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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 3 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 60 48 20
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 17.44% 25.26% 11.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.11% 56.47% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 28 18
10th Percentile £350 £357 £393
25th Percentile £400 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £417
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +25.90% -27.48%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £548
90th Percentile £640 £650 £594
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £488 £525 £417
% change year-on-year -7.14% +25.90% -27.48%

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 133 85 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 38.66% 44.74% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 46 34
10th Percentile £260 £319 £163
25th Percentile £386 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £407
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +14.13% -29.22%
75th Percentile £568 £589 £548
90th Percentile £600 £625 £624
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £488 £407
% change year-on-year -7.69% +19.78% -29.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £41.10 - -
25th Percentile £47.88 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.89%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £16.50
90th Percentile £60.00 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £55.00 - £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 4 January 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 5 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) Apache
2 2 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
1 9 (15.00%) Azure
1 9 (15.00%) Serverless
2 8 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (10.00%) GitHub
4 5 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 5 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.00%) AWS KMS
6 3 (5.00%) GCP
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (3.33%) Intacct
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.67%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (1.67%) DHCP
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.00%) Redis
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (41.67%) GitLab
2 11 (18.33%) Git
3 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.33%) JIRA
4 5 (8.33%) Mocha
5 4 (6.67%) REST Assured
6 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.33%) Postman
8 1 (1.67%) Gatling
8 1 (1.67%) JMeter
8 1 (1.67%) Selenium
8 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (48.33%) Public Sector
2 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (31.67%) Developer
2 11 (18.33%) Lead
3 9 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (11.67%) Senior
5 7 (11.67%) Test Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Tester
7 4 (6.67%) Penetration Tester
7 4 (6.67%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) Node.js
2 8 (13.33%) Spring
3 7 (11.67%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.00%) REST
5 5 (8.33%) Jest
6 4 (6.67%) Express.js
6 4 (6.67%) Kafka
6 4 (6.67%) React
7 3 (5.00%) CSS
7 3 (5.00%) HTML
8 2 (3.33%) Gherkin
8 2 (3.33%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.33%) Next.js
8 2 (3.33%) WireMock
9 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.67%) Flask
9 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
9 1 (1.67%) RESTful
9 1 (1.67%) Swagger
9 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 24 (40.00%) DevOps
3 21 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (33.33%) Agile
5 16 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 16 (26.67%) Microservices
6 15 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 15 (25.00%) TDD
6 15 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 14 (23.33%) Coaching
8 11 (18.33%) Software Engineering
9 9 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (13.33%) BDD
10 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (10.00%) Data Engineering
13 5 (8.33%) Functional Testing
13 5 (8.33%) Migration
13 5 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.00%) Python
2 19 (31.67%) Java
3 10 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 9 (15.00%) Bash
5 5 (8.33%) Go
5 5 (8.33%) SQL
5 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.00%) Perl
6 3 (5.00%) PHP
7 1 (1.67%) Bicep
7 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.67%) Rust
7 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (51.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (48.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.00%) CHECK Team Member
4 3 (5.00%) CREST Certified
5 2 (3.33%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (3.33%) Degree
5 2 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.67%) CISA
6 1 (1.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) GDPR
2 3 (5.00%) WCAG
3 2 (3.33%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.33%) SLA
3 2 (3.33%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.67%) COBIT
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (36.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (55.00%) Terraform
2 21 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (16.67%) Grafana
4 7 (11.67%) Ansible
5 5 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (3.33%) Databricks
1 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (3.33%) Google
2 1 (1.67%) Blue Prism
2 1 (1.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.67%) Sage
2 1 (1.67%) UiPath