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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 147 53 22
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 23.44% 27.32% 15.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.54% 58.89% 62.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 38 5
10th Percentile £363 £409 £495
25th Percentile £400 £452 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £523 £594 £675
90th Percentile £620 £741 £713
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £520 £561
% change year-on-year -18.27% -7.35% +4.42%

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 260 90 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 41.47% 46.39% 24.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 59 14
10th Percentile £306 £409 £166
25th Percentile £363 £431 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £550
90th Percentile £575 £650 £668
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +5.26%
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 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +438.46% - -

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 22 August 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 (18.37%) Apache Spark
2 24 (16.33%) Apache
2 24 (16.33%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (14.97%) Jupyter
4 6 (4.08%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.36%) CMS
5 2 (1.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.36%) WordPress
6 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 56 (38.10%) Azure
2 24 (16.33%) OCI
3 23 (15.65%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (15.65%) Serverless
4 19 (12.93%) Amazon S3
5 18 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (11.56%) GCP
7 16 (10.88%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (10.88%) GitHub
8 11 (7.48%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.80%) SaaS
10 8 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (5.44%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (5.44%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (5.44%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.08%) Kong
12 5 (3.40%) Power Platform
12 5 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.97%) Firewall
2 13 (8.84%) BGP
2 13 (8.84%) BIG-IP
2 13 (8.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (8.84%) OSPF
2 13 (8.84%) VXLAN
3 12 (8.16%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (8.16%) SD-WAN
4 11 (7.48%) WAN
5 6 (4.08%) DNS
5 6 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.08%) WLAN
6 2 (1.36%) HTTP
6 2 (1.36%) Internet
6 2 (1.36%) SSL
6 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.36%) VPN
7 1 (0.68%) Network Security
7 1 (0.68%) NGFW
7 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.61%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.12%) DynamoDB
2 9 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (3.40%) Power BI
4 5 (3.40%) Redis
5 4 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.72%) Looker
5 4 (2.72%) Metadata
5 4 (2.72%) Oracle Exadata
5 4 (2.72%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.04%) Big Data
6 3 (2.04%) DocumentDB
6 3 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 73 (49.66%) GitLab
2 23 (15.65%) Git
3 17 (11.56%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.80%) Selenium
5 8 (5.44%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.76%) JIRA
7 4 (2.72%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.72%) WebDriver
8 3 (2.04%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.36%) JMeter
9 2 (1.36%) Mocha
9 2 (1.36%) Postman
9 2 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.68%) Gatling
10 1 (0.68%) Maven
10 1 (0.68%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.68%) ScalaTest
10 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
General
1 81 (55.10%) Public Sector
2 26 (17.69%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.08%) Finance
6 4 (2.72%) Publishing
7 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.36%) Military
8 1 (0.68%) Legal
8 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (25.85%) Senior
2 35 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (21.77%) Developer
4 21 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (13.61%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (12.93%) AWS DevOps
6 19 (12.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 19 (12.93%) Lead
6 19 (12.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (9.52%) Software Developer
8 10 (6.80%) Test Engineer
9 9 (6.12%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.76%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.08%) Architect
11 6 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (4.08%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.08%) Node.js Developer
11 6 (4.08%) Senior Delivery Manager
11 6 (4.08%) Senior Manager
12 5 (3.40%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (57.14%) Terraform
2 23 (15.65%) Kafka
3 17 (11.56%) Node.js
4 13 (8.84%) Spring
5 11 (7.48%) Spring Boot
6 9 (6.12%) REST
7 8 (5.44%) Playwright
8 6 (4.08%) Express.js
8 6 (4.08%) Jest
8 6 (4.08%) Middleware
8 6 (4.08%) Play Framework
8 6 (4.08%) PySpark
8 6 (4.08%) React
8 6 (4.08%) RESTful
9 5 (3.40%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.40%) OAuth
10 4 (2.72%) JWT
10 4 (2.72%) OpenID
10 4 (2.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 3 (2.04%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.65%) Cloud Native
2 20 (13.61%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (8.16%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.44%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.40%) Blog
6 5 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.72%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.04%) Replication
9 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.36%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.48%) Linux
2 5 (3.40%) Unix
3 4 (2.72%) AIX
3 4 (2.72%) Android
3 4 (2.72%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.04%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (59.86%) CI/CD
2 74 (50.34%) DevOps
3 71 (48.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (40.14%) Agile
5 47 (31.97%) Containerisation
6 35 (23.81%) Test Automation
7 32 (21.77%) Microservices
8 28 (19.05%) Data Engineering
9 24 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (14.97%) Scrum
12 20 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (12.93%) Observability
13 19 (12.93%) Zero Trust
14 18 (12.24%) Mentoring
14 18 (12.24%) TDD
15 16 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (10.88%) Roadmaps
16 15 (10.20%) Load Balancing
16 15 (10.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 67 (45.58%) Python
2 31 (21.09%) Java
3 14 (9.52%) SQL
4 12 (8.16%) Bash
5 11 (7.48%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.80%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.76%) Scala
8 6 (4.08%) Groovy
9 3 (2.04%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.04%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.36%) Go
10 2 (1.36%) PHP
10 2 (1.36%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.68%) C++
11 1 (0.68%) COBOL
11 1 (0.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 89 (60.54%) Security Cleared
2 72 (48.98%) SC Cleared
3 23 (15.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.40%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.72%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.24%) Accessibility
2 16 (10.88%) QA
3 11 (7.48%) Data Quality
4 9 (6.12%) WCAG
5 5 (3.40%) GDPR
System Software
1 57 (38.78%) Docker
2 5 (3.40%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (27.21%) Kubernetes
2 29 (19.73%) Ansible
3 19 (12.93%) Grafana
4 13 (8.84%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.76%) Data Guard
5 7 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.04%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.04%) Rancher
8 2 (1.36%) Consul
8 2 (1.36%) Kibana
8 2 (1.36%) Packer
8 2 (1.36%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.68%) Argo
9 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (12.93%) Palo Alto
2 13 (8.84%) F5
3 12 (8.16%) Arista
4 11 (7.48%) Aruba
4 11 (7.48%) Trend Micro
5 9 (6.12%) Oracle
5 9 (6.12%) ServiceNow
5 9 (6.12%) Splunk
6 8 (5.44%) Dynatrace
7 6 (4.08%) Databricks
7 6 (4.08%) Google
8 3 (2.04%) Confluent
9 2 (1.36%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.36%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.36%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.68%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.68%) VMware