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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 28 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -18 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 48 57 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 6.75% 5.80% 11.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.09% 18.94% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 39 36 39
10th Percentile £25,000 £41,875 £41,150
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £74,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.81% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £91,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £85,500
North East median annual salary £49,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +7.69% -7.14%

All Cloud 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 184 301 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.88% 30.65% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 140 157 118
10th Percentile £26,830 £31,250 £31,025
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £65,313 £67,500 £66,438
90th Percentile £77,650 £88,500 £77,500
North East median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% -3.18% +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 25 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 38 £48,000 -38.46% 46
Sunderland +7 7 £47,500 -34.48% 27
Gateshead -1 3 £47,500 -9.52% 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 4 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.25%) SAS
3 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 36 (75.00%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) GCP
3 10 (20.83%) GitHub
4 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.17%) SaaS
5 2 (4.17%) Serverless
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) Internet
2 3 (6.25%) PuTTY
2 3 (6.25%) SAN
3 1 (2.08%) BGP
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.08%) Firewall
3 1 (2.08%) IPsec
3 1 (2.08%) LAN
3 1 (2.08%) OSPF
3 1 (2.08%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (2.08%) VPN
3 1 (2.08%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.08%) Wireless
3 1 (2.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.42%) Metadata
3 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.33%) Redis
3 4 (8.33%) Spark SQL
4 3 (6.25%) Apache Hive
4 3 (6.25%) Big Data
4 3 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 3 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.25%) HBase
4 3 (6.25%) Impala
4 3 (6.25%) MySQL
4 3 (6.25%) Neo4j
4 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.25%) Power BI
4 3 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (6.25%) QlikView
4 3 (6.25%) SQLite
4 3 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Git
2 7 (14.58%) SonarQube
2 7 (14.58%) TeamCity
3 6 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 6 (12.50%) JIRA
4 5 (10.42%) GitLab
5 4 (8.33%) Artifactory
5 4 (8.33%) Maven
5 4 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 3 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (6.25%) Selenium
7 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
8 1 (2.08%) MLflow
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Games
4 5 (10.42%) Multimedia
4 5 (10.42%) Retail
5 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.25%) Banking
6 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Developer
2 10 (20.83%) Software Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Trainee
4 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (14.58%) Senior
5 6 (12.50%) AWS Developer
5 6 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Consultant
5 6 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Administrator
7 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Technology Consultant
7 3 (6.25%) Trainee Consultant
7 3 (6.25%) Trainee Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Trainee Software Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) .NET
1 11 (22.92%) React
2 10 (20.83%) AngularJS
2 10 (20.83%) CSS
2 10 (20.83%) HTML
3 8 (16.67%) REST
4 6 (12.50%) Kafka
4 6 (12.50%) Vue
5 5 (10.42%) Spring
5 5 (10.42%) Spring Boot
6 4 (8.33%) CSS3
6 4 (8.33%) HTML5
6 4 (8.33%) PySpark
7 3 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (6.25%) Itk
7 3 (6.25%) Node.js
7 3 (6.25%) Plotly
7 3 (6.25%) Redux
7 3 (6.25%) Regular Expression
7 3 (6.25%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (10.42%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (8.33%) Client/Server
3 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.25%) NHS
3 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Unix
3 3 (6.25%) Linux
3 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) Agile
2 20 (41.67%) DevOps
3 16 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (31.25%) Software Engineering
5 13 (27.08%) CI/CD
6 12 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 12 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (14.58%) User Experience
10 5 (10.42%) Fintech
10 5 (10.42%) Incident Response
11 4 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (8.33%) Data Science
11 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) Python
2 17 (35.42%) Java
3 15 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 15 (31.25%) SQL
3 15 (31.25%) TypeScript
4 11 (22.92%) C#
5 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 5 (10.42%) R
7 3 (6.25%) Bash
7 3 (6.25%) PROC SQL
7 3 (6.25%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Azure Certification
2 10 (20.83%) AWS Certification
3 9 (18.75%) Degree
4 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (10.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
7 3 (6.25%) HNC
7 3 (6.25%) HND
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
9 1 (2.08%) CCNP
9 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Docker
2 6 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.25%) Apache Flume
3 3 (6.25%) HDFS
3 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.25%) vSphere
4 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Terraform
2 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.33%) Grafana
4 3 (6.25%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) Control-M
4 3 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (6.25%) Kibana
4 3 (6.25%) logstash
4 3 (6.25%) Oozie
5 1 (2.08%) Kubeflow
5 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.58%) VMware
3 5 (10.42%) Databricks
4 4 (8.33%) Google
4 4 (8.33%) SAP
5 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.25%) Informatica
5 3 (6.25%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (6.25%) Siemens
5 3 (6.25%) Solace
6 1 (2.08%) Aruba
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle
6 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow