Amazon CloudWatch Contract Job Trends

Amazon CloudWatch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon CloudWatch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 353 410
Rank change year-on-year 0 +57 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 343 208 178
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.64% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 1.71% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 148 127
10th Percentile £354 £358 £405
25th Percentile £414 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -4.76% -8.30%
75th Percentile £562 £538 £608
90th Percentile £638 £618 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £495 £528
% change year-on-year -8.59% -6.25% -8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.94
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £71.87

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,639 12,146 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.42% 37.53% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,383 8,129 10,044
10th Percentile £329 £313 £305
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 313 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +35.09% +25.75% -36.93%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £48.11
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -20.69%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon CloudWatch job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon CloudWatch in the UK

Amazon CloudWatch
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch
Top 17 Contract Job 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 10 July 2026. 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 -8 271 £488 -2.50% 56
London +25 171 £525 +3.45% 20
UK excluding London -75 129 £453 -8.59% 46
Work from Home -8 127 £475 -5.00% 31
Midlands -40 46 £472 -0.63% 7
West Midlands -50 44 £475 - 4
Scotland -3 25 £440 -12.00% 4
North of England -81 21 £425 +6.25% 15
South East -47 17 £393 -31.65% 12
East of England -30 10 £500 -9.09% 2
North East -30 9 £413 - 5
South West -30 6 £444 -15.07% 5
North West -46 6 £390 +8.94% 7
Yorkshire -51 6 £463 -2.63% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 1
Wales - 2 £525 - 1
East Midlands -16 1 £425 -20.86% 3

