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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 149 69 34
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 23.39% 30.67% 19.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.02% 57.50% 56.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 52 9
10th Percentile £363 £407 £430
25th Percentile £400 £459 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% -5.98% +30.00%
75th Percentile £525 £606 £650
90th Percentile £625 £736 £688
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £550 £579
% change year-on-year -22.68% -4.97% +38.79%

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 266 120 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 41.76% 53.33% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 75 20
10th Percentile £313 £343 £184
25th Percentile £364 £425 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £515 £477
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +7.97% +12.24%
75th Percentile £524 £575 £621
90th Percentile £598 £700 £653
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +19.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 0
10th Percentile £61.25 - -
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 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.44% - -

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 4 October 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 28 (18.79%) Apache Spark
2 24 (16.11%) Apache
2 24 (16.11%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (14.77%) Jupyter
4 6 (4.03%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.34%) CMS
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.34%) WordPress
6 1 (0.67%) Confluence
6 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 55 (36.91%) Azure
2 24 (16.11%) OCI
3 22 (14.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 21 (14.09%) Amazon S3
5 20 (13.42%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (13.42%) GCP
5 20 (13.42%) Serverless
6 19 (12.75%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (11.41%) GitHub
8 12 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.71%) Amazon ECR
9 10 (6.71%) Kong
9 10 (6.71%) SaaS
10 9 (6.04%) Amazon EMR
10 9 (6.04%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.36%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (3.36%) AWS KMS
14 4 (2.68%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.77%) Firewall
2 13 (8.72%) BGP
2 13 (8.72%) BIG-IP
2 13 (8.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (8.72%) OSPF
2 13 (8.72%) VXLAN
3 12 (8.05%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (8.05%) SD-WAN
4 11 (7.38%) WAN
5 6 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.03%) WLAN
6 5 (3.36%) DNS
7 2 (1.34%) HTTP
7 2 (1.34%) Internet
7 2 (1.34%) SSL
7 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.67%) Network Security
8 1 (0.67%) NGFW
8 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.11%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.04%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.70%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.70%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.03%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.36%) DocumentDB
5 5 (3.36%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.68%) Looker
6 4 (2.68%) Metadata
6 4 (2.68%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (2.68%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.68%) Redis
7 3 (2.01%) Big Data
7 3 (2.01%) Flink
7 3 (2.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 75 (50.34%) GitLab
2 20 (13.42%) Git
3 12 (8.05%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.71%) Selenium
5 8 (5.37%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.36%) JIRA
7 4 (2.68%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.68%) WebDriver
8 3 (2.01%) ScalaTest
8 3 (2.01%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.34%) JMeter
9 2 (1.34%) Mocha
9 2 (1.34%) Postman
9 2 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.67%) Gatling
10 1 (0.67%) Maven
10 1 (0.67%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
General
1 88 (59.06%) Public Sector
2 29 (19.46%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.04%) Finance
6 4 (2.68%) Publishing
7 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Legal
8 1 (0.67%) Military
8 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (26.17%) Senior
2 37 (24.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (23.49%) Developer
4 21 (14.09%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (14.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (13.42%) AWS DevOps
5 20 (13.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 19 (12.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (10.74%) Software Developer
8 15 (10.07%) Lead
9 12 (8.05%) Test Engineer
10 10 (6.71%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) Node.js Developer
12 7 (4.70%) Python Developer
13 6 (4.03%) Java Developer
13 6 (4.03%) Senior Developer
14 5 (3.36%) Architect
14 5 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.36%) Scala Developer
14 5 (3.36%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (58.39%) Terraform
2 22 (14.77%) Kafka
3 18 (12.08%) Node.js
4 12 (8.05%) Spring
5 10 (6.71%) REST
5 10 (6.71%) Spring Boot
6 9 (6.04%) Express.js
6 9 (6.04%) Jest
7 8 (5.37%) Play Framework
7 8 (5.37%) Playwright
7 8 (5.37%) RESTful
8 7 (4.70%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.03%) Middleware
9 6 (4.03%) Nunjucks
9 6 (4.03%) PySpark
10 5 (3.36%) MEAN Stack
10 5 (3.36%) React
11 4 (2.68%) OAuth
11 4 (2.68%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 3 (2.01%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.75%) Data Centre
3 17 (11.41%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.04%) Public Cloud
6 8 (5.37%) Blog
7 7 (4.70%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.68%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.34%) Digital Wallet
11 2 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.34%) Web Conferencing
12 1 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.40%) Linux
2 7 (4.70%) Unix
3 4 (2.68%) AIX
4 3 (2.01%) Android
4 3 (2.01%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.01%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.01%) Windows
5 1 (0.67%) CentOS
5 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (64.43%) CI/CD
2 76 (51.01%) DevOps
3 74 (49.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (43.62%) Agile
5 48 (32.21%) Containerisation
6 38 (25.50%) Test Automation
7 30 (20.13%) Data Engineering
8 28 (18.79%) Microservices
9 26 (17.45%) Observability
10 25 (16.78%) Scrum
11 24 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (16.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (13.42%) Mentoring
13 19 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (12.75%) TDD
13 19 (12.75%) Zero Trust
14 18 (12.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 15 (10.07%) ETL
15 15 (10.07%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 64 (42.95%) Python
2 22 (14.77%) Java
3 18 (12.08%) SQL
4 14 (9.40%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.38%) Bash
6 10 (6.71%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.04%) Scala
8 3 (2.01%) Groovy
8 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.01%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.34%) Go
9 2 (1.34%) PHP
10 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 86 (57.72%) Security Cleared
2 73 (48.99%) SC Cleared
3 25 (16.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.37%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.36%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.42%) Accessibility
2 18 (12.08%) QA
3 11 (7.38%) Data Quality
4 10 (6.71%) WCAG
5 4 (2.68%) GDPR
6 2 (1.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 60 (40.27%) Docker
2 5 (3.36%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (29.53%) Kubernetes
2 30 (20.13%) Ansible
3 23 (15.44%) Grafana
4 14 (9.40%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.70%) Data Guard
5 7 (4.70%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (3.36%) Kibana
6 5 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.01%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.34%) Consul
8 2 (1.34%) Istio
8 2 (1.34%) Packer
8 2 (1.34%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (12.75%) Palo Alto
2 13 (8.72%) F5
3 12 (8.05%) Arista
3 12 (8.05%) Splunk
4 11 (7.38%) Aruba
4 11 (7.38%) Oracle
4 11 (7.38%) Trend Micro
5 8 (5.37%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.03%) Databricks
6 6 (4.03%) Google
7 5 (3.36%) Confluent
7 5 (3.36%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.01%) Informatica
8 3 (2.01%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.34%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.67%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.67%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.67%) VMware