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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 79 46 11
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 17.17% 20.91% 5.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.97% 54.12% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 36 6
10th Percentile £353 £360 £500
25th Percentile £400 £449 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £508 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -11.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £569 £595 £650
90th Percentile £596 £650 £663
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £466 £490 £575
% change year-on-year -4.90% -14.78% -4.17%
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 152 85 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 33.04% 38.64% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 64 19
10th Percentile £306 £357 £313
25th Percentile £385 £412 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -1.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £544 £613 £600
90th Percentile £596 £650 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £494 £476
% change year-on-year -8.86% +3.73% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +400.00% - -

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 23 April 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 8 (10.13%) Apache Spark
2 7 (8.86%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (7.59%) Apache
4 3 (3.80%) Confluence
5 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (39.24%) Azure
2 15 (18.99%) GCP
2 15 (18.99%) Serverless
3 14 (17.72%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (10.13%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (10.13%) GitHub
4 8 (10.13%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.86%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.06%) IaaS
8 4 (5.06%) PaaS
8 4 (5.06%) SaaS
9 3 (3.80%) AWS KMS
9 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.80%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) DNS
1 2 (2.53%) Internet
1 2 (2.53%) SSL
1 2 (2.53%) VPN
2 1 (1.27%) HTTP
2 1 (1.27%) IPsec
2 1 (1.27%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) Big Data
1 8 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.86%) MongoDB
2 7 (8.86%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.06%) Delta Lake
5 4 (5.06%) Power BI
5 4 (5.06%) Redis
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.53%) Metadata
7 2 (2.53%) MySQL
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (29.11%) GitLab
2 17 (21.52%) Git
2 17 (21.52%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.13%) JIRA
4 6 (7.59%) REST Assured
4 6 (7.59%) Selenium
5 5 (6.33%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.80%) Postman
6 3 (3.80%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.53%) Gatling
8 1 (1.27%) JMeter
8 1 (1.27%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.27%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (37.97%) Public Sector
2 9 (11.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.53%) Finance
5 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Banking
5 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Legal
5 1 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (22.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (17.72%) Developer
3 13 (16.46%) Lead
4 12 (15.19%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (13.92%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (13.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 11 (13.92%) Senior
6 7 (8.86%) Architect
6 7 (8.86%) Test Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (6.33%) Java Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Node.js Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Manager
9 4 (5.06%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 4 (5.06%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
9 4 (5.06%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.80%) Data Architect
10 3 (3.80%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.72%) Kafka
2 12 (15.19%) Node.js
3 10 (12.66%) Spring
4 6 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (6.33%) Playwright
5 5 (6.33%) REST
5 5 (6.33%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.06%) Next.js
7 3 (3.80%) Express.js
7 3 (3.80%) HTML
7 3 (3.80%) Keycloak
7 3 (3.80%) LangChain
7 3 (3.80%) OpenID
7 3 (3.80%) PyTorch
7 3 (3.80%) React
7 3 (3.80%) RESTful
7 3 (3.80%) SOAP
7 3 (3.80%) TensorFlow
8 2 (2.53%) OAuth
8 2 (2.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.80%) Replication
3 2 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.53%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Linux
2 4 (5.06%) Android
2 4 (5.06%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.80%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.80%) Windows
4 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (54.43%) CI/CD
2 35 (44.30%) DevOps
3 24 (30.38%) Agile
4 21 (26.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (22.78%) Containerisation
5 18 (22.78%) Microservices
5 18 (22.78%) Test Automation
6 14 (17.72%) Data Engineering
7 13 (16.46%) AI
7 13 (16.46%) Software Engineering
8 12 (15.19%) Machine Learning
9 11 (13.92%) Roadmaps
9 11 (13.92%) TDD
10 10 (12.66%) Coaching
10 10 (12.66%) Mentoring
11 9 (11.39%) Analytics
11 9 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (11.39%) ETL
11 9 (11.39%) Observability
11 9 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.97%) Python
2 27 (34.18%) Java
3 12 (15.19%) SQL
4 9 (11.39%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.39%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.13%) Bash
6 5 (6.33%) Groovy
7 4 (5.06%) Kotlin
7 4 (5.06%) Scala
8 2 (2.53%) Go
8 2 (2.53%) Ruby
9 1 (1.27%) Bicep
9 1 (1.27%) C++
9 1 (1.27%) COBOL
9 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (55.70%) Security Cleared
2 36 (45.57%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.06%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.80%) Degree
6 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.27%) CISA
7 1 (1.27%) CISSP
7 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.66%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.80%) WCAG
4 2 (2.53%) GDPR
4 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.53%) QA
4 2 (2.53%) SLA
5 1 (1.27%) COBIT
5 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.27%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (30.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.27%) RACF
Systems Management
1 36 (45.57%) Terraform
2 24 (30.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.86%) Ansible
3 7 (8.86%) Grafana
3 7 (8.86%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.80%) Packer
4 3 (3.80%) Rancher
5 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.27%) Argo
6 1 (1.27%) Consul
6 1 (1.27%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (10.13%) ServiceNow
2 7 (8.86%) Databricks
3 6 (7.59%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.06%) Google
5 2 (2.53%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle
5 2 (2.53%) Splunk
5 2 (2.53%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.27%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.27%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.27%) Talend
6 1 (1.27%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.27%) UiPath
6 1 (1.27%) VMware