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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 106 41 149
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.40% 10.28% 11.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.64% 30.15% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 90 36 126
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,369 £43,125
25th Percentile £33,750 £50,313 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.47% +1.56% +0.39%
75th Percentile £65,480 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £80,025 £78,750 £84,919
North East median annual salary £49,222 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -24.27% +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 346 136 533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 24.16% 34.09% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 229 117 450
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,238 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £69,390 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 27 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 27 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 -3 78 £48,445 -25.47% 68
Sunderland +7 23 £55,000 -21.43% 2
Prudhoe +1 5 £45,000 -
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 (4.72%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.89%) WordPress
4 1 (0.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.94%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 71 (66.98%) Azure
2 30 (28.30%) GitHub
3 24 (22.64%) GCP
4 13 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (5.66%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.77%) OCI
8 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.77%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.83%) Serverless
9 3 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.89%) Dagster
10 2 (1.89%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.89%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.98%) Internet
2 17 (16.04%) Firewall
3 13 (12.26%) DNS
4 11 (10.38%) HTTP
4 11 (10.38%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.83%) NGFW
5 3 (2.83%) SSH
5 3 (2.83%) VXLAN
5 3 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.83%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.89%) DHCP
6 2 (1.89%) LAN
6 2 (1.89%) VPN
6 2 (1.89%) WAN
7 1 (0.94%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.60%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.72%) MySQL
2 5 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (3.77%) Metadata
3 4 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.77%) Power BI
4 3 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.83%) Data Vault
4 3 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.89%) Tableau
6 1 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.94%) Big Data
6 1 (0.94%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.94%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (18.87%) Git
2 14 (13.21%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.72%) GitLab
3 5 (4.72%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (2.83%) JIRA
5 2 (1.89%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.94%) Gatling
6 1 (0.94%) JMeter
6 1 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.94%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.94%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (16.04%) Multimedia
2 16 (15.09%) Law
2 16 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 13 (12.26%) Finance
4 12 (11.32%) Telecoms
5 11 (10.38%) Games
6 6 (5.66%) Social Skills
7 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.72%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.72%) Retail
8 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (23.58%) Developer
2 22 (20.75%) Trainee
3 20 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (12.26%) Lead
4 13 (12.26%) Software Developer
5 10 (9.43%) Senior
6 9 (8.49%) Architect
6 9 (8.49%) AWS Developer
6 9 (8.49%) Trainee Developer
6 9 (8.49%) Trainee Software Developer
7 7 (6.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.66%) React Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Administrator
9 5 (4.72%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 5 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) C# Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Programmer
9 5 (4.72%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.04%) CSS
1 17 (16.04%) HTML
2 16 (15.09%) .NET
3 12 (11.32%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (8.49%) .NET Core
5 8 (7.55%) REST
6 7 (6.60%) React
6 7 (6.60%) Spring
6 7 (6.60%) Spring Boot
7 6 (5.66%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.72%) Hugging Face
8 5 (4.72%) Matplotlib
8 5 (4.72%) NumPy
8 5 (4.72%) Pandas
8 5 (4.72%) RESTful
8 5 (4.72%) scikit-learn
8 5 (4.72%) Streamlit
9 4 (3.77%) Node.js
10 3 (2.83%) Kafka
10 3 (2.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.60%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.77%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.83%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.83%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.83%) PKI
4 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.83%) Replication
5 2 (1.89%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.89%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.94%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.43%) Linux
2 5 (4.72%) Windows
3 3 (2.83%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.89%) Android
4 2 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.89%) Unix
4 2 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.02%) Mentoring
2 30 (28.30%) DevOps
3 28 (26.42%) CI/CD
4 21 (19.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (16.98%) Containerisation
5 18 (16.98%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (16.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (15.09%) Agile
7 16 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (14.15%) Coaching
9 13 (12.26%) Continuous Delivery
9 13 (12.26%) High Availability
10 12 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (11.32%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.32%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 11 (10.38%) DevSecOps
11 11 (10.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (10.38%) Static Code Analysis
11 11 (10.38%) Test Automation
12 9 (8.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 46 (43.40%) Python
2 23 (21.70%) JavaScript
3 17 (16.04%) C#
4 15 (14.15%) Bash
4 15 (14.15%) Java
5 14 (13.21%) SQL
6 11 (10.38%) Go
7 10 (9.43%) TypeScript
8 8 (7.55%) R
9 3 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.94%) C
10 1 (0.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (23.58%) AWS Certification
2 22 (20.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 20 (18.87%) Azure Certification
4 19 (17.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (9.43%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.60%) Degree
7 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.89%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.94%) CCSP
9 1 (0.94%) CISA
9 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.94%) CISSP
9 1 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.94%) GSEC
9 1 (0.94%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.89%) QA
2 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.94%) GDPR
2 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.94%) NIST
2 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.60%) Docker
2 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.83%) iptables
3 2 (1.89%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (21.70%) Terraform
2 17 (16.04%) Grafana
3 15 (14.15%) Ansible
3 15 (14.15%) Prometheus
4 7 (6.60%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.83%) systemd
6 2 (1.89%) Argo
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.94%) Control-M
7 1 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (34.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.83%) Arista
2 3 (2.83%) Aruba
2 3 (2.83%) NetScout
2 3 (2.83%) VMware
3 2 (1.89%) Apple
3 2 (1.89%) Databricks
3 2 (1.89%) Google
3 2 (1.89%) Oracle
3 2 (1.89%) Samsung
4 1 (0.94%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.94%) Cisco
4 1 (0.94%) Cloudera
4 1 (0.94%) CyberArk
4 1 (0.94%) Dataiku
4 1 (0.94%) Proofpoint
4 1 (0.94%) Splunk
4 1 (0.94%) Zscaler