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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 125 46 17
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.85% 21.70% 8.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 57.08% 54.76% 51.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 36 6
10th Percentile £360 £408 £500
25th Percentile £381 £449 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% -13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £650
90th Percentile £625 £631 £663
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £453 £490 £575
% change year-on-year -7.65% -14.78% -17.86%
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 219 84 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 38.29% 39.62% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 62 15
10th Percentile £313 £401 £355
25th Percentile £363 £433 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.10% -6.17%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £600
90th Percentile £596 £636 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.50 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +434.62% - -

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 19 June 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 (21.60%) Apache Spark
2 26 (20.80%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (20.00%) Apache
4 19 (15.20%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.40%) Confluence
5 3 (2.40%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 60 (48.00%) Azure
2 21 (16.80%) OCI
3 20 (16.00%) GCP
4 14 (11.20%) Amazon S3
4 14 (11.20%) Serverless
5 13 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 10 (8.00%) SaaS
7 9 (7.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (6.40%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (5.60%) GitHub
10 6 (4.80%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (3.20%) IaaS
12 4 (3.20%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.20%) Firewall
2 13 (10.40%) BGP
2 13 (10.40%) BIG-IP
2 13 (10.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (10.40%) OSPF
2 13 (10.40%) VXLAN
3 12 (9.60%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (9.60%) SD-WAN
4 11 (8.80%) WAN
5 6 (4.80%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.80%) WLAN
6 2 (1.60%) DNS
6 2 (1.60%) Internet
6 2 (1.60%) SSL
6 2 (1.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.80%) HTTP
7 1 (0.80%) IPsec
7 1 (0.80%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.40%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.40%) Big Data
2 8 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.80%) Power BI
3 6 (4.80%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.00%) Redis
5 4 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.20%) Delta Lake
5 4 (3.20%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.20%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.40%) Metadata
7 2 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.60%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.60%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 60 (48.00%) GitLab
2 20 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 17 (13.60%) Git
4 13 (10.40%) Selenium
5 10 (8.00%) Cucumber
6 9 (7.20%) JIRA
7 7 (5.60%) REST Assured
8 4 (3.20%) Postman
8 4 (3.20%) Serenity BDD
8 4 (3.20%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.40%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.60%) Gatling
10 2 (1.60%) JMeter
11 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.80%) Maven
11 1 (0.80%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (40.80%) Public Sector
2 22 (17.60%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.60%) Military
5 2 (1.60%) Publishing
6 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.80%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (28.00%) Senior
2 23 (18.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (14.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (13.60%) Developer
4 17 (13.60%) Lead
4 17 (13.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Test Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Architect
8 7 (5.60%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Delivery Manager
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Manager
9 6 (4.80%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 5 (4.00%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.20%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.20%) Kafka
2 13 (10.40%) Spring
3 12 (9.60%) Node.js
4 11 (8.80%) Playwright
5 8 (6.40%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.80%) PySpark
6 6 (4.80%) REST
7 5 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.40%) HTML
8 3 (2.40%) Keycloak
8 3 (2.40%) LangChain
8 3 (2.40%) Middleware
8 3 (2.40%) OpenID
8 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
8 3 (2.40%) SOAP
8 3 (2.40%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.60%) OAuth
9 2 (1.60%) RESTful
9 2 (1.60%) SailPoint
9 2 (1.60%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.60%) Data Centre
2 19 (15.20%) Cloud Native
3 12 (9.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (7.20%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.40%) Replication
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.40%) Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Android
2 4 (3.20%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.40%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.40%) Unix
3 3 (2.40%) Windows
4 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.80%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (61.60%) CI/CD
2 57 (45.60%) DevOps
3 55 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (29.60%) Agile
5 31 (24.80%) Containerisation
6 29 (23.20%) Data Engineering
7 27 (21.60%) Test Automation
8 22 (17.60%) Microservices
9 21 (16.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (15.20%) Analytics
10 19 (15.20%) Zero Trust
11 16 (12.80%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (11.20%) AI
12 14 (11.20%) High Availability
12 14 (11.20%) Machine Learning
12 14 (11.20%) Roadmaps
13 12 (9.60%) Load Balancing
13 12 (9.60%) Mentoring
13 12 (9.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (9.60%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (49.60%) Python
2 31 (24.80%) Java
3 19 (15.20%) SQL
4 8 (6.40%) Bash
5 7 (5.60%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.80%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.00%) Groovy
8 3 (2.40%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.40%) Scala
9 2 (1.60%) Ruby
10 1 (0.80%) C++
10 1 (0.80%) COBOL
10 1 (0.80%) Go
10 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 79 (63.20%) Security Cleared
2 64 (51.20%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.80%) Degree
6 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.80%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.20%) QA
3 7 (5.60%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.60%) GDPR
4 2 (1.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (34.40%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.80%) RACF
Systems Management
1 63 (50.40%) Terraform
2 27 (21.60%) Ansible
3 25 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.40%) Grafana
5 7 (5.60%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.20%) Data Guard
6 4 (3.20%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (2.40%) Packer
7 3 (2.40%) Rancher
8 2 (1.60%) Kibana
8 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.80%) Argo
9 1 (0.80%) Consul
9 1 (0.80%) Istio
9 1 (0.80%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.80%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (15.20%) Palo Alto
2 13 (10.40%) F5
3 12 (9.60%) Arista
4 11 (8.80%) Aruba
5 10 (8.00%) Trend Micro
6 9 (7.20%) ServiceNow
7 8 (6.40%) Databricks
8 7 (5.60%) Dynatrace
8 7 (5.60%) Oracle
9 5 (4.00%) Google
10 4 (3.20%) Splunk
11 3 (2.40%) Microsoft
12 2 (1.60%) CyberArk
12 2 (1.60%) Zscaler
13 1 (0.80%) CheckPoint
13 1 (0.80%) Confluent
13 1 (0.80%) Informatica
13 1 (0.80%) Talend
13 1 (0.80%) VMware