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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 168 46 139
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.18% 8.73% 9.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.72% 31.72% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 142 36 120
10th Percentile £41,375 £35,000 £43,513
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year - -4.53% +4.74%
75th Percentile £79,688 £67,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £88,148 £76,875 £84,964
North East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

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 423 145 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.59% 27.51% 37.09%
Number of salaries quoted 311 109 455
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £27,950
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
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

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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 3 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 3 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 +2 134 £65,000 +8.33% 56
Sunderland +7 23 £52,500 -27.59% 4
Gateshead -9 6 - - 2
Prudhoe - 5 £45,000 -
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 25 (14.88%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (9.52%) Jupyter
3 12 (7.14%) Apache
3 12 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.19%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.19%) WordPress
5 1 (0.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.60%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.60%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 100 (59.52%) Azure
2 39 (23.21%) GCP
3 26 (15.48%) Amazon S3
4 22 (13.10%) GitHub
5 20 (11.90%) Serverless
6 16 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (7.74%) Power Platform
9 12 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (6.55%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (5.95%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (3.57%) Textract
15 4 (2.38%) OCI
15 4 (2.38%) SaaS
15 4 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.90%) Firewall
2 11 (6.55%) DNS
3 9 (5.36%) HTTP
3 9 (5.36%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.38%) Internet
5 3 (1.79%) NGFW
5 3 (1.79%) SSH
5 3 (1.79%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.79%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.19%) DHCP
6 2 (1.19%) LAN
6 2 (1.19%) VPN
6 2 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.31%) NoSQL
3 18 (10.71%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (9.52%) MySQL
5 15 (8.93%) DynamoDB
5 15 (8.93%) MongoDB
6 13 (7.74%) Power BI
7 10 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (5.95%) Metadata
7 10 (5.95%) Tableau
8 9 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.57%) Big Data
9 6 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.57%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.98%) GIS
11 4 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (2.38%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.79%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 24 (14.29%) Git
2 21 (12.50%) GitLab
3 14 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.98%) JIRA
4 5 (2.98%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.98%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.98%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.79%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.60%) Gatling
6 1 (0.60%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 49 (29.17%) Public Sector
2 31 (18.45%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (10.71%) Finance
5 15 (8.93%) Law
6 13 (7.74%) Legal
7 9 (5.36%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.76%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.57%) Retail
10 5 (2.98%) Games
11 4 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.79%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.79%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (17.86%) Senior
2 29 (17.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (15.48%) Developer
4 22 (13.10%) Lead
5 19 (11.31%) Architect
6 17 (10.12%) Data Engineer
7 16 (9.52%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (5.95%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.76%) Trainee
11 7 (4.17%) Administrator
11 7 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Python Data Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.17%) Senior Architect
11 7 (4.17%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.57%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.10%) .NET
2 20 (11.90%) Node.js
3 18 (10.71%) React
4 13 (7.74%) RESTful
5 12 (7.14%) .NET Core
5 12 (7.14%) CSS
5 12 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (6.55%) PySpark
6 11 (6.55%) REST
7 9 (5.36%) HTML
8 8 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.76%) Spring
8 8 (4.76%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.57%) Flask
9 6 (3.57%) Vue
10 5 (2.98%) boto
10 5 (2.98%) Jinja
10 5 (2.98%) Matplotlib
10 5 (2.98%) NumPy
10 5 (2.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.48%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 11 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.36%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (3.57%) Hedge funds
7 6 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.38%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.38%) Life Science
9 4 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.79%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.79%) PKI
10 3 (1.79%) Replication
10 3 (1.79%) Robotics
11 2 (1.19%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.90%) Linux
2 10 (5.95%) Windows
3 6 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.98%) Unix
5 3 (1.79%) Debian
6 2 (1.19%) Android
6 2 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.60%) CentOS
7 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.31%) Agile
1 61 (36.31%) CI/CD
2 57 (33.93%) DevOps
3 50 (29.76%) Mentoring
4 39 (23.21%) Coaching
5 37 (22.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (20.24%) Test Automation
7 33 (19.64%) Containerisation
8 32 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
9 30 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (16.67%) Data Modelling
11 27 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (14.88%) Analytics
12 25 (14.88%) Software Engineering
13 23 (13.69%) AI
14 21 (12.50%) Data Engineering
15 20 (11.90%) Microservices
16 19 (11.31%) Decision-Making
16 19 (11.31%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 80 (47.62%) Python
2 57 (33.93%) SQL
3 28 (16.67%) Java
4 22 (13.10%) TypeScript
5 21 (12.50%) C#
6 19 (11.31%) Bash
6 19 (11.31%) JavaScript
7 12 (7.14%) Go
8 6 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.19%) R
9 2 (1.19%) Scala
10 1 (0.60%) C
10 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.74%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.95%) Degree
5 8 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.98%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.60%) CCSP
9 1 (0.60%) CISA
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CISSP
9 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.60%) GSEC
9 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.48%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.36%) QA
3 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.79%) GDPR
4 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (23.21%) Docker
2 6 (3.57%) iptables
3 3 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.79%) vSphere
4 2 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (25.00%) Terraform
2 23 (13.69%) Kubernetes
3 20 (11.90%) Ansible
4 16 (9.52%) Grafana
5 12 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.38%) Puppet
7 3 (1.79%) Argo
7 3 (1.79%) Control-M
7 3 (1.79%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.79%) systemd
8 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.55%) Databricks
3 7 (4.17%) Oracle
4 6 (3.57%) VMware
5 4 (2.38%) Google
6 3 (1.79%) Arista
6 3 (1.79%) Aruba
6 3 (1.79%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.79%) NetScout
6 3 (1.79%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.19%) Apple
7 2 (1.19%) Pega
7 2 (1.19%) Samsung
8 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.60%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.60%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.60%) Infor
8 1 (0.60%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.60%) Splunk