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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 185 46 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.68% 7.78% 7.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.48% 29.30% 22.57%
Number of salaries quoted 159 36 88
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £44,738
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year - -4.53% +4.74%
75th Percentile £81,875 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,875 £84,964
North East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year - -0.71% +4.74%

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 446 157 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.92% 26.57% 34.61%
Number of salaries quoted 331 116 365
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 £74,987 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -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 21 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 21 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 +3 152 £65,000 +8.33% 48
Sunderland +2 21 £49,000 -24.62% 6
Gateshead -6 6 - - 1
Prudhoe - 6 £46,000 - 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 28 (15.14%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (9.19%) Jupyter
3 13 (7.03%) Apache
3 13 (7.03%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.62%) Confluence
4 3 (1.62%) WordPress
5 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.08%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.54%) CMS
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.54%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.54%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 105 (56.76%) Azure
2 39 (21.08%) GCP
3 29 (15.68%) Amazon S3
4 24 (12.97%) GitHub
4 24 (12.97%) Serverless
5 18 (9.73%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (9.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (7.03%) Power Platform
9 12 (6.49%) Amazon EMR
10 11 (5.95%) Amazon ECR
10 11 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (4.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (3.78%) Textract
13 4 (2.16%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.19%) Firewall
2 10 (5.41%) DNS
3 8 (4.32%) HTTP
3 8 (4.32%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.62%) Internet
4 3 (1.62%) SSH
5 2 (1.08%) DHCP
5 2 (1.08%) LAN
5 2 (1.08%) VPN
5 2 (1.08%) WAN
6 1 (0.54%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.54%) NGFW
6 1 (0.54%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.30%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (11.35%) NoSQL
3 19 (10.27%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (10.27%) MongoDB
3 19 (10.27%) MySQL
4 18 (9.73%) DynamoDB
5 13 (7.03%) Power BI
6 11 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (5.41%) Tableau
8 9 (4.86%) Metadata
9 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.24%) Big Data
10 6 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.24%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.70%) GIS
12 4 (2.16%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (2.16%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.16%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 31 (16.76%) Git
2 27 (14.59%) GitLab
3 16 (8.65%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.78%) JIRA
5 5 (2.70%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.70%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (2.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.62%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.62%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.62%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.54%) Gatling
8 1 (0.54%) JMeter
8 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
General
1 56 (30.27%) Public Sector
2 39 (21.08%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.73%) Finance
6 16 (8.65%) Law
6 16 (8.65%) Legal
7 8 (4.32%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.32%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.24%) Retail
9 4 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.16%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.62%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.62%) Games
11 2 (1.08%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (19.46%) Senior
2 33 (17.84%) Developer
3 31 (16.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (12.97%) Lead
5 19 (10.27%) Architect
5 19 (10.27%) Data Engineer
6 17 (9.19%) Software Engineer
7 13 (7.03%) Python Developer
7 13 (7.03%) Senior Developer
8 12 (6.49%) Python Engineer
9 11 (5.95%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (4.86%) Python Data Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Senior Python Developer
11 8 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Senior Architect
12 7 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.78%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.78%) Senior Technical Architect
12 7 (3.78%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.43%) .NET
1 23 (12.43%) Node.js
1 23 (12.43%) React
2 15 (8.11%) CSS
2 15 (8.11%) RESTful
3 12 (6.49%) HTML
3 12 (6.49%) PySpark
3 12 (6.49%) REST
4 11 (5.95%) .NET Core
4 11 (5.95%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (4.86%) Flask
6 8 (4.32%) Spring
6 8 (4.32%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.78%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.24%) .NET Framework
8 6 (3.24%) Swagger
9 5 (2.70%) Hugging Face
9 5 (2.70%) LangChain
9 5 (2.70%) OpenLayers
9 5 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.84%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.57%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.57%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.86%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (4.86%) Renewable Energy
5 8 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.24%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.24%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.16%) Life Science
9 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.62%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.62%) Replication
9 3 (1.62%) Robotics
10 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.08%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.51%) Linux
2 11 (5.95%) Windows
3 6 (3.24%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.70%) Unix
5 4 (2.16%) CentOS
5 4 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.62%) Debian
7 2 (1.08%) Android
7 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (38.92%) CI/CD
2 69 (37.30%) Agile
3 62 (33.51%) DevOps
4 53 (28.65%) Mentoring
5 41 (22.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (21.08%) Coaching
8 37 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 34 (18.38%) Containerisation
9 34 (18.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 33 (17.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (17.84%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (15.14%) Data Modelling
12 27 (14.59%) Analytics
13 26 (14.05%) AI
13 26 (14.05%) Software Engineering
14 25 (13.51%) Decision-Making
15 24 (12.97%) Microservices
16 23 (12.43%) Data Engineering
16 23 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 88 (47.57%) Python
2 64 (34.59%) SQL
3 29 (15.68%) Java
4 25 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 24 (12.97%) TypeScript
6 22 (11.89%) C#
7 20 (10.81%) Bash
8 11 (5.95%) Go
9 7 (3.78%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.08%) PHP
10 2 (1.08%) R
10 2 (1.08%) Scala
11 1 (0.54%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.49%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.41%) Degree
5 7 (3.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.54%) CCSP
9 1 (0.54%) CISA
9 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CISSP
9 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.54%) GSEC
9 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.14%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.41%) QA
3 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.16%) GDPR
4 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.08%) WCAG
5 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.54%) NIST
5 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (25.41%) Docker
2 6 (3.24%) iptables
3 5 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.62%) vSphere
5 2 (1.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (23.78%) Terraform
2 29 (15.68%) Kubernetes
3 20 (10.81%) Ansible
4 15 (8.11%) Grafana
5 11 (5.95%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.16%) Puppet
7 3 (1.62%) Argo
7 3 (1.62%) Control-M
7 3 (1.62%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.62%) systemd
8 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.03%) Databricks
3 7 (3.78%) Oracle
4 6 (3.24%) VMware
5 3 (1.62%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.62%) Google
5 3 (1.62%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.08%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.08%) Apple
6 2 (1.08%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.08%) Pega
6 2 (1.08%) Samsung
6 2 (1.08%) UiPath
7 1 (0.54%) Aruba
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco
7 1 (0.54%) Citrix
7 1 (0.54%) IBM
7 1 (0.54%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.54%) Salesforce