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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 140 58 28
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.88% 27.75% 17.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 54.05% 55.77% 59.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 41 7
10th Percentile £363 £400 £494
25th Percentile £400 £425 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £610
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% -14.75% +13.49%
75th Percentile £504 £575 £663
90th Percentile £599 £738 £700
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £510 £598
% change year-on-year -16.67% -14.64% +13.81%

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 259 104 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.47% 49.76% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 61 16
10th Percentile £313 £369 £172
25th Percentile £363 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% -8.57% -
75th Percentile £500 £575 £632
90th Percentile £575 £650 £663
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £478 £550
% change year-on-year -10.99% -13.18% +10.00%
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 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.44% - -

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 15 September 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 (19.29%) Apache Spark
2 24 (17.14%) Apache
2 24 (17.14%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (15.71%) Jupyter
4 6 (4.29%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.43%) CMS
5 2 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.43%) WordPress
6 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 51 (36.43%) Azure
2 24 (17.14%) OCI
3 20 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 20 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (14.29%) Serverless
4 19 (13.57%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (13.57%) Amazon S3
5 17 (12.14%) GitHub
6 16 (11.43%) GCP
7 12 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (7.14%) SaaS
9 9 (6.43%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (5.71%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (5.00%) Kong
12 4 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (2.86%) AWS KMS
12 4 (2.86%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.71%) Firewall
2 13 (9.29%) BGP
2 13 (9.29%) BIG-IP
2 13 (9.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (9.29%) OSPF
2 13 (9.29%) VXLAN
3 12 (8.57%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (8.57%) SD-WAN
4 11 (7.86%) WAN
5 6 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.29%) WLAN
6 5 (3.57%) DNS
7 2 (1.43%) HTTP
7 2 (1.43%) Internet
7 2 (1.43%) SSL
7 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.71%) Network Security
8 1 (0.71%) NGFW
8 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.71%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.43%) DynamoDB
3 7 (5.00%) BigQuery
3 7 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.86%) DocumentDB
6 4 (2.86%) Looker
6 4 (2.86%) Metadata
6 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.86%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (2.86%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.86%) Redis
7 3 (2.14%) Big Data
7 3 (2.14%) Flink
8 2 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 72 (51.43%) GitLab
2 21 (15.00%) Git
3 13 (9.29%) Jenkins
4 10 (7.14%) Selenium
5 8 (5.71%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.00%) JIRA
7 4 (2.86%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.86%) WebDriver
8 3 (2.14%) ScalaTest
8 3 (2.14%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.43%) JMeter
9 2 (1.43%) Mocha
9 2 (1.43%) Postman
9 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.71%) Gatling
10 1 (0.71%) Maven
10 1 (0.71%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
General
1 81 (57.86%) Public Sector
2 28 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.43%) Finance
6 4 (2.86%) Publishing
7 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Legal
8 1 (0.71%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (27.86%) Senior
2 34 (24.29%) Developer
2 34 (24.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (13.57%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (13.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (12.86%) AWS DevOps
5 18 (12.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.71%) Lead
6 15 (10.71%) Software Developer
7 10 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (4.29%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Manager
11 5 (3.57%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (60.71%) Terraform
2 21 (15.00%) Kafka
3 17 (12.14%) Node.js
4 12 (8.57%) Spring
5 10 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.71%) Express.js
6 8 (5.71%) Jest
6 8 (5.71%) Play Framework
6 8 (5.71%) Playwright
6 8 (5.71%) REST
7 7 (5.00%) RESTful
8 6 (4.29%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.29%) Middleware
8 6 (4.29%) PySpark
9 5 (3.57%) Nunjucks
9 5 (3.57%) React
10 4 (2.86%) MEAN Stack
10 4 (2.86%) OAuth
10 4 (2.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 3 (2.14%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 16 (11.43%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.43%) Public Cloud
6 8 (5.71%) Blog
7 6 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.86%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.43%) Replication
10 2 (1.43%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.57%) Linux
2 6 (4.29%) Unix
3 4 (2.86%) AIX
4 3 (2.14%) Android
4 3 (2.14%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.14%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 69 (49.29%) DevOps
2 69 (49.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (44.29%) Agile
4 42 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 36 (25.71%) Test Automation
6 28 (20.00%) Microservices
7 27 (19.29%) Data Engineering
8 26 (18.57%) Scrum
9 24 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (14.29%) Observability
12 19 (13.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (13.57%) TDD
12 19 (13.57%) Zero Trust
13 18 (12.86%) Mentoring
14 17 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (12.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 15 (10.71%) Load Balancing
16 14 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 61 (43.57%) Python
2 23 (16.43%) Java
3 13 (9.29%) JavaScript
3 13 (9.29%) SQL
4 10 (7.14%) Bash
5 9 (6.43%) Scala
5 9 (6.43%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.86%) Groovy
7 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.43%) Go
8 2 (1.43%) PHP
8 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 83 (59.29%) Security Cleared
2 70 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 17 (12.14%) QA
3 10 (7.14%) WCAG
4 9 (6.43%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 56 (40.00%) Docker
2 5 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 40 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 30 (21.43%) Ansible
3 22 (15.71%) Grafana
4 13 (9.29%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.00%) Data Guard
5 7 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.43%) Consul
8 2 (1.43%) Kibana
8 2 (1.43%) Packer
8 2 (1.43%) Rancher
8 2 (1.43%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.71%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (13.57%) Palo Alto
2 13 (9.29%) F5
3 12 (8.57%) Arista
3 12 (8.57%) Splunk
4 11 (7.86%) Aruba
4 11 (7.86%) Trend Micro
5 8 (5.71%) Dynatrace
5 8 (5.71%) Oracle
5 8 (5.71%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.29%) Databricks
6 6 (4.29%) Google
7 4 (2.86%) Confluent
8 3 (2.14%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.71%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.71%) VMware