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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 33 10
Rank change year-on-year +14 -23 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 60 57 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.48% 5.82% 11.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.99% 19.13% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 54 34 35
10th Percentile £25,975 £42,500 £43,100
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £78,966 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.85% +31.61% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £93,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £72,625 £95,000 £86,500
North East median annual salary £49,000 £72,575 £65,000
% change year-on-year -32.48% +11.65% -7.14%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 207 298 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.81% 30.44% 36.64%
Number of salaries quoted 170 152 114
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,775 £30,150
25th Percentile £28,500 £41,991 £39,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,813 £66,438
90th Percentile £77,500 £89,750 £77,500
North East median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +4.76%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +7 47 £47,500 -40.63% 39
Sunderland +7 10 £55,000 -24.14% 12
Gateshead -2 3 £47,500 -9.52% 5
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 4 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (71.67%) Azure
2 20 (33.33%) GitHub
3 14 (23.33%) GCP
4 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.33%) SaaS
6 2 (3.33%) Serverless
6 2 (3.33%) Slack
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (21.67%) Internet
2 4 (6.67%) SAN
3 3 (5.00%) PuTTY
4 2 (3.33%) Firewall
5 1 (1.67%) BGP
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.67%) DNS
5 1 (1.67%) HTTP
5 1 (1.67%) IPsec
5 1 (1.67%) LAN
5 1 (1.67%) OSPF
5 1 (1.67%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.67%) VPN
5 1 (1.67%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.67%) Wireless
5 1 (1.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.33%) Metadata
3 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.67%) Redis
3 4 (6.67%) Spark SQL
4 3 (5.00%) Apache Hive
4 3 (5.00%) Big Data
4 3 (5.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (5.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (5.00%) HBase
4 3 (5.00%) Impala
4 3 (5.00%) MySQL
4 3 (5.00%) Neo4j
4 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.00%) Power BI
4 3 (5.00%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (5.00%) QlikView
4 3 (5.00%) SQLite
4 3 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (28.33%) Git
2 8 (13.33%) TeamCity
3 5 (8.33%) Artifactory
3 5 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.67%) JIRA
4 4 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (5.00%) GitLab
6 1 (1.67%) Maven
6 1 (1.67%) MLflow
6 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Multimedia
3 10 (16.67%) Games
4 8 (13.33%) Finance
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Retail
6 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Developer
2 16 (26.67%) Trainee
3 9 (15.00%) AWS Developer
3 9 (15.00%) C# Developer
4 8 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 8 (13.33%) Trainee Developer
4 8 (13.33%) Trainee Software Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Consultant
5 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Senior
5 6 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Lead
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Administrator
7 3 (5.00%) Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Technology Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) CSS
1 15 (25.00%) HTML
2 10 (16.67%) .NET
3 8 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 8 (13.33%) REST
4 7 (11.67%) React
5 6 (10.00%) Vue
6 5 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (6.67%) PySpark
8 3 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (5.00%) Itk
8 3 (5.00%) Kafka
8 3 (5.00%) Node.js
8 3 (5.00%) Plotly
8 3 (5.00%) Regular Expression
8 3 (5.00%) Shiny
8 3 (5.00%) Spring
8 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
9 2 (3.33%) CSS3
9 2 (3.33%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Client/Server
1 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.00%) NHS
2 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.67%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.67%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Unix
3 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) DevOps
1 20 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 17 (28.33%) Agile
3 15 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (21.67%) CI/CD
4 13 (21.67%) Computer Science
4 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (21.67%) Software Engineering
5 12 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.67%) Containerisation
8 6 (10.00%) Incident Response
9 5 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (6.67%) AI
10 4 (6.67%) ETL
10 4 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (6.67%) Time Management
10 4 (6.67%) Unit Testing
10 4 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (48.33%) Python
2 20 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 14 (23.33%) C#
3 14 (23.33%) Java
4 12 (20.00%) SQL
4 12 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (13.33%) R
6 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.67%) Bash
8 3 (5.00%) PROC SQL
8 3 (5.00%) Tcl
9 1 (1.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (31.67%) Azure Certification
2 18 (30.00%) AWS Certification
3 16 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (21.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 10 (16.67%) Degree
6 6 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
7 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
8 3 (5.00%) HNC
8 3 (5.00%) HND
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.67%) CCNP
10 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Docker
2 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.67%) vSphere
4 3 (5.00%) Apache Flume
4 3 (5.00%) HDFS
4 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (23.33%) Terraform
2 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.67%) Grafana
4 5 (8.33%) Ansible
5 4 (6.67%) Control-M
5 4 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (5.00%) Kibana
6 3 (5.00%) logstash
6 3 (5.00%) Oozie
6 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.67%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) VMware
3 5 (8.33%) Databricks
4 4 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.67%) Google
4 4 (6.67%) SAP
5 3 (5.00%) Informatica
5 3 (5.00%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (5.00%) Siemens
6 1 (1.67%) Aruba
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow