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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 401 440
Rank change year-on-year -10 +39 +56
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 173 337 492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 1.53% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 259 348
10th Percentile £405 £448 £450
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £591 £650 £700
90th Percentile £667 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +24.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.94 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 - -

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 14,068 22,025 34,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,991 15,919 24,902
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 £633 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 350 427
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.99%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.46
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.03% +31.31% -5.06%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -28 129 £525 -12.50% 53
Work from Home +56 75 £525 -8.70% 30
London -4 74 £500 -16.67% 33
UK excluding London +13 66 £550 -4.35% 25
North of England -3 28 £550 -12.00% 9
North West -8 19 £550 -15.38% 6
Scotland +26 13 £466 -4.36% 5
South East +9 10 £530 -7.83% 2
Yorkshire +12 6 £569 -5.21% 2
South West +10 6 £600 - 2
Wales +20 5 £645 +5.22%
Midlands +35 3 £750 +31.87% 5
North East +20 3 - - 1
East Midlands - 3 £750 -
East of England +12 2 £875 - 1

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 9 (5.20%) Drupal
1 9 (5.20%) WordPress
2 5 (2.89%) Apache
2 5 (2.89%) CMS
2 5 (2.89%) Confluence
3 4 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.31%) nginx
4 3 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.16%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.16%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 7 (4.05%) NEC Housing
2 5 (2.89%) Magento
3 2 (1.16%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.58%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.58%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.58%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 171 (98.84%) AWS
2 95 (54.91%) Serverless
3 92 (53.18%) AWS Lambda
4 87 (50.29%) Amazon EC2
5 84 (48.55%) Amazon S3
6 64 (36.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (24.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 33 (19.08%) GitHub
9 30 (17.34%) Azure
10 25 (14.45%) Route 53
11 24 (13.87%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (13.29%) AWS CloudTrail
12 23 (13.29%) AWS Step Functions
13 21 (12.14%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (10.40%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (9.25%) AWS CodePipeline
16 14 (8.09%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (6.36%) AWS CodeBuild
18 11 (6.36%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.40%) Firewall
2 14 (8.09%) Network Security
3 12 (6.94%) TCP/IP
4 9 (5.20%) DNS
5 8 (4.62%) VPN
6 5 (2.89%) DHCP
7 4 (2.31%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (1.73%) HTTP
8 3 (1.73%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.16%) Internet
10 1 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (30.64%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (15.03%) MySQL
3 25 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (13.29%) DynamoDB
5 18 (10.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (8.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (6.94%) MongoDB
7 12 (6.94%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.62%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.62%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (4.05%) Amazon QuickSight
9 7 (4.05%) RDBMS
10 6 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.47%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.89%) Informix
12 3 (1.73%) InfluxDB
12 3 (1.73%) NoSQL
13 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (24.86%) Git
2 32 (18.50%) Jenkins
3 22 (12.72%) GitLab
4 10 (5.78%) SonarQube
5 9 (5.20%) JIRA
6 5 (2.89%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.31%) AppScan
7 4 (2.31%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.73%) JMeter
8 3 (1.73%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.73%) Maven
8 3 (1.73%) NeoLoad
9 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.16%) Selenium
9 2 (1.16%) Snyk
9 2 (1.16%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.58%) Gradle
10 1 (0.58%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.58%) TestNG
General
1 37 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (2.89%) Finance
3 5 (2.89%) Retail
4 4 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.16%) Billing
6 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.58%) Banking
7 1 (0.58%) Law
7 1 (0.58%) Legal
7 1 (0.58%) Local Government
7 1 (0.58%) Marketing
