Amazon CloudWatch Contracts

Amazon CloudWatch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 411 408
Rank change year-on-year +67 -3 +58
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 207 177 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.41% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.24% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 127 234
10th Percentile £358 £405 £413
25th Percentile £425 £441 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £540 £608 £650
90th Percentile £626 £670 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -5.71% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £67.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £70.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +41.87% -33.33%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £71.87 -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,999 14,291 20,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.67% 33.00% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,029 10,038 14,945
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 355 347
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.41 £16.06 £19.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.22 £47.47 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.38 £70.00 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £27.00
% change year-on-year -10.08% -22.28% +40.30%

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 6 July 2025.

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 6 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
England +81 157 £500 -9.09% 172
Work from Home +34 84 £500 - 99
UK excluding London +69 83 £495 -5.71% 80
London +28 73 £513 -6.82% 101
Midlands +40 31 £475 -19.15% 12
West Midlands +35 28 £475 - 10
North of England -2 21 £400 -27.27% 33
Scotland +4 15 £500 +11.11% 4
North West +2 10 £358 -28.40% 23
Yorkshire +9 9 £475 -15.93% 8
East of England +34 8 £550 -37.14% 6
South East +41 5 £575 -3.77% 18
South West +40 5 £523 -12.92% 4
East Midlands 0 3 £537 -8.60% 2
North East -4 2 - - 2

