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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 29 8
Rank change year-on-year +14 -21 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 64 54 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.06% 7.28% 12.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.32% 21.86% 33.54%
Number of salaries quoted 59 35 42
10th Percentile - £42,500 £42,625
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £92,500 £73,063
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £84,500
North East median annual salary £50,000 £69,308 £57,500
% change year-on-year -27.86% +20.53% -14.81%

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 226 247 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 28.46% 33.29% 38.41%
Number of salaries quoted 173 130 141
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,975 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,241 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £74,444 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,250 £95,000 £77,500
North East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 29 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +8 47 £30,500 -59.47% 122
Sunderland +8 14 £55,000 -31.25% 14
Gateshead -2 3 £47,500 -9.52% 2
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:

Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (73.44%) Azure
2 24 (37.50%) GitHub
3 9 (14.06%) GCP
4 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.69%) SaaS
7 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.13%) Slack
8 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (31.25%) Internet
2 3 (4.69%) Firewall
3 2 (3.13%) DNS
3 2 (3.13%) HTTP
3 2 (3.13%) SAN
3 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.56%) BGP
4 1 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.56%) IPsec
4 1 (1.56%) LAN
4 1 (1.56%) OSPF
4 1 (1.56%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.56%) VPN
4 1 (1.56%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.56%) Wireless
4 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Redis
2 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (32.81%) Git
2 6 (9.38%) TeamCity
3 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.69%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.69%) GitLab
4 3 (4.69%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.13%) JIRA
5 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.56%) Maven
6 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (31.25%) Multimedia
2 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.75%) Games
4 6 (9.38%) Finance
5 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Retail
7 2 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (40.63%) Developer
2 23 (35.94%) Trainee
3 12 (18.75%) Software Developer
3 12 (18.75%) Trainee Developer
3 12 (18.75%) Trainee Software Developer
4 11 (17.19%) AWS Developer
5 10 (15.63%) C# Developer
5 10 (15.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (10.94%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Consultant
7 6 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Head of IT
8 4 (6.25%) Head of IT Security
8 4 (6.25%) Head of Security
8 4 (6.25%) Lead
9 3 (4.69%) Head of Engineering
9 3 (4.69%) React Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Technology Consultant
9 3 (4.69%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.38%) CSS
1 22 (34.38%) HTML
2 9 (14.06%) .NET
3 8 (12.50%) REST
4 7 (10.94%) React
5 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
5 6 (9.38%) Vue
6 4 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.69%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.69%) Itk
7 3 (4.69%) Node.js
8 2 (3.13%) CSS3
8 2 (3.13%) HTML5
8 2 (3.13%) Spring
8 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.56%) Bootstrap
9 1 (1.56%) Dropwizard
9 1 (1.56%) hapi
9 1 (1.56%) Mongoose
9 1 (1.56%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
1 5 (7.81%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.25%) Client/Server
2 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.69%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (35.94%) Mentoring
3 16 (25.00%) DevOps
4 13 (20.31%) Computer Science
5 11 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
7 9 (14.06%) Agile
7 9 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.94%) Software Engineering
10 6 (9.38%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (9.38%) High Availability
10 6 (9.38%) Observability
10 6 (9.38%) Roadmaps
10 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (7.81%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (7.81%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.75%) JavaScript
1 28 (43.75%) Python
2 15 (23.44%) C#
3 10 (15.63%) TypeScript
4 8 (12.50%) R
4 8 (12.50%) SQL
5 6 (9.38%) Java
6 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.69%) Tcl
8 2 (3.13%) Bash
8 2 (3.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 24 (37.50%) Azure Certification
1 24 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (31.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 10 (15.63%) Degree
4 6 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (9.38%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.69%) HNC
6 3 (4.69%) HND
7 1 (1.56%) CCNP
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.13%) vSphere
5 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Terraform
2 6 (9.38%) Grafana
3 4 (6.25%) Ansible
3 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.13%) Control-M
4 2 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (42.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) VMware
3 3 (4.69%) Siemens
4 2 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Aruba
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco
5 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto