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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 138 56 19
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.85% 28.14% 11.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.79% 60.87% 55.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 41 4
10th Percentile £363 £410 £490
25th Percentile £400 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £581
90th Percentile £625 £750 £638
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £451 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -9.75% -6.98% -10.42%
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 243 92 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.23% 46.23% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 61 15
10th Percentile £313 £406 £169
25th Percentile £363 £425 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £538
90th Percentile £594 £650 £610
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -15.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 0 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +438.46% - -

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 29 July 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 27 (19.57%) Apache Spark
2 24 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (16.67%) Apache
4 19 (13.77%) Jupyter
5 6 (4.35%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.45%) CMS
6 2 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.45%) WordPress
7 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 59 (42.75%) Azure
2 24 (17.39%) OCI
3 19 (13.77%) GCP
3 19 (13.77%) Serverless
4 18 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (10.87%) Amazon S3
6 12 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (7.25%) GitHub
7 10 (7.25%) SaaS
8 8 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (5.80%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (5.07%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (5.07%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.90%) Kong
12 4 (2.90%) Textract
12 4 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.77%) Firewall
2 13 (9.42%) BGP
2 13 (9.42%) BIG-IP
2 13 (9.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (9.42%) OSPF
2 13 (9.42%) VXLAN
3 12 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (8.70%) SD-WAN
4 11 (7.97%) WAN
5 6 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.35%) WLAN
6 2 (1.45%) DNS
6 2 (1.45%) Internet
6 2 (1.45%) SSL
6 2 (1.45%) VPN
7 1 (0.72%) HTTP
7 1 (0.72%) IPsec
7 1 (0.72%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.14%) MongoDB
2 10 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.52%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.80%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.07%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.07%) Oracle Database
6 6 (4.35%) Big Data
6 6 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.62%) Metadata
7 5 (3.62%) Power BI
7 5 (3.62%) Redis
8 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.90%) MySQL
8 4 (2.90%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (2.90%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.17%) Looker
Development Applications
1 67 (48.55%) GitLab
2 22 (15.94%) Git
3 17 (12.32%) Jenkins
4 10 (7.25%) Selenium
5 8 (5.80%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.07%) JIRA
7 4 (2.90%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.90%) WebDriver
8 3 (2.17%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.45%) JMeter
9 2 (1.45%) Mocha
9 2 (1.45%) Postman
10 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.72%) Gatling
10 1 (0.72%) Maven
10 1 (0.72%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (47.83%) Public Sector
2 25 (18.12%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.90%) Publishing
6 2 (1.45%) Military
7 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (28.99%) Senior
2 30 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (18.12%) Developer
4 21 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (13.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (13.04%) Lead
7 17 (12.32%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (11.59%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (11.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 11 (7.97%) Data Engineer
10 10 (7.25%) Test Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Software Developer
12 7 (5.07%) Architect
12 7 (5.07%) Python Developer
13 6 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
13 6 (4.35%) Java Developer
13 6 (4.35%) Senior Delivery Manager
13 6 (4.35%) Senior Manager
14 5 (3.62%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 5 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.39%) Kafka
2 16 (11.59%) Node.js
3 13 (9.42%) Spring
4 11 (7.97%) Spring Boot
5 8 (5.80%) Playwright
5 8 (5.80%) REST
6 6 (4.35%) Middleware
6 6 (4.35%) OAuth
6 6 (4.35%) PySpark
7 5 (3.62%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.62%) Express.js
7 5 (3.62%) Jest
7 5 (3.62%) React
8 4 (2.90%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.90%) JWT
8 4 (2.90%) OpenID
8 4 (2.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 4 (2.90%) RESTful
9 3 (2.17%) HTML
9 3 (2.17%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.49%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (7.97%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.07%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.17%) Replication
9 2 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.45%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.70%) Linux
2 4 (2.90%) AIX
2 4 (2.90%) Android
2 4 (2.90%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.90%) Unix
3 3 (2.17%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (57.25%) CI/CD
2 69 (50.00%) DevOps
3 65 (47.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (37.68%) Agile
5 41 (29.71%) Containerisation
6 31 (22.46%) Data Engineering
6 31 (22.46%) Microservices
7 29 (21.01%) Test Automation
8 24 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (13.77%) Analytics
9 19 (13.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (13.77%) Zero Trust
10 18 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (13.04%) Mentoring
11 17 (12.32%) Roadmaps
12 16 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (11.59%) Scrum
13 15 (10.87%) ETL
14 14 (10.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (44.93%) Python
2 31 (22.46%) Java
3 18 (13.04%) SQL
4 10 (7.25%) Bash
4 10 (7.25%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.52%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.62%) Groovy
7 3 (2.17%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.45%) PHP
8 2 (1.45%) Scala
9 1 (0.72%) C++
9 1 (0.72%) COBOL
9 1 (0.72%) Go
9 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 84 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 68 (49.28%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.72%) Degree
6 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.87%) Data Quality
1 15 (10.87%) QA
2 12 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.07%) WCAG
4 4 (2.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (36.96%) Docker
2 5 (3.62%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.72%) RACF
Systems Management
1 72 (52.17%) Terraform
2 32 (23.19%) Kubernetes
3 27 (19.57%) Ansible
4 9 (6.52%) Grafana
5 8 (5.80%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.07%) Data Guard
6 7 (5.07%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (2.17%) Packer
7 3 (2.17%) Rancher
8 2 (1.45%) Kibana
8 2 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.72%) Argo
9 1 (0.72%) Consul
9 1 (0.72%) Istio
9 1 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (13.77%) Palo Alto
2 13 (9.42%) F5
3 12 (8.70%) Arista
4 11 (7.97%) Aruba
5 10 (7.25%) Oracle
5 10 (7.25%) Trend Micro
6 9 (6.52%) Databricks
6 9 (6.52%) ServiceNow
7 8 (5.80%) Dynatrace
8 5 (3.62%) Google
9 3 (2.17%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.17%) Splunk
10 2 (1.45%) Confluent
10 2 (1.45%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.45%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.72%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.72%) Informatica
11 1 (0.72%) Talend
11 1 (0.72%) VMware