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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 75 49 15
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 18.38% 21.68% 7.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.08% 53.26% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 36 14
10th Percentile £350 £360 £400
25th Percentile £400 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £508 £455
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% +11.54% -24.17%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £570
90th Percentile £628 £637 £629
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £488 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -2.50% +9.89% -24.17%
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 144 92 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 35.29% 40.71% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 64 29
10th Percentile £236 £325 £163
25th Percentile £364 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +22.35% -26.09%
75th Percentile £568 £614 £549
90th Percentile £600 £643 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £411
% change year-on-year -10.00% +21.73% -28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £50.58 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile £65.63 - £16.50
90th Percentile £69.50 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £60.00 £13.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +361.54% -18.75% -

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 3 March 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 7 (9.33%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (9.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.00%) Apache
3 3 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (29.33%) Azure
2 12 (16.00%) GCP
2 12 (16.00%) Serverless
3 11 (14.67%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (10.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (10.67%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (9.33%) Amazon S3
5 7 (9.33%) GitHub
6 6 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.33%) AWS KMS
8 4 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.00%) Google Gemini
9 3 (4.00%) Vertex AI
10 2 (2.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (2.67%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) IPsec
2 1 (1.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.67%) Big Data
2 5 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.33%) Delta Lake
3 4 (5.33%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.00%) Redis
5 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.67%) Metadata
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.33%) MySQL
6 1 (1.33%) Power BI
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (38.67%) GitLab
2 14 (18.67%) Jenkins
3 12 (16.00%) Git
4 7 (9.33%) REST Assured
5 5 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 5 (6.67%) Mocha
6 4 (5.33%) Postman
6 4 (5.33%) Selenium
7 3 (4.00%) JIRA
7 3 (4.00%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.67%) Gatling
9 1 (1.33%) JMeter
9 1 (1.33%) Serenity BDD
General
1 31 (41.33%) Public Sector
2 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.33%) Banking
4 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) Developer
2 13 (17.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (17.33%) Lead
3 10 (13.33%) Test Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Senior
5 7 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Node.js Developer
7 5 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Penetration Tester
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Tester
9 3 (4.00%) Architect
9 3 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.33%) Node.js
2 11 (14.67%) Spring
3 10 (13.33%) Kafka
4 7 (9.33%) Spring Boot
5 6 (8.00%) REST
6 5 (6.67%) HTML
6 5 (6.67%) Jest
7 4 (5.33%) Express.js
7 4 (5.33%) React
8 3 (4.00%) CSS
8 3 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (4.00%) LangChain
8 3 (4.00%) Next.js
8 3 (4.00%) Playwright
8 3 (4.00%) PyTorch
8 3 (4.00%) SOAP
8 3 (4.00%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.67%) Gherkin
9 2 (2.67%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 30 (40.00%) DevOps
3 21 (28.00%) Agile
3 21 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (28.00%) Microservices
4 19 (25.33%) Containerisation
5 18 (24.00%) Mentoring
6 17 (22.67%) Coaching
6 17 (22.67%) Test Automation
7 15 (20.00%) TDD
8 14 (18.67%) Software Engineering
9 12 (16.00%) AI
9 12 (16.00%) Data Engineering
9 12 (16.00%) Machine Learning
10 10 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (12.00%) BDD
12 8 (10.67%) Analytics
12 8 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.00%) Java
1 24 (32.00%) Python
2 13 (17.33%) SQL
3 11 (14.67%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.67%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.67%) Bash
6 3 (4.00%) PHP
7 2 (2.67%) Ruby
7 2 (2.67%) Scala
8 1 (1.33%) Bicep
8 1 (1.33%) Go
8 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (57.33%) Security Cleared
2 39 (52.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.33%) AWS Certification
3 7 (9.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.00%) CHECK Team Member
4 3 (4.00%) CREST Certified
4 3 (4.00%) Degree
5 2 (2.67%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) CISA
6 1 (1.33%) CISSP
6 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.00%) GDPR
3 3 (4.00%) QA
3 3 (4.00%) WCAG
4 2 (2.67%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.67%) SLA
4 2 (2.67%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.33%) COBIT
5 1 (1.33%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (37.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 34 (45.33%) Terraform
2 27 (36.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.00%) Grafana
4 8 (10.67%) Ansible
5 5 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.67%) Packer
7 1 (1.33%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (9.33%) Databricks
2 4 (5.33%) Dynatrace
2 4 (5.33%) Google
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.33%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.33%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.33%) Informatica
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle
4 1 (1.33%) Sage
4 1 (1.33%) Splunk
4 1 (1.33%) Talend
4 1 (1.33%) UiPath