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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 23 9
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 95 41 137
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.85% 8.33% 12.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.87% 25.00% 30.72%
Number of salaries quoted 84 27 118
10th Percentile - £39,343 £41,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -8.41% -3.41%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £85,329 £92,000 £84,919
North East median annual salary £48,445 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -25.47% +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 289 164 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 26.91% 33.33% 41.84%
Number of salaries quoted 211 105 386
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,625
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £35,230
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,750 £66,137
90th Percentile £79,000 £84,500 £77,500
North East median annual salary £50,000 £55,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% +11.50% -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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +11 69 £47,500 -19.15% 77
Sunderland +12 21 £55,000 -29.03% 12
Gateshead - 3 £47,500 -
Prudhoe 0 2 £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 5 (5.26%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.05%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.16%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 68 (71.58%) Azure
2 31 (32.63%) GitHub
3 18 (18.95%) GCP
4 11 (11.58%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.32%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.21%) OCI
9 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.16%) SaaS
10 2 (2.11%) Slack
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (1.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.05%) Internet
2 13 (13.68%) Firewall
3 9 (9.47%) DNS
3 9 (9.47%) HTTP
3 9 (9.47%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.21%) VXLAN
5 3 (3.16%) NGFW
5 3 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.16%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.11%) SAN
7 1 (1.05%) BGP
7 1 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.05%) IPsec
7 1 (1.05%) LAN
7 1 (1.05%) OSPF
7 1 (1.05%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (1.05%) VPN
7 1 (1.05%) Wireless
7 1 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) Redis
2 3 (3.16%) Metadata
2 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.11%) MySQL
3 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.05%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (21.05%) Git
2 11 (11.58%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.32%) TeamCity
4 5 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.11%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.11%) GitLab
5 2 (2.11%) JIRA
5 2 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.11%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (21.05%) Multimedia
2 16 (16.84%) Games
3 14 (14.74%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.58%) Finance
4 11 (11.58%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.58%) Telecoms
5 9 (9.47%) Law
6 8 (8.42%) Retail
7 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (29.47%) Developer
1 28 (29.47%) Trainee
2 13 (13.68%) AWS Developer
2 13 (13.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (13.68%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (12.63%) Software Developer
3 12 (12.63%) Trainee Developer
3 12 (12.63%) Trainee Software Developer
4 10 (10.53%) Architect
5 9 (9.47%) C# Developer
6 7 (7.37%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 7 (7.37%) Lead
6 7 (7.37%) Senior
7 6 (6.32%) React Developer
7 6 (6.32%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 5 (5.26%) Programmer
8 5 (5.26%) Trainee Programmer
9 4 (4.21%) Head of IT Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.11%) CSS
1 21 (22.11%) HTML
2 14 (14.74%) .NET
3 11 (11.58%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (10.53%) REST
5 9 (9.47%) React
6 7 (7.37%) .NET Core
6 7 (7.37%) AngularJS
6 7 (7.37%) Vue
7 5 (5.26%) Hugging Face
7 5 (5.26%) Matplotlib
7 5 (5.26%) NumPy
7 5 (5.26%) Pandas
7 5 (5.26%) scikit-learn
7 5 (5.26%) Streamlit
8 3 (3.16%) Itk
8 3 (3.16%) RESTful
9 2 (2.11%) Node.js
9 2 (2.11%) Spring
9 2 (2.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.21%) Client/Server
4 4 (4.21%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.16%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.16%) NHS
5 3 (3.16%) PKI
6 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.26%) Windows
2 3 (3.16%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.11%) Android
3 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.89%) Mentoring
2 24 (25.26%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (24.21%) DevOps
4 20 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 20 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (17.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (13.68%) Computer Science
6 13 (13.68%) Containerisation
6 13 (13.68%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (13.68%) High Availability
7 12 (12.63%) Agile
7 12 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (11.58%) Coaching
8 11 (11.58%) Continuous Delivery
9 10 (10.53%) Roadmaps
10 9 (9.47%) DevSecOps
10 9 (9.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (9.47%) Software Engineering
10 9 (9.47%) Static Code Analysis
10 9 (9.47%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 43 (45.26%) Python
2 30 (31.58%) JavaScript
3 19 (20.00%) C#
4 12 (12.63%) SQL
4 12 (12.63%) TypeScript
5 10 (10.53%) Bash
6 9 (9.47%) Go
7 8 (8.42%) R
8 7 (7.37%) Java
9 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.16%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 29 (30.53%) AWS Certification
2 25 (26.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 24 (25.26%) Azure Certification
3 24 (25.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (10.53%) Degree
5 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.26%) Security Cleared
7 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (4.21%) Master's Degree
8 3 (3.16%) HNC
8 3 (3.16%) HND
8 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.05%) CCNP
9 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Docker
2 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.16%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.11%) vSphere
5 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (22.11%) Terraform
2 14 (14.74%) Ansible
3 13 (13.68%) Grafana
4 11 (11.58%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.26%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.11%) Control-M
6 2 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.05%) VxRail
Vendors
1 35 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.32%) VMware
3 4 (4.21%) Aruba
3 4 (4.21%) Google
4 3 (3.16%) Arista
4 3 (3.16%) NetScout
4 3 (3.16%) Siemens
5 2 (2.11%) Apple
5 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.11%) Samsung
6 1 (1.05%) Cisco
6 1 (1.05%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto