AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 £470, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.71% - 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% - 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - -
75th Percentile £540 - -
90th Percentile £576 - -
North East median daily rate £470 - -

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 217 161 150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 87.98% 91.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 82 104
10th Percentile £200 £311 £249
25th Percentile £347 £401 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £589 £618
90th Percentile £641 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 4
10th Percentile £13.67 £17.01 £14.20
25th Percentile £14.50 £42.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £60.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.92% +144.90% +84.91%
75th Percentile £20.63 £70.00 £32.44
90th Percentile £39.20 - £33.23
North East median hourly rate £19.06 £46.18 £32.00
% change year-on-year -58.73% +44.31% +88.24%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies 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 19 September 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 19 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 4 £470 - 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 19 September 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Confluence
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Go
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (25.00%) Perl
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills

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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible