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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -13
Permanent jobs citing AWS 209 47 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.33% 7.73% 6.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.48% 29.01% 20.78%
Number of salaries quoted 179 37 62
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £44,738
25th Percentile £47,750 £47,500 £57,524
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.35% +0.71%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £92,500 £76,250 £84,919
North East median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +0.89% -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 492 162 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.97% 26.64% 31.42%
Number of salaries quoted 364 122 275
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,625 £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 £67,968
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% -9.09%

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 1 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 1 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 +4 174 £66,000 +10.00% 50
Sunderland +3 22 £48,000 -26.15% 9
Prudhoe - 7 £47,000 - 2
Gateshead -5 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 (14.35%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (8.61%) Apache Spark
2 18 (8.61%) Jupyter
3 15 (7.18%) Apache
4 4 (1.91%) Confluence
5 3 (1.44%) WordPress
6 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.96%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.48%) CMS
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.48%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 115 (55.02%) Azure
2 48 (22.97%) GCP
3 40 (19.14%) Amazon S3
4 34 (16.27%) Serverless
5 27 (12.92%) GitHub
6 26 (12.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 26 (12.44%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (11.96%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (7.66%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (7.18%) Amazon ECR
10 14 (6.70%) Amazon EMR
10 14 (6.70%) Power Platform
11 13 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (4.31%) Textract
15 7 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (2.39%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.70%) Firewall
2 9 (4.31%) DNS
3 6 (2.87%) HTTP
3 6 (2.87%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.44%) Internet
4 3 (1.44%) SSH
5 2 (0.96%) DHCP
5 2 (0.96%) LAN
5 2 (0.96%) VPN
5 2 (0.96%) WAN
6 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.75%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (10.05%) Amazon Athena
2 21 (10.05%) DynamoDB
2 21 (10.05%) MongoDB
2 21 (10.05%) NoSQL
3 19 (9.09%) MySQL
4 16 (7.66%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (6.70%) Power BI
6 12 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (5.26%) Metadata
7 11 (5.26%) Tableau
8 8 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.83%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.35%) BigQuery
9 7 (3.35%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.87%) Big Data
10 6 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.87%) GIS
11 5 (2.39%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.39%) Looker
Development Applications
1 42 (20.10%) Git
2 32 (15.31%) GitLab
3 17 (8.13%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.83%) JIRA
5 6 (2.87%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.39%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.91%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.44%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.48%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.48%) Gatling
9 1 (0.48%) JMeter
9 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
General
1 70 (33.49%) Public Sector
2 52 (24.88%) Social Skills
3 40 (19.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.05%) Finance
6 17 (8.13%) Legal
7 16 (7.66%) Law
8 8 (3.83%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.87%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.39%) Retail
11 4 (1.91%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.44%) Games
12 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.96%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (18.18%) Senior
2 37 (17.70%) Developer
3 33 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (14.35%) Lead
5 22 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 21 (10.05%) Architect
7 18 (8.61%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.70%) Python Developer
9 13 (6.22%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (6.22%) Senior Developer
10 12 (5.74%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Technical Architect
12 9 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (4.31%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (4.31%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.31%) Senior Python Developer
13 8 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.83%) Senior Technical Architect
13 8 (3.83%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.44%) Node.js
2 24 (11.48%) .NET
2 24 (11.48%) React
3 18 (8.61%) CSS
4 16 (7.66%) RESTful
5 15 (7.18%) PySpark
6 14 (6.70%) HTML
6 14 (6.70%) REST
7 11 (5.26%) .NET Core
8 10 (4.78%) Flask
9 9 (4.31%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (4.31%) LangChain
10 8 (3.83%) Kafka
10 8 (3.83%) LlamaIndex
11 7 (3.35%) Spring
11 7 (3.35%) Spring Boot
12 6 (2.87%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.87%) Ajax
12 6 (2.87%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 42 (20.10%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.22%) Algorithms
4 12 (5.74%) Data Structures
5 11 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
5 11 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.78%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.78%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.87%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.87%) Hedge funds
9 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.91%) Life Science
10 4 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.44%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.44%) Replication
11 3 (1.44%) Robotics
12 2 (0.96%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.40%) Linux
2 13 (6.22%) Windows
3 6 (2.87%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.39%) CentOS
4 5 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.39%) Unix
5 3 (1.44%) Debian
5 3 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.96%) Android
6 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (44.02%) CI/CD
2 85 (40.67%) Agile
3 81 (38.76%) DevOps
4 61 (29.19%) Mentoring
5 58 (27.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (21.53%) Containerisation
8 42 (20.10%) Coaching
9 41 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (19.62%) Test Automation
10 38 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
11 36 (17.22%) AI
11 36 (17.22%) Data Modelling
11 36 (17.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (16.75%) Data Engineering
13 33 (15.79%) Analytics
14 31 (14.83%) Software Engineering
14 31 (14.83%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (13.88%) Decision-Making
16 27 (12.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 103 (49.28%) Python
2 70 (33.49%) SQL
3 32 (15.31%) Java
4 30 (14.35%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.40%) TypeScript
6 22 (10.53%) C#
7 20 (9.57%) Bash
8 9 (4.31%) Go
9 7 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.96%) PHP
10 2 (0.96%) R
10 2 (0.96%) Scala
10 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (22.01%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (6.22%) Degree
5 11 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.78%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.48%) CCSP
9 1 (0.48%) CISA
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.48%) CISSP
9 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.48%) GSEC
9 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.22%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.18%) QA
3 6 (2.87%) GDPR
4 4 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.96%) NCSC
5 2 (0.96%) WCAG
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (28.71%) Docker
2 6 (2.87%) iptables
3 5 (2.39%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.44%) vSphere
5 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 53 (25.36%) Terraform
2 34 (16.27%) Kubernetes
3 18 (8.61%) Ansible
4 13 (6.22%) Grafana
5 9 (4.31%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.91%) Puppet
7 3 (1.44%) Argo
7 3 (1.44%) Control-M
7 3 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.44%) systemd
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.48%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.48%) Kibana
9 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.70%) Databricks
3 7 (3.35%) Oracle
4 6 (2.87%) VMware
5 5 (2.39%) Google
6 4 (1.91%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.44%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.44%) Confluent
7 3 (1.44%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.96%) Apple
8 2 (0.96%) Citrix
8 2 (0.96%) F5
8 2 (0.96%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.96%) Pega
8 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.96%) Samsung
8 2 (0.96%) UiPath
9 1 (0.48%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.48%) Zscaler