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 14 (6.76%) Confluence
2 11 (5.31%) Apache
3 8 (3.86%) nginx
4 7 (3.38%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.38%) CMS
5 6 (2.90%) WordPress
6 5 (2.42%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (1.45%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.97%) Camunda
10 1 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.48%) JBoss
10 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 201 (97.10%) AWS
2 121 (58.45%) Amazon S3
3 112 (54.11%) Serverless
4 106 (51.21%) AWS Lambda
5 82 (39.61%) Amazon EC2
6 59 (28.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (25.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 47 (22.71%) GitHub
9 37 (17.87%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (16.43%) AWS KMS
12 31 (14.98%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (12.56%) AWS CodePipeline
15 24 (11.59%) AWS Fargate
16 22 (10.63%) Azure
16 22 (10.63%) Datadog
17 19 (9.18%) Amazon EventBridge
18 18 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
18 18 (8.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.66%) DNS
2 18 (8.70%) Firewall
3 12 (5.80%) VPN
4 8 (3.86%) HTTP
4 8 (3.86%) SMTP
4 8 (3.86%) SSH
5 6 (2.90%) DHCP
5 6 (2.90%) FTP
5 6 (2.90%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (1.93%) SSL
6 4 (1.93%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.45%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (1.45%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.45%) VLAN
8 2 (0.97%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.97%) IMAP
8 2 (0.97%) Network Security
9 1 (0.48%) LAN
9 1 (0.48%) SMS
9 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (32.85%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (28.02%) DynamoDB
3 29 (14.01%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (8.21%) MySQL
5 16 (7.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (7.25%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (5.31%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.86%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.86%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.38%) Big Data
9 7 (3.38%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.90%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.93%) InfluxDB
11 4 (1.93%) MariaDB
11 4 (1.93%) Parquet
12 3 (1.45%) DB2
12 3 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 83 (40.10%) Jenkins
2 38 (18.36%) GitLab
3 29 (14.01%) Git
4 23 (11.11%) JIRA
5 14 (6.76%) JUnit
5 14 (6.76%) Maven
6 12 (5.80%) SonarQube
7 9 (4.35%) Vagrant
8 8 (3.86%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (3.86%) DbUnit
8 8 (3.86%) jMock
8 8 (3.86%) Mockito
9 6 (2.90%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.90%) TeamCity
10 5 (2.42%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.93%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.45%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.45%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.45%) Postman
12 3 (1.45%) REST Assured
General
1 38 (18.36%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.43%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.21%) Finance
4 15 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.90%) Banking
7 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Aviation
8 1 (0.48%) Back Office
8 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.48%) Marketing
8 1 (0.48%) Military
8 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (28.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (23.67%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (18.84%) Developer
4 29 (14.01%) Senior
5 28 (13.53%) Architect
6 24 (11.59%) AWS DevOps
6 24 (11.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 20 (9.66%) AWS Architect
8 19 (9.18%) AWS Developer
9 17 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (6.28%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.28%) Software Engineer
10 13 (6.28%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (5.31%) Java Developer
11 11 (5.31%) Lead
12 10 (4.83%) Administrator
12 10 (4.83%) Data Engineer
13 9 (4.35%) AWS Solution Architect
13 9 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (3.38%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.59%) Kafka
2 23 (11.11%) RESTful
3 20 (9.66%) Node.js
4 18 (8.70%) AWS CDK
4 18 (8.70%) REST
4 18 (8.70%) Spring
5 17 (8.21%) Spring Boot
6 16 (7.73%) ActiveMQ
6 16 (7.73%) AngularJS
7 14 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (4.83%) Web Services
9 9 (4.35%) SOAP
10 8 (3.86%) Bootstrap
10 8 (3.86%) GraphQL
10 8 (3.86%) Hibernate
10 8 (3.86%) JPA
10 8 (3.86%) PowerMock
10 8 (3.86%) Spring Batch
10 8 (3.86%) Spring Cloud
10 8 (3.86%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.63%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.25%) Public Cloud
3 14 (6.76%) Replication
4 9 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.93%) Clustering
6 4 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.45%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.97%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.97%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.48%) PKI
9 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 47 (22.71%) Linux
2 18 (8.70%) Windows
3 12 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (5.31%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (3.86%) VMS
6 4 (1.93%) Unix
7 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.48%) CentOS
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.48%) SUSE
8 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (63.29%) DevOps
2 128 (61.84%) CI/CD
3 79 (38.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (33.33%) Agile
5 51 (24.64%) Containerisation
6 45 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (18.84%) Microservices
8 34 (16.43%) Observability
9 31 (14.98%) Infrastructure Automation
10 30 (14.49%) Event-Driven
10 30 (14.49%) Test Automation
11 28 (13.53%) High Availability
12 24 (11.59%) Cloud Security
13 23 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 20 (9.66%) Secrets Management
15 19 (9.18%) Software Engineering
16 18 (8.70%) Migration
17 17 (8.21%) Configuration Management
17 17 (8.21%) Data Pipeline
18 16 (7.73%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (39.61%) Python
2 43 (20.77%) Java
2 43 (20.77%) SQL
3 25 (12.08%) PowerShell
4 17 (8.21%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.25%) Bash
6 14 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.35%) Groovy
8 6 (2.90%) Perl
8 6 (2.90%) PHP
9 5 (2.42%) Go
9 5 (2.42%) Scala
10 4 (1.93%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.97%) C#
11 2 (0.97%) R
11 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 64 (30.92%) Security Cleared
2 60 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 36 (17.39%) AWS Certification
4 22 (10.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.31%) Degree
6 7 (3.38%) OCP
6 7 (3.38%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.97%) CCIE
11 2 (0.97%) CCNP
11 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.97%) MCSE
11 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.83%) GDPR
2 9 (4.35%) QA
3 7 (3.38%) SOC 2
4 6 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.42%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.93%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.93%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.45%) NCSC
7 3 (1.45%) NIST
8 2 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.48%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 72 (34.78%) Docker
2 12 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.83%) Postfix
4 6 (2.90%) DFS Replication
5 3 (1.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.97%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.97%) Squid
6 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.48%) HDFS
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.48%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 103 (49.76%) Terraform
2 54 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 49 (23.67%) Prometheus
4 37 (17.87%) Grafana
5 27 (13.04%) Ansible
6 8 (3.86%) Kibana
7 6 (2.90%) logstash
7 6 (2.90%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.42%) FortiGate
8 5 (2.42%) Packer
8 5 (2.42%) Puppet
9 4 (1.93%) Argo
9 4 (1.93%) Consul
9 4 (1.93%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.45%) QRadar
10 3 (1.45%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 2 (0.97%) Nessus
11 2 (0.97%) SELinux
12 1 (0.48%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 21 (10.14%) Splunk
2 16 (7.73%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.73%) ServiceNow
3 13 (6.28%) AppDynamics
3 13 (6.28%) Oracle
4 11 (5.31%) Dynatrace
5 10 (4.83%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.86%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.86%) Google
7 5 (2.42%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (2.42%) Cisco
8 4 (1.93%) Databricks
8 4 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.45%) SAP
9 3 (1.45%) VMware
10 2 (0.97%) IBM
10 2 (0.97%) Qualys
10 2 (0.97%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.97%) Sybase
10 2 (0.97%) Veeam