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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 400 441
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 +56
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 184 317 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.48% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 247 331
10th Percentile £405 £425 £450
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £700
90th Percentile £660 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £547 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.96% - +24.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile £67.50 - £68.75
Median hourly rate £70.94 - £75.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £79.25
90th Percentile - - £80.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +199.22%

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 13,850 21,390 33,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.77% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,844 15,472 24,768
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 346 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.13 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £64.78 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.81 £19.63
% change year-on-year -28.58% +26.42% -1.88%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -11 138 £528 -12.08% 70
London 0 85 £525 -12.50% 37
Work from Home +59 84 £525 -8.70% 46
UK excluding London +22 64 £547 -4.96% 32
North of England -8 28 £550 -8.33% 14
North West +6 19 £550 -13.73% 11
Scotland +32 13 £466 -4.36%
South East +12 10 £530 -7.83% 3
South West +17 6 £600 - 1
Yorkshire +3 6 £569 -5.21% 3
Wales +24 5 £645 +5.22%
North East +12 3 - -
East of England +9 2 £875 - 1
Midlands +32 1 £475 -16.48% 11
East Midlands - 1 £475 -

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 10 (5.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 9 (4.89%) Drupal
2 9 (4.89%) WordPress
3 5 (2.72%) CMS
3 5 (2.72%) Confluence
4 4 (2.17%) Apache
4 4 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.17%) nginx
5 3 (1.63%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.09%) Traefik
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 7 (3.80%) NEC Housing
2 5 (2.72%) Magento
3 4 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.54%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.54%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.54%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 173 (94.02%) AWS
2 96 (52.17%) Serverless
3 93 (50.54%) AWS Lambda
4 86 (46.74%) Amazon EC2
4 86 (46.74%) Amazon S3
5 66 (35.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 42 (22.83%) GitHub
7 41 (22.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 30 (16.30%) Azure
9 26 (14.13%) AWS Step Functions
10 25 (13.59%) Route 53
11 23 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (11.96%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (11.41%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (11.41%) AWS CloudTrail
14 18 (9.78%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
16 15 (8.15%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (5.98%) AWS CodeBuild
17 11 (5.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.04%) Firewall
2 13 (7.07%) Network Security
3 12 (6.52%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.35%) DNS
5 7 (3.80%) VPN
6 4 (2.17%) DHCP
6 4 (2.17%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.63%) HTTP
7 3 (1.63%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.54%) Internet
8 1 (0.54%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (26.63%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (14.67%) DynamoDB
3 25 (13.59%) MySQL
4 24 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (9.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (6.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (6.52%) MongoDB
7 10 (5.43%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.35%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (3.80%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.26%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.72%) Informix
11 5 (2.72%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.17%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.63%) InfluxDB
14 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (1.09%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 43 (23.37%) Git
2 33 (17.93%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.96%) GitLab
4 10 (5.43%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.89%) JIRA
6 5 (2.72%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.17%) AppScan
7 4 (2.17%) Burp Suite
7 4 (2.17%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.63%) JMeter
8 3 (1.63%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.63%) Maven
8 3 (1.63%) NeoLoad
9 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.09%) Selenium
9 2 (1.09%) Snyk
9 2 (1.09%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.54%) Gradle
10 1 (0.54%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.54%) TestNG
General
1 38 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 7 (3.80%) Finance
4 5 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (2.72%) Retail
5 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.09%) Aviation
6 2 (1.09%) Billing
6 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.54%) Banking
7 1 (0.54%) Law
7 1 (0.54%) Legal
7 1 (0.54%) Local Government
7 1 (0.54%) Marketing
7 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (24.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (22.28%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (16.30%) Developer
4 27 (14.67%) Senior
5 24 (13.04%) Data Engineer
6 18 (9.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (8.15%) Lead
8 15 (8.15%) Python Developer
8 15 (8.15%) Software Engineer
9 14 (7.61%) AWS Data Engineer
9 14 (7.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (6.52%) Architect
12 11 (5.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (4.35%) DBA
13 8 (4.35%) Security Engineer
13 8 (4.35%) Site Engineer
14 7 (3.80%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.85%) React
2 18 (9.78%) RESTful
3 17 (9.24%) AWS CDK
3 17 (9.24%) Node.js
4 16 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (7.07%) Kafka
6 11 (5.98%) OAuth
7 8 (4.35%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.80%) .NET
8 7 (3.80%) .NET Core
8 7 (3.80%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (3.26%) PySpark
10 5 (2.72%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.72%) AWS SAM
10 5 (2.72%) LDAP
11 4 (2.17%) CSS
11 4 (2.17%) HTML
11 4 (2.17%) REST
12 3 (1.63%) Spring
12 3 (1.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.33%) Public Cloud
2 14 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.35%) Replication
5 6 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.63%) Clustering
7 3 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.63%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.09%) PKI
9 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.54%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 36 (19.57%) Linux
2 12 (6.52%) Windows
3 9 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.35%) Unix
5 3 (1.63%) CentOS
5 3 (1.63%) Debian
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (46.74%) CI/CD
1 86 (46.74%) DevOps
2 55 (29.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (23.91%) Agile
4 30 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (11.96%) Analytics
5 22 (11.96%) Containerisation
6 20 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (10.87%) Test Automation
7 19 (10.33%) Migration
7 19 (10.33%) Scrum
7 19 (10.33%) Software Engineering
8 18 (9.78%) Configuration Management
9 17 (9.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (8.70%) Kanban
10 16 (8.70%) Mentoring
11 15 (8.15%) Code Quality
11 15 (8.15%) High Availability
11 15 (8.15%) Microservices
12 14 (7.61%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 98 (53.26%) Python
2 36 (19.57%) Java
3 29 (15.76%) SQL
4 25 (13.59%) Bash
5 23 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 20 (10.87%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.61%) Go
8 11 (5.98%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.26%) PHP
10 5 (2.72%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.17%) C
11 4 (2.17%) Ruby
11 4 (2.17%) Scala
12 3 (1.63%) C++
13 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.09%) R
14 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (26.63%) Security Cleared
2 45 (24.46%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.07%) Degree
4 7 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.54%) OCP
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.67%) QA
2 9 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.26%) NCSC
4 5 (2.72%) NIST
5 4 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.63%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.54%) GDPR
8 1 (0.54%) IFRS
8 1 (0.54%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 47 (25.54%) Docker
2 6 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.09%) Varnish
5 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 97 (52.72%) Terraform
2 50 (27.17%) Kubernetes
3 46 (25.00%) Grafana
4 41 (22.28%) Ansible
5 32 (17.39%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.43%) HP Fortify
6 10 (5.43%) Nagios
7 9 (4.89%) Graylog
8 8 (4.35%) Puppet
9 7 (3.80%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.72%) Kibana
11 4 (2.17%) HAProxy
11 4 (2.17%) Nessus
11 4 (2.17%) Packer
11 4 (2.17%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 4 (2.17%) WebInspect
12 3 (1.63%) Consul
12 3 (1.63%) Podman
13 2 (1.09%) Graphite
13 2 (1.09%) Istio
Vendors
1 31 (16.85%) Splunk
2 22 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.24%) Salesforce
4 15 (8.15%) Oracle
5 9 (4.89%) Google
6 8 (4.35%) PagerDuty
7 7 (3.80%) NEC
7 7 (3.80%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.26%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.26%) SAP
8 6 (3.26%) VMware
9 5 (2.72%) Databricks
10 4 (2.17%) AppDynamics
10 4 (2.17%) Checkmarx
10 4 (2.17%) Cisco
10 4 (2.17%) Commvault
10 4 (2.17%) Veracode
11 3 (1.63%) New Relic
12 2 (1.09%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.09%) LogicMonitor