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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 423 411 453
Rank change year-on-year -12 +42 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 180 296 464
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.53% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.46% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 234 323
10th Percentile £405 £413 £438
25th Percentile £438 £497 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £700
90th Percentile £656 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +25.00%
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% +199.22%
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 14,030 20,255 33,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.45% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,915 14,661 24,591
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 326 382
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £19.09
% change year-on-year -30.91% +44.05% -4.55%

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 9 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 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 9 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 -5 131 £550 -4.76% 54
London +6 86 £525 -8.70% 25
Work from Home +60 81 £500 -10.71% 25
UK excluding London -7 60 £525 -8.70% 32
North of England 0 27 £550 -8.33% 8
Scotland +26 17 £450 -7.69% 3
North West -5 17 £550 -6.38% 6
North East +15 5 - -
Yorkshire -1 5 £565 -5.83% 2
Wales +21 4 £645 +5.22%
South West +8 4 £600 - 5
South East +6 4 £559 -2.83% 5
Midlands +22 2 - - 9
East of England +2 2 £875 +45.83%
East Midlands - 2 - - 3

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 (6.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 9 (5.00%) Drupal
2 9 (5.00%) WordPress
3 5 (2.78%) CMS
3 5 (2.78%) Confluence
4 2 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 7 (3.89%) NEC Housing
2 5 (2.78%) Magento
2 5 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.56%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.56%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 168 (93.33%) AWS
2 91 (50.56%) Serverless
3 90 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 90 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 87 (48.33%) AWS Lambda
5 67 (37.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 39 (21.67%) GitHub
7 34 (18.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 29 (16.11%) Azure
9 24 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (12.22%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (11.67%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (11.67%) AWS CloudTrail
12 20 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (11.11%) Route 53
13 19 (10.56%) AWS Step Functions
14 17 (9.44%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (7.22%) AWS KMS
16 11 (6.11%) AWS CodePipeline
16 11 (6.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.67%) Firewall
2 13 (7.22%) Network Security
3 9 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.78%) Kerberos
4 5 (2.78%) SSL
4 5 (2.78%) VPN
5 4 (2.22%) DNS
5 4 (2.22%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.67%) DHCP
6 3 (1.67%) HTTP
6 3 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (15.56%) DynamoDB
4 19 (10.56%) MySQL
5 17 (9.44%) MongoDB
6 16 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (7.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (5.00%) Informix
9 7 (3.89%) Amazon QuickSight
9 7 (3.89%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.89%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.33%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.78%) InfluxDB
11 5 (2.78%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.22%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.67%) Big Data
14 2 (1.11%) DB2
14 2 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (22.78%) Git
2 34 (18.89%) Jenkins
3 22 (12.22%) GitLab
4 10 (5.56%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.89%) JIRA
6 5 (2.78%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.78%) Maven
7 4 (2.22%) AppScan
7 4 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.22%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.67%) Gradle
8 3 (1.67%) JMeter
8 3 (1.67%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.67%) NeoLoad
9 2 (1.11%) JUnit
9 2 (1.11%) Snyk
9 2 (1.11%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.56%) Selenium
10 1 (0.56%) TestNG
General
1 35 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.56%) Public Sector
3 7 (3.89%) Finance
4 5 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (2.78%) Retail
5 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.11%) Aviation
6 2 (1.11%) Billing
6 2 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.56%) Banking
7 1 (0.56%) Law
7 1 (0.56%) Legal
7 1 (0.56%) Local Government
7 1 (0.56%) Marketing
7 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (22.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (19.44%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (16.11%) Senior
4 27 (15.00%) Developer
5 20 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 17 (9.44%) Software Engineer
7 16 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (8.33%) Python Developer
9 14 (7.78%) Architect
9 14 (7.78%) Lead
10 12 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (6.11%) AWS Data Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Database Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.44%) Operations Engineer
13 8 (4.44%) Security Engineer
13 8 (4.44%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.22%) React
2 21 (11.67%) AWS CDK
3 19 (10.56%) RESTful
4 16 (8.89%) Kafka
4 16 (8.89%) Node.js
5 14 (7.78%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (5.56%) OAuth
7 8 (4.44%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.89%) .NET
8 7 (3.89%) .NET Core
9 6 (3.33%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (2.78%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.22%) AWS SAM
11 4 (2.22%) CSS
11 4 (2.22%) HTML
11 4 (2.22%) LDAP
11 4 (2.22%) PySpark
11 4 (2.22%) Spring
12 2 (1.11%) http4s
12 2 (1.11%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.44%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.89%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.67%) Replication
5 6 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.22%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.67%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Clustering
8 2 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.56%) PKI
9 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.44%) Linux
2 13 (7.22%) Unix
3 11 (6.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.44%) Windows
5 2 (1.11%) CentOS
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (43.89%) CI/CD
2 78 (43.33%) DevOps
3 53 (29.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (23.33%) Agile
5 29 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (14.44%) Migration
7 24 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 23 (12.78%) Scrum
8 23 (12.78%) Software Engineering
9 18 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (10.00%) Kanban
9 18 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 17 (9.44%) Analytics
11 15 (8.33%) Code Quality
11 15 (8.33%) High Availability
11 15 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (7.22%) Configuration Management
12 13 (7.22%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (7.22%) Mentoring
12 13 (7.22%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 93 (51.67%) Python
2 36 (20.00%) Java
3 31 (17.22%) SQL
4 26 (14.44%) TypeScript
5 20 (11.11%) Bash
6 16 (8.89%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.11%) Shell Script
8 10 (5.56%) Go
9 6 (3.33%) PHP
10 5 (2.78%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.22%) Scala
12 3 (1.67%) C
12 3 (1.67%) C++
13 2 (1.11%) Groovy
13 2 (1.11%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.11%) Ruby
14 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.56%) Degree
4 9 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.11%) 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 25 (13.89%) QA
2 9 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.89%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.78%) NCSC
4 5 (2.78%) NIST
5 4 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.67%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.56%) GDPR
8 1 (0.56%) IFRS
8 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 51 (28.33%) Docker
2 9 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (54.44%) Terraform
2 52 (28.89%) Grafana
3 49 (27.22%) Kubernetes
4 47 (26.11%) Ansible
5 36 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.56%) HP Fortify
7 8 (4.44%) Graylog
8 7 (3.89%) Nagios
8 7 (3.89%) Packer
9 6 (3.33%) Progress Chef
9 6 (3.33%) Puppet
10 4 (2.22%) Kibana
10 4 (2.22%) Nessus
10 4 (2.22%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 4 (2.22%) WebInspect
11 2 (1.11%) Argo
11 2 (1.11%) Consul
12 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.56%) linkerd
12 1 (0.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 26 (14.44%) Splunk
2 20 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.00%) Oracle
4 17 (9.44%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.00%) Google
5 9 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.44%) PagerDuty
7 7 (3.89%) NEC
8 6 (3.33%) SAP
9 5 (2.78%) Commvault
9 5 (2.78%) Confluent
9 5 (2.78%) Databricks
9 5 (2.78%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.78%) VMware
10 4 (2.22%) AppDynamics
10 4 (2.22%) Checkmarx
10 4 (2.22%) Veracode
11 2 (1.11%) New Relic
12 1 (0.56%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.56%) ForgeRock