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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 63 28 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.77% 17.28% 18.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.25% 58.33% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 7 16
10th Percentile £403 £494 £388
25th Percentile £425 £568 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £610 £498
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +22.61% -15.32%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £582
90th Percentile £733 £700 £681
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £508 £598 £480
% change year-on-year -15.06% +24.48% -16.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate - - £32.25
75th Percentile - - £33.31
90th Percentile - - £33.58
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - - £32.25

All Cloud 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 112 48 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 51.14% 29.63% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 16 37
10th Percentile £353 £172 £300
25th Percentile £416 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £473
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +11.11% -14.09%
75th Percentile £575 £632 £588
90th Percentile £650 £663 £622
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £484 £550 £461
% change year-on-year -12.05% +19.24% -16.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £32.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.14%
75th Percentile - - £33.31
90th Percentile - - £33.58
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £36.00 - £32.25
% change year-on-year - - +68.14%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for AWS 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 20 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (22.22%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) Documentum
3 2 (3.17%) CMS
3 2 (3.17%) FileNet
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.59%) nginx
4 1 (1.59%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.52%) Azure
1 6 (9.52%) Serverless
2 4 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (6.35%) GitHub
2 4 (6.35%) IaaS
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (4.76%) Kong
4 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.17%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.17%) GCP
4 2 (3.17%) Intacct
4 2 (3.17%) SaaS
4 2 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.59%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) DHCP
1 1 (1.59%) DNS
1 1 (1.59%) Firewall
1 1 (1.59%) SSL
1 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.16%) MongoDB
2 17 (26.98%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 8 (12.70%) MySQL
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.17%) Big Data
5 2 (3.17%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.59%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.59%) Flink
6 1 (1.59%) Looker
6 1 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (25.40%) GitLab
2 14 (22.22%) JIRA
3 13 (20.63%) Git
4 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 5 (7.94%) SonarQube
6 4 (6.35%) ScriptRunner
6 4 (6.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (4.76%) Artifactory
7 3 (4.76%) gulp
7 3 (4.76%) Maven
7 3 (4.76%) Postman
8 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.59%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (41.27%) Public Sector
2 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Finance
4 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Military
5 1 (1.59%) Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Retail
5 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (30.16%) Developer
2 14 (22.22%) Senior
3 10 (15.87%) Architect
4 9 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (14.29%) Security Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Lead
6 6 (9.52%) Senior Architect
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Security Architect
8 4 (6.35%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) JIRA Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Test Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Documentum Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.17%) PHP Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) Node.js
2 10 (15.87%) Spring Boot
3 8 (12.70%) Spring
4 7 (11.11%) Kafka
5 5 (7.94%) Web Services
6 4 (6.35%) React
6 4 (6.35%) RESTful
7 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.76%) Apache CXF
7 3 (4.76%) Dropwizard
7 3 (4.76%) Express.js
7 3 (4.76%) Hibernate
7 3 (4.76%) JAX-RS
7 3 (4.76%) MERN Stack
7 3 (4.76%) Mongoose
7 3 (4.76%) OpenAPI
7 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (4.76%) REST
7 3 (4.76%) Spring MVC
7 3 (4.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.59%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
1 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.92%) Microservices
2 21 (33.33%) Agile
3 15 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 15 (23.81%) DevOps
4 10 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (12.70%) TDD
7 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.11%) Security Architecture
7 7 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 6 (9.52%) Cloud Security
8 6 (9.52%) End-to-End Testing
8 6 (9.52%) Machine Learning
8 6 (9.52%) Mentoring
9 5 (7.94%) Architectural Patterns
9 5 (7.94%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (7.94%) Data Science
9 5 (7.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) Java
2 15 (23.81%) Python
3 11 (17.46%) SQL
4 9 (14.29%) Bash
5 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.94%) Go
6 5 (7.94%) Groovy
7 4 (6.35%) Perl
7 4 (6.35%) PHP
8 3 (4.76%) Rust
9 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.59%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 33 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 31 (49.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) CISSP
4 3 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.76%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) MCP
5 1 (1.59%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (38.10%) Terraform
2 13 (20.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (15.87%) Ansible
4 3 (4.76%) Grafana
5 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (6.35%) Atlassian
2 3 (4.76%) Google
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle
3 2 (3.17%) Sage
4 1 (1.59%) Databricks
4 1 (1.59%) OpenText