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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -11
Permanent jobs citing AWS 196 48 89
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.06% 7.92% 7.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.88% 29.81% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 168 38 75
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,375 £44,738
25th Percentile £47,000 £48,438 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,788 £60,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -8.35% +4.74%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £76,386
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,625 £84,946
North East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year - -0.71% +4.74%

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 468 161 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.64% 26.57% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 344 120 326
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £28,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £89,625 £80,250 £79,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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

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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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +2 162 £65,000 +8.33% 63
Sunderland +3 22 £49,000 -24.62% 8
Gateshead -5 6 - - 1
Prudhoe - 6 £47,000 - 3
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 29 (14.80%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (9.18%) Jupyter
3 16 (8.16%) Apache Spark
4 14 (7.14%) Apache
5 4 (2.04%) Confluence
6 3 (1.53%) WordPress
7 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.02%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.51%) CMS
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.51%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 107 (54.59%) Azure
2 43 (21.94%) GCP
3 34 (17.35%) Amazon S3
4 29 (14.80%) Serverless
5 24 (12.24%) GitHub
6 22 (11.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (11.22%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 13 (6.63%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.63%) Amazon EMR
9 13 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (5.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (4.08%) Textract
13 7 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.65%) Firewall
2 10 (5.10%) DNS
3 7 (3.57%) HTTP
3 7 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.53%) Internet
4 3 (1.53%) SSH
5 2 (1.02%) DHCP
5 2 (1.02%) LAN
5 2 (1.02%) VPN
5 2 (1.02%) WAN
6 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (11.22%) NoSQL
3 20 (10.20%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (10.20%) DynamoDB
3 20 (10.20%) MongoDB
4 19 (9.69%) MySQL
5 14 (7.14%) Power BI
6 13 (6.63%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (5.61%) Tableau
8 10 (5.10%) Metadata
9 8 (4.08%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (3.06%) Big Data
11 6 (3.06%) BigQuery
11 6 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.06%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.55%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.55%) GIS
13 4 (2.04%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 35 (17.86%) Git
2 29 (14.80%) GitLab
3 16 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.08%) JIRA
5 6 (3.06%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.55%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.53%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.53%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.51%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.51%) Gatling
9 1 (0.51%) JMeter
9 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 62 (31.63%) Public Sector
2 44 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.20%) Finance
6 16 (8.16%) Law
6 16 (8.16%) Legal
7 8 (4.08%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.57%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.06%) Retail
10 4 (2.04%) Games
10 4 (2.04%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.02%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (18.37%) Senior
2 34 (17.35%) Developer
3 32 (16.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (13.27%) Lead
5 21 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 19 (9.69%) Architect
7 17 (8.67%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.63%) Python Developer
8 13 (6.63%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (6.12%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) Python Data Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) Senior Python Developer
11 8 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) Senior Architect
11 8 (4.08%) Technical Architect
12 7 (3.57%) Administrator
12 7 (3.57%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.24%) Node.js
2 23 (11.73%) .NET
2 23 (11.73%) React
3 15 (7.65%) CSS
3 15 (7.65%) RESTful
4 14 (7.14%) PySpark
5 13 (6.63%) REST
6 12 (6.12%) HTML
7 11 (5.61%) .NET Core
8 10 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (4.59%) Flask
10 8 (4.08%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.08%) Spring
10 8 (4.08%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.57%) Kafka
11 7 (3.57%) LangChain
12 6 (3.06%) .NET Framework
12 6 (3.06%) LlamaIndex
12 6 (3.06%) Swagger
13 5 (2.55%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.61%) Data Structures
5 10 (5.10%) Distributed Computing
5 10 (5.10%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.59%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.57%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.06%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.06%) Hedge funds
9 5 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.04%) Life Science
10 4 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.53%) Replication
11 3 (1.53%) Robotics
12 2 (1.02%) Client/Server
12 2 (1.02%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.27%) Linux
2 13 (6.63%) Windows
3 6 (3.06%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.55%) Unix
5 4 (2.04%) CentOS
5 4 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.53%) Debian
6 3 (1.53%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.02%) Android
7 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (41.33%) CI/CD
2 77 (39.29%) Agile
3 70 (35.71%) DevOps
4 55 (28.06%) Mentoring
5 49 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (20.41%) Coaching
7 40 (20.41%) Test Automation
8 39 (19.90%) Containerisation
9 37 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (18.37%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (17.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 32 (16.33%) Analytics
12 32 (16.33%) Data Modelling
13 31 (15.82%) AI
14 30 (15.31%) Data Engineering
15 28 (14.29%) Software Engineering
16 26 (13.27%) Decision-Making
17 25 (12.76%) Microservices
17 25 (12.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 96 (48.98%) Python
2 68 (34.69%) SQL
3 31 (15.82%) Java
4 26 (13.27%) JavaScript
5 25 (12.76%) TypeScript
6 22 (11.22%) C#
7 21 (10.71%) Bash
8 10 (5.10%) Go
9 8 (4.08%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.02%) PHP
10 2 (1.02%) R
10 2 (1.02%) Scala
11 1 (0.51%) C
11 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (20.92%) Security Cleared
2 33 (16.84%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.16%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.61%) Degree
5 9 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.08%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.08%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.51%) CCSP
9 1 (0.51%) CISA
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.51%) GSEC
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.84%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.63%) QA
3 5 (2.55%) GDPR
4 4 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.02%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (27.04%) Docker
2 6 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.06%) iptables
3 3 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.53%) vSphere
4 2 (1.02%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (24.49%) Terraform
2 32 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.18%) Ansible
4 14 (7.14%) Grafana
5 10 (5.10%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.04%) Puppet
7 3 (1.53%) Argo
7 3 (1.53%) Control-M
7 3 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.53%) systemd
8 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.51%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.51%) Kibana
9 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.14%) Databricks
3 7 (3.57%) Oracle
4 6 (3.06%) VMware
5 4 (2.04%) Google
6 3 (1.53%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.53%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.53%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.53%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.02%) Apple
7 2 (1.02%) Citrix
7 2 (1.02%) Confluent
7 2 (1.02%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.02%) F5
7 2 (1.02%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.02%) Pega
7 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.02%) Samsung
7 2 (1.02%) UiPath
8 1 (0.51%) Red Hat