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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 346 423
Rank change year-on-year -6 +77 -25
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 295 180 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.62% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 1.62% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 142 134
10th Percentile £353 £394 £400
25th Percentile £400 £441 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £700 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -7.83%
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 16,733 11,092 14,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.56% 37.96% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,425 7,746 10,122
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £702 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 236 343
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.99 £16.03
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +45.85% +30.78% -27.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.88 £61.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +97.65% +29.94% -22.20%

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 April 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 16 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 April 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 -20 225 £500 -4.40% 85
London -2 147 £513 -0.73% 39
UK excluding London -59 97 £500 -4.76% 53
Work from Home -18 91 £500 -4.76% 46
Midlands -51 26 £475 +6.26% 3
North of England -65 26 £521 -7.74% 26
West Midlands -48 25 £475 -5.00% 2
Scotland +15 20 £400 -23.81%
Yorkshire -44 13 £518 -28.62% 5
South West -23 10 £700 +19.15% 3
North West -30 10 £475 +21.48% 12
South East -49 9 £392 -31.91% 13
East of England -26 5 £575 +15.00% 8
North East -20 3 £575 -7.26% 9
East Midlands -41 1 £322 -19.50% 1
Wales - 1 £500 -

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 20 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (6.44%) Confluence
3 8 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.03%) Apache
5 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.02%) CICS
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 292 (98.98%) AWS
2 198 (67.12%) Serverless
3 192 (65.08%) AWS Lambda
4 186 (63.05%) Amazon S3
5 126 (42.71%) Amazon EC2
6 115 (38.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 113 (38.31%) Amazon ECS
8 108 (36.61%) GitHub
9 93 (31.53%) Amazon EKS
10 85 (28.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 84 (28.47%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (18.64%) Azure
13 41 (13.90%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (12.54%) Route 53
15 34 (11.53%) AWS CodePipeline
16 28 (9.49%) AWS KMS
17 26 (8.81%) Amazon Kinesis
17 26 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
18 25 (8.47%) Datadog
19 23 (7.80%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.12%) DNS
2 16 (5.42%) Firewall
3 5 (1.69%) HTTP
3 5 (1.69%) VPN
4 3 (1.02%) Network Security
4 3 (1.02%) WAN
5 2 (0.68%) BGP
5 2 (0.68%) OSPF
5 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.34%) CTI
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) LAN
6 1 (0.34%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (32.88%) Amazon RDS
2 78 (26.44%) DynamoDB
3 37 (12.54%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (9.83%) Amazon Athena
5 27 (9.15%) Amazon Aurora
6 22 (7.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (5.42%) MongoDB
7 16 (5.42%) Tableau
8 15 (5.08%) MySQL
9 14 (4.75%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.07%) NoSQL
11 10 (3.39%) DB2
11 10 (3.39%) Power BI
12 8 (2.71%) Redis
12 8 (2.71%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.03%) Big Data
14 5 (1.69%) DocumentDB
14 5 (1.69%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.36%) Data Lake
15 4 (1.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 99 (33.56%) Jenkins
2 93 (31.53%) GitLab
3 53 (17.97%) Git
4 26 (8.81%) JIRA
5 20 (6.78%) JUnit
6 16 (5.42%) Maven
7 15 (5.08%) Mockito
8 14 (4.75%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.39%) Bitbucket
10 9 (3.05%) DbUnit
10 9 (3.05%) jMock
11 7 (2.37%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.03%) Postman
13 4 (1.36%) Gradle
13 4 (1.36%) MLflow
13 4 (1.36%) NUnit
13 4 (1.36%) Terragrunt
14 3 (1.02%) Cypress.io
14 3 (1.02%) JMeter
14 3 (1.02%) Mocha
General
1 79 (26.78%) Public Sector
2 67 (22.71%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (11.53%) Finance
4 12 (4.07%) Banking
5 11 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.02%) Police
8 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.68%) Military
9 1 (0.34%) Billing
9 1 (0.34%) Front Office
9 1 (0.34%) Games
9 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Law
9 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (23.73%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (17.97%) Developer
3 51 (17.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (13.22%) Senior
