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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 134 56 17
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 23.47% 24.67% 8.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 59.29% 58.33% 51.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 41 5
10th Percentile £360 £410 £495
25th Percentile £394 £455 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £550 £620 £650
90th Percentile £625 £750 £665
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -21.43%
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 226 96 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 39.58% 42.29% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 68 16
10th Percentile £313 £404 £172
25th Percentile £363 £438 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £523 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +1.95% -10.87%
75th Percentile £534 £625 £550
90th Percentile £596 £703 £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 - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
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 5 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 29 (21.64%) Apache Spark
2 26 (19.40%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (18.66%) Apache
4 19 (14.18%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.24%) Confluence
5 3 (2.24%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 63 (47.01%) Azure
2 24 (17.91%) OCI
3 21 (15.67%) GCP
4 14 (10.45%) Amazon S3
4 14 (10.45%) Serverless
5 13 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.46%) Power Platform
6 10 (7.46%) SaaS
7 9 (6.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (6.72%) GitHub
8 8 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (5.97%) Amazon EMR
9 6 (4.48%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.99%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.99%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.18%) Firewall
2 13 (9.70%) BGP
2 13 (9.70%) BIG-IP
2 13 (9.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (9.70%) OSPF
2 13 (9.70%) VXLAN
3 12 (8.96%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (8.96%) SD-WAN
4 11 (8.21%) WAN
5 6 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.48%) WLAN
6 2 (1.49%) DNS
6 2 (1.49%) Internet
6 2 (1.49%) SSL
6 2 (1.49%) VPN
7 1 (0.75%) HTTP
7 1 (0.75%) IPsec
7 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.70%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.72%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.97%) Big Data
3 8 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.22%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.22%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.48%) Power BI
6 5 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.73%) Redis
7 4 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.99%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.99%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.99%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (2.99%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.24%) Flink
8 3 (2.24%) Metadata
9 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 66 (49.25%) GitLab
2 21 (15.67%) Git
3 20 (14.93%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.70%) Selenium
5 10 (7.46%) Cucumber
6 9 (6.72%) JIRA
7 7 (5.22%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.99%) Postman
8 4 (2.99%) Serenity BDD
8 4 (2.99%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.24%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.49%) Gatling
10 2 (1.49%) JMeter
11 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.75%) Maven
11 1 (0.75%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (41.79%) Public Sector
2 23 (17.16%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.49%) Military
5 2 (1.49%) Publishing
6 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (27.61%) Senior
2 27 (20.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (15.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (14.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (12.69%) Developer
5 17 (12.69%) Lead
6 13 (9.70%) Test Engineer
7 12 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (8.21%) AWS DevOps
8 11 (8.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 11 (8.21%) Data Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Architect
10 7 (5.22%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (4.48%) Senior Delivery Manager
11 6 (4.48%) Senior Manager
11 6 (4.48%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.73%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 5 (3.73%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
13 4 (2.99%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.67%) Kafka
2 13 (9.70%) Spring
3 12 (8.96%) Node.js
4 11 (8.21%) Playwright
5 8 (5.97%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.48%) PySpark
6 6 (4.48%) REST
7 5 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.99%) OpenID
8 4 (2.99%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 3 (2.24%) HTML
9 3 (2.24%) Keycloak
9 3 (2.24%) Middleware
9 3 (2.24%) OAuth
9 3 (2.24%) SOAP
10 2 (1.49%) Jest
10 2 (1.49%) Next.js
10 2 (1.49%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (1.49%) Swagger
10 2 (1.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.42%) Data Centre
2 19 (14.18%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (6.72%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.22%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.99%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.24%) Replication
8 2 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.75%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.70%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) AIX
2 4 (2.99%) Android
2 4 (2.99%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.24%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.24%) Unix
3 3 (2.24%) Windows
4 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (58.21%) CI/CD
2 62 (46.27%) DevOps
3 59 (44.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (29.85%) Agile
5 32 (23.88%) Containerisation
6 31 (23.13%) Data Engineering
7 27 (20.15%) Test Automation
8 24 (17.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (17.91%) Microservices
9 19 (14.18%) Analytics
9 19 (14.18%) Zero Trust
10 18 (13.43%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (11.19%) Mentoring
11 15 (11.19%) Roadmaps
12 14 (10.45%) High Availability
12 14 (10.45%) Migration
13 13 (9.70%) AI
13 13 (9.70%) ETL
13 13 (9.70%) Machine Learning
14 12 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 65 (48.51%) Python
2 33 (24.63%) Java
3 19 (14.18%) SQL
4 10 (7.46%) Bash
5 7 (5.22%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.73%) Groovy
8 3 (2.24%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.24%) Scala
9 2 (1.49%) Ruby
10 1 (0.75%) C++
10 1 (0.75%) COBOL
10 1 (0.75%) Go
10 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (63.43%) Security Cleared
2 68 (50.75%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.75%) Degree
5 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.75%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.19%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.72%) QA
3 7 (5.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.49%) GDPR
4 2 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (33.58%) Docker
2 5 (3.73%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) RACF
Systems Management
1 71 (52.99%) Terraform
2 30 (22.39%) Ansible
3 29 (21.64%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.97%) Grafana
5 7 (5.22%) Data Guard
5 7 (5.22%) Oracle RMAN
5 7 (5.22%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.24%) Packer
6 3 (2.24%) Rancher
7 2 (1.49%) Kibana
7 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.75%) Argo
8 1 (0.75%) Consul
8 1 (0.75%) Istio
8 1 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (14.18%) Palo Alto
2 13 (9.70%) F5
3 12 (8.96%) Arista
3 12 (8.96%) Databricks
4 11 (8.21%) Aruba
5 10 (7.46%) Oracle
5 10 (7.46%) Trend Micro
6 9 (6.72%) ServiceNow
7 7 (5.22%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.99%) Google
8 4 (2.99%) Splunk
9 3 (2.24%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.49%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.49%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.75%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.75%) Confluent
11 1 (0.75%) Informatica
11 1 (0.75%) Talend
11 1 (0.75%) VMware