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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 294 400
Rank change year-on-year -50 +106 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 386 284 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.86% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.04% 2.29% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 200 101
10th Percentile £383 £376 £400
25th Percentile £437 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £693 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -2.07% +7.22% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.66 - -

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 18,878 12,389 13,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 37.60% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,523 8,260 8,900
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 293 195
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.50 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +63.47% -35.77% +15.38%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -24 310 £500 - 221
London +2 187 £550 +4.76% 121
UK excluding London -94 145 £473 -2.07% 116
Work from Home -33 142 £500 - 89
North of England -60 44 £500 +14.94% 37
Midlands -53 39 £463 -2.63% 20
West Midlands -50 36 £469 -1.26% 13
South East -38 27 £480 -4.00% 22
North East -26 21 £425 - 7
Scotland -25 17 £485 -7.62% 10
North West -56 13 £613 +44.24% 13
Yorkshire -46 10 £513 +6.22% 17
East of England -36 9 £450 -18.18% 7
South West -34 6 £325 -37.50% 13
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 4
East Midlands -17 2 £392 -19.44% 7
Wales -13 1 £550 - 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 45 (11.66%) Confluence
2 20 (5.18%) Apache
3 19 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (4.15%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.07%) SAS
6 7 (1.81%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.04%) CICS
7 4 (1.04%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Trello
2 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 385 (99.74%) AWS
2 228 (59.07%) Amazon S3
3 224 (58.03%) Serverless
4 221 (57.25%) AWS Lambda
5 147 (38.08%) Amazon EC2
6 132 (34.20%) Amazon EKS
7 119 (30.83%) GitHub
8 111 (28.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 110 (28.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (24.87%) Amazon ECS
11 85 (22.02%) GitHub Actions
12 81 (20.98%) Azure
13 51 (13.21%) AWS KMS
14 47 (12.18%) Amazon SQS
15 39 (10.10%) AWS Step Functions
15 39 (10.10%) Datadog
16 38 (9.84%) Amazon Kinesis
17 37 (9.59%) Amazon EventBridge
17 37 (9.59%) Route 53
18 36 (9.33%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.99%) Firewall
2 16 (4.15%) Network Security
3 15 (3.89%) DNS
4 8 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.81%) HTTP
5 7 (1.81%) SSL
6 6 (1.55%) SNMP
7 5 (1.30%) CTI
7 5 (1.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.78%) SMS
8 3 (0.78%) VPN
9 2 (0.52%) FTP
9 2 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.52%) IMAP
9 2 (0.52%) SMTP
9 2 (0.52%) SSH
10 1 (0.26%) BGP
10 1 (0.26%) Internet
10 1 (0.26%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (29.27%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (20.47%) DynamoDB
3 65 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (13.99%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (11.40%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (8.55%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (5.96%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (5.70%) Power BI
10 21 (5.44%) Redis
11 16 (4.15%) SQL Server
12 15 (3.89%) Data Lake
13 14 (3.63%) MySQL
14 11 (2.85%) DocumentDB
15 10 (2.59%) NoSQL
15 10 (2.59%) Tableau
16 9 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
17 8 (2.07%) Db2
18 7 (1.81%) Electronic Patient Records
19 6 (1.55%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 133 (34.46%) Jenkins
2 131 (33.94%) GitLab
3 89 (23.06%) Git
4 62 (16.06%) JIRA
5 22 (5.70%) Bitbucket
6 18 (4.66%) JUnit
7 16 (4.15%) Mockito
8 14 (3.63%) Maven
9 11 (2.85%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.33%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.07%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.81%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.81%) DbUnit
13 6 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.55%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.55%) JMeter
13 6 (1.55%) jMock
14 5 (1.30%) Gatling
14 5 (1.30%) Postman
14 5 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 96 (24.87%) Public Sector
3 41 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.33%) Finance
5 23 (5.96%) Banking
6 18 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.33%) Back Office
8 7 (1.81%) Law
8 7 (1.81%) Military
9 6 (1.55%) Front Office
10 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Legal
12 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Publishing
13 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.52%) Retail
14 1 (0.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 83 (21.50%) AWS Engineer
2 72 (18.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (16.06%) Senior
4 49 (12.69%) Developer
5 45 (11.66%) Architect
6 43 (11.14%) AWS DevOps
7 42 (10.88%) Data Engineer
8 39 (10.10%) Lead
9 36 (9.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 34 (8.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (6.22%) AWS Architect
12 21 (5.44%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (5.18%) Scrum Master
14 19 (4.92%) Java Developer
