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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 19 34
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 -20
Permanent jobs citing AWS 222 45 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.24% 7.25% 5.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.96% 26.63% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 186 35 42
10th Percentile £41,875 £37,500 £45,014
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -0.71% -1.19%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £76,693
90th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £84,964
North East median annual salary £66,000 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.71% +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 505 169 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.02% 27.21% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 373 128 237
10th Percentile £36,250 £26,490 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £34,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,375 £77,700
North East median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -9.09%

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

AWS
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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +4 184 £67,500 +12.50% 66
Sunderland +3 22 £48,000 -26.15% 6
Prudhoe - 10 £47,000 - 2
Gateshead -4 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 (13.96%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (9.01%) Apache Spark
3 17 (7.66%) Jupyter
4 15 (6.76%) Apache
5 6 (2.70%) Confluence
6 3 (1.35%) WordPress
7 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.90%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.45%) CMS
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.45%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 121 (54.50%) Azure
2 54 (24.32%) GCP
3 45 (20.27%) Amazon S3
4 40 (18.02%) Serverless
5 30 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 30 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
5 30 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (13.06%) GitHub
7 19 (8.56%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (7.21%) Amazon ECR
9 15 (6.76%) Amazon EMR
9 15 (6.76%) Power Platform
10 14 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.05%) Textract
14 6 (2.70%) Google Tag Manager
14 6 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.41%) Firewall
2 7 (3.15%) DNS
3 4 (1.80%) HTTP
3 4 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.35%) Internet
4 3 (1.35%) SSH
5 2 (0.90%) DHCP
5 2 (0.90%) LAN
5 2 (0.90%) VPN
5 2 (0.90%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.77%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (9.91%) DynamoDB
3 20 (9.01%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (9.01%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (9.01%) MongoDB
4 19 (8.56%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.66%) MySQL
6 15 (6.76%) Power BI
7 12 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (5.41%) Tableau
8 11 (4.95%) Metadata
9 10 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.60%) BigQuery
10 8 (3.60%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.60%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.15%) Big Data
11 7 (3.15%) GIS
12 6 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.70%) Looker
Development Applications
1 47 (21.17%) Git
2 35 (15.77%) GitLab
3 17 (7.66%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.50%) JIRA
5 6 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (2.70%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.70%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.35%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.90%) Balsamiq
7 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.45%) Gatling
8 1 (0.45%) JMeter
8 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 78 (35.14%) Public Sector
2 62 (27.93%) Social Skills
3 47 (21.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.36%) Finance
6 17 (7.66%) Law
6 17 (7.66%) Legal
7 7 (3.15%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.80%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Retail
11 2 (0.90%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (17.12%) Developer
1 38 (17.12%) Senior
2 37 (16.67%) Lead
3 33 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (10.81%) Data Engineer
5 21 (9.46%) Architect
6 19 (8.56%) Software Engineer
7 15 (6.76%) Python Developer
8 13 (5.86%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (5.86%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.95%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.50%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.05%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (4.05%) Senior Python Developer
12 9 (4.05%) Senior Technical Architect
13 8 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.61%) Node.js
2 25 (11.26%) .NET
3 23 (10.36%) React
4 22 (9.91%) CSS
5 17 (7.66%) HTML
5 17 (7.66%) PySpark
6 15 (6.76%) REST
7 14 (6.31%) RESTful
8 11 (4.95%) Flask
8 11 (4.95%) LangChain
9 10 (4.50%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.50%) LlamaIndex
10 9 (4.05%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.05%) Kafka
11 7 (3.15%) Ajax
11 7 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (3.15%) Jinja
11 7 (3.15%) OpenLayers
11 7 (3.15%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.15%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.31%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.86%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.41%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (4.95%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.95%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.95%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.15%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.70%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.70%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.80%) Life Science
11 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.35%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.35%) Replication
11 3 (1.35%) Robotics
12 2 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.06%) Linux
2 13 (5.86%) Windows
3 6 (2.70%) CentOS
3 6 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.70%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.25%) Unix
5 3 (1.35%) Debian
5 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (45.95%) CI/CD
2 95 (42.79%) Agile
3 93 (41.89%) DevOps
4 68 (30.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (29.73%) Mentoring
6 54 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (22.52%) Containerisation
9 44 (19.82%) Coaching
10 42 (18.92%) AI
11 41 (18.47%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (18.47%) Test Automation
12 40 (18.02%) Data Engineering
12 40 (18.02%) Data Modelling
12 40 (18.02%) Data Pipeline
13 36 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
14 35 (15.77%) Analytics
14 35 (15.77%) Software Engineering
15 33 (14.86%) Decision-Making
16 28 (12.61%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 113 (50.90%) Python
2 73 (32.88%) SQL
3 33 (14.86%) Java
4 32 (14.41%) JavaScript
5 31 (13.96%) TypeScript
6 23 (10.36%) Bash
7 22 (9.91%) C#
8 8 (3.60%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.15%) Go
10 3 (1.35%) Scala
11 2 (0.90%) PHP
11 2 (0.90%) R
11 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 51 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.02%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.01%) AWS Certification
4 19 (8.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (7.21%) Degree
6 13 (5.86%) Azure Certification
7 12 (5.41%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.45%) CCSP
11 1 (0.45%) CISA
11 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CISSP
11 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.45%) GSEC
11 1 (0.45%) IIBA
11 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (17.57%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.11%) QA
3 7 (3.15%) GDPR
4 5 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.80%) NCSC
6 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) WCAG
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 66 (29.73%) Docker
2 6 (2.70%) iptables
3 5 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.35%) vSphere
5 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 59 (26.58%) Terraform
2 38 (17.12%) Kubernetes
3 18 (8.11%) Ansible
4 12 (5.41%) Grafana
5 7 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.25%) Puppet
7 3 (1.35%) Argo
7 3 (1.35%) Control-M
7 3 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.35%) systemd
8 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.45%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.31%) Databricks
3 8 (3.60%) Google
4 7 (3.15%) Oracle
5 6 (2.70%) VMware
6 4 (1.80%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.35%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.35%) Confluent
7 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.35%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.90%) Citrix
8 2 (0.90%) F5
8 2 (0.90%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.90%) Pega
8 2 (0.90%) Sage
8 2 (0.90%) Splunk
8 2 (0.90%) UiPath
9 1 (0.45%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.45%) Zscaler