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 49 (14.29%) Confluence
2 25 (7.29%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.08%) Apache
4 12 (3.50%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.04%) SAS
6 6 (1.75%) CICS
7 5 (1.46%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.17%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.58%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.29%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 342 (99.71%) AWS
2 217 (63.27%) Amazon S3
3 200 (58.31%) Serverless
4 196 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
5 157 (45.77%) Amazon EC2
6 111 (32.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 110 (32.07%) Amazon EKS
7 110 (32.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 107 (31.20%) GitHub
9 89 (25.95%) Amazon ECS
10 80 (23.32%) GitHub Actions
11 61 (17.78%) Azure
12 48 (13.99%) AWS KMS
13 47 (13.70%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (11.95%) Route 53
15 35 (10.20%) Datadog
16 33 (9.62%) Amazon EMR
16 33 (9.62%) AWS CodePipeline
17 30 (8.75%) AWS CloudTrail
18 28 (8.16%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.54%) Firewall
2 12 (3.50%) DNS
2 12 (3.50%) Network Security
3 7 (2.04%) WAN
4 6 (1.75%) HTTP
4 6 (1.75%) SNMP
4 6 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.46%) CTI
5 5 (1.46%) VPN
6 4 (1.17%) SSL
7 3 (0.87%) BGP
8 2 (0.58%) OSPF
8 2 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.29%) Internet
9 1 (0.29%) PSTN
9 1 (0.29%) RTP
9 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (29.74%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (23.03%) DynamoDB
3 50 (14.58%) Amazon Athena
4 45 (13.12%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (10.79%) Amazon Aurora
6 34 (9.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (7.29%) Power BI
8 19 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (4.96%) Tableau
10 16 (4.66%) MongoDB
11 10 (2.92%) Redis
11 10 (2.92%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.62%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (2.62%) Db2
13 8 (2.33%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.04%) Metadata
15 6 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.75%) Pentaho
16 5 (1.46%) NoSQL
17 4 (1.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 126 (36.73%) Jenkins
2 107 (31.20%) GitLab
3 85 (24.78%) Git
4 64 (18.66%) JIRA
5 25 (7.29%) JUnit
6 23 (6.71%) Mockito
7 22 (6.41%) Bitbucket
7 22 (6.41%) Maven
8 20 (5.83%) SonarQube
9 14 (4.08%) DbUnit
10 13 (3.79%) jMock
11 11 (3.21%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (2.62%) Cucumber
13 8 (2.33%) Artifactory
13 8 (2.33%) Postman
14 6 (1.75%) Gatling
14 6 (1.75%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.46%) MLflow
16 4 (1.17%) Gradle
16 4 (1.17%) Jaeger
General
1 97 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 84 (24.49%) Public Sector
3 38 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.62%) Finance
5 17 (4.96%) Banking
6 13 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.04%) Law
10 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Legal
10 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Back Office
11 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.58%) Military
11 2 (0.58%) Police
11 2 (0.58%) Publishing
11 2 (0.58%) Retail
12 1 (0.29%) Billing
12 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (23.91%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (15.45%) Senior
3 51 (14.87%) Developer
4 50 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (10.50%) Architect
6 34 (9.91%) AWS DevOps
6 34 (9.91%) Data Engineer
7 28 (8.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 28 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (7.87%) Lead
9 25 (7.29%) Java Developer
10 20 (5.83%) AWS Architect
10 20 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 18 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.96%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.96%) Site Engineer
13 16 (4.66%) Senior Data Engineer
14 15 (4.37%) Scrum Master
15 13 (3.79%) Delivery Manager
15 13 (3.79%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (12.83%) RESTful
2 42 (12.24%) Node.js
3 41 (11.95%) AWS CDK
3 41 (11.95%) REST
4 39 (11.37%) Kafka
5 35 (10.20%) Spring
5 35 (10.20%) Spring Boot
6 32 (9.33%) SOAP
7 27 (7.87%) Web Services
8 24 (7.00%) PySpark
9 20 (5.83%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (5.54%) AngularJS
11 18 (5.25%) Hibernate
11 18 (5.25%) JPA
11 18 (5.25%) Spring Batch
11 18 (5.25%) Spring Integration
12 16 (4.66%) OpenTelemetry
12 16 (4.66%) Spring Cloud
13 15 (4.37%) OAuth
14 13 (3.79%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 101 (29.45%) Cloud Native
2 42 (12.24%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.87%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.62%) Replication
6 8 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.04%) IVR
7 7 (2.04%) Mainframe
7 7 (2.04%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.75%) CMDB
8 6 (1.75%) DataPower
8 6 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.75%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.87%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (18.08%) Linux
2 23 (6.71%) Windows
3 13 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.04%) zOS
6 6 (1.75%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.17%) Unix
7 4 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.29%) Android
8 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.29%) CentOS
8 1 (0.29%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (74.64%) CI/CD
2 192 (55.98%) DevOps
3 181 (52.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (41.69%) Agile
5 110 (32.07%) Containerisation
6 105 (30.61%) Observability
7 76 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 73 (21.28%) Microservices
9 69 (20.12%) Platform Engineering
10 65 (18.95%) Test Automation
11 56 (16.33%) Scrum
12 50 (14.58%) Migration
13 49 (14.29%) AI
14 45 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
15 43 (12.54%) Analytics
16 42 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
16 42 (12.24%) Event-Driven
17 41 (11.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 40 (11.66%) Machine Learning
18 40 (11.66%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 174 (50.73%) Python
2 85 (24.78%) SQL
3 71 (20.70%) Bash
4 64 (18.66%) Java
5 34 (9.91%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.29%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.83%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.79%) Scala
9 12 (3.50%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.62%) Groovy
11 8 (2.33%) Go
12 6 (1.75%) JCL
13 5 (1.46%) C#
13 5 (1.46%) Perl
14 4 (1.17%) Bicep
14 4 (1.17%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.58%) C
15 2 (0.58%) Korn
15 2 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.29%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 156 (45.48%) Security Cleared
2 141 (41.11%) SC Cleared
3 50 (14.58%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (5.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (4.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (3.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.21%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (2.62%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.04%) Degree
10 7 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.29%) PMP
14 1 (0.29%) RHCE
14 1 (0.29%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.00%) QA
3 8 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.33%) SLA
4 6 (1.75%) GDPR
4 6 (1.75%) PMO
5 5 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.46%) GRC
6 4 (1.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.17%) NCSC
7 3 (0.87%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.87%) NIST
8 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.29%) HL7
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 130 (37.90%) Docker
2 11 (3.21%) Postfix
3 8 (2.33%) Squid
4 6 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.75%) IAG
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
5 1 (0.29%) QEMU
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 208 (60.64%) Terraform
2 120 (34.99%) Grafana
3 109 (31.78%) Kubernetes
4 95 (27.70%) Prometheus
5 46 (13.41%) Ansible
6 12 (3.50%) Puppet
7 9 (2.62%) Istio
8 8 (2.33%) Packer
9 4 (1.17%) Argo
9 4 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.17%) Suricata
10 3 (0.87%) Rancher
11 2 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.58%) linkerd
11 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.29%) Control-M
12 1 (0.29%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.29%) Podman
12 1 (0.29%) yum
12 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (7.29%) ServiceNow
2 24 (7.00%) Dynatrace
3 21 (6.12%) Splunk
4 17 (4.96%) Informatica
4 17 (4.96%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (4.08%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.33%) Databricks
6 8 (2.33%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.33%) New Relic
7 7 (2.04%) Cribl.io
7 7 (2.04%) Oracle
7 7 (2.04%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.75%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.75%) Denodo
8 6 (1.75%) Nexthink
9 5 (1.46%) Confluent
9 5 (1.46%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.17%) Sybase
10 4 (1.17%) Trend Micro
11 3 (0.87%) Tenable