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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -13
Permanent jobs citing AWS 199 48 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.17% 7.88% 6.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.16% 29.81% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 170 38 67
10th Percentile £41,023 £39,375 £44,343
25th Percentile £47,000 £48,438 £57,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,788 £60,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -8.35% +0.71%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,250 £75,625 £84,937
North East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year - -0.71% +4.74%

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 472 161 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.76% 26.44% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 347 120 301
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £29,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £77,500
North East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -6.98%

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 July 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 July 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 +2 165 £65,000 +8.33% 62
Sunderland +3 22 £49,000 -24.62% 8
Gateshead -5 6 - - 1
Prudhoe - 6 £47,000 - 3
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 29 (14.57%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (9.05%) Jupyter
3 16 (8.04%) Apache Spark
4 14 (7.04%) Apache
5 4 (2.01%) Confluence
6 3 (1.51%) WordPress
7 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.01%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.50%) CMS
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 109 (54.77%) Azure
2 43 (21.61%) GCP
3 35 (17.59%) Amazon S3
4 30 (15.08%) Serverless
5 26 (13.07%) GitHub
6 22 (11.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (11.06%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (7.04%) Power Platform
8 13 (6.53%) Amazon ECR
8 13 (6.53%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (6.53%) Amazon EMR
9 11 (5.53%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (4.02%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (4.02%) Textract
12 5 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (2.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.54%) Firewall
2 10 (5.03%) DNS
3 7 (3.52%) HTTP
3 7 (3.52%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.51%) Internet
4 3 (1.51%) SSH
5 2 (1.01%) DHCP
5 2 (1.01%) LAN
5 2 (1.01%) VPN
5 2 (1.01%) WAN
6 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.09%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (11.06%) NoSQL
3 20 (10.05%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (10.05%) DynamoDB
3 20 (10.05%) MongoDB
4 19 (9.55%) MySQL
5 14 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (7.04%) Power BI
6 11 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (5.53%) Tableau
7 10 (5.03%) Metadata
8 8 (4.02%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (3.02%) Big Data
10 6 (3.02%) BigQuery
10 6 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.02%) GIS
10 6 (3.02%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.51%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (2.01%) Looker
Development Applications
1 37 (18.59%) Git
2 30 (15.08%) GitLab
3 17 (8.54%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.02%) JIRA
5 6 (3.02%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.51%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (1.51%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.51%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.50%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.50%) Gatling
8 1 (0.50%) JMeter
8 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 63 (31.66%) Public Sector
2 46 (23.12%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.55%) Finance
6 16 (8.04%) Law
6 16 (8.04%) Legal
7 8 (4.02%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.52%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.02%) Retail
10 4 (2.01%) Games
10 4 (2.01%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (18.09%) Senior
2 35 (17.59%) Developer
3 33 (16.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (13.07%) Lead
5 21 (10.55%) Data Engineer
6 19 (9.55%) Architect
7 17 (8.54%) Software Engineer
8 14 (7.04%) Python Developer
9 13 (6.53%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.03%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (6.03%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.52%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (4.52%) Senior Python Developer
12 8 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (4.02%) Senior Architect
12 8 (4.02%) Technical Architect
13 7 (3.52%) Administrator
13 7 (3.52%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.06%) .NET
1 24 (12.06%) Node.js
2 23 (11.56%) React
3 16 (8.04%) CSS
4 15 (7.54%) RESTful
5 14 (7.04%) PySpark
6 13 (6.53%) HTML
6 13 (6.53%) REST
7 12 (6.03%) .NET Core
8 10 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (5.03%) Flask
9 8 (4.02%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.02%) Spring
9 8 (4.02%) Spring Boot
10 7 (3.52%) Kafka
10 7 (3.52%) LangChain
11 6 (3.02%) Jinja
11 6 (3.02%) LlamaIndex
11 6 (3.02%) OpenLayers
11 6 (3.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.10%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.04%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.53%) Data Structures
5 10 (5.03%) Distributed Computing
5 10 (5.03%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.03%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.02%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.02%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.01%) Life Science
9 4 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.51%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.51%) Replication
10 3 (1.51%) Robotics
11 2 (1.01%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.57%) Linux
2 13 (6.53%) Windows
3 6 (3.02%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.51%) CentOS
4 5 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.51%) Unix
5 3 (1.51%) Debian
5 3 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.01%) Android
6 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.01%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (41.71%) CI/CD
2 77 (38.69%) Agile
3 73 (36.68%) DevOps
4 56 (28.14%) Mentoring
5 51 (25.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (20.10%) Coaching
7 40 (20.10%) Containerisation
7 40 (20.10%) Test Automation
8 37 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (18.09%) Data Pipeline
10 35 (17.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 32 (16.08%) AI
11 32 (16.08%) Analytics
11 32 (16.08%) Data Modelling
12 30 (15.08%) Data Engineering
13 28 (14.07%) Software Engineering
14 27 (13.57%) Microservices
15 26 (13.07%) Decision-Making
15 26 (13.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 97 (48.74%) Python
2 68 (34.17%) SQL
3 31 (15.58%) Java
4 27 (13.57%) JavaScript
5 25 (12.56%) TypeScript
6 22 (11.06%) C#
7 21 (10.55%) Bash
8 10 (5.03%) Go
9 8 (4.02%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.01%) PHP
10 2 (1.01%) R
10 2 (1.01%) Scala
11 1 (0.50%) C
11 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.54%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.53%) Degree
5 9 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.52%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.02%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.50%) CCSP
9 1 (0.50%) CISA
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.50%) GSEC
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.58%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.53%) QA
3 5 (2.51%) GDPR
4 4 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.01%) WCAG
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (27.64%) Docker
2 6 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.02%) iptables
3 3 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.51%) vSphere
4 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 49 (24.62%) Terraform
2 34 (17.09%) Kubernetes
3 19 (9.55%) Ansible
4 14 (7.04%) Grafana
5 10 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.01%) Puppet
7 3 (1.51%) Argo
7 3 (1.51%) Control-M
7 3 (1.51%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.51%) systemd
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.50%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.50%) Kibana
9 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.04%) Databricks
3 7 (3.52%) Oracle
4 6 (3.02%) VMware
5 4 (2.01%) Google
6 3 (1.51%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.51%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.51%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.01%) Apple
7 2 (1.01%) Citrix
7 2 (1.01%) Confluent
7 2 (1.01%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.01%) F5
7 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.01%) Pega
7 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.01%) Samsung
7 2 (1.01%) UiPath
8 1 (0.50%) Sage