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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 -18
Permanent jobs citing AWS 263 45 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.21% 6.49% 5.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.30% 26.47% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 223 37 35
10th Percentile £46,000 £28,250 £43,395
25th Percentile £51,875 £43,750 £54,030
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -29.49% +15.56%
75th Percentile £82,750 £67,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £95,000
North East median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -26.67% +15.38%

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 568 170 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.88% 24.53% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 438 126 169
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,025 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,500 £85,500
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +13 232 £67,500 +22.73% 116
Sunderland 0 14 £61,500 +2.50% 2
Prudhoe - 8 £47,000 -
Gateshead -2 7 £40,000 -15.79% 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 32 (12.17%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (9.13%) Apache Spark
3 19 (7.22%) Apache
3 19 (7.22%) Jupyter
4 9 (3.42%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.90%) Confluence
6 3 (1.14%) nginx
7 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.38%) CMS
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.38%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 128 (48.67%) Azure
2 67 (25.48%) GCP
3 56 (21.29%) Amazon S3
4 46 (17.49%) Serverless
5 37 (14.07%) Amazon EC2
6 36 (13.69%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (13.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (11.41%) Amazon ECS
8 30 (11.41%) GitHub
9 23 (8.75%) Amazon ECR
10 19 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (6.84%) Amazon EMR
12 16 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (4.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (4.56%) AWS KMS
15 12 (4.56%) Power Platform
16 10 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (3.80%) Textract
17 9 (3.42%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.90%) Firewall
2 3 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.76%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.69%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.03%) MongoDB
3 22 (8.37%) DynamoDB
4 20 (7.60%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (7.22%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (6.84%) NoSQL
7 17 (6.46%) MySQL
8 12 (4.56%) Power BI
9 11 (4.18%) Metadata
10 10 (3.80%) Tableau
11 9 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (3.42%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.42%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.04%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (2.66%) GIS
13 7 (2.66%) Looker
14 6 (2.28%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (2.28%) Big Data
14 6 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 57 (21.67%) GitLab
2 55 (20.91%) Git
3 19 (7.22%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.04%) JIRA
5 7 (2.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (2.66%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.28%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.52%) JUnit
7 4 (1.52%) Mockito
8 3 (1.14%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.14%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.14%) Gatling
8 3 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.76%) Balsamiq
General
1 120 (45.63%) Public Sector
2 69 (26.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 69 (26.24%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.84%) Finance
5 17 (6.46%) Legal
6 10 (3.80%) Law
7 6 (2.28%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.52%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Games
11 1 (0.38%) Polish Language
11 1 (0.38%) Publishing
11 1 (0.38%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Russian Language
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Ukrainian Language
Job Titles
1 48 (18.25%) Senior
2 44 (16.73%) Developer
2 44 (16.73%) Lead
3 42 (15.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (11.79%) Data Engineer
5 25 (9.51%) Architect
6 23 (8.75%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 16 (6.08%) Technical Architect
9 15 (5.70%) Python Developer
10 13 (4.94%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.56%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.56%) Python Engineer
11 12 (4.56%) Senior Architect
12 11 (4.18%) Software Developer
12 11 (4.18%) Technical Leader
13 10 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (3.80%) Senior Technical Architect
14 9 (3.42%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (28.14%) Terraform
2 35 (13.31%) Node.js
3 24 (9.13%) .NET
3 24 (9.13%) PySpark
4 22 (8.37%) React
4 22 (8.37%) REST
5 21 (7.98%) CSS
6 20 (7.60%) LangChain
7 19 (7.22%) Kafka
7 19 (7.22%) LlamaIndex
8 17 (6.46%) RESTful
9 16 (6.08%) Spring
9 16 (6.08%) Spring Boot
10 15 (5.70%) HTML
11 11 (4.18%) Flask
12 9 (3.42%) .NET Core
12 9 (3.42%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.42%) Express.js
12 9 (3.42%) Web Services
13 7 (2.66%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 62 (23.57%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.27%) Onboarding
3 23 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.08%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.94%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (4.18%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.18%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (3.04%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.28%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.52%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.52%) Life Science
13 3 (1.14%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.14%) Robotics
14 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.79%) Linux
2 15 (5.70%) Windows
3 10 (3.80%) Unix
4 7 (2.66%) CentOS
4 7 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.14%) Debian
7 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (57.03%) CI/CD
2 143 (54.37%) Agile
3 129 (49.05%) DevOps
4 92 (34.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (33.84%) Mentoring
6 70 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (26.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (25.48%) Containerisation
9 60 (22.81%) Data Engineering
9 60 (22.81%) Test Automation
10 58 (22.05%) AI
11 55 (20.91%) Coaching
11 55 (20.91%) Technical Leadership
12 44 (16.73%) Data Pipeline
13 43 (16.35%) Data Modelling
14 41 (15.59%) Decision-Making
15 40 (15.21%) Analytics
15 40 (15.21%) Software Engineering
16 39 (14.83%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 38 (14.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 124 (47.15%) Python
2 73 (27.76%) SQL
3 46 (17.49%) Java
4 35 (13.31%) JavaScript
4 35 (13.31%) TypeScript
5 24 (9.13%) Bash
6 23 (8.75%) C#
7 10 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.52%) Scala
8 4 (1.52%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.14%) C++
9 3 (1.14%) Go
10 2 (0.76%) Bicep
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (29.66%) Security Cleared
2 70 (26.62%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (10.27%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.22%) Azure Certification
6 14 (5.32%) Degree
6 14 (5.32%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.38%) CSPO
8 1 (0.38%) IIBA
8 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.11%) Data Quality
2 24 (9.13%) QA
3 9 (3.42%) NCSC
4 7 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (34.60%) Docker
2 4 (1.52%) iptables
3 3 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.14%) vSphere
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (21.67%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.60%) Ansible
3 12 (4.56%) Grafana
4 6 (2.28%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.28%) Puppet
5 3 (1.14%) Argo
5 3 (1.14%) Control-M
5 3 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.14%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.76%) Kibana
7 1 (0.38%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.38%) systemd
Vendors
1 16 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.56%) Databricks
2 12 (4.56%) Google
2 12 (4.56%) Oracle
3 7 (2.66%) Dynatrace
4 6 (2.28%) Confluent
5 4 (1.52%) Sage
5 4 (1.52%) Splunk
5 4 (1.52%) VMware
6 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.14%) SnapLogic
7 2 (0.76%) Adobe
7 2 (0.76%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.76%) Citrix
7 2 (0.76%) F5
7 2 (0.76%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.76%) Pega
7 2 (0.76%) UiPath
8 1 (0.38%) Infor