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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 23 26
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 -20
Permanent jobs citing AWS 266 45 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.18% 6.48% 5.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.42% 25.86% 18.53%
Number of salaries quoted 223 37 36
10th Percentile £46,000 £26,950 £41,875
25th Percentile £51,875 £41,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £48,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -37.25% +17.69%
75th Percentile £82,750 £65,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £95,000
North East median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% -28.57% +7.69%

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 573 174 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.77% 25.07% 30.93%
Number of salaries quoted 438 131 166
10th Percentile £37,350 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £30,600 £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 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,125 £77,500 £86,250
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 11 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 11 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 +8 235 £67,500 +28.57% 120
Sunderland -1 14 £61,500 +20.00% 2
Prudhoe - 8 £47,000 -
Gateshead -1 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 (12.03%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (9.02%) Apache Spark
3 19 (7.14%) Apache
3 19 (7.14%) Jupyter
4 10 (3.76%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.88%) Confluence
6 3 (1.13%) nginx
7 2 (0.75%) 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 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.38%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 127 (47.74%) Azure
2 68 (25.56%) GCP
3 57 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 46 (17.29%) Serverless
5 37 (13.91%) Amazon EC2
6 36 (13.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 36 (13.53%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (12.41%) GitHub
8 31 (11.65%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (8.65%) Amazon ECR
10 21 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (6.77%) Amazon EMR
12 17 (6.39%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (4.89%) AWS KMS
14 13 (4.89%) Power Platform
14 13 (4.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (3.76%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.88%) Firewall
2 3 (1.13%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.75%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (10.90%) MongoDB
3 22 (8.27%) DynamoDB
4 20 (7.52%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (6.39%) MySQL
6 17 (6.39%) NoSQL
7 13 (4.89%) Power BI
8 11 (4.14%) Metadata
9 10 (3.76%) BigQuery
9 10 (3.76%) Tableau
10 9 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (3.38%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (3.01%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.63%) GIS
12 7 (2.63%) Looker
13 6 (2.26%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (2.26%) Big Data
13 6 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 58 (21.80%) GitLab
2 55 (20.68%) Git
3 22 (8.27%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.01%) JIRA
5 7 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.26%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.88%) JUnit
7 5 (1.88%) Mockito
8 4 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.50%) Gatling
9 3 (1.13%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.75%) Balsamiq
General
1 121 (45.49%) Public Sector
2 70 (26.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 70 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 44 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.14%) Finance
5 17 (6.39%) Legal
6 10 (3.76%) Law
7 6 (2.26%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.50%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.75%) 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 49 (18.42%) Senior
2 44 (16.54%) Developer
2 44 (16.54%) Lead
3 43 (16.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (12.41%) Data Engineer
5 25 (9.40%) Architect
6 23 (8.65%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 16 (6.02%) Technical Architect
9 15 (5.64%) Python Developer
10 13 (4.89%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.51%) Python Engineer
11 12 (4.51%) Senior Architect
11 12 (4.51%) Technical Leader
12 10 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.76%) Senior Technical Architect
12 10 (3.76%) Software Developer
13 9 (3.38%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (28.20%) Terraform
2 35 (13.16%) Node.js
3 24 (9.02%) PySpark
4 23 (8.65%) .NET
5 22 (8.27%) React
5 22 (8.27%) REST
6 21 (7.89%) CSS
7 20 (7.52%) Kafka
7 20 (7.52%) LangChain
8 19 (7.14%) LlamaIndex
9 17 (6.39%) RESTful
9 17 (6.39%) Spring
9 17 (6.39%) Spring Boot
10 15 (5.64%) HTML
11 11 (4.14%) Flask
12 9 (3.38%) .NET Core
12 9 (3.38%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.38%) Express.js
12 9 (3.38%) Web Services
13 8 (3.01%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 64 (24.06%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.15%) Onboarding
3 22 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.02%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.89%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (4.14%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (3.76%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.76%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.63%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.26%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.50%) Life Science
13 3 (1.13%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.13%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.13%) Robotics
14 2 (0.75%) Blog
14 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.65%) Linux
2 14 (5.26%) Windows
3 9 (3.38%) Unix
4 7 (2.63%) CentOS
4 7 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.13%) Debian
7 2 (0.75%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 145 (54.51%) Agile
3 132 (49.62%) DevOps
4 94 (35.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (33.46%) Mentoring
6 71 (26.69%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (25.94%) Containerisation
9 62 (23.31%) Data Engineering
10 59 (22.18%) AI
10 59 (22.18%) Test Automation
11 57 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
12 54 (20.30%) Coaching
13 45 (16.92%) Data Pipeline
14 43 (16.17%) Data Modelling
14 43 (16.17%) Decision-Making
15 41 (15.41%) Analytics
16 40 (15.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 39 (14.66%) Scrum
17 39 (14.66%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 126 (47.37%) Python
2 74 (27.82%) SQL
3 45 (16.92%) Java
4 36 (13.53%) TypeScript
5 35 (13.16%) JavaScript
6 25 (9.40%) Bash
7 22 (8.27%) C#
8 11 (4.14%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.50%) Scala
9 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.13%) Bicep
10 3 (1.13%) C++
10 3 (1.13%) Go
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 81 (30.45%) Security Cleared
2 73 (27.44%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (10.15%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.64%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.89%) Degree
8 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.38%) CSPO
9 1 (0.38%) IIBA
9 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (17.29%) Data Quality
2 24 (9.02%) QA
3 9 (3.38%) NCSC
4 7 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.63%) 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 95 (35.71%) Docker
2 4 (1.50%) iptables
3 3 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.13%) vSphere
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.89%) Ansible
3 14 (5.26%) Grafana
4 8 (3.01%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.26%) Puppet
6 3 (1.13%) Control-M
6 3 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.75%) Argo
7 2 (0.75%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.38%) systemd
Vendors
1 15 (5.64%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.89%) Oracle
3 12 (4.51%) Databricks
3 12 (4.51%) Google
4 7 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.26%) Confluent
6 5 (1.88%) Sage
6 5 (1.88%) Splunk
7 4 (1.50%) VMware
8 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.13%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.75%) Adobe
9 2 (0.75%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.75%) Citrix
9 2 (0.75%) F5
9 2 (0.75%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.75%) Pega
9 2 (0.75%) UiPath
10 1 (0.38%) Red Hat