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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 84 47 13
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 17.83% 20.70% 6.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.50% 54.02% 40.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 37 6
10th Percentile £350 £404 £500
25th Percentile £400 £456 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% -10.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £663
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £471 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.90% -13.04% -4.17%
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 160 87 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 33.97% 38.33% 15.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 65 18
10th Percentile £306 £358 £359
25th Percentile £385 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £529
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -1.65% -8.04%
75th Percentile £542 £613 £625
90th Percentile £597 £650 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £477
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.82% -15.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £58.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.47 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £68.47 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +426.69% - -

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 4 May 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 8 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 7 (8.33%) Apache
3 3 (3.57%) Confluence
3 3 (3.57%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (45.24%) Azure
2 16 (19.05%) GCP
3 15 (17.86%) Serverless
4 14 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 8 (9.52%) GitHub
5 8 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 7 (8.33%) SaaS
6 7 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (7.14%) OCI
8 5 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.76%) IaaS
9 4 (4.76%) PaaS
10 3 (3.57%) AWS KMS
10 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) Firewall
2 5 (5.95%) BGP
2 5 (5.95%) BIG-IP
2 5 (5.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (5.95%) OSPF
2 5 (5.95%) VXLAN
3 4 (4.76%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (4.76%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.57%) WAN
4 3 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (3.57%) WLAN
5 2 (2.38%) DNS
5 2 (2.38%) Internet
5 2 (2.38%) SSL
5 2 (2.38%) VPN
6 1 (1.19%) HTTP
6 1 (1.19%) IPsec
6 1 (1.19%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) Big Data
1 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 7 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.95%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.76%) Delta Lake
5 4 (4.76%) Power BI
5 4 (4.76%) Redis
6 3 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.38%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.38%) Metadata
7 2 (2.38%) MySQL
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (35.71%) GitLab
2 17 (20.24%) Git
2 17 (20.24%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.52%) JIRA
4 6 (7.14%) Selenium
5 5 (5.95%) REST Assured
6 4 (4.76%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.57%) Postman
7 3 (3.57%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.38%) Gatling
9 1 (1.19%) JMeter
9 1 (1.19%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.19%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 10 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.19%) Finance
4 1 (1.19%) Legal
4 1 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (19.05%) Senior
3 14 (16.67%) Lead
4 13 (15.48%) Developer
5 11 (13.10%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (11.90%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (11.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Architect
7 7 (8.33%) Test Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (5.95%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Senior Delivery Manager
9 5 (5.95%) Senior Manager
10 4 (4.76%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.67%) Kafka
2 12 (14.29%) Node.js
3 10 (11.90%) Spring
4 6 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (5.95%) Playwright
5 5 (5.95%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.76%) Next.js
6 4 (4.76%) REST
7 3 (3.57%) Express.js
7 3 (3.57%) HTML
7 3 (3.57%) Keycloak
7 3 (3.57%) LangChain
7 3 (3.57%) OpenID
7 3 (3.57%) PyTorch
7 3 (3.57%) React
7 3 (3.57%) RESTful
7 3 (3.57%) SOAP
7 3 (3.57%) TensorFlow
8 2 (2.38%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.57%) Replication
5 2 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.38%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Android
2 4 (4.76%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.57%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.57%) Windows
4 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (55.95%) CI/CD
2 37 (44.05%) DevOps
3 28 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (29.76%) Agile
5 19 (22.62%) Containerisation
6 18 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 17 (20.24%) Microservices
8 14 (16.67%) Data Engineering
9 13 (15.48%) AI
9 13 (15.48%) Software Engineering
10 12 (14.29%) Machine Learning
11 11 (13.10%) Roadmaps
12 10 (11.90%) Coaching
12 10 (11.90%) Mentoring
12 10 (11.90%) TDD
13 9 (10.71%) Analytics
13 9 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (10.71%) ETL
13 9 (10.71%) Observability
14 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (41.67%) Python
2 27 (32.14%) Java
3 13 (15.48%) SQL
4 9 (10.71%) Bash
4 9 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.95%) Groovy
7 4 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.76%) Scala
8 2 (2.38%) Go
8 2 (2.38%) Ruby
9 1 (1.19%) Bicep
9 1 (1.19%) C++
9 1 (1.19%) COBOL
9 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 50 (59.52%) Security Cleared
2 41 (48.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.57%) Degree
6 2 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.57%) QA
3 3 (3.57%) WCAG
4 2 (2.38%) GDPR
4 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.38%) SLA
5 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) RACF
Systems Management
1 40 (47.62%) Terraform
2 25 (29.76%) Kubernetes
3 12 (14.29%) Ansible
4 7 (8.33%) Grafana
4 7 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.57%) Packer
5 3 (3.57%) Rancher
6 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.19%) Argo
7 1 (1.19%) Consul
7 1 (1.19%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (9.52%) ServiceNow
2 7 (8.33%) Databricks
3 6 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 6 (7.14%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.95%) F5
5 4 (4.76%) Arista
5 4 (4.76%) Google
6 3 (3.57%) Aruba
7 2 (2.38%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.38%) Oracle
7 2 (2.38%) Splunk
7 2 (2.38%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.19%) Blue Prism
8 1 (1.19%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.19%) Informatica
8 1 (1.19%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.19%) Talend
8 1 (1.19%) UiPath
8 1 (1.19%) VMware