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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 143 58 27
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.17% 27.49% 16.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 54.58% 55.77% 56.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 41 7
10th Percentile £363 £400 £479
25th Percentile £400 £425 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £585
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% -11.11% +11.43%
75th Percentile £507 £575 £643
90th Percentile £598 £738 £700
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £510 £579
% change year-on-year -16.67% -11.88% +10.24%

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 262 104 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.62% 49.29% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 61 18
10th Percentile £313 £369 £178
25th Percentile £363 £413 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% -6.34% -2.38%
75th Percentile £501 £575 £604
90th Percentile £575 £650 £658
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +10.53%
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 £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 12 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 (18.88%) 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
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 54 (37.76%) Azure
2 24 (16.78%) OCI
3 21 (14.69%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (14.69%) Serverless
4 20 (13.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 20 (13.99%) Amazon S3
5 19 (13.29%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (12.59%) GitHub
7 17 (11.89%) GCP
8 13 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.99%) SaaS
10 9 (6.29%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (5.59%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (5.59%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.90%) Kong
13 4 (2.80%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.80%) AWS KMS
13 4 (2.80%) Google Tag Manager
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%) DNS
5 6 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.20%) WLAN
6 2 (1.40%) HTTP
6 2 (1.40%) Internet
6 2 (1.40%) SSL
6 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.70%) Network Security
7 1 (0.70%) NGFW
7 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.29%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.90%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.90%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.50%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.80%) DocumentDB
6 4 (2.80%) Looker
6 4 (2.80%) Metadata
6 4 (2.80%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (2.80%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.80%) Redis
7 3 (2.10%) Big Data
7 3 (2.10%) Flink
7 3 (2.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 72 (50.35%) GitLab
2 22 (15.38%) Git
3 14 (9.79%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.99%) Selenium
5 8 (5.59%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.90%) JIRA
7 4 (2.80%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.80%) WebDriver
8 3 (2.10%) ScalaTest
8 3 (2.10%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.40%) JMeter
9 2 (1.40%) Mocha
9 2 (1.40%) Postman
9 2 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.70%) Gatling
10 1 (0.70%) Maven
10 1 (0.70%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
General
1 81 (56.64%) Public Sector
2 27 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.29%) Finance
6 4 (2.80%) Publishing
7 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Legal
8 1 (0.70%) Military
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (26.57%) Senior
2 34 (23.78%) Developer
2 34 (23.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (14.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (13.29%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (13.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (12.59%) AWS DevOps
5 18 (12.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 16 (11.19%) Software Developer
7 15 (10.49%) Lead
8 10 (6.99%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Node.js Developer
10 7 (4.90%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (4.20%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Senior Delivery Manager
11 6 (4.20%) Senior Manager
12 5 (3.50%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 5 (3.50%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (59.44%) Terraform
2 21 (14.69%) Kafka
3 17 (11.89%) Node.js
4 12 (8.39%) Spring
5 10 (6.99%) Spring Boot
6 9 (6.29%) Play Framework
6 9 (6.29%) REST
7 8 (5.59%) Playwright
7 8 (5.59%) RESTful
8 7 (4.90%) Express.js
8 7 (4.90%) Jest
9 6 (4.20%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.20%) Middleware
9 6 (4.20%) PySpark
10 5 (3.50%) OAuth
10 5 (3.50%) React
11 4 (2.80%) MEAN Stack
11 4 (2.80%) Nunjucks
11 4 (2.80%) OpenID
11 4 (2.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.78%) Cloud Native
2 20 (13.99%) Data Centre
3 15 (10.49%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.29%) Public Cloud
6 8 (5.59%) Blog
7 7 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.80%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.40%) Replication
10 2 (1.40%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.39%) Linux
2 6 (4.20%) Unix
3 4 (2.80%) AIX
3 4 (2.80%) Android
3 4 (2.80%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.10%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 71 (49.65%) DevOps
3 69 (48.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (44.06%) Agile
5 44 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 37 (25.87%) Test Automation
7 30 (20.98%) Microservices
8 27 (18.88%) Data Engineering
9 26 (18.18%) Scrum
10 24 (16.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 23 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (14.69%) Observability
13 19 (13.29%) TDD
13 19 (13.29%) Zero Trust
14 18 (12.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (11.89%) Mentoring
16 16 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (11.19%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 15 (10.49%) Load Balancing
18 14 (9.79%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 62 (43.36%) Python
2 25 (17.48%) Java
3 14 (9.79%) SQL
4 12 (8.39%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.69%) Bash
6 10 (6.99%) Scala
7 9 (6.29%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.50%) Groovy
9 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.40%) Go
10 2 (1.40%) PHP
10 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.70%) C++
11 1 (0.70%) COBOL
11 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 84 (58.74%) Security Cleared
2 70 (48.95%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.80%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.99%) Accessibility
2 17 (11.89%) QA
3 10 (6.99%) WCAG
4 9 (6.29%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (40.56%) Docker
2 5 (3.50%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (28.67%) Kubernetes
2 30 (20.98%) Ansible
3 22 (15.38%) Grafana
4 13 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.90%) Data Guard
5 7 (4.90%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.40%) Consul
8 2 (1.40%) Kibana
8 2 (1.40%) Packer
8 2 (1.40%) Rancher
8 2 (1.40%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.70%) Istio
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%) Trend Micro
5 9 (6.29%) Oracle
6 8 (5.59%) Dynatrace
6 8 (5.59%) ServiceNow
7 7 (4.90%) Google
8 6 (4.20%) Databricks
9 4 (2.80%) Confluent
10 3 (2.10%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.40%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.70%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.70%) VMware