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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 73 49 15
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 17.98% 21.49% 7.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 52.13% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 34 15
10th Percentile £350 £359 £400
25th Percentile £400 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +19.41% -29.17%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £580
90th Percentile £630 £623 £640
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -29.17%
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 146 94 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 35.96% 41.23% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 60 30
10th Percentile £236 £325 £163
25th Percentile £359 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -23.91%
75th Percentile £554 £614 £572
90th Percentile £600 £629 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £500 £409
% change year-on-year -10.00% +22.25% -28.87%
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
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.89%
75th Percentile £65.63 - £16.50
90th Percentile £69.50 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £60.00 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.89%

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 17 February 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 6 (8.22%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (8.22%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.85%) Apache
3 4 (5.48%) Confluence
4 1 (1.37%) CMS
4 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 19 (26.03%) Azure
2 11 (15.07%) GCP
2 11 (15.07%) Serverless
3 10 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (10.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (10.96%) Amazon S3
5 7 (9.59%) GitHub
6 6 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (8.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.11%) AWS KMS
9 3 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.11%) Google Gemini
9 3 (4.11%) Vertex AI
10 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (2.74%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) IPsec
2 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) MongoDB
1 6 (8.22%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.48%) Big Data
2 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.11%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.11%) Redis
3 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.74%) Metadata
4 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.37%) MySQL
5 1 (1.37%) Power BI
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (41.10%) GitLab
2 13 (17.81%) Jenkins
3 11 (15.07%) Git
4 7 (9.59%) REST Assured
5 5 (6.85%) Cucumber
5 5 (6.85%) Mocha
6 4 (5.48%) JIRA
6 4 (5.48%) Postman
6 4 (5.48%) Selenium
7 3 (4.11%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.74%) Gatling
9 1 (1.37%) JMeter
9 1 (1.37%) Serenity BDD
General
1 29 (39.73%) Public Sector
2 12 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.11%) Finance
4 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.37%) Banking
4 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Developer
2 12 (16.44%) Lead
3 11 (15.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) Test Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Java Developer
5 7 (9.59%) Node.js Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Senior
7 5 (6.85%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (6.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Tester
8 4 (5.48%) Penetration Tester
8 4 (5.48%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Architect
9 3 (4.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.81%) Node.js
2 11 (15.07%) Spring
3 9 (12.33%) Kafka
4 7 (9.59%) Spring Boot
5 6 (8.22%) REST
6 5 (6.85%) HTML
6 5 (6.85%) Jest
7 4 (5.48%) Express.js
7 4 (5.48%) React
8 3 (4.11%) CSS
8 3 (4.11%) LangChain
8 3 (4.11%) Playwright
8 3 (4.11%) PyTorch
8 3 (4.11%) SOAP
8 3 (4.11%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.74%) Gherkin
9 2 (2.74%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.74%) Next.js
9 2 (2.74%) WireMock
10 1 (1.37%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
1 3 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
1 3 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (54.79%) CI/CD
2 28 (38.36%) DevOps
3 22 (30.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (28.77%) Microservices
5 20 (27.40%) Agile
6 18 (24.66%) Containerisation
6 18 (24.66%) Test Automation
7 15 (20.55%) Mentoring
8 14 (19.18%) Coaching
8 14 (19.18%) TDD
9 13 (17.81%) Software Engineering
10 11 (15.07%) AI
10 11 (15.07%) Data Engineering
10 11 (15.07%) Machine Learning
11 10 (13.70%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (12.33%) BDD
13 8 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (9.59%) Analytics
14 7 (9.59%) Data Pipeline
14 7 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (34.25%) Python
2 24 (32.88%) Java
3 12 (16.44%) JavaScript
3 12 (16.44%) SQL
4 7 (9.59%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.22%) Bash
6 3 (4.11%) PHP
7 2 (2.74%) Go
7 2 (2.74%) Ruby
7 2 (2.74%) Scala
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (54.79%) Security Cleared
2 37 (50.68%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.11%) CHECK Team Member
5 3 (4.11%) CREST Certified
5 3 (4.11%) Degree
6 2 (2.74%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.37%) CISA
7 1 (1.37%) CISSP
7 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.37%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.48%) QA
4 3 (4.11%) GDPR
4 3 (4.11%) WCAG
5 2 (2.74%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.74%) SLA
5 2 (2.74%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.37%) COBIT
6 1 (1.37%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (36.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) RACF
Systems Management
1 35 (47.95%) Terraform
2 25 (34.25%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.07%) Grafana
4 8 (10.96%) Ansible
5 6 (8.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.37%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (8.22%) Databricks
2 4 (5.48%) Google
3 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.37%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.37%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.37%) Informatica
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle
4 1 (1.37%) Sage
4 1 (1.37%) Splunk
4 1 (1.37%) Talend
4 1 (1.37%) UiPath