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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS 72 42 9
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 17.22% 19.09% 4.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.17% 50.60% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 31 8
10th Percentile £355 £358 £400
25th Percentile £400 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +10.01% -24.25%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £556
90th Percentile £625 £624 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £475 £455
% change year-on-year - +4.51% -24.25%
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 138 83 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 33.01% 37.73% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 61 23
10th Percentile £229 £325 £163
25th Percentile £363 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £413
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -28.26%
75th Percentile £548 £590 £549
90th Percentile £623 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £475 £407
% change year-on-year -5.26% +16.71% -28.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 1
10th Percentile £52.38 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £16.00
75th Percentile £69.27 - £16.50
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £62.50 £13.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +380.77% -18.75% -

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 25 March 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 7 (9.72%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (9.72%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.33%) Apache
3 2 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (36.11%) Azure
2 12 (16.67%) GCP
2 12 (16.67%) Serverless
3 11 (15.28%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 7 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (9.72%) Amazon S3
5 7 (9.72%) GitHub
6 6 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.17%) AWS KMS
9 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.17%) Google Gemini
9 3 (4.17%) Vertex AI
10 2 (2.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) VPN
2 1 (1.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.39%) IPsec
2 1 (1.39%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 7 (9.72%) MongoDB
2 7 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.94%) Big Data
3 5 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.94%) Redis
3 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.56%) Delta Lake
4 4 (5.56%) Power BI
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.78%) Metadata
5 2 (2.78%) MySQL
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (27.78%) GitLab
2 14 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 13 (18.06%) Git
4 6 (8.33%) REST Assured
5 4 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.56%) Selenium
6 3 (4.17%) JIRA
6 3 (4.17%) Mocha
6 3 (4.17%) Postman
7 2 (2.78%) Gatling
7 2 (2.78%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.39%) JMeter
8 1 (1.39%) Serenity BDD
General
1 29 (40.28%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (20.83%) Developer
2 14 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (18.06%) Lead
4 10 (13.89%) Senior
5 7 (9.72%) Architect
5 7 (9.72%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Test Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Penetration Tester
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Tester
9 3 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Data Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.67%) Kafka
1 12 (16.67%) Node.js
2 11 (15.28%) Spring
3 6 (8.33%) REST
4 5 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (6.94%) HTML
4 5 (6.94%) React
4 5 (6.94%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.56%) Express.js
5 4 (5.56%) Next.js
6 3 (4.17%) CSS
6 3 (4.17%) Jest
6 3 (4.17%) LangChain
6 3 (4.17%) Playwright
6 3 (4.17%) PyTorch
6 3 (4.17%) RESTful
6 3 (4.17%) TensorFlow
7 2 (2.78%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.78%) Swagger
7 2 (2.78%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.78%) Replication
3 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.39%) Android
3 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.83%) CI/CD
2 29 (40.28%) DevOps
3 20 (27.78%) Microservices
4 19 (26.39%) Agile
5 16 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 15 (20.83%) Coaching
6 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (18.06%) Mentoring
8 12 (16.67%) AI
8 12 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 12 (16.67%) TDD
8 12 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.28%) Machine Learning
10 10 (13.89%) Analytics
10 10 (13.89%) Software Engineering
11 9 (12.50%) ETL
12 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (11.11%) Roadmaps
13 7 (9.72%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 27 (37.50%) Python
2 26 (36.11%) Java
3 13 (18.06%) SQL
4 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 9 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.33%) Bash
6 4 (5.56%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.17%) Groovy
7 3 (4.17%) Scala
8 2 (2.78%) Ruby
9 1 (1.39%) Bicep
9 1 (1.39%) C++
9 1 (1.39%) COBOL
9 1 (1.39%) Go
9 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 42 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 35 (48.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.17%) CHECK Team Member
5 3 (4.17%) CREST Certified
5 3 (4.17%) Degree
6 2 (2.78%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.39%) CISA
7 1 (1.39%) CISSP
7 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.39%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.56%) WCAG
4 3 (4.17%) GDPR
5 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.78%) SLA
6 1 (1.39%) COBIT
6 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.39%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.39%) NCSC
6 1 (1.39%) QA
6 1 (1.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (31.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) RACF
Systems Management
1 29 (40.28%) Terraform
2 25 (34.72%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.33%) Ansible
4 5 (6.94%) Grafana
4 5 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.78%) Packer
5 2 (2.78%) Rancher
6 1 (1.39%) Argo
6 1 (1.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (9.72%) Databricks
2 4 (5.56%) Dynatrace
2 4 (5.56%) Google
3 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.78%) CyberArk
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.78%) Oracle
4 2 (2.78%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.39%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.39%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.39%) Informatica
5 1 (1.39%) Splunk
5 1 (1.39%) Talend
5 1 (1.39%) UiPath