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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 156 44 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.04% 9.28% 9.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.71% 31.88% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 131 36 131
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £41,375
25th Percentile £46,446 £46,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,087 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £88,148 £76,875 £84,964
North East median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +0.78% +17.27%

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 403 138 592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.77% 29.11% 37.09%
Number of salaries quoted 300 104 481
10th Percentile £33,975 £25,300 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,625 £80,000
North East median annual salary £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -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 June 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 21 June 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 0 124 £63,076 +5.13% 38
Sunderland +8 22 £55,000 -24.14% 2
Gateshead -9 5 - - 4
Prudhoe - 5 £45,000 -
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 22 (14.10%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (9.62%) Jupyter
3 11 (7.05%) Apache
3 11 (7.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.28%) WordPress
5 1 (0.64%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.64%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.64%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.64%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 96 (61.54%) Azure
2 37 (23.72%) GCP
3 24 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 22 (14.10%) GitHub
5 16 (10.26%) Serverless
6 15 (9.62%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (7.69%) Power Platform
9 11 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (6.41%) Amazon EMR
11 9 (5.77%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (4.49%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (3.21%) SaaS
14 5 (3.21%) Textract
15 4 (2.56%) OCI
15 4 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.82%) Firewall
2 11 (7.05%) DNS
3 9 (5.77%) HTTP
3 9 (5.77%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.85%) Internet
5 3 (1.92%) NGFW
5 3 (1.92%) SSH
5 3 (1.92%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.92%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.28%) DHCP
6 2 (1.28%) LAN
6 2 (1.28%) VPN
6 2 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.90%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (8.97%) MySQL
5 13 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 13 (8.33%) MongoDB
6 12 (7.69%) Power BI
7 10 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (6.41%) Metadata
8 9 (5.77%) Tableau
9 8 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (3.85%) Big Data
10 6 (3.85%) SQL Server
11 5 (3.21%) GIS
11 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.56%) Data Vault
12 4 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.92%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 23 (14.74%) Git
2 18 (11.54%) GitLab
3 12 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.21%) JIRA
4 5 (3.21%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.21%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.64%) Gatling
7 1 (0.64%) JMeter
7 1 (0.64%) REST Assured
General
1 42 (26.92%) Public Sector
2 27 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.54%) Finance
4 18 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (9.62%) Law
6 12 (7.69%) Legal
7 9 (5.77%) Telecoms
8 8 (5.13%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.85%) Retail
10 5 (3.21%) Games
10 5 (3.21%) Multimedia
11 4 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.92%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (16.03%) Developer
1 25 (16.03%) Senior
2 24 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (13.46%) Lead
4 19 (12.18%) Architect
5 15 (9.62%) Data Engineer
6 13 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 10 (6.41%) Trainee
8 9 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (5.77%) Data Architect
8 9 (5.77%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) Software Developer
10 7 (4.49%) Administrator
10 7 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.49%) Python Developer
10 7 (4.49%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.85%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.10%) .NET
2 17 (10.90%) Node.js
2 17 (10.90%) React
3 14 (8.97%) CSS
4 12 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 12 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (7.05%) HTML
5 11 (7.05%) REST
5 11 (7.05%) RESTful
6 9 (5.77%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.77%) PySpark
7 7 (4.49%) Spring
7 7 (4.49%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.85%) Flask
8 6 (3.85%) Vue
9 5 (3.21%) boto
9 5 (3.21%) Jinja
9 5 (3.21%) Matplotlib
9 5 (3.21%) Pandas
9 5 (3.21%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.97%) Algorithms
3 11 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (3.85%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.56%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.56%) Life Science
7 4 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.92%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.92%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.92%) PKI
8 3 (1.92%) Replication
9 2 (1.28%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.28%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.90%) Linux
2 8 (5.13%) Windows
3 6 (3.85%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.92%) Debian
4 3 (1.92%) Unix
5 2 (1.28%) Android
5 2 (1.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.97%) CI/CD
2 52 (33.33%) Agile
3 49 (31.41%) DevOps
4 45 (28.85%) Mentoring
5 33 (21.15%) Coaching
5 33 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (18.59%) Containerisation
7 28 (17.95%) Data Pipeline
7 28 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 27 (17.31%) Data Modelling
8 27 (17.31%) Test Automation
9 24 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (14.74%) Analytics
11 22 (14.10%) AI
11 22 (14.10%) Software Engineering
12 20 (12.82%) Data Engineering
13 18 (11.54%) Decision-Making
14 17 (10.90%) Data Governance
14 17 (10.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 76 (48.72%) Python
2 50 (32.05%) SQL
3 26 (16.67%) Java
4 20 (12.82%) TypeScript
5 19 (12.18%) C#
5 19 (12.18%) JavaScript
6 18 (11.54%) Bash
7 11 (7.05%) Go
8 5 (3.21%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.92%) R
10 2 (1.28%) Scala
11 1 (0.64%) C
11 1 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.62%) AWS Certification
4 10 (6.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 10 (6.41%) Degree
5 7 (4.49%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.64%) CCSP
8 1 (0.64%) CISA
8 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.64%) CISSP
8 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.64%) GSEC
8 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.74%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.13%) QA
3 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.92%) GDPR
4 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.64%) NIST
5 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (21.79%) Docker
2 6 (3.85%) iptables
3 3 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.92%) vSphere
4 2 (1.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (25.00%) Terraform
2 18 (11.54%) Ansible
2 18 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 16 (10.26%) Grafana
4 12 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.92%) Argo
5 3 (1.92%) Control-M
5 3 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.92%) Puppet
5 3 (1.92%) systemd
6 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.77%) Databricks
3 7 (4.49%) Oracle
4 6 (3.85%) VMware
5 4 (2.56%) Google
6 3 (1.92%) Arista
6 3 (1.92%) Aruba
6 3 (1.92%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.92%) NetScout
7 2 (1.28%) Apple
7 2 (1.28%) Samsung
7 2 (1.28%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.64%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.64%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.64%) Infor
8 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.64%) Splunk