Amazon CloudWatch Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Amazon CloudWatch
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Amazon CloudWatch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 54 61
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 12 10 20
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.77% 1.64% 2.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.92% 4.03% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 16
10th Percentile £400 £500 £414
25th Percentile £413 £509 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.09%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £488
90th Percentile £561 £553 £494
Scotland median daily rate £450 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -8.63%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Edinburgh

Amazon CloudWatch falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 306 248 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 45.07% 40.79% 35.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 140 180
10th Percentile £230 £412 £204
25th Percentile £375 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £526
90th Percentile £638 £625 £588
Scotland median daily rate £473 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.50% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile - - £16.20
25th Percentile - - £18.92
Median hourly rate £15.81 £60.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.65% +172.73% +24.15%
75th Percentile £18.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile £26.50 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
% change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% +19.31%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon CloudWatch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Amazon CloudWatch job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon CloudWatch in Edinburgh

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) Amazon S3
3 7 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (58.33%) Serverless
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (16.67%) AWS KMS
6 2 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (16.67%) GitHub
6 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (8.33%) Dagster
7 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 4 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 4 (33.33%) OpenCV
1 4 (33.33%) Pandas
1 4 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 4 (33.33%) REST
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 2 (16.67%) NumPy
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) boto
3 1 (8.33%) JWT
3 1 (8.33%) LDAP
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) AI
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (33.33%) LLM
3 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (33.33%) OCR
3 4 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) ETL
4 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) API Development
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Vision
5 2 (16.67%) FinOps
5 2 (16.67%) Patch Management
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) RHCE
3 1 (8.33%) RHCSA
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (8.33%) yum
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) New Relic
1 1 (8.33%) Okta
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk