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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 2 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 138 57 20
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.85% 28.93% 12.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.33% 62.64% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 42 4
10th Percentile £363 £410 £490
25th Percentile £400 £451 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -3.26% -7.92%
75th Percentile £529 £594 £581
90th Percentile £625 £749 £638
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -13.46% -5.45% +0.69%

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 245 91 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.56% 46.19% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 61 14
10th Percentile £313 £410 £166
25th Percentile £363 £440 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £520 £431
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +20.58% -17.86%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £544
90th Percentile £594 £650 £620
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
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 4 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 26 (18.84%) Apache Spark
2 23 (16.67%) Apache
2 23 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (13.77%) Jupyter
4 6 (4.35%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.45%) CMS
5 2 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.45%) WordPress
6 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 57 (41.30%) Azure
2 24 (17.39%) OCI
3 19 (13.77%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (13.77%) Serverless
4 18 (13.04%) GCP
5 15 (10.87%) Amazon S3
6 14 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (7.25%) GitHub
8 9 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (6.52%) SaaS
9 8 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (5.80%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (5.07%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (5.07%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (4.35%) Kong
12 5 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.90%) AWS KMS
13 4 (2.90%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.77%) Firewall
2 13 (9.42%) BGP
2 13 (9.42%) BIG-IP
2 13 (9.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (9.42%) OSPF
2 13 (9.42%) VXLAN
3 12 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (8.70%) SD-WAN
4 11 (7.97%) WAN
5 6 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.35%) WLAN
6 2 (1.45%) DNS
6 2 (1.45%) Internet
6 2 (1.45%) VPN
7 1 (0.72%) HTTP
7 1 (0.72%) Network Security
7 1 (0.72%) NGFW
7 1 (0.72%) SSL
7 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.87%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.52%) DynamoDB
2 9 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.07%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.07%) Oracle Database
3 7 (5.07%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.62%) Big Data
5 5 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.62%) Power BI
5 5 (3.62%) Redis
6 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.90%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (2.90%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.17%) Flink
7 3 (2.17%) Looker
7 3 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 68 (49.28%) GitLab
2 23 (16.67%) Git
3 17 (12.32%) Jenkins
4 10 (7.25%) Selenium
5 8 (5.80%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.07%) JIRA
7 4 (2.90%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.90%) WebDriver
8 3 (2.17%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.45%) JMeter
9 2 (1.45%) Mocha
9 2 (1.45%) Postman
10 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.72%) Gatling
10 1 (0.72%) Maven
10 1 (0.72%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 25 (18.12%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.90%) Publishing
6 2 (1.45%) Military
7 1 (0.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (28.26%) Senior
2 32 (23.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (18.84%) Developer
4 21 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (13.77%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (13.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (13.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 18 (13.04%) Lead
7 11 (7.97%) Data Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Test Engineer
9 9 (6.52%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.07%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (4.35%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.35%) Node.js Developer
11 6 (4.35%) Senior Delivery Manager
11 6 (4.35%) Senior Manager
12 5 (3.62%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 5 (3.62%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.12%) Kafka
2 17 (12.32%) Node.js
3 13 (9.42%) Spring
4 11 (7.97%) Spring Boot
5 9 (6.52%) REST
6 8 (5.80%) Playwright
7 6 (4.35%) Express.js
7 6 (4.35%) Jest
7 6 (4.35%) Middleware
7 6 (4.35%) PySpark
7 6 (4.35%) React
8 5 (3.62%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.62%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (3.62%) OAuth
8 5 (3.62%) RESTful
9 4 (2.90%) JWT
9 4 (2.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 3 (2.17%) HTML
10 3 (2.17%) MEAN Stack
10 3 (2.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.49%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (7.97%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.07%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.17%) Replication
10 2 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.45%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.70%) Linux
2 4 (2.90%) AIX
2 4 (2.90%) Android
2 4 (2.90%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.90%) Unix
3 3 (2.17%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (57.97%) CI/CD
2 71 (51.45%) DevOps
3 66 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (37.68%) Agile
5 41 (29.71%) Containerisation
6 30 (21.74%) Microservices
6 30 (21.74%) Test Automation
7 29 (21.01%) Data Engineering
8 24 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (13.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (13.77%) Zero Trust
10 18 (13.04%) Mentoring
11 17 (12.32%) Analytics
12 16 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (10.87%) ETL
13 15 (10.87%) Observability
13 15 (10.87%) Roadmaps
13 15 (10.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 61 (44.20%) Python
2 31 (22.46%) Java
3 15 (10.87%) SQL
4 11 (7.97%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.25%) Bash
5 10 (7.25%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.62%) Groovy
7 3 (2.17%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.45%) PHP
8 2 (1.45%) Scala
9 1 (0.72%) C++
9 1 (0.72%) COBOL
9 1 (0.72%) Go
9 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (61.59%) Security Cleared
2 69 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.59%) QA
2 13 (9.42%) Accessibility
2 13 (9.42%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.80%) WCAG
4 4 (2.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (37.68%) Docker
2 5 (3.62%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 74 (53.62%) Terraform
2 33 (23.91%) Kubernetes
3 27 (19.57%) Ansible
4 10 (7.25%) Grafana
5 9 (6.52%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.07%) Data Guard
6 7 (5.07%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (2.17%) Packer
7 3 (2.17%) Rancher
8 2 (1.45%) Kibana
9 1 (0.72%) Argo
9 1 (0.72%) Consul
9 1 (0.72%) Istio
9 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (13.77%) Palo Alto
2 13 (9.42%) F5
3 12 (8.70%) Arista
4 11 (7.97%) Aruba
5 10 (7.25%) Trend Micro
6 9 (6.52%) Dynatrace
6 9 (6.52%) Oracle
6 9 (6.52%) ServiceNow
7 8 (5.80%) Databricks
8 5 (3.62%) Google
9 3 (2.17%) Confluent
9 3 (2.17%) Splunk
10 2 (1.45%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.45%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.45%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.72%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.72%) VMware