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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 24 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 62 80 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.84% 6.19% 11.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.50% 21.56% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 57 49 51
10th Percentile £25,000 £44,290 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £84,964 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £95,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £74,915 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.11% +3.45% -3.33%

All Cloud 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 234 371 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 22.03% 28.72% 36.69%
Number of salaries quoted 191 197 171
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £42,238 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,125 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £84,964 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +14 56 £47,500 -40.57% 59
Durham -12 6 £73,801 +6.48% 4
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 4 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.84%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (69.35%) Azure
2 17 (27.42%) GitHub
3 15 (24.19%) GCP
4 4 (6.45%) dbt
5 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.84%) PaaS
5 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.84%) Pulumi
5 3 (4.84%) SaaS
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.23%) Sentry
6 2 (3.23%) Serverless
7 1 (1.61%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.74%) Internet
2 3 (4.84%) PuTTY
2 3 (4.84%) SAN
2 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.61%) BGP
3 1 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.61%) Firewall
3 1 (1.61%) IPsec
3 1 (1.61%) LAN
3 1 (1.61%) OSPF
3 1 (1.61%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (1.61%) VPN
3 1 (1.61%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.61%) Wireless
3 1 (1.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.29%) Redis
2 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.06%) Metadata
4 4 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.45%) Spark SQL
5 3 (4.84%) Apache Hive
5 3 (4.84%) Big Data
5 3 (4.84%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.84%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.84%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.84%) HBase
5 3 (4.84%) Impala
5 3 (4.84%) MySQL
5 3 (4.84%) Neo4j
5 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.84%) Power BI
5 3 (4.84%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (4.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) Git
2 7 (11.29%) TeamCity
3 4 (6.45%) Artifactory
3 4 (6.45%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.84%) GitLab
4 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.84%) JIRA
4 3 (4.84%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.61%) JMeter
6 1 (1.61%) JUnit
6 1 (1.61%) Locust
6 1 (1.61%) Maven
6 1 (1.61%) MLflow
6 1 (1.61%) Selenium
6 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.74%) Multimedia
3 10 (16.13%) Games
4 7 (11.29%) Finance
5 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (32.26%) Developer
2 14 (22.58%) Trainee
3 11 (17.74%) Senior
4 9 (14.52%) AWS Developer
4 9 (14.52%) C# Developer
5 8 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (12.90%) Software Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Software Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) Trainee Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Trainee Software Developer
7 6 (9.68%) Consultant
7 6 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 6 (9.68%) Lead
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Administrator
9 3 (4.84%) Architect
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Technology Consultant
9 3 (4.84%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) CSS
1 13 (20.97%) HTML
2 12 (19.35%) .NET
3 9 (14.52%) AngularJS
4 8 (12.90%) REST
5 7 (11.29%) React
6 6 (9.68%) Vue
7 4 (6.45%) Django
7 4 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (6.45%) PySpark
7 4 (6.45%) Spring
7 4 (6.45%) Spring Boot
8 3 (4.84%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (4.84%) Itk
8 3 (4.84%) Kafka
8 3 (4.84%) Node.js
8 3 (4.84%) Plotly
8 3 (4.84%) Regular Expression
8 3 (4.84%) Shiny
9 2 (3.23%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) Client/Server
2 4 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (6.45%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.84%) NHS
3 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Linux
1 7 (11.29%) Unix
2 6 (9.68%) Windows
3 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.71%) DevOps
2 19 (30.65%) Agile
2 19 (30.65%) Mentoring
3 16 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 15 (24.19%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (24.19%) Software Engineering
5 13 (20.97%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (19.35%) Computer Science
7 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.29%) Containerisation
9 7 (11.29%) Observability
10 6 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (8.06%) Incident Response
11 5 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 4 (6.45%) BDD
12 4 (6.45%) Machine Learning
12 4 (6.45%) User Experience
12 4 (6.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (51.61%) Python
2 18 (29.03%) JavaScript
3 16 (25.81%) Java
4 14 (22.58%) C#
5 13 (20.97%) TypeScript
6 12 (19.35%) SQL
7 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
7 7 (11.29%) R
8 4 (6.45%) Bash
9 3 (4.84%) PROC SQL
9 3 (4.84%) Tcl
10 1 (1.61%) Bicep
10 1 (1.61%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 17 (27.42%) Azure Certification
2 16 (25.81%) AWS Certification
3 14 (22.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (17.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
6 9 (14.52%) Degree
7 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
8 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (4.84%) HNC
9 3 (4.84%) HND
10 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.61%) CCNP
11 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (20.97%) Docker
2 6 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.84%) Apache Flume
3 3 (4.84%) HDFS
3 3 (4.84%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.84%) vSphere
4 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (25.81%) Terraform
2 10 (16.13%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.68%) Grafana
4 3 (4.84%) Ansible
4 3 (4.84%) Control-M
4 3 (4.84%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (4.84%) Kibana
4 3 (4.84%) logstash
4 3 (4.84%) Oozie
5 2 (3.23%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.61%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.29%) Google
2 7 (11.29%) VMware
3 5 (8.06%) Databricks
4 4 (6.45%) SAP
5 3 (4.84%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.84%) Informatica
5 3 (4.84%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (4.84%) Siemens
6 2 (3.23%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) Aruba
7 1 (1.61%) Cisco
7 1 (1.61%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow