Amazon CloudWatch Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon CloudWatch
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 316 343
Rank change year-on-year +61 +27 +36
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 86 140 295
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.56% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.43% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 111 210
10th Percentile £405 £438 £453
25th Percentile £453 £497 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £722
90th Percentile £650 £700 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +11.11%
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 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.94 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +172.73%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,382 9,801 18,399
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.55% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 7,278 13,752
10th Percentile £350 £372 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £744 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 130 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +2.07%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

Amazon CloudWatch
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon CloudWatch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon CloudWatch trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Amazon CloudWatch over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 8 (9.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (4.65%) Drupal
2 4 (4.65%) WordPress
3 3 (3.49%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.16%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 77 (89.53%) AWS
2 48 (55.81%) Serverless
3 46 (53.49%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (47.67%) Amazon S3
5 35 (40.70%) Amazon EC2
6 31 (36.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (20.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 16 (18.60%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (18.60%) GitHub
9 15 (17.44%) AWS CloudTrail
9 15 (17.44%) AWS Step Functions
9 15 (17.44%) Route 53
10 13 (15.12%) Azure
11 12 (13.95%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (12.79%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (9.30%) AWS KMS
14 7 (8.14%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (6.98%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (6.98%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.12%) Firewall
2 7 (8.14%) Network Security
3 3 (3.49%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (1.16%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.16%) SSL
4 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.56%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (16.28%) DynamoDB
3 13 (15.12%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (13.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (11.63%) MongoDB
6 9 (10.47%) MySQL
7 5 (5.81%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (4.65%) Informix
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (3.49%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.33%) InfluxDB
10 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (22.09%) Git
1 19 (22.09%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.14%) GitLab
2 7 (8.14%) JIRA
3 5 (5.81%) CircleCI
4 3 (3.49%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.33%) Maven
5 2 (2.33%) Selenium
5 2 (2.33%) Snyk
6 1 (1.16%) AppScan
6 1 (1.16%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.16%) JMeter
6 1 (1.16%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.16%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.33%) Aviation
4 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.16%) Finance
4 1 (1.16%) Marketing
4 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) AWS Engineer
1 22 (25.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (19.77%) Senior
3 12 (13.95%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (13.95%) Developer
4 11 (12.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 11 (12.79%) Software Engineer
5 10 (11.63%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (11.63%) Data Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Architect
7 7 (8.14%) Security Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.65%) SOC Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) AWS Consultant
10 3 (3.49%) AWS Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.28%) React
2 12 (13.95%) AWS CDK
2 12 (13.95%) Node.js
3 8 (9.30%) RESTful
4 5 (5.81%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.65%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.65%) AWS SAM
5 4 (4.65%) OAuth
5 4 (4.65%) PySpark
6 3 (3.49%) LDAP
7 2 (2.33%) CSS
7 2 (2.33%) HTML
7 2 (2.33%) Kafka
7 2 (2.33%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (2.33%) REST
7 2 (2.33%) Web Services
8 1 (1.16%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.16%) http4s
8 1 (1.16%) Jest
8 1 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Public Cloud
2 8 (9.30%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.14%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.98%) Replication
5 4 (4.65%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.49%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.16%) Clustering
8 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.16%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.44%) Linux
2 5 (5.81%) Windows
3 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (44.19%) CI/CD
2 35 (40.70%) DevOps
3 31 (36.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (22.09%) Agile
5 14 (16.28%) Test Automation
6 12 (13.95%) Analytics
6 12 (13.95%) Data Management
6 12 (13.95%) High Availability
6 12 (13.95%) Software Engineering
7 10 (11.63%) ETL
8 9 (10.47%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (10.47%) Kanban
9 8 (9.30%) Containerisation
9 8 (9.30%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (9.30%) Mentoring
10 7 (8.14%) Cloud Security
10 7 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.14%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (8.14%) Service Design
10 7 (8.14%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 45 (52.33%) Python
2 19 (22.09%) Java
3 15 (17.44%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.28%) SQL
5 12 (13.95%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.30%) Bash
7 5 (5.81%) Go
7 5 (5.81%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.65%) PHP
9 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.33%) R
10 1 (1.16%) C
10 1 (1.16%) C++
10 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.16%) Ruby
10 1 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (31.40%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.16%) OCP
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.65%) NCSC
2 4 (4.65%) NIST
2 4 (4.65%) QA
3 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.16%) IFRS
4 1 (1.16%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 23 (26.74%) Docker
2 4 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 44 (51.16%) Terraform
2 24 (27.91%) Kubernetes
3 23 (26.74%) Grafana
4 12 (13.95%) Ansible
4 12 (13.95%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.65%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 3 (3.49%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.33%) Kibana
7 2 (2.33%) Puppet
8 1 (1.16%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.16%) Graylog
8 1 (1.16%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.16%) logstash
8 1 (1.16%) Nagios
8 1 (1.16%) Nessus
8 1 (1.16%) Packer
8 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.16%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
1 9 (10.47%) Oracle
1 9 (10.47%) Salesforce
2 8 (9.30%) Splunk
3 4 (4.65%) Google
4 3 (3.49%) Palo Alto
4 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.49%) VMware
5 2 (2.33%) Commvault
5 2 (2.33%) Databricks
6 1 (1.16%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.16%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.16%) Confluent
6 1 (1.16%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.16%) Informatica
6 1 (1.16%) NEC
6 1 (1.16%) New Relic
6 1 (1.16%) Rollbar
6 1 (1.16%) Veracode
6 1 (1.16%) Zscaler