Amazon CloudWatch Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Amazon CloudWatch
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Amazon CloudWatch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 146 172
Rank change year-on-year -3 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 44 27 31
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.05% 0.65% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 2.03% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 25
10th Percentile £396 £386 £506
25th Percentile £400 £404 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -25.00% -3.03%
75th Percentile £547 £566 £675
90th Percentile £591 £589 £738
England median daily rate £500 £534 £575
% change year-on-year -6.37% -7.13% -8.00%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,543 1,331 1,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 36.89% 32.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 848 1,299
10th Percentile £273 £300 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 70
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.12 £15.98
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.94 £27.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.15% -14.73% +29.00%
75th Percentile £51.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.03 £70.80 £62.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Amazon CloudWatch job vacancy trend in the North of England

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon CloudWatch in the North of England

Amazon CloudWatch
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire -1 22 £490 -13.85% 2
North West -12 17 £453 +10.37% 18
North East -8 5 £575 +35.29% 1
Amazon CloudWatch
England

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 44 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (56.82%) Serverless
3 24 (54.55%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (36.36%) Amazon S3
5 14 (31.82%) GitHub
6 13 (29.55%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (20.45%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (15.91%) Amazon ELB
9 7 (15.91%) AWS Fargate
10 6 (13.64%) Azure
10 6 (13.64%) Datadog
10 6 (13.64%) GCP
10 6 (13.64%) Kong
10 6 (13.64%) Route 53
11 5 (11.36%) Amazon EventBridge
11 5 (11.36%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.73%) DNS
1 10 (22.73%) Firewall
2 9 (20.45%) VPN
3 8 (18.18%) SSL
3 8 (18.18%) TCP/IP
4 6 (13.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.82%) DynamoDB
2 11 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (18.18%) MySQL
4 7 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (13.64%) Redis
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (11.36%) BigQuery
6 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
6 5 (11.36%) RDBMS
6 5 (11.36%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 19 (43.18%) Git
2 19 (43.18%) GitLab
3 7 (15.91%) SonarQube
4 5 (11.36%) Gradle
4 5 (11.36%) Maven
4 5 (11.36%) SonarLint
5 2 (4.55%) Mocha
6 1 (2.27%) Selenium
General
1 11 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Senior
5 8 (18.18%) Architect
6 7 (15.91%) Java Architect
6 7 (15.91%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (13.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (11.36%) Java Technical Architect
8 5 (11.36%) Technical Architect
9 4 (9.09%) Developer
9 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
10 3 (6.82%) Backend Developer
10 3 (6.82%) Lead
10 3 (6.82%) Lead DevOps
10 3 (6.82%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 3 (6.82%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) RESTful
2 7 (15.91%) Kafka
3 6 (13.64%) React
4 5 (11.36%) Dropwizard
4 5 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (11.36%) GraphQL
4 5 (11.36%) J2EE
4 5 (11.36%) JWT
4 5 (11.36%) Micronaut
4 5 (11.36%) Spring Boot
5 4 (9.09%) Celery
5 4 (9.09%) Node.js
6 3 (6.82%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (6.82%) REST
7 2 (4.55%) Jest
8 1 (2.27%) HTML
8 1 (2.27%) Laravel
8 1 (2.27%) pytest
8 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.27%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.36%) N-Tier
3 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (72.73%) DevOps
2 29 (65.91%) CI/CD
3 20 (45.45%) Containerisation
4 19 (43.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (40.91%) Agile
6 15 (34.09%) Microservices
7 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 9 (20.45%) DevSecOps
9 9 (20.45%) Event-Driven
9 9 (20.45%) Incident Response
9 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (15.91%) AI
10 7 (15.91%) High Availability
10 7 (15.91%) SDLC
11 6 (13.64%) Design Patterns
11 6 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (13.64%) Migration
12 5 (11.36%) Clean Code
12 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) Python
2 12 (27.27%) Bash
3 8 (18.18%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) PHP
6 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (47.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) GDPR
1 4 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (9.09%) SOC 2
2 3 (6.82%) NIST
3 2 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (4.55%) QA
4 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (56.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Snort
Systems Management
1 36 (81.82%) Terraform
2 23 (52.27%) Kubernetes
3 12 (27.27%) Ansible
4 8 (18.18%) Grafana
5 7 (15.91%) Prometheus
6 4 (9.09%) Puppet
7 2 (4.55%) Kustomize
7 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Dynatrace
1 8 (18.18%) F5
2 7 (15.91%) CheckPoint
2 7 (15.91%) Palo Alto
2 7 (15.91%) Splunk
3 5 (11.36%) Gigya
4 2 (4.55%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.27%) ArcSight
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) Imperva