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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 409 447
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 +47
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 184 314 479
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.55% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.50% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 245 328
10th Percentile £405 £425 £450
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £700
90th Percentile £660 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +24.66%
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 - £79.25
90th Percentile - - £80.30
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 13,823 20,974 33,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 36.73% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 15,173 24,585
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 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 334 420
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.31 £15.88
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.12% +25.00% -

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -18 138 £528 -12.08% 64
London +11 85 £525 -12.50% 34
Work from Home +68 84 £525 -8.70% 40
UK excluding London +3 63 £543 -5.57% 28
North of England -7 28 £550 -8.33% 10
North West +3 19 £550 -13.73% 7
Scotland +32 13 £466 -4.36%
South East +15 10 £530 -7.83% 3
South West +18 6 £600 - 1
Yorkshire +3 6 £569 -5.21% 3
Wales +25 4 £645 +5.22%
North East +11 3 - -
East of England +13 2 £875 - 1
Midlands +31 1 £475 -16.48% 12
East Midlands - 1 £475 -

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 10 (5.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 9 (4.89%) Drupal
2 9 (4.89%) WordPress
3 5 (2.72%) CMS
3 5 (2.72%) Confluence
4 4 (2.17%) Apache
4 4 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.17%) nginx
5 3 (1.63%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.09%) Traefik
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 7 (3.80%) NEC Housing
2 5 (2.72%) Magento
3 4 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.54%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.54%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.54%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 173 (94.02%) AWS
2 96 (52.17%) Serverless
3 93 (50.54%) AWS Lambda
4 88 (47.83%) Amazon EC2
4 88 (47.83%) Amazon S3
5 67 (36.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 42 (22.83%) GitHub
7 41 (22.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 29 (15.76%) Azure
9 25 (13.59%) AWS Step Functions
9 25 (13.59%) Route 53
10 24 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (11.96%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (11.96%) AWS CloudTrail
11 22 (11.96%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (9.24%) Amazon Kinesis
13 16 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
14 11 (5.98%) AWS CodeBuild
14 11 (5.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.50%) Firewall
2 13 (7.07%) Network Security
3 11 (5.98%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.35%) DNS
5 6 (3.26%) VPN
6 4 (2.17%) DHCP
6 4 (2.17%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.63%) HTTP
7 3 (1.63%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.54%) Internet
8 1 (0.54%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (27.17%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (14.67%) DynamoDB
3 24 (13.04%) MySQL
3 24 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (9.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (6.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (6.52%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.89%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (4.35%) Amazon QuickSight
7 8 (4.35%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.80%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.26%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.72%) Informix
11 4 (2.17%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.17%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.63%) InfluxDB
13 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.09%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 42 (22.83%) Git
2 34 (18.48%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.96%) GitLab
4 10 (5.43%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.35%) JIRA
6 5 (2.72%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.17%) AppScan
7 4 (2.17%) Burp Suite
7 4 (2.17%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.63%) JMeter
8 3 (1.63%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.63%) Maven
8 3 (1.63%) NeoLoad
9 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.09%) Selenium
9 2 (1.09%) Snyk
9 2 (1.09%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.54%) Gradle
10 1 (0.54%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.54%) TestNG
General
1 38 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 7 (3.80%) Finance
4 5 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (2.72%) Retail
5 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.09%) Aviation
6 2 (1.09%) Billing
6 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.54%) Banking
7 1 (0.54%) Law
7 1 (0.54%) Legal
7 1 (0.54%) Local Government
7 1 (0.54%) Marketing
7 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (24.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (22.28%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (16.30%) Developer
4 27 (14.67%) Senior
5 24 (13.04%) Data Engineer
6 18 (9.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (8.15%) Lead
8 15 (8.15%) Python Developer
8 15 (8.15%) Software Engineer
9 14 (7.61%) AWS Data Engineer
9 14 (7.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.07%) Architect
10 13 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Security Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Site Engineer
13 7 (3.80%) DBA
13 7 (3.80%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.85%) React
2 18 (9.78%) RESTful
3 17 (9.24%) AWS CDK
3 17 (9.24%) Node.js
4 16 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (7.07%) Kafka
6 11 (5.98%) OAuth
7 8 (4.35%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.80%) .NET
8 7 (3.80%) .NET Core
8 7 (3.80%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (2.72%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.72%) AWS SAM
9 5 (2.72%) LDAP
9 5 (2.72%) PySpark
10 4 (2.17%) CSS
10 4 (2.17%) HTML
10 4 (2.17%) REST
11 3 (1.63%) Spring
11 3 (1.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.78%) Public Cloud
2 14 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.35%) Replication
5 6 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.63%) Clustering
7 3 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.63%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.09%) PKI
9 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.54%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.02%) Linux
2 11 (5.98%) Windows
3 9 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.35%) Unix
5 3 (1.63%) CentOS
5 3 (1.63%) Debian
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (46.74%) CI/CD
2 84 (45.65%) DevOps
3 56 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (22.83%) Agile
5 29 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 21 (11.41%) Analytics
8 20 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (10.87%) Migration
9 19 (10.33%) Scrum
9 19 (10.33%) Software Engineering
9 19 (10.33%) Test Automation
10 18 (9.78%) Configuration Management
11 17 (9.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (8.70%) Kanban
13 15 (8.15%) Code Quality
13 15 (8.15%) High Availability
13 15 (8.15%) Mentoring
13 15 (8.15%) Microservices
14 14 (7.61%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 98 (53.26%) Python
2 36 (19.57%) Java
3 28 (15.22%) SQL
4 25 (13.59%) Bash
5 23 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 20 (10.87%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.61%) Go
8 11 (5.98%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.26%) PHP
10 5 (2.72%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.17%) C
11 4 (2.17%) Ruby
11 4 (2.17%) Scala
12 3 (1.63%) C++
13 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.09%) R
14 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 45 (24.46%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.07%) Degree
4 9 (4.89%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.54%) OCP
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.13%) QA
2 9 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.26%) NCSC
4 5 (2.72%) NIST
5 4 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.63%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.54%) GDPR
8 1 (0.54%) IFRS
8 1 (0.54%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 49 (26.63%) Docker
2 6 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.09%) Varnish
5 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 97 (52.72%) Terraform
2 51 (27.72%) Kubernetes
3 45 (24.46%) Grafana
4 40 (21.74%) Ansible
5 32 (17.39%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.43%) HP Fortify
7 9 (4.89%) Graylog
7 9 (4.89%) Nagios
8 8 (4.35%) Puppet
9 7 (3.80%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.72%) Kibana
11 4 (2.17%) HAProxy
11 4 (2.17%) Nessus
11 4 (2.17%) Packer
11 4 (2.17%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 4 (2.17%) WebInspect
12 3 (1.63%) Consul
12 3 (1.63%) Podman
13 2 (1.09%) Istio
13 2 (1.09%) linkerd
Vendors
1 31 (16.85%) Splunk
2 21 (11.41%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.24%) Salesforce
4 15 (8.15%) Oracle
5 9 (4.89%) Google
6 8 (4.35%) PagerDuty
7 7 (3.80%) NEC
7 7 (3.80%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.26%) Databricks
8 6 (3.26%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.26%) SAP
8 6 (3.26%) VMware
9 4 (2.17%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.17%) Checkmarx
9 4 (2.17%) Cisco
9 4 (2.17%) Commvault
9 4 (2.17%) Veracode
10 3 (1.63%) New Relic
11 2 (1.09%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.09%) LogicMonitor