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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 21 28
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -22
Permanent jobs citing AWS 258 45 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.06% 6.48% 5.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.58% 26.79% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 218 38 38
10th Percentile £46,000 £28,250 £44,066
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £57,341
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -24.14% +11.54%
75th Percentile £83,500 £67,500 £89,375
90th Percentile £90,750 £80,000 £95,000
North East median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -21.43% +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 566 168 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.87% 24.21% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 434 126 177
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,025 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +1.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,500 £85,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 4 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 4 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 +8 226 £67,500 +22.73% 143
Sunderland -1 14 £61,500 +2.50% 6
Prudhoe - 9 £47,000 -
Gateshead -3 7 £40,000 -15.79% 5
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 (12.02%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (8.91%) Apache Spark
3 18 (6.98%) Apache
3 18 (6.98%) Jupyter
4 7 (2.71%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.94%) Confluence
6 3 (1.16%) nginx
7 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.39%) CMS
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.39%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 126 (48.84%) Azure
2 65 (25.19%) GCP
3 56 (21.71%) Amazon S3
4 46 (17.83%) Serverless
5 37 (14.34%) Amazon EC2
6 36 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (13.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
9 29 (11.24%) GitHub
10 22 (8.53%) Amazon ECR
11 18 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (6.59%) Amazon EMR
13 16 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (5.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (4.65%) AWS KMS
15 12 (4.65%) Power Platform
16 9 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (3.49%) Kong
16 9 (3.49%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.94%) Firewall
2 3 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.78%) Internet
3 2 (0.78%) SSH
4 1 (0.39%) DNS
4 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.24%) MongoDB
3 22 (8.53%) DynamoDB
4 20 (7.75%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (7.36%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (6.98%) MySQL
6 18 (6.98%) NoSQL
7 12 (4.65%) Power BI
8 11 (4.26%) Metadata
9 10 (3.88%) Tableau
10 9 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (3.49%) BigQuery
10 9 (3.49%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.10%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (2.71%) GIS
12 7 (2.71%) Looker
13 6 (2.33%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (2.33%) Big Data
13 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 55 (21.32%) Git
1 55 (21.32%) GitLab
2 18 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.10%) JIRA
4 7 (2.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (2.71%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.33%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.16%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.16%) Gatling
6 3 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.78%) Balsamiq
7 2 (0.78%) JUnit
7 2 (0.78%) Mockito
General
1 118 (45.74%) Public Sector
2 68 (26.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 68 (26.36%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.98%) Finance
5 17 (6.59%) Legal
6 11 (4.26%) Law
7 6 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.55%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) Polish Language
11 1 (0.39%) Publishing
11 1 (0.39%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Russian Language
11 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Ukrainian Language
Job Titles
1 46 (17.83%) Senior
2 44 (17.05%) Developer
3 43 (16.67%) Lead
4 40 (15.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (11.63%) Data Engineer
6 25 (9.69%) Architect
7 23 (8.91%) Software Engineer
8 21 (8.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 16 (6.20%) Technical Architect
10 15 (5.81%) Python Developer
11 13 (5.04%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.65%) Python Engineer
12 12 (4.65%) Senior Architect
13 11 (4.26%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (3.88%) Senior Technical Architect
14 10 (3.88%) Technical Leader
15 9 (3.49%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (28.29%) Terraform
2 34 (13.18%) Node.js
3 24 (9.30%) .NET
4 23 (8.91%) PySpark
5 22 (8.53%) React
6 21 (8.14%) CSS
7 20 (7.75%) LangChain
7 20 (7.75%) REST
8 19 (7.36%) LlamaIndex
9 17 (6.59%) Kafka
9 17 (6.59%) RESTful
10 15 (5.81%) HTML
11 14 (5.43%) Spring
11 14 (5.43%) Spring Boot
12 11 (4.26%) Flask
13 9 (3.49%) .NET Core
13 9 (3.49%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.49%) Express.js
13 9 (3.49%) Web Services
14 7 (2.71%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 58 (22.48%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.47%) Onboarding
3 23 (8.91%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.20%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.04%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (4.26%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (3.88%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (3.10%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.33%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.55%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.55%) Life Science
12 3 (1.16%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.16%) Robotics
13 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.40%) Linux
2 15 (5.81%) Windows
3 10 (3.88%) Unix
4 7 (2.71%) CentOS
4 7 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.94%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.16%) Debian
7 2 (0.78%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (56.59%) CI/CD
2 138 (53.49%) Agile
3 124 (48.06%) DevOps
4 91 (35.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (34.11%) Mentoring
6 70 (27.13%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (26.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 65 (25.19%) Containerisation
9 59 (22.87%) Data Engineering
9 59 (22.87%) Test Automation
10 56 (21.71%) AI
11 55 (21.32%) Coaching
12 53 (20.54%) Technical Leadership
13 43 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
14 42 (16.28%) Data Modelling
15 40 (15.50%) Decision-Making
15 40 (15.50%) Software Engineering
16 39 (15.12%) Analytics
16 39 (15.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 38 (14.73%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 122 (47.29%) Python
2 72 (27.91%) SQL
3 44 (17.05%) Java
4 35 (13.57%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.18%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.30%) Bash
7 23 (8.91%) C#
8 9 (3.49%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.55%) Scala
9 4 (1.55%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.16%) C++
10 3 (1.16%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) Bicep
11 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 66 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (10.47%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.36%) Azure Certification
6 14 (5.43%) Degree
6 14 (5.43%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.39%) CSPO
8 1 (0.39%) IIBA
8 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (17.05%) Data Quality
2 24 (9.30%) QA
3 9 (3.49%) NCSC
4 7 (2.71%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.71%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (33.72%) Docker
2 5 (1.94%) iptables
3 3 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.16%) vSphere
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (20.93%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.75%) Ansible
3 12 (4.65%) Grafana
4 6 (2.33%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.33%) Puppet
5 3 (1.16%) Argo
5 3 (1.16%) Control-M
5 3 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.16%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.78%) Kibana
6 2 (0.78%) systemd
7 1 (0.39%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 16 (6.20%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.65%) Databricks
2 12 (4.65%) Google
3 10 (3.88%) Oracle
4 7 (2.71%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.33%) Confluent
6 4 (1.55%) Sage
6 4 (1.55%) VMware
7 3 (1.16%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.16%) SnapLogic
7 3 (1.16%) Splunk
8 2 (0.78%) Adobe
8 2 (0.78%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.78%) Citrix
8 2 (0.78%) F5
8 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.78%) Pega
8 2 (0.78%) UiPath
9 1 (0.39%) Red Hat