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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 18 33
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -19
Permanent jobs citing AWS 224 45 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.32% 7.22% 5.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.36% 26.47% 15.67%
Number of salaries quoted 187 35 42
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,014
25th Percentile £47,750 £47,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -0.71% +0.71%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £76,693
90th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £84,964
North East median annual salary £66,000 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.71% +0.71%

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 505 170 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.02% 27.29% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 372 129 237
10th Percentile £36,250 £26,660 £31,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £34,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £77,700
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

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +5 186 £67,500 +12.50% 129
Sunderland +4 22 £48,000 -26.15% 6
Prudhoe - 10 £47,000 - 2
Gateshead -4 6 - - 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 (13.84%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (9.38%) Apache Spark
3 16 (7.14%) Jupyter
4 15 (6.70%) Apache
5 6 (2.68%) Confluence
6 3 (1.34%) WordPress
7 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.89%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.45%) CMS
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.89%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.45%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 122 (54.46%) Azure
2 55 (24.55%) GCP
3 46 (20.54%) Amazon S3
4 41 (18.30%) Serverless
5 30 (13.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 30 (13.39%) Amazon EC2
5 30 (13.39%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (12.95%) GitHub
7 19 (8.48%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
9 15 (6.70%) Amazon EMR
9 15 (6.70%) Power Platform
10 14 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (4.02%) Textract
14 6 (2.68%) Google Tag Manager
14 6 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.36%) Firewall
2 7 (3.13%) DNS
3 4 (1.79%) HTTP
3 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.34%) Internet
4 3 (1.34%) SSH
5 2 (0.89%) DHCP
5 2 (0.89%) LAN
5 2 (0.89%) VPN
5 2 (0.89%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (9.82%) DynamoDB
3 20 (8.93%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (8.93%) MongoDB
4 19 (8.48%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.59%) MySQL
6 15 (6.70%) Power BI
7 12 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (5.36%) Tableau
8 11 (4.91%) Metadata
9 10 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.57%) BigQuery
10 8 (3.57%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.57%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.13%) Big Data
11 7 (3.13%) GIS
12 6 (2.68%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.68%) Looker
Development Applications
1 48 (21.43%) Git
2 37 (16.52%) GitLab
3 18 (8.04%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.46%) JIRA
5 7 (3.13%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.68%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.34%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.34%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.89%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.45%) Gatling
9 1 (0.45%) JMeter
9 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 78 (34.82%) Public Sector
2 63 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 47 (20.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.82%) Finance
6 17 (7.59%) Law
6 17 (7.59%) Legal
7 6 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.79%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.34%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.89%) Retail
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (16.96%) Developer
1 38 (16.96%) Senior
2 37 (16.52%) Lead
3 34 (15.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (11.16%) Data Engineer
5 21 (9.38%) Architect
6 19 (8.48%) Software Engineer
7 15 (6.70%) Python Developer
8 13 (5.80%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (5.80%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.36%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.91%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.46%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Senior Python Developer
12 9 (4.02%) Senior Technical Architect
13 8 (3.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.95%) Node.js
2 25 (11.16%) .NET
3 23 (10.27%) React
4 22 (9.82%) CSS
5 18 (8.04%) PySpark
6 17 (7.59%) HTML
7 15 (6.70%) REST
8 14 (6.25%) RESTful
9 11 (4.91%) Flask
9 11 (4.91%) LangChain
10 10 (4.46%) .NET Core
10 10 (4.46%) Kafka
10 10 (4.46%) LlamaIndex
11 9 (4.02%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (3.13%) Jinja
12 7 (3.13%) jQuery
12 7 (3.13%) OpenLayers
12 7 (3.13%) Spring Boot
12 7 (3.13%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.80%) Distributed Computing
4 13 (5.80%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.91%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.91%) Renewable Energy
6 10 (4.46%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.68%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.68%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.79%) Life Science
11 3 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.34%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.34%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.34%) Replication
11 3 (1.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.95%) Linux
2 13 (5.80%) Windows
3 6 (2.68%) CentOS
3 6 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.68%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.23%) Unix
5 3 (1.34%) Debian
5 3 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (46.88%) CI/CD
2 96 (42.86%) Agile
3 95 (42.41%) DevOps
4 70 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (29.46%) Mentoring
6 55 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (23.21%) Containerisation
9 44 (19.64%) Coaching
10 42 (18.75%) Test Automation
11 41 (18.30%) AI
11 41 (18.30%) Data Engineering
11 41 (18.30%) Data Modelling
11 41 (18.30%) Data Pipeline
11 41 (18.30%) Technical Leadership
12 36 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
12 36 (16.07%) Software Engineering
13 35 (15.63%) Analytics
14 33 (14.73%) Decision-Making
15 29 (12.95%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 114 (50.89%) Python
2 73 (32.59%) SQL
3 34 (15.18%) Java
4 32 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 32 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 24 (10.71%) Bash
6 22 (9.82%) C#
7 9 (4.02%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.13%) Go
9 3 (1.34%) Scala
10 2 (0.89%) PHP
10 2 (0.89%) R
10 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 53 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 41 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.48%) AWS Certification
3 19 (8.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (7.14%) Degree
5 13 (5.80%) Azure Certification
6 12 (5.36%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.45%) CCSP
9 1 (0.45%) CISA
9 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.45%) CISSP
9 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.45%) GSEC
9 1 (0.45%) IIBA
9 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.04%) QA
3 7 (3.13%) GDPR
4 5 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.79%) NCSC
6 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.89%) WCAG
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 67 (29.91%) Docker
2 6 (2.68%) iptables
3 5 (2.23%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.34%) vSphere
5 2 (0.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 61 (27.23%) Terraform
2 39 (17.41%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.48%) Ansible
4 12 (5.36%) Grafana
5 7 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.68%) Puppet
7 3 (1.34%) Argo
7 3 (1.34%) Control-M
7 3 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.34%) systemd
8 1 (0.45%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.25%) Databricks
3 8 (3.57%) Google
4 7 (3.13%) Oracle
5 6 (2.68%) VMware
6 4 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.34%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.34%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.34%) Confluent
7 3 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.34%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.89%) Citrix
8 2 (0.89%) F5
8 2 (0.89%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.89%) Pega
8 2 (0.89%) Sage
8 2 (0.89%) Splunk
8 2 (0.89%) UiPath
9 1 (0.45%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.45%) Zscaler