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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 115 45 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.30% 10.90% 11.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.21% 32.85% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 100 38 129
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,250 £41,375
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,563 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +1.56% +6.67%
75th Percentile £71,875 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £80,975 £80,000 £84,919
North East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.53% +14.15%

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 357 137 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 22.65% 33.17% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 248 104 470
10th Percentile £31,775 £31,599 £29,725
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,503 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,750
North East median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -

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

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Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Tyne and Wear

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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 18 May 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 -2 91 £57,500 -4.17% 61
Sunderland +8 17 £55,000 -26.67% 5
Prudhoe +1 5 £45,000 -
Gateshead -13 2 - - 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 8 (6.96%) Jupyter
2 7 (6.09%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.48%) Apache
3 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.74%) WordPress
5 1 (0.87%) Confluence
5 1 (0.87%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 73 (63.48%) Azure
2 26 (22.61%) GCP
3 25 (21.74%) GitHub
4 15 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (10.43%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.83%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (6.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.22%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.35%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.35%) SaaS
10 4 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.48%) OCI
10 4 (3.48%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.61%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.78%) Firewall
2 12 (10.43%) DNS
2 12 (10.43%) Internet
3 10 (8.70%) HTTP
3 10 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.61%) NGFW
4 3 (2.61%) SSH
4 3 (2.61%) VXLAN
4 3 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.61%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.74%) DHCP
5 2 (1.74%) LAN
5 2 (1.74%) VPN
5 2 (1.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.91%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.57%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.83%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.96%) MySQL
5 7 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (5.22%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (4.35%) Metadata
7 5 (4.35%) Power BI
8 4 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.48%) Big Data
8 4 (3.48%) GIS
8 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.61%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.61%) Tableau
10 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.87%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.87%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (17.39%) Git
2 13 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.70%) GitLab
4 5 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (3.48%) JIRA
6 3 (2.61%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.74%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.74%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.87%) Gatling
8 1 (0.87%) JMeter
8 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 27 (23.48%) Public Sector
2 15 (13.04%) Finance
2 15 (13.04%) Law
3 11 (9.57%) Multimedia
4 10 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 9 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (6.09%) Games
7 7 (6.09%) Legal
7 7 (6.09%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.35%) Retail
9 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.87%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (18.26%) Developer
3 16 (13.91%) Trainee
4 13 (11.30%) Lead
5 12 (10.43%) Senior
6 11 (9.57%) Software Developer
7 10 (8.70%) Architect
8 8 (6.96%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (5.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Administrator
11 5 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 5 (4.35%) AWS Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Data Architect
11 5 (4.35%) Programmer
11 5 (4.35%) Trainee Programmer
11 5 (4.35%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.52%) .NET
2 18 (15.65%) CSS
3 16 (13.91%) HTML
4 12 (10.43%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (9.57%) .NET Core
6 10 (8.70%) Node.js
6 10 (8.70%) React
7 8 (6.96%) REST
8 7 (6.09%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.09%) RESTful
9 6 (5.22%) Spring
9 6 (5.22%) Spring Boot
10 5 (4.35%) Flask
10 5 (4.35%) Hugging Face
10 5 (4.35%) Matplotlib
10 5 (4.35%) NumPy
10 5 (4.35%) Pandas
10 5 (4.35%) scikit-learn
10 5 (4.35%) Streamlit
11 4 (3.48%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.57%) Algorithms
1 11 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (3.48%) Hedge funds
4 4 (3.48%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.61%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.61%) Life Science
5 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.61%) PKI
5 3 (2.61%) Replication
6 2 (1.74%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.74%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.87%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.43%) Linux
2 7 (6.09%) Windows
3 3 (2.61%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.61%) Unix
4 2 (1.74%) Android
4 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.17%) CI/CD
1 37 (32.17%) Mentoring
2 34 (29.57%) DevOps
3 27 (23.48%) Agile
4 24 (20.87%) Coaching
5 23 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (17.39%) Containerisation
8 17 (14.78%) Test Automation
9 16 (13.91%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (13.91%) Software Engineering
10 15 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (11.30%) AI
12 13 (11.30%) Microservices
13 12 (10.43%) Continuous Delivery
13 12 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (10.43%) High Availability
14 11 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (9.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 54 (46.96%) Python
2 24 (20.87%) SQL
3 22 (19.13%) Java
3 22 (19.13%) JavaScript
4 17 (14.78%) Bash
5 15 (13.04%) C#
6 10 (8.70%) Go
6 10 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.22%) R
8 4 (3.48%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.74%) Scala
10 1 (0.87%) C
10 1 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 17 (14.78%) Security Cleared
3 16 (13.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 14 (12.17%) Azure Certification
5 13 (11.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (8.70%) SC Cleared
7 9 (7.83%) Degree
8 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.87%) CCSP
9 1 (0.87%) CISA
9 1 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.87%) CISSP
9 1 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.87%) GSEC
9 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.35%) QA
3 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.87%) NIST
4 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (14.78%) Docker
2 3 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.61%) iptables
3 2 (1.74%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (24.35%) Terraform
2 16 (13.91%) Grafana
3 15 (13.04%) Ansible
4 13 (11.30%) Prometheus
5 10 (8.70%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.61%) Argo
6 3 (2.61%) systemd
7 2 (1.74%) Control-M
7 2 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (28.70%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.48%) VMware
3 3 (2.61%) Arista
3 3 (2.61%) Aruba
3 3 (2.61%) NetScout
3 3 (2.61%) Oracle
4 2 (1.74%) Apple
4 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.74%) Databricks
4 2 (1.74%) Google
4 2 (1.74%) Samsung
5 1 (0.87%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.87%) Cisco
5 1 (0.87%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.87%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.87%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.87%) Proofpoint
5 1 (0.87%) Splunk
5 1 (0.87%) Zscaler