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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 83 49 15
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 19.90% 21.03% 7.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.46% 52.13% 36.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 35 14
10th Percentile £354 £360 £400
25th Percentile £400 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +9.89% -24.17%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £570
90th Percentile £625 £640 £629
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £488 £488 £455
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -24.17%
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 147 94 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 35.25% 40.34% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 65 28
10th Percentile £250 £325 £163
25th Percentile £380 £380 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £419
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +19.40% -27.17%
75th Percentile £569 £610 £549
90th Percentile £608 £640 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £409
% change year-on-year -10.00% +22.25% -27.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £50.58 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile £65.63 - £16.50
90th Percentile £69.50 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £60.00 £13.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +361.54% -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 10 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 (8.43%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (8.43%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.23%) Apache
3 3 (3.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (30.12%) Azure
2 14 (16.87%) Serverless
3 13 (15.66%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (15.66%) GCP
4 9 (10.84%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (9.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (9.64%) GitHub
5 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
5 8 (9.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (8.43%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.82%) AWS KMS
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.61%) Google Gemini
10 3 (3.61%) Vertex AI
11 2 (2.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) DNS
1 2 (2.41%) VPN
2 1 (1.20%) IPsec
2 1 (1.20%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) MongoDB
1 8 (9.64%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.02%) Big Data
2 5 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.82%) Delta Lake
3 4 (4.82%) Power BI
3 4 (4.82%) Redis
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.41%) Metadata
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.20%) MySQL
6 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (38.55%) GitLab
2 17 (20.48%) Jenkins
3 13 (15.66%) Git
4 7 (8.43%) REST Assured
5 5 (6.02%) Cucumber
5 5 (6.02%) Mocha
6 4 (4.82%) Postman
6 4 (4.82%) Selenium
7 3 (3.61%) JIRA
7 3 (3.61%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.41%) Gatling
9 1 (1.20%) JMeter
9 1 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
General
1 34 (40.96%) Public Sector
2 12 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.61%) Finance
4 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Banking
5 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) Developer
2 16 (19.28%) Lead
3 15 (18.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) Senior
4 10 (12.05%) Test Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (8.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Node.js Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Architect
8 5 (6.02%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Penetration Tester
9 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Tester
10 3 (3.61%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.66%) Kafka
1 13 (15.66%) Node.js
2 12 (14.46%) Spring
3 8 (9.64%) Spring Boot
4 7 (8.43%) REST
5 5 (6.02%) HTML
5 5 (6.02%) Jest
5 5 (6.02%) React
6 4 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.82%) Express.js
6 4 (4.82%) Next.js
7 3 (3.61%) CSS
7 3 (3.61%) LangChain
7 3 (3.61%) Playwright
7 3 (3.61%) PyTorch
7 3 (3.61%) SOAP
7 3 (3.61%) TensorFlow
8 2 (2.41%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.41%) OpenAPI
8 2 (2.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (51.81%) CI/CD
2 35 (42.17%) DevOps
3 26 (31.33%) Microservices
4 24 (28.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (26.51%) Agile
6 21 (25.30%) Containerisation
7 20 (24.10%) Mentoring
8 19 (22.89%) Coaching
9 18 (21.69%) Test Automation
10 16 (19.28%) Software Engineering
10 16 (19.28%) TDD
11 13 (15.66%) Data Engineering
12 12 (14.46%) AI
12 12 (14.46%) Machine Learning
12 12 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (10.84%) Analytics
13 9 (10.84%) BDD
13 9 (10.84%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (10.84%) ETL
14 8 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.94%) Java
2 28 (33.73%) Python
3 13 (15.66%) SQL
4 11 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.84%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.23%) Bash
7 3 (3.61%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.61%) PHP
8 2 (2.41%) Ruby
8 2 (2.41%) Scala
9 1 (1.20%) Bicep
9 1 (1.20%) Go
9 1 (1.20%) Groovy
9 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 49 (59.04%) Security Cleared
2 43 (51.81%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.43%) AWS Certification
3 7 (8.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.61%) CHECK Team Member
4 3 (3.61%) CREST Certified
4 3 (3.61%) Degree
5 2 (2.41%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.20%) CISA
6 1 (1.20%) CISSP
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.23%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.82%) GDPR
3 4 (4.82%) WCAG
4 3 (3.61%) QA
5 2 (2.41%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.41%) SLA
5 2 (2.41%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.20%) COBIT
6 1 (1.20%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (34.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) RACF
Systems Management
1 38 (45.78%) Terraform
2 30 (36.14%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.05%) Grafana
4 8 (9.64%) Ansible
5 6 (7.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.41%) Packer
7 1 (1.20%) Argo
7 1 (1.20%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.20%) Rancher
7 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (8.43%) Databricks
2 5 (6.02%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.82%) Google
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.41%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.20%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.20%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.20%) Informatica
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle
5 1 (1.20%) Sage
5 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.20%) Splunk
5 1 (1.20%) Talend
5 1 (1.20%) UiPath