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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 32 9
Rank change year-on-year +20 -23 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 65 53 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.22% 7.13% 11.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.76% 21.03% 31.30%
Number of salaries quoted 58 34 34
10th Percentile - £42,500 £42,950
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £71,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +23.91% -17.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £93,750 £74,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,500
North East median annual salary £52,500 £69,654 £57,500
% change year-on-year -24.63% +21.14% -17.86%

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 226 252 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 28.57% 33.92% 36.09%
Number of salaries quoted 171 133 119
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,238 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £77,500
North East median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 +13 48 £30,500 -60.90% 78
Sunderland +6 14 £55,000 -31.25% 15
Gateshead 0 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 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (72.31%) Azure
2 23 (35.38%) GitHub
3 10 (15.38%) GCP
4 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.08%) SaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Slack
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (29.23%) Internet
2 3 (4.62%) Firewall
2 3 (4.62%) SAN
3 2 (3.08%) DNS
3 2 (3.08%) HTTP
3 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.54%) BGP
4 1 (1.54%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.54%) IPsec
4 1 (1.54%) LAN
4 1 (1.54%) OSPF
4 1 (1.54%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.54%) VPN
4 1 (1.54%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.54%) Wireless
4 1 (1.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) Redis
2 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.54%) Metadata
3 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (30.77%) Git
2 7 (10.77%) TeamCity
3 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.15%) Artifactory
4 4 (6.15%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.62%) GitLab
5 3 (4.62%) JIRA
5 3 (4.62%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.54%) Maven
6 1 (1.54%) MLflow
6 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (29.23%) Multimedia
2 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.46%) Games
4 7 (10.77%) Finance
5 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Retail
7 2 (3.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (38.46%) Developer
2 22 (33.85%) Trainee
3 11 (16.92%) AWS Developer
3 11 (16.92%) Software Developer
3 11 (16.92%) Trainee Developer
3 11 (16.92%) Trainee Software Developer
4 10 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 10 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (12.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 6 (9.23%) Consultant
8 5 (7.69%) Lead
9 4 (6.15%) Head of IT
9 4 (6.15%) Head of IT Security
9 4 (6.15%) Head of Security
10 3 (4.62%) Head of Engineering
10 3 (4.62%) Lead DevOps
10 3 (4.62%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) React Developer
10 3 (4.62%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (32.31%) CSS
1 21 (32.31%) HTML
2 9 (13.85%) .NET
3 8 (12.31%) REST
4 7 (10.77%) React
5 6 (9.23%) Vue
6 5 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 5 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.62%) Itk
7 3 (4.62%) Node.js
8 2 (3.08%) CSS3
8 2 (3.08%) HTML5
8 2 (3.08%) Spring
8 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.54%) Dropwizard
9 1 (1.54%) hapi
9 1 (1.54%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (1.54%) scikit-learn
9 1 (1.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.15%) Client/Server
2 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.62%) NHS
4 1 (1.54%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.54%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Windows
2 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.38%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (33.85%) Mentoring
3 18 (27.69%) DevOps
4 14 (21.54%) Computer Science
5 13 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (16.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (15.38%) Agile
8 9 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.31%) Incident Response
9 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (10.77%) Software Engineering
11 6 (9.23%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (9.23%) Containerisation
11 6 (9.23%) High Availability
11 6 (9.23%) Observability
11 6 (9.23%) Roadmaps
11 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 29 (44.62%) Python
2 27 (41.54%) JavaScript
3 16 (24.62%) C#
4 9 (13.85%) SQL
4 9 (13.85%) TypeScript
5 8 (12.31%) R
6 7 (10.77%) Java
7 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.62%) Tcl
9 2 (3.08%) Bash
9 2 (3.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (35.38%) AWS Certification
1 23 (35.38%) Azure Certification
1 23 (35.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (29.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 11 (16.92%) Degree
4 7 (10.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
6 4 (6.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (6.15%) Master's Degree
6 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
7 3 (4.62%) HNC
7 3 (4.62%) HND
8 1 (1.54%) CCNP
8 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (6.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 9 (13.85%) Docker
2 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.62%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.62%) vSphere
4 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (20.00%) Terraform
2 7 (10.77%) Grafana
3 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
4 5 (7.69%) Ansible
5 4 (6.15%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.62%) Control-M
6 3 (4.62%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.54%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (41.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) VMware
3 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.62%) Google
3 3 (4.62%) Siemens
4 1 (1.54%) Aruba
4 1 (1.54%) Cisco
4 1 (1.54%) Databricks
4 1 (1.54%) Palo Alto