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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 13 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 165 46 141
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.16% 9.29% 9.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.01% 32.39% 24.91%
Number of salaries quoted 139 36 122
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,250 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year - -4.53% +4.74%
75th Percentile £79,375 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £88,148 £76,875 £84,964
North East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

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 423 142 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.91% 28.69% 37.43%
Number of salaries quoted 312 106 464
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £28,625
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 £67,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,875 £79,250
North East median annual salary £55,000 £51,125 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.58% +2.25% -4.76%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -1 132 £65,000 +8.33% 47
Sunderland +8 22 £55,000 -24.14% 4
Gateshead -8 6 - - 2
Prudhoe - 5 £45,000 -
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 25 (15.15%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (9.70%) Jupyter
3 12 (7.27%) Apache
3 12 (7.27%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.21%) WordPress
5 1 (0.61%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.03%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.61%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.61%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 99 (60.00%) Azure
2 38 (23.03%) GCP
3 25 (15.15%) Amazon S3
4 23 (13.94%) GitHub
5 18 (10.91%) Serverless
6 16 (9.70%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (7.27%) Power Platform
9 11 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (4.24%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (3.64%) Textract
14 4 (2.42%) OCI
14 4 (2.42%) SaaS
14 4 (2.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.12%) Firewall
2 11 (6.67%) DNS
3 9 (5.45%) HTTP
3 9 (5.45%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.03%) Internet
5 3 (1.82%) NGFW
5 3 (1.82%) SSH
5 3 (1.82%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.82%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.21%) DHCP
6 2 (1.21%) LAN
6 2 (1.21%) VPN
6 2 (1.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.76%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.52%) NoSQL
3 17 (10.30%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (9.70%) MySQL
5 15 (9.09%) DynamoDB
5 15 (9.09%) MongoDB
6 12 (7.27%) Power BI
7 10 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (6.06%) Metadata
8 9 (5.45%) Tableau
9 8 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (3.64%) Big Data
10 6 (3.64%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.64%) SQL Server
11 5 (3.03%) GIS
12 4 (2.42%) Data Vault
12 4 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.82%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 24 (14.55%) Git
2 20 (12.12%) GitLab
3 13 (7.88%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.03%) JIRA
4 5 (3.03%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.42%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.82%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.61%) Gatling
7 1 (0.61%) JMeter
7 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (29.09%) Public Sector
2 29 (17.58%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (10.91%) Finance
6 15 (9.09%) Law
7 12 (7.27%) Legal
8 9 (5.45%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.85%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.64%) Retail
11 5 (3.03%) Games
12 4 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.42%) Multimedia
13 3 (1.82%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (17.58%) Senior
2 28 (16.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (15.15%) Developer
4 22 (13.33%) Lead
5 18 (10.91%) Architect
6 17 (10.30%) Data Engineer
7 16 (9.70%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (6.06%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.45%) Trainee
10 8 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.85%) Senior Developer
11 7 (4.24%) Administrator
11 7 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Python Data Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.24%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.33%) .NET
2 19 (11.52%) Node.js
3 18 (10.91%) React
4 13 (7.88%) CSS
4 13 (7.88%) RESTful
5 12 (7.27%) .NET Core
5 12 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (6.67%) REST
7 10 (6.06%) HTML
7 10 (6.06%) PySpark
8 8 (4.85%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.24%) Spring
9 7 (4.24%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.64%) Flask
10 6 (3.64%) Vue
11 5 (3.03%) boto
11 5 (3.03%) Jinja
11 5 (3.03%) OpenLayers
11 5 (3.03%) Pandas
11 5 (3.03%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.48%) Algorithms
3 11 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.45%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.24%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (3.64%) Hedge funds
7 6 (3.64%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.42%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.42%) Life Science
9 4 (2.42%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.82%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.82%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.82%) PKI
10 3 (1.82%) Replication
10 3 (1.82%) Robotics
11 2 (1.21%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.12%) Linux
2 10 (6.06%) Windows
3 6 (3.64%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.03%) Unix
5 3 (1.82%) Debian
6 2 (1.21%) Android
6 2 (1.21%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.61%) CentOS
7 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (35.15%) Agile
1 58 (35.15%) CI/CD
2 54 (32.73%) DevOps
3 50 (30.30%) Mentoring
4 39 (23.64%) Coaching
5 36 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (19.39%) Test Automation
7 31 (18.79%) Containerisation
7 31 (18.79%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (16.97%) Data Modelling
10 25 (15.15%) Software Engineering
11 24 (14.55%) Analytics
11 24 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (13.94%) AI
13 21 (12.73%) Data Engineering
14 19 (11.52%) Microservices
14 19 (11.52%) Workflow
15 18 (10.91%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 79 (47.88%) Python
2 56 (33.94%) SQL
3 27 (16.36%) Java
4 21 (12.73%) C#
4 21 (12.73%) TypeScript
5 20 (12.12%) JavaScript
6 18 (10.91%) Bash
7 12 (7.27%) Go
8 5 (3.03%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.82%) R
10 2 (1.21%) Scala
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.48%) AWS Certification
4 10 (6.06%) Degree
5 9 (5.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.82%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.61%) CCSP
10 1 (0.61%) CISA
10 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.61%) CISSP
10 1 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.61%) GSEC
10 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.85%) QA
3 3 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.82%) GDPR
4 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (22.42%) Docker
2 6 (3.64%) iptables
3 3 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.82%) vSphere
4 2 (1.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (24.85%) Terraform
2 21 (12.73%) Kubernetes
3 19 (11.52%) Ansible
4 16 (9.70%) Grafana
5 12 (7.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.82%) Argo
6 3 (1.82%) Control-M
6 3 (1.82%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.82%) Puppet
6 3 (1.82%) systemd
7 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.67%) Databricks
3 7 (4.24%) Oracle
4 6 (3.64%) VMware
5 4 (2.42%) Google
6 3 (1.82%) Arista
6 3 (1.82%) Aruba
6 3 (1.82%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.82%) NetScout
7 2 (1.21%) Apple
7 2 (1.21%) Pega
7 2 (1.21%) Samsung
7 2 (1.21%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco
8 1 (0.61%) IBM
8 1 (0.61%) Infor
8 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.61%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.61%) Splunk