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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 182 47 106
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.56% 7.97% 7.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.08% 29.75% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 156 37 91
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £44,738
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.35% +4.74%
75th Percentile £80,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £84,964
North East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year - -0.71% +4.74%

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 443 158 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.84% 26.78% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 330 117 394
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £27,500
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 £74,987 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,000 £79,400
North East median annual salary £55,000 £51,125 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.58% +2.25% -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 19 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 19 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 +4 149 £65,000 +8.33% 44
Sunderland +2 21 £49,000 -24.62% 5
Gateshead -6 6 - - 1
Prudhoe - 6 £46,000 - 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 28 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (9.34%) Jupyter
3 13 (7.14%) Apache
3 13 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.65%) Confluence
4 3 (1.65%) WordPress
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.10%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.55%) CMS
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.55%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.55%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 104 (57.14%) Azure
2 38 (20.88%) GCP
3 28 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 24 (13.19%) GitHub
5 23 (12.64%) Serverless
6 18 (9.89%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (9.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (7.14%) Power Platform
11 12 (6.59%) Amazon EMR
12 11 (6.04%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (3.85%) Textract
15 4 (2.20%) Entra ID
15 4 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (2.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.34%) Firewall
2 10 (5.49%) DNS
3 8 (4.40%) HTTP
3 8 (4.40%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.65%) Internet
4 3 (1.65%) SSH
5 2 (1.10%) DHCP
5 2 (1.10%) LAN
5 2 (1.10%) VPN
5 2 (1.10%) WAN
6 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.55%) NGFW
6 1 (0.55%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.58%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 19 (10.44%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (10.44%) MySQL
4 18 (9.89%) DynamoDB
4 18 (9.89%) MongoDB
5 13 (7.14%) Power BI
6 11 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (5.49%) Tableau
8 9 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (4.40%) Metadata
10 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.30%) Big Data
11 6 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.30%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.75%) GIS
13 4 (2.20%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (2.20%) Data Vault
13 4 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 30 (16.48%) Git
2 27 (14.84%) GitLab
3 16 (8.79%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.85%) JIRA
5 5 (2.75%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.75%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.75%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.65%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.55%) Gatling
8 1 (0.55%) JMeter
8 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
General
1 54 (29.67%) Public Sector
2 37 (20.33%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.89%) Finance
6 16 (8.79%) Law
7 15 (8.24%) Legal
8 8 (4.40%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.40%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.30%) Retail
10 4 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.20%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.65%) Games
12 2 (1.10%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (19.23%) Senior
2 32 (17.58%) Developer
3 31 (17.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (12.64%) Lead
5 19 (10.44%) Data Engineer
6 18 (9.89%) Architect
7 17 (9.34%) Software Engineer
8 13 (7.14%) Python Developer
8 13 (7.14%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.59%) Python Engineer
10 11 (6.04%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (4.95%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (4.95%) Senior Python Developer
12 8 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (3.85%) Administrator
13 7 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (3.85%) Data Architect
13 7 (3.85%) Senior Architect
13 7 (3.85%) Trainee
14 6 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.64%) Node.js
2 22 (12.09%) .NET
2 22 (12.09%) React
3 15 (8.24%) CSS
3 15 (8.24%) RESTful
4 12 (6.59%) HTML
4 12 (6.59%) PySpark
5 11 (6.04%) .NET Core
5 11 (6.04%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (6.04%) REST
6 9 (4.95%) Flask
7 8 (4.40%) Spring
7 8 (4.40%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.30%) Swagger
10 5 (2.75%) Ajax
10 5 (2.75%) boto
10 5 (2.75%) Jinja
10 5 (2.75%) Pandas
10 5 (2.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.49%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.95%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (4.95%) Renewable Energy
5 8 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.30%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.30%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.20%) Life Science
9 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.65%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.65%) Replication
9 3 (1.65%) Robotics
10 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.10%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.74%) Linux
2 11 (6.04%) Windows
3 6 (3.30%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.75%) Unix
5 4 (2.20%) CentOS
5 4 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.65%) Debian
7 2 (1.10%) Android
7 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (39.01%) CI/CD
2 67 (36.81%) Agile
3 61 (33.52%) DevOps
4 51 (28.02%) Mentoring
5 41 (22.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (21.43%) Coaching
8 37 (20.33%) Test Automation
9 34 (18.68%) Containerisation
10 33 (18.13%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (18.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (14.84%) Data Modelling
13 26 (14.29%) AI
13 26 (14.29%) Analytics
13 26 (14.29%) Software Engineering
14 24 (13.19%) Microservices
15 23 (12.64%) Decision-Making
16 22 (12.09%) Data Engineering
17 21 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 87 (47.80%) Python
2 63 (34.62%) SQL
3 29 (15.93%) Java
4 24 (13.19%) JavaScript
4 24 (13.19%) TypeScript
5 21 (11.54%) C#
6 20 (10.99%) Bash
7 11 (6.04%) Go
8 7 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.10%) PHP
9 2 (1.10%) R
9 2 (1.10%) Scala
10 1 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 27 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.59%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.49%) Degree
5 7 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.55%) CCSP
9 1 (0.55%) CISA
9 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.55%) CISSP
9 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.55%) GSEC
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.84%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.49%) QA
3 4 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.65%) GDPR
5 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.10%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (25.82%) Docker
2 6 (3.30%) iptables
3 5 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.65%) vSphere
5 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (24.18%) Terraform
2 28 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 20 (10.99%) Ansible
4 15 (8.24%) Grafana
5 11 (6.04%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.20%) Puppet
7 3 (1.65%) Argo
7 3 (1.65%) Control-M
7 3 (1.65%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.65%) systemd
8 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.14%) Databricks
3 7 (3.85%) Oracle
4 6 (3.30%) VMware
5 3 (1.65%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.65%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.10%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.10%) Apple
6 2 (1.10%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.10%) Google
6 2 (1.10%) Pega
6 2 (1.10%) Samsung
6 2 (1.10%) UiPath
7 1 (0.55%) Aruba
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco
7 1 (0.55%) Citrix
7 1 (0.55%) IBM
7 1 (0.55%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.55%) Salesforce