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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing AWS 199 47 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.12% 7.74% 6.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.72% 29.01% 20.95%
Number of salaries quoted 170 37 65
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £44,145
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.35% +0.71%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,250 £76,250 £84,946
North East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year - -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 477 162 377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.86% 26.69% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 350 121 290
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
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

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 29 July 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 29 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 +4 165 £65,000 +8.33% 66
Sunderland +3 22 £48,000 -26.15% 8
Gateshead -5 6 - - 1
Prudhoe - 6 £47,000 - 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 29 (14.57%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (8.54%) Jupyter
3 16 (8.04%) Apache Spark
4 14 (7.04%) Apache
5 4 (2.01%) Confluence
6 3 (1.51%) WordPress
7 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.01%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.50%) CMS
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 110 (55.28%) Azure
2 43 (21.61%) GCP
3 36 (18.09%) Amazon S3
4 31 (15.58%) Serverless
5 28 (14.07%) GitHub
6 23 (11.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (11.56%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (11.56%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (7.04%) Power Platform
8 13 (6.53%) Amazon ECR
8 13 (6.53%) Amazon EMR
8 13 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (4.02%) Textract
11 7 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.54%) Firewall
2 10 (5.03%) DNS
3 7 (3.52%) HTTP
3 7 (3.52%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.51%) Internet
4 3 (1.51%) SSH
5 2 (1.01%) DHCP
5 2 (1.01%) LAN
5 2 (1.01%) VPN
5 2 (1.01%) WAN
6 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.59%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (10.55%) NoSQL
3 20 (10.05%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (10.05%) DynamoDB
3 20 (10.05%) MongoDB
4 19 (9.55%) MySQL
5 15 (7.54%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (7.04%) Power BI
7 11 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (5.53%) Tableau
8 10 (5.03%) Metadata
9 8 (4.02%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (3.52%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.02%) Big Data
11 6 (3.02%) BigQuery
11 6 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.02%) GIS
12 5 (2.51%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (2.01%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 39 (19.60%) Git
2 30 (15.08%) GitLab
3 18 (9.05%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.02%) JIRA
5 6 (3.02%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.51%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.01%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.51%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.51%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.50%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.50%) Gatling
9 1 (0.50%) JMeter
9 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 63 (31.66%) Public Sector
2 49 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.55%) Finance
6 16 (8.04%) Law
6 16 (8.04%) Legal
7 8 (4.02%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.52%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.51%) Retail
10 4 (2.01%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.51%) Games
11 3 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (18.59%) Senior
2 36 (18.09%) Developer
3 34 (17.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (13.57%) Lead
5 21 (10.55%) Data Engineer
6 19 (9.55%) Architect
7 17 (8.54%) Software Engineer
8 14 (7.04%) Python Developer
9 13 (6.53%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.03%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (6.03%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.52%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (4.52%) Senior Python Developer
12 8 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.02%) Senior Architect
12 8 (4.02%) Technical Architect
13 7 (3.52%) Administrator
13 7 (3.52%) Data Architect
13 7 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.56%) Node.js
2 24 (12.06%) .NET
2 24 (12.06%) React
3 18 (9.05%) CSS
4 15 (7.54%) RESTful
5 14 (7.04%) HTML
5 14 (7.04%) PySpark
6 13 (6.53%) REST
7 11 (5.53%) .NET Core
8 10 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (5.03%) Flask
9 8 (4.02%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.52%) LangChain
10 7 (3.52%) Spring
10 7 (3.52%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.02%) .NET Framework
11 6 (3.02%) Ajax
11 6 (3.02%) Jinja
11 6 (3.02%) jQuery
11 6 (3.02%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.60%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.53%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.53%) Data Structures
5 10 (5.03%) Distributed Computing
5 10 (5.03%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.03%) Renewable Energy
6 6 (3.02%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.02%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.02%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.01%) Life Science
9 3 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.51%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.51%) Replication
9 3 (1.51%) Robotics
10 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.07%) Linux
2 13 (6.53%) Windows
3 6 (3.02%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.51%) CentOS
4 5 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.51%) Unix
5 3 (1.51%) Debian
5 3 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.01%) Android
6 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.01%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (42.71%) CI/CD
2 79 (39.70%) Agile
3 75 (37.69%) DevOps
4 57 (28.64%) Mentoring
5 53 (26.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (21.11%) Containerisation
8 41 (20.60%) Coaching
9 39 (19.60%) Test Automation
10 37 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (18.09%) Data Pipeline
12 35 (17.59%) Full-Stack Development
13 33 (16.58%) Data Modelling
14 32 (16.08%) AI
14 32 (16.08%) Analytics
15 30 (15.08%) Data Engineering
16 29 (14.57%) Software Engineering
17 28 (14.07%) Technical Leadership
18 27 (13.57%) Decision-Making
19 26 (13.07%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 97 (48.74%) Python
2 68 (34.17%) SQL
3 30 (15.08%) Java
4 28 (14.07%) JavaScript
5 26 (13.07%) TypeScript
6 22 (11.06%) C#
7 20 (10.05%) Bash
8 10 (5.03%) Go
9 7 (3.52%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.01%) PHP
10 2 (1.01%) R
10 2 (1.01%) Scala
10 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 42 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.04%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.53%) Degree
5 9 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.52%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.02%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.50%) CCSP
9 1 (0.50%) CISA
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.50%) GSEC
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.58%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.04%) QA
3 5 (2.51%) GDPR
4 4 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.01%) WCAG
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (28.64%) Docker
2 6 (3.02%) iptables
3 5 (2.51%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.51%) vSphere
5 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 51 (25.63%) Terraform
2 33 (16.58%) Kubernetes
3 19 (9.55%) Ansible
4 14 (7.04%) Grafana
5 10 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.01%) Puppet
7 3 (1.51%) Argo
7 3 (1.51%) Control-M
7 3 (1.51%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.51%) systemd
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.50%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.50%) Kibana
9 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.04%) Databricks
3 7 (3.52%) Oracle
4 6 (3.02%) VMware
5 4 (2.01%) Google
6 3 (1.51%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.51%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.51%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.01%) Apple
7 2 (1.01%) Citrix
7 2 (1.01%) Confluent
7 2 (1.01%) F5
7 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.01%) Pega
7 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.01%) Samsung
7 2 (1.01%) UiPath
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco
8 1 (0.50%) Red Hat