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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 330 340
Rank change year-on-year +53 +10 +61
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 80 62 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.29% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 1.13% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 45 90
10th Percentile £357 £416 £462
25th Percentile £400 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -2.13%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £625
90th Percentile £575 £680 £689
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +41.87% -33.33%

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 4,535 5,507 7,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.75% 26.04% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 3,799 5,479
10th Percentile £250 £225 £240
25th Percentile £381 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £667 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 274 229
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.85 £16.62
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% -20.75% +37.58%
75th Percentile £33.88 £43.75 £60.70
90th Percentile £60.63 £70.00 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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
Midlands +31 28 £475 -19.15% 27
West Midlands +35 25 £475 - 16
North of England +3 21 £400 -27.27% 60
Scotland -2 15 £500 +11.11% 13
North West -1 10 £358 -28.40% 38
Yorkshire +8 9 £475 -15.93% 20
East of England +29 8 £550 -37.14% 17
South East +40 5 £575 -3.77% 41
South West +38 5 £523 -12.92% 22
East Midlands +3 3 £537 -8.60% 11
North East -1 2 - - 2
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 12 (15.00%) Confluence
2 5 (6.25%) nginx
3 4 (5.00%) Apache
4 3 (3.75%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.50%) Camunda
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.25%) CMS
6 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 78 (97.50%) AWS
2 53 (66.25%) Amazon S3
3 38 (47.50%) Serverless
4 37 (46.25%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (43.75%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (31.25%) AWS KMS
7 22 (27.50%) GitHub
8 21 (26.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (23.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (22.50%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (17.50%) Route 53
13 11 (13.75%) Amazon Glacier
14 10 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
14 10 (12.50%) Azure
15 8 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
15 8 (10.00%) PaaS
16 7 (8.75%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.50%) Firewall
2 12 (15.00%) DNS
3 8 (10.00%) SMTP
4 6 (7.50%) FTP
4 6 (7.50%) HTTP
4 6 (7.50%) SSH
5 2 (2.50%) IMAP
5 2 (2.50%) Network Security
5 2 (2.50%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (2.50%) SSL
5 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.50%) VPN
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.25%) DHCP
6 1 (1.25%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.25%) LAN
6 1 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.25%) VLAN
6 1 (1.25%) VSAN
6 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (43.75%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (42.50%) DynamoDB
3 14 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.75%) Parquet
8 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.50%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.50%) MySQL
8 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.25%) Big Data
9 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 48 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 19 (23.75%) Git
3 15 (18.75%) JIRA
4 12 (15.00%) GitLab
5 10 (12.50%) Maven
6 8 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 8 (10.00%) DbUnit
6 8 (10.00%) jMock
6 8 (10.00%) JUnit
6 8 (10.00%) Mockito
6 8 (10.00%) SonarQube
6 8 (10.00%) Vagrant
7 2 (2.50%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.50%) Gradle
7 2 (2.50%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.50%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.25%) Gatling
8 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
General
1 24 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.75%) Finance
5 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Aviation
8 1 (1.25%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 28 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (22.50%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (22.50%) Developer
3 16 (20.00%) Architect
4 11 (13.75%) AWS Architect
4 11 (13.75%) AWS DevOps
4 11 (13.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Senior
6 9 (11.25%) AWS Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 7 (8.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Java Architect
11 4 (5.00%) Lead
12 3 (3.75%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.00%) RESTful
2 14 (17.50%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (13.75%) Spring Boot
4 10 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 9 (11.25%) AWS CDK
5 9 (11.25%) Kafka
5 9 (11.25%) REST
5 9 (11.25%) SOAP
5 9 (11.25%) Spring
6 8 (10.00%) Bootstrap
6 8 (10.00%) Hibernate
6 8 (10.00%) JPA
6 8 (10.00%) PowerMock
6 8 (10.00%) Spring Batch
6 8 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
6 8 (10.00%) Spring Integration
6 8 (10.00%) Web Services
7 7 (8.75%) Node.js
8 6 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (5.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Replication
2 8 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.75%) Public Cloud
4 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.00%) Linux
2 11 (13.75%) Windows
3 8 (10.00%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (10.00%) VMS
4 6 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.25%) SUSE
6 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (65.00%) DevOps
2 50 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 35 (43.75%) Agile
4 25 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 25 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (25.00%) Microservices
7 15 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (17.50%) TDD
9 13 (16.25%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (15.00%) Cloud Security
10 12 (15.00%) Configuration Management
11 11 (13.75%) Test Automation
12 10 (12.50%) Change Management
12 10 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
12 10 (12.50%) Event-Driven
12 10 (12.50%) Open Source
12 10 (12.50%) Scrum
13 9 (11.25%) Kanban
13 9 (11.25%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 37 (46.25%) Python
2 28 (35.00%) Java
3 25 (31.25%) SQL
4 13 (16.25%) PowerShell
5 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.25%) Groovy
7 7 (8.75%) Bash
8 6 (7.50%) Perl
9 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.75%) Go
10 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.50%) R
11 2 (2.50%) Scala
11 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 25 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.50%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.25%) Degree
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.50%) MCSE
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.25%) OCP
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) GDPR
2 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.75%) NCSC
3 3 (3.75%) NIST
3 3 (3.75%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 38 (47.50%) Docker
2 10 (12.50%) Postfix
3 8 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (7.50%) DFS Replication
5 2 (2.50%) Dovecot
5 2 (2.50%) Squid
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (48.75%) Terraform
2 25 (31.25%) Prometheus
3 23 (28.75%) Grafana
4 17 (21.25%) Kubernetes
5 7 (8.75%) Ansible
6 4 (5.00%) Kibana
7 2 (2.50%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.50%) Nessus
7 2 (2.50%) Puppet
8 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.25%) logstash
8 1 (1.25%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.25%) QRadar
8 1 (1.25%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (11.25%) AppDynamics
2 9 (11.25%) ServiceNow
3 8 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.50%) Splunk
5 4 (5.00%) Oracle
6 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.50%) Veeam
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco
7 1 (1.25%) Commvault
7 1 (1.25%) Databricks
7 1 (1.25%) Genesys
7 1 (1.25%) New Relic
7 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.25%) VMware