7 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (25.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (24.86%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (17.34%) Developer
4 24 (13.87%) Data Engineer
4 24 (13.87%) Senior
5 16 (9.25%) AWS DevOps
5 16 (9.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (8.67%) Python Developer
7 14 (8.09%) AWS Data Engineer
7 14 (8.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (8.09%) Lead
8 13 (7.51%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (6.94%) Software Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (5.20%) Security Engineer
12 8 (4.62%) DBA
12 8 (4.62%) Site Engineer
13 7 (4.05%) Architect
13 7 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.92%) React
2 17 (9.83%) AWS CDK
3 16 (9.25%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (8.67%) RESTful
5 14 (8.09%) Node.js
6 13 (7.51%) Kafka
7 11 (6.36%) OAuth
8 8 (4.62%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.05%) .NET
9 7 (4.05%) .NET Core
9 7 (4.05%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (3.47%) LDAP
10 6 (3.47%) PySpark
11 5 (2.89%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.89%) AWS SAM
12 4 (2.31%) CSS
12 4 (2.31%) HTML
12 4 (2.31%) REST
13 3 (1.73%) Spring
13 3 (1.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.98%) Public Cloud
2 15 (8.67%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.62%) Replication
5 5 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.89%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.73%) Clustering
7 3 (1.73%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.73%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.16%) PKI
9 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.81%) Linux
2 13 (7.51%) Windows
3 8 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.05%) Unix
5 3 (1.73%) CentOS
5 3 (1.73%) Debian
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (50.87%) DevOps
2 84 (48.55%) CI/CD
3 56 (32.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (25.43%) Agile
5 31 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (13.29%) Containerisation
7 22 (12.72%) Analytics
8 21 (12.14%) Migration
9 20 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (11.56%) Scrum
9 20 (11.56%) Test Automation
10 18 (10.40%) Configuration Management
11 17 (9.83%) Kanban
11 17 (9.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (9.25%) High Availability
12 16 (9.25%) Mentoring
12 16 (9.25%) Microservices
12 16 (9.25%) Software Engineering
13 15 (8.67%) Code Quality
13 15 (8.67%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 89 (51.45%) Python
2 37 (21.39%) Java
3 27 (15.61%) SQL
4 25 (14.45%) Bash
5 23 (13.29%) TypeScript
6 16 (9.25%) JavaScript
7 14 (8.09%) Go
8 10 (5.78%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.47%) PHP
9 6 (3.47%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.31%) C
10 4 (2.31%) Ruby
10 4 (2.31%) Scala
11 3 (1.73%) C++
12 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.16%) R
13 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (23.70%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.39%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (8.67%) Degree
4 9 (5.20%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.58%) OCP
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.03%) QA
2 9 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.47%) NCSC
3 6 (3.47%) NIST
4 4 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.73%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.16%) GDPR
6 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) IFRS
7 1 (0.58%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 47 (27.17%) Docker
2 6 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.73%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.16%) Varnish
4 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 91 (52.60%) Terraform
2 53 (30.64%) Kubernetes
3 46 (26.59%) Grafana
4 43 (24.86%) Ansible
5 31 (17.92%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.78%) HP Fortify
6 10 (5.78%) Nagios
7 9 (5.20%) Graylog
7 9 (5.20%) Puppet
8 8 (4.62%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.89%) Kibana
10 4 (2.31%) HAProxy
10 4 (2.31%) Nessus
10 4 (2.31%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 4 (2.31%) WebInspect
11 3 (1.73%) Consul
11 3 (1.73%) Packer
11 3 (1.73%) Podman
12 2 (1.16%) Graphite
12 2 (1.16%) Istio
Vendors
1 30 (17.34%) Splunk
2 22 (12.72%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.67%) Oracle
3 15 (8.67%) Salesforce
4 9 (5.20%) Google
5 8 (4.62%) PagerDuty
6 7 (4.05%) NEC
6 7 (4.05%) SAP
7 6 (3.47%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.47%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.47%) VMware
8 5 (2.89%) Databricks
9 4 (2.31%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.31%) Checkmarx
9 4 (2.31%) Cisco
9 4 (2.31%) Commvault
9 4 (2.31%) New Relic
9 4 (2.31%) Veracode
10 2 (1.16%) Adobe
10 2 (1.16%) CheckPoint