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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 144 61 28
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.40% 28.11% 17.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 54.75% 55.45% 59.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 44 7
10th Percentile £363 £402 £494
25th Percentile £400 £425 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £508 £610
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% -16.80% +10.91%
75th Percentile £508 £575 £663
90th Percentile £602 £711 £700
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £500 £598
% change year-on-year -15.00% -16.32% +13.81%

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 263 110 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.90% 50.69% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 65 16
10th Percentile £313 £350 £172
25th Percentile £363 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -7.14% +10.82%
75th Percentile £502 £575 £632
90th Percentile £575 £645 £663
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £484 £550
% change year-on-year -12.14% -12.05% +16.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 1 0
10th Percentile £62.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.44% - -

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 18 September 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 28 (19.44%) Apache Spark
2 24 (16.67%) Apache
2 24 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (15.28%) Jupyter
4 6 (4.17%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.39%) CMS
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.39%) WordPress
6 1 (0.69%) Confluence
6 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 51 (35.42%) Azure
2 24 (16.67%) OCI
3 21 (14.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 20 (13.89%) Amazon S3
4 20 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (13.89%) Serverless
5 19 (13.19%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (11.81%) GitHub
7 16 (11.11%) GCP
8 12 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.94%) SaaS
10 9 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
10 9 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
10 9 (6.25%) Kong
11 8 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.78%) AWS KMS
13 4 (2.78%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.28%) Firewall
2 13 (9.03%) BGP
2 13 (9.03%) BIG-IP
2 13 (9.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (9.03%) OSPF
2 13 (9.03%) VXLAN
3 12 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (8.33%) SD-WAN
4 11 (7.64%) WAN
5 6 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.17%) WLAN
6 5 (3.47%) DNS
7 2 (1.39%) HTTP
7 2 (1.39%) Internet
7 2 (1.39%) SSL
7 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.69%) Network Security
8 1 (0.69%) NGFW
8 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.28%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.86%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.86%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.78%) DocumentDB
6 4 (2.78%) Looker
6 4 (2.78%) Metadata
6 4 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.78%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (2.78%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.78%) Redis
7 3 (2.08%) Big Data
7 3 (2.08%) Flink
7 3 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 73 (50.69%) GitLab
2 21 (14.58%) Git
3 13 (9.03%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.94%) Selenium
5 8 (5.56%) Cucumber
6 6 (4.17%) JIRA
7 4 (2.78%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.78%) WebDriver
8 3 (2.08%) ScalaTest
8 3 (2.08%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.39%) JMeter
9 2 (1.39%) Mocha
9 2 (1.39%) Postman
9 2 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.69%) Gatling
10 1 (0.69%) Maven
10 1 (0.69%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.69%) SoapUI
General
1 83 (57.64%) Public Sector
2 29 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.25%) Finance
6 4 (2.78%) Publishing
7 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Legal
8 1 (0.69%) Military
8 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (26.39%) Senior
2 37 (25.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (23.61%) Developer
4 22 (15.28%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (14.58%) AWS DevOps
5 21 (14.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 21 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (13.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (10.42%) Software Developer
8 14 (9.72%) Lead
9 10 (6.94%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.94%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Node.js Developer
10 7 (4.86%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.17%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.17%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
12 5 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Scala Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (60.42%) Terraform
2 21 (14.58%) Kafka
3 17 (11.81%) Node.js
4 12 (8.33%) Spring
5 10 (6.94%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.56%) Express.js
6 8 (5.56%) Jest
6 8 (5.56%) Play Framework
6 8 (5.56%) Playwright
6 8 (5.56%) REST
7 7 (4.86%) RESTful
8 6 (4.17%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.17%) Middleware
8 6 (4.17%) PySpark
9 5 (3.47%) Nunjucks
9 5 (3.47%) React
10 4 (2.78%) MEAN Stack
10 4 (2.78%) OAuth
10 4 (2.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 3 (2.08%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 20 (13.89%) Data Centre
3 16 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.25%) Public Cloud
6 8 (5.56%) Blog
7 6 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.78%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.39%) Replication
10 2 (1.39%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.03%) Linux
2 7 (4.86%) Unix
3 4 (2.78%) AIX
4 3 (2.08%) Android
4 3 (2.08%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.08%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (65.28%) CI/CD
2 72 (50.00%) DevOps
2 72 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (44.44%) Agile
4 45 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 38 (26.39%) Test Automation
6 28 (19.44%) Data Engineering
6 28 (19.44%) Microservices
7 25 (17.36%) Scrum
8 24 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (16.67%) Observability
9 20 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (13.19%) TDD
10 19 (13.19%) Zero Trust
11 18 (12.50%) Mentoring
12 17 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (11.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 15 (10.42%) Load Balancing
14 14 (9.72%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 62 (43.06%) Python
2 23 (15.97%) Java
3 15 (10.42%) SQL
4 13 (9.03%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.64%) Bash
6 9 (6.25%) Scala
6 9 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.78%) Groovy
8 3 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.08%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.39%) Go
9 2 (1.39%) PHP
10 1 (0.69%) C++
10 1 (0.69%) COBOL
10 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 86 (59.72%) Security Cleared
2 73 (50.69%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.89%) Accessibility
2 17 (11.81%) QA
3 11 (7.64%) Data Quality
4 10 (6.94%) WCAG
5 4 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 59 (40.97%) Docker
2 5 (3.47%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (29.86%) Kubernetes
2 30 (20.83%) Ansible
3 23 (15.97%) Grafana
4 14 (9.72%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.86%) Data Guard
5 7 (4.86%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.78%) Kibana
8 3 (2.08%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.39%) Consul
9 2 (1.39%) Packer
9 2 (1.39%) Rancher
9 2 (1.39%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.69%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (13.19%) Palo Alto
2 13 (9.03%) F5
3 12 (8.33%) Arista
3 12 (8.33%) Splunk
4 11 (7.64%) Aruba
4 11 (7.64%) Trend Micro
5 8 (5.56%) Dynatrace
5 8 (5.56%) Oracle
6 7 (4.86%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.17%) Databricks
7 6 (4.17%) Google
8 4 (2.78%) Confluent
9 3 (2.08%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.69%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.69%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.69%) Informatica
10 1 (0.69%) VMware