Amazon CloudWatch Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon CloudWatch
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon CloudWatch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 305 323
Rank change year-on-year +51 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 130 78 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.52% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.05% 1.26% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 57 65
10th Percentile £356 £447 £413
25th Percentile £434 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -2.14% -17.31%
75th Percentile £653 £600 £588
90th Percentile £725 £743 £650
England median daily rate £506 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.36% -15.38%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,342 6,188 7,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.10% 41.17% 38.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,331 4,188 5,315
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 43 63
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.19
25th Percentile £23.75 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -16.00% +22.95%
75th Percentile £49.06 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £73.50
England median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Amazon CloudWatch job vacancy trend in London

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon CloudWatch in London

Amazon CloudWatch
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Central London +21 22 £600 +29.03% 4
South London -9 12 £622 +15.19%
West London - 1 £725 -
Amazon CloudWatch
England

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 21 (16.15%) Confluence
2 10 (7.69%) nginx
3 4 (3.08%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.77%) Apache
5 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (7.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 130 (100.00%) AWS
2 90 (69.23%) Amazon S3
3 80 (61.54%) AWS Lambda
3 80 (61.54%) Serverless
4 54 (41.54%) Amazon EC2
5 47 (36.15%) Amazon ECS
5 47 (36.15%) GitHub
6 38 (29.23%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (28.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 26 (20.00%) Azure
9 24 (18.46%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (18.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (17.69%) Amazon ELB
11 16 (12.31%) Datadog
12 14 (10.77%) AWS Fargate
13 13 (10.00%) Route 53
14 11 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (7.69%) AWS KMS
16 9 (6.92%) Amazon ECR
17 8 (6.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 28 (21.54%) DNS
2 23 (17.69%) Firewall
3 15 (11.54%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (9.23%) VPN
5 10 (7.69%) FTP
5 10 (7.69%) HTTP
5 10 (7.69%) IMAP
5 10 (7.69%) SMTP
5 10 (7.69%) SSH
5 10 (7.69%) SSL
5 10 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 6 (4.62%) Network Security
7 1 (0.77%) DHCP
7 1 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (28.46%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 15 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (9.23%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.85%) MySQL
6 5 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.08%) Big Data
7 4 (3.08%) DB2
8 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.77%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.77%) KNIME
10 1 (0.77%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.77%) Power BI
10 1 (0.77%) Redis
10 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (43.08%) Jenkins
2 41 (31.54%) GitLab
3 33 (25.38%) Git
4 22 (16.92%) JIRA
5 10 (7.69%) Vagrant
6 5 (3.85%) JUnit
7 4 (3.08%) Postman
7 4 (3.08%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.31%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.31%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.54%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.54%) Gatling
9 2 (1.54%) Hamcrest
9 2 (1.54%) Maven
9 2 (1.54%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.54%) Selenium
9 2 (1.54%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.77%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.77%) Xcode
General
1 37 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.23%) Finance
4 11 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.46%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (6.92%) Banking
6 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.31%) Front Office
6 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.31%) Military
7 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Games
8 1 (0.77%) Police
Job Titles
1 49 (37.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (25.38%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (19.23%) AWS DevOps
4 24 (18.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 23 (17.69%) Senior
6 15 (11.54%) Developer
7 14 (10.77%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (10.00%) Architect
9 12 (9.23%) Lead
10 11 (8.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 11 (8.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 10 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (6.15%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (5.38%) Data Engineer
13 7 (5.38%) Python Engineer
14 6 (4.62%) AWS Developer
14 6 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 6 (4.62%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.92%) Kafka
2 17 (13.08%) LDAP
2 17 (13.08%) Node.js
3 10 (7.69%) boto
3 10 (7.69%) REST
4 9 (6.92%) pytest
5 8 (6.15%) OAuth
5 8 (6.15%) React
6 7 (5.38%) JWT
7 6 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.62%) AWS CDK
7 6 (4.62%) Flake8
7 6 (4.62%) mypy
7 6 (4.62%) PySpark
7 6 (4.62%) Spring
8 5 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (3.85%) Spring Boot
9 4 (3.08%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (2.31%) .NET
10 3 (2.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 20 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.23%) Replication
3 6 (4.62%) Mainframe
4 5 (3.85%) DataPower
5 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.08%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) BBC
7 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.54%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.77%) NHS
8 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.77%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.92%) Linux
2 14 (10.77%) Windows
3 11 (8.46%) VMS
4 10 (7.69%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (7.69%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.31%) Unix
6 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.77%) Android
7 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.77%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (72.31%) CI/CD
2 78 (60.00%) DevOps
3 55 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (26.92%) Microservices
5 28 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (19.23%) Observability
7 24 (18.46%) Containerisation
7 24 (18.46%) Performance Tuning
8 23 (17.69%) Agile
9 20 (15.38%) High Availability
10 18 (13.85%) Cloud Security
10 18 (13.85%) Configuration Management
10 18 (13.85%) Event-Driven
10 18 (13.85%) Infrastructure Automation
10 18 (13.85%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (13.08%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (12.31%) Incident Response
12 16 (12.31%) Migration
13 15 (11.54%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 81 (62.31%) Python
2 30 (23.08%) SQL
3 24 (18.46%) Bash
4 23 (17.69%) Java
5 16 (12.31%) PowerShell
6 11 (8.46%) Groovy
7 10 (7.69%) Go
8 9 (6.92%) JavaScript
9 7 (5.38%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.62%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.31%) Korn
12 2 (1.54%) Bicep
12 2 (1.54%) PromQL
13 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.77%) PHP
13 1 (0.77%) R
13 1 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (40.77%) Security Cleared
2 48 (36.92%) SC Cleared
3 27 (20.77%) AWS Certification
4 15 (11.54%) Degree
5 12 (9.23%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) QA
2 5 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.54%) GDPR
3 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.77%) NCSC
4 1 (0.77%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (47.69%) Docker
2 10 (7.69%) DFS Replication
2 10 (7.69%) Dovecot
2 10 (7.69%) Postfix
2 10 (7.69%) Squid
3 7 (5.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.77%) Snort
Systems Management
1 79 (60.77%) Terraform
2 36 (27.69%) Kubernetes
3 30 (23.08%) Ansible
4 19 (14.62%) Grafana
5 17 (13.08%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.69%) Nessus
6 10 (7.69%) Proxmox
7 6 (4.62%) Kibana
8 5 (3.85%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.31%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (2.31%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.54%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.46%) F5
2 11 (8.46%) ServiceNow
3 10 (7.69%) CheckPoint
3 10 (7.69%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 8 (6.15%) Splunk
5 6 (4.62%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.62%) IBM
6 4 (3.08%) Databricks
7 3 (2.31%) Sybase
8 2 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.54%) Confluent
8 2 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.54%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.77%) ArcSight
9 1 (0.77%) Datto
9 1 (0.77%) Google
9 1 (0.77%) Okta
9 1 (0.77%) Tenable