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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 411 401
Rank change year-on-year +60 -10 +42
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 174 177 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.41% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.27% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 132 237
10th Percentile £358 £405 £413
25th Percentile £436 £438 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -12.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £638 £656 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% -4.17%
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 10,956 13,905 20,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.79% 32.41% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,431 9,864 14,731
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £619 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 344 328
10th Percentile £15.15 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £18.98
Median hourly rate £27.88 £21.46 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.92% -42.39% +69.32%
75th Percentile £46.51 £42.81 £68.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.85 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.62 £17.80 £27.50
% change year-on-year +10.22% -35.27% +44.05%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +65 136 £500 -9.09% 699
UK excluding London +63 71 £500 -6.98% 600
Work from Home +25 69 £523 +4.60% 678
London +17 63 £513 -2.38% 173
Midlands - 25 £500 - 113
West Midlands - 22 £500 - 69
North of England +1 17 £396 -28.09% 138
Scotland +6 14 £500 +11.11% 21
North West +8 11 £375 -31.91% 63
East of England +33 8 £550 -37.14% 88
South East +44 5 £575 +2.91% 173
South West +37 4 £525 -12.50% 60
Yorkshire +7 4 £488 -14.29% 56
East Midlands - 3 £537 - 38
North East -4 2 - - 19

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 11 (6.32%) Apache
2 9 (5.17%) Confluence
3 7 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.02%) CMS
3 7 (4.02%) nginx
4 6 (3.45%) WordPress
5 5 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.87%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.72%) OpenStack
7 2 (1.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.57%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.57%) JBoss
8 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.15%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 167 (95.98%) AWS
2 95 (54.60%) Amazon S3
3 91 (52.30%) Serverless
4 84 (48.28%) AWS Lambda
5 59 (33.91%) Amazon EC2
6 48 (27.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 37 (21.26%) Amazon SQS
8 36 (20.69%) GitHub
9 31 (17.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 30 (17.24%) AWS KMS
11 28 (16.09%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (13.22%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (12.64%) AWS Fargate
14 21 (12.07%) AWS CodePipeline
15 20 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (10.92%) Route 53
17 17 (9.77%) Amazon EventBridge
17 17 (9.77%) Azure
17 17 (9.77%) Datadog
18 16 (9.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.05%) Firewall
2 10 (5.75%) DNS
3 6 (3.45%) VPN
4 4 (2.30%) HTTP
4 4 (2.30%) SSH
4 4 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (1.72%) Network Security
5 3 (1.72%) SMTP
6 2 (1.15%) FTP
6 2 (1.15%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.15%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.15%) SSL
6 2 (1.15%) VLAN
7 1 (0.57%) IMAP
7 1 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.57%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (32.18%) DynamoDB
2 51 (29.31%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (9.20%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (9.20%) MySQL
5 14 (8.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (5.17%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.60%) NoSQL
7 8 (4.60%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.02%) Big Data
8 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
9 6 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.45%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.30%) InfluxDB
10 4 (2.30%) Parquet
10 4 (2.30%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.72%) Flink
11 3 (1.72%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.72%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 75 (43.10%) Jenkins
2 31 (17.82%) GitLab
3 20 (11.49%) Git
4 18 (10.34%) JIRA
5 15 (8.62%) JUnit
6 14 (8.05%) Maven
7 12 (6.90%) SonarQube
8 11 (6.32%) Mockito
9 8 (4.60%) Bitbucket Server
9 8 (4.60%) DbUnit
9 8 (4.60%) jMock
10 6 (3.45%) TeamCity
11 5 (2.87%) Artifactory
11 5 (2.87%) Cucumber
12 4 (2.30%) Terragrunt
12 4 (2.30%) Vagrant
13 3 (1.72%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.72%) CircleCI
13 3 (1.72%) Gradle
14 2 (1.15%) Gatling
General
1 33 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.94%) Public Sector
3 16 (9.20%) Finance
4 12 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.87%) Banking
7 1 (0.57%) Aviation
7 1 (0.57%) Back Office
7 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.57%) Marketing
7 1 (0.57%) Military
7 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (23.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (22.99%) Developer
3 35 (20.11%) AWS Engineer
4 29 (16.67%) Architect
5 23 (13.22%) Senior
6 20 (11.49%) AWS Architect
7 17 (9.77%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (9.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 16 (9.20%) AWS Developer
9 13 (7.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (7.47%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (6.90%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.32%) Java Developer
11 11 (6.32%) Lead
12 10 (5.75%) Software Engineer
13 9 (5.17%) AWS Solution Architect
13 9 (5.17%) Data Engineer
14 7 (4.02%) Administrator
14 7 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
15 6 (3.45%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.07%) Kafka
1 21 (12.07%) REST
2 20 (11.49%) Node.js
2 20 (11.49%) RESTful
3 17 (9.77%) Spring
4 16 (9.20%) AWS CDK
4 16 (9.20%) Spring Boot
5 15 (8.62%) ActiveMQ
5 15 (8.62%) AngularJS
6 13 (7.47%) Web Services
7 12 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (6.32%) Hibernate
9 9 (5.17%) SOAP
10 8 (4.60%) Bootstrap
10 8 (4.60%) JPA
10 8 (4.60%) PowerMock
10 8 (4.60%) Spring Batch
10 8 (4.60%) Spring Cloud
10 8 (4.60%) Spring Integration
11 6 (3.45%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.62%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.02%) Replication
5 3 (1.72%) Clustering
5 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.15%) Genomics
6 2 (1.15%) Omics
6 2 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.57%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 34 (19.54%) Linux
2 11 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (5.75%) Windows
4 6 (3.45%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (2.87%) Unix
6 3 (1.72%) VMS
7 1 (0.57%) CentOS
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (61.49%) CI/CD
2 101 (58.05%) DevOps
3 62 (35.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (33.33%) Agile
5 44 (25.29%) Containerisation
6 42 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (22.99%) Microservices
8 30 (17.24%) Observability
9 27 (15.52%) Event-Driven
10 25 (14.37%) Test Automation
11 23 (13.22%) High Availability
11 23 (13.22%) Infrastructure Automation
12 18 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (10.34%) Mentoring
12 18 (10.34%) Secrets Management
12 18 (10.34%) TDD
13 17 (9.77%) Software Engineering
14 16 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (9.20%) Scrum
15 15 (8.62%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 73 (41.95%) Python
2 40 (22.99%) Java
3 36 (20.69%) SQL
4 17 (9.77%) JavaScript
5 15 (8.62%) PowerShell
6 13 (7.47%) Bash
7 12 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.45%) PHP
9 4 (2.30%) Go
9 4 (2.30%) Groovy
9 4 (2.30%) Scala
9 4 (2.30%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.15%) C#
10 2 (1.15%) Perl
10 2 (1.15%) R
11 1 (0.57%) Ruby
11 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (32.76%) Security Cleared
2 54 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 37 (21.26%) AWS Certification
4 22 (12.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (5.75%) Degree
6 8 (4.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.02%) OCP
7 7 (4.02%) Oracle Certification
8 6 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.87%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (1.15%) CCIE
12 2 (1.15%) CCNP
12 2 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.15%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.57%) MCSE
13 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.75%) GDPR
2 8 (4.60%) QA
3 7 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.02%) SOC 2
4 5 (2.87%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.30%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.30%) NCSC
6 3 (1.72%) NIST
6 3 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.57%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (34.48%) Docker
2 9 (5.17%) Postfix
3 4 (2.30%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.15%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.15%) HDFS
5 2 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.57%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.57%) Squid
6 1 (0.57%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 77 (44.25%) Terraform
2 49 (28.16%) Kubernetes
3 38 (21.84%) Prometheus
4 27 (15.52%) Grafana
5 25 (14.37%) Ansible
6 8 (4.60%) Kibana
7 6 (3.45%) logstash
8 5 (2.87%) FortiGate
8 5 (2.87%) Packer
9 4 (2.30%) Argo
9 4 (2.30%) Consul
9 4 (2.30%) Kustomize
9 4 (2.30%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.30%) Puppet
10 3 (1.72%) QRadar
10 3 (1.72%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.57%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.57%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 19 (10.92%) Splunk
2 12 (6.90%) Oracle
3 11 (6.32%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.75%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.17%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (5.17%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.60%) Atlassian
7 7 (4.02%) Google
8 6 (3.45%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.87%) Cisco
10 4 (2.30%) Databricks
10 4 (2.30%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.72%) SAP
12 2 (1.15%) IBM
12 2 (1.15%) Qualys
12 2 (1.15%) Rapid7
12 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.15%) Tenable
12 2 (1.15%) VMware