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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 139 41 152
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.09% 10.15% 10.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.29% 32.80% 26.81%
Number of salaries quoted 118 33 129
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,950 £41,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £80,550 £78,750 £84,928
North East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £63,749
% change year-on-year -15.38% +1.96% +15.91%

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 383 125 567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 22.28% 30.94% 39.48%
Number of salaries quoted 277 92 473
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,125 £79,500
North East median annual salary £51,619 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +10.00% -

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 30 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Tyne and Wear

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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 30 May 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 +1 109 £60,000 -4.00% 55
Sunderland +11 22 £55,000 -24.14% 5
Prudhoe - 5 £45,000 -
Gateshead -13 3 - - 3
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 (10.07%) Jupyter
2 13 (9.35%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (7.19%) Apache
3 10 (7.19%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.44%) WordPress
5 1 (0.72%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 84 (60.43%) Azure
2 29 (20.86%) GCP
3 26 (18.71%) GitHub
4 19 (13.67%) Amazon S3
5 16 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (10.07%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (8.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (7.19%) Power Platform
10 9 (6.47%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (5.04%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (5.04%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (4.32%) Serverless
14 5 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (3.60%) SaaS
15 4 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (2.88%) Snowflake
15 4 (2.88%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.67%) Firewall
2 12 (8.63%) DNS
2 12 (8.63%) Internet
3 10 (7.19%) HTTP
3 10 (7.19%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.16%) NGFW
4 3 (2.16%) SSH
4 3 (2.16%) VXLAN
4 3 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.16%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.44%) DHCP
5 2 (1.44%) LAN
5 2 (1.44%) VPN
5 2 (1.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.79%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (9.35%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.91%) MongoDB
5 10 (7.19%) MySQL
5 10 (7.19%) Power BI
6 8 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (5.76%) Metadata
6 8 (5.76%) Tableau
7 7 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.04%) DynamoDB
8 6 (4.32%) Big Data
9 5 (3.60%) GIS
9 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.88%) Data Vault
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.44%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.44%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 24 (17.27%) Git
2 16 (11.51%) GitLab
3 13 (9.35%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.60%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.88%) JIRA
6 3 (2.16%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.44%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.44%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.44%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.72%) Gatling
8 1 (0.72%) JMeter
8 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
General
1 37 (26.62%) Public Sector
2 22 (15.83%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.79%) Finance
3 15 (10.79%) Law
4 14 (10.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.91%) Multimedia
6 10 (7.19%) Legal
6 10 (7.19%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.76%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.04%) Games
9 5 (3.60%) Retail
10 4 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (17.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (15.83%) Developer
3 16 (11.51%) Architect
3 16 (11.51%) Lead
3 16 (11.51%) Senior
3 16 (11.51%) Trainee
4 11 (7.91%) Software Developer
5 10 (7.19%) Software Engineer
6 8 (5.76%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (5.76%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (5.04%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (5.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (4.32%) Administrator
8 6 (4.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.32%) Test Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Programmer
9 5 (3.60%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.39%) .NET
1 20 (14.39%) CSS
2 17 (12.23%) HTML
3 13 (9.35%) Node.js
4 12 (8.63%) .NET Core
4 12 (8.63%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (8.63%) React
5 9 (6.47%) REST
6 8 (5.76%) PySpark
7 7 (5.04%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.04%) RESTful
8 6 (4.32%) Flask
8 6 (4.32%) Spring
8 6 (4.32%) Spring Boot
9 5 (3.60%) Ajax
9 5 (3.60%) Hugging Face
9 5 (3.60%) jQuery
9 5 (3.60%) LangChain
9 5 (3.60%) OpenLayers
9 5 (3.60%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.23%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.63%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.04%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.32%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.88%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.88%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.88%) Life Science
6 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.16%) PKI
7 3 (2.16%) Replication
8 2 (1.44%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.44%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.44%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.35%) Linux
2 7 (5.04%) Windows
3 4 (2.88%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.16%) Unix
5 2 (1.44%) Android
5 2 (1.44%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.72%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (33.81%) CI/CD
2 45 (32.37%) Mentoring
3 44 (31.65%) DevOps
4 39 (28.06%) Agile
5 30 (21.58%) Coaching
5 30 (21.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (19.42%) Containerisation
7 25 (17.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (16.55%) Data Pipeline
8 23 (16.55%) Test Automation
9 22 (15.83%) Data Modelling
10 21 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (14.39%) Analytics
11 20 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (13.67%) AI
12 19 (13.67%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (13.67%) Software Engineering
13 18 (12.95%) Data Engineering
14 15 (10.79%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (10.79%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 66 (47.48%) Python
2 35 (25.18%) SQL
3 24 (17.27%) Java
3 24 (17.27%) JavaScript
4 19 (13.67%) Bash
5 15 (10.79%) C#
6 12 (8.63%) TypeScript
7 10 (7.19%) Go
8 6 (4.32%) R
9 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.44%) Scala
11 1 (0.72%) C
11 1 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.83%) AWS Certification
3 18 (12.95%) SC Cleared
4 16 (11.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 15 (10.79%) Azure Certification
6 13 (9.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (7.91%) Degree
8 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.72%) CCSP
9 1 (0.72%) CISA
9 1 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) GSEC
9 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.39%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.04%) QA
3 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.44%) GDPR
3 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.72%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.72%) NIST
4 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (18.71%) Docker
2 4 (2.88%) iptables
3 3 (2.16%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (25.18%) Terraform
2 16 (11.51%) Ansible
2 16 (11.51%) Grafana
3 13 (9.35%) Prometheus
4 12 (8.63%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.16%) Argo
5 3 (2.16%) systemd
6 2 (1.44%) Control-M
6 2 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.72%) Puppet
7 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.60%) Oracle
3 4 (2.88%) VMware
4 3 (2.16%) Arista
4 3 (2.16%) Aruba
4 3 (2.16%) Databricks
4 3 (2.16%) Google
4 3 (2.16%) NetScout
5 2 (1.44%) Apple
5 2 (1.44%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.44%) Samsung
5 2 (1.44%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.72%) Cisco
6 1 (0.72%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.72%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.72%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.72%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.72%) Splunk
6 1 (0.72%) Zscaler