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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 22 28
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 -22
Permanent jobs citing AWS 261 43 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.22% 6.30% 5.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.19% 26.22% 17.63%
Number of salaries quoted 222 36 36
10th Percentile £46,000 £28,250 £43,619
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,625 £55,419
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,188 £67,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £95,000
North East median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +7.69%

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 565 164 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.96% 24.05% 31.18%
Number of salaries quoted 435 124 179
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,675 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,125 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.47% +2.25% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,550 £84,964
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% -6.67%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +10 227 £67,500 +12.50% 121
Sunderland +1 16 £75,000 +25.00% 7
Prudhoe - 9 £47,000 -
Gateshead -2 7 £40,000 -15.79% 4
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 32 (12.26%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (8.81%) Apache Spark
3 18 (6.90%) Apache
3 18 (6.90%) Jupyter
4 7 (2.68%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.92%) Confluence
6 3 (1.15%) nginx
7 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.38%) CMS
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.38%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 129 (49.43%) Azure
2 67 (25.67%) GCP
3 57 (21.84%) Amazon S3
4 47 (18.01%) Serverless
5 37 (14.18%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (14.18%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (13.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (10.73%) GitHub
9 22 (8.43%) Amazon ECR
10 18 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (6.51%) Amazon EMR
12 16 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (4.60%) Power Platform
16 11 (4.21%) AWS KMS
17 9 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
17 9 (3.45%) Kong
17 9 (3.45%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.92%) Firewall
2 3 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.77%) Internet
3 2 (0.77%) SSH
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (10.73%) MongoDB
3 22 (8.43%) DynamoDB
4 20 (7.66%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (7.66%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (6.90%) MySQL
5 18 (6.90%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.60%) Power BI
7 11 (4.21%) Metadata
8 10 (3.83%) Tableau
9 9 (3.45%) BigQuery
9 9 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.45%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.07%) SQL Server
11 7 (2.68%) GIS
11 7 (2.68%) Looker
12 6 (2.30%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (2.30%) Big Data
12 6 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 55 (21.07%) Git
2 54 (20.69%) GitLab
3 17 (6.51%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.07%) JIRA
5 7 (2.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (2.68%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.30%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.15%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.77%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.77%) Gatling
8 2 (0.77%) JUnit
8 2 (0.77%) Mockito
General
1 117 (44.83%) Public Sector
2 68 (26.05%) Social Skills
3 67 (25.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 41 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.66%) Finance
6 17 (6.51%) Legal
7 11 (4.21%) Law
8 6 (2.30%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.53%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.38%) Publishing
12 1 (0.38%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) Russian Language
12 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Ukrainian Language
Job Titles
1 46 (17.62%) Senior
2 45 (17.24%) Lead
3 44 (16.86%) Developer
4 41 (15.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (11.88%) Data Engineer
6 26 (9.96%) Architect
7 23 (8.81%) Software Engineer
8 21 (8.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 16 (6.13%) Technical Architect
10 15 (5.75%) Python Developer
11 13 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (4.98%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.60%) Python Engineer
12 12 (4.60%) Senior Architect
12 12 (4.60%) Software Developer
13 11 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (3.83%) Senior Technical Architect
14 10 (3.83%) Technical Leader
15 9 (3.45%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (28.35%) Terraform
2 34 (13.03%) Node.js
3 25 (9.58%) .NET
4 23 (8.81%) PySpark
5 22 (8.43%) React
6 21 (8.05%) CSS
7 20 (7.66%) LangChain
7 20 (7.66%) REST
8 19 (7.28%) LlamaIndex
9 17 (6.51%) RESTful
10 16 (6.13%) Kafka
11 15 (5.75%) HTML
12 13 (4.98%) Spring
12 13 (4.98%) Spring Boot
13 11 (4.21%) Flask
14 9 (3.45%) .NET Core
14 9 (3.45%) AngularJS
14 9 (3.45%) Express.js
14 9 (3.45%) Web Services
15 7 (2.68%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 58 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.34%) Onboarding
3 24 (9.20%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.13%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.98%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (4.21%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.21%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.83%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.45%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.30%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.92%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.53%) Life Science
12 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.15%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.15%) Robotics
13 2 (0.77%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.26%) Linux
2 15 (5.75%) Windows
3 10 (3.83%) Unix
4 7 (2.68%) CentOS
4 7 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.92%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.15%) Debian
7 2 (0.77%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 137 (52.49%) Agile
3 124 (47.51%) DevOps
4 92 (35.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (34.10%) Mentoring
6 71 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (25.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (24.52%) Containerisation
9 61 (23.37%) Data Engineering
10 58 (22.22%) Test Automation
11 56 (21.46%) AI
11 56 (21.46%) Coaching
12 53 (20.31%) Technical Leadership
13 44 (16.86%) Data Modelling
13 44 (16.86%) Data Pipeline
14 41 (15.71%) Analytics
14 41 (15.71%) Software Engineering
15 39 (14.94%) Decision-Making
15 39 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
16 38 (14.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 123 (47.13%) Python
2 73 (27.97%) SQL
3 44 (16.86%) Java
4 35 (13.41%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.03%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.20%) Bash
6 24 (9.20%) C#
7 9 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.53%) Scala
8 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.15%) C++
9 3 (1.15%) Go
10 1 (0.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (28.35%) Security Cleared
2 65 (24.90%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (10.34%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.28%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.75%) Degree
7 14 (5.36%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.38%) CSPO
9 1 (0.38%) IIBA
9 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 24 (9.20%) QA
3 9 (3.45%) NCSC
4 7 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (32.95%) Docker
2 5 (1.92%) iptables
3 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.15%) vSphere
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (20.31%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.66%) Ansible
3 12 (4.60%) Grafana
4 6 (2.30%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.30%) Puppet
5 3 (1.15%) Argo
5 3 (1.15%) Control-M
5 3 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.77%) Kibana
6 2 (0.77%) systemd
7 1 (0.38%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 17 (6.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.60%) Databricks
2 12 (4.60%) Google
3 11 (4.21%) Oracle
4 7 (2.68%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.30%) Confluent
6 4 (1.53%) VMware
7 3 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.15%) Sage
7 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.15%) SnapLogic
7 3 (1.15%) Splunk
8 2 (0.77%) Adobe
8 2 (0.77%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.77%) Citrix
8 2 (0.77%) F5
8 2 (0.77%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.77%) Pega
8 2 (0.77%) UiPath
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat