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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 189 48 94
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.76% 7.96% 7.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.09% 30.19% 21.86%
Number of salaries quoted 162 38 80
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,375 £44,738
25th Percentile £47,000 £48,438 £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 £82,188 £67,500 £77,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,625 £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 460 159 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.33% 26.37% 34.21%
Number of salaries quoted 338 118 343
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £27,850
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,625 £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 £66,875 £67,968
90th Percentile £89,125 £80,750 £80,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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

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Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 24 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 24 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 +2 156 £65,000 +8.33% 65
Sunderland +4 22 £49,000 -24.62% 8
Gateshead -5 6 - - 1
Prudhoe - 5 £47,000 - 3
AWS
North East

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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 29 (15.34%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (9.52%) Jupyter
3 14 (7.41%) Apache
3 14 (7.41%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.12%) Confluence
5 3 (1.59%) WordPress
6 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.06%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.53%) CMS
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.53%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 103 (54.50%) Azure
2 38 (20.11%) GCP
3 32 (16.93%) Amazon S3
4 27 (14.29%) Serverless
5 24 (12.70%) GitHub
6 21 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (10.58%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (10.58%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (7.41%) Power Platform
9 13 (6.88%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (6.88%) Amazon EMR
9 13 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (4.23%) Textract
14 7 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
16 4 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (2.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.94%) Firewall
2 10 (5.29%) DNS
3 7 (3.70%) HTTP
3 7 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.59%) Internet
4 3 (1.59%) SSH
5 2 (1.06%) DHCP
5 2 (1.06%) LAN
5 2 (1.06%) VPN
5 2 (1.06%) WAN
6 1 (0.53%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (11.64%) NoSQL
3 20 (10.58%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (10.58%) DynamoDB
3 20 (10.58%) MongoDB
4 19 (10.05%) MySQL
5 14 (7.41%) Power BI
6 12 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (5.82%) Tableau
8 10 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (4.76%) Metadata
10 8 (4.23%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.17%) Big Data
11 6 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.17%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.65%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.65%) GIS
13 4 (2.12%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.12%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 34 (17.99%) Git
2 29 (15.34%) GitLab
3 16 (8.47%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.23%) JIRA
5 6 (3.17%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.65%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.65%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (2.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.59%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.53%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.53%) Gatling
9 1 (0.53%) JMeter
9 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 58 (30.69%) Public Sector
2 43 (22.75%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.58%) Finance
5 16 (8.47%) Legal
6 15 (7.94%) Law
7 8 (4.23%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.17%) Retail
10 4 (2.12%) Games
10 4 (2.12%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.59%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.06%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (19.05%) Senior
2 34 (17.99%) Developer
3 32 (16.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (12.70%) Lead
5 19 (10.05%) Architect
5 19 (10.05%) Data Engineer
6 17 (8.99%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.88%) Python Developer
7 13 (6.88%) Senior Developer
8 12 (6.35%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (6.35%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Python Data Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Senior Python Developer
10 8 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Senior Architect
10 8 (4.23%) Technical Architect
11 7 (3.70%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.70%) Administrator
11 7 (3.70%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.70%) Node.js
2 23 (12.17%) .NET
2 23 (12.17%) React
3 15 (7.94%) CSS
3 15 (7.94%) RESTful
4 14 (7.41%) PySpark
5 13 (6.88%) REST
6 12 (6.35%) HTML
7 11 (5.82%) .NET Core
8 10 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (4.76%) Flask
10 8 (4.23%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.23%) Spring
10 8 (4.23%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.17%) .NET Framework
11 6 (3.17%) LangChain
11 6 (3.17%) Swagger
12 5 (2.65%) Hugging Face
12 5 (2.65%) LlamaIndex
12 5 (2.65%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.41%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.82%) Data Structures
4 10 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.17%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.17%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.12%) Life Science
9 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.59%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.59%) Replication
10 3 (1.59%) Robotics
11 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.06%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.76%) Linux
2 13 (6.88%) Windows
3 6 (3.17%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.65%) Unix
5 4 (2.12%) CentOS
5 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.59%) Debian
6 3 (1.59%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.06%) Android
7 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (40.21%) CI/CD
2 74 (39.15%) Agile
3 66 (34.92%) DevOps
4 52 (27.51%) Mentoring
5 44 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (21.16%) Coaching
6 40 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (21.16%) Test Automation
7 36 (19.05%) Containerisation
8 35 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (17.99%) Data Pipeline
9 34 (17.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (15.87%) Analytics
10 30 (15.87%) Data Modelling
11 27 (14.29%) AI
11 27 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 26 (13.76%) Data Engineering
13 25 (13.23%) Decision-Making
14 24 (12.70%) Microservices
15 23 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 90 (47.62%) Python
2 67 (35.45%) SQL
3 29 (15.34%) Java
4 26 (13.76%) JavaScript
5 25 (13.23%) TypeScript
6 22 (11.64%) C#
7 20 (10.58%) Bash
8 10 (5.29%) Go
9 8 (4.23%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.06%) PHP
10 2 (1.06%) R
10 2 (1.06%) Scala
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.40%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.88%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.82%) Degree
5 7 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.53%) CCSP
9 1 (0.53%) CISA
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CISSP
9 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.53%) GSEC
9 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.40%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.88%) QA
3 4 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.12%) GDPR
4 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.06%) WCAG
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (26.98%) Docker
2 6 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.17%) iptables
3 3 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.59%) vSphere
4 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (24.34%) Terraform
2 31 (16.40%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.52%) Ansible
4 14 (7.41%) Grafana
5 10 (5.29%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.12%) Puppet
7 3 (1.59%) Argo
7 3 (1.59%) Control-M
7 3 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.59%) systemd
8 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.53%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.53%) Kibana
9 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.88%) Databricks
3 7 (3.70%) Oracle
4 6 (3.17%) VMware
5 3 (1.59%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.59%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.59%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.59%) Google
5 3 (1.59%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.06%) Apple
6 2 (1.06%) Citrix
6 2 (1.06%) Confluent
6 2 (1.06%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.06%) F5
6 2 (1.06%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.06%) Pega
6 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.06%) Samsung
6 2 (1.06%) UiPath
7 1 (0.53%) Red Hat