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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 -20
Permanent jobs citing AWS 210 46 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.18% 7.50% 5.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.42% 28.22% 17.56%
Number of salaries quoted 179 36 49
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £44,040
25th Percentile £47,750 £47,500 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.53% +0.71%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £92,500 £76,875 £83,991
North East median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +0.89% -0.71% +0.71%

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 495 163 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.63% 26.59% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 368 122 258
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,470 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
North East median annual salary £55,000 £51,875 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.02% +3.75% -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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +6 175 £66,000 +10.00% 65
Sunderland +3 22 £48,000 -26.15% 7
Prudhoe - 7 £47,000 - 2
Gateshead -4 6 - - 1
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 30 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (8.57%) Apache Spark
3 17 (8.10%) Jupyter
4 15 (7.14%) Apache
5 4 (1.90%) Confluence
6 3 (1.43%) WordPress
7 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.95%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.48%) CMS
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.48%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 117 (55.71%) Azure
2 48 (22.86%) GCP
3 41 (19.52%) Amazon S3
4 35 (16.67%) Serverless
5 28 (13.33%) GitHub
6 26 (12.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 26 (12.38%) Amazon EC2
6 26 (12.38%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (7.62%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
9 14 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
9 14 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (6.67%) Power Platform
10 12 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (5.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (4.29%) Textract
13 7 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (2.38%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.67%) Firewall
2 9 (4.29%) DNS
3 6 (2.86%) HTTP
3 6 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.43%) Internet
4 3 (1.43%) SSH
5 2 (0.95%) DHCP
5 2 (0.95%) LAN
5 2 (0.95%) VPN
5 2 (0.95%) WAN
6 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
2 21 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 21 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 21 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 19 (9.05%) MySQL
4 17 (8.10%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (6.67%) Power BI
6 12 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (5.24%) Metadata
7 11 (5.24%) Tableau
8 8 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.81%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.33%) BigQuery
9 7 (3.33%) GIS
9 7 (3.33%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.86%) Big Data
10 6 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.38%) Looker
Development Applications
1 43 (20.48%) Git
2 32 (15.24%) GitLab
3 17 (8.10%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.81%) JIRA
5 6 (2.86%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.38%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.43%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.48%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.48%) Gatling
8 1 (0.48%) JMeter
8 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
General
1 70 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 53 (25.24%) Social Skills
3 40 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.00%) Finance
6 17 (8.10%) Legal
7 16 (7.62%) Law
8 7 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.90%) Retail
10 4 (1.90%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.43%) Games
11 3 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (18.10%) Developer
1 38 (18.10%) Senior
2 33 (15.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (14.29%) Lead
4 22 (10.48%) Data Engineer
5 21 (10.00%) Architect
6 18 (8.57%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.14%) Python Developer
8 13 (6.19%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (6.19%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.71%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.76%) Technical Architect
11 9 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.29%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Senior Architect
11 9 (4.29%) Senior Python Developer
12 8 (3.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) Senior Technical Architect
12 8 (3.81%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.38%) Node.js
2 25 (11.90%) .NET
3 24 (11.43%) React
4 19 (9.05%) CSS
5 16 (7.62%) RESTful
6 15 (7.14%) HTML
6 15 (7.14%) PySpark
7 14 (6.67%) REST
8 12 (5.71%) .NET Core
9 11 (5.24%) Flask
10 9 (4.29%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (4.29%) LangChain
11 8 (3.81%) Kafka
11 8 (3.81%) LlamaIndex
12 7 (3.33%) Jinja
12 7 (3.33%) jQuery
12 7 (3.33%) OpenLayers
12 7 (3.33%) Spring Boot
12 7 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.48%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 11 (5.24%) Distributed Computing
4 11 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.24%) Renewable Energy
5 10 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.86%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.86%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.90%) Life Science
9 4 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.43%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.43%) Replication
10 3 (1.43%) Robotics
11 2 (0.95%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.33%) Linux
2 13 (6.19%) Windows
3 6 (2.86%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.38%) CentOS
4 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.38%) Unix
5 3 (1.43%) Debian
5 3 (1.43%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.95%) Android
6 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.95%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (44.29%) CI/CD
2 85 (40.48%) Agile
3 83 (39.52%) DevOps
4 62 (29.52%) Mentoring
5 59 (28.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (21.90%) Containerisation
6 46 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (20.00%) Coaching
8 41 (19.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (19.52%) Test Automation
9 38 (18.10%) Data Pipeline
10 37 (17.62%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (17.14%) AI
11 36 (17.14%) Data Modelling
12 35 (16.67%) Data Engineering
13 33 (15.71%) Analytics
14 31 (14.76%) Software Engineering
14 31 (14.76%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (13.81%) Decision-Making
16 28 (13.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 103 (49.05%) Python
2 70 (33.33%) SQL
3 32 (15.24%) Java
4 31 (14.76%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 22 (10.48%) C#
7 20 (9.52%) Bash
8 9 (4.29%) Go
9 7 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.95%) PHP
10 2 (0.95%) R
10 2 (0.95%) Scala
10 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (21.90%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.62%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.05%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.14%) Degree
5 13 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (5.24%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.76%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.48%) CCSP
11 1 (0.48%) CISA
11 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.48%) CISSP
11 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.48%) GSEC
11 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.14%) QA
3 6 (2.86%) GDPR
4 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.95%) NCSC
5 2 (0.95%) WCAG
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 61 (29.05%) Docker
2 6 (2.86%) iptables
3 5 (2.38%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.43%) vSphere
5 2 (0.95%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 53 (25.24%) Terraform
2 35 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 18 (8.57%) Ansible
4 13 (6.19%) Grafana
5 9 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.90%) Puppet
7 3 (1.43%) Argo
7 3 (1.43%) Control-M
7 3 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.43%) systemd
8 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.48%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.48%) Kibana
9 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.67%) Databricks
3 7 (3.33%) Oracle
4 6 (2.86%) VMware
5 5 (2.38%) Google
6 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.43%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.43%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.43%) Confluent
7 3 (1.43%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.95%) Apple
8 2 (0.95%) Citrix
8 2 (0.95%) F5
8 2 (0.95%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.95%) Pega
8 2 (0.95%) Sage
8 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) Samsung
8 2 (0.95%) UiPath
9 1 (0.48%) Zscaler