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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 24 29
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 -23
Permanent jobs citing AWS 254 43 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.08% 6.29% 5.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.10% 25.44% 17.22%
Number of salaries quoted 216 36 35
10th Percentile £46,000 £28,250 £43,395
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,625 £54,030
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.09% -17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £76,875 £95,000
North East median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +7.69%

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 551 169 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.69% 24.71% 31.29%
Number of salaries quoted 422 128 181
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +3.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,328 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,950 £84,964
North East median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% -4.55%

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

AWS
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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +13 219 £67,500 +12.50% 98
Sunderland 0 16 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Prudhoe - 11 £47,000 - 2
Gateshead -1 7 £40,000 -15.79% 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 31 (12.20%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (8.66%) Apache Spark
3 17 (6.69%) Apache
3 17 (6.69%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.97%) Confluence
5 4 (1.57%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.79%) nginx
6 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.39%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 129 (50.79%) Azure
2 67 (26.38%) GCP
3 56 (22.05%) Amazon S3
4 47 (18.50%) Serverless
5 37 (14.57%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (14.57%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (13.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 28 (11.02%) Amazon ECS
7 28 (11.02%) GitHub
8 21 (8.27%) Amazon ECR
9 17 (6.69%) Amazon EMR
10 16 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (4.72%) Power Platform
14 10 (3.94%) AWS KMS
15 9 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (3.54%) Textract
16 8 (3.15%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.36%) Firewall
2 3 (1.18%) SSH
3 2 (0.79%) DNS
3 2 (0.79%) Internet
3 2 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.39%) DHCP
4 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.39%) LAN
4 1 (0.39%) VPN
4 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.78%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (10.63%) MongoDB
3 22 (8.66%) DynamoDB
4 21 (8.27%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (7.87%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (7.09%) MySQL
7 17 (6.69%) NoSQL
8 12 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (4.72%) Power BI
9 11 (4.33%) Metadata
10 10 (3.94%) Tableau
11 9 (3.54%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.54%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.15%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.76%) GIS
13 7 (2.76%) Looker
14 6 (2.36%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (2.36%) Big Data
14 6 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 54 (21.26%) Git
2 51 (20.08%) GitLab
3 17 (6.69%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.15%) JIRA
5 7 (2.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (2.76%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.36%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.18%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.79%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.79%) Gatling
General
1 112 (44.09%) Public Sector
2 67 (26.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 67 (26.38%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.87%) Finance
5 17 (6.69%) Legal
6 13 (5.12%) Law
7 6 (2.36%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.57%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) Polish Language
11 1 (0.39%) Publishing
11 1 (0.39%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Russian Language
11 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Ukrainian Language
Job Titles
1 44 (17.32%) Lead
2 43 (16.93%) Developer
2 43 (16.93%) Senior
3 39 (15.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (12.20%) Data Engineer
5 26 (10.24%) Architect
6 21 (8.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 21 (8.27%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.30%) Technical Architect
8 15 (5.91%) Python Developer
9 14 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (5.12%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (4.72%) Python Engineer
11 12 (4.72%) Senior Architect
12 11 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (4.33%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.94%) Senior Technical Architect
14 9 (3.54%) Senior Python Developer
14 9 (3.54%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (27.95%) Terraform
2 34 (13.39%) Node.js
3 25 (9.84%) .NET
4 22 (8.66%) PySpark
4 22 (8.66%) React
5 21 (8.27%) CSS
6 20 (7.87%) LangChain
7 19 (7.48%) LlamaIndex
8 17 (6.69%) REST
9 16 (6.30%) RESTful
10 15 (5.91%) HTML
11 14 (5.51%) Kafka
12 11 (4.33%) Flask
13 10 (3.94%) Spring
13 10 (3.94%) Spring Boot
14 9 (3.54%) .NET Core
14 9 (3.54%) AngularJS
14 9 (3.54%) Express.js
14 9 (3.54%) Web Services
15 7 (2.76%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 55 (21.65%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.63%) Onboarding
3 23 (9.06%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.30%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.12%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (4.33%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.33%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (3.94%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.54%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.36%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.97%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.57%) Life Science
12 3 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.18%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.18%) Replication
12 3 (1.18%) Robotics
13 2 (0.79%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.99%) Linux
2 16 (6.30%) Windows
3 9 (3.54%) Unix
4 7 (2.76%) CentOS
4 7 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.36%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.18%) Debian
7 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (53.54%) CI/CD
2 128 (50.39%) Agile
3 116 (45.67%) DevOps
4 88 (34.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (33.07%) Mentoring
6 69 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (24.41%) Containerisation
8 61 (24.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (23.23%) Data Engineering
10 56 (22.05%) AI
11 53 (20.87%) Coaching
12 52 (20.47%) Test Automation
13 51 (20.08%) Technical Leadership
14 44 (17.32%) Data Modelling
15 43 (16.93%) Data Pipeline
16 41 (16.14%) Analytics
17 39 (15.35%) Full-Stack Development
18 38 (14.96%) Decision-Making
18 38 (14.96%) Software Engineering
19 36 (14.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 120 (47.24%) Python
2 72 (28.35%) SQL
3 39 (15.35%) Java
4 35 (13.78%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.39%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.45%) Bash
6 24 (9.45%) C#
7 9 (3.54%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.57%) Scala
8 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.18%) C++
9 3 (1.18%) Go
10 1 (0.39%) Bicep
10 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 68 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 58 (22.83%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (10.24%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.48%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.91%) Degree
7 14 (5.51%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.39%) CSPO
9 1 (0.39%) IIBA
9 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.72%) Data Quality
2 24 (9.45%) QA
3 9 (3.54%) NCSC
4 7 (2.76%) GDPR
5 6 (2.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (31.89%) Docker
2 6 (2.36%) iptables
3 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.18%) vSphere
5 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (18.90%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.48%) Ansible
3 12 (4.72%) Grafana
4 6 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.36%) Puppet
5 3 (1.18%) Argo
5 3 (1.18%) Control-M
5 3 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.18%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.18%) systemd
6 2 (0.79%) Kibana
7 1 (0.39%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 18 (7.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.72%) Databricks
2 12 (4.72%) Google
3 8 (3.15%) Oracle
4 7 (2.76%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.36%) Confluent
6 5 (1.97%) VMware
7 3 (1.18%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.18%) Sage
7 3 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.18%) SnapLogic
7 3 (1.18%) Splunk
8 2 (0.79%) Adobe
8 2 (0.79%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.79%) Citrix
8 2 (0.79%) F5
8 2 (0.79%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.79%) Pega
8 2 (0.79%) UiPath
9 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft