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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 25 30
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 -23
Permanent jobs citing AWS 251 42 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.02% 6.28% 5.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.47% 25.15% 16.72%
Number of salaries quoted 214 35 34
10th Percentile £46,000 £28,250 £43,171
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £52,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £84,991
90th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £95,000
North East median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +7.69%

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 552 167 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.83% 24.96% 31.34%
Number of salaries quoted 424 128 187
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,775 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.92% +2.75% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,437 £67,500 £66,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,950 £84,964
North East median annual salary £55,750 £51,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +9.31% +1.37% -8.53%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +11 216 £67,500 +12.50% 119
Sunderland +1 16 £75,000 +15.38% 7
Prudhoe - 11 £47,000 - 2
Gateshead -2 7 £40,000 -15.79% 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 32 (12.75%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (9.16%) Apache Spark
3 17 (6.77%) Apache
3 17 (6.77%) Jupyter
4 6 (2.39%) Confluence
5 3 (1.20%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.80%) nginx
6 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.40%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 130 (51.79%) Azure
2 68 (27.09%) GCP
3 56 (22.31%) Amazon S3
4 47 (18.73%) Serverless
5 37 (14.74%) AWS Lambda
6 36 (14.34%) Amazon EC2
7 35 (13.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (11.16%) GitHub
9 27 (10.76%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (8.37%) Amazon ECR
11 17 (6.77%) Amazon EMR
12 16 (6.37%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (5.58%) Power Platform
15 13 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (3.98%) AWS KMS
17 9 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
17 9 (3.59%) Textract
18 8 (3.19%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.39%) Firewall
2 3 (1.20%) SSH
3 2 (0.80%) DNS
3 2 (0.80%) Internet
3 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.40%) DHCP
4 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.40%) LAN
4 1 (0.40%) VPN
4 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.94%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (10.36%) MongoDB
3 22 (8.76%) DynamoDB
4 21 (8.37%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (7.97%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (7.17%) MySQL
7 17 (6.77%) NoSQL
8 14 (5.58%) Power BI
9 12 (4.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (4.78%) Metadata
9 12 (4.78%) Tableau
10 10 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.59%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.59%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.19%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.79%) Big Data
13 7 (2.79%) GIS
13 7 (2.79%) Looker
14 6 (2.39%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 53 (21.12%) Git
2 49 (19.52%) GitLab
3 17 (6.77%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.59%) JIRA
5 7 (2.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (2.79%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.39%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.20%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.80%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.80%) Gatling
General
1 111 (44.22%) Public Sector
2 67 (26.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 67 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 41 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.97%) Finance
5 17 (6.77%) Legal
6 13 (5.18%) Law
7 6 (2.39%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.59%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Polish Language
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
11 1 (0.40%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Russian Language
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Ukrainian Language
Job Titles
1 46 (18.33%) Lead
2 43 (17.13%) Developer
3 42 (16.73%) Senior
4 36 (14.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (12.35%) Data Engineer
6 26 (10.36%) Architect
7 21 (8.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 21 (8.37%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.37%) Technical Architect
9 15 (5.98%) Python Developer
10 14 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.18%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (4.78%) Python Engineer
12 12 (4.78%) Senior Architect
13 11 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (4.38%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.98%) Senior Technical Architect
15 9 (3.59%) Senior Python Developer
15 9 (3.59%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (27.89%) Terraform
2 33 (13.15%) Node.js
3 25 (9.96%) .NET
4 22 (8.76%) PySpark
4 22 (8.76%) React
5 21 (8.37%) CSS
6 20 (7.97%) LangChain
7 19 (7.57%) LlamaIndex
8 17 (6.77%) REST
9 16 (6.37%) RESTful
10 15 (5.98%) HTML
11 14 (5.58%) Kafka
12 11 (4.38%) Flask
13 9 (3.59%) .NET Core
13 9 (3.59%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.59%) Express.js
13 9 (3.59%) Web Services
14 8 (3.19%) Spring
14 8 (3.19%) Spring Boot
15 7 (2.79%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 55 (21.91%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.76%) Onboarding
3 23 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.98%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.18%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (4.38%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.38%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.59%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.39%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.99%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.59%) Life Science
12 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.20%) Replication
12 3 (1.20%) Robotics
13 2 (0.80%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.75%) Linux
2 15 (5.98%) Windows
3 8 (3.19%) Unix
4 7 (2.79%) CentOS
4 7 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.39%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.20%) Debian
7 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (52.99%) CI/CD
2 126 (50.20%) Agile
3 113 (45.02%) DevOps
4 87 (34.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (33.07%) Mentoring
6 69 (27.49%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (24.30%) Containerisation
8 60 (23.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (23.51%) Data Engineering
10 57 (22.71%) AI
11 53 (21.12%) Coaching
12 50 (19.92%) Technical Leadership
12 50 (19.92%) Test Automation
13 45 (17.93%) Data Modelling
14 44 (17.53%) Data Pipeline
15 43 (17.13%) Analytics
16 39 (15.54%) Decision-Making
16 39 (15.54%) Full-Stack Development
17 38 (15.14%) Software Engineering
18 36 (14.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 121 (48.21%) Python
2 74 (29.48%) SQL
3 38 (15.14%) Java
4 35 (13.94%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.55%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.56%) Bash
6 24 (9.56%) C#
7 9 (3.59%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.59%) Scala
8 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.20%) C++
9 3 (1.20%) Go
10 1 (0.40%) Bicep
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (26.69%) Security Cleared
2 56 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (10.76%) AWS Certification
5 20 (7.97%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.98%) Degree
7 14 (5.58%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.40%) CSPO
9 1 (0.40%) IIBA
9 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.93%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.76%) QA
3 9 (3.59%) NCSC
4 7 (2.79%) GDPR
5 6 (2.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (31.87%) Docker
2 6 (2.39%) iptables
3 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.20%) vSphere
5 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (18.73%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.17%) Ansible
3 12 (4.78%) Grafana
4 6 (2.39%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.39%) Puppet
5 3 (1.20%) Argo
5 3 (1.20%) Control-M
5 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.20%) systemd
6 2 (0.80%) Kibana
7 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 18 (7.17%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.58%) Databricks
3 12 (4.78%) Google
4 8 (3.19%) Oracle
5 7 (2.79%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.39%) Confluent
7 5 (1.99%) VMware
8 4 (1.59%) Splunk
9 3 (1.20%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.20%) Sage
9 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.20%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.80%) Adobe
10 2 (0.80%) Citrix
10 2 (0.80%) F5
10 2 (0.80%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.80%) Pega
10 2 (0.80%) UiPath
11 1 (0.40%) Red Hat