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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 20 33
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 -19
Permanent jobs citing AWS 224 45 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.28% 7.08% 5.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.36% 26.32% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 187 35 41
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £44,738
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £58,938
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 £77,000
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 505 171 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.93% 26.89% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 372 130 236
10th Percentile £36,250 £26,830 £31,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £34,500 £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 £80,125 £77,750
North East median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -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

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 20 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 20 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 +8 186 £67,500 +12.50% 71
Sunderland +4 22 £48,000 -26.15% 6
Prudhoe - 10 £47,000 - 2
Gateshead -4 6 - - 1
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 (13.84%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (9.38%) Apache Spark
3 15 (6.70%) Apache
3 15 (6.70%) Jupyter
4 6 (2.68%) Confluence
5 3 (1.34%) WordPress
6 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.89%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.45%) CMS
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.45%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 123 (54.91%) Azure
2 55 (24.55%) GCP
3 46 (20.54%) Amazon S3
4 41 (18.30%) Serverless
5 30 (13.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 30 (13.39%) Amazon EC2
5 30 (13.39%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (13.39%) GitHub
6 19 (8.48%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
8 15 (6.70%) Amazon EMR
8 15 (6.70%) Power Platform
9 14 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (4.02%) Textract
14 6 (2.68%) Google Tag Manager
14 6 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.36%) Firewall
2 7 (3.13%) DNS
3 4 (1.79%) HTTP
3 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.34%) Internet
4 3 (1.34%) SSH
5 2 (0.89%) DHCP
5 2 (0.89%) LAN
5 2 (0.89%) VPN
5 2 (0.89%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (9.82%) DynamoDB
3 20 (8.93%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (8.93%) MongoDB
4 19 (8.48%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.59%) MySQL
6 15 (6.70%) Power BI
7 12 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (5.36%) Tableau
8 11 (4.91%) Metadata
9 10 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.02%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.57%) BigQuery
11 8 (3.57%) SQL Server
12 7 (3.13%) Big Data
12 7 (3.13%) GIS
13 6 (2.68%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.68%) Looker
Development Applications
1 49 (21.88%) Git
2 37 (16.52%) GitLab
3 18 (8.04%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.46%) JIRA
5 7 (3.13%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.68%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.34%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.34%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.89%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.45%) Gatling
9 1 (0.45%) JMeter
9 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 78 (34.82%) Public Sector
2 64 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 47 (20.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.38%) Finance
6 17 (7.59%) Law
6 17 (7.59%) Legal
7 6 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.79%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.34%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
12 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (16.96%) Developer
1 38 (16.96%) Senior
2 37 (16.52%) Lead
3 34 (15.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (11.16%) Data Engineer
5 21 (9.38%) Architect
6 20 (8.93%) Software Engineer
7 15 (6.70%) Python Developer
8 13 (5.80%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (5.80%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.36%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.91%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.46%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Senior Python Developer
12 9 (4.02%) Senior Technical Architect
13 8 (3.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (27.23%) Terraform
2 30 (13.39%) Node.js
3 25 (11.16%) .NET
4 24 (10.71%) React
5 23 (10.27%) CSS
6 18 (8.04%) PySpark
7 17 (7.59%) HTML
8 16 (7.14%) REST
9 14 (6.25%) RESTful
10 11 (4.91%) Flask
10 11 (4.91%) LangChain
11 10 (4.46%) .NET Core
11 10 (4.46%) Kafka
11 10 (4.46%) LlamaIndex
12 9 (4.02%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (3.13%) Jinja
13 7 (3.13%) OpenLayers
13 7 (3.13%) Spring Boot
13 7 (3.13%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.80%) Distributed Computing
4 13 (5.80%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.91%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.91%) Renewable Energy
6 9 (4.02%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.68%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.68%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.79%) Life Science
11 3 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.34%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.34%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.34%) Replication
11 3 (1.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.95%) Linux
2 13 (5.80%) Windows
3 6 (2.68%) CentOS
3 6 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.68%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.23%) Unix
5 3 (1.34%) Debian
5 3 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (47.32%) CI/CD
2 96 (42.86%) Agile
3 95 (42.41%) DevOps
4 71 (31.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (29.46%) Mentoring
6 55 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (23.66%) Containerisation
7 53 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (19.64%) Coaching
9 42 (18.75%) Data Modelling
9 42 (18.75%) Test Automation
10 41 (18.30%) AI
10 41 (18.30%) Data Engineering
10 41 (18.30%) Data Pipeline
10 41 (18.30%) Technical Leadership
11 37 (16.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (16.52%) Software Engineering
12 35 (15.63%) Analytics
13 33 (14.73%) Decision-Making
14 29 (12.95%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 113 (50.45%) Python
2 73 (32.59%) SQL
3 34 (15.18%) Java
4 33 (14.73%) TypeScript
5 32 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 24 (10.71%) Bash
7 22 (9.82%) C#
8 9 (4.02%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.13%) Go
10 3 (1.34%) Scala
11 2 (0.89%) PHP
11 2 (0.89%) R
11 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 53 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 41 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (8.04%) AWS Certification
5 16 (7.14%) Degree
6 13 (5.80%) Azure Certification
7 12 (5.36%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.45%) CCSP
10 1 (0.45%) CISA
10 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.45%) CISSP
10 1 (0.45%) CSPO
10 1 (0.45%) GSEC
10 1 (0.45%) IIBA
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.04%) QA
3 7 (3.13%) GDPR
4 5 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.79%) NCSC
6 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.89%) WCAG
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 68 (30.36%) Docker
2 6 (2.68%) iptables
3 5 (2.23%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.34%) vSphere
5 2 (0.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (17.41%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.48%) Ansible
3 12 (5.36%) Grafana
4 7 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.68%) Puppet
6 3 (1.34%) Argo
6 3 (1.34%) Control-M
6 3 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.34%) systemd
7 1 (0.45%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.25%) Databricks
3 8 (3.57%) Google
4 7 (3.13%) Oracle
5 6 (2.68%) VMware
6 4 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.34%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.34%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.34%) Confluent
7 3 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.34%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.89%) Citrix
8 2 (0.89%) F5
8 2 (0.89%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.89%) Pega
8 2 (0.89%) Sage
8 2 (0.89%) Splunk
8 2 (0.89%) UiPath
9 1 (0.45%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.45%) Zscaler