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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 1 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 142 70 37
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.19% 29.91% 20.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.04% 58.33% 56.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 52 11
10th Percentile £363 £407 £409
25th Percentile £400 £459 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £525 £606 £630
90th Percentile £625 £736 £675
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £550 £561
% change year-on-year -18.18% -2.00% +34.59%

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 258 120 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.31% 51.28% 35.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 76 24
10th Percentile £313 £338 £224
25th Percentile £365 £413 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +12.36% +8.80%
75th Percentile £518 £575 £591
90th Percentile £600 £700 £643
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +10.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 0
10th Percentile £61.25 - -
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 10 October 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 28 (19.72%) Apache Spark
2 24 (16.90%) Apache
2 24 (16.90%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (15.49%) Jupyter
4 6 (4.23%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.41%) CMS
5 2 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.41%) WordPress
6 1 (0.70%) Confluence
6 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.21%) Azure
2 24 (16.90%) OCI
3 22 (15.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 21 (14.79%) Amazon S3
5 20 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (14.08%) Serverless
6 19 (13.38%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (12.68%) GCP
8 17 (11.97%) GitHub
9 12 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (7.04%) Amazon ECR
10 10 (7.04%) Kong
11 9 (6.34%) Amazon EMR
11 9 (6.34%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (4.93%) SaaS
14 5 (3.52%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (3.52%) AWS KMS
15 4 (2.82%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.49%) Firewall
2 13 (9.15%) BGP
2 13 (9.15%) BIG-IP
2 13 (9.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (9.15%) OSPF
2 13 (9.15%) VXLAN
3 12 (8.45%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (8.45%) SD-WAN
4 11 (7.75%) WAN
5 6 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.23%) WLAN
6 5 (3.52%) DNS
7 2 (1.41%) HTTP
7 2 (1.41%) SSL
7 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.70%) Network Security
8 1 (0.70%) NGFW
8 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.90%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.34%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.93%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.93%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.52%) DocumentDB
5 5 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.52%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.82%) Looker
6 4 (2.82%) Metadata
6 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.82%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (2.82%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.11%) Big Data
7 3 (2.11%) Flink
7 3 (2.11%) Power BI
7 3 (2.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (52.11%) GitLab
2 17 (11.97%) Git
3 11 (7.75%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.34%) Selenium
5 7 (4.93%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.82%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.11%) ScalaTest
7 3 (2.11%) Serenity BDD
7 3 (2.11%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.41%) JIRA
8 2 (1.41%) JMeter
8 2 (1.41%) Mocha
8 2 (1.41%) Postman
8 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.70%) Gatling
9 1 (0.70%) Maven
9 1 (0.70%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
General
1 88 (61.97%) Public Sector
2 28 (19.72%) Social Skills
3 27 (19.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.34%) Finance
6 4 (2.82%) Publishing
7 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Legal
8 1 (0.70%) Military
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (25.35%) Senior
2 35 (24.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (23.94%) Developer
4 20 (14.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (13.38%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (13.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (12.68%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (12.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 16 (11.27%) Software Developer
8 15 (10.56%) Lead
9 12 (8.45%) Test Engineer
10 10 (7.04%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.93%) Architect
11 7 (4.93%) Node.js Developer
11 7 (4.93%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.93%) Technical Architect
12 6 (4.23%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.52%) Scala Developer
14 4 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (58.45%) Terraform
2 22 (15.49%) Kafka
3 16 (11.27%) Node.js
4 12 (8.45%) Spring
5 10 (7.04%) REST
5 10 (7.04%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.63%) Express.js
6 8 (5.63%) Jest
6 8 (5.63%) Play Framework
6 8 (5.63%) RESTful
7 7 (4.93%) Playwright
8 6 (4.23%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.23%) Middleware
8 6 (4.23%) Nunjucks
8 6 (4.23%) PySpark
9 5 (3.52%) MEAN Stack
9 5 (3.52%) React
10 4 (2.82%) OAuth
10 4 (2.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 3 (2.11%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.01%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.38%) Data Centre
3 17 (11.97%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.34%) Public Cloud
6 8 (5.63%) Blog
7 6 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.41%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.86%) Linux
2 7 (4.93%) Unix
3 4 (2.82%) AIX
4 1 (0.70%) CentOS
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (64.79%) CI/CD
2 73 (51.41%) DevOps
2 73 (51.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (44.37%) Agile
4 48 (33.80%) Containerisation
5 35 (24.65%) Test Automation
6 30 (21.13%) Microservices
7 29 (20.42%) Data Engineering
8 27 (19.01%) Observability
9 23 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (16.20%) Scrum
10 22 (15.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (14.79%) Mentoring
12 20 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (13.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 19 (13.38%) Zero Trust
14 18 (12.68%) TDD
15 16 (11.27%) High Availability
15 16 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 15 (10.56%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.07%) Python
2 21 (14.79%) Java
3 17 (11.97%) SQL
4 12 (8.45%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.75%) Bash
6 9 (6.34%) Scala
6 9 (6.34%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.11%) Groovy
7 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.11%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.41%) Go
8 2 (1.41%) PHP
9 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 82 (57.75%) Security Cleared
2 71 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (6.34%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.23%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.38%) Accessibility
2 17 (11.97%) QA
3 11 (7.75%) Data Quality
4 9 (6.34%) WCAG
5 4 (2.82%) GDPR
5 4 (2.82%) NCSC
6 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 59 (41.55%) Docker
2 5 (3.52%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (30.28%) Kubernetes
2 30 (21.13%) Ansible
3 23 (16.20%) Grafana
4 14 (9.86%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.93%) Data Guard
5 7 (4.93%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (3.52%) Kibana
6 5 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.41%) Consul
8 2 (1.41%) Istio
8 2 (1.41%) Packer
8 2 (1.41%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (13.38%) Palo Alto
2 13 (9.15%) F5
3 12 (8.45%) Arista
3 12 (8.45%) Splunk
4 11 (7.75%) Aruba
4 11 (7.75%) Oracle
4 11 (7.75%) Trend Micro
5 8 (5.63%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.23%) Databricks
6 6 (4.23%) Google
7 5 (3.52%) Confluent
8 3 (2.11%) Informatica
8 3 (2.11%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.41%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.70%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.70%) Cloudera