AWS Contract Job Trends in the North East

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring AWS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 5 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 71 41 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 23.91% 15.19% 14.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.82% 52.56% 42.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 11 19
10th Percentile £407 £388 £363
25th Percentile £458 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £573 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +20.53% -18.10%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £580
90th Percentile £710 £675 £648
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - - £31.48
25th Percentile - - £31.81
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £39.34
Median % change year-on-year - +17.39% -
75th Percentile - - £46.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £73.50 £46.18 £70.00
% change year-on-year +59.16% -34.03% +9.38%

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 137 78 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 46.13% 28.89% 34.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 32 52
10th Percentile £338 £190 £313
25th Percentile £413 £328 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £485 £418
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% +16.17% -24.09%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £556
90th Percentile £630 £650 £600
England median daily rate £501 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £11.44 £22.25
25th Percentile - £20.13 £31.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.04% +42.09% +44.44%
75th Percentile - - £46.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.79% - +51.52%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AWS

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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 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AWS

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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 22 September 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 +3 70 £520 -12.97% 56
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 14 (19.72%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) Documentum
3 2 (2.82%) CMS
3 2 (2.82%) FileNet
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.41%) nginx
4 1 (1.41%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.27%) Serverless
2 7 (9.86%) Azure
2 7 (9.86%) GitHub
3 6 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.63%) IaaS
5 4 (5.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.23%) GCP
6 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.23%) Kong
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.82%) Intacct
7 2 (2.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) DNS
2 1 (1.41%) DHCP
2 1 (1.41%) Firewall
2 1 (1.41%) SSL
2 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.76%) MongoDB
2 17 (23.94%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (12.68%) NoSQL
4 8 (11.27%) MySQL
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.82%) Big Data
5 2 (2.82%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.41%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.41%) Flink
6 1 (1.41%) Looker
6 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (33.80%) GitLab
2 16 (22.54%) Git
3 14 (19.72%) JIRA
4 10 (14.08%) Jenkins
5 5 (7.04%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.63%) ScriptRunner
6 4 (5.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (4.23%) Artifactory
7 3 (4.23%) gulp
7 3 (4.23%) Maven
7 3 (4.23%) Postman
8 2 (2.82%) Mocha
9 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (42.25%) Public Sector
2 11 (15.49%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.04%) Finance
4 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Military
5 1 (1.41%) Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Retail
5 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (30.99%) Developer
2 15 (21.13%) Senior
3 10 (14.08%) Architect
4 9 (12.68%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (12.68%) Security Architect
5 8 (11.27%) Lead
6 6 (8.45%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Architect
7 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Security Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.31%) Node.js
2 12 (16.90%) Spring Boot
3 10 (14.08%) Spring
4 7 (9.86%) Kafka
5 5 (7.04%) REST
5 5 (7.04%) Web Services
6 4 (5.63%) React
6 4 (5.63%) RESTful
7 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.23%) Apache CXF
7 3 (4.23%) Dropwizard
7 3 (4.23%) Express.js
7 3 (4.23%) Hibernate
7 3 (4.23%) JAX-RS
7 3 (4.23%) MEAN Stack
7 3 (4.23%) Mongoose
7 3 (4.23%) OpenAPI
7 3 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (4.23%) Spring MVC
7 3 (4.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.82%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.41%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Linux
1 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.62%) Microservices
2 25 (35.21%) Agile
3 23 (32.39%) CI/CD
4 20 (28.17%) DevOps
5 13 (18.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (16.90%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (14.08%) Migration
7 10 (14.08%) TDD
7 10 (14.08%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (12.68%) Data Protection
8 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
9 8 (11.27%) Software Engineering
10 7 (9.86%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (9.86%) End-to-End Testing
10 7 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (9.86%) Security Architecture
10 7 (9.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 6 (8.45%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.99%) Java
2 16 (22.54%) Python
3 11 (15.49%) SQL
4 10 (14.08%) Bash
5 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.04%) Go
6 5 (7.04%) Groovy
7 4 (5.63%) Perl
7 4 (5.63%) PHP
8 3 (4.23%) Rust
9 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.41%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 41 (57.75%) Security Cleared
2 38 (53.52%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.45%) CISSP
4 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.23%) Degree
5 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) MCP
6 1 (1.41%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (18.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (40.85%) Terraform
2 18 (25.35%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.49%) Ansible
4 8 (11.27%) Grafana
5 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (5.63%) Atlassian
2 3 (4.23%) Google
3 2 (2.82%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle
3 2 (2.82%) Sage
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) OpenText