AWS Job Trends in the North East

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 21 16
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 114 67 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.17% 9.49% 10.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.84% 31.02% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 91 46 146
10th Percentile - £30,875 £38,188
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £63,750 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -24.01% +1.54% +14.15%
75th Percentile £65,625 £77,375 £73,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £88,750 £84,339
England median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +7.14% -6.67%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 358 216 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 25.64% 30.59% 40.75%
Number of salaries quoted 234 143 515
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,100 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,063 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £71,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,937 £83,500 £75,763
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

AWS job vacancy trend in the North East

AWS
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North East over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in the North East

AWS
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the North East region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +10 97 £47,500 -17.39% 64
Durham 0 17 £73,801 +6.37% 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 5 (4.39%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 5 (4.39%) Chatbot
3 3 (2.63%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 85 (74.56%) Azure
2 34 (29.82%) GitHub
3 24 (21.05%) GCP
4 13 (11.40%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.14%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.39%) dbt
7 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.39%) Nutanix
8 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.51%) OCI
8 4 (3.51%) PaaS
8 4 (3.51%) Pulumi
8 4 (3.51%) SaaS
9 3 (2.63%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (2.63%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.63%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 21 (18.42%) Firewall
2 20 (17.54%) Internet
3 16 (14.04%) DNS
4 15 (13.16%) TCP/IP
5 11 (9.65%) HTTP
6 7 (6.14%) BGP
6 7 (6.14%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (6.14%) LAN
6 7 (6.14%) OSPF
6 7 (6.14%) VPN
6 7 (6.14%) Wireless
7 6 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (5.26%) Cisco Wireless
7 6 (5.26%) EIGRP
7 6 (5.26%) Network Security
7 6 (5.26%) SNMP
7 6 (5.26%) VLAN
7 6 (5.26%) WAAS
7 6 (5.26%) WAN
7 6 (5.26%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.02%) Redis
2 7 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.63%) Metadata
4 3 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.75%) MySQL
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.88%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (18.42%) Git
2 14 (12.28%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 5 (4.39%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (2.63%) GitLab
6 2 (1.75%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.75%) JIRA
6 2 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.88%) JMeter
7 1 (0.88%) JUnit
7 1 (0.88%) Locust
7 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 21 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.54%) Multimedia
3 16 (14.04%) Games
4 13 (11.40%) Telecoms
5 11 (9.65%) Finance
5 11 (9.65%) Law
5 11 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (7.02%) Retail
8 5 (4.39%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (25.44%) Developer
2 28 (24.56%) Trainee
3 18 (15.79%) Senior
4 15 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.40%) AWS Developer
5 13 (11.40%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (11.40%) Software Developer
6 12 (10.53%) Trainee Developer
6 12 (10.53%) Trainee Software Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Architect
8 9 (7.89%) C# Developer
9 8 (7.02%) Lead
10 7 (6.14%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 6 (5.26%) Network Engineer
11 6 (5.26%) React Developer
11 6 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
11 6 (5.26%) Software Engineer
11 6 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (4.39%) Programmer
12 5 (4.39%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.42%) CSS
1 21 (18.42%) HTML
2 14 (12.28%) .NET
2 14 (12.28%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (8.77%) REST
4 9 (7.89%) React
5 7 (6.14%) .NET Core
5 7 (6.14%) AngularJS
5 7 (6.14%) Vue
6 5 (4.39%) Django
6 5 (4.39%) Hugging Face
6 5 (4.39%) Matplotlib
6 5 (4.39%) NumPy
6 5 (4.39%) Pandas
6 5 (4.39%) scikit-learn
6 5 (4.39%) Streamlit
7 3 (2.63%) Itk
7 3 (2.63%) RESTful
7 3 (2.63%) Spring
7 3 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Cloud Native
1 9 (7.89%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.14%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.39%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.51%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.51%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.63%) NHS
6 3 (2.63%) PKI
7 1 (0.88%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.77%) Windows
2 8 (7.02%) Linux
2 8 (7.02%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.51%) Unix
4 2 (1.75%) Android
4 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.84%) Mentoring
2 31 (27.19%) DevOps
3 28 (24.56%) CI/CD
4 27 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (21.93%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (17.54%) High Availability
7 19 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 18 (15.79%) Containerisation
9 17 (14.91%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (14.04%) Coaching
10 16 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (13.16%) Continuous Delivery
11 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (12.28%) Agile
12 14 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (10.53%) Observability
14 11 (9.65%) DevSecOps
14 11 (9.65%) ITIL
14 11 (9.65%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 57 (50.00%) Python
2 30 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 19 (16.67%) C#
4 12 (10.53%) Bash
4 12 (10.53%) SQL
4 12 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 11 (9.65%) Go
6 10 (8.77%) Java
7 8 (7.02%) R
8 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.63%) Tcl
10 1 (0.88%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 29 (25.44%) AWS Certification
2 25 (21.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 24 (21.05%) Azure Certification
3 24 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (14.04%) Degree
5 12 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (8.77%) Security Cleared
7 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
8 7 (6.14%) CCNP
8 7 (6.14%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (5.26%) CCIE
10 4 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (3.51%) Master's Degree
11 3 (2.63%) HNC
11 3 (2.63%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) PMO
2 5 (4.39%) SLA
3 4 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (14.04%) Docker
2 9 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.02%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.26%) ProxySG
5 2 (1.75%) vSphere
6 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (24.56%) Terraform
2 17 (14.91%) Grafana
3 16 (14.04%) Ansible
4 13 (11.40%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.14%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.63%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.75%) Control-M
7 2 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 35 (30.70%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.65%) VMware
3 8 (7.02%) Google
4 7 (6.14%) Cisco
5 6 (5.26%) Blue Coat
5 6 (5.26%) CheckPoint
5 6 (5.26%) F5
5 6 (5.26%) Infoblox
5 6 (5.26%) Motorola
5 6 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.26%) SolarWinds
6 5 (4.39%) Dell
6 5 (4.39%) Dell Compellent
6 5 (4.39%) HP
6 5 (4.39%) Nimble Storage
7 4 (3.51%) Aruba
8 3 (2.63%) Arista
8 3 (2.63%) NetScout
8 3 (2.63%) Siemens
9 2 (1.75%) Samsung