Amazon CloudWatch Contracts

Amazon CloudWatch
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon CloudWatch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon CloudWatch over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 425 408 438
Rank change year-on-year -17 +30 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 173 335 495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.52% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 258 351
10th Percentile £405 £446 £450
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £591 £650 £700
90th Percentile £667 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +24.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.94 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon CloudWatch is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon CloudWatch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon CloudWatch in the UK

Amazon CloudWatch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon CloudWatch in the UK

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon CloudWatch in the UK

Amazon CloudWatch
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon CloudWatch in the UK

Amazon CloudWatch
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England -12 129 £525 -12.50% 51
Work from Home +53 76 £525 -8.70% 33
London -14 73 £500 -16.67% 32
UK excluding London +22 67 £550 -4.35% 23
North of England -1 29 £550 -10.20% 8
North West -11 20 £550 -15.38% 5
Scotland +25 13 £466 -4.36% 5
South East +20 10 £530 -7.83% 2
South West +22 6 £600 - 2
Yorkshire +8 6 £569 -5.21% 2
Wales +19 5 £645 +5.22%
Midlands +24 3 £750 +31.87% 5
North East +19 3 - - 1
East Midlands - 3 £750 -
East of England - 2 £875 - 1

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (4.62%) Drupal
1 8 (4.62%) WordPress
2 5 (2.89%) Apache
2 5 (2.89%) Confluence
3 4 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.31%) CMS
3 4 (2.31%) nginx
4 3 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.16%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.16%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 7 (4.05%) NEC Housing
2 4 (2.31%) Magento
3 2 (1.16%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.58%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.58%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.58%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 171 (98.84%) AWS
2 96 (55.49%) Serverless
3 93 (53.76%) AWS Lambda
4 87 (50.29%) Amazon EC2
5 84 (48.55%) Amazon S3
6 64 (36.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (24.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 32 (18.50%) GitHub
9 30 (17.34%) Azure
10 25 (14.45%) Route 53
11 24 (13.87%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (13.87%) AWS CloudTrail
12 23 (13.29%) AWS Step Functions
13 21 (12.14%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (10.40%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (9.83%) AWS CodePipeline
16 14 (8.09%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (6.94%) AWS CodeBuild
19 10 (5.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.40%) Firewall
2 14 (8.09%) Network Security
3 12 (6.94%) TCP/IP
4 9 (5.20%) DNS
5 8 (4.62%) VPN
6 5 (2.89%) DHCP
7 4 (2.31%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (1.73%) HTTP
8 3 (1.73%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.16%) Internet
10 1 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (31.21%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (15.03%) MySQL
3 24 (13.87%) DynamoDB
3 24 (13.87%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (10.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (8.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (6.94%) MongoDB
6 12 (6.94%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.62%) Data Lake
7 8 (4.62%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (4.05%) Amazon QuickSight
8 7 (4.05%) RDBMS
9 6 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.47%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.89%) Informix
11 3 (1.73%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.73%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.16%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 43 (24.86%) Git
2 32 (18.50%) Jenkins
3 22 (12.72%) GitLab
4 10 (5.78%) SonarQube
5 9 (5.20%) JIRA
6 5 (2.89%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.31%) AppScan
7 4 (2.31%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.73%) JMeter
8 3 (1.73%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.73%) Maven
8 3 (1.73%) NeoLoad
9 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.16%) Selenium
9 2 (1.16%) Snyk
9 2 (1.16%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.58%) Gradle
10 1 (0.58%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.58%) TestNG
General
1 36 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (2.89%) Finance
3 5 (2.89%) Retail
4 4 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.16%) Billing
6 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.58%) Banking
7 1 (0.58%) Law
7 1 (0.58%) Legal
7 1 (0.58%) Local Government
7 1 (0.58%) Marketing
7 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (26.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (25.43%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (16.76%) Developer
4 24 (13.87%) Data Engineer
4 24 (13.87%) Senior
5 17 (9.83%) AWS DevOps
6 16 (9.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (8.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 14 (8.09%) AWS Data Engineer
8 14 (8.09%) Lead
8 14 (8.09%) Python Developer
9 13 (7.51%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.94%) Software Engineer
11 11 (6.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (6.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) Security Engineer
13 8 (4.62%) DBA
13 8 (4.62%) Site Engineer
14 7 (4.05%) Architect
14 7 (4.05%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.34%) React
2 18 (10.40%) AWS CDK
3 16 (9.25%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (8.67%) RESTful
5 14 (8.09%) Node.js
6 13 (7.51%) Kafka
7 11 (6.36%) OAuth
8 8 (4.62%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.05%) .NET
9 7 (4.05%) .NET Core
9 7 (4.05%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (3.47%) AWS SAM
10 6 (3.47%) LDAP
10 6 (3.47%) PySpark
11 5 (2.89%) AngularJS
12 4 (2.31%) CSS
12 4 (2.31%) HTML
12 4 (2.31%) REST
13 3 (1.73%) Spring
13 3 (1.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.98%) Public Cloud
2 15 (8.67%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.62%) Replication
5 5 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.89%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.73%) Clustering
7 3 (1.73%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.73%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.16%) PKI
9 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.81%) Linux
2 13 (7.51%) Windows
3 8 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.05%) Unix
5 3 (1.73%) CentOS
5 3 (1.73%) Debian
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (51.45%) DevOps
2 84 (48.55%) CI/CD
3 56 (32.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (25.43%) Agile
5 30 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (13.29%) Containerisation
7 22 (12.72%) Analytics
8 21 (12.14%) Migration
9 20 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (11.56%) Scrum
9 20 (11.56%) Test Automation
10 18 (10.40%) Configuration Management
11 17 (9.83%) Kanban
11 17 (9.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (9.25%) High Availability
12 16 (9.25%) Mentoring
12 16 (9.25%) Microservices
12 16 (9.25%) Software Engineering
13 14 (8.09%) Computer Science
13 14 (8.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.87%) Python
2 37 (21.39%) Java
3 27 (15.61%) SQL
4 25 (14.45%) Bash
5 23 (13.29%) TypeScript
6 16 (9.25%) JavaScript
7 14 (8.09%) Go
8 10 (5.78%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.47%) PHP
9 6 (3.47%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.31%) C
10 4 (2.31%) Ruby
10 4 (2.31%) Scala
11 3 (1.73%) C++
12 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.16%) R
13 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (23.12%) Security Cleared
2 36 (20.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.09%) Degree
4 9 (5.20%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.58%) OCP
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.45%) QA
2 9 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.47%) NCSC
3 6 (3.47%) NIST
4 4 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.73%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.16%) GDPR
6 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) IFRS
7 1 (0.58%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 48 (27.75%) Docker
2 6 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.73%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.16%) Varnish
4 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 92 (53.18%) Terraform
2 53 (30.64%) Kubernetes
3 46 (26.59%) Grafana
4 43 (24.86%) Ansible
5 31 (17.92%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.78%) HP Fortify
6 10 (5.78%) Nagios
7 9 (5.20%) Graylog
7 9 (5.20%) Puppet
8 8 (4.62%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.89%) Kibana
10 4 (2.31%) HAProxy
10 4 (2.31%) Nessus
10 4 (2.31%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 4 (2.31%) WebInspect
11 3 (1.73%) Consul
11 3 (1.73%) Packer
11 3 (1.73%) Podman
12 2 (1.16%) Istio
12 2 (1.16%) linkerd
Vendors
1 30 (17.34%) Splunk
2 21 (12.14%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.67%) Oracle
4 14 (8.09%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.62%) Google
5 8 (4.62%) PagerDuty
6 7 (4.05%) NEC
6 7 (4.05%) SAP
7 6 (3.47%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.47%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.47%) VMware
8 5 (2.89%) Databricks
9 4 (2.31%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.31%) Checkmarx
9 4 (2.31%) Cisco
9 4 (2.31%) Commvault
9 4 (2.31%) New Relic
9 4 (2.31%) Veracode
10 2 (1.16%) Adobe
10 2 (1.16%) CheckPoint