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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 176 47 123
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.38% 8.02% 8.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.27% 29.94% 23.43%
Number of salaries quoted 150 37 107
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £44,343
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £57,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.35% +4.74%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £77,250
90th Percentile £88,875 £76,250 £84,964
North East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.71% +4.74%

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 437 157 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.81% 26.79% 36.28%
Number of salaries quoted 322 116 431
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,315 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £88,148 £81,875 £80,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +4 143 £65,000 +8.33% 50
Sunderland +3 22 £50,000 -23.08% 16
Gateshead -6 6 - - 2
Prudhoe - 5 £45,000 - 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 26 (14.77%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (9.66%) Jupyter
3 13 (7.39%) Apache
3 13 (7.39%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.70%) WordPress
5 2 (1.14%) Confluence
5 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.14%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.57%) CMS
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.57%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.57%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 100 (56.82%) Azure
2 37 (21.02%) GCP
3 27 (15.34%) Amazon S3
4 22 (12.50%) GitHub
5 20 (11.36%) Serverless
6 17 (9.66%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (7.39%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (7.39%) Power Platform
10 12 (6.82%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (3.98%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (3.98%) Textract
14 4 (2.27%) Entra ID
14 4 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.23%) Firewall
2 10 (5.68%) DNS
3 8 (4.55%) HTTP
3 8 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.70%) Internet
4 3 (1.70%) SSH
5 2 (1.14%) DHCP
5 2 (1.14%) LAN
5 2 (1.14%) NGFW
5 2 (1.14%) VPN
5 2 (1.14%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.14%) WAN
5 2 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.14%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.05%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 19 (10.80%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (10.23%) MySQL
5 17 (9.66%) MongoDB
6 16 (9.09%) DynamoDB
7 13 (7.39%) Power BI
8 10 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (5.68%) Tableau
9 9 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (5.11%) Metadata
10 7 (3.98%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.41%) Big Data
11 6 (3.41%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.84%) GIS
13 4 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (2.27%) Data Vault
13 4 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (15.91%) Git
2 25 (14.20%) GitLab
3 15 (8.52%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.41%) JIRA
5 5 (2.84%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.84%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.84%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.70%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.70%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.57%) Gatling
7 1 (0.57%) JMeter
7 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 54 (30.68%) Public Sector
2 36 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 25 (14.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.23%) Finance
6 15 (8.52%) Law
6 15 (8.52%) Legal
7 8 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.41%) Retail
9 4 (2.27%) Games
9 4 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.70%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.70%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.14%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (18.75%) Senior
2 30 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (16.48%) Developer
4 22 (12.50%) Lead
5 19 (10.80%) Architect
6 17 (9.66%) Data Engineer
7 16 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.68%) Python Developer
9 10 (5.68%) Python Engineer
9 10 (5.68%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.55%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Senior Architect
11 7 (3.98%) Administrator
11 7 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.98%) Python Data Engineer
11 7 (3.98%) Senior Python Developer
11 7 (3.98%) Trainee
12 6 (3.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.50%) .NET
1 22 (12.50%) Node.js
2 20 (11.36%) React
3 14 (7.95%) CSS
4 13 (7.39%) RESTful
5 12 (6.82%) .NET Core
5 12 (6.82%) PySpark
6 11 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (6.25%) HTML
6 11 (6.25%) REST
7 8 (4.55%) Flask
7 8 (4.55%) Spring
7 8 (4.55%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.98%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.84%) Ajax
9 5 (2.84%) boto
9 5 (2.84%) Jinja
9 5 (2.84%) Matplotlib
9 5 (2.84%) Pandas
9 5 (2.84%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.95%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.68%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (3.98%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.41%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.84%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.27%) Life Science
10 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.70%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.70%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.70%) PKI
10 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.70%) Replication
10 3 (1.70%) Robotics
11 2 (1.14%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.64%) Linux
2 11 (6.25%) Windows
3 6 (3.41%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.84%) Unix
5 3 (1.70%) CentOS
5 3 (1.70%) Debian
5 3 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.14%) Android
6 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (38.64%) CI/CD
2 65 (36.93%) Agile
3 60 (34.09%) DevOps
4 52 (29.55%) Mentoring
5 40 (22.73%) Coaching
6 39 (22.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (20.45%) Test Automation
9 34 (19.32%) Containerisation
10 33 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
11 32 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 30 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (15.91%) Data Modelling
14 26 (14.77%) Analytics
15 25 (14.20%) AI
15 25 (14.20%) Software Engineering
16 22 (12.50%) Data Engineering
16 22 (12.50%) Decision-Making
16 22 (12.50%) Microservices
17 21 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 82 (46.59%) Python
2 59 (33.52%) SQL
3 29 (16.48%) Java
4 23 (13.07%) JavaScript
5 21 (11.93%) C#
5 21 (11.93%) TypeScript
6 19 (10.80%) Bash
7 11 (6.25%) Go
8 7 (3.98%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.14%) PHP
9 2 (1.14%) R
9 2 (1.14%) Scala
10 1 (0.57%) C
Qualifications
1 33 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.82%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.68%) Degree
5 7 (3.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.57%) CCSP
9 1 (0.57%) CISA
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.57%) CISSP
9 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.57%) GSEC
9 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.34%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.68%) QA
3 4 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.70%) GDPR
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) WCAG
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (3.41%) iptables
3 5 (2.84%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.70%) vSphere
5 2 (1.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (24.43%) Terraform
2 26 (14.77%) Kubernetes
3 20 (11.36%) Ansible
4 15 (8.52%) Grafana
5 11 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.27%) Puppet
7 3 (1.70%) Argo
7 3 (1.70%) Control-M
7 3 (1.70%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.70%) systemd
8 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.25%) Databricks
3 7 (3.98%) Oracle
4 6 (3.41%) VMware
5 3 (1.70%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.70%) Google
5 3 (1.70%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.14%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.14%) Apple
6 2 (1.14%) Arista
6 2 (1.14%) Aruba
6 2 (1.14%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.14%) NetScout
6 2 (1.14%) Pega
6 2 (1.14%) Samsung
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco
7 1 (0.57%) Citrix
7 1 (0.57%) IBM
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.57%) Salesforce