19.75%) Test Automation
9 15 (18.52%) Software Engineering
10 14 (17.28%) TDD
11 13 (16.05%) AI
11 13 (16.05%) Data Engineering
12 12 (14.81%) Machine Learning
13 10 (12.35%) Analytics
14 9 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
14 9 (11.11%) ETL
14 9 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
15 8 (9.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.80%) Java
2 28 (34.57%) Python
3 13 (16.05%) SQL
4 10 (12.35%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.41%) Bash
7 4 (4.94%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.70%) Scala
9 2 (2.47%) Groovy
9 2 (2.47%) Ruby
10 1 (1.23%) Bicep
10 1 (1.23%) Go
10 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 49 (60.49%) Security Cleared
2 42 (51.85%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.17%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.70%) CHECK Team Member
5 3 (3.70%) CREST Certified
5 3 (3.70%) Degree
6 2 (2.47%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.23%) CISA
7 1 (1.23%) CISSP
7 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.94%) GDPR
3 4 (4.94%) WCAG
4 2 (2.47%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.47%) SLA
4 2 (2.47%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.23%) COBIT
5 1 (1.23%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.23%) NCSC
5 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 28 (34.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 37 (45.68%) Terraform
2 30 (37.04%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.11%) Grafana
4 7 (8.64%) Ansible
5 5 (6.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.47%) Packer
7 1 (1.23%) Argo
7 1 (1.23%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.23%) Rancher
7 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (8.64%) Databricks
2 5 (6.17%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.94%) Google
4 2 (2.47%) CyberArk
4 2 (2.47%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle
4 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.47%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.23%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.23%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.23%) Informatica
5 1 (1.23%) Splunk
5 1 (1.23%) Talend
5 1 (1.23%) UiPath