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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -22
Permanent jobs citing AWS 245 46 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.95% 6.97% 5.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.63% 27.22% 16.52%
Number of salaries quoted 208 37 35
10th Percentile £46,000 £28,250 £43,395
25th Percentile £52,188 £46,250 £54,030
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £84,982
90th Percentile £92,500 £76,250 £95,000
North East median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £69,654
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.86% +7.16%

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 549 169 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.06% 25.61% 31.42%
Number of salaries quoted 417 126 194
10th Percentile £37,000 £27,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,241 £34,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,437 £67,500 £66,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,250 £84,964
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,500 £51,404
% change year-on-year +8.91% -1.76% -6.54%

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 19 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 19 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 +9 211 £67,500 +12.50% 141
Sunderland -1 16 £75,000 +15.38% 8
Prudhoe - 11 £47,000 -
Gateshead -2 7 £40,000 -15.79% 2
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 (12.65%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (8.98%) Apache Spark
3 16 (6.53%) Apache
3 16 (6.53%) Jupyter
4 6 (2.45%) Confluence
5 3 (1.22%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.41%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 129 (52.65%) Azure
2 66 (26.94%) GCP
3 52 (21.22%) Amazon S3
4 46 (18.78%) Serverless
5 36 (14.69%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 34 (13.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (11.43%) GitHub
9 24 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (7.76%) Amazon ECR
11 17 (6.94%) Amazon EMR
12 15 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (5.71%) Power Platform
14 12 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (3.67%) Textract
16 7 (2.86%) AWS KMS
16 7 (2.86%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.86%) Firewall
2 3 (1.22%) DNS
2 3 (1.22%) SSH
3 2 (0.82%) DHCP
3 2 (0.82%) Internet
3 2 (0.82%) LAN
3 2 (0.82%) VPN
3 2 (0.82%) WAN
4 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (9.80%) MongoDB
3 22 (8.98%) DynamoDB
4 21 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (7.35%) MySQL
7 17 (6.94%) NoSQL
8 14 (5.71%) Power BI
9 12 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (4.90%) Metadata
9 12 (4.90%) Tableau
10 10 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.67%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.67%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.27%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.86%) Big Data
13 7 (2.86%) GIS
13 7 (2.86%) Looker
14 6 (2.45%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 51 (20.82%) Git
2 45 (18.37%) GitLab
3 17 (6.94%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.08%) JIRA
5 7 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (2.86%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.45%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.22%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.82%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.82%) Gatling
9 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.41%) JMeter
9 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
General
1 104 (42.45%) Public Sector
2 67 (27.35%) Social Skills
3 62 (25.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.16%) Finance
6 17 (6.94%) Legal
7 14 (5.71%) Law
8 6 (2.45%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.63%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.41%) Publishing
12 1 (0.41%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Russian Language
12 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) Ukrainian Language
Job Titles
1 44 (17.96%) Lead
2 42 (17.14%) Senior
3 40 (16.33%) Developer
4 35 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (12.65%) Data Engineer
6 25 (10.20%) Architect
7 21 (8.57%) Software Engineer
8 19 (7.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 15 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (6.12%) Python Developer
9 15 (6.12%) Technical Architect
10 13 (5.31%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (5.31%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.90%) Python Engineer
11 12 (4.90%) Senior Architect
12 10 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.08%) Senior Technical Architect
13 9 (3.67%) Senior Python Developer
13 9 (3.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (26.94%) Terraform
2 32 (13.06%) Node.js
3 25 (10.20%) .NET
4 22 (8.98%) React
5 21 (8.57%) CSS
5 21 (8.57%) PySpark
6 18 (7.35%) LangChain
7 17 (6.94%) LlamaIndex
7 17 (6.94%) REST
8 15 (6.12%) HTML
8 15 (6.12%) RESTful
9 12 (4.90%) Kafka
10 11 (4.49%) Flask
11 9 (3.67%) .NET Core
12 8 (3.27%) AngularJS
12 8 (3.27%) Express.js
12 8 (3.27%) Web Services
13 7 (2.86%) Ajax
13 7 (2.86%) jQuery
13 7 (2.86%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 53 (21.63%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.80%) Onboarding
3 23 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.31%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (4.49%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.49%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.67%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.45%) AI Agents
11 5 (2.04%) Hedge funds
11 5 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.63%) Life Science
13 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.22%) Replication
13 3 (1.22%) Robotics
14 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.47%) Linux
2 16 (6.53%) Windows
3 8 (3.27%) Unix
4 7 (2.86%) CentOS
4 7 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.45%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.22%) Debian
6 3 (1.22%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (51.84%) CI/CD
2 120 (48.98%) Agile
3 108 (44.08%) DevOps
4 83 (33.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 81 (33.06%) Mentoring
6 65 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (24.08%) Containerisation
8 57 (23.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (22.45%) Data Engineering
10 54 (22.04%) AI
11 53 (21.63%) Coaching
12 50 (20.41%) Technical Leadership
13 47 (19.18%) Test Automation
14 45 (18.37%) Data Modelling
15 43 (17.55%) Analytics
15 43 (17.55%) Data Pipeline
16 39 (15.92%) Decision-Making
17 38 (15.51%) Full-Stack Development
18 37 (15.10%) Software Engineering
19 32 (13.06%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 117 (47.76%) Python
2 74 (30.20%) SQL
3 37 (15.10%) Java
4 34 (13.88%) JavaScript
5 33 (13.47%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.80%) C#
7 23 (9.39%) Bash
8 9 (3.67%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.63%) Scala
9 4 (1.63%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.22%) C++
10 3 (1.22%) Go
11 1 (0.41%) Bicep
11 1 (0.41%) C
11 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (25.31%) Security Cleared
2 50 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (9.80%) AWS Certification
5 18 (7.35%) Azure Certification
6 15 (6.12%) Degree
7 14 (5.71%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.41%) CSPO
9 1 (0.41%) IIBA
9 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.98%) QA
3 8 (3.27%) GDPR
3 8 (3.27%) NCSC
4 7 (2.86%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.82%) WCAG
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (31.84%) Docker
2 6 (2.45%) iptables
3 5 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.22%) vSphere
5 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 45 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.94%) Ansible
3 12 (4.90%) Grafana
4 6 (2.45%) Puppet
5 5 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.22%) Argo
6 3 (1.22%) Control-M
6 3 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.22%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.22%) systemd
7 2 (0.82%) Kibana
8 1 (0.41%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 19 (7.76%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.71%) Databricks
3 12 (4.90%) Google
4 8 (3.27%) Oracle
5 6 (2.45%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.45%) VMware
6 5 (2.04%) Confluent
7 4 (1.63%) Splunk
8 3 (1.22%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.22%) Sage
8 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.22%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.82%) Adobe
9 2 (0.82%) Citrix
9 2 (0.82%) F5
9 2 (0.82%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.82%) Pega
9 2 (0.82%) UiPath
10 1 (0.41%) Red Hat