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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS 75 40 8
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 16.78% 19.05% 3.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.08% 50.63% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 32 5
10th Percentile £350 £358 £495
25th Percentile £400 £449 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -18.33% -
75th Percentile £569 £590 £650
90th Percentile £602 £624 £665
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £478 £600
% change year-on-year -5.76% -20.42% -
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 144 79 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 32.21% 37.62% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 60 20
10th Percentile £306 £353 £163
25th Percentile £385 £409 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £508 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -0.98% -10.87%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £650
90th Percentile £599 £628 £653
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £484 £453
% change year-on-year -6.98% +6.79% -21.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +400.00% - -

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 14 April 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 (9.33%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (9.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.00%) Apache
3 2 (2.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (40.00%) Azure
2 15 (20.00%) GCP
3 12 (16.00%) Serverless
4 11 (14.67%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (10.67%) Power Platform
6 7 (9.33%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (9.33%) Amazon S3
6 7 (9.33%) GitHub
7 6 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (5.33%) IaaS
9 4 (5.33%) PaaS
9 4 (5.33%) SaaS
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.00%) AWS KMS
10 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Internet
1 2 (2.67%) VPN
2 1 (1.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) IPsec
2 1 (1.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) MongoDB
1 7 (9.33%) NoSQL
1 7 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.67%) Big Data
2 5 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.33%) Delta Lake
3 4 (5.33%) Power BI
4 3 (4.00%) Redis
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.67%) Metadata
5 2 (2.67%) MySQL
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (26.67%) GitLab
2 16 (21.33%) Git
3 14 (18.67%) Jenkins
4 7 (9.33%) JIRA
5 5 (6.67%) REST Assured
5 5 (6.67%) Selenium
6 4 (5.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.67%) Gatling
7 2 (2.67%) Postman
7 2 (2.67%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.33%) JMeter
8 1 (1.33%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (38.67%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.33%) Banking
5 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (21.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (18.67%) Lead
3 13 (17.33%) Developer
4 11 (14.67%) Senior
5 9 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (10.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Architect
8 6 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (8.00%) Test Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Java Developer
9 5 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (6.67%) Senior Delivery Manager
9 5 (6.67%) Senior Manager
10 4 (5.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
11 3 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) Kafka
1 12 (16.00%) Node.js
2 10 (13.33%) Spring
3 5 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (6.67%) REST
3 5 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.33%) Next.js
4 4 (5.33%) Playwright
5 3 (4.00%) Express.js
5 3 (4.00%) LangChain
5 3 (4.00%) PyTorch
5 3 (4.00%) React
5 3 (4.00%) RESTful
5 3 (4.00%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.67%) HTML
6 2 (2.67%) OAuth
6 2 (2.67%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.67%) OpenID
6 2 (2.67%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.67%) Replication
3 2 (2.67%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Android
1 4 (5.33%) Apple iOS
1 4 (5.33%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (4.00%) Windows
3 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 34 (45.33%) DevOps
3 21 (28.00%) Agile
4 18 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (22.67%) Containerisation
5 17 (22.67%) Microservices
6 14 (18.67%) Data Engineering
6 14 (18.67%) Test Automation
7 12 (16.00%) AI
7 12 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 11 (14.67%) Machine Learning
8 11 (14.67%) TDD
9 10 (13.33%) Analytics
9 10 (13.33%) Mentoring
9 10 (13.33%) Roadmaps
10 9 (12.00%) Coaching
10 9 (12.00%) ETL
11 8 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 28 (37.33%) Python
2 26 (34.67%) Java
3 11 (14.67%) SQL
4 9 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.00%) Bash
7 4 (5.33%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.00%) Groovy
8 3 (4.00%) Scala
9 2 (2.67%) Ruby
10 1 (1.33%) Bicep
10 1 (1.33%) C++
10 1 (1.33%) COBOL
10 1 (1.33%) Go
10 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 41 (54.67%) Security Cleared
2 33 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.33%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.00%) Degree
6 2 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.33%) CISA
7 1 (1.33%) CISSP
7 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.00%) GDPR
3 3 (4.00%) WCAG
4 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.67%) QA
4 2 (2.67%) SLA
5 1 (1.33%) COBIT
5 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.33%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.33%) NCSC
5 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (29.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 34 (45.33%) Terraform
2 22 (29.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.00%) Ansible
4 5 (6.67%) Grafana
4 5 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.67%) Packer
5 2 (2.67%) Rancher
6 1 (1.33%) Argo
6 1 (1.33%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (9.33%) Databricks
1 7 (9.33%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.33%) Dynatrace
2 4 (5.33%) Google
3 2 (2.67%) CyberArk
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle
3 2 (2.67%) Zscaler
4 1 (1.33%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.33%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.33%) Informatica
4 1 (1.33%) Splunk
4 1 (1.33%) Talend
4 1 (1.33%) UiPath
4 1 (1.33%) VMware