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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 152 75 46
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 17.84% 24.43% 15.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.84% 51.72% 51.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 53 15
10th Percentile £363 £407 £388
25th Percentile £400 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year -17.73% +25.00% +3.53%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £584
90th Percentile £625 £735 £634
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £46.18
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -21.73%

All Cloud Computing 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 299 145 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 35.09% 47.23% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 92 36
10th Percentile £313 £300 £293
25th Percentile £363 £410 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.95% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £584
90th Percentile £600 £700 £614
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 6
10th Percentile £54.00 £36.85 £11.44
25th Percentile £62.50 £38.13 £20.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -9.05% +42.09%
75th Percentile - £47.63 -
90th Percentile - £49.95 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

AWS job vacancy trend in the North East

AWS
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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North East over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North East

AWS
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

AWS
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 14 October 2026. 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 -4 144 £450 -18.18% 116
Durham - 3 £356 - 3
Northumberland - 2 £520 - 3
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (18.42%) Apache Spark
2 24 (15.79%) Apache
2 24 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (14.47%) Jupyter
4 6 (3.95%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.32%) CMS
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.32%) WordPress
6 1 (0.66%) Confluence
6 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 59 (38.82%) Azure
2 24 (15.79%) OCI
3 22 (14.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 22 (14.47%) Amazon S3
4 20 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (13.16%) Serverless
5 19 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 19 (12.50%) GCP
6 17 (11.18%) GitHub
7 12 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (6.58%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (6.58%) Kong
9 9 (5.92%) Amazon EMR
9 9 (5.92%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (4.61%) SaaS
12 5 (3.29%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (3.29%) AWS KMS
13 4 (2.63%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.47%) Firewall
2 13 (8.55%) BGP
2 13 (8.55%) BIG-IP
2 13 (8.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (8.55%) OSPF
2 13 (8.55%) VXLAN
3 12 (7.89%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (7.89%) SD-WAN
4 11 (7.24%) WAN
5 6 (3.95%) DNS
5 6 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (3.95%) WLAN
6 2 (1.32%) HTTP
6 2 (1.32%) SSL
6 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.66%) DHCP
7 1 (0.66%) Network Security
7 1 (0.66%) SAN
7 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.45%) MongoDB
2 9 (5.92%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.61%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.61%) Oracle Database
4 6 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.29%) DocumentDB
5 5 (3.29%) Metadata
5 5 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.63%) Looker
6 4 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.63%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (2.63%) Power BI
6 4 (2.63%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.97%) Big Data
7 3 (1.97%) Flink
7 3 (1.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (48.68%) GitLab
2 17 (11.18%) Git
3 11 (7.24%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.92%) Selenium
5 7 (4.61%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.63%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.97%) ScalaTest
7 3 (1.97%) Serenity BDD
7 3 (1.97%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.32%) JIRA
8 2 (1.32%) JMeter
8 2 (1.32%) Mocha
8 2 (1.32%) Postman
8 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.66%) Gatling
9 1 (0.66%) Maven
9 1 (0.66%) Mockito
9 1 (0.66%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
General
1 91 (59.87%) Public Sector
2 29 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 27 (17.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.92%) Finance
6 4 (2.63%) Publishing
7 3 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Military
9 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (26.32%) Senior
2 36 (23.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (23.03%) Developer
4 22 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (13.82%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (11.84%) AWS DevOps
7 18 (11.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 16 (10.53%) Software Developer
9 15 (9.87%) Lead
10 13 (8.55%) Data Engineer
11 12 (7.89%) Test Engineer
12 9 (5.92%) Architect
13 7 (4.61%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.61%) Node.js Developer
13 7 (4.61%) Python Developer
13 7 (4.61%) Senior Developer
13 7 (4.61%) Technical Architect
14 5 (3.29%) Scala Developer
14 5 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (55.26%) Terraform
2 23 (15.13%) Kafka
3 16 (10.53%) Node.js
4 12 (7.89%) Spring
5 10 (6.58%) REST
5 10 (6.58%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.26%) Express.js
6 8 (5.26%) Jest
6 8 (5.26%) Play Framework
6 8 (5.26%) RESTful
7 7 (4.61%) Playwright
8 6 (3.95%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.95%) Middleware
8 6 (3.95%) Nunjucks
8 6 (3.95%) PySpark
9 5 (3.29%) MEAN Stack
9 5 (3.29%) React
10 4 (2.63%) OAuth
10 4 (2.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 3 (1.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.76%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 17 (11.18%) Product Ownership
4 13 (8.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (6.58%) Public Cloud
6 8 (5.26%) Blog
7 6 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.29%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.29%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.32%) Digital Wallet
9 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.32%) Replication
10 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.53%) Linux
2 8 (5.26%) Unix
3 4 (2.63%) AIX
4 3 (1.97%) Windows
5 1 (0.66%) CentOS
5 1 (0.66%) macOS
5 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (61.84%) CI/CD
2 75 (49.34%) DevOps
2 75 (49.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 65 (42.76%) Agile
4 49 (32.24%) Containerisation
5 36 (23.68%) Test Automation
6 32 (21.05%) Data Engineering
7 31 (20.39%) Microservices
8 28 (18.42%) Observability
9 25 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (15.79%) Mentoring
11 23 (15.13%) Scrum
12 20 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (13.16%) Zero Trust
13 19 (12.50%) TDD
13 19 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 18 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (11.84%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (11.18%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 65 (42.76%) Python
2 22 (14.47%) Java
3 19 (12.50%) SQL
4 12 (7.89%) Bash
4 12 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.92%) Scala
5 9 (5.92%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.29%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.97%) Groovy
7 3 (1.97%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.32%) Go
8 2 (1.32%) PHP
9 1 (0.66%) Bicep
9 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 82 (53.95%) Security Cleared
2 71 (46.71%) SC Cleared
3 27 (17.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.92%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.66%) CEH
7 1 (0.66%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) GCIH
7 1 (0.66%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 17 (11.18%) QA
3 14 (9.21%) Data Quality
4 9 (5.92%) WCAG
5 4 (2.63%) GDPR
5 4 (2.63%) NCSC
6 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 59 (38.82%) Docker
2 5 (3.29%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.97%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.66%) HDFS
4 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (28.95%) Kubernetes
2 30 (19.74%) Ansible
3 24 (15.79%) Grafana
4 15 (9.87%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.61%) Data Guard
5 7 (4.61%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (3.29%) Kibana
8 3 (1.97%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.32%) Consul
9 2 (1.32%) Istio
9 2 (1.32%) Packer
9 2 (1.32%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.66%) Rancher
10 1 (0.66%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 13 (8.55%) F5
3 12 (7.89%) Arista
3 12 (7.89%) Splunk
4 11 (7.24%) Aruba
4 11 (7.24%) Oracle
4 11 (7.24%) Trend Micro
5 9 (5.92%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.26%) Dynatrace
7 7 (4.61%) Google
8 6 (3.95%) Databricks
9 5 (3.29%) Confluent
10 3 (1.97%) Informatica
11 2 (1.32%) OneLogin
11 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.66%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.66%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.66%) Mitel
12 1 (0.66%) Veeam
12 1 (0.66%) VMware