Amazon CloudWatch Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon CloudWatch
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 270 326
Rank change year-on-year +36 +56 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 70 75 153
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.71% 0.49% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.35% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 58 115
10th Percentile £391 £405 £443
25th Percentile £475 £456 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £669 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.90% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £70.94 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.94 -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon CloudWatch
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon CloudWatch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon CloudWatch trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Amazon CloudWatch daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon CloudWatch over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Amazon CloudWatch daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon CloudWatch
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Amazon CloudWatch hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (8.57%) nginx
2 5 (7.14%) Traefik
3 4 (5.71%) CMS
3 4 (5.71%) Confluence
4 3 (4.29%) WordPress
5 2 (2.86%) Apache
5 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.86%) Camunda
5 2 (2.86%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.43%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (92.86%) AWS
2 29 (41.43%) Serverless
3 28 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (34.29%) Amazon S3
5 23 (32.86%) GitHub
6 18 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (22.86%) AWS Fargate
8 15 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (18.57%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (15.71%) Azure
11 10 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (12.86%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (12.86%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (12.86%) AWS CodePipeline
13 8 (11.43%) PaaS
13 8 (11.43%) SaaS
14 7 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (10.00%) Entra ID
15 6 (8.57%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.86%) DNS
1 9 (12.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (2.86%) DHCP
2 2 (2.86%) DOCSIS
2 2 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.43%) Network Security
3 1 (1.43%) SSL
3 1 (1.43%) VLAN
3 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.43%) DynamoDB
2 14 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.00%) MySQL
3 7 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.29%) Parquet
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.86%) Big Data
6 2 (2.86%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.86%) Looker
6 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.86%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (48.57%) Jenkins
2 25 (35.71%) GitLab
3 9 (12.86%) JIRA
4 4 (5.71%) Git
4 4 (5.71%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.71%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.86%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.86%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.86%) Postman
5 2 (2.86%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.43%) Gatling
6 1 (1.43%) Gradle
6 1 (1.43%) Hamcrest
6 1 (1.43%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.43%) Selenium
6 1 (1.43%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.43%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.29%) Finance
4 3 (4.29%) Marketing
5 2 (2.86%) Electronics
5 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.43%) Aviation
6 1 (1.43%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (22.86%) Developer
2 16 (22.86%) Senior
3 14 (20.00%) Architect
4 12 (17.14%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (11.43%) AWS Architect
6 8 (11.43%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (8.57%) AWS Solution Architect
8 5 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) AWS Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Java Architect
10 3 (4.29%) Administrator
10 3 (4.29%) Cloud Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Python Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.00%) Kafka
2 10 (14.29%) AWS CDK
3 9 (12.86%) Keycloak
3 9 (12.86%) Node.js
4 8 (11.43%) REST
5 7 (10.00%) cloud-init
5 7 (10.00%) RESTful
6 6 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (5.71%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (4.29%) JSON
9 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.86%) OpenJDK
9 2 (2.86%) PySpark
9 2 (2.86%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.43%) AWS Amplify
10 1 (1.43%) GraphQL
10 1 (1.43%) MACH
10 1 (1.43%) Next.js
10 1 (1.43%) Swagger
10 1 (1.43%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 7 (10.00%) PKI
3 6 (8.57%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.86%) IoT
5 2 (2.86%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Replication
6 1 (1.43%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.43%) Linux
2 11 (15.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (10.00%) CentOS
3 7 (10.00%) Unix
4 3 (4.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (68.57%) CI/CD
2 36 (51.43%) DevOps
3 27 (38.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (34.29%) Agile
5 18 (25.71%) Observability
6 15 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 13 (18.57%) Event-Driven
8 12 (17.14%) Microservices
8 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (14.29%) Secrets Management
10 9 (12.86%) Cloud Security
10 9 (12.86%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (12.86%) Test Automation
11 7 (10.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 7 (10.00%) High Availability
11 7 (10.00%) Identity Management
11 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
12 6 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (8.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 29 (41.43%) Python
2 12 (17.14%) Java
3 11 (15.71%) Bash
3 11 (15.71%) Go
4 7 (10.00%) SQL
5 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.29%) PHP
7 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.86%) C
8 2 (2.86%) C++
8 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.43%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 32 (45.71%) SC Cleared
3 22 (31.43%) AWS Certification
4 8 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.71%) Degree
5 4 (5.71%) OCP
5 4 (5.71%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) NCSC
2 5 (7.14%) QA
3 2 (2.86%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.86%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 34 (48.57%) Terraform
2 23 (32.86%) Kubernetes
3 16 (22.86%) Prometheus
4 14 (20.00%) Grafana
5 10 (14.29%) Ansible
5 10 (14.29%) Consul
6 8 (11.43%) Packer
7 7 (10.00%) Istio
7 7 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (10.00%) linkerd
7 7 (10.00%) Rancher
7 7 (10.00%) ZABBIX
8 5 (7.14%) HAProxy
8 5 (7.14%) logstash
9 3 (4.29%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.86%) Argo
10 2 (2.86%) FortiGate
10 2 (2.86%) Kibana
10 2 (2.86%) QRadar
10 2 (2.86%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 17 (24.29%) Splunk
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) Okta
3 5 (7.14%) Apple
3 5 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.14%) ESET
3 5 (7.14%) Google
4 4 (5.71%) SAP
5 2 (2.86%) Cisco
5 2 (2.86%) Databricks
5 2 (2.86%) Qualys
5 2 (2.86%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.86%) Tenable
6 1 (1.43%) Confluent
6 1 (1.43%) IBM
6 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle