AWS Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 5 18 9
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 46 14 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 18.85% 5.76% 20.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.94% 33.33% 39.77%
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% +6.43%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £700
90th Percentile £650 £663 £844
North East median daily rate £508 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -11.74% -4.17% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 94 42 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 38.52% 17.28% 50.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 25 136
10th Percentile £325 £170 £350
25th Percentile £412 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £571
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -16.50% +8.81%
75th Percentile £611 £550 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 £775
North East median daily rate £484 £453 £565
% change year-on-year +6.79% -19.82% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.50 - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile £13.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £20.77 £49.00
% change year-on-year -37.41% -57.61% +188.24%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Tyne and Wear

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Tyne and Wear

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Tyne and Wear

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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 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 +9 44 £518 -10.00% 134
Sunderland - 2 £388 - 13
AWS
North East

AWS
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 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