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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 1 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 143 72 35
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.45% 30.00% 19.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.64% 58.54% 54.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 52 11
10th Percentile £363 £407 £409
25th Percentile £400 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £454
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +21.15% +0.89%
75th Percentile £525 £606 £598
90th Percentile £625 £736 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £550 £502
% change year-on-year -18.18% +9.56% +20.38%

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 257 123 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.35% 51.25% 35.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 76 24
10th Percentile £313 £319 £224
25th Percentile £366 £412 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +15.61% +5.75%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £559
90th Percentile £600 £700 £624
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £500 £445
% change year-on-year -15.00% +12.36% +9.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 2 0
10th Percentile £61.25 £36.85 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% - -
75th Percentile - £47.63 -
90th Percentile - £49.95 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 £42.00 -
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -

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 13 October 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 (19.58%) Apache Spark
2 24 (16.78%) Apache
2 24 (16.78%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (15.38%) Jupyter
4 6 (4.20%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.40%) CMS
5 2 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.40%) WordPress
6 1 (0.70%) Confluence
6 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 51 (35.66%) Azure
2 24 (16.78%) OCI
3 22 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 21 (14.69%) Amazon S3
5 20 (13.99%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (13.99%) Serverless
6 19 (13.29%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (13.29%) GCP
7 17 (11.89%) GitHub
8 12 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.99%) Amazon ECR
9 10 (6.99%) Kong
10 9 (6.29%) Amazon EMR
10 9 (6.29%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (4.90%) SaaS
13 5 (3.50%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (3.50%) AWS KMS
14 4 (2.80%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.38%) Firewall
2 13 (9.09%) BGP
2 13 (9.09%) BIG-IP
2 13 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (9.09%) OSPF
2 13 (9.09%) VXLAN
3 12 (8.39%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (8.39%) SD-WAN
4 11 (7.69%) WAN
5 6 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.20%) WLAN
6 5 (3.50%) DNS
7 2 (1.40%) HTTP
7 2 (1.40%) SSL
7 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.70%) Network Security
8 1 (0.70%) NGFW
8 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.78%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.29%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.90%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.90%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.50%) DocumentDB
5 5 (3.50%) Metadata
5 5 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.50%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.80%) Looker
6 4 (2.80%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.80%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (2.80%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.10%) Big Data
7 3 (2.10%) Flink
7 3 (2.10%) Power BI
7 3 (2.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (51.75%) GitLab
2 17 (11.89%) Git
3 11 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.29%) Selenium
5 7 (4.90%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.80%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.10%) ScalaTest
7 3 (2.10%) Serenity BDD
7 3 (2.10%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.40%) JIRA
8 2 (1.40%) JMeter
8 2 (1.40%) Mocha
8 2 (1.40%) Postman
8 2 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.70%) Gatling
9 1 (0.70%) Maven
9 1 (0.70%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
General
1 88 (61.54%) Public Sector
2 28 (19.58%) Social Skills
3 27 (18.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.29%) Finance
6 4 (2.80%) Publishing
7 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Legal
8 1 (0.70%) Military
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (25.17%) Senior
2 35 (24.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (23.78%) Developer
4 20 (13.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (13.29%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (13.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (12.59%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (12.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 16 (11.19%) Software Developer
8 15 (10.49%) Lead
9 12 (8.39%) Test Engineer
10 10 (6.99%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.59%) Architect
12 7 (4.90%) Node.js Developer
12 7 (4.90%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.90%) Technical Architect
13 6 (4.20%) Java Developer
13 6 (4.20%) Senior Developer
14 5 (3.50%) Scala Developer
15 4 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (58.04%) Terraform
2 22 (15.38%) Kafka
3 16 (11.19%) Node.js
4 12 (8.39%) Spring
5 10 (6.99%) REST
5 10 (6.99%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.59%) Express.js
6 8 (5.59%) Jest
6 8 (5.59%) Play Framework
6 8 (5.59%) RESTful
7 7 (4.90%) Playwright
8 6 (4.20%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.20%) Middleware
8 6 (4.20%) Nunjucks
8 6 (4.20%) PySpark
9 5 (3.50%) MEAN Stack
9 5 (3.50%) React
10 4 (2.80%) OAuth
10 4 (2.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 3 (2.10%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.29%) Data Centre
3 17 (11.89%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (6.99%) Public Cloud
6 8 (5.59%) Blog
7 6 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.50%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.40%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.79%) Linux
2 7 (4.90%) Unix
3 4 (2.80%) AIX
4 1 (0.70%) CentOS
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (65.03%) CI/CD
2 74 (51.75%) DevOps
3 73 (51.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (44.76%) Agile
5 48 (33.57%) Containerisation
6 35 (24.48%) Test Automation
7 30 (20.98%) Microservices
8 29 (20.28%) Data Engineering
9 27 (18.88%) Observability
10 23 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (16.08%) Scrum
11 22 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (14.69%) Mentoring
13 20 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (13.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 19 (13.29%) Zero Trust
15 18 (12.59%) TDD
16 16 (11.19%) High Availability
16 16 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 15 (10.49%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 64 (44.76%) Python
2 21 (14.69%) Java
3 17 (11.89%) SQL
4 12 (8.39%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.69%) Bash
6 9 (6.29%) Scala
6 9 (6.29%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.10%) Groovy
7 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.10%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.40%) Go
8 2 (1.40%) PHP
9 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 82 (57.34%) Security Cleared
2 71 (49.65%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (6.29%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.20%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.29%) Accessibility
2 17 (11.89%) QA
3 11 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 9 (6.29%) WCAG
5 4 (2.80%) GDPR
5 4 (2.80%) NCSC
6 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 59 (41.26%) Docker
2 5 (3.50%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (30.07%) Kubernetes
2 30 (20.98%) Ansible
3 23 (16.08%) Grafana
4 14 (9.79%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.90%) Data Guard
5 7 (4.90%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (3.50%) Kibana
6 5 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.40%) Consul
8 2 (1.40%) Istio
8 2 (1.40%) Packer
8 2 (1.40%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (13.29%) Palo Alto
2 13 (9.09%) F5
3 12 (8.39%) Arista
3 12 (8.39%) Splunk
4 11 (7.69%) Aruba
4 11 (7.69%) Oracle
4 11 (7.69%) Trend Micro
5 8 (5.59%) Dynatrace
6 7 (4.90%) Google
7 6 (4.20%) Databricks
8 5 (3.50%) Confluent
9 4 (2.80%) Microsoft
10 3 (2.10%) Informatica
11 2 (1.40%) OneLogin
11 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.70%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.70%) Cloudera