AWS Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 6 2
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 70 34 34
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 28.11% 17.44% 20.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.12% 58.62% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 9 22
10th Percentile £407 £445 £375
25th Percentile £459 £550 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £417
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +40.29% -28.10%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £573
90th Percentile £736 £688 £621
North East median daily rate £550 £561 £425
% change year-on-year -2.00% +32.06% -27.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate - - £32.25
75th Percentile - - £33.31
90th Percentile - - £33.58
North East median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18

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 127 58 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 51.00% 29.74% 41.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 20 44
10th Percentile £338 £184 £313
25th Percentile £419 £393 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £417
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +25.90% -24.18%
75th Percentile £575 £621 £580
90th Percentile £700 £653 £614
North East median daily rate £500 £495 £405
% change year-on-year +1.01% +22.22% -26.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - - £23.38
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £32.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.84%
75th Percentile - - £32.88
90th Percentile - - £33.40
North East median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.04% +42.09% +44.44%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

AWS job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Tyne and Wear

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing AWS

AWS
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 October 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 +3 70 £550 -7.95% 26
AWS
North East

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 14 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (4.29%) Documentum
3 2 (2.86%) CMS
3 2 (2.86%) FileNet
4 1 (1.43%) nginx
4 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.43%) Serverless
2 7 (10.00%) Azure
3 6 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (8.57%) GitHub
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (5.71%) IaaS
5 4 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.29%) GCP
6 3 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.86%) Intacct
7 2 (2.86%) SaaS
8 1 (1.43%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.43%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) DNS
2 1 (1.43%) DHCP
2 1 (1.43%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) SSL
2 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.86%) MongoDB
2 14 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.57%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.14%) MySQL
5 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.86%) Big Data
6 2 (2.86%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 20 (28.57%) GitLab
2 14 (20.00%) JIRA
3 12 (17.14%) Git
4 6 (8.57%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.71%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (4.29%) Postman
7 2 (2.86%) Mocha
8 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.43%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.43%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (37.14%) Public Sector
2 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Finance
4 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.86%) Military
5 1 (1.43%) Banking
5 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Retail
5 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Developer
2 15 (21.43%) Senior
3 10 (14.29%) Architect
4 9 (12.86%) Lead
4 9 (12.86%) Security Architect
5 7 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Senior Architect
7 5 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Senior Security Architect
8 4 (5.71%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Tester
9 3 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) JIRA Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) Node.js
2 9 (12.86%) Spring Boot
3 7 (10.00%) Spring
4 5 (7.14%) REST
4 5 (7.14%) Web Services
5 4 (5.71%) RESTful
6 3 (4.29%) OpenAPI
6 3 (4.29%) Spring MVC
6 3 (4.29%) Swagger
7 2 (2.86%) Gherkin
7 2 (2.86%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.86%) Jest
7 2 (2.86%) Kafka
7 2 (2.86%) Middleware
8 1 (1.43%) .NET
8 1 (1.43%) JPA
8 1 (1.43%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (1.43%) Next.js
8 1 (1.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.86%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.43%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
1 3 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) Agile
2 22 (31.43%) CI/CD
2 22 (31.43%) Microservices
3 19 (27.14%) DevOps
4 15 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (15.71%) Test Automation
6 10 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (12.86%) Data Protection
7 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
7 9 (12.86%) Migration
7 9 (12.86%) TDD
8 8 (11.43%) Containerisation
8 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
9 7 (10.00%) Cloud Security
9 7 (10.00%) Coaching
9 7 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 7 (10.00%) Security Architecture
9 7 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.71%) Java
2 16 (22.86%) Python
3 10 (14.29%) Bash
4 8 (11.43%) SQL
5 5 (7.14%) Go
5 5 (7.14%) Groovy
6 4 (5.71%) Perl
6 4 (5.71%) PHP
7 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.29%) Rust
8 1 (1.43%) COBOL
8 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (55.71%) Security Cleared
2 37 (52.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.57%) CISSP
4 4 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.29%) CREST Certified
5 3 (4.29%) Degree
6 2 (2.86%) CHECK Team Member
7 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.43%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.43%) MCP
7 1 (1.43%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (40.00%) Terraform
2 22 (31.43%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.71%) Ansible
4 8 (11.43%) Grafana
5 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (5.71%) Atlassian
2 3 (4.29%) Google
3 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle
3 2 (2.86%) Sage
4 1 (1.43%) Databricks
4 1 (1.43%) OpenText