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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 29 6
Rank change year-on-year +7 -23 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 43 54 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 6.58% 5.16% 14.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.22% 16.56% 40.12%
Number of salaries quoted 34 35 61
10th Percentile £28,250 £43,395 £38,750
25th Percentile £44,375 £54,030 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £84,982 £78,750
90th Percentile £72,250 £95,000 £85,000
North East median annual salary £60,000 £69,654 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.86% +7.16% +4.00%

All Cloud 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 164 326 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.11% 31.14% 36.15%
Number of salaries quoted 122 192 150
10th Percentile £27,125 £31,250 £34,775
25th Percentile £32,324 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,875 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,563 £69,912
90th Percentile £77,250 £84,964 £80,000
North East median annual salary £50,000 £50,309 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.61% -8.53% +6.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for AWS 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +8 37 £57,500 -17.86% 36
Sunderland +13 6 £65,000 -3.70% 9
AWS
North East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.30%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.98%) SAS
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (74.42%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) GCP
3 7 (16.28%) GitHub
3 7 (16.28%) OCI
3 7 (16.28%) SaaS
4 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.65%) Serverless
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Internet
1 3 (6.98%) PuTTY
2 2 (4.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) Metadata
3 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.30%) Spark SQL
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (6.98%) Big Data
4 3 (6.98%) BigQuery
4 3 (6.98%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.98%) Hadoop
4 3 (6.98%) HBase
4 3 (6.98%) Impala
4 3 (6.98%) MySQL
4 3 (6.98%) Neo4j
4 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.98%) Power BI
4 3 (6.98%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (6.98%) QlikView
4 3 (6.98%) SQLite
4 3 (6.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Git
2 6 (13.95%) SonarQube
3 5 (11.63%) Bitbucket
3 5 (11.63%) JIRA
4 4 (9.30%) GitLab
4 4 (9.30%) Maven
4 4 (9.30%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (6.98%) Artifactory
5 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.98%) Selenium
5 3 (6.98%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.65%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.33%) MLflow
General
1 7 (16.28%) Finance
1 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Games
3 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.98%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.98%) Multimedia
5 2 (4.65%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Software Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Senior
4 7 (16.28%) Architect
4 7 (16.28%) Cloud Architect
4 7 (16.28%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Developer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.98%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.58%) .NET
2 9 (20.93%) AngularJS
3 8 (18.60%) CSS
3 8 (18.60%) HTML
3 8 (18.60%) React
4 6 (13.95%) Kafka
5 5 (11.63%) Spring
5 5 (11.63%) Spring Boot
6 4 (9.30%) CSS3
6 4 (9.30%) HTML5
6 4 (9.30%) PySpark
6 4 (9.30%) REST
7 3 (6.98%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (6.98%) JPA
7 3 (6.98%) Node.js
7 3 (6.98%) Redux
7 3 (6.98%) Regular Expression
7 3 (6.98%) Sass
7 3 (6.98%) Shiny
7 3 (6.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (16.28%) Operational Technology
2 7 (16.28%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.30%) SCADA
4 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.98%) Online Games
4 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 4 (9.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) Agile
2 22 (51.16%) DevOps
3 20 (46.51%) Software Engineering
4 14 (32.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
6 9 (20.93%) Mentoring
6 9 (20.93%) User Experience
7 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
7 7 (16.28%) Fintech
7 7 (16.28%) TOGAF
8 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (9.30%) Data Engineering
10 4 (9.30%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (9.30%) Data Science
10 4 (9.30%) Front End Development
10 4 (9.30%) Machine Learning
10 4 (9.30%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (9.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) Java
2 18 (41.86%) Python
3 13 (30.23%) TypeScript
4 10 (23.26%) C#
4 10 (23.26%) JavaScript
5 9 (20.93%) SQL
6 4 (9.30%) R
7 3 (6.98%) Bash
7 3 (6.98%) PROC SQL
8 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Azure Certification
2 7 (16.28%) AWS Certification
2 7 (16.28%) TOGAF Certification
3 5 (11.63%) Degree
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) QA
2 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Apache Flume
2 3 (6.98%) HDFS
3 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Terraform
2 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.98%) Kibana
3 3 (6.98%) logstash
3 3 (6.98%) Oozie
4 2 (4.65%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Control-M
4 2 (4.65%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (4.65%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
1 8 (18.60%) Oracle
2 6 (13.95%) VMware
3 5 (11.63%) Databricks
4 4 (9.30%) SAP
5 3 (6.98%) Google
5 3 (6.98%) Informatica
5 3 (6.98%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (6.98%) Solace
6 2 (4.65%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow