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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 385 435
Rank change year-on-year +92 +50 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 331 167 185
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 0.46% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.39% 1.29% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 120 149
10th Percentile £388 £400 £458
25th Percentile £440 £456 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.73% -12.70%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £679 £750 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.86% -15.15%

All Cloud 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 13,831 12,951 16,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.37% 35.51% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,367 8,522 11,553
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 190 300
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.72 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.73 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +13.82% +22.50%
75th Percentile £51.67 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +16.40%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 +80 246 £503 -4.47% 74
UK excluding London +33 133 £500 +0.10% 65
London +58 132 £525 -0.28% 30
Work from Home +48 113 £531 +3.01% 57
North of England -19 55 £500 -7.41% 16
Midlands 0 39 £475 +9.32% 12
West Midlands +15 36 £475 - 9
Yorkshire -13 28 £500 -29.82% 7
North West -14 20 £435 +2.35% 8
Scotland -4 17 £525 +10.06% 6
South West +5 10 £700 +40.00% 9
East of England - 9 £550 - 1
North East -7 7 £575 -2.54% 1
South East -5 4 £650 -18.75% 16
East Midlands -17 3 £375 -13.69% 3
Wales -2 2 - - 5

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 38 (11.48%) Confluence
2 14 (4.23%) nginx
3 5 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.21%) Apache
4 4 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (3.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 328 (99.09%) AWS
2 226 (68.28%) Amazon S3
3 198 (59.82%) Serverless
4 197 (59.52%) AWS Lambda
5 170 (51.36%) Amazon EC2
6 118 (35.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 114 (34.44%) Amazon ECS
8 103 (31.12%) GitHub
9 91 (27.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 83 (25.08%) GitHub Actions
11 72 (21.75%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (15.41%) Azure
13 48 (14.50%) Amazon ELB
14 45 (13.60%) Route 53
15 39 (11.78%) Datadog
16 36 (10.88%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (10.27%) AWS Fargate
18 33 (9.97%) AWS KMS
19 24 (7.25%) AWS CloudTrail
20 23 (6.95%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (18.43%) DNS
2 59 (17.82%) Firewall
3 34 (10.27%) VPN
4 25 (7.55%) HTTP
5 24 (7.25%) SMTP
5 24 (7.25%) SSH
5 24 (7.25%) SSL
6 22 (6.65%) FTP
6 22 (6.65%) TCP/IP
7 17 (5.14%) OpenLDAP
8 16 (4.83%) Network Security
9 12 (3.63%) IMAP
10 7 (2.11%) DHCP
11 6 (1.81%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.30%) LAN
12 1 (0.30%) VLAN
12 1 (0.30%) VSAN
12 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (38.07%) Amazon RDS
2 70 (21.15%) DynamoDB
3 41 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (9.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 24 (7.25%) MySQL
6 19 (5.74%) Relational Database
7 17 (5.14%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (4.23%) NoSQL
9 13 (3.93%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.72%) MongoDB
11 8 (2.42%) Redis
12 7 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.11%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.81%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.51%) DB2
14 5 (1.51%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (1.21%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 143 (43.20%) Jenkins
2 111 (33.53%) GitLab
3 102 (30.82%) Git
4 40 (12.08%) JIRA
5 24 (7.25%) Vagrant
6 15 (4.53%) Maven
7 14 (4.23%) SonarQube
8 13 (3.93%) JUnit
9 6 (1.81%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.51%) Gradle
10 5 (1.51%) Postman
10 5 (1.51%) SonarLint
11 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.91%) DbUnit
11 3 (0.91%) Gatling
11 3 (0.91%) Mocha
11 3 (0.91%) Mockito
11 3 (0.91%) REST Assured
General
1 79 (23.87%) Public Sector
2 66 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.34%) Finance
4 17 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.02%) Banking
7 4 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.21%) Military
8 3 (0.91%) Front Office
8 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.30%) Games
10 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 117 (35.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 93 (28.10%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (17.82%) AWS DevOps
4 55 (16.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 53 (16.01%) Senior
6 37 (11.18%) Developer
7 36 (10.88%) Platform Engineer
8 32 (9.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 31 (9.37%) Architect
