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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 108 42 146
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.62% 10.82% 11.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.93% 30.43% 28.68%
Number of salaries quoted 92 34 126
10th Percentile - £37,171 £41,938
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £58,750 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% -8.20% +4.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,063 £75,772
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £84,919
North East median annual salary £47,972 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -26.20% +3.53% +14.15%

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 328 138 509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 26.18% 35.57% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 226 120 431
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,410 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,184 £35,460
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,640 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,500 £77,500
North East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 77 £47,500 -24.00% 59
Sunderland +8 26 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Prudhoe +1 4 £45,000 - 2
Gateshead -16 1 £47,500 -9.52%
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 5 (4.63%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.85%) WordPress
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.93%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.93%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 76 (70.37%) Azure
2 34 (31.48%) GitHub
3 23 (21.30%) GCP
4 12 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.70%) OCI
8 3 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.78%) SaaS
8 3 (2.78%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.85%) Serverless
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.93%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.93%) Slack
10 1 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.37%) Internet
2 18 (16.67%) Firewall
3 13 (12.04%) DNS
4 11 (10.19%) HTTP
4 11 (10.19%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.70%) VXLAN
6 3 (2.78%) LAN
6 3 (2.78%) NGFW
6 3 (2.78%) VPN
6 3 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.78%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.85%) DHCP
7 2 (1.85%) WAN
8 1 (0.93%) BGP
8 1 (0.93%) IPsec
8 1 (0.93%) OSPF
8 1 (0.93%) SAN
8 1 (0.93%) SSH
8 1 (0.93%) Wireless
8 1 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.70%) Metadata
3 3 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.78%) Data Vault
3 3 (2.78%) MySQL
3 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.78%) Power BI
4 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.85%) Redis
4 2 (1.85%) Tableau
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.93%) Big Data
5 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (21.30%) Git
2 13 (12.04%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.63%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (2.78%) JIRA
4 3 (2.78%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.85%) GitLab
6 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.93%) Gatling
6 1 (0.93%) JMeter
6 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (19.44%) Multimedia
2 15 (13.89%) Finance
3 14 (12.96%) Games
3 14 (12.96%) Law
4 13 (12.04%) Social Skills
5 12 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.41%) Retail
7 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.63%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (26.85%) Trainee
2 27 (25.00%) Developer
3 16 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.96%) Software Developer
5 11 (10.19%) Architect
5 11 (10.19%) AWS Developer
5 11 (10.19%) Lead
5 11 (10.19%) Trainee Developer
5 11 (10.19%) Trainee Software Developer
6 9 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (7.41%) Senior
8 7 (6.48%) C# Developer
9 6 (5.56%) React Developer
9 6 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 5 (4.63%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 5 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Programmer
10 5 (4.63%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.44%) CSS
1 21 (19.44%) HTML
2 16 (14.81%) .NET
3 12 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (9.26%) REST
5 8 (7.41%) .NET Core
5 8 (7.41%) React
6 7 (6.48%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.63%) Hugging Face
7 5 (4.63%) Matplotlib
7 5 (4.63%) NumPy
7 5 (4.63%) Pandas
7 5 (4.63%) scikit-learn
7 5 (4.63%) Streamlit
8 4 (3.70%) RESTful
8 4 (3.70%) Spring
8 4 (3.70%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.70%) Vue
9 2 (1.85%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.78%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.78%) NHS
4 3 (2.78%) PKI
4 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.85%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.93%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.56%) Linux
2 4 (3.70%) Windows
3 3 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.85%) Android
4 2 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 26 (24.07%) DevOps
3 22 (20.37%) CI/CD
3 22 (20.37%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (14.81%) Containerisation
7 14 (12.96%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (12.04%) Agile
8 13 (12.04%) Continuous Delivery
8 13 (12.04%) High Availability
9 12 (11.11%) Coaching
9 12 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 11 (10.19%) DevSecOps
10 11 (10.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (10.19%) Software Engineering
10 11 (10.19%) Static Code Analysis
11 10 (9.26%) Computer Science
12 9 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (44.44%) Python
2 28 (25.93%) JavaScript
3 18 (16.67%) C#
4 15 (13.89%) SQL
5 13 (12.04%) Bash
6 12 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.19%) Go
8 10 (9.26%) R
9 9 (8.33%) Java
10 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.93%) C
11 1 (0.93%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 29 (26.85%) AWS Certification
2 26 (24.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 24 (22.22%) Azure Certification
4 23 (21.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (8.33%) Degree
6 8 (7.41%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.78%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.93%) CCNP
9 1 (0.93%) CCSP
9 1 (0.93%) CISA
9 1 (0.93%) CISSP
9 1 (0.93%) GSEC
9 1 (0.93%) HNC
9 1 (0.93%) HND
9 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.93%) GDPR
2 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.93%) NIST
2 1 (0.93%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (7.41%) Docker
2 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) iptables
3 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (18.52%) Terraform
2 15 (13.89%) Ansible
2 15 (13.89%) Grafana
3 13 (12.04%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.93%) Control-M
6 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.93%) systemd
6 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.63%) VMware
3 4 (3.70%) Aruba
4 3 (2.78%) Arista
4 3 (2.78%) NetScout
5 2 (1.85%) Apple
5 2 (1.85%) Cisco
5 2 (1.85%) Databricks
5 2 (1.85%) Google
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle
5 2 (1.85%) Samsung
6 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.93%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.93%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.93%) Siemens
6 1 (0.93%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Zscaler