Amazon CloudWatch Contract Job Trends in the North West

Amazon CloudWatch
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Amazon CloudWatch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 108 129
Rank change year-on-year -20 +21 -21
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 21 15 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.84% 0.69% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 2.22% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 6
10th Percentile £385 £361 £509
25th Percentile £400 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -20.00% -13.46%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £642
90th Percentile £604 £582 £659
England median daily rate £503 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -4.47% -4.36% -15.38%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 867 677 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.62% 31.24% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 442 723
10th Percentile £222 £250 £265
25th Percentile £360 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £543 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 14 51
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.52 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +27.06% -32.54%
75th Percentile £69.25 £55.05 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.37 £75.18 £52.00
England median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Amazon CloudWatch job vacancy trend in the North West

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch in the North West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon CloudWatch in the North West

Amazon CloudWatch
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Amazon CloudWatch
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Manchester -3 20 £425 -14.91% 8
Cheshire -25 1 £435 +8.75% 8
Amazon CloudWatch
England

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (66.67%) Serverless
3 11 (52.38%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (42.86%) GitHub
5 8 (38.10%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (38.10%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (38.10%) Datadog
6 7 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (33.33%) GCP
7 6 (28.57%) Amazon S3
7 6 (28.57%) Azure
8 5 (23.81%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (23.81%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (23.81%) Apigee
8 5 (23.81%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (23.81%) Kong
8 5 (23.81%) Loggly
8 5 (23.81%) Route 53
8 5 (23.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
1 1 (4.76%) SSL
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 7 (33.33%) MySQL
3 6 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (28.57%) Redis
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (23.81%) BigQuery
4 5 (23.81%) NoSQL
4 5 (23.81%) RDBMS
4 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
5 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Jenkins
2 9 (42.86%) Git
3 8 (38.10%) GitLab
4 6 (28.57%) SonarQube
5 5 (23.81%) Gradle
5 5 (23.81%) Maven
5 5 (23.81%) SonarLint
6 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
6 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
1 6 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) Java Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Java Technical Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Technical Architect
3 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) RESTful
2 5 (23.81%) Dropwizard
2 5 (23.81%) J2EE
2 5 (23.81%) JWT
2 5 (23.81%) Micronaut
2 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
3 4 (19.05%) Celery
3 4 (19.05%) Kafka
3 4 (19.05%) Node.js
3 4 (19.05%) React
3 4 (19.05%) REST
4 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
4 2 (9.52%) NestJS
5 1 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
5 1 (4.76%) HTML
5 1 (4.76%) Jest
5 1 (4.76%) Laravel
5 1 (4.76%) Playwright
5 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (23.81%) N-Tier
3 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 13 (61.90%) Microservices
3 11 (52.38%) Agile
3 11 (52.38%) Containerisation
4 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 7 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 6 (28.57%) Event-Driven
6 6 (28.57%) Observability
6 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (23.81%) API Design
7 5 (23.81%) Architectural Design
7 5 (23.81%) Clean Code
7 5 (23.81%) CQRS
7 5 (23.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
7 5 (23.81%) SDLC
7 5 (23.81%) TDD
7 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) Bash
4 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.52%) SQL
6 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) QA
1 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (85.71%) Terraform
2 16 (76.19%) Kubernetes
3 6 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 3 (14.29%) Grafana
5 2 (9.52%) Ansible
6 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Gigya
2 3 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 2 (9.52%) Ping Identity
3 2 (9.52%) Splunk
4 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.76%) F5
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto