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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 398 430
Rank change year-on-year +113 +32 -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 329 166 182
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.37% 1.33% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 125 147
10th Percentile £384 £405 £463
25th Percentile £431 £456 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £600
90th Percentile £688 £745 £682
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £530
% change year-on-year -2.44% -3.30% -14.34%

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 13,884 12,520 15,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.10% 36.20% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,470 8,314 11,153
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £408 £418 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 175 275
10th Percentile £14.98 £18.30 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.87 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £57.75
90th Percentile £76.73 £69.73 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% +29.17% +7.69%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 +65 241 £500 -4.94% 142
UK excluding London +26 130 £500 -2.44% 135
London +50 129 £513 -2.57% 26
Work from Home +48 106 £553 +6.76% 70
North of England -10 56 £500 -15.25% 34
Midlands -12 33 £475 +11.76% 21
West Midlands -7 30 £475 +11.76% 10
Yorkshire -25 27 £500 -31.03% 17
North West -14 21 £430 -4.44% 16
Scotland +6 18 £525 +6.28% 5
South West 0 10 £700 +40.00% 20
East of England - 9 £550 - 15
North East -8 8 £575 -2.54% 1
South East +3 5 £650 -18.75% 33
East Midlands -22 3 £375 -13.69% 10
Wales 0 2 - - 7

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 34 (10.33%) Confluence
2 11 (3.34%) nginx
3 5 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.22%) Apache
4 4 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 324 (98.48%) AWS
2 217 (65.96%) Amazon S3
3 196 (59.57%) Serverless
4 195 (59.27%) AWS Lambda
5 159 (48.33%) Amazon EC2
6 118 (35.87%) Amazon ECS
7 117 (35.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 111 (33.74%) GitHub
9 94 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 91 (27.66%) GitHub Actions
11 80 (24.32%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (17.02%) Azure
13 45 (13.68%) Amazon ELB
14 39 (11.85%) Route 53
15 37 (11.25%) Datadog
16 35 (10.64%) AWS Fargate
17 28 (8.51%) Amazon SQS
18 26 (7.90%) AWS CloudTrail
18 26 (7.90%) AWS KMS
19 24 (7.29%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 59 (17.93%) DNS
2 56 (17.02%) Firewall
3 33 (10.03%) VPN
4 23 (6.99%) HTTP
5 22 (6.69%) SSL
5 22 (6.69%) TCP/IP
6 20 (6.08%) SMTP
7 19 (5.78%) FTP
7 19 (5.78%) SSH
8 16 (4.86%) Network Security
8 16 (4.86%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (3.34%) IMAP
10 6 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (1.52%) DHCP
12 2 (0.61%) LAN
12 2 (0.61%) WAN
13 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.30%) VLAN
13 1 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (35.26%) Amazon RDS
2 63 (19.15%) DynamoDB
3 34 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (8.51%) Amazon Aurora
5 24 (7.29%) MySQL
6 19 (5.78%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (5.78%) Relational Database
7 13 (3.95%) RDBMS
8 12 (3.65%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.34%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.43%) Redis
12 6 (1.82%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.82%) DB2
13 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.52%) SQL Server
14 4 (1.22%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 141 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 120 (36.47%) GitLab
3 96 (29.18%) Git
4 36 (10.94%) JIRA
5 20 (6.08%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.65%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.74%) Maven
8 7 (2.13%) JUnit
9 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.52%) Gradle
9 5 (1.52%) Postman
9 5 (1.52%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.22%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.91%) Mocha
11 3 (0.91%) NUnit
11 3 (0.91%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.91%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.61%) Gatling
12 2 (0.61%) Serenity BDD
General
1 78 (23.71%) Public Sector
2 66 (20.06%) Social Skills
3 22 (6.69%) Finance
4 16 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.04%) Banking
7 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.52%) Military
8 3 (0.91%) Front Office
8 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.61%) Legal
10 1 (0.30%) Games
10 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 117 (35.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 91 (27.66%) AWS Engineer
3 61 (18.54%) AWS DevOps
4 57 (17.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 52 (15.81%) Senior
6 37 (11.25%) Architect
7 35 (10.64%) Platform Engineer
8 33 (10.03%) Developer
9 31 (9.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 24 (7.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 21 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (6.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 19 (5.78%) Lead
14 15 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.95%) Python Engineer
16 12 (3.65%) AWS Architect
17 11 (3.34%) Consultant
17 11 (3.34%) DevOps Platform Engineer
17 11 (3.34%) Software Engineer
17 11 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.85%) Node.js
2 35 (10.64%) Kafka
3 32 (9.73%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (8.21%) REST
5 24 (7.29%) AWS CDK
6 23 (6.99%) React
7 21 (6.38%) JWT
8 18 (5.47%) LDAP
9 17 (5.17%) OAuth
9 17 (5.17%) Spring Boot
10 16 (4.86%) RESTful
11 14 (4.26%) boto
12 12 (3.65%) Spring
13 11 (3.34%) pytest
14 10 (3.04%) FastAPI
15 9 (2.74%) .NET
15 9 (2.74%) Lambda Expressions
16 8 (2.43%) AngularJS
17 7 (2.13%) ActiveMQ
17 7 (2.13%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.90%) Replication
3 24 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.74%) NHS
4 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.82%) IVR
7 6 (1.82%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.52%) DataPower
8 5 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.52%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (20.06%) Linux
2 27 (8.21%) Windows
3 23 (6.99%) Amazon Linux
4 21 (6.38%) VMS
5 11 (3.34%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.34%) Unix
6 8 (2.43%) 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
8 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (67.78%) CI/CD
2 210 (63.83%) DevOps
3 183 (55.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (30.40%) Containerisation
5 84 (25.53%) Agile
6 78 (23.71%) Observability
7 72 (21.88%) Microservices
8 52 (15.81%) Infrastructure Automation
9 51 (15.50%) Migration
9 51 (15.50%) Platform Engineering
10 49 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (14.29%) Cloud Security
12 45 (13.68%) High Availability
13 43 (13.07%) Incident Response
14 40 (12.16%) Event-Driven
14 40 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
15 39 (11.85%) Configuration Management
16 37 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 36 (10.94%) Mentoring
17 36 (10.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 189 (57.45%) Python
2 78 (23.71%) Bash
3 52 (15.81%) Java
4 42 (12.77%) SQL
5 39 (11.85%) PowerShell
6 24 (7.29%) TypeScript
7 22 (6.69%) Groovy
8 19 (5.78%) Shell Script
9 18 (5.47%) Go
10 17 (5.17%) JavaScript
11 11 (3.34%) Perl
12 6 (1.82%) C#
13 3 (0.91%) Korn
13 3 (0.91%) PHP
14 2 (0.61%) Bicep
14 2 (0.61%) PromQL
15 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.30%) R
15 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (37.69%) Security Cleared
2 102 (31.00%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.37%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.47%) Degree
5 17 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (3.65%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.13%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.69%) QA
2 16 (4.86%) GDPR
3 14 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.65%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.13%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.82%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.52%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.22%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.91%) NCSC
9 3 (0.91%) NIST
9 3 (0.91%) PMO
10 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.61%) SLA
11 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 166 (50.46%) Docker
2 22 (6.69%) Active Directory
3 19 (5.78%) DFS Replication
4 11 (3.34%) Dovecot
4 11 (3.34%) Postfix
4 11 (3.34%) Squid
5 2 (0.61%) Snort
6 1 (0.30%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 238 (72.34%) Terraform
2 125 (37.99%) Kubernetes
3 96 (29.18%) Grafana
4 88 (26.75%) Prometheus
5 57 (17.33%) Ansible
6 11 (3.34%) Nessus
6 11 (3.34%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.04%) Proxmox
8 7 (2.13%) Kibana
8 7 (2.13%) Puppet
8 7 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (1.52%) Argo
9 5 (1.52%) Dell DRAC
10 4 (1.22%) Packer
11 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.61%) Karpenter
12 2 (0.61%) logstash
12 2 (0.61%) Nagios
12 2 (0.61%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 27 (8.21%) ServiceNow
2 26 (7.90%) Splunk
3 25 (7.60%) F5
4 23 (6.99%) CheckPoint
4 23 (6.99%) Dynatrace
4 23 (6.99%) Palo Alto
5 19 (5.78%) Microsoft
6 11 (3.34%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.13%) Cisco
7 7 (2.13%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.82%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.82%) IBM
9 5 (1.52%) Avaya
9 5 (1.52%) Dell
9 5 (1.52%) Genesys
9 5 (1.52%) Gigya
9 5 (1.52%) Google
9 5 (1.52%) Sybase
9 5 (1.52%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.22%) CloudEndure