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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 19 30
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 -18
Permanent jobs citing AWS 219 45 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.17% 7.22% 5.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.28% 26.47% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 183 35 43
10th Percentile £41,500 £37,500 £45,290
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £58,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -0.71% +0.71%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £76,386
90th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £84,964
North East median annual salary £66,000 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.71% +0.71%

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 506 170 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.18% 27.29% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 372 129 241
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,300 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £77,500
North East median annual salary £55,000 £51,125 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.58% +2.25% -9.09%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +6 181 £67,500 +12.50% 73
Sunderland +1 22 £48,000 -26.15% 7
Prudhoe - 10 £47,000 - 2
Gateshead -4 6 - - 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 31 (14.16%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (9.13%) Apache Spark
3 17 (7.76%) Jupyter
4 15 (6.85%) Apache
5 6 (2.74%) Confluence
6 3 (1.37%) WordPress
7 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.91%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.46%) CMS
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.46%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 118 (53.88%) Azure
2 51 (23.29%) GCP
3 45 (20.55%) Amazon S3
4 39 (17.81%) Serverless
5 30 (13.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 30 (13.70%) Amazon EC2
5 30 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (13.24%) GitHub
7 19 (8.68%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (7.31%) Amazon ECR
9 15 (6.85%) Amazon EMR
9 15 (6.85%) Power Platform
10 14 (6.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.11%) Textract
15 6 (2.74%) Google Tag Manager
15 6 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.48%) Firewall
2 7 (3.20%) DNS
3 4 (1.83%) HTTP
3 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.37%) Internet
4 3 (1.37%) SSH
5 2 (0.91%) DHCP
5 2 (0.91%) LAN
5 2 (0.91%) VPN
5 2 (0.91%) WAN
6 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.98%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (10.05%) DynamoDB
3 20 (9.13%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (9.13%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (9.13%) MongoDB
4 19 (8.68%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.76%) MySQL
6 15 (6.85%) Power BI
7 12 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (5.48%) Tableau
8 11 (5.02%) Metadata
9 10 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.65%) BigQuery
10 8 (3.65%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.65%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.20%) Big Data
11 7 (3.20%) GIS
12 6 (2.74%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.74%) Looker
Development Applications
1 47 (21.46%) Git
2 34 (15.53%) GitLab
3 16 (7.31%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.57%) JIRA
5 6 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (2.74%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.28%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.37%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.91%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.46%) Gatling
9 1 (0.46%) JMeter
9 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
General
1 76 (34.70%) Public Sector
2 61 (27.85%) Social Skills
3 45 (20.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.50%) Finance
6 17 (7.76%) Law
6 17 (7.76%) Legal
7 7 (3.20%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.83%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.37%) Retail
11 2 (0.91%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.46%) Games
12 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (17.35%) Developer
1 38 (17.35%) Senior
2 36 (16.44%) Lead
3 32 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (10.96%) Data Engineer
5 21 (9.59%) Architect
6 19 (8.68%) Software Engineer
7 15 (6.85%) Python Developer
8 13 (5.94%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (5.94%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.48%) Python Engineer
10 11 (5.02%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (4.57%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.11%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (4.11%) Senior Python Developer
12 9 (4.11%) Senior Technical Architect
13 8 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.33%) Node.js
2 25 (11.42%) .NET
3 23 (10.50%) React
4 22 (10.05%) CSS
5 17 (7.76%) HTML
5 17 (7.76%) PySpark
6 15 (6.85%) REST
7 14 (6.39%) RESTful
8 11 (5.02%) Flask
9 10 (4.57%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.57%) LangChain
10 9 (4.11%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.11%) Kafka
10 9 (4.11%) LlamaIndex
11 7 (3.20%) Ajax
11 7 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (3.20%) Jinja
11 7 (3.20%) OpenLayers
11 7 (3.20%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.20%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.48%) Distributed Computing
4 12 (5.48%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.02%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.02%) Data Structures
5 11 (5.02%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.74%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.74%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.83%) Life Science
10 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.37%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.37%) Replication
10 3 (1.37%) Robotics
11 2 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.24%) Linux
2 13 (5.94%) Windows
3 6 (2.74%) CentOS
3 6 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.74%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.28%) Unix
5 3 (1.37%) Debian
5 3 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (45.66%) CI/CD
2 93 (42.47%) Agile
3 91 (41.55%) DevOps
4 66 (30.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (29.68%) Mentoring
6 52 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (23.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (21.92%) Containerisation
9 44 (20.09%) Coaching
10 40 (18.26%) AI
10 40 (18.26%) Data Modelling
10 40 (18.26%) Data Pipeline
10 40 (18.26%) Technical Leadership
10 40 (18.26%) Test Automation
11 39 (17.81%) Data Engineering
12 36 (16.44%) Full-Stack Development
13 35 (15.98%) Analytics
13 35 (15.98%) Software Engineering
14 33 (15.07%) Decision-Making
15 28 (12.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 110 (50.23%) Python
2 73 (33.33%) SQL
3 33 (15.07%) Java
4 32 (14.61%) JavaScript
5 30 (13.70%) TypeScript
6 22 (10.05%) Bash
6 22 (10.05%) C#
7 7 (3.20%) Go
7 7 (3.20%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.37%) Scala
9 2 (0.91%) PHP
9 2 (0.91%) R
9 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 51 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.26%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.68%) AWS Certification
4 17 (7.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (7.31%) Degree
6 12 (5.48%) Azure Certification
6 12 (5.48%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.46%) CCSP
10 1 (0.46%) CISA
10 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.46%) CISSP
10 1 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.46%) GSEC
10 1 (0.46%) IIBA
10 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (17.81%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.22%) QA
3 7 (3.20%) GDPR
4 5 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.37%) NCSC
6 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.91%) WCAG
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.46%) NIST
7 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (29.68%) Docker
2 6 (2.74%) iptables
3 5 (2.28%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.37%) vSphere
5 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 58 (26.48%) Terraform
2 37 (16.89%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.76%) Ansible
4 12 (5.48%) Grafana
5 7 (3.20%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.83%) Puppet
7 3 (1.37%) Argo
7 3 (1.37%) Control-M
7 3 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.37%) systemd
8 1 (0.46%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.46%) Kibana
8 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.39%) Databricks
3 8 (3.65%) Google
4 7 (3.20%) Oracle
5 6 (2.74%) VMware
6 4 (1.83%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.37%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.37%) Confluent
7 3 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.37%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.91%) Citrix
8 2 (0.91%) F5
8 2 (0.91%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.91%) Pega
8 2 (0.91%) Sage
8 2 (0.91%) Splunk
8 2 (0.91%) UiPath
9 1 (0.46%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.46%) Zscaler