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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 340 396
Rank change year-on-year +3 +56 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 375 238 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.72% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 1.95% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 169 113
10th Percentile £380 £358 £413
25th Percentile £424 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £609
90th Percentile £653 £639 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.94
25th Percentile - - £68.59
Median hourly rate - - £70.94
75th Percentile - - £72.34
90th Percentile - - £72.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.94

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 18,758 12,229 13,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 37.14% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,385 8,188 9,134
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £423 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 620 313 265
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.17 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.76 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% +11.76% -29.03%
75th Percentile £69.77 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -13 304 £500 - 109
London +5 182 £525 +2.94% 57
UK excluding London -45 147 £463 -2.63% 58
Work from Home -12 141 £475 -5.00% 55
Midlands -37 51 £469 -1.26% 7
West Midlands -39 48 £475 - 5
North of England -70 36 £463 +12.12% 19
South East -56 22 £480 -10.79% 17
Scotland -5 20 £440 -12.00% 2
North East -27 17 £425 - 7
North West -44 11 £550 +37.50% 7
East of England -21 10 £500 - 7
Yorkshire -49 8 £500 +5.26% 5
South West -35 5 £350 -32.69% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
East Midlands -10 2 £392 -27.09% 2
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 (13.07%) Confluence
2 21 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.73%) Apache
4 11 (2.93%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.87%) SAS
6 6 (1.60%) CICS
6 6 (1.60%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.07%) Trello
3 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 375 (100.00%) AWS
2 234 (62.40%) Amazon S3
3 216 (57.60%) Serverless
4 213 (56.80%) AWS Lambda
5 165 (44.00%) Amazon EC2
6 120 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
7 116 (30.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 114 (30.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 114 (30.40%) GitHub
9 92 (24.53%) Amazon ECS
10 85 (22.67%) GitHub Actions
11 71 (18.93%) Azure
12 56 (14.93%) AWS KMS
13 44 (11.73%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (10.13%) Datadog
15 35 (9.33%) Amazon Kinesis
15 35 (9.33%) Route 53
16 34 (9.07%) Amazon EMR
16 34 (9.07%) AWS CloudTrail
17 31 (8.27%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.33%) Firewall
2 14 (3.73%) DNS
3 13 (3.47%) Network Security
4 7 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.60%) SNMP
5 6 (1.60%) SSL
6 5 (1.33%) CTI
6 5 (1.33%) HTTP
6 5 (1.33%) WAN
7 3 (0.80%) VPN
8 2 (0.53%) SMS
9 1 (0.27%) BGP
9 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.27%) Internet
9 1 (0.27%) PSTN
9 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.27%) RTP
9 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (30.67%) Amazon RDS
2 83 (22.13%) DynamoDB
3 59 (15.73%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (13.60%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (11.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (8.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 27 (7.20%) MongoDB
8 26 (6.93%) Power BI
9 21 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (4.80%) Redis
11 17 (4.53%) Tableau
12 15 (4.00%) SQL Server
13 11 (2.93%) Db2
14 10 (2.67%) Data Lake
15 9 (2.40%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (2.40%) DocumentDB
15 9 (2.40%) MySQL
16 8 (2.13%) NoSQL
17 7 (1.87%) Metadata
18 6 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 134 (35.73%) Jenkins
2 120 (32.00%) GitLab
3 91 (24.27%) Git
4 66 (17.60%) JIRA
5 27 (7.20%) Bitbucket
6 26 (6.93%) JUnit
7 25 (6.67%) Mockito
8 20 (5.33%) Maven
9 17 (4.53%) SonarQube
10 12 (3.20%) DbUnit
11 11 (2.93%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (2.93%) jMock
12 8 (2.13%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.87%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.87%) Postman
14 6 (1.60%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.33%) Cypress.io
15 5 (1.33%) Gatling
16 4 (1.07%) Jaeger
16 4 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (28.53%) Social Skills
2 96 (25.60%) Public Sector
3 41 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (10.93%) Finance
4 24 (6.40%) Banking
5 15 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.60%) Law
9 5 (1.33%) Back Office
10 3 (0.80%) Front Office
10 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.80%) Legal
10 3 (0.80%) Military
10 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.80%) Publishing
10 3 (0.80%) Retail
11 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.27%) Billing
12 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (22.93%) AWS Engineer
2 58 (15.47%) Senior
3 56 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (13.87%) Developer
5 39 (10.40%) Architect
5 39 (10.40%) AWS DevOps
6 36 (9.60%) Data Engineer
7 32 (8.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 31 (8.27%) Lead
9 29 (7.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (6.67%) Java Developer
