AWS Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

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

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 22 33
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 -26
Permanent jobs citing AWS 237 40 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.04% 6.32% 5.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.80% 24.84% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 201 31 40
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,250 £44,738
25th Percentile £48,289 £46,250 £57,327
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £67,732
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.42% +4.20%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £84,053
90th Percentile £92,500 £68,750 £95,000
North East median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.35% +0.71%

All Cloud Computing 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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 529 161 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.18% 25.43% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 400 120 211
10th Percentile £36,700 £25,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £31,599 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,875 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +3.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,125 £84,964
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

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Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Tyne and Wear

AWS
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +10 199 £67,500 +17.39% 94
Sunderland +3 21 £48,000 -26.15% 3
Prudhoe - 11 £47,000 - 1
Gateshead - 6 - - 1
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 31 (13.08%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (8.86%) Apache Spark
3 15 (6.33%) Apache
3 15 (6.33%) Jupyter
4 6 (2.53%) Confluence
5 3 (1.27%) WordPress
6 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.84%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.42%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 128 (54.01%) Azure
2 60 (25.32%) GCP
3 47 (19.83%) Amazon S3
4 45 (18.99%) Serverless
5 34 (14.35%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (14.35%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (13.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (11.39%) GitHub
8 20 (8.44%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (7.17%) Amazon EMR
10 16 (6.75%) Amazon ECR
11 15 (6.33%) Power Platform
11 15 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.80%) Textract
15 8 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (2.95%) Google Tag Manager
16 7 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.38%) Firewall
2 3 (1.27%) DNS
2 3 (1.27%) Internet
2 3 (1.27%) SSH
3 2 (0.84%) DHCP
3 2 (0.84%) LAN
3 2 (0.84%) VPN
3 2 (0.84%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.19%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (9.28%) DynamoDB
3 21 (8.86%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (8.86%) MongoDB
4 20 (8.44%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (8.02%) NoSQL
6 17 (7.17%) MySQL
7 15 (6.33%) Power BI
8 12 (5.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (5.06%) Metadata
8 12 (5.06%) Tableau
9 10 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.80%) BigQuery
10 9 (3.80%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.38%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.95%) Big Data
12 7 (2.95%) GIS
12 7 (2.95%) Looker
13 6 (2.53%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 49 (20.68%) Git
2 37 (15.61%) GitLab
3 14 (5.91%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.22%) JIRA
5 7 (2.95%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.53%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.27%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.84%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.42%) Gatling
9 1 (0.42%) JMeter
9 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 93 (39.24%) Public Sector
2 65 (27.43%) Social Skills
3 55 (23.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.28%) Finance
6 17 (7.17%) Legal
7 14 (5.91%) Law
8 6 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.69%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Publishing
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (17.72%) Lead
1 42 (17.72%) Senior
2 38 (16.03%) Developer
3 30 (12.66%) Data Engineer
3 30 (12.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (10.13%) Architect
5 21 (8.86%) Software Engineer
6 16 (6.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 15 (6.33%) Python Developer
8 14 (5.91%) Technical Architect
9 13 (5.49%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (5.49%) Senior Developer
10 12 (5.06%) Python Engineer
10 12 (5.06%) Senior Architect
11 10 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Senior Technical Architect
12 9 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.80%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (3.80%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (24.89%) Terraform
2 30 (12.66%) Node.js
3 28 (11.81%) .NET
4 24 (10.13%) React
5 23 (9.70%) CSS
6 21 (8.86%) PySpark
7 17 (7.17%) HTML
8 16 (6.75%) REST
9 15 (6.33%) LangChain
10 14 (5.91%) LlamaIndex
10 14 (5.91%) RESTful
11 11 (4.64%) Flask
12 10 (4.22%) .NET Core
12 10 (4.22%) Kafka
13 9 (3.80%) AngularJS
14 7 (2.95%) Jinja
14 7 (2.95%) jQuery
14 7 (2.95%) OpenLayers
14 7 (2.95%) Spring Boot
14 7 (2.95%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.99%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (8.44%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.49%) Distributed Computing
4 13 (5.49%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.64%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.64%) Renewable Energy
6 9 (3.80%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.53%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.53%) Hedge funds
10 5 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.69%) Life Science
12 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.27%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.27%) Replication
12 3 (1.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.24%) Linux
2 15 (6.33%) Windows
3 7 (2.95%) Unix
4 6 (2.53%) CentOS
4 6 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.53%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.27%) Debian
5 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.84%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (48.10%) CI/CD
2 109 (45.99%) Agile
3 95 (40.08%) DevOps
4 76 (32.07%) Mentoring
5 72 (30.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (23.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (21.94%) Containerisation
9 51 (21.52%) Coaching
10 49 (20.68%) Data Engineering
11 48 (20.25%) AI
12 46 (19.41%) Technical Leadership
13 44 (18.57%) Data Modelling
14 42 (17.72%) Analytics
14 42 (17.72%) Data Pipeline
14 42 (17.72%) Test Automation
15 40 (16.88%) Full-Stack Development
16 39 (16.46%) Decision-Making
17 38 (16.03%) Software Engineering
18 29 (12.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 114 (48.10%) Python
2 76 (32.07%) SQL
3 37 (15.61%) Java
4 35 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 33 (13.92%) TypeScript
6 25 (10.55%) C#
7 21 (8.86%) Bash
8 9 (3.80%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.69%) Scala
10 3 (1.27%) C++
10 3 (1.27%) Go
11 2 (0.84%) PHP
11 2 (0.84%) R
11 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 42 (17.72%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (9.28%) AWS Certification
5 17 (7.17%) Azure Certification
6 16 (6.75%) Degree
7 13 (5.49%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.42%) CCSP
10 1 (0.42%) CISA
10 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.42%) CISSP
10 1 (0.42%) CSPO
10 1 (0.42%) GSEC
10 1 (0.42%) IIBA
10 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.99%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.59%) QA
3 8 (3.38%) GDPR
4 7 (2.95%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.53%) NCSC
6 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.84%) WCAG
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (29.11%) Docker
2 6 (2.53%) iptables
3 5 (2.11%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.27%) vSphere
5 2 (0.84%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 40 (16.88%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.33%) Ansible
3 9 (3.80%) Grafana
4 6 (2.53%) Puppet
5 3 (1.27%) Argo
5 3 (1.27%) Control-M
5 3 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.27%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.27%) systemd
6 1 (0.42%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.91%) Databricks
3 10 (4.22%) Google
4 9 (3.80%) Oracle
5 6 (2.53%) VMware
6 4 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.27%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.27%) Confluent
7 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.27%) SnapLogic
7 3 (1.27%) Splunk
8 2 (0.84%) Adobe
8 2 (0.84%) Citrix
8 2 (0.84%) F5
8 2 (0.84%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.84%) Pega
8 2 (0.84%) Sage
8 2 (0.84%) UiPath
9 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft