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

 6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 353 411
Rank change year-on-year +13 +58 +5
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 333 186 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.62% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.64% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 131 123
10th Percentile £352 £358 £405
25th Percentile £409 £438 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £559 £563 £603
90th Percentile £638 £645 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
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 18,016 11,318 14,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.77% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,031 7,621 9,986
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £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 596 281 364
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.68 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £20.77
% change year-on-year +95.98% -7.87% -21.62%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -19 266 £477 -4.60% 41
London +24 172 £519 +1.22% 19
Work from Home +6 123 £463 -11.74% 26
UK excluding London -61 119 £450 -10.00% 30
Midlands -32 45 £472 -5.60% 4
West Midlands -37 43 £475 -2.56% 3
Scotland -7 21 £440 -12.00% 1
North of England -73 21 £425 +6.25% 8
South East -51 14 £393 -31.65% 14
East of England -26 9 £450 -18.18% 1
North East -28 9 £413 - 1
North West -46 6 £390 +4.14% 4
Yorkshire -53 6 £463 -2.63% 3
South West -32 5 £444 -15.07% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
Wales - 2 £525 -
East Midlands -19 1 £425 -20.86% 1

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 48 (14.41%) Confluence
2 25 (7.51%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.20%) Apache
4 12 (3.60%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.10%) SAS
6 6 (1.80%) CICS
7 5 (1.50%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.20%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.60%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 332 (99.70%) AWS
2 209 (62.76%) Amazon S3
3 202 (60.66%) Serverless
4 194 (58.26%) AWS Lambda
5 147 (44.14%) Amazon EC2
6 113 (33.93%) Amazon EKS
7 110 (33.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 109 (32.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 104 (31.23%) GitHub
10 92 (27.63%) Amazon ECS
11 80 (24.02%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (17.42%) Azure
13 51 (15.32%) Amazon SQS
14 45 (13.51%) AWS KMS
14 45 (13.51%) Route 53
15 32 (9.61%) Amazon EMR
16 31 (9.31%) AWS CodePipeline
17 30 (9.01%) Datadog
18 28 (8.41%) Amazon Kinesis
18 28 (8.41%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.41%) Firewall
2 16 (4.80%) DNS
3 12 (3.60%) Network Security
4 7 (2.10%) WAN
5 6 (1.80%) HTTP
5 6 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.50%) SNMP
6 5 (1.50%) VPN
7 4 (1.20%) SSL
8 3 (0.90%) BGP
8 3 (0.90%) CTI
9 2 (0.60%) OSPF
9 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.30%) Internet
10 1 (0.30%) PSTN
10 1 (0.30%) RTP
10 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (29.73%) Amazon RDS
2 81 (24.32%) DynamoDB
3 48 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (14.11%) Amazon Athena
5 40 (12.01%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (9.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (7.51%) Power BI
8 18 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (5.11%) Tableau
10 16 (4.80%) MongoDB
11 14 (4.20%) Redis
12 10 (3.00%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.70%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.70%) Db2
13 9 (2.70%) NoSQL
14 8 (2.40%) DocumentDB
15 7 (2.10%) Data Lake
16 6 (1.80%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.80%) Metadata
16 6 (1.80%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 124 (37.24%) Jenkins
2 113 (33.93%) GitLab
3 81 (24.32%) Git
4 61 (18.32%) JIRA
5 25 (7.51%) JUnit
6 23 (6.91%) Mockito
7 22 (6.61%) Maven
8 20 (6.01%) SonarQube
9 18 (5.41%) Bitbucket
10 14 (4.20%) DbUnit
11 13 (3.90%) jMock
12 11 (3.30%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (2.70%) Cucumber
14 8 (2.40%) Artifactory
14 8 (2.40%) Postman
15 6 (1.80%) Gatling
15 6 (1.80%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.50%) MLflow
17 4 (1.20%) Gradle
17 4 (1.20%) Jaeger
General
1 90 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 87 (26.13%) Public Sector
3 35 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.71%) Finance
5 17 (5.11%) Banking
6 13 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.10%) Law
10 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Legal
10 3 (0.90%) Military
10 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.60%) Police
11 2 (0.60%) Publishing
11 2 (0.60%) Retail
12 1 (0.30%) Billing
12 1 (0.30%) Games
12 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (23.72%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (15.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 50 (15.02%) Developer
4 48 (14.41%) Senior
5 40 (12.01%) Architect
6 37 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
7 32 (9.61%) Data Engineer
8 31 (9.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 25 (7.51%) Java Developer
10 24 (7.21%) AWS Architect
