Amazon CloudWatch Contract Job Trends in Wales

Amazon CloudWatch
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Amazon CloudWatch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.65% - 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.40% - 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £319
25th Percentile - - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £575
75th Percentile - - £667
90th Percentile - - £670
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 125 138 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 27.23% 37.20% 33.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 111 122
10th Percentile £176 £188 £183
25th Percentile £296 £255 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £540
90th Percentile £713 £625 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 3
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £12.96
Median hourly rate £21.00 £33.64 £13.33
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% +152.36% -15.22%
75th Percentile £21.50 £41.25 £84.67
90th Percentile £30.00 - £127.47
UK median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.31% +22.22% -6.25%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon CloudWatch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Amazon CloudWatch job vacancy trend in Wales

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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
South Wales - 1 - - 2
Dyfed - 1 - -
West Wales - 1 £500 - 1
Amazon CloudWatch
UK

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Payments Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ForgeRock
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle