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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 123 45 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.63% 11.03% 11.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.70% 33.33% 27.11%
Number of salaries quoted 106 37 129
10th Percentile £29,750 £39,500 £41,375
25th Percentile £45,125 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +1.56% +6.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £80,750 £78,500 £84,919
North East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.53% +14.15%

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 365 135 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 22.63% 33.09% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 255 102 469
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,599 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,053 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +11.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,375 £78,000
North East median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -

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

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Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 21 May 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 21 May 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 +1 97 £57,500 -8.00% 60
Sunderland +10 18 £55,000 -26.67% 5
Prudhoe +1 5 £45,000 -
Gateshead -13 3 - - 3
AWS
North East

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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 9 (7.32%) Jupyter
2 8 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.07%) Apache
3 5 (4.07%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.63%) WordPress
5 1 (0.81%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 77 (62.60%) Azure
2 26 (21.14%) GCP
2 26 (21.14%) GitHub
3 16 (13.01%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (10.57%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (9.76%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (6.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (5.69%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (5.69%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.07%) SaaS
9 5 (4.07%) Serverless
10 4 (3.25%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (3.25%) OCI
10 4 (3.25%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.44%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.63%) Firewall
2 12 (9.76%) DNS
2 12 (9.76%) Internet
3 10 (8.13%) HTTP
3 10 (8.13%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.44%) NGFW
4 3 (2.44%) SSH
4 3 (2.44%) VXLAN
4 3 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.44%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.63%) DHCP
5 2 (1.63%) LAN
5 2 (1.63%) VPN
5 2 (1.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.76%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.13%) MongoDB
4 9 (7.32%) MySQL
5 8 (6.50%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (5.69%) Power BI
7 6 (4.88%) Metadata
8 5 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (4.07%) GIS
8 5 (4.07%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.07%) Tableau
9 4 (3.25%) Big Data
9 4 (3.25%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.44%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.63%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.81%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (18.70%) Git
2 13 (10.57%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.94%) GitLab
4 5 (4.07%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (3.25%) JIRA
6 3 (2.44%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.63%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.63%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.81%) Gatling
8 1 (0.81%) JMeter
8 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 30 (24.39%) Public Sector
2 15 (12.20%) Finance
2 15 (12.20%) Law
3 14 (11.38%) Social Skills
4 11 (8.94%) Multimedia
5 10 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.13%) Telecoms
6 8 (6.50%) Legal
6 8 (6.50%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.69%) Games
8 5 (4.07%) Retail
9 3 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (17.89%) Developer
3 16 (13.01%) Trainee
4 13 (10.57%) Lead
4 13 (10.57%) Senior
5 11 (8.94%) Architect
5 11 (8.94%) Software Developer
6 10 (8.13%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (5.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.07%) Administrator
9 5 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Programmer
9 5 (4.07%) Trainee Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.26%) .NET
1 20 (16.26%) CSS
2 17 (13.82%) HTML
3 13 (10.57%) Node.js
4 12 (9.76%) .NET Core
4 12 (9.76%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (9.76%) React
5 9 (7.32%) REST
6 7 (5.69%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.69%) RESTful
7 6 (4.88%) Flask
7 6 (4.88%) Spring
7 6 (4.88%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.07%) boto
8 5 (4.07%) Hugging Face
8 5 (4.07%) Jinja
8 5 (4.07%) OpenLayers
8 5 (4.07%) Pandas
8 5 (4.07%) scikit-learn
8 5 (4.07%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.76%) Algorithms
1 12 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (4.88%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.25%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.44%) Life Science
4 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.44%) PKI
4 3 (2.44%) Replication
5 2 (1.63%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.63%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.76%) Linux
2 7 (5.69%) Windows
3 3 (2.44%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.44%) Unix
4 2 (1.63%) Android
4 2 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 40 (32.52%) Mentoring
3 37 (30.08%) DevOps
4 31 (25.20%) Agile
5 27 (21.95%) Coaching
6 25 (20.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (17.89%) Containerisation
9 19 (15.45%) Test Automation
10 18 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (14.63%) Software Engineering
11 16 (13.01%) AI
12 15 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
14 13 (10.57%) Analytics
14 13 (10.57%) Data Modelling
14 13 (10.57%) Microservices
15 12 (9.76%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 57 (46.34%) Python
2 26 (21.14%) SQL
3 24 (19.51%) JavaScript
4 22 (17.89%) Java
5 17 (13.82%) Bash
6 15 (12.20%) C#
7 12 (9.76%) TypeScript
8 10 (8.13%) Go
9 6 (4.88%) R
10 4 (3.25%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.63%) Scala
12 1 (0.81%) C
12 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) AWS Certification
2 19 (15.45%) Security Cleared
3 16 (13.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 14 (11.38%) Azure Certification
5 13 (10.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (9.76%) SC Cleared
7 10 (8.13%) Degree
8 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.81%) CCSP
9 1 (0.81%) CISA
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.81%) CISSP
9 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.81%) GSEC
9 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.07%) QA
3 2 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (16.26%) Docker
2 3 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.44%) iptables
3 2 (1.63%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (24.39%) Terraform
2 16 (13.01%) Grafana
3 15 (12.20%) Ansible
4 13 (10.57%) Prometheus
5 11 (8.94%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.44%) Argo
6 3 (2.44%) systemd
7 2 (1.63%) Control-M
7 2 (1.63%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.25%) Oracle
2 4 (3.25%) VMware
3 3 (2.44%) Arista
3 3 (2.44%) Aruba
3 3 (2.44%) NetScout
4 2 (1.63%) Apple
4 2 (1.63%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.63%) Databricks
4 2 (1.63%) Google
4 2 (1.63%) Samsung
5 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco
5 1 (0.81%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.81%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.81%) Proofpoint
5 1 (0.81%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.81%) Splunk
5 1 (0.81%) Zscaler