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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 73 42 28
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 25.35% 21.99% 16.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 57.03% 53.85% 43.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 21 18
10th Percentile £400 £358 £393
25th Percentile £425 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £417
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% +13.91% -33.28%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £548
90th Percentile £735 £650 £582
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £515 £495 £409
% change year-on-year +4.04% +21.03% -34.56%
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 128 78 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 44.44% 40.84% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 38 40
10th Percentile £218 £186 £163
25th Percentile £392 £329 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £403
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% +7.45% -30.00%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £540
90th Percentile £681 £633 £589
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £471 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +4.56% +12.50% -30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £38.55 - £18.65
25th Percentile £42.38 - £23.38
Median hourly rate £50.25 - £32.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.22%
75th Percentile £54.06 - £32.88
90th Percentile £54.63 - £33.40
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £50.25 - £32.00
% change year-on-year - - +42.22%

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 22 November 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 & 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 8 (10.96%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) Apache
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) CMS
3 1 (1.37%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.07%) Azure
2 7 (9.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (9.59%) Serverless
3 6 (8.22%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.85%) GitHub
4 5 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.11%) GCP
6 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.74%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.74%) Intacct
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.37%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) DHCP
2 1 (1.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.55%) MongoDB
2 13 (17.81%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.96%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.11%) MySQL
5 3 (4.11%) Redis
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.74%) Big Data
6 2 (2.74%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.37%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 21 (28.77%) GitLab
2 13 (17.81%) Git
3 8 (10.96%) JIRA
4 7 (9.59%) Jenkins
5 5 (6.85%) Mocha
6 4 (5.48%) REST Assured
7 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.11%) Postman
8 1 (1.37%) Selenium
8 1 (1.37%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (45.21%) Public Sector
2 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.48%) Finance
4 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Military
5 1 (1.37%) Banking
5 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) Developer
2 13 (17.81%) Senior
3 12 (16.44%) Lead
4 10 (13.70%) Architect
5 9 (12.33%) Security Architect
6 8 (10.96%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (8.22%) Senior Architect
7 6 (8.22%) Test Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Security Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Tester
9 4 (5.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Penetration Tester
9 4 (5.48%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (4.11%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.70%) Node.js
2 9 (12.33%) Spring Boot
3 7 (9.59%) REST
3 7 (9.59%) Spring
4 5 (6.85%) Jest
5 3 (4.11%) CSS
5 3 (4.11%) HTML
5 3 (4.11%) RESTful
5 3 (4.11%) Web Services
6 2 (2.74%) Express.js
6 2 (2.74%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.74%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.74%) Kafka
6 2 (2.74%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.74%) React
6 2 (2.74%) Spring MVC
6 2 (2.74%) Swagger
6 2 (2.74%) WireMock
7 1 (1.37%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.37%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.37%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Linux
1 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) Microservices
2 25 (34.25%) CI/CD
3 21 (28.77%) Agile
3 21 (28.77%) DevOps
4 19 (26.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (21.92%) Mentoring
6 15 (20.55%) Test Automation
7 13 (17.81%) Coaching
8 12 (16.44%) TDD
9 11 (15.07%) Containerisation
9 11 (15.07%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (12.33%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.96%) BDD
11 8 (10.96%) Cloud Security
12 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (9.59%) Data Engineering
12 7 (9.59%) Data Protection
12 7 (9.59%) End-to-End Testing
12 7 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (9.59%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.40%) Java
2 19 (26.03%) Python
3 10 (13.70%) Bash
4 8 (10.96%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.96%) SQL
5 4 (5.48%) Go
6 3 (4.11%) Perl
6 3 (4.11%) PHP
6 3 (4.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.37%) COBOL
7 1 (1.37%) Groovy
7 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (53.42%) Security Cleared
2 37 (50.68%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) CISSP
4 6 (8.22%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.11%) CHECK Team Member
5 3 (4.11%) CREST Certified
5 3 (4.11%) Degree
6 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.74%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.37%) CISA
7 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.70%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.74%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.74%) SLA
4 2 (2.74%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.74%) WCAG
5 1 (1.37%) COBIT
5 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.37%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (26.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (41.10%) Terraform
2 20 (27.40%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.33%) Grafana
4 8 (10.96%) Ansible
5 4 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (2.74%) Databricks
1 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
1 2 (2.74%) Google
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.74%) Sage