Amazon CloudWatch Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Amazon CloudWatch
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Amazon CloudWatch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 26 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 3.63% - 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.74% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £479 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.23%
75th Percentile £538 - £550
90th Percentile £550 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -19.23%

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

Amazon CloudWatch falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 336 298 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 46.93% 45.50% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 210 253
10th Percentile £350 £330 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £555 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £665
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -55.65% +188.37%
75th Percentile £28.75 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £27.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +313.64% -55.65% +175.56%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon CloudWatch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Amazon CloudWatch job vacancy trend in Leeds

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch in Leeds over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon CloudWatch in Leeds

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (57.69%) Amazon S3
2 15 (57.69%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (57.69%) Serverless
3 13 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (46.15%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (46.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (23.08%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (23.08%) GitHub
7 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (15.38%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (11.54%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (11.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (11.54%) Datadog
8 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (11.54%) Route 53
9 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (7.69%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) Firewall
2 9 (34.62%) DNS
3 7 (26.92%) VPN
4 6 (23.08%) SSL
4 6 (23.08%) TCP/IP
5 4 (15.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (57.69%) Jenkins
2 11 (42.31%) Git
3 9 (34.62%) GitLab
4 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Senior
3 6 (23.08%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Software Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Python Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) React
2 3 (11.54%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) Node.js
4 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) DevOps
2 19 (73.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
4 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 9 (34.62%) Agile
6 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (23.08%) DevSecOps
7 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 5 (19.23%) High Availability
8 5 (19.23%) Incident Response
9 4 (15.38%) Auto-Scaling
9 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 3 (11.54%) Cost Optimisation
10 3 (11.54%) FinOps
10 3 (11.54%) Load Balancing
10 3 (11.54%) Migration
10 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) Python
2 10 (38.46%) Bash
3 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (11.54%) NIST
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (100.00%) Terraform
2 11 (42.31%) Ansible
2 11 (42.31%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.54%) Packer
5 2 (7.69%) Grafana
5 2 (7.69%) Puppet
6 1 (3.85%) Kustomize
6 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Splunk
2 6 (23.08%) CheckPoint
2 6 (23.08%) F5
2 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 3 (11.54%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.69%) CloudEndure
4 2 (7.69%) Zscaler