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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 110 41 15
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 20.48% 19.43% 7.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.41% 53.25% 46.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 34 6
10th Percentile £363 £402 £500
25th Percentile £400 £455 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% -11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £625 £634 £663
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £453 £490 £575
% change year-on-year -7.65% -14.78% -11.54%
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 195 77 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 36.31% 36.49% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 59 17
10th Percentile £311 £380 £358
25th Percentile £369 £435 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -2.35% -7.39%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £650
90th Percentile £597 £640 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.44 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +434.15% - -

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 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 22 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 22 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 21 (19.09%) Apache
3 15 (13.64%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.73%) Confluence
5 2 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.82%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 55 (50.00%) Azure
2 18 (16.36%) OCI
3 17 (15.45%) GCP
4 13 (11.82%) Amazon S3
4 13 (11.82%) Serverless
5 12 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (8.18%) SaaS
7 8 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (7.27%) Amazon EMR
7 8 (7.27%) Power Platform
8 7 (6.36%) GitHub
9 6 (5.45%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.64%) IaaS
11 4 (3.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.36%) Firewall
2 12 (10.91%) BGP
2 12 (10.91%) BIG-IP
2 12 (10.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 12 (10.91%) OSPF
2 12 (10.91%) VXLAN
3 11 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 10 (9.09%) WAN
5 5 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (4.55%) WLAN
6 2 (1.82%) DNS
6 2 (1.82%) Internet
6 2 (1.82%) SSL
6 2 (1.82%) VPN
7 1 (0.91%) HTTP
7 1 (0.91%) IPsec
7 1 (0.91%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.91%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.27%) Big Data
2 8 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.55%) Redis
3 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.64%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.64%) Power BI
5 3 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.82%) Metadata
6 2 (1.82%) MySQL
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (46.36%) GitLab
2 20 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 16 (14.55%) Git
4 11 (10.00%) Selenium
5 9 (8.18%) JIRA
6 8 (7.27%) Cucumber
7 7 (6.36%) REST Assured
8 4 (3.64%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (2.73%) Postman
9 3 (2.73%) SoapUI
9 3 (2.73%) WebDriver
10 2 (1.82%) Gatling
11 1 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (38.18%) Public Sector
2 16 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.82%) Publishing
6 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.91%) Legal
6 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (29.09%) Senior
2 21 (19.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (15.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (14.55%) Developer
4 16 (14.55%) Lead
4 16 (14.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (8.18%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (8.18%) Test Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (7.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Architect
8 6 (5.45%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.55%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.64%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.64%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.36%) Kafka
2 11 (10.00%) Node.js
3 10 (9.09%) Spring
4 9 (8.18%) Playwright
5 6 (5.45%) PySpark
6 5 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.55%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.64%) REST
8 3 (2.73%) Express.js
8 3 (2.73%) HTML
8 3 (2.73%) Keycloak
8 3 (2.73%) LangChain
8 3 (2.73%) OpenID
8 3 (2.73%) PyTorch
8 3 (2.73%) SOAP
8 3 (2.73%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.82%) Jest
9 2 (1.82%) Next.js
9 2 (1.82%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.09%) Data Centre
2 14 (12.73%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (8.18%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.73%) Replication
7 2 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.82%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.36%) Linux
2 4 (3.64%) Android
2 4 (3.64%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.73%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.73%) Unix
3 3 (2.73%) Windows
4 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 50 (45.45%) DevOps
3 47 (42.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (28.18%) Agile
5 28 (25.45%) Containerisation
6 22 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 21 (19.09%) Data Engineering
8 20 (18.18%) Microservices
9 19 (17.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (16.36%) Zero Trust
11 14 (12.73%) AI
11 14 (12.73%) Analytics
12 13 (11.82%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (11.82%) High Availability
12 13 (11.82%) Machine Learning
12 13 (11.82%) Roadmaps
12 13 (11.82%) Software Engineering
13 11 (10.00%) Load Balancing
13 11 (10.00%) Observability
13 11 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (50.00%) Python
2 28 (25.45%) Java
3 18 (16.36%) SQL
4 8 (7.27%) Bash
5 7 (6.36%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.55%) Groovy
8 3 (2.73%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.73%) Scala
9 2 (1.82%) Ruby
10 1 (0.91%) C++
10 1 (0.91%) COBOL
10 1 (0.91%) Go
10 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 72 (65.45%) Security Cleared
2 58 (52.73%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.91%) Degree
6 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.91%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.36%) QA
3 6 (5.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.82%) WCAG
5 1 (0.91%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (35.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.91%) RACF
Systems Management
1 54 (49.09%) Terraform
2 24 (21.82%) Ansible
3 23 (20.91%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.36%) Grafana
4 7 (6.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.73%) Packer
5 3 (2.73%) Rancher
6 2 (1.82%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.91%) Argo
7 1 (0.91%) Consul
7 1 (0.91%) Istio
7 1 (0.91%) Kibana
7 1 (0.91%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (16.36%) Palo Alto
2 12 (10.91%) F5
3 11 (10.00%) Arista
4 10 (9.09%) Aruba
5 9 (8.18%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.36%) Databricks
6 7 (6.36%) Dynatrace
7 6 (5.45%) Trend Micro
8 5 (4.55%) Oracle
9 4 (3.64%) Google
10 3 (2.73%) Splunk
11 2 (1.82%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.82%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.91%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.91%) Confluent
12 1 (0.91%) Informatica
12 1 (0.91%) Microsoft
12 1 (0.91%) Talend
12 1 (0.91%) VMware