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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 24 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -14 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 58 61 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.56% 6.76% 11.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.10% 20.68% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 51 39 34
10th Percentile - £42,448 £47,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £88,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £86,750
North East median annual salary £48,000 £70,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year -31.43% +9.80% -8.93%

All Cloud 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 214 295 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 27.90% 32.71% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 166 158 116
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,350 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,300 £42,238 £37,976
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,438 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,125 £88,250 £77,500
North East median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 1 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 1 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 +6 43 £36,500 -48.77% 35
Sunderland +5 12 £55,000 -31.25% 11
Gateshead -3 3 £47,500 -9.52% 1
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 3 (5.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (72.41%) Azure
2 19 (32.76%) GitHub
3 12 (20.69%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.45%) SaaS
5 2 (3.45%) Slack
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (24.14%) Internet
2 3 (5.17%) SAN
3 2 (3.45%) Firewall
3 2 (3.45%) PuTTY
4 1 (1.72%) BGP
4 1 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.72%) DNS
4 1 (1.72%) HTTP
4 1 (1.72%) IPsec
4 1 (1.72%) LAN
4 1 (1.72%) OSPF
4 1 (1.72%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.72%) VPN
4 1 (1.72%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.72%) Wireless
4 1 (1.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.90%) Metadata
2 4 (6.90%) Redis
3 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.17%) Spark SQL
4 2 (3.45%) Apache Hive
4 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.45%) HBase
4 2 (3.45%) Impala
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) Neo4j
4 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Power BI
4 2 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (3.45%) QlikView
4 2 (3.45%) SQLite
4 2 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (29.31%) Git
2 7 (12.07%) TeamCity
3 4 (6.90%) Artifactory
3 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.17%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.17%) GitLab
4 3 (5.17%) JIRA
4 3 (5.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) MLflow
5 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Multimedia
3 10 (17.24%) Games
4 6 (10.34%) Finance
5 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Retail
5 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (36.21%) Developer
2 17 (29.31%) Trainee
3 9 (15.52%) AWS Developer
3 9 (15.52%) C# Developer
3 9 (15.52%) Software Developer
3 9 (15.52%) Trainee Developer
3 9 (15.52%) Trainee Software Developer
4 8 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Consultant
6 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Lead
8 3 (5.17%) Administrator
8 3 (5.17%) Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (5.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Senior
8 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Technology Consultant
8 3 (5.17%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.59%) CSS
1 16 (27.59%) HTML
2 8 (13.79%) .NET
3 7 (12.07%) REST
4 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
4 6 (10.34%) React
4 6 (10.34%) Vue
5 4 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.17%) Itk
6 3 (5.17%) Node.js
6 3 (5.17%) PySpark
7 2 (3.45%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (3.45%) CSS3
7 2 (3.45%) HTML5
7 2 (3.45%) Kafka
7 2 (3.45%) Plotly
7 2 (3.45%) Regular Expression
7 2 (3.45%) Shiny
7 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Client/Server
1 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.17%) NHS
2 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.72%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.72%) Online Games
3 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Unix
2 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Mentoring
2 18 (31.03%) DevOps
3 16 (27.59%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (22.41%) Agile
5 12 (20.69%) CI/CD
5 12 (20.69%) Computer Science
5 12 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
8 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.34%) Incident Response
10 5 (8.62%) Containerisation
11 4 (6.90%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (6.90%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (6.90%) Observability
11 4 (6.90%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (6.90%) Roadmaps
11 4 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.10%) Python
2 21 (36.21%) JavaScript
3 13 (22.41%) C#
4 11 (18.97%) SQL
5 9 (15.52%) Java
5 9 (15.52%) TypeScript
6 7 (12.07%) R
7 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.17%) Bash
8 3 (5.17%) Tcl
9 2 (3.45%) PROC SQL
10 1 (1.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) Azure Certification
2 18 (31.03%) AWS Certification
3 17 (29.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (24.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 9 (15.52%) Degree
6 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
7 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
9 3 (5.17%) HNC
9 3 (5.17%) HND
10 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.72%) CCNP
11 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.17%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Docker
2 5 (8.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.17%) vSphere
4 2 (3.45%) Apache Flume
4 2 (3.45%) HDFS
5 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (20.69%) Terraform
2 6 (10.34%) Grafana
2 6 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.90%) Ansible
4 3 (5.17%) Control-M
4 3 (5.17%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.45%) Kibana
5 2 (3.45%) logstash
5 2 (3.45%) Oozie
6 1 (1.72%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.72%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) VMware
3 4 (6.90%) Databricks
4 3 (5.17%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.17%) Google
4 3 (5.17%) SAP
4 3 (5.17%) Siemens
5 2 (3.45%) Informatica
5 2 (3.45%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.72%) Aruba
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow