Amazon CloudWatch Contracts in the North West

Amazon CloudWatch
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Amazon CloudWatch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon CloudWatch over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 109 120
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 18 13 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.82% 0.54% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.60% 1.76% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 20
10th Percentile £325 £355 £506
25th Percentile £358 £393 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £405 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -28.79% -9.00%
75th Percentile £520 £446 £656
90th Percentile £569 £450 £738
England median daily rate £490 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -10.91% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
England median hourly rate - £71.87 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +43.74% -33.33%

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 691 737 1,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.30% 30.61% 35.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 499 784
10th Percentile £313 £307 £264
25th Percentile £389 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 32 52
10th Percentile £12.82 - £15.75
25th Percentile £20.87 - £18.03
Median hourly rate £40.59 £16.06 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year +152.74% -41.28% +17.84%
75th Percentile £67.25 £33.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.88 £68.58 £62.34
England median hourly rate £26.00 £24.17 £32.32
% change year-on-year +7.59% -25.23% +50.33%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Amazon CloudWatch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon CloudWatch in the North West

Amazon CloudWatch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Amazon CloudWatch in the North West

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 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon CloudWatch in the North West

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 17 August 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 0 12 £413 +0.61% 13
Cheshire -26 6 £358 -10.50% 1
Amazon CloudWatch
England

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) nginx
1 3 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (61.11%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (61.11%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (61.11%) Serverless
3 9 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 8 (44.44%) GitHub
5 6 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (33.33%) GCP
6 5 (27.78%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (27.78%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (27.78%) Apigee
6 5 (27.78%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (27.78%) Azure
6 5 (27.78%) Datadog
6 5 (27.78%) Loggly
6 5 (27.78%) Route 53
6 5 (27.78%) SaaS
7 4 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (22.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (33.33%) MySQL
2 6 (33.33%) Redis
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (27.78%) BigQuery
3 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
3 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (27.78%) RDBMS
3 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
4 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
5 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.56%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (33.33%) Git
3 5 (27.78%) Gradle
3 5 (27.78%) Maven
3 5 (27.78%) SonarLint
3 5 (27.78%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.11%) GitLab
5 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.56%) Gatling
5 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Architect
2 7 (38.89%) Java Architect
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Java Technical Architect
3 5 (27.78%) Technical Architect
4 4 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Senior
5 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Architect
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (11.11%) Java Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) RESTful
2 5 (27.78%) Dropwizard
2 5 (27.78%) J2EE
2 5 (27.78%) JWT
2 5 (27.78%) Micronaut
2 5 (27.78%) Spring Boot
3 4 (22.22%) Celery
4 3 (16.67%) .NET
4 3 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (16.67%) Kafka
4 3 (16.67%) OAuth
5 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 2 (11.11%) HTML
5 2 (11.11%) Node.js
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
6 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
6 1 (5.56%) Laravel
6 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.56%) React
6 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
1 5 (27.78%) N-Tier
2 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 11 (61.11%) Agile
3 10 (55.56%) Microservices
3 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 8 (44.44%) Event-Driven
5 7 (38.89%) DevOps
5 7 (38.89%) SDLC
6 6 (33.33%) Design Patterns
6 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 5 (27.78%) API Design
7 5 (27.78%) Architectural Design
7 5 (27.78%) BDD
7 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
7 5 (27.78%) CQRS
7 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
7 5 (27.78%) TDD
7 5 (27.78%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) Kibana
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Gigya
2 3 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Google