14 19 (4.92%) Lead DevOps
15 17 (4.40%) AWS Data Engineer
16 15 (3.89%) DBA
17 14 (3.63%) Senior DevOps
17 14 (3.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 14 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (61.92%) Terraform
2 50 (12.95%) RESTful
3 45 (11.66%) REST
4 44 (11.40%) Node.js
4 44 (11.40%) Spring
5 40 (10.36%) Kafka
5 40 (10.36%) Spring Boot
6 31 (8.03%) AWS CDK
7 26 (6.74%) PySpark
8 19 (4.92%) SOAP
9 16 (4.15%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (4.15%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.89%) React
11 13 (3.37%) FastAPI
11 13 (3.37%) Web Services
12 12 (3.11%) GraphQL
12 12 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (2.85%) Jest
13 11 (2.85%) Playwright
14 10 (2.59%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 128 (33.16%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.07%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.81%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.92%) Replication
5 13 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.37%) IVR
6 12 (3.11%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.85%) CMDB
8 9 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.07%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.55%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.55%) NHS
11 5 (1.30%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.04%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.51%) Linux
2 21 (5.44%) Windows
3 18 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.59%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.07%) Unix
6 6 (1.55%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.30%) zOS
8 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.52%) CentOS
10 1 (0.26%) Android
10 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.26%) Debian
10 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (79.79%) CI/CD
2 243 (62.95%) DevOps
3 237 (61.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 170 (44.04%) Agile
5 138 (35.75%) Observability
6 114 (29.53%) Containerisation
7 98 (25.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 83 (21.50%) Test Automation
9 77 (19.95%) Microservices
10 71 (18.39%) Platform Engineering
11 69 (17.88%) Root Cause Analysis
12 61 (15.80%) AI
13 59 (15.28%) Data Modelling
14 58 (15.03%) Scrum
15 57 (14.77%) Event-Driven
16 55 (14.25%) Stakeholder Management
17 53 (13.73%) Performance Tuning
17 53 (13.73%) Software Engineering
18 51 (13.21%) Analytics
18 51 (13.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 196 (50.78%) Python
2 90 (23.32%) SQL
3 79 (20.47%) Java
4 73 (18.91%) Bash
5 36 (9.33%) PowerShell
6 31 (8.03%) TypeScript
7 28 (7.25%) JavaScript
8 15 (3.89%) Scala
9 14 (3.63%) Groovy
10 12 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.33%) C#
12 8 (2.07%) Bicep
13 7 (1.81%) Perl
14 6 (1.55%) Go
15 4 (1.04%) JCL
15 4 (1.04%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.78%) C
17 2 (0.52%) Korn
18 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 171 (44.30%) Security Cleared
2 152 (39.38%) SC Cleared
3 73 (18.91%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (6.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.40%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (3.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (2.33%) Degree
11 8 (2.07%) SAFe Agilist
12 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.04%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.78%) CISSP
14 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
16 1 (0.26%) ISEB
16 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.18%) QA
2 41 (10.62%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.55%) GDPR
4 6 (1.55%) NCSC
5 5 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.30%) SLA
5 5 (1.30%) WCAG
6 4 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.04%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.52%) HL7
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) SEPA
8 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 143 (37.05%) Docker
2 15 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.85%) IAG
4 10 (2.59%) Squid
5 7 (1.81%) Postfix
6 2 (0.52%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.52%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.26%) HDFS
7 1 (0.26%) KVM
7 1 (0.26%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 138 (35.75%) Kubernetes
2 122 (31.61%) Grafana
3 95 (24.61%) Prometheus
4 69 (17.88%) Ansible
5 13 (3.37%) Puppet
6 12 (3.11%) Packer
6 12 (3.11%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.30%) Argo
8 5 (1.30%) Istio
9 4 (1.04%) Suricata
10 3 (0.78%) Consul
10 3 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.78%) Kibana
10 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.52%) Nessus
11 2 (0.52%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.52%) Rancher
12 1 (0.26%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 41 (10.62%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.51%) ServiceNow
3 24 (6.22%) Splunk
4 20 (5.18%) Informatica
5 16 (4.15%) Microsoft
6 12 (3.11%) Oracle
6 12 (3.11%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.85%) Nexthink
8 10 (2.59%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (2.07%) Atlassian
9 8 (2.07%) Confluent
9 8 (2.07%) Google
9 8 (2.07%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.55%) Cribl.io
10 6 (1.55%) Denodo
10 6 (1.55%) PagerDuty
11 5 (1.30%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.04%) New Relic
12 4 (1.04%) Trend Micro
12 4 (1.04%) VMware