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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 144 54 23
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.29% 27.14% 15.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 54.96% 54.55% 54.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 41 4
10th Percentile £363 £400 £533
25th Percentile £400 £425 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% -13.33% +11.63%
75th Percentile £504 £575 £691
90th Percentile £594 £738 £719
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £510 £573
% change year-on-year -16.67% -10.92% +9.05%

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 262 99 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.56% 49.75% 28.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 62 15
10th Percentile £313 £370 £169
25th Percentile £363 £416 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.99% -4.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £588
90th Percentile £571 £649 £665
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -10.53% -7.32% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 0
10th Percentile £62.25 - -
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 £24.50 -
% change year-on-year +185.71% - -

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 9 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 27 (18.75%) 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
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 54 (37.50%) Azure
2 24 (16.67%) OCI
3 22 (15.28%) AWS Lambda
3 22 (15.28%) Serverless
4 20 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 20 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 19 (13.19%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (11.81%) GCP
6 17 (11.81%) GitHub
7 12 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (6.94%) SaaS
9 9 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (4.86%) Kong
12 4 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (2.78%) AWS KMS
12 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%) DNS
5 6 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.17%) WLAN
6 2 (1.39%) HTTP
6 2 (1.39%) Internet
6 2 (1.39%) SSL
6 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.69%) Network Security
7 1 (0.69%) NGFW
7 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.58%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.86%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.86%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.47%) Redis
5 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
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%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (2.78%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.08%) Big Data
7 3 (2.08%) Flink
7 3 (2.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 73 (50.69%) GitLab
2 23 (15.97%) Git
3 15 (10.42%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.94%) Selenium
5 8 (5.56%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.86%) JIRA
7 4 (2.78%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.78%) WebDriver
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%) ScalaTest
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 81 (56.25%) Public Sector
2 26 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 25 (17.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.56%) 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 37 (25.69%) Senior
2 36 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (22.92%) Developer
4 21 (14.58%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (13.89%) AWS DevOps
5 20 (13.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 19 (13.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (11.11%) Lead
8 15 (10.42%) Software Developer
9 10 (6.94%) Test Engineer
10 9 (6.25%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.86%) Node.js Developer
11 7 (4.86%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (4.17%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.17%) Senior Delivery Manager
12 6 (4.17%) Senior Manager
13 5 (3.47%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 5 (3.47%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (59.72%) Terraform
2 22 (15.28%) Kafka
3 17 (11.81%) Node.js
4 12 (8.33%) Spring
5 10 (6.94%) Spring Boot
6 9 (6.25%) REST
7 8 (5.56%) Play Framework
7 8 (5.56%) Playwright
8 7 (4.86%) Express.js
8 7 (4.86%) Jest
8 7 (4.86%) RESTful
9 6 (4.17%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.17%) Middleware
9 6 (4.17%) PySpark
10 5 (3.47%) OAuth
10 5 (3.47%) React
11 4 (2.78%) MEAN Stack
11 4 (2.78%) Nunjucks
11 4 (2.78%) OpenID
11 4 (2.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 20 (13.89%) Data Centre
3 14 (9.72%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 7 (4.86%) Blog
6 7 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.78%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.08%) Replication
10 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.39%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.33%) Linux
2 6 (4.17%) Unix
3 4 (2.78%) AIX
3 4 (2.78%) Android
3 4 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.08%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (63.19%) CI/CD
2 72 (50.00%) DevOps
3 71 (49.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (43.06%) Agile
5 45 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 37 (25.69%) Test Automation
7 28 (19.44%) Data Engineering
7 28 (19.44%) Microservices
8 25 (17.36%) Scrum
9 24 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (14.58%) Observability
12 19 (13.19%) Zero Trust
13 18 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (12.50%) TDD
14 16 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 16 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 15 (10.42%) Analytics
15 15 (10.42%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 63 (43.75%) Python
2 25 (17.36%) Java
3 14 (9.72%) SQL
4 12 (8.33%) Bash
4 12 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.25%) Scala
5 9 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.17%) Groovy
7 3 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.39%) Go
8 2 (1.39%) PHP
8 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.69%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) COBOL
9 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 86 (59.72%) Security Cleared
2 72 (50.00%) 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 19 (13.19%) Accessibility
2 17 (11.81%) QA
3 9 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 9 (6.25%) WCAG
4 5 (3.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 59 (40.97%) Docker
2 5 (3.47%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 30 (20.83%) Ansible
3 22 (15.28%) 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 3 (2.08%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.08%) Rancher
8 2 (1.39%) Consul
8 2 (1.39%) Kibana
8 2 (1.39%) Packer
8 2 (1.39%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.69%) Argo
9 1 (0.69%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (13.19%) Palo Alto
2 13 (9.03%) F5
3 12 (8.33%) Arista
4 11 (7.64%) Aruba
4 11 (7.64%) Splunk
4 11 (7.64%) Trend Micro
5 9 (6.25%) Dynatrace
5 9 (6.25%) Oracle
5 9 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.17%) Databricks
6 6 (4.17%) Google
7 4 (2.78%) Confluent
8 2 (1.39%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.39%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.69%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.69%) VMware