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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 131 40 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.84% 10.28% 10.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.12% 33.61% 26.73%
Number of salaries quoted 112 32 129
10th Percentile £31,250 £44,900 £41,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £74,059 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £81,150 £79,500 £84,919
North East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £63,266
% change year-on-year -15.38% +2.74% +15.03%

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 373 119 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 22.34% 30.59% 40.94%
Number of salaries quoted 267 86 473
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,599 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,013 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,875 £77,500
North East median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +1 103 £60,000 -7.69% 55
Sunderland +9 20 £55,000 -24.14% 7
Prudhoe - 5 £45,000 -
Gateshead -12 3 - - 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 11 (8.40%) Jupyter
2 10 (7.63%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (5.34%) Apache
3 7 (5.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.53%) WordPress
5 1 (0.76%) Confluence
5 1 (0.76%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 81 (61.83%) Azure
2 28 (21.37%) GCP
3 26 (19.85%) GitHub
4 16 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (11.45%) Amazon S3
6 13 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (8.40%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (6.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (6.11%) Power Platform
9 8 (6.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (5.34%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (4.58%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (3.82%) SaaS
12 5 (3.82%) Serverless
13 4 (3.05%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (3.05%) OCI
13 4 (3.05%) Snowflake
14 3 (2.29%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.74%) Firewall
2 12 (9.16%) DNS
2 12 (9.16%) Internet
3 10 (7.63%) HTTP
3 10 (7.63%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.29%) NGFW
4 3 (2.29%) SSH
4 3 (2.29%) VXLAN
4 3 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.29%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.53%) DHCP
5 2 (1.53%) LAN
5 2 (1.53%) VPN
5 2 (1.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.50%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.16%) NoSQL
3 11 (8.40%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (7.63%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.87%) MySQL
6 8 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (6.11%) Power BI
7 7 (5.34%) Metadata
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.58%) Tableau
9 5 (3.82%) Big Data
9 5 (3.82%) DynamoDB
9 5 (3.82%) GIS
9 5 (3.82%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.05%) Data Vault
11 3 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.53%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.53%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (17.56%) Git
2 13 (9.92%) GitLab
2 13 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.82%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (3.05%) JIRA
5 3 (2.29%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.53%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.53%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.76%) Gatling
7 1 (0.76%) JMeter
7 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 33 (25.19%) Public Sector
2 18 (13.74%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.45%) Finance
3 15 (11.45%) Law
4 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (8.40%) Multimedia
6 10 (7.63%) Telecoms
7 9 (6.87%) Legal
8 8 (6.11%) Manufacturing
9 7 (5.34%) Games
10 5 (3.82%) Retail
11 4 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.53%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (18.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (16.79%) Developer
3 16 (12.21%) Trainee
4 15 (11.45%) Senior
5 14 (10.69%) Architect
5 14 (10.69%) Lead
6 11 (8.40%) Software Developer
7 10 (7.63%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.34%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.34%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.34%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Administrator
10 5 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 5 (3.82%) AWS Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Programmer
10 5 (3.82%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.27%) .NET
1 20 (15.27%) CSS
2 17 (12.98%) HTML
3 13 (9.92%) Node.js
4 12 (9.16%) .NET Core
4 12 (9.16%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (9.16%) React
5 9 (6.87%) REST
6 7 (5.34%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.34%) RESTful
7 6 (4.58%) Flask
7 6 (4.58%) Spring
7 6 (4.58%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.82%) boto
8 5 (3.82%) Jinja
8 5 (3.82%) LangChain
8 5 (3.82%) OpenLayers
8 5 (3.82%) Pandas
8 5 (3.82%) scikit-learn
8 5 (3.82%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.45%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.16%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.58%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (3.82%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.05%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.05%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.05%) Life Science
6 4 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.29%) PKI
7 3 (2.29%) Replication
8 2 (1.53%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.53%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.16%) Linux
2 7 (5.34%) Windows
3 3 (2.29%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.29%) Unix
4 2 (1.53%) Android
4 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.59%) CI/CD
2 42 (32.06%) Mentoring
3 40 (30.53%) DevOps
4 34 (25.95%) Agile
5 28 (21.37%) Coaching
6 26 (19.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (19.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (18.32%) Containerisation
9 21 (16.03%) Test Automation
10 19 (14.50%) Software Engineering
11 18 (13.74%) AI
11 18 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (13.74%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (13.74%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (12.98%) Data Modelling
13 16 (12.21%) Analytics
14 15 (11.45%) Continuous Integration
15 14 (10.69%) Data Engineering
15 14 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 62 (47.33%) Python
2 31 (23.66%) SQL
3 24 (18.32%) JavaScript
4 23 (17.56%) Java
5 18 (13.74%) Bash
6 15 (11.45%) C#
7 12 (9.16%) TypeScript
8 10 (7.63%) Go
9 6 (4.58%) R
10 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.53%) Scala
12 1 (0.76%) C
12 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (16.79%) AWS Certification
2 21 (16.03%) Security Cleared
3 16 (12.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 15 (11.45%) Azure Certification
5 14 (10.69%) SC Cleared
6 13 (9.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (8.40%) Degree
8 2 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.76%) CCSP
9 1 (0.76%) CISA
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.76%) CISSP
9 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.76%) GSEC
9 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.58%) QA
3 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.76%) NIST
4 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (16.79%) Docker
2 3 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.29%) iptables
3 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (24.43%) Terraform
2 16 (12.21%) Grafana
3 15 (11.45%) Ansible
4 13 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 11 (8.40%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.29%) Argo
6 3 (2.29%) systemd
7 2 (1.53%) Control-M
7 2 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (25.19%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.05%) Oracle
2 4 (3.05%) VMware
3 3 (2.29%) Arista
3 3 (2.29%) Aruba
3 3 (2.29%) Databricks
3 3 (2.29%) NetScout
4 2 (1.53%) Apple
4 2 (1.53%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.53%) Google
4 2 (1.53%) Samsung
5 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco
5 1 (0.76%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.76%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.76%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.76%) Proofpoint
5 1 (0.76%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.76%) Splunk
5 1 (0.76%) Zscaler