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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 91 46 13
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 18.31% 20.18% 6.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.22% 50.00% 43.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 36 6
10th Percentile £360 £403 £500
25th Percentile £400 £456 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -11.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £650
90th Percentile £625 £635 £663
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £490 £575
% change year-on-year -3.06% -14.78% -8.00%
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 171 92 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 34.41% 40.35% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 66 16
10th Percentile £306 £358 £366
25th Percentile £385 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £508 £533
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -4.69% -7.39%
75th Percentile £550 £589 £650
90th Percentile £625 £638 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -8.86% -1.25% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £58.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.47 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £68.47 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +426.69% - -

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 11 May 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 11 (12.09%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (12.09%) Apache Spark
2 10 (10.99%) Apache
3 6 (6.59%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.30%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.35%) Azure
2 17 (18.68%) GCP
3 14 (15.38%) Serverless
4 13 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (10.99%) OCI
6 8 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (8.79%) Amazon S3
6 8 (8.79%) GitHub
6 8 (8.79%) Power Platform
7 7 (7.69%) SaaS
7 7 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (4.40%) IaaS
10 4 (4.40%) PaaS
11 3 (3.30%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.99%) Firewall
2 7 (7.69%) BGP
2 7 (7.69%) BIG-IP
2 7 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 7 (7.69%) OSPF
2 7 (7.69%) VXLAN
3 6 (6.59%) Ethernet VPN
3 6 (6.59%) SD-WAN
4 5 (5.49%) WAN
5 3 (3.30%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.30%) WLAN
6 2 (2.20%) DNS
6 2 (2.20%) Internet
6 2 (2.20%) SSL
6 2 (2.20%) VPN
7 1 (1.10%) HTTP
7 1 (1.10%) IPsec
7 1 (1.10%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.79%) Big Data
2 8 (8.79%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.49%) Redis
5 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.40%) Delta Lake
6 4 (4.40%) Power BI
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.20%) Metadata
8 2 (2.20%) MySQL
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.10%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (36.26%) GitLab
2 17 (18.68%) Git
2 17 (18.68%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.89%) JIRA
4 5 (5.49%) Cucumber
4 5 (5.49%) Selenium
5 4 (4.40%) REST Assured
6 3 (3.30%) Postman
6 3 (3.30%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.20%) Gatling
8 1 (1.10%) JMeter
8 1 (1.10%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.10%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (39.56%) Public Sector
2 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.10%) Finance
4 1 (1.10%) Legal
4 1 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (23.08%) Senior
2 20 (21.98%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (17.58%) Lead
4 14 (15.38%) Developer
5 11 (12.09%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (10.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (8.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Architect
10 6 (6.59%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (6.59%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 6 (6.59%) Senior Manager
10 6 (6.59%) Test Engineer
11 5 (5.49%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 5 (5.49%) Java Developer
11 5 (5.49%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (5.49%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
12 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
12 4 (4.40%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.48%) Kafka
2 12 (13.19%) Node.js
3 11 (12.09%) Spring
4 6 (6.59%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (5.49%) Playwright
6 4 (4.40%) Next.js
6 4 (4.40%) REST
6 4 (4.40%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.30%) Express.js
7 3 (3.30%) HTML
7 3 (3.30%) Keycloak
7 3 (3.30%) LangChain
7 3 (3.30%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.30%) OpenID
7 3 (3.30%) PyTorch
7 3 (3.30%) React
7 3 (3.30%) RESTful
7 3 (3.30%) SOAP
7 3 (3.30%) Swagger
7 3 (3.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.30%) Replication
4 2 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.20%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Android
2 4 (4.40%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.30%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.30%) Windows
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (56.04%) CI/CD
2 40 (43.96%) DevOps
3 32 (35.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (28.57%) Agile
5 21 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 17 (18.68%) Microservices
7 16 (17.58%) Data Engineering
7 16 (17.58%) Test Automation
8 13 (14.29%) AI
8 13 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 12 (13.19%) Machine Learning
9 12 (13.19%) Roadmaps
10 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (10.99%) Observability
11 10 (10.99%) TDD
11 10 (10.99%) Zero Trust
12 9 (9.89%) Coaching
12 9 (9.89%) ETL
12 9 (9.89%) Mentoring
12 9 (9.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 42 (46.15%) Python
2 26 (28.57%) Java
3 13 (14.29%) SQL
4 9 (9.89%) Bash
5 8 (8.79%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.49%) Groovy
8 4 (4.40%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.40%) Scala
9 2 (2.20%) Go
9 2 (2.20%) Ruby
10 1 (1.10%) Bicep
10 1 (1.10%) C++
10 1 (1.10%) COBOL
10 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.10%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (62.64%) Security Cleared
2 48 (52.75%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.30%) Degree
5 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.10%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.30%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) WCAG
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.20%) SLA
5 1 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (29.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 44 (48.35%) Terraform
2 26 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.58%) Ansible
4 8 (8.79%) Grafana
4 8 (8.79%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.30%) Packer
5 3 (3.30%) Rancher
6 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.10%) Argo
7 1 (1.10%) Consul
7 1 (1.10%) Istio
7 1 (1.10%) Kibana
7 1 (1.10%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (10.99%) Palo Alto
2 9 (9.89%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.69%) Databricks
3 7 (7.69%) F5
4 6 (6.59%) Arista
4 6 (6.59%) Dynatrace
5 5 (5.49%) Aruba
6 4 (4.40%) Google
7 3 (3.30%) Oracle
8 2 (2.20%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.20%) Splunk
8 2 (2.20%) Trend Micro
8 2 (2.20%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.10%) Blue Prism
9 1 (1.10%) Checkmarx
9 1 (1.10%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.10%) Informatica
9 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.10%) Talend
9 1 (1.10%) UiPath