11 21 (5.60%) Scrum Master
11 21 (5.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 19 (5.07%) AWS Architect
13 18 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (4.80%) Site Engineer
14 17 (4.53%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (4.53%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (4.27%) AWS Data Engineer
16 13 (3.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (13.87%) RESTful
2 49 (13.07%) REST
2 49 (13.07%) Spring
3 45 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 44 (11.73%) Node.js
5 42 (11.20%) Kafka
6 37 (9.87%) AWS CDK
7 29 (7.73%) SOAP
8 23 (6.13%) PySpark
8 23 (6.13%) Web Services
9 21 (5.60%) AngularJS
10 19 (5.07%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (4.27%) Hibernate
11 16 (4.27%) JPA
11 16 (4.27%) Spring Batch
11 16 (4.27%) Spring Integration
12 15 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.73%) Spring Cloud
14 12 (3.20%) GraphQL
15 11 (2.93%) React
Miscellaneous
1 114 (30.40%) Cloud Native
2 44 (11.73%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.07%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.80%) Replication
5 11 (2.93%) IVR
6 10 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.13%) CMDB
8 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.13%) Mainframe
8 8 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.60%) DataPower
9 6 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.60%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.07%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.80%) NHS
11 3 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (15.73%) Linux
2 20 (5.33%) Windows
3 16 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.13%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.87%) zOS
6 6 (1.60%) Unix
7 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.27%) CentOS
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (75.20%) CI/CD
2 213 (56.80%) DevOps
3 205 (54.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 166 (44.27%) Agile
5 122 (32.53%) Observability
6 106 (28.27%) Containerisation
7 91 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (21.07%) Microservices
8 79 (21.07%) Platform Engineering
9 77 (20.53%) Test Automation
10 63 (16.80%) Scrum
11 59 (15.73%) AI
12 58 (15.47%) Root Cause Analysis
13 56 (14.93%) Data Modelling
14 54 (14.40%) Migration
15 52 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
16 51 (13.60%) Performance Tuning
17 47 (12.53%) Event-Driven
18 46 (12.27%) Analytics
18 46 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 186 (49.60%) Python
2 98 (26.13%) SQL
3 78 (20.80%) Bash
3 78 (20.80%) Java
4 40 (10.67%) PowerShell
5 27 (7.20%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.13%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.00%) Scala
8 13 (3.47%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.93%) Groovy
10 8 (2.13%) C#
11 6 (1.60%) Go
11 6 (1.60%) JCL
11 6 (1.60%) Perl
12 4 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.80%) Bicep
14 2 (0.53%) C
14 2 (0.53%) Korn
14 2 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 175 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 155 (41.33%) SC Cleared
3 60 (16.00%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (5.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (3.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (3.20%) Azure Certification
9 11 (2.93%) SAFe Agilist
10 7 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.33%) Degree
12 4 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.80%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.27%) CISSP
14 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.33%) Data Quality
1 35 (9.33%) QA
2 9 (2.40%) SLA
3 8 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.60%) GDPR
5 6 (1.60%) PMO
6 5 (1.33%) WCAG
7 4 (1.07%) GRC
7 4 (1.07%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.80%) NCSC
9 2 (0.53%) HL7
9 2 (0.53%) NIST
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.27%) SEPA
10 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 141 (37.60%) Docker
2 10 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.40%) Postfix
4 8 (2.13%) IAG
4 8 (2.13%) Squid
5 1 (0.27%) KVM
5 1 (0.27%) QEMU
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 225 (60.00%) Terraform
2 126 (33.60%) Grafana
3 121 (32.27%) Kubernetes
4 97 (25.87%) Prometheus
5 54 (14.40%) Ansible
6 10 (2.67%) Puppet
7 9 (2.40%) Istio
7 9 (2.40%) Packer
8 6 (1.60%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.07%) Argo
10 4 (1.07%) Suricata
11 3 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.80%) Kibana
11 3 (0.80%) Rancher
12 2 (0.53%) Consul
12 2 (0.53%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.27%) systemd
13 1 (0.27%) yum
Vendors
1 33 (8.80%) Dynatrace
2 30 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 22 (5.87%) Splunk
4 18 (4.80%) Informatica
5 15 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
6 13 (3.47%) Microsoft
7 12 (3.20%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.67%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.13%) Nexthink
10 7 (1.87%) Confluent
10 7 (1.87%) Cribl.io
10 7 (1.87%) Oracle
10 7 (1.87%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.60%) Databricks
11 6 (1.60%) Denodo
11 6 (1.60%) New Relic
12 5 (1.33%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.07%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.07%) Google
13 4 (1.07%) Trend Micro
120 Amazon CloudWatch jobs Nationwide