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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 178 47 125
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.51% 8.06% 8.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.45% 29.94% 23.67%
Number of salaries quoted 151 37 108
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £44,441
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £57,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.35% +4.74%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £77,125
90th Percentile £88,750 £76,250 £84,964
North East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.71% +9.11%

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 440 157 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.04% 26.93% 36.31%
Number of salaries quoted 324 116 432
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £27,525
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,625 £67,968
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,625 £80,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -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 11 July 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 11 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 +3 144 £65,000 +8.33% 46
Sunderland +4 22 £50,000 -23.08% 4
Gateshead -5 6 - - 1
Prudhoe - 6 £45,000 - 2
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 26 (14.61%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (9.55%) Jupyter
3 13 (7.30%) Apache
3 13 (7.30%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.69%) WordPress
5 2 (1.12%) Confluence
5 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.12%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.56%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.56%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 104 (58.43%) Azure
2 39 (21.91%) GCP
3 27 (15.17%) Amazon S3
4 24 (13.48%) GitHub
5 20 (11.24%) Serverless
6 17 (9.55%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (8.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (7.30%) Power Platform
10 12 (6.74%) Amazon EMR
10 12 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (6.18%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (3.93%) Textract
14 4 (2.25%) OCI
14 4 (2.25%) Snowflake
15 3 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.24%) Firewall
2 11 (6.18%) DNS
3 9 (5.06%) HTTP
3 9 (5.06%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.25%) Internet
5 3 (1.69%) NGFW
5 3 (1.69%) SSH
5 3 (1.69%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.69%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.12%) DHCP
6 2 (1.12%) LAN
6 2 (1.12%) VPN
6 2 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.85%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (11.24%) NoSQL
3 19 (10.67%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (10.11%) MySQL
5 16 (8.99%) DynamoDB
5 16 (8.99%) MongoDB
6 13 (7.30%) Power BI
7 10 (5.62%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (5.62%) Metadata
7 10 (5.62%) Tableau
8 9 (5.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.93%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.37%) Big Data
10 6 (3.37%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.81%) GIS
12 4 (2.25%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (2.25%) Data Vault
12 4 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (15.73%) Git
2 25 (14.04%) GitLab
3 16 (8.99%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.37%) JIRA
5 5 (2.81%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.81%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.69%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.56%) Gatling
7 1 (0.56%) JMeter
7 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 55 (30.90%) Public Sector
2 36 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 25 (14.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.11%) Finance
6 16 (8.99%) Law
7 15 (8.43%) Legal
8 9 (5.06%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.49%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.37%) Retail
11 4 (2.25%) Games
11 4 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.69%) Multimedia
12 3 (1.69%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (19.10%) Senior
2 31 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (16.85%) Developer
4 22 (12.36%) Lead
5 20 (11.24%) Architect
6 17 (9.55%) Data Engineer
7 16 (8.99%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.18%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.62%) Python Developer
9 10 (5.62%) Python Engineer
9 10 (5.62%) Senior Developer
10 9 (5.06%) Data Architect
10 9 (5.06%) Senior Architect
11 8 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) Trainee
12 7 (3.93%) Administrator
12 7 (3.93%) Python Data Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Senior Python Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.37%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.36%) Node.js
2 21 (11.80%) .NET
3 19 (10.67%) React
4 15 (8.43%) CSS
5 13 (7.30%) RESTful
6 12 (6.74%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (6.74%) HTML
6 12 (6.74%) PySpark
7 10 (5.62%) REST
8 8 (4.49%) Flask
8 8 (4.49%) Spring
8 8 (4.49%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.93%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.37%) Vue
11 5 (2.81%) boto
11 5 (2.81%) Jinja
11 5 (2.81%) OpenLayers
11 5 (2.81%) Pandas
11 5 (2.81%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.87%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.62%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.49%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (3.93%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (3.37%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.81%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.25%) Life Science
9 4 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.69%) PKI
10 3 (1.69%) Replication
10 3 (1.69%) Robotics
11 2 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.48%) Linux
2 10 (5.62%) Windows
3 6 (3.37%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.81%) Unix
5 3 (1.69%) CentOS
5 3 (1.69%) Debian
5 3 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.12%) Android
6 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (39.33%) CI/CD
2 67 (37.64%) Agile
3 62 (34.83%) DevOps
4 54 (30.34%) Mentoring
5 41 (23.03%) Coaching
6 40 (22.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (20.22%) Containerisation
8 36 (20.22%) Test Automation
9 33 (18.54%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (17.42%) Full-Stack Development
11 30 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (16.29%) Data Modelling
13 25 (14.04%) AI
13 25 (14.04%) Analytics
13 25 (14.04%) Software Engineering
14 23 (12.92%) Decision-Making
15 22 (12.36%) Data Engineering
15 22 (12.36%) Microservices
16 21 (11.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 85 (47.75%) Python
2 59 (33.15%) SQL
3 29 (16.29%) Java
4 23 (12.92%) JavaScript
5 21 (11.80%) TypeScript
6 20 (11.24%) C#
7 19 (10.67%) Bash
8 12 (6.74%) Go
9 6 (3.37%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.12%) PHP
10 2 (1.12%) R
10 2 (1.12%) Scala
11 1 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 33 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.30%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.62%) Degree
5 8 (4.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.81%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) CISA
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) GSEC
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.17%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.06%) QA
3 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.69%) GDPR
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.12%) WCAG
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (24.72%) Docker
2 6 (3.37%) iptables
3 3 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.69%) vSphere
4 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 45 (25.28%) Terraform
2 25 (14.04%) Kubernetes
3 22 (12.36%) Ansible
4 16 (8.99%) Grafana
5 12 (6.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.25%) Puppet
7 3 (1.69%) Argo
7 3 (1.69%) Control-M
7 3 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.69%) systemd
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.18%) Databricks
3 7 (3.93%) Oracle
4 6 (3.37%) VMware
5 4 (2.25%) Google
6 3 (1.69%) Arista
6 3 (1.69%) Aruba
6 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.69%) NetScout
6 3 (1.69%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.12%) Apple
7 2 (1.12%) Pega
7 2 (1.12%) Samsung
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco
8 1 (0.56%) IBM
8 1 (0.56%) Infor
8 1 (0.56%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.56%) Splunk