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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 138 42 153
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.85% 9.86% 10.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.13% 32.81% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 117 34 129
10th Percentile £33,250 £35,000 £41,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,125 £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 382 128 577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.72% 30.05% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 276 95 478
10th Percentile £32,750 £28,350 £29,125
25th Percentile £41,063 £34,750 £36,002
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 £80,000 £78,250
North East median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -4 108 £60,000 - 61
Sunderland +11 22 £55,000 -24.14% 6
Prudhoe - 5 £45,000 -
Gateshead -14 3 - - 4
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 15 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (10.14%) Jupyter
3 10 (7.25%) Apache
3 10 (7.25%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.45%) WordPress
5 1 (0.72%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 82 (59.42%) Azure
2 31 (22.46%) GCP
3 23 (16.67%) GitHub
4 20 (14.49%) Amazon S3
5 16 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (9.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (7.25%) Power Platform
9 9 (6.52%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (5.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (5.07%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (5.07%) Serverless
12 6 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (3.62%) SaaS
14 4 (2.90%) Snowflake
14 4 (2.90%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.77%) Firewall
2 12 (8.70%) DNS
3 10 (7.25%) HTTP
3 10 (7.25%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.52%) Internet
5 3 (2.17%) NGFW
5 3 (2.17%) SSH
5 3 (2.17%) VXLAN
5 3 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.17%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.45%) DHCP
6 2 (1.45%) LAN
6 2 (1.45%) VPN
6 2 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (9.42%) NoSQL
4 12 (8.70%) MongoDB
5 10 (7.25%) MySQL
5 10 (7.25%) Power BI
6 8 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (5.80%) Metadata
6 8 (5.80%) Tableau
7 7 (5.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.07%) DynamoDB
8 6 (4.35%) Big Data
9 5 (3.62%) GIS
9 5 (3.62%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.90%) Data Vault
11 3 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.45%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (15.22%) Git
2 17 (12.32%) GitLab
3 13 (9.42%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.62%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.90%) JIRA
6 3 (2.17%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.45%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.45%) 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 38 (27.54%) Public Sector
2 21 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (10.87%) Law
5 14 (10.14%) Finance
6 10 (7.25%) Legal
6 10 (7.25%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.80%) Manufacturing
7 8 (5.80%) Multimedia
8 7 (5.07%) Games
9 5 (3.62%) Retail
10 4 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (15.22%) Developer
3 16 (11.59%) Architect
3 16 (11.59%) Lead
3 16 (11.59%) Senior
4 13 (9.42%) Trainee
5 10 (7.25%) Software Engineer
6 9 (6.52%) Data Engineer
6 9 (6.52%) Software Developer
7 8 (5.80%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (5.80%) Data Architect
7 8 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Administrator
9 6 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Test Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) Programmer
10 5 (3.62%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.77%) .NET
2 17 (12.32%) CSS
3 14 (10.14%) HTML
3 14 (10.14%) Node.js
4 12 (8.70%) .NET Core
4 12 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (8.70%) React
5 10 (7.25%) REST
6 8 (5.80%) AngularJS
6 8 (5.80%) PySpark
7 7 (5.07%) RESTful
8 6 (4.35%) Flask
8 6 (4.35%) Spring
8 6 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 5 (3.62%) Ajax
9 5 (3.62%) boto
9 5 (3.62%) Jinja
9 5 (3.62%) OpenLayers
9 5 (3.62%) Pandas
9 5 (3.62%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.07%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.07%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.90%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.90%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.90%) Life Science
6 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.17%) PKI
7 3 (2.17%) Replication
8 2 (1.45%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.42%) Linux
2 7 (5.07%) Windows
3 4 (2.90%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.17%) Unix
5 2 (1.45%) Android
5 2 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.72%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.78%) CI/CD
2 45 (32.61%) DevOps
3 42 (30.43%) Mentoring
4 40 (28.99%) Agile
5 31 (22.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (21.74%) Coaching
7 28 (20.29%) Containerisation
8 26 (18.84%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (17.39%) Test Automation
10 23 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (15.94%) Data Modelling
12 20 (14.49%) Analytics
13 19 (13.77%) AI
14 18 (13.04%) Data Engineering
14 18 (13.04%) Software Engineering
15 16 (11.59%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (10.87%) Data Governance
16 15 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (46.38%) Python
2 36 (26.09%) SQL
3 23 (16.67%) Java
4 22 (15.94%) JavaScript
5 19 (13.77%) Bash
6 14 (10.14%) C#
7 13 (9.42%) TypeScript
8 10 (7.25%) Go
9 5 (3.62%) R
10 4 (2.90%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.45%) Scala
12 1 (0.72%) C
12 1 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (18.12%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.77%) AWS Certification
3 18 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 12 (8.70%) Azure Certification
6 10 (7.25%) Degree
6 10 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.72%) CCSP
8 1 (0.72%) CISA
8 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.72%) CISSP
8 1 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.72%) GSEC
8 1 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.49%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.80%) QA
3 2 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.45%) GDPR
3 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.72%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.72%) NIST
4 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (19.57%) Docker
2 4 (2.90%) iptables
3 3 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (26.09%) Terraform
2 16 (11.59%) Ansible
2 16 (11.59%) Grafana
3 13 (9.42%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.42%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.17%) Argo
4 3 (2.17%) systemd
5 2 (1.45%) Control-M
5 2 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.72%) Puppet
6 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.62%) Databricks
2 5 (3.62%) Oracle
3 4 (2.90%) VMware
4 3 (2.17%) Arista
4 3 (2.17%) Aruba
4 3 (2.17%) Google
4 3 (2.17%) NetScout
5 2 (1.45%) Apple
5 2 (1.45%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.45%) Samsung
5 2 (1.45%) 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%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.72%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.72%) Splunk
6 1 (0.72%) Zscaler