Amazon CloudWatch Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon CloudWatch
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 333 330
Rank change year-on-year +55 -3 +79
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 61 66 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.32% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 1.22% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 52 94
10th Percentile £358 £425 £463
25th Percentile £419 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £589 £596 £650
90th Percentile £738 £667 £696
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.57% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.94 -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,099 5,425 7,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.04% 26.14% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,902 3,831 5,919
10th Percentile £240 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 260 226
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.62
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.71 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -28.09% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.88
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.51 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon CloudWatch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon CloudWatch in the UK excluding London

Amazon CloudWatch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon CloudWatch in the UK excluding London

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon CloudWatch in the UK excluding London

Amazon CloudWatch
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon CloudWatch in the UK excluding London

Amazon CloudWatch
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North of England +21 26 £537 -2.36% 30
Midlands +33 17 £519 -30.87% 2
West Midlands - 14 £500 - 1
North West +7 12 £391 -28.91% 21
Scotland +11 11 £525 +12.60% 3
Yorkshire +8 7 £725 +27.47% 7
North East +2 7 £620 - 3
South East +41 5 £575 +8.49% 27
South West +40 3 £588 -2.08% 3
East Midlands +14 3 £537 -28.40% 1
East of England +28 1 £500 -42.86% 3
Amazon CloudWatch
UK

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (21.31%) nginx
2 7 (11.48%) Traefik
3 5 (8.20%) Confluence
4 4 (6.56%) Apache
5 3 (4.92%) Tomcat
6 2 (3.28%) Camunda
7 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.64%) CMS
7 1 (1.64%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 59 (96.72%) AWS
2 37 (60.66%) Amazon S3
3 30 (49.18%) Serverless
4 29 (47.54%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (40.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (32.79%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (32.79%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (29.51%) GitHub
8 14 (22.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (21.31%) AWS Fargate
10 12 (19.67%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (16.39%) AWS KMS
11 10 (16.39%) Route 53
12 9 (14.75%) Entra ID
12 9 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (13.11%) AWS CloudTrail
14 7 (11.48%) Amazon Cognito
14 7 (11.48%) SaaS
15 6 (9.84%) Azure
15 6 (9.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.67%) DNS
2 9 (14.75%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.92%) SSL
4 1 (1.64%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.64%) Firewall
4 1 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (39.34%) DynamoDB
2 19 (31.15%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (22.95%) MongoDB
4 11 (18.03%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (14.75%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (9.84%) Parquet
7 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.92%) RDBMS
9 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
10 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (3.28%) InfluxDB
10 2 (3.28%) MySQL
11 1 (1.64%) Big Data
11 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 41 (67.21%) Jenkins
2 18 (29.51%) GitLab
3 7 (11.48%) JIRA
3 7 (11.48%) JUnit
3 7 (11.48%) Mockito
4 5 (8.20%) Git
4 5 (8.20%) Maven
5 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (6.56%) DbUnit
5 4 (6.56%) jMock
5 4 (6.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.28%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.28%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.64%) Gradle
7 1 (1.64%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (24.59%) Public Sector
2 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.20%) Finance
3 5 (8.20%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Back Office
4 2 (3.28%) Banking
4 2 (3.28%) Military
5 1 (1.64%) Aviation
5 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (36.07%) Developer
2 19 (31.15%) Senior
3 17 (27.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (19.67%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (16.39%) Senior DevOps
6 9 (14.75%) AWS Developer
6 9 (14.75%) Senior Developer
7 7 (11.48%) Architect
7 7 (11.48%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (11.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (11.48%) Java Developer
8 6 (9.84%) Cloud Developer
9 5 (8.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (6.56%) Java Architect
10 4 (6.56%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.92%) Python Developer
11 3 (4.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 3 (4.92%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (27.87%) Kafka
2 11 (18.03%) AWS CDK
2 11 (18.03%) Keycloak
3 10 (16.39%) REST
3 10 (16.39%) RESTful
4 9 (14.75%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (14.75%) cloud-init
4 9 (14.75%) Spring Boot
5 7 (11.48%) Hibernate
5 7 (11.48%) Node.js
5 7 (11.48%) SOAP
5 7 (11.48%) Spring
5 7 (11.48%) Web Services
6 6 (9.84%) AngularJS
6 6 (9.84%) JSON
7 4 (6.56%) Bootstrap
7 4 (6.56%) PowerMock
7 4 (6.56%) Spring Batch
7 4 (6.56%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (6.56%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) PKI
2 6 (9.84%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (27.87%) Linux
2 12 (19.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (14.75%) CentOS
3 9 (14.75%) Unix
4 2 (3.28%) Windows
5 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (81.97%) CI/CD
2 39 (63.93%) DevOps
3 29 (47.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (45.90%) Agile
5 21 (34.43%) Continuous Integration
5 21 (34.43%) Microservices
6 17 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (26.23%) Containerisation
8 12 (19.67%) Secrets Management
9 11 (18.03%) Event-Driven
9 11 (18.03%) Observability
10 10 (16.39%) Cloud Security
10 10 (16.39%) TDD
11 9 (14.75%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 9 (14.75%) Identity Management
11 9 (14.75%) Scrum
11 9 (14.75%) SDLC
11 9 (14.75%) Service Delivery
11 9 (14.75%) Static Application Security Testing
12 7 (11.48%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (49.18%) Python
2 19 (31.15%) SQL
3 18 (29.51%) Java
4 14 (22.95%) Bash
5 10 (16.39%) Go
6 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.28%) R
8 2 (3.28%) Scala
9 1 (1.64%) Groovy
9 1 (1.64%) PHP
9 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (37.70%) Security Cleared
2 20 (32.79%) SC Cleared
3 19 (31.15%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.56%) Degree
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.64%) OCP
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.67%) NCSC
2 1 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 27 (44.26%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) Postfix
3 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (50.82%) Terraform
2 24 (39.34%) Kubernetes
3 20 (32.79%) Grafana
3 20 (32.79%) Prometheus
4 9 (14.75%) Consul
4 9 (14.75%) Istio
4 9 (14.75%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (14.75%) linkerd
4 9 (14.75%) Packer
4 9 (14.75%) Rancher
4 9 (14.75%) ZABBIX
5 7 (11.48%) HAProxy
6 5 (8.20%) Ansible
6 5 (8.20%) Kibana
7 2 (3.28%) logstash
8 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.64%) QRadar
8 1 (1.64%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Splunk
2 9 (14.75%) Okta
3 7 (11.48%) Apple
3 7 (11.48%) ESET
4 4 (6.56%) AppDynamics
4 4 (6.56%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.56%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.28%) Oracle
5 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) Databricks
6 1 (1.64%) New Relic