Amazon CloudWatch Contract Job Trends in the South West

Amazon CloudWatch
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Amazon CloudWatch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 133 138
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 4 2 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.080% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.29% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 14
10th Percentile - £460 £574
25th Percentile - £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -16.67% -14.32%
75th Percentile - £525 -
90th Percentile - £540 £693
England median daily rate £500 £536 £575
% change year-on-year -6.72% -6.78% -8.00%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 649 693 945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.52% 27.57% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 430 728
10th Percentile £222 £249 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% -2.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 43 50
10th Percentile - £25.26 £13.25
25th Percentile - £33.00 £15.17
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -5.71%
75th Percentile £35.05 - £78.00
90th Percentile £64.50 - £80.25
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 South West

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

Amazon CloudWatch job vacancy trend in the South West

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Amazon CloudWatch
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Wiltshire +9 2 - - 1
Devon - 2 £520 -
Amazon CloudWatch
England

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Database Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Database Security
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) MCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto