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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 97 41 147
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.41% 9.76% 12.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.33% 28.87% 29.76%
Number of salaries quoted 84 32 127
10th Percentile - £35,724 £42,050
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,813 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.59% -1.93%
75th Percentile £55,972 £75,625 £75,772
90th Percentile £78,352 £83,625 £84,919
North East median annual salary £47,500 £62,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year -24.00% -0.45% +14.15%

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 300 142 494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 26.02% 33.81% 41.83%
Number of salaries quoted 214 111 420
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,119 £35,690
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,875 £66,165
90th Percentile £77,477 £83,500 £77,500
North East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +7 69 £42,000 -28.51% 62
Sunderland +12 23 £55,000 -29.03% 11
Gateshead -15 3 £47,500 -9.52%
Prudhoe +1 2 £45,000 -
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 5 (5.15%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.06%) WordPress
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.09%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 70 (72.16%) Azure
2 33 (34.02%) GitHub
3 19 (19.59%) GCP
4 12 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.19%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.12%) OCI
9 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.09%) SaaS
10 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.03%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.03%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.03%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.03%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.03%) Serverless
10 1 (1.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (22.68%) Internet
2 16 (16.49%) Firewall
3 11 (11.34%) DNS
3 11 (11.34%) HTTP
3 11 (11.34%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.12%) VXLAN
5 3 (3.09%) NGFW
5 3 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.09%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.03%) BGP
6 1 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.03%) IPsec
6 1 (1.03%) LAN
6 1 (1.03%) OSPF
6 1 (1.03%) SAN
6 1 (1.03%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.03%) VPN
6 1 (1.03%) Wireless
6 1 (1.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.09%) Metadata
2 3 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.09%) Redis
3 2 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.06%) MySQL
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.03%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.03%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.03%) Power BI
4 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (23.71%) Git
2 12 (12.37%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.15%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (4.12%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.03%) GitLab
5 1 (1.03%) JIRA
5 1 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (21.65%) Multimedia
2 15 (15.46%) Games
3 13 (13.40%) Finance
3 13 (13.40%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.37%) Telecoms
5 11 (11.34%) Law
5 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.25%) Retail
7 5 (5.15%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (29.90%) Trainee
2 25 (25.77%) Developer
3 14 (14.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (12.37%) AWS Developer
5 11 (11.34%) Software Developer
5 11 (11.34%) Trainee Developer
5 11 (11.34%) Trainee Software Developer
6 10 (10.31%) Architect
6 10 (10.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (8.25%) C# Developer
8 7 (7.22%) Lead
8 7 (7.22%) Senior
9 6 (6.19%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 6 (6.19%) React Developer
9 6 (6.19%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.15%) Administrator
10 5 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 5 (5.15%) Programmer
10 5 (5.15%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.65%) CSS
1 21 (21.65%) HTML
2 14 (14.43%) .NET
3 12 (12.37%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (9.28%) React
4 9 (9.28%) REST
5 8 (8.25%) .NET Core
6 6 (6.19%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.15%) Hugging Face
7 5 (5.15%) Matplotlib
7 5 (5.15%) NumPy
7 5 (5.15%) Pandas
7 5 (5.15%) scikit-learn
7 5 (5.15%) Streamlit
7 5 (5.15%) Vue
8 4 (4.12%) RESTful
9 3 (3.09%) Itk
9 3 (3.09%) Spring
9 3 (3.09%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.15%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.09%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.09%) NHS
3 3 (3.09%) PKI
4 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.03%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.03%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Windows
2 3 (3.09%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.06%) Android
3 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.08%) Mentoring
2 24 (24.74%) DevOps
3 23 (23.71%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (20.62%) CI/CD
5 19 (19.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (15.46%) Containerisation
8 14 (14.43%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (14.43%) High Availability
9 13 (13.40%) Continuous Delivery
10 12 (12.37%) Agile
10 12 (12.37%) Computer Science
10 12 (12.37%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 11 (11.34%) Coaching
11 11 (11.34%) DevSecOps
11 11 (11.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (11.34%) Static Code Analysis
12 10 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (10.31%) Software Engineering
13 9 (9.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (49.48%) Python
2 29 (29.90%) JavaScript
3 18 (18.56%) C#
4 12 (12.37%) Bash
4 12 (12.37%) SQL
5 11 (11.34%) Go
5 11 (11.34%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.31%) R
7 7 (7.22%) Java
8 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.09%) Tcl
10 1 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (29.90%) AWS Certification
2 26 (26.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 24 (24.74%) Azure Certification
3 24 (24.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (9.28%) Degree
5 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.12%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.09%) HNC
6 3 (3.09%) HND
6 3 (3.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (3.09%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.03%) CCNP
8 1 (1.03%) CCSP
8 1 (1.03%) CISA
8 1 (1.03%) CISSP
8 1 (1.03%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.03%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.03%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (20.62%) Terraform
2 15 (15.46%) Ansible
3 13 (13.40%) Grafana
4 12 (12.37%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.03%) Control-M
7 1 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (38.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.15%) VMware
3 4 (4.12%) Aruba
4 3 (3.09%) Arista
4 3 (3.09%) NetScout
4 3 (3.09%) Siemens
5 2 (2.06%) Apple
5 2 (2.06%) Cisco
5 2 (2.06%) Google
5 2 (2.06%) Samsung
6 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle
6 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.03%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.03%) Zscaler