Amazon CloudWatch Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon CloudWatch
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Amazon CloudWatch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon CloudWatch over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 324 353
Rank change year-on-year +59 +29 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 85 144 293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.58% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.46% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 112 212
10th Percentile £405 £439 £457
25th Percentile £460 £498 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £619
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -7.07% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £716
90th Percentile £650 £700 £811
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.75
25th Percentile £67.50 - £66.88
Median hourly rate £70.94 - £72.50
75th Percentile £72.50 - £76.88
90th Percentile - - £77.25
UK median hourly rate £70.94 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +172.73%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Amazon CloudWatch is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,441 9,879 18,201
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.16% 39.46% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,921 7,290 13,602
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 129 176
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.56
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +52.11% -11.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Amazon CloudWatch
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon CloudWatch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon CloudWatch trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Amazon CloudWatch daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Amazon CloudWatch over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Amazon CloudWatch daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon CloudWatch
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Amazon CloudWatch hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (4.71%) Drupal
2 4 (4.71%) WordPress
3 3 (3.53%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.18%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 77 (90.59%) AWS
2 47 (55.29%) Serverless
3 45 (52.94%) AWS Lambda
4 38 (44.71%) Amazon S3
5 33 (38.82%) Amazon EC2
6 30 (35.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (21.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (17.65%) AWS Step Functions
8 15 (17.65%) Azure
8 15 (17.65%) GitHub
8 15 (17.65%) Route 53
9 14 (16.47%) AWS CloudTrail
10 11 (12.94%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (10.59%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (8.24%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (8.24%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (7.06%) AWS KMS
15 5 (5.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.47%) Firewall
2 7 (8.24%) Network Security
3 3 (3.53%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (3.53%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.53%) VPN
4 1 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.94%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (16.47%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (15.29%) DynamoDB
4 12 (14.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (12.94%) MySQL
6 10 (11.76%) MongoDB
7 6 (7.06%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (4.71%) Informix
9 4 (4.71%) RDBMS
9 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
10 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
11 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (2.35%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (2.35%) InfluxDB
12 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (23.53%) Git
2 17 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.41%) JIRA
4 7 (8.24%) GitLab
5 4 (4.71%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.35%) Maven
7 2 (2.35%) Selenium
7 2 (2.35%) Snyk
8 1 (1.18%) AppScan
8 1 (1.18%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.18%) JMeter
8 1 (1.18%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.18%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.35%) Aviation
4 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.18%) Finance
4 1 (1.18%) Marketing
4 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (24.71%) AWS Engineer
1 21 (24.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (18.82%) Senior
3 12 (14.12%) Developer
4 11 (12.94%) AWS DevOps
5 10 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Architect
7 7 (8.24%) Security Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) AWS Data Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) DBA
10 4 (4.71%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.71%) SOC Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.53%) AWS Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Java Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.47%) React
2 12 (14.12%) AWS CDK
3 11 (12.94%) Node.js
4 7 (8.24%) RESTful
5 6 (7.06%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (5.88%) PySpark
7 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.71%) AWS SAM
7 4 (4.71%) OAuth
8 3 (3.53%) LDAP
9 2 (2.35%) CSS
9 2 (2.35%) HTML
9 2 (2.35%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (2.35%) REST
9 2 (2.35%) Web Services
10 1 (1.18%) .NET Core
10 1 (1.18%) http4s
10 1 (1.18%) Jest
10 1 (1.18%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Public Cloud
2 8 (9.41%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.06%) Replication
4 4 (4.71%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.53%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Clustering
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.18%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.82%) Linux
2 7 (8.24%) Windows
3 3 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (43.53%) CI/CD
2 36 (42.35%) DevOps
3 30 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (24.71%) Agile
5 15 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 14 (16.47%) Analytics
7 12 (14.12%) Data Management
7 12 (14.12%) High Availability
8 11 (12.94%) Software Engineering
9 9 (10.59%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (10.59%) ETL
9 9 (10.59%) Kanban
9 9 (10.59%) Mentoring
10 8 (9.41%) Migration
10 8 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (9.41%) Unit Testing
11 7 (8.24%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (8.24%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (8.24%) Scrum
11 7 (8.24%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 43 (50.59%) Python
2 19 (22.35%) Java
3 16 (18.82%) SQL
4 14 (16.47%) JavaScript
5 12 (14.12%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.41%) Bash
7 5 (5.88%) Go
8 4 (4.71%) PHP
8 4 (4.71%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.35%) R
10 1 (1.18%) C
10 1 (1.18%) C++
10 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.18%) Ruby
10 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 23 (27.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.35%) Degree
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.18%) OCP
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) QA
2 5 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.71%) NCSC
3 4 (4.71%) NIST
4 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.18%) IFRS
5 1 (1.18%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (23.53%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 44 (51.76%) Terraform
2 24 (28.24%) Grafana
2 24 (28.24%) Kubernetes
3 13 (15.29%) Ansible
4 12 (14.12%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.71%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 3 (3.53%) Nagios
6 3 (3.53%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.35%) Graylog
7 2 (2.35%) Kibana
7 2 (2.35%) Puppet
8 1 (1.18%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.18%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.18%) logstash
8 1 (1.18%) Nessus
8 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.18%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 11 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) Oracle
2 9 (10.59%) Splunk
3 8 (9.41%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.71%) Google
5 3 (3.53%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.53%) VMware
6 2 (2.35%) Commvault
6 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.18%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.18%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.18%) Databricks
7 1 (1.18%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.18%) Informatica
7 1 (1.18%) NEC
7 1 (1.18%) New Relic
7 1 (1.18%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.18%) Rollbar
7 1 (1.18%) Veracode
7 1 (1.18%) Zscaler