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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 142 55 22
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.47% 27.92% 14.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.25% 57.29% 55.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 41 4
10th Percentile £363 £400 £533
25th Percentile £400 £425 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% -13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £691
90th Percentile £594 £738 £719
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £510 £573
% change year-on-year -16.67% -10.92% +9.05%

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 257 96 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.66% 48.73% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 62 14
10th Percentile £313 £382 £166
25th Percentile £363 £425 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £550
90th Percentile £565 £649 £668
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -10.99% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 0
10th Percentile £62.25 - -
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 £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 3 September 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 27 (19.01%) 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
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 54 (38.03%) Azure
2 24 (16.90%) OCI
3 21 (14.79%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (14.79%) Serverless
4 19 (13.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 19 (13.38%) Amazon S3
5 17 (11.97%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (11.97%) GCP
6 16 (11.27%) GitHub
7 11 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (7.04%) SaaS
9 8 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.63%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (5.63%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (4.93%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.23%) Kong
12 4 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.82%) Google Tag Manager
12 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%) DNS
5 6 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.23%) WLAN
6 2 (1.41%) HTTP
6 2 (1.41%) Internet
6 2 (1.41%) SSL
6 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.70%) Network Security
7 1 (0.70%) NGFW
7 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.38%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.34%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.93%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.93%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.23%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.52%) Redis
5 5 (3.52%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.82%) Looker
6 4 (2.82%) Metadata
6 4 (2.82%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (2.82%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.11%) Big Data
7 3 (2.11%) DocumentDB
7 3 (2.11%) Flink
7 3 (2.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 72 (50.70%) GitLab
2 22 (15.49%) Git
3 15 (10.56%) Jenkins
4 10 (7.04%) Selenium
5 8 (5.63%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.93%) JIRA
7 4 (2.82%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.82%) WebDriver
8 3 (2.11%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.41%) JMeter
9 2 (1.41%) Mocha
9 2 (1.41%) Postman
9 2 (1.41%) ScalaTest
9 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.70%) Gatling
10 1 (0.70%) Maven
10 1 (0.70%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
General
1 79 (55.63%) Public Sector
2 26 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.93%) Finance
6 4 (2.82%) Publishing
7 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Legal
8 1 (0.70%) Military
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (26.06%) Senior
2 36 (25.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (21.83%) Developer
4 21 (14.79%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (14.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (14.08%) AWS DevOps
5 20 (14.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 19 (13.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (11.27%) Lead
8 14 (9.86%) Software Developer
9 10 (7.04%) Test Engineer
10 9 (6.34%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.93%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (4.23%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Node.js Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Senior Delivery Manager
12 6 (4.23%) Senior Manager
13 5 (3.52%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 5 (3.52%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (59.15%) Terraform
2 21 (14.79%) Kafka
3 16 (11.27%) Node.js
4 12 (8.45%) Spring
5 10 (7.04%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.63%) Playwright
6 8 (5.63%) REST
7 7 (4.93%) Play Framework
8 6 (4.23%) Express.js
8 6 (4.23%) Jest
8 6 (4.23%) Middleware
8 6 (4.23%) PySpark
8 6 (4.23%) RESTful
9 5 (3.52%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.52%) OAuth
9 5 (3.52%) React
10 4 (2.82%) JWT
10 4 (2.82%) OpenID
10 4 (2.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 3 (2.11%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.08%) Data Centre
3 13 (9.15%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.63%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.23%) Blog
6 6 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.11%) Replication
10 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.41%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.45%) Linux
2 6 (4.23%) Unix
3 4 (2.82%) AIX
3 4 (2.82%) Android
3 4 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.11%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (62.68%) CI/CD
2 71 (50.00%) DevOps
2 71 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 60 (42.25%) Agile
4 45 (31.69%) Containerisation
5 36 (25.35%) Test Automation
6 28 (19.72%) Data Engineering
6 28 (19.72%) Microservices
7 24 (16.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 24 (16.90%) Scrum
8 23 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (14.08%) Observability
10 19 (13.38%) Zero Trust
11 18 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (11.97%) TDD
13 16 (11.27%) Mentoring
13 16 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (10.56%) Analytics
14 15 (10.56%) High Availability
14 15 (10.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 63 (44.37%) Python
2 25 (17.61%) Java
3 14 (9.86%) SQL
4 12 (8.45%) Bash
5 11 (7.75%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.63%) Scala
6 8 (5.63%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.23%) Groovy
8 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.41%) Go
9 2 (1.41%) PHP
9 2 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.70%) C++
10 1 (0.70%) COBOL
10 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (59.86%) Security Cleared
2 71 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.68%) Accessibility
2 16 (11.27%) QA
3 9 (6.34%) Data Quality
3 9 (6.34%) WCAG
4 5 (3.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (40.85%) Docker
2 5 (3.52%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (28.17%) Kubernetes
2 30 (21.13%) Ansible
3 21 (14.79%) Grafana
4 14 (9.86%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.93%) Data Guard
5 7 (4.93%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.11%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.11%) Rancher
8 2 (1.41%) Consul
8 2 (1.41%) Kibana
8 2 (1.41%) Packer
8 2 (1.41%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.70%) Argo
9 1 (0.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (13.38%) Palo Alto
2 13 (9.15%) F5
3 12 (8.45%) Arista
4 11 (7.75%) Aruba
4 11 (7.75%) Trend Micro
5 10 (7.04%) Splunk
6 9 (6.34%) Oracle
6 9 (6.34%) ServiceNow
7 8 (5.63%) Dynatrace
8 6 (4.23%) Databricks
8 6 (4.23%) Google
9 3 (2.11%) Confluent
10 2 (1.41%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.41%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.70%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.70%) VMware