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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 148 43 158
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.00% 9.35% 10.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.14% 31.39% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 125 35 132
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £41,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £84,959
North East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +16.36%

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 388 137 587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.97% 29.78% 37.70%
Number of salaries quoted 288 103 476
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,640 £29,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,560 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,075 £78,750 £78,750
North East median annual salary £52,130 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.70% +5.00% -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 13 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 13 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 +1 118 £61,250 +2.08% 46
Sunderland +10 21 £52,500 -27.59% 3
Prudhoe - 5 £45,000 -
Gateshead -11 4 - - 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 19 (12.84%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (10.14%) Jupyter
3 11 (7.43%) Apache
3 11 (7.43%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.35%) WordPress
5 1 (0.68%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 91 (61.49%) Azure
2 35 (23.65%) GCP
3 24 (16.22%) GitHub
4 22 (14.86%) Amazon S3
5 16 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (8.78%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (7.43%) Power Platform
9 11 (7.43%) Serverless
10 10 (6.76%) Amazon EMR
11 9 (6.08%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (4.73%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (3.38%) SaaS
14 5 (3.38%) Textract
15 4 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.84%) Firewall
2 12 (8.11%) DNS
3 10 (6.76%) HTTP
3 10 (6.76%) TCP/IP
4 8 (5.41%) Internet
5 3 (2.03%) NGFW
5 3 (2.03%) SSH
5 3 (2.03%) VXLAN
5 3 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.03%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.35%) DHCP
6 2 (1.35%) LAN
6 2 (1.35%) VPN
6 2 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.54%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (10.14%) NoSQL
4 13 (8.78%) MongoDB
4 13 (8.78%) MySQL
5 11 (7.43%) DynamoDB
5 11 (7.43%) Power BI
6 9 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (6.08%) Metadata
6 9 (6.08%) Tableau
7 7 (4.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.05%) Big Data
9 5 (3.38%) GIS
9 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.70%) Data Vault
11 3 (2.03%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (14.86%) Git
2 18 (12.16%) GitLab
3 13 (8.78%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.38%) JIRA
4 5 (3.38%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.70%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.70%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.03%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.03%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.03%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.68%) Gatling
7 1 (0.68%) JMeter
7 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
General
1 41 (27.70%) Public Sector
2 24 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (10.81%) Finance
4 16 (10.81%) Law
5 12 (8.11%) Legal
6 10 (6.76%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.41%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.73%) Multimedia
9 5 (3.38%) Games
9 5 (3.38%) Retail
10 4 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.03%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (15.54%) Developer
3 21 (14.19%) Senior
4 18 (12.16%) Architect
4 18 (12.16%) Lead
5 12 (8.11%) Data Engineer
5 12 (8.11%) Software Engineer
5 12 (8.11%) Trainee
6 9 (6.08%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (6.08%) Data Architect
6 9 (6.08%) Software Developer
7 7 (4.73%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (4.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (4.73%) Python Engineer
8 6 (4.05%) Administrator
8 6 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.05%) Senior Architect
8 6 (4.05%) Test Engineer
9 5 (3.38%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.51%) .NET
2 16 (10.81%) CSS
3 15 (10.14%) Node.js
4 14 (9.46%) React
5 13 (8.78%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (8.78%) HTML
6 11 (7.43%) .NET Core
7 10 (6.76%) REST
8 9 (6.08%) PySpark
8 9 (6.08%) RESTful
9 8 (5.41%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.05%) Flask
10 6 (4.05%) Spring
10 6 (4.05%) Spring Boot
11 5 (3.38%) Ajax
11 5 (3.38%) boto
11 5 (3.38%) Jinja
11 5 (3.38%) OpenLayers
11 5 (3.38%) Pandas
11 5 (3.38%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.78%) Algorithms
3 10 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.41%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.73%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.05%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (3.38%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.70%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.70%) Life Science
8 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.03%) PKI
9 3 (2.03%) Replication
10 2 (1.35%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.35%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.14%) Linux
2 8 (5.41%) Windows
3 4 (2.70%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.03%) Unix
5 2 (1.35%) Android
5 2 (1.35%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.68%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (35.14%) CI/CD
2 48 (32.43%) DevOps
3 47 (31.76%) Agile
4 45 (30.41%) Mentoring
5 33 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (21.62%) Coaching
7 29 (19.59%) Containerisation
8 28 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (17.57%) Data Pipeline
9 26 (17.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 26 (17.57%) Test Automation
10 25 (16.89%) Data Modelling
11 23 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (14.86%) Analytics
13 21 (14.19%) AI
14 20 (13.51%) Software Engineering
15 19 (12.84%) Data Engineering
16 16 (10.81%) Data Governance
16 16 (10.81%) Decision-Making
17 15 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 71 (47.97%) Python
2 44 (29.73%) SQL
3 25 (16.89%) Java
4 20 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 19 (12.84%) Bash
6 16 (10.81%) C#
6 16 (10.81%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.43%) Go
8 5 (3.38%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.70%) R
10 2 (1.35%) Scala
11 1 (0.68%) C
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.49%) AWS Certification
4 12 (8.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 10 (6.76%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.76%) Degree
6 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) CCSP
7 1 (0.68%) CISA
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) GSEC
7 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.86%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.41%) QA
3 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.35%) GDPR
4 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (20.95%) Docker
2 4 (2.70%) iptables
3 3 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.03%) vSphere
4 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (26.35%) Terraform
2 17 (11.49%) Ansible
2 17 (11.49%) Grafana
3 16 (10.81%) Kubernetes
4 13 (8.78%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.03%) Argo
5 3 (2.03%) Control-M
5 3 (2.03%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (2.03%) systemd
6 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.68%) Puppet
7 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.73%) Databricks
3 6 (4.05%) Oracle
4 5 (3.38%) VMware
5 3 (2.03%) Arista
5 3 (2.03%) Aruba
5 3 (2.03%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.03%) Google
5 3 (2.03%) NetScout
6 2 (1.35%) Apple
6 2 (1.35%) Samsung
6 2 (1.35%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco
7 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.68%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.68%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.68%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) Zscaler