5 37 (12.54%) Architect
6 31 (10.51%) AWS DevOps
7 28 (9.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 25 (8.47%) Java Developer
9 24 (8.14%) Platform Engineer
10 21 (7.12%) Data Engineer
11 18 (6.10%) AWS Architect
11 18 (6.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.76%) Senior Developer
13 16 (5.42%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 16 (5.42%) Lead
14 14 (4.75%) Analyst
15 13 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
16 12 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
16 12 (4.07%) Technical Manager
17 11 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (16.61%) Node.js
2 42 (14.24%) Kafka
3 40 (13.56%) REST
4 37 (12.54%) Spring Boot
5 36 (12.20%) Spring
6 34 (11.53%) AWS CDK
7 30 (10.17%) RESTful
8 27 (9.15%) OAuth
9 24 (8.14%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (6.44%) JWT
11 18 (6.10%) SOAP
11 18 (6.10%) Web Services
12 17 (5.76%) AngularJS
13 16 (5.42%) Hibernate
13 16 (5.42%) JPA
13 16 (5.42%) OpenTelemetry
13 16 (5.42%) React
13 16 (5.42%) Spring Cloud
14 14 (4.75%) PySpark
15 13 (4.41%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 71 (24.07%) Cloud Native
2 47 (15.93%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.39%) Mainframe
3 10 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.71%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.71%) DataPower
4 8 (2.71%) NHS
4 8 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.37%) IVR
6 5 (1.69%) Replication
6 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.36%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.02%) Online Banking
8 3 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (17.97%) Linux
2 13 (4.41%) Windows
3 9 (3.05%) Unix
4 6 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.69%) zOS
6 4 (1.36%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (68.81%) CI/CD
2 167 (56.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 142 (48.14%) DevOps
4 98 (33.22%) Agile
5 97 (32.88%) Containerisation
6 93 (31.53%) Observability
7 79 (26.78%) Microservices
8 68 (23.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (17.29%) Test Automation
11 50 (16.95%) Migration
12 48 (16.27%) Performance Tuning
13 44 (14.92%) Platform Engineering
14 43 (14.58%) Analytics
15 38 (12.88%) Event-Driven
16 37 (12.54%) Scrum
17 32 (10.85%) ETL
18 31 (10.51%) Incident Response
19 30 (10.17%) High Availability
19 30 (10.17%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (47.80%) Python
2 67 (22.71%) SQL
3 59 (20.00%) Java
4 49 (16.61%) Bash
5 25 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 24 (8.14%) Shell Script
7 22 (7.46%) PowerShell
8 17 (5.76%) JavaScript
9 13 (4.41%) Go
10 8 (2.71%) C#
11 7 (2.37%) Scala
12 5 (1.69%) Bicep
12 5 (1.69%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.02%) JCL
13 3 (1.02%) Korn
14 2 (0.68%) C
14 2 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.34%) COBOL
15 1 (0.34%) Groovy
15 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 126 (42.71%) Security Cleared
2 104 (35.25%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.85%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 13 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (2.71%) Degree
7 7 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.02%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.80%) QA
2 17 (5.76%) PCI DSS
3 16 (5.42%) Data Quality
4 15 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (4.41%) GDPR
6 10 (3.39%) NIST
7 9 (3.05%) PMO
8 7 (2.37%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.37%) SLA
9 4 (1.36%) GRC
9 4 (1.36%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.68%) NCSC
10 2 (0.68%) WCAG
11 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 136 (46.10%) Docker
2 8 (2.71%) Postfix
3 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) IAG
4 1 (0.34%) Squid
Systems Management
1 188 (63.73%) Terraform
2 98 (33.22%) Kubernetes
3 87 (29.49%) Grafana
4 73 (24.75%) Prometheus
5 27 (9.15%) Ansible
6 8 (2.71%) Kibana
7 7 (2.37%) Istio
8 6 (2.03%) Argo
9 5 (1.69%) Dell DRAC
9 5 (1.69%) Puppet
9 5 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.02%) Karpenter
10 3 (1.02%) Packer
10 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.68%) linkerd
11 2 (0.68%) logstash
11 2 (0.68%) Nagios
11 2 (0.68%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (8.14%) Splunk
2 16 (5.42%) ServiceNow
3 14 (4.75%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.07%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (3.05%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.05%) Databricks
6 7 (2.37%) IBM
7 6 (2.03%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.03%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.03%) New Relic
8 5 (1.69%) Avaya
8 5 (1.69%) Cisco
8 5 (1.69%) Dell
8 5 (1.69%) Genesys
8 5 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.69%) Sybase
9 4 (1.36%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.36%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.02%) Confluent
10 3 (1.02%) Tenable