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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 23 9
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 83 53 129
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.76% 8.52% 13.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.30% 23.98% 33.51%
Number of salaries quoted 74 34 113
10th Percentile - £42,316 £42,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +3.53% -6.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £93,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £88,375 £95,000 £86,250
North East median annual salary £48,445 £69,308 £62,783
% change year-on-year -30.10% +10.39% -3.41%

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 257 221 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 27.11% 35.53% 41.09%
Number of salaries quoted 195 117 345
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,200 £29,150
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,125 £70,000 £66,137
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £80,000
North East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.44%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 61 £37,500 -46.43% 36
Sunderland +10 17 £55,000 -31.25% 9
Gateshead -8 3 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Prudhoe -1 2 £45,000 -
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 2 (2.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Siemens NX
2 2 (2.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 61 (73.49%) Azure
2 30 (36.14%) GitHub
3 14 (16.87%) GCP
4 8 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.82%) OCI
8 3 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.61%) SaaS
9 2 (2.41%) Slack
10 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (26.51%) Internet
2 10 (12.05%) Firewall
3 6 (7.23%) DNS
3 6 (7.23%) HTTP
3 6 (7.23%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.82%) VXLAN
5 3 (3.61%) NGFW
5 3 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.61%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.41%) SAN
7 1 (1.20%) BGP
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.20%) IPsec
7 1 (1.20%) LAN
7 1 (1.20%) OSPF
7 1 (1.20%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (1.20%) VPN
7 1 (1.20%) Wireless
7 1 (1.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) Redis
2 2 (2.41%) Metadata
2 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (27.71%) Git
2 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.23%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.61%) Artifactory
4 3 (3.61%) GitLab
4 3 (3.61%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.41%) JIRA
5 2 (2.41%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.41%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.20%) Maven
6 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (26.51%) Multimedia
2 15 (18.07%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.87%) Games
4 8 (9.64%) Finance
4 8 (9.64%) Telecoms
5 6 (7.23%) Law
5 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.02%) Retail
7 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (33.73%) Developer
2 27 (32.53%) Trainee
3 13 (15.66%) Software Developer
3 13 (15.66%) Trainee Developer
3 13 (15.66%) Trainee Software Developer
4 11 (13.25%) AWS Developer
4 11 (13.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (12.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.84%) C# Developer
7 8 (9.64%) Architect
8 7 (8.43%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 6 (7.23%) Lead
10 5 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.82%) Consultant
11 4 (4.82%) Head of IT
11 4 (4.82%) Head of IT Security
11 4 (4.82%) Head of Security
11 4 (4.82%) React Developer
11 4 (4.82%) Senior
11 4 (4.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (28.92%) CSS
1 24 (28.92%) HTML
2 12 (14.46%) .NET
3 10 (12.05%) REST
4 8 (9.64%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (9.64%) React
5 7 (8.43%) AngularJS
5 7 (8.43%) Vue
6 5 (6.02%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.61%) Itk
7 3 (3.61%) Node.js
7 3 (3.61%) Spring
7 3 (3.61%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.41%) CSS3
8 2 (2.41%) HTML5
8 2 (2.41%) Hugging Face
8 2 (2.41%) Matplotlib
8 2 (2.41%) NumPy
8 2 (2.41%) Pandas
8 2 (2.41%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.23%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.82%) Client/Server
3 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.61%) NHS
4 3 (3.61%) PKI
5 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.02%) Windows
2 3 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (38.55%) Mentoring
2 26 (31.33%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (24.10%) DevOps
4 16 (19.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (18.07%) CI/CD
5 15 (18.07%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (15.66%) Computer Science
7 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.05%) Agile
8 10 (12.05%) Containerisation
8 10 (12.05%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (12.05%) High Availability
9 8 (9.64%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (9.64%) Software Engineering
10 7 (8.43%) Roadmaps
10 7 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (7.23%) DevSecOps
11 6 (7.23%) Incident Response
11 6 (7.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (46.99%) Python
2 31 (37.35%) JavaScript
3 17 (20.48%) C#
4 12 (14.46%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.84%) R
5 9 (10.84%) SQL
6 7 (8.43%) Bash
7 6 (7.23%) Go
7 6 (7.23%) Java
7 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.61%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 28 (33.73%) AWS Certification
2 26 (31.33%) Azure Certification
2 26 (31.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (28.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 10 (12.05%) Degree
5 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (4.82%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
7 3 (3.61%) HNC
7 3 (3.61%) HND
8 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.20%) CCNP
9 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) Docker
2 4 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.41%) vSphere
5 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (20.48%) Terraform
2 11 (13.25%) Ansible
3 10 (12.05%) Grafana
4 8 (9.64%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.41%) Control-M
6 2 (2.41%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (39.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.23%) VMware
3 4 (4.82%) Aruba
3 4 (4.82%) Google
4 3 (3.61%) Arista
4 3 (3.61%) NetScout
4 3 (3.61%) Siemens
5 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.20%) Cisco
6 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.20%) Palo Alto