10 24 (7.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (6.91%) Lead
12 20 (6.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (5.11%) Senior Developer
14 17 (5.11%) Site Engineer
15 15 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
16 14 (4.20%) Scrum Master
17 13 (3.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 13 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.11%) RESTful
2 44 (13.21%) Kafka
3 41 (12.31%) REST
4 39 (11.71%) AWS CDK
5 38 (11.41%) Node.js
5 38 (11.41%) Spring
5 38 (11.41%) Spring Boot
6 30 (9.01%) SOAP
7 27 (8.11%) Web Services
8 24 (7.21%) PySpark
9 22 (6.61%) Hibernate
9 22 (6.61%) JPA
10 20 (6.01%) AngularJS
10 20 (6.01%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (5.71%) OAuth
11 19 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 18 (5.41%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (5.41%) Spring Batch
12 18 (5.41%) Spring Integration
13 14 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 98 (29.43%) Cloud Native
2 45 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.40%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.40%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.40%) Replication
6 7 (2.10%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.80%) DataPower
7 6 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.80%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.50%) IVR
9 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.90%) CMDB
10 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.90%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.02%) Linux
2 18 (5.41%) Windows
3 9 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.10%) zOS
5 5 (1.50%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.20%) Unix
6 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (74.77%) CI/CD
2 183 (54.95%) DevOps
3 175 (52.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (41.14%) Agile
5 107 (32.13%) Containerisation
5 107 (32.13%) Observability
6 78 (23.42%) Microservices
7 71 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (20.12%) Test Automation
9 62 (18.62%) Platform Engineering
10 58 (17.42%) Scrum
11 50 (15.02%) Migration
12 48 (14.41%) Performance Tuning
13 45 (13.51%) Event-Driven
14 44 (13.21%) AI
15 42 (12.61%) Analytics
16 41 (12.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
18 38 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
19 37 (11.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 162 (48.65%) Python
2 86 (25.83%) SQL
3 66 (19.82%) Bash
3 66 (19.82%) Java
4 31 (9.31%) PowerShell
5 26 (7.81%) TypeScript
6 19 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.80%) Shell Script
8 13 (3.90%) Scala
9 8 (2.40%) Go
9 8 (2.40%) Groovy
10 6 (1.80%) JCL
11 5 (1.50%) C#
12 4 (1.20%) Bicep
12 4 (1.20%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.20%) Perl
13 2 (0.60%) C
13 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.30%) COBOL
14 1 (0.30%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 157 (47.15%) Security Cleared
2 141 (42.34%) SC Cleared
3 43 (12.91%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (5.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 14 (4.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (3.30%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (3.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.40%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.10%) Degree
11 5 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.51%) QA
3 11 (3.30%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.10%) NIST
4 7 (2.10%) SLA
5 6 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.80%) PMO
6 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.50%) GDPR
6 5 (1.50%) GRC
7 4 (1.20%) NCSC
8 3 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) HL7
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 131 (39.34%) Docker
2 11 (3.30%) Postfix
3 8 (2.40%) Squid
4 4 (1.20%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.90%) IAG
6 1 (0.30%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 203 (60.96%) Terraform
2 122 (36.64%) Grafana
3 109 (32.73%) Kubernetes
4 97 (29.13%) Prometheus
5 38 (11.41%) Ansible
6 11 (3.30%) Puppet
7 9 (2.70%) Istio
8 8 (2.40%) Packer
9 4 (1.20%) Argo
9 4 (1.20%) Suricata
10 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.90%) Rancher
11 2 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.60%) linkerd
12 1 (0.30%) Consul
12 1 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.30%) Kibana
12 1 (0.30%) Podman
12 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (6.91%) Dynatrace
2 22 (6.61%) Splunk
3 21 (6.31%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.11%) Informatica
4 17 (5.11%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (4.20%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.40%) Databricks
6 8 (2.40%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.40%) New Relic
7 6 (1.80%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.80%) Cribl.io
7 6 (1.80%) Denodo
7 6 (1.80%) Oracle
7 6 (1.80%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.50%) Confluent
8 5 (1.50%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.20%) Sybase
9 4 (1.20%) Trend Micro
10 3 (0.90%) Nexthink
10 3 (0.90%) Tenable
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