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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 406 448
Rank change year-on-year +6 +42 +56
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 178 300 467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.54% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.47% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 236 322
10th Percentile £405 £413 £438
25th Percentile £446 £499 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +12.15%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £700
90th Percentile £654 £694 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +23.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - £67.25
25th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £70.63
Median hourly rate £70.94 £50.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.87% -33.33% +172.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 £78.38
90th Percentile - - £79.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +199.22%

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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 13 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 1 June 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 -24 131 £550 -5.17% 57
London +15 86 £525 -8.70% 29
Work from Home +58 81 £500 -12.28% 28
UK excluding London -13 59 £543 -5.57% 35
North of England -1 28 £550 -8.33% 9
North West +4 18 £550 -4.35% 6
Scotland +22 15 £454 -6.92% 7
Yorkshire +6 6 £569 -5.21% 3
South East +1 6 £537 -6.70% 4
Wales +20 4 £645 +5.22%
North East +13 4 - -
South West +2 4 £600 - 4
East of England +6 2 £875 -

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 12 (6.74%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 9 (5.06%) Drupal
2 9 (5.06%) WordPress
3 5 (2.81%) CMS
3 5 (2.81%) Confluence
4 3 (1.69%) nginx
5 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.12%) Traefik
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
Business Applications
1 7 (3.93%) NEC Housing
2 5 (2.81%) Magento
2 5 (2.81%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.56%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.56%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 166 (93.26%) AWS
2 89 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 88 (49.44%) Amazon S3
3 88 (49.44%) Serverless
4 85 (47.75%) AWS Lambda
5 66 (37.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 40 (22.47%) GitHub
7 38 (21.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 29 (16.29%) Azure
9 23 (12.92%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (12.36%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (12.36%) Route 53
11 21 (11.80%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (11.80%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (11.80%) AWS CloudTrail
12 20 (11.24%) AWS Step Functions
13 16 (8.99%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (7.30%) AWS KMS
15 11 (6.18%) GCP
16 10 (5.62%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.36%) Firewall
2 13 (7.30%) Network Security
3 10 (5.62%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.37%) DNS
5 5 (2.81%) VPN
6 4 (2.25%) Kerberos
6 4 (2.25%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (2.25%) SSL
7 3 (1.69%) DHCP
7 3 (1.69%) HTTP
7 3 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (28.09%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (15.17%) DynamoDB
2 27 (15.17%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (11.24%) MySQL
4 17 (9.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (7.87%) MongoDB
6 12 (6.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (3.93%) Amazon QuickSight
8 7 (3.93%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.93%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.37%) Oracle Database
9 6 (3.37%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.81%) Informix
11 4 (2.25%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.69%) InfluxDB
13 2 (1.12%) Big Data
13 2 (1.12%) DB2
13 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (23.03%) Git
2 33 (18.54%) Jenkins
3 23 (12.92%) GitLab
4 10 (5.62%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.93%) JIRA
6 5 (2.81%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.25%) AppScan
7 4 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.25%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.69%) JMeter
8 3 (1.69%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.69%) Maven
8 3 (1.69%) NeoLoad
9 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.12%) Selenium
9 2 (1.12%) Snyk
9 2 (1.12%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.56%) Gradle
10 1 (0.56%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.56%) TestNG
General
1 34 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.11%) Public Sector
3 8 (4.49%) Finance
4 5 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.81%) Retail
5 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Aviation
7 2 (1.12%) Billing
7 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.56%) Banking
8 1 (0.56%) Law
8 1 (0.56%) Legal
