AWS Contracts in the North East

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 17 9
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 46 21 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 14.38% 6.21% 16.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.99% 33.33% 36.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 6 53
10th Percentile £390 £500 £513
25th Percentile £456 £531 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £700
90th Percentile £650 £663 £844
England median daily rate £550 £553 £593
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.71% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
England median hourly rate £71.25 £53.75 £72.75
% change year-on-year +32.56% -26.12% +29.33%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 107 63 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 33.44% 18.64% 45.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 32 147
10th Percentile £321 £161 £350
25th Percentile £411 £190 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £453 £565
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% -19.82% +13.00%
75th Percentile £605 £550 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile - £11.44 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £13.77 £48.50
Median hourly rate £13.00 £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.41% -57.61% +188.24%
75th Percentile £13.50 - £49.50
90th Percentile - £33.48 -
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the North East.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +13 46 £508 -11.74% 158
AWS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 7 (15.22%) nginx
2 4 (8.70%) Confluence
3 2 (4.35%) Jupyter
3 2 (4.35%) Traefik
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.17%) CMS
4 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) Azure
2 9 (19.57%) Serverless
3 8 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (17.39%) Kong
4 7 (15.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.70%) IaaS
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub
6 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.35%) SaaS
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.17%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) SSL
2 3 (6.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.35%) DNS
3 2 (4.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) MongoDB
2 5 (10.87%) Metadata
2 5 (10.87%) MySQL
2 5 (10.87%) NoSQL
2 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.70%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (6.52%) Redis
5 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
5 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.17%) Big Data
6 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.17%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.17%) Flink
6 1 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) GitLab
2 9 (19.57%) Jenkins
3 8 (17.39%) Git
4 7 (15.22%) JIRA
5 5 (10.87%) SonarQube
6 4 (8.70%) Artifactory
6 4 (8.70%) gulp
6 4 (8.70%) Maven
6 4 (8.70%) ScriptRunner
6 4 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio
7 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.17%) ERwin
8 1 (2.17%) JUnit
8 1 (2.17%) Postman
8 1 (2.17%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.17%) Selenium
8 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.52%) Finance
2 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Electronics
3 2 (4.35%) French Language
3 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.35%) Marketing
3 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Legal
4 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Developer
2 10 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) Senior
4 8 (17.39%) Data Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (13.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Lead
8 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) JIRA Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Lead DevOps
9 3 (6.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) C# Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Data Modeller
10 2 (4.35%) DevOps Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Java Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) Kafka
2 6 (13.04%) Node.js
2 6 (13.04%) React
2 6 (13.04%) Spring
2 6 (13.04%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 4 (8.70%) Apache CXF
3 4 (8.70%) Dropwizard
3 4 (8.70%) Express.js
3 4 (8.70%) Hibernate
3 4 (8.70%) JAX-RS
3 4 (8.70%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (8.70%) MERN Stack
3 4 (8.70%) Mongoose
3 4 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (8.70%) REST
3 4 (8.70%) Sequelize
4 3 (6.52%) RESTful
4 3 (6.52%) SOAP
5 2 (4.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.35%) PKI
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) CentOS
2 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) DevOps
2 15 (32.61%) Agile
3 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 11 (23.91%) Microservices
5 6 (13.04%) Data Modelling
5 6 (13.04%) ETL
5 6 (13.04%) Migration
5 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
6 5 (10.87%) Data Protection
6 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.70%) Event-Driven
7 4 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (8.70%) Incident Management
7 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.70%) Open Source
7 4 (8.70%) Operational Stability
7 4 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (8.70%) SDLC
7 4 (8.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Python
2 10 (21.74%) Java
3 8 (17.39%) SQL
4 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.70%) Groovy
6 3 (6.52%) Bash
7 2 (4.35%) C#
7 2 (4.35%) Go
7 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (58.70%) Security Cleared
2 22 (47.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.35%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) CCNA
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.17%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) NCSC
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (45.65%) Terraform
2 15 (32.61%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.87%) Grafana
3 5 (10.87%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.52%) Packer
5 2 (4.35%) Ansible
5 2 (4.35%) Consul
5 2 (4.35%) HAProxy
5 2 (4.35%) Istio
5 2 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (4.35%) linkerd
5 2 (4.35%) Rancher
5 2 (4.35%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.17%) Kibana
6 1 (2.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Databricks
2 4 (8.70%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) New Relic
4 2 (4.35%) Apple
4 2 (4.35%) ESET
4 2 (4.35%) Okta
4 2 (4.35%) SAP
4 2 (4.35%) Splunk
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco
5 1 (2.17%) IBM
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) VMware