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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 32 9
Rank change year-on-year +12 -23 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 59 58 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.40% 6.00% 11.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.10% 19.59% 30.30%
Number of salaries quoted 52 35 33
10th Percentile £25,325 £42,500 £47,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £78,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.10% +24.80% -10.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £87,000
North East median annual salary £49,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -32.41% +11.54% -3.70%

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 210 296 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 26.35% 30.61% 36.46%
Number of salaries quoted 169 153 113
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £42,238 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,993 £77,500
North East median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +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 21 November 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 21 November 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 44 £42,500 -46.20% 44
Sunderland +8 12 £55,000 -31.25% 12
Gateshead 0 3 £47,500 -9.52% 4
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 3 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.39%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (72.88%) Azure
2 18 (30.51%) GitHub
3 13 (22.03%) GCP
4 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.39%) SaaS
5 2 (3.39%) Slack
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.03%) Internet
2 4 (6.78%) SAN
3 2 (3.39%) Firewall
3 2 (3.39%) PuTTY
4 1 (1.69%) BGP
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.69%) DNS
4 1 (1.69%) HTTP
4 1 (1.69%) IPsec
4 1 (1.69%) LAN
4 1 (1.69%) OSPF
4 1 (1.69%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.69%) VPN
4 1 (1.69%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.69%) Wireless
4 1 (1.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.78%) Metadata
2 4 (6.78%) Redis
3 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.08%) Spark SQL
4 2 (3.39%) Apache Hive
4 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.39%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.39%) HBase
4 2 (3.39%) Impala
4 2 (3.39%) MySQL
4 2 (3.39%) Neo4j
4 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.39%) Power BI
4 2 (3.39%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (3.39%) QlikView
4 2 (3.39%) SQLite
4 2 (3.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) Git
2 8 (13.56%) TeamCity
3 5 (8.47%) Artifactory
3 5 (8.47%) SonarQube
4 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.78%) JIRA
4 4 (6.78%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (5.08%) GitLab
6 1 (1.69%) Maven
6 1 (1.69%) MLflow
6 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.03%) Multimedia
3 10 (16.95%) Games
4 7 (11.86%) Finance
5 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Retail
5 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Developer
2 16 (27.12%) Trainee
3 9 (15.25%) AWS Developer
3 9 (15.25%) C# Developer
4 8 (13.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Software Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Trainee Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Trainee Software Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Consultant
5 6 (10.17%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Administrator
7 3 (5.08%) Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (5.08%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Technology Consultant
7 3 (5.08%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.42%) CSS
1 15 (25.42%) HTML
2 9 (15.25%) .NET
3 7 (11.86%) AngularJS
3 7 (11.86%) REST
4 6 (10.17%) React
4 6 (10.17%) Vue
5 5 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.08%) Itk
6 3 (5.08%) Node.js
6 3 (5.08%) PySpark
7 2 (3.39%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.39%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (3.39%) CSS3
7 2 (3.39%) HTML5
7 2 (3.39%) Kafka
7 2 (3.39%) Plotly
7 2 (3.39%) Regular Expression
7 2 (3.39%) Shiny
7 2 (3.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Client/Server
1 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.08%) NHS
2 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.39%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.69%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Windows
2 4 (6.78%) Linux
3 3 (5.08%) Unix
3 3 (5.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) DevOps
2 18 (30.51%) Mentoring
3 15 (25.42%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (23.73%) Agile
5 13 (22.03%) CI/CD
5 13 (22.03%) Computer Science
5 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (18.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
8 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.17%) Containerisation
10 6 (10.17%) Incident Response
11 5 (8.47%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (6.78%) Change Management
12 4 (6.78%) Observability
12 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineering
12 4 (6.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 4 (6.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (6.78%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.07%) Python
2 20 (33.90%) JavaScript
3 14 (23.73%) C#
4 11 (18.64%) Java
4 11 (18.64%) SQL
5 10 (16.95%) TypeScript
6 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
6 7 (11.86%) R
7 3 (5.08%) Bash
7 3 (5.08%) Tcl
8 2 (3.39%) PROC SQL
9 1 (1.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Azure Certification
2 17 (28.81%) AWS Certification
3 16 (27.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (22.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 10 (16.95%) Degree
6 6 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
7 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
8 3 (5.08%) HNC
8 3 (5.08%) HND
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.69%) CCNP
10 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.08%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Docker
2 6 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.78%) vSphere
4 3 (5.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.39%) Apache Flume
5 2 (3.39%) HDFS
6 1 (1.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (22.03%) Terraform
2 7 (11.86%) Grafana
2 7 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.47%) Ansible
4 4 (6.78%) Control-M
4 4 (6.78%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.39%) Kibana
6 2 (3.39%) logstash
6 2 (3.39%) Oozie
7 1 (1.69%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (35.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.56%) VMware
3 4 (6.78%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.78%) Databricks
3 4 (6.78%) Google
4 3 (5.08%) SAP
4 3 (5.08%) Siemens
5 2 (3.39%) Informatica
5 2 (3.39%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.69%) Aruba
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow