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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 261 305
Rank change year-on-year +36 +44 +51
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 91 80 125
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.90% 0.61% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 1.61% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 57 98
10th Percentile £361 £403 £424
25th Percentile £450 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £541
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -0.60% -13.40%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £641
90th Percentile £617 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
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 median hourly rate - £70.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +41.87% -33.33%

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 4,185 4,981 8,822
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 41.30% 37.73% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,934 3,528 6,533
10th Percentile £340 £345 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £754 £775 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 53 134
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.70 £16.33
25th Percentile £28.75 £18.50 £21.48
Median hourly rate £41.25 £36.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -10.56% +13.38%
75th Percentile £68.06 £62.00 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% -32.00% +59.09%

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 4 August 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 (6.59%) Confluence
2 4 (4.40%) CMS
3 3 (3.30%) WordPress
4 2 (2.20%) nginx
4 2 (2.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.10%) Apache
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.10%) Camunda
5 1 (1.10%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (97.80%) AWS
2 57 (62.64%) Amazon S3
3 50 (54.95%) Serverless
4 48 (52.75%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (45.05%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (31.87%) GitHub
7 28 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (20.88%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (17.58%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (17.58%) AWS Fargate
11 15 (16.48%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
13 10 (10.99%) Route 53
14 9 (9.89%) Datadog
15 7 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
16 6 (6.59%) AWS CloudTrail
16 6 (6.59%) AWS CodeBuild
16 6 (6.59%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.79%) VPN
2 7 (7.69%) DNS
3 5 (5.49%) Firewall
3 5 (5.49%) SSL
3 5 (5.49%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.30%) Network Security
4 3 (3.30%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (2.20%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (2.20%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (2.20%) SSH
6 1 (1.10%) HTTP
6 1 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.10%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (31.87%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (20.88%) DynamoDB
3 14 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (13.19%) MySQL
5 9 (9.89%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (5.49%) MariaDB
6 5 (5.49%) Oracle Database
6 5 (5.49%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (3.30%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.20%) SAP HANA
10 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.10%) DB2
10 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (45.05%) Jenkins
2 27 (29.67%) GitLab
3 19 (20.88%) Git
4 8 (8.79%) JIRA
5 6 (6.59%) JUnit
5 6 (6.59%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.49%) Maven
7 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (3.30%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.30%) DbUnit
7 3 (3.30%) jMock
7 3 (3.30%) Mockito
8 2 (2.20%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.20%) Gatling
8 2 (2.20%) Postman
9 1 (1.10%) Hamcrest
9 1 (1.10%) Selenium
9 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (20.88%) Public Sector
2 16 (17.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Finance
6 1 (1.10%) Aviation
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (19.78%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (16.48%) Architect
3 15 (16.48%) Developer
4 10 (10.99%) AWS Architect
4 10 (10.99%) AWS DevOps
4 10 (10.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Senior
5 8 (8.79%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.69%) Administrator
6 7 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
7 6 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Cloud Specialist
8 5 (5.49%) DBA
9 4 (4.40%) AWS Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Data Migration Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Migration Specialist
10 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.29%) REST
2 11 (12.09%) Kafka
3 10 (10.99%) AWS CDK
3 10 (10.99%) RESTful
4 8 (8.79%) Node.js
5 6 (6.59%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (6.59%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (5.49%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 5 (5.49%) Spring
6 5 (5.49%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.40%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.40%) boto
7 4 (4.40%) SOAP
7 4 (4.40%) Web Services
8 3 (3.30%) Bootstrap
8 3 (3.30%) Hibernate
8 3 (3.30%) JPA
8 3 (3.30%) LDAP
8 3 (3.30%) pytest
8 3 (3.30%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.79%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.49%) Clustering
4 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.49%) Replication
5 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.20%) Video on Demand
8 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.10%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Windows
3 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.20%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (68.13%) CI/CD
2 59 (64.84%) DevOps
3 42 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (29.67%) Agile
5 26 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 22 (24.18%) Observability
7 21 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
8 17 (18.68%) High Availability
8 17 (18.68%) Microservices
9 16 (17.58%) Migration
10 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (13.19%) Test Automation
12 10 (10.99%) Event-Driven
12 10 (10.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (9.89%) Mentoring
13 9 (9.89%) Scrum
14 8 (8.79%) Configuration Management
14 8 (8.79%) Secrets Management
15 7 (7.69%) DevSecOps
15 7 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.16%) Python
2 15 (16.48%) Java
3 12 (13.19%) Bash
4 10 (10.99%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.69%) SQL
6 6 (6.59%) Go
6 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.49%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.30%) PHP
9 2 (2.20%) PromQL
9 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.10%) C#
10 1 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (34.07%) SC Cleared
1 31 (34.07%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 12 (13.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.40%) OCP
4 4 (4.40%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.30%) Degree
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) QA
2 6 (6.59%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.40%) NCSC
4 2 (2.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.10%) GDPR
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (37.36%) Docker
2 3 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.30%) Postfix
3 2 (2.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 54 (59.34%) Terraform
2 27 (29.67%) Kubernetes
3 21 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 19 (20.88%) Ansible
4 19 (20.88%) Grafana
5 9 (9.89%) Progress Chef
6 6 (6.59%) Puppet
7 4 (4.40%) FortiGate
7 4 (4.40%) logstash
8 3 (3.30%) Argo
8 3 (3.30%) Consul
8 3 (3.30%) Kibana
8 3 (3.30%) Packer
9 2 (2.20%) QRadar
9 2 (2.20%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (1.10%) Demisto
10 1 (1.10%) Fluentd
10 1 (1.10%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (7.69%) Dynatrace
1 7 (7.69%) Splunk
2 6 (6.59%) Google
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle
3 5 (5.49%) Atlassian
3 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.40%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.40%) F5
4 4 (4.40%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.30%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (2.20%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.20%) Cisco
6 2 (2.20%) Databricks
6 2 (2.20%) Qualys
6 2 (2.20%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.20%) SAP
6 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.20%) Tenable
6 2 (2.20%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft