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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 67 48 21
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 18.31% 23.30% 11.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.52% 52.17% 44.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 30 19
10th Percentile £350 £357 £395
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +23.53% -27.66%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £565
90th Percentile £613 £650 £630
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £471 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -10.38% +23.53% -27.66%

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 141 92 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 38.52% 44.66% 25.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 55 33
10th Percentile £260 £325 £175
25th Percentile £367 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £409
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +22.25% -28.87%
75th Percentile £550 £616 £550
90th Percentile £600 £641 £645
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £407
% change year-on-year -10.00% +22.85% -29.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £41.95 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.89%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £55.00 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.89%

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 18 January 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 6 (8.96%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) Apache
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) CMS
3 1 (1.49%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.40%) Azure
2 9 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (13.43%) Serverless
3 8 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (10.45%) Amazon S3
4 7 (10.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (8.96%) GitHub
6 5 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (7.46%) GCP
6 5 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.48%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (2.99%) Google Gemini
8 2 (2.99%) Intacct
8 2 (2.99%) Vertex AI
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) DHCP
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.48%) Redis
4 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.49%) Big Data
5 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (43.28%) GitLab
2 12 (17.91%) Git
2 12 (17.91%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.96%) JIRA
3 6 (8.96%) REST Assured
4 5 (7.46%) Cucumber
4 5 (7.46%) Mocha
5 4 (5.97%) Postman
6 3 (4.48%) Selenium
6 3 (4.48%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.49%) Gatling
7 1 (1.49%) JMeter
General
1 30 (44.78%) Public Sector
2 12 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.48%) Finance
4 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.49%) Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Developer
2 11 (16.42%) Lead
3 10 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Test Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Java Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Node.js Developer
6 6 (8.96%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.96%) Senior
7 5 (7.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Tester
8 4 (5.97%) Penetration Tester
8 4 (5.97%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 2 (2.99%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) Node.js
2 10 (14.93%) Spring
3 7 (10.45%) Spring Boot
4 6 (8.96%) REST
5 5 (7.46%) HTML
5 5 (7.46%) Jest
5 5 (7.46%) Kafka
6 4 (5.97%) Express.js
6 4 (5.97%) React
7 3 (4.48%) CSS
7 3 (4.48%) SOAP
8 2 (2.99%) Gherkin
8 2 (2.99%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.99%) LangChain
8 2 (2.99%) Next.js
8 2 (2.99%) Playwright
8 2 (2.99%) PyTorch
8 2 (2.99%) TensorFlow
8 2 (2.99%) WireMock
9 1 (1.49%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
1 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Linux
1 3 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (52.24%) CI/CD
2 25 (37.31%) DevOps
3 21 (31.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (28.36%) Agile
5 18 (26.87%) Microservices
6 17 (25.37%) Containerisation
6 17 (25.37%) Test Automation
7 16 (23.88%) TDD
8 15 (22.39%) Mentoring
9 14 (20.90%) Coaching
10 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
11 9 (13.43%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (11.94%) BDD
12 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (10.45%) Data Engineering
13 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (7.46%) Functional Testing
14 5 (7.46%) Machine Learning
14 5 (7.46%) Non-Functional Testing
14 5 (7.46%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.33%) Java
2 22 (32.84%) Python
3 12 (17.91%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.94%) Bash
5 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.96%) SQL
7 4 (5.97%) Go
8 3 (4.48%) PHP
9 2 (2.99%) Perl
9 2 (2.99%) Ruby
10 1 (1.49%) Bicep
10 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.49%) Rust
10 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (55.22%) Security Cleared
2 35 (52.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.48%) CHECK Team Member
4 3 (4.48%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.99%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (2.99%) Degree
5 2 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.49%) CISA
6 1 (1.49%) CISSP
6 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.97%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) GDPR
2 3 (4.48%) WCAG
3 2 (2.99%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.99%) SLA
3 2 (2.99%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.49%) COBIT
4 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (37.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (53.73%) Terraform
2 25 (37.31%) Kubernetes
3 10 (14.93%) Grafana
4 8 (11.94%) Ansible
5 5 (7.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (4.48%) Databricks
1 3 (4.48%) Google
2 2 (2.99%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.49%) Blue Prism
3 1 (1.49%) Checkmarx
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.49%) Sage
3 1 (1.49%) UiPath