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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 140 42 154
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.82% 9.46% 10.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.65% 31.82% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 118 34 130
10th Percentile £33,375 £35,000 £41,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +6.12%
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,125 £84,923
North East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £63,874
% change year-on-year -15.38% +1.76% +16.14%

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 382 132 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.33% 29.73% 38.81%
Number of salaries quoted 279 99 477
10th Percentile £33,500 £26,660 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,500 £36,250
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 £80,250 £78,500
North East median annual salary £52,000 £53,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.26% +7.50% -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

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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 6 June 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 6 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 -1 110 £60,000 - 61
Sunderland +10 22 £55,000 -24.14% 5
Prudhoe - 5 £45,000 -
Gateshead -14 3 - - 6
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 15 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (10.00%) Jupyter
3 10 (7.14%) Apache
3 10 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.43%) WordPress
5 1 (0.71%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 84 (60.00%) Azure
2 31 (22.14%) GCP
3 23 (16.43%) GitHub
4 20 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 16 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (9.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (7.86%) Power Platform
9 9 (6.43%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (5.71%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (5.00%) Serverless
12 6 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (3.57%) SaaS
14 4 (2.86%) Snowflake
14 4 (2.86%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.57%) Firewall
2 12 (8.57%) DNS
3 10 (7.14%) HTTP
3 10 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.43%) Internet
5 3 (2.14%) NGFW
5 3 (2.14%) SSH
5 3 (2.14%) VXLAN
5 3 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.14%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.43%) DHCP
6 2 (1.43%) LAN
6 2 (1.43%) VPN
6 2 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.71%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 13 (9.29%) MongoDB
5 11 (7.86%) MySQL
5 11 (7.86%) Power BI
6 9 (6.43%) Metadata
6 9 (6.43%) Tableau
7 8 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (5.00%) DynamoDB
9 6 (4.29%) Big Data
10 5 (3.57%) GIS
10 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.86%) Data Vault
12 3 (2.14%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (2.14%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.43%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (15.00%) Git
2 17 (12.14%) GitLab
3 13 (9.29%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.86%) JIRA
6 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.43%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.43%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.71%) Gatling
8 1 (0.71%) JMeter
8 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 23 (16.43%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (10.71%) Law
5 14 (10.00%) Finance
6 12 (8.57%) Legal
7 10 (7.14%) Telecoms
8 8 (5.71%) Manufacturing
8 8 (5.71%) Multimedia
9 7 (5.00%) Games
10 5 (3.57%) Retail
11 4 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (17.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (15.00%) Developer
3 18 (12.86%) Architect
4 17 (12.14%) Senior
5 16 (11.43%) Lead
6 13 (9.29%) Trainee
7 10 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) Data Architect
8 9 (6.43%) Data Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) Software Developer
9 8 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Administrator
11 6 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Senior Architect
11 6 (4.29%) Test Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.57%) .NET
2 17 (12.14%) CSS
3 14 (10.00%) HTML
3 14 (10.00%) Node.js
4 12 (8.57%) .NET Core
4 12 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (8.57%) React
5 10 (7.14%) REST
6 8 (5.71%) AngularJS
6 8 (5.71%) PySpark
7 7 (5.00%) RESTful
8 6 (4.29%) Flask
8 6 (4.29%) Spring
8 6 (4.29%) Spring Boot
9 5 (3.57%) Ajax
9 5 (3.57%) boto
9 5 (3.57%) Jinja
9 5 (3.57%) OpenLayers
9 5 (3.57%) Pandas
9 5 (3.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.57%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.29%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.86%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.86%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.86%) Life Science
6 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.14%) PKI
7 3 (2.14%) Replication
8 2 (1.43%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.43%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.29%) Linux
2 7 (5.00%) Windows
3 4 (2.86%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.14%) Unix
5 2 (1.43%) Android
5 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.71%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 46 (32.86%) DevOps
3 43 (30.71%) Mentoring
4 42 (30.00%) Agile
5 31 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (21.43%) Coaching
7 28 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 26 (18.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (17.14%) Test Automation
10 23 (16.43%) Data Modelling
10 23 (16.43%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (15.00%) Analytics
12 19 (13.57%) AI
13 18 (12.86%) Data Engineering
13 18 (12.86%) Software Engineering
14 16 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (11.43%) Data Governance
14 16 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.71%) Python
2 36 (25.71%) SQL
3 23 (16.43%) Java
4 22 (15.71%) JavaScript
5 19 (13.57%) Bash
6 14 (10.00%) C#
7 13 (9.29%) TypeScript
8 10 (7.14%) Go
9 5 (3.57%) R
10 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.43%) Scala
12 1 (0.71%) C
12 1 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.57%) AWS Certification
3 18 (12.86%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 12 (8.57%) Azure Certification
6 10 (7.14%) Degree
6 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.71%) CCSP
8 1 (0.71%) CISA
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.71%) CISSP
8 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.71%) GSEC
8 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.71%) QA
3 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.43%) GDPR
3 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.71%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.71%) NIST
4 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (19.29%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) iptables
3 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (25.71%) Terraform
2 16 (11.43%) Ansible
2 16 (11.43%) Grafana
3 13 (9.29%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.14%) Argo
4 3 (2.14%) systemd
5 2 (1.43%) Control-M
5 2 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.71%) Puppet
6 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.29%) Oracle
3 5 (3.57%) Databricks
4 4 (2.86%) VMware
5 3 (2.14%) Arista
5 3 (2.14%) Aruba
5 3 (2.14%) Google
5 3 (2.14%) NetScout
6 2 (1.43%) Apple
6 2 (1.43%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.43%) Samsung
6 2 (1.43%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.71%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco
7 1 (0.71%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.71%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.71%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.71%) Splunk
7 1 (0.71%) Zscaler