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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 133 55 18
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.58% 25.82% 10.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 58.08% 61.11% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 40 4
10th Percentile £363 £410 £490
25th Percentile £400 £449 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% -5.12% -14.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £581
90th Percentile £625 £750 £638
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £451 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -9.75% -6.98% -10.42%
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 229 90 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 38.88% 42.25% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 60 14
10th Percentile £313 £406 £166
25th Percentile £363 £429 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -11.50%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £550
90th Percentile £596 £681 £620
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £65.31 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
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 17 July 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 28 (21.05%) Apache Spark
2 25 (18.80%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (18.05%) Apache
4 19 (14.29%) Jupyter
5 5 (3.76%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.75%) CMS
7 1 (0.75%) Confluence
7 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 59 (44.36%) Azure
2 24 (18.05%) OCI
3 20 (15.04%) GCP
4 15 (11.28%) Serverless
5 14 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (9.77%) Amazon S3
7 10 (7.52%) SaaS
8 9 (6.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (6.77%) GitHub
8 9 (6.77%) Power Platform
9 8 (6.02%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.51%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.01%) IaaS
12 4 (3.01%) PaaS
12 4 (3.01%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.01%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.29%) Firewall
2 13 (9.77%) BGP
2 13 (9.77%) BIG-IP
2 13 (9.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (9.77%) OSPF
2 13 (9.77%) VXLAN
3 12 (9.02%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (9.02%) SD-WAN
4 11 (8.27%) WAN
5 6 (4.51%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.51%) WLAN
6 2 (1.50%) DNS
6 2 (1.50%) Internet
6 2 (1.50%) SSL
6 2 (1.50%) VPN
7 1 (0.75%) HTTP
7 1 (0.75%) IPsec
7 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.77%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.77%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.26%) Big Data
4 7 (5.26%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.26%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.51%) Power BI
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.76%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.76%) Redis
7 4 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.01%) Metadata
7 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.01%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (3.01%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.26%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 65 (48.87%) GitLab
2 19 (14.29%) Git
3 16 (12.03%) Jenkins
4 11 (8.27%) Selenium
5 8 (6.02%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.26%) JIRA
7 5 (3.76%) REST Assured
8 4 (3.01%) Serenity BDD
8 4 (3.01%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.50%) Gatling
9 2 (1.50%) JMeter
9 2 (1.50%) Postman
10 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.75%) Maven
10 1 (0.75%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (44.36%) Public Sector
2 24 (18.05%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.26%) Publishing
6 2 (1.50%) Military
7 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (28.57%) Senior
2 28 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (13.53%) Developer
5 18 (13.53%) Lead
6 15 (11.28%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
7 14 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 11 (8.27%) Data Engineer
8 11 (8.27%) Test Engineer
9 8 (6.02%) Architect
10 7 (5.26%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Delivery Manager
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Manager
11 6 (4.51%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.76%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 5 (3.76%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
13 4 (3.01%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.04%) Kafka
2 13 (9.77%) Spring
3 11 (8.27%) Node.js
4 10 (7.52%) Spring Boot
5 9 (6.77%) Playwright
6 6 (4.51%) PySpark
6 6 (4.51%) REST
7 5 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.76%) Middleware
7 5 (3.76%) OAuth
8 4 (3.01%) OpenID
8 4 (3.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 3 (2.26%) JWT
9 3 (2.26%) Keycloak
10 2 (1.50%) Jest
10 2 (1.50%) Next.js
10 2 (1.50%) OpenAPI
10 2 (1.50%) RESTful
10 2 (1.50%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (1.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.04%) Data Centre
2 19 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 12 (9.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (6.77%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.01%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.26%) Replication
8 2 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.50%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.75%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.27%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) AIX
2 4 (3.01%) Android
2 4 (3.01%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.26%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.26%) Unix
3 3 (2.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (56.39%) CI/CD
2 65 (48.87%) DevOps
3 62 (46.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (33.08%) Agile
5 36 (27.07%) Containerisation
6 31 (23.31%) Data Engineering
7 27 (20.30%) Test Automation
8 24 (18.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (18.05%) Microservices
9 19 (14.29%) Analytics
9 19 (14.29%) Zero Trust
10 17 (12.78%) Data Pipeline
10 17 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (12.03%) Mentoring
11 16 (12.03%) Roadmaps
12 14 (10.53%) High Availability
12 14 (10.53%) Migration
13 13 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.77%) ETL
13 13 (9.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 64 (48.12%) Python
2 31 (23.31%) Java
3 19 (14.29%) SQL
4 10 (7.52%) Bash
5 6 (4.51%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.76%) Groovy
7 4 (3.01%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.26%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.26%) Scala
9 1 (0.75%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) COBOL
9 1 (0.75%) Go
9 1 (0.75%) PHP
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 83 (62.41%) Security Cleared
2 66 (49.62%) SC Cleared
3 22 (16.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.75%) Degree
6 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.75%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.28%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.27%) QA
3 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.26%) GDPR
4 3 (2.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (35.34%) Docker
2 5 (3.76%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) RACF
Systems Management
1 70 (52.63%) Terraform
2 29 (21.80%) Kubernetes
3 28 (21.05%) Ansible
4 8 (6.02%) Grafana
5 7 (5.26%) Data Guard
5 7 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
5 7 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.26%) Packer
6 3 (2.26%) Rancher
7 2 (1.50%) Kibana
7 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.75%) Argo
8 1 (0.75%) Consul
8 1 (0.75%) Istio
8 1 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 13 (9.77%) F5
3 12 (9.02%) Arista
4 11 (8.27%) Aruba
4 11 (8.27%) Databricks
5 10 (7.52%) Oracle
5 10 (7.52%) Trend Micro
6 9 (6.77%) ServiceNow
7 7 (5.26%) Dynatrace
8 4 (3.01%) Google
8 4 (3.01%) Splunk
9 3 (2.26%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.50%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.50%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.75%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.75%) Confluent
11 1 (0.75%) Informatica
11 1 (0.75%) Talend
11 1 (0.75%) VMware