10 25 (7.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 21 (6.34%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (6.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 17 (5.14%) Lead
14 15 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.93%) AWS Developer
15 13 (3.93%) Java Developer
15 13 (3.93%) Python Engineer
15 13 (3.93%) Software Engineer
16 12 (3.63%) DevOps Platform Engineer
17 11 (3.32%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.57%) Node.js
2 32 (9.67%) Kafka
3 29 (8.76%) REST
4 27 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (6.65%) AWS CDK
6 21 (6.34%) JWT
6 21 (6.34%) React
7 20 (6.04%) Spring Boot
8 19 (5.74%) LDAP
8 19 (5.74%) RESTful
9 18 (5.44%) Spring
10 17 (5.14%) OAuth
11 13 (3.93%) AngularJS
12 12 (3.63%) boto
13 11 (3.32%) pytest
14 10 (3.02%) ActiveMQ
14 10 (3.02%) FastAPI
15 9 (2.72%) GraphQL
15 9 (2.72%) Lambda Expressions
16 8 (2.42%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.60%) Cloud Native
2 32 (9.67%) Replication
3 25 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.32%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.72%) NHS
6 7 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.81%) IVR
8 5 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.51%) DataPower
8 5 (1.51%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.51%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.51%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.91%) Clustering
10 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (22.05%) Linux
2 29 (8.76%) Amazon Linux
2 29 (8.76%) Windows
3 25 (7.55%) VMS
4 11 (3.32%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.02%) Unix
6 7 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.30%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (66.77%) DevOps
2 216 (65.26%) CI/CD
3 175 (52.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (31.12%) Containerisation
5 89 (26.89%) Agile
6 73 (22.05%) Observability
7 72 (21.75%) Microservices
8 54 (16.31%) Platform Engineering
9 52 (15.71%) Infrastructure Automation
10 51 (15.41%) High Availability
10 51 (15.41%) Migration
11 48 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (14.20%) Cloud Security
13 42 (12.69%) Configuration Management
13 42 (12.69%) Event-Driven
14 41 (12.39%) Mentoring
15 40 (12.08%) Incident Response
15 40 (12.08%) Performance Tuning
16 37 (11.18%) Test Automation
17 36 (10.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 194 (58.61%) Python
2 74 (22.36%) Bash
3 56 (16.92%) Java
4 47 (14.20%) PowerShell
5 44 (13.29%) SQL
6 26 (7.85%) Groovy
7 24 (7.25%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.14%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.53%) Go
10 14 (4.23%) JavaScript
10 14 (4.23%) Perl
11 5 (1.51%) C#
12 3 (0.91%) Korn
13 2 (0.60%) Bicep
13 2 (0.60%) PHP
13 2 (0.60%) PromQL
13 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 122 (36.86%) Security Cleared
2 103 (31.12%) SC Cleared
3 41 (12.39%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 17 (5.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (4.83%) Degree
6 14 (4.23%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.60%) MCSE
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.25%) QA
2 18 (5.44%) GDPR
3 12 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.63%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.11%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.81%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.21%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.91%) NCSC
7 3 (0.91%) PMO
8 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.60%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 167 (50.45%) Docker
2 25 (7.55%) Active Directory
3 22 (6.65%) DFS Replication
4 15 (4.53%) Postfix
5 12 (3.63%) Dovecot
5 12 (3.63%) Squid
6 2 (0.60%) Snort
7 1 (0.30%) KVM
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 235 (71.00%) Terraform
2 120 (36.25%) Kubernetes
3 98 (29.61%) Grafana
4 95 (28.70%) Prometheus
5 54 (16.31%) Ansible
6 12 (3.63%) Nessus
7 11 (3.32%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.02%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.11%) Puppet
10 6 (1.81%) Packer
10 6 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.51%) Argo
11 5 (1.51%) Kibana
12 4 (1.21%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.60%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.60%) SELinux
14 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (9.97%) ServiceNow
2 25 (7.55%) F5
3 24 (7.25%) Dynatrace
3 24 (7.25%) Splunk
4 23 (6.95%) CheckPoint
4 23 (6.95%) Palo Alto
5 17 (5.14%) Microsoft
6 15 (4.53%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (2.72%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.11%) CA Agile Central
8 7 (2.11%) Cisco
9 6 (1.81%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.51%) Avaya
10 5 (1.51%) Genesys
10 5 (1.51%) Gigya
10 5 (1.51%) Google
10 5 (1.51%) IBM
10 5 (1.51%) Oracle
10 5 (1.51%) Sybase
10 5 (1.51%) Zscaler