Amazon CloudWatch Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon CloudWatch
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 124 146
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.30% 0.085% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 0.30% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £531 £775 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £800 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +39.13% +21.05%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £788
90th Percentile - - £915
South East median daily rate £575 £699 £575
% change year-on-year -17.71% +21.52% -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 613 675 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.60% 28.61% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 465 591
10th Percentile £263 £363 £300
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +6.80%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £650 £662 £715
South East median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.68% -2.14% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 19
10th Percentile - £18.50 £16.72
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £23.30
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +82.40% +10.95%
75th Percentile £32.53 £60.60 £33.65
90th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £67.44
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -37.27% +11.11% +35.00%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon CloudWatch in the Thames Valley

Amazon CloudWatch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Amazon CloudWatch in the Thames Valley

Amazon CloudWatch
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire - 3 £500 - 3
Buckinghamshire +5 2 £575 -28.13%
Amazon CloudWatch
South East

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (40.00%) Camunda
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (40.00%) PaaS
4 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 2 (40.00%) Serverless
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (20.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (20.00%) Route 53
5 1 (20.00%) SonarCloud
5 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (60.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Terragrunt
3 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (20.00%) DbUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) jMock
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Java Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (40.00%) OpenJDK
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (20.00%) New Relic