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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 104 43 15
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 19.77% 20.09% 8.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 54.45% 53.09% 46.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 34 6
10th Percentile £368 £402 £500
25th Percentile £400 £455 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £625 £624 £663
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £490 £575
% change year-on-year -3.06% -14.78% -8.00%
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 191 81 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 36.31% 37.85% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 61 17
10th Percentile £309 £380 £358
25th Percentile £385 £440 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -1.41% -7.39%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £650
90th Percentile £598 £625 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.44 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +434.15% - -

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 29 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 18 (17.31%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (17.31%) Apache Spark
2 17 (16.35%) Apache
3 11 (10.58%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.88%) Confluence
5 2 (1.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.92%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 54 (51.92%) Azure
2 17 (16.35%) GCP
2 17 (16.35%) OCI
3 13 (12.50%) Serverless
4 12 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (9.62%) Amazon S3
6 8 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.69%) SaaS
7 7 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (6.73%) GitHub
8 6 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.77%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.85%) IaaS
10 4 (3.85%) PaaS
11 3 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.35%) Firewall
2 11 (10.58%) BGP
2 11 (10.58%) BIG-IP
2 11 (10.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 11 (10.58%) OSPF
2 11 (10.58%) VXLAN
3 10 (9.62%) Ethernet VPN
3 10 (9.62%) SD-WAN
4 9 (8.65%) WAN
5 4 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (3.85%) WLAN
6 2 (1.92%) DNS
6 2 (1.92%) Internet
6 2 (1.92%) SSL
6 2 (1.92%) VPN
7 1 (0.96%) HTTP
7 1 (0.96%) IPsec
7 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.58%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.69%) Big Data
2 8 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.81%) Redis
4 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.85%) Delta Lake
5 4 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.85%) Power BI
6 3 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.92%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.92%) Metadata
7 2 (1.92%) MySQL
7 2 (1.92%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (43.27%) GitLab
2 20 (19.23%) Jenkins
3 17 (16.35%) Git
4 11 (10.58%) Selenium
5 9 (8.65%) JIRA
6 8 (7.69%) Cucumber
7 7 (6.73%) REST Assured
8 4 (3.85%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (2.88%) Postman
9 3 (2.88%) SoapUI
9 3 (2.88%) WebDriver
10 2 (1.92%) Gatling
11 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 15 (14.42%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.96%) Legal
5 1 (0.96%) Military
5 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (29.81%) Senior
2 20 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (16.35%) Lead
4 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (14.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (12.50%) Developer
7 9 (8.65%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Test Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Architect
10 6 (5.77%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (5.77%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 6 (5.77%) Senior Manager
11 5 (4.81%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 5 (4.81%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.85%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.85%) Lead Test Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.31%) Kafka
2 10 (9.62%) Node.js
2 10 (9.62%) Spring
3 8 (7.69%) Playwright
4 5 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.85%) PySpark
5 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.88%) Express.js
6 3 (2.88%) HTML
6 3 (2.88%) Keycloak
6 3 (2.88%) LangChain
6 3 (2.88%) Next.js
6 3 (2.88%) OpenID
6 3 (2.88%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.88%) REST
6 3 (2.88%) SOAP
6 3 (2.88%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.92%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.92%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (1.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.65%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.73%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.88%) Replication
6 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.96%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Linux
2 4 (3.85%) Android
2 4 (3.85%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.88%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.88%) Unix
3 3 (2.88%) Windows
4 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 44 (42.31%) DevOps
3 42 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (27.88%) Agile
5 24 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 20 (19.23%) Test Automation
7 19 (18.27%) Microservices
8 18 (17.31%) Data Engineering
8 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (16.35%) Zero Trust
10 13 (12.50%) AI
10 13 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 13 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 12 (11.54%) High Availability
11 12 (11.54%) Machine Learning
12 11 (10.58%) Analytics
12 11 (10.58%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (10.58%) Mentoring
12 11 (10.58%) Scrum
12 11 (10.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (48.08%) Python
2 29 (27.88%) Java
3 16 (15.38%) SQL
4 8 (7.69%) Bash
5 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.81%) Groovy
6 5 (4.81%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.88%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.88%) Scala
8 2 (1.92%) Ruby
9 1 (0.96%) C++
9 1 (0.96%) COBOL
9 1 (0.96%) Go
9 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 67 (64.42%) Security Cleared
2 54 (51.92%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.96%) Degree
6 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.96%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.58%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.81%) QA
3 2 (1.92%) WCAG
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (33.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.96%) RACF
Systems Management
1 49 (47.12%) Terraform
2 23 (22.12%) Ansible
3 22 (21.15%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.73%) Grafana
4 7 (6.73%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.88%) Packer
5 3 (2.88%) Rancher
6 2 (1.92%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.92%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.96%) Argo
7 1 (0.96%) Consul
7 1 (0.96%) Istio
7 1 (0.96%) Kibana
7 1 (0.96%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (16.35%) Palo Alto
2 11 (10.58%) F5
3 10 (9.62%) Arista
4 9 (8.65%) Aruba
4 9 (8.65%) ServiceNow
5 7 (6.73%) Databricks
6 6 (5.77%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.81%) Oracle
8 4 (3.85%) Google
8 4 (3.85%) Trend Micro
9 3 (2.88%) Splunk
10 2 (1.92%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.92%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.96%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.96%) Informatica
11 1 (0.96%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.96%) Talend
11 1 (0.96%) VMware