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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 31
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -20
Permanent jobs citing AWS 215 46 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.28% 7.46% 5.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.66% 27.71% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 182 36 45
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £42,645
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.53% +0.71%
75th Percentile £82,688 £67,500 £74,750
90th Percentile £92,250 £76,875 £83,250
North East median annual salary £66,000 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.71% +0.71%

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 504 166 349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.75% 26.90% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 372 125 253
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,980 £31,050
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
North East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -6.98%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +7 179 £66,000 +10.00% 68
Sunderland +1 22 £48,000 -26.15% 6
Prudhoe - 8 £47,000 - 2
Gateshead -4 6 - - 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 30 (13.95%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (8.37%) Apache Spark
3 17 (7.91%) Jupyter
4 14 (6.51%) Apache
5 6 (2.79%) Confluence
6 3 (1.40%) WordPress
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.93%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.47%) CMS
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.47%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 119 (55.35%) Azure
2 50 (23.26%) GCP
3 42 (19.53%) Amazon S3
4 37 (17.21%) Serverless
5 28 (13.02%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (12.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (12.56%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (12.56%) GitHub
7 17 (7.91%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (6.98%) Amazon ECR
9 14 (6.51%) Amazon EMR
9 14 (6.51%) Power Platform
10 13 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (4.19%) Textract
14 8 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (2.79%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.05%) Firewall
2 8 (3.72%) DNS
3 5 (2.33%) HTTP
3 5 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.40%) Internet
4 3 (1.40%) SSH
5 2 (0.93%) DHCP
5 2 (0.93%) LAN
5 2 (0.93%) VPN
5 2 (0.93%) WAN
6 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.74%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.77%) DynamoDB
2 21 (9.77%) MongoDB
2 21 (9.77%) NoSQL
3 20 (9.30%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (8.84%) MySQL
5 18 (8.37%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (6.51%) Power BI
7 12 (5.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (5.12%) Metadata
8 11 (5.12%) Tableau
9 9 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.72%) BigQuery
10 8 (3.72%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.26%) GIS
11 7 (3.26%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.79%) Big Data
12 6 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.79%) Looker
13 5 (2.33%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 43 (20.00%) Git
2 32 (14.88%) GitLab
3 16 (7.44%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.65%) JIRA
5 6 (2.79%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.33%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.40%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.93%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.47%) Gatling
9 1 (0.47%) JMeter
9 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 75 (34.88%) Public Sector
2 55 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 44 (20.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.70%) Finance
6 17 (7.91%) Legal
7 16 (7.44%) Law
8 7 (3.26%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.79%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.86%) Retail
10 4 (1.86%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.40%) Games
11 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (18.14%) Developer
2 38 (17.67%) Senior
3 33 (15.35%) Lead
4 32 (14.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (10.23%) Data Engineer
6 20 (9.30%) Architect
7 18 (8.37%) Software Engineer
8 15 (6.98%) Python Developer
9 13 (6.05%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (6.05%) Senior Developer
10 12 (5.58%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Technical Architect
12 9 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (4.19%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (4.19%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.19%) Senior Python Developer
13 8 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.72%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.09%) .NET
1 26 (12.09%) Node.js
2 24 (11.16%) React
3 20 (9.30%) CSS
4 16 (7.44%) HTML
4 16 (7.44%) RESTful
5 15 (6.98%) PySpark
6 14 (6.51%) REST
7 12 (5.58%) .NET Core
8 11 (5.12%) Flask
9 10 (4.65%) LangChain
10 9 (4.19%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.19%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (3.72%) Kafka
12 7 (3.26%) Ajax
12 7 (3.26%) Jinja
12 7 (3.26%) OpenLayers
12 7 (3.26%) Spring Boot
12 7 (3.26%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.58%) Algorithms
4 12 (5.58%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.12%) Data Structures
5 11 (5.12%) Distributed Computing
5 11 (5.12%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.79%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.79%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.86%) Life Science
10 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.40%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.40%) Replication
10 3 (1.40%) Robotics
11 2 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.02%) Linux
2 13 (6.05%) Windows
3 6 (2.79%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.33%) CentOS
4 5 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.33%) Unix
5 3 (1.40%) Debian
5 3 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.93%) Android
6 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (43.72%) CI/CD
2 90 (41.86%) Agile
3 85 (39.53%) DevOps
4 65 (30.23%) Mentoring
5 60 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (21.40%) Containerisation
8 45 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (20.47%) Coaching
10 41 (19.07%) Test Automation
11 39 (18.14%) AI
12 38 (17.67%) Data Pipeline
13 37 (17.21%) Full-Stack Development
14 36 (16.74%) Data Engineering
14 36 (16.74%) Data Modelling
15 34 (15.81%) Analytics
15 34 (15.81%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (14.88%) Software Engineering
17 31 (14.42%) Decision-Making
18 28 (13.02%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 106 (49.30%) Python
2 72 (33.49%) SQL
3 32 (14.88%) Java
3 32 (14.88%) JavaScript
4 28 (13.02%) TypeScript
5 23 (10.70%) C#
6 20 (9.30%) Bash
7 8 (3.72%) Go
8 7 (3.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.93%) PHP
9 2 (0.93%) R
9 2 (0.93%) Scala
9 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 49 (22.79%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.30%) AWS Certification
4 17 (7.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (7.44%) Degree
6 12 (5.58%) Azure Certification
7 11 (5.12%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.47%) CCSP
11 1 (0.47%) CISA
11 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.47%) CISSP
11 1 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.47%) GSEC
11 1 (0.47%) IIBA
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.21%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.44%) QA
3 7 (3.26%) GDPR
4 4 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.40%) NCSC
6 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.93%) WCAG
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.47%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (28.84%) Docker
2 6 (2.79%) iptables
3 5 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.40%) vSphere
5 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 53 (24.65%) Terraform
2 35 (16.28%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.91%) Ansible
4 12 (5.58%) Grafana
5 8 (3.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.86%) Puppet
7 3 (1.40%) Argo
7 3 (1.40%) Control-M
7 3 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.40%) systemd
8 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.47%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.47%) Kibana
9 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.51%) Databricks
3 7 (3.26%) Google
3 7 (3.26%) Oracle
4 6 (2.79%) VMware
5 4 (1.86%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.40%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.40%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.40%) Confluent
6 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.40%) SnapLogic
7 2 (0.93%) Apple
7 2 (0.93%) Citrix
7 2 (0.93%) F5
7 2 (0.93%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.93%) Pega
7 2 (0.93%) Sage
7 2 (0.93%) Samsung
7 2 (0.93%) UiPath
8 1 (0.47%) Dataiku