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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 22 29
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -23
Permanent jobs citing AWS 240 43 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.87% 6.58% 5.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.44% 26.22% 16.56%
Number of salaries quoted 203 34 35
10th Percentile £44,800 £28,250 £43,395
25th Percentile £49,144 £44,375 £54,030
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £84,982
90th Percentile £92,500 £72,250 £95,000
North East median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £69,654
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.86% +7.16%

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 540 164 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.96% 25.11% 31.14%
Number of salaries quoted 410 122 192
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £32,324 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,875 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +3.75% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £66,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,250 £84,964
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -8.53%

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

AWS
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +10 203 £67,500 +17.39% 149
Sunderland 0 19 £48,000 -26.15% 8
Prudhoe - 11 £47,000 - 1
Gateshead - 7 £40,000 - 1
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 30 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (8.75%) Apache Spark
3 15 (6.25%) Apache
3 15 (6.25%) Jupyter
4 6 (2.50%) Confluence
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.83%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.42%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 129 (53.75%) Azure
2 63 (26.25%) GCP
3 49 (20.42%) Amazon S3
4 45 (18.75%) Serverless
5 35 (14.58%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (14.17%) Amazon EC2
7 33 (13.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 26 (10.83%) GitHub
9 21 (8.75%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (7.08%) Amazon ECR
10 17 (7.08%) Amazon EMR
11 15 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (5.83%) Power Platform
13 11 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.75%) Textract
15 7 (2.92%) Google Tag Manager
15 7 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.33%) Firewall
2 3 (1.25%) DNS
2 3 (1.25%) SSH
3 2 (0.83%) DHCP
3 2 (0.83%) Internet
3 2 (0.83%) LAN
3 2 (0.83%) VPN
3 2 (0.83%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (9.17%) DynamoDB
2 22 (9.17%) MongoDB
3 21 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (7.50%) MySQL
5 18 (7.50%) NoSQL
6 14 (5.83%) Power BI
7 12 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (5.00%) Metadata
7 12 (5.00%) Tableau
8 10 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.75%) BigQuery
9 9 (3.75%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.33%) SQL Server
11 7 (2.92%) Big Data
11 7 (2.92%) GIS
11 7 (2.92%) Looker
12 6 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 47 (19.58%) Git
2 40 (16.67%) GitLab
3 15 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.17%) JIRA
5 7 (2.92%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.50%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.25%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.83%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.42%) Gatling
9 1 (0.42%) JMeter
9 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 96 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 65 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 57 (23.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.75%) Finance
6 17 (7.08%) Legal
7 14 (5.83%) Law
8 6 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.67%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.42%) Publishing
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Russian Language
12 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.42%) Ukrainian Language
Job Titles
1 43 (17.92%) Lead
2 42 (17.50%) Senior
3 39 (16.25%) Developer
4 32 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (12.92%) Data Engineer
6 24 (10.00%) Architect
7 21 (8.75%) Software Engineer
8 17 (7.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 15 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (6.25%) Python Developer
10 14 (5.83%) Technical Architect
11 13 (5.42%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (5.42%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.00%) Python Engineer
12 12 (5.00%) Senior Architect
13 10 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.17%) Senior Technical Architect
14 9 (3.75%) Senior Python Developer
14 9 (3.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (25.83%) Terraform
2 31 (12.92%) Node.js
3 27 (11.25%) .NET
4 22 (9.17%) React
5 21 (8.75%) CSS
5 21 (8.75%) PySpark
6 17 (7.08%) REST
7 16 (6.67%) LangChain
8 15 (6.25%) HTML
8 15 (6.25%) LlamaIndex
9 14 (5.83%) RESTful
10 11 (4.58%) Flask
10 11 (4.58%) Kafka
11 9 (3.75%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.75%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.92%) Express.js
12 7 (2.92%) Jinja
12 7 (2.92%) jQuery
12 7 (2.92%) OpenLayers
12 7 (2.92%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.58%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.75%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.83%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.42%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (4.58%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.58%) Renewable Energy
7 9 (3.75%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.50%) AI Agents
10 5 (2.08%) Hedge funds
10 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.67%) Life Science
12 3 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.25%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.25%) Replication
12 3 (1.25%) Robotics
13 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.92%) Linux
2 16 (6.67%) Windows
3 8 (3.33%) Unix
4 6 (2.50%) CentOS
4 6 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.25%) Debian
5 3 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (49.58%) CI/CD
2 113 (47.08%) Agile
3 100 (41.67%) DevOps
4 78 (32.50%) Mentoring
5 77 (32.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 61 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (24.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (22.50%) Containerisation
9 53 (22.08%) Coaching
10 52 (21.67%) Data Engineering
11 51 (21.25%) AI
12 48 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
13 45 (18.75%) Data Modelling
14 43 (17.92%) Analytics
14 43 (17.92%) Test Automation
15 42 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
16 39 (16.25%) Decision-Making
16 39 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
17 37 (15.42%) Software Engineering
18 30 (12.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 114 (47.50%) Python
2 77 (32.08%) SQL
3 36 (15.00%) Java
4 34 (14.17%) TypeScript
5 33 (13.75%) JavaScript
6 24 (10.00%) C#
7 22 (9.17%) Bash
8 10 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.67%) Scala
10 3 (1.25%) C++
10 3 (1.25%) Go
10 3 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.42%) Bicep
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 57 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 45 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (8.75%) AWS Certification
5 16 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 16 (6.67%) Degree
6 13 (5.42%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.42%) CCSP
8 1 (0.42%) CISA
8 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.42%) CISSP
8 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.42%) CSPO
8 1 (0.42%) GSEC
8 1 (0.42%) IIBA
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.33%) QA
3 8 (3.33%) GDPR
4 7 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.92%) NCSC
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.83%) WCAG
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.42%) NIST
6 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (30.00%) Docker
2 6 (2.50%) iptables
3 5 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.25%) vSphere
5 2 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.25%) Ansible
3 11 (4.58%) Grafana
4 6 (2.50%) Puppet
5 4 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.25%) Argo
6 3 (1.25%) Control-M
6 3 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.25%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.25%) systemd
7 2 (0.83%) Kibana
8 1 (0.42%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 19 (7.92%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.83%) Databricks
3 11 (4.58%) Google
4 9 (3.75%) Oracle
5 6 (2.50%) VMware
6 5 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.67%) Confluent
7 4 (1.67%) Splunk
8 3 (1.25%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.25%) Sage
8 3 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.25%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.83%) Adobe
9 2 (0.83%) Citrix
9 2 (0.83%) F5
9 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.83%) Pega
9 2 (0.83%) UiPath
10 1 (0.42%) Dataiku