8 1 (0.56%) Local Government
8 1 (0.56%) Marketing
8 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (23.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (19.66%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (15.73%) Developer
3 28 (15.73%) Senior
4 20 (11.24%) Data Engineer
5 18 (10.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (8.99%) Software Engineer
7 15 (8.43%) Lead
7 15 (8.43%) Python Developer
8 14 (7.87%) Architect
8 14 (7.87%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (6.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.18%) AWS Data Engineer
10 11 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (6.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (5.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Security Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Site Engineer
13 7 (3.93%) Operations Engineer
13 7 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.42%) React
2 19 (10.67%) RESTful
3 17 (9.55%) AWS CDK
4 16 (8.99%) Node.js
5 15 (8.43%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (8.43%) Kafka
6 11 (6.18%) OAuth
7 8 (4.49%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.93%) .NET
8 7 (3.93%) .NET Core
9 6 (3.37%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (2.81%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.81%) AWS SAM
11 4 (2.25%) CSS
11 4 (2.25%) HTML
11 4 (2.25%) LDAP
11 4 (2.25%) PySpark
11 4 (2.25%) Spring
12 3 (1.69%) REST
12 3 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.55%) Public Cloud
2 15 (8.43%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (7.30%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.06%) Replication
5 5 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.25%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.69%) Clustering
7 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.69%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.12%) PKI
9 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.66%) Linux
2 12 (6.74%) Unix
3 11 (6.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.49%) Windows
5 3 (1.69%) CentOS
6 2 (1.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (44.94%) CI/CD
2 78 (43.82%) DevOps
3 54 (30.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (21.91%) Agile
5 30 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (13.48%) Migration
7 23 (12.92%) Containerisation
8 21 (11.80%) Software Engineering
9 19 (10.67%) Scrum
10 18 (10.11%) Analytics
10 18 (10.11%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (10.11%) Test Automation
11 15 (8.43%) Code Quality
11 15 (8.43%) Configuration Management
11 15 (8.43%) Kanban
11 15 (8.43%) Microservices
11 15 (8.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (7.87%) High Availability
13 13 (7.30%) Mentoring
13 13 (7.30%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 94 (52.81%) Python
2 34 (19.10%) Java
3 28 (15.73%) SQL
4 24 (13.48%) Bash
5 22 (12.36%) TypeScript
6 18 (10.11%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.74%) Go
8 11 (6.18%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.37%) PHP
10 5 (2.81%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.25%) C
11 4 (2.25%) Scala
12 3 (1.69%) C++
12 3 (1.69%) Ruby
13 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (27.53%) Security Cleared
2 44 (24.72%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (6.18%) Degree
4 9 (5.06%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.56%) OCP
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.92%) QA
2 9 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.37%) NCSC
3 6 (3.37%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.81%) NIST
5 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.69%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.56%) GDPR
8 1 (0.56%) IFRS
8 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 50 (28.09%) Docker
2 8 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.56%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 99 (55.62%) Terraform
2 50 (28.09%) Kubernetes
3 49 (27.53%) Grafana
4 43 (24.16%) Ansible
5 35 (19.66%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.62%) HP Fortify
7 8 (4.49%) Graylog
8 7 (3.93%) Nagios
8 7 (3.93%) Packer
8 7 (3.93%) Puppet
9 6 (3.37%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.81%) Kibana
11 4 (2.25%) Nessus
11 4 (2.25%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 4 (2.25%) WebInspect
12 3 (1.69%) Consul
12 3 (1.69%) HAProxy
13 2 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (1.12%) linkerd
13 2 (1.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (15.73%) Splunk
2 20 (11.24%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.55%) Salesforce
4 15 (8.43%) Oracle
5 9 (5.06%) Google
6 8 (4.49%) PagerDuty
6 8 (4.49%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.93%) NEC
8 6 (3.37%) SAP
8 6 (3.37%) VMware
9 5 (2.81%) Databricks
9 5 (2.81%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.25%) AppDynamics
10 4 (2.25%) Checkmarx
10 4 (2.25%) Commvault
10 4 (2.25%) Confluent
10 4 (2.25%) Veracode
11 2 (1.12%) Cisco
11 2 (1.12%) New Relic
12 1 (0.56%) ForgeRock