AWS Engineer Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Amazon Web Services Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £565, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 10 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.10% - 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.24% - 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £404 - £528
25th Percentile £513 - £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £613 - £638
90th Percentile £626 - £660
North East median daily rate £565 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 236 221 342
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.72% 90.95% 98.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 102 266
10th Percentile £223 £271 £311
25th Percentile £350 £377 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £555
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -9.91% +11.00%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £734
North East median daily rate £461 £475 £540
% change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 41 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% - -
75th Percentile £23.69 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £49.08 £60.00 -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
% change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Tyne and Wear

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Tyne and Wear

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Tyne and Wear

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 10 £565 - 2
AWS Engineer
North East

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Tyne and Wear region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Terraform
3 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) GitLab
5 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Docker
6 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) Kong
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (20.00%) Databricks
7 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (20.00%) API Management
7 2 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
7 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
7 2 (20.00%) Ansible
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (20.00%) Python
7 2 (20.00%) ETL
7 2 (20.00%) Migration
8 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (10.00%) Scrum
8 1 (10.00%) Programme Management

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Kong
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Electronics
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) boto
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) API Management
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Microservices
6 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (10.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Kibana
4 1 (10.00%) logstash
4 1 (10.00%) Packer
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) SAP