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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 295 405
Rank change year-on-year -51 +110 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 395 284 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.86% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 2.25% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 199 96
10th Percentile £388 £397 £403
25th Percentile £440 £455 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £578 £585
90th Percentile £738 £670 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.55% +11.11% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.66 - -

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 18,886 12,619 13,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.18% 34.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,525 8,413 8,640
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 288 184
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.43 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +46.00%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -27 312 £506 +1.25% 245
London -14 185 £550 +4.76% 132
Work from Home -29 149 £500 - 105
UK excluding London -83 149 £482 -3.55% 121
North of England -54 49 £500 +1.01% 38
Midlands -60 36 £466 -1.95% 23
West Midlands -54 33 £469 -1.26% 13
South East -35 32 £533 +6.50% 15
North East -22 22 £425 -26.09% 7
Scotland -20 16 £450 -12.20% 11
North West -45 15 £600 +32.60% 18
Yorkshire -44 12 £500 +2.04% 13
South West -36 6 £325 -37.50% 16
East of England -43 6 £488 -11.36% 8
Northern Ireland - 4 £496 - 8
East Midlands -14 2 £392 -19.44% 10
Wales -7 1 £550 - 2

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 (12.15%) Confluence
2 21 (5.32%) Apache
3 18 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (4.30%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.03%) Jupyter
5 8 (2.03%) SAS
6 4 (1.01%) nginx
7 3 (0.76%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) Appian
8 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Trello
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 393 (99.49%) AWS
2 230 (58.23%) Serverless
3 227 (57.47%) Amazon S3
4 226 (57.22%) AWS Lambda
5 153 (38.73%) Amazon EC2
6 147 (37.22%) Amazon EKS
7 123 (31.14%) GitHub
8 122 (30.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 120 (30.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 111 (28.10%) Amazon ECS
11 92 (23.29%) GitHub Actions
12 81 (20.51%) Azure
13 55 (13.92%) Amazon SQS
14 54 (13.67%) AWS KMS
15 43 (10.89%) Amazon EventBridge
16 42 (10.63%) AWS Step Functions
17 38 (9.62%) Amazon EMR
17 38 (9.62%) Route 53
18 37 (9.37%) Datadog
19 36 (9.11%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.58%) Firewall
2 18 (4.56%) Network Security
3 15 (3.80%) DNS
4 7 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.52%) HTTP
5 6 (1.52%) SNMP
5 6 (1.52%) SSL
6 5 (1.27%) WAN
7 4 (1.01%) CTI
7 4 (1.01%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.76%) SMS
8 3 (0.76%) VPN
9 2 (0.51%) FTP
9 2 (0.51%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.51%) IMAP
9 2 (0.51%) SMTP
9 2 (0.51%) SSH
10 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (30.38%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 64 (16.20%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (13.42%) Amazon Athena
5 49 (12.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 37 (9.37%) MongoDB
7 34 (8.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (6.08%) Redis
9 22 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (5.32%) Power BI
11 18 (4.56%) SQL Server
12 17 (4.30%) Data Lake
12 17 (4.30%) MySQL
13 13 (3.29%) DocumentDB
14 9 (2.28%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.03%) Electronic Patient Records
16 7 (1.77%) Db2
16 7 (1.77%) NoSQL
17 6 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
17 6 (1.52%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 146 (36.96%) GitLab
2 140 (35.44%) Jenkins
3 92 (23.29%) Git
4 62 (15.70%) JIRA
5 23 (5.82%) Bitbucket
6 19 (4.81%) JUnit
7 16 (4.05%) Mockito
8 14 (3.54%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.78%) Maven
10 10 (2.53%) REST Assured
11 9 (2.28%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.77%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.77%) JMeter
13 6 (1.52%) Postman
13 6 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (1.27%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.27%) DbUnit
15 4 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (1.01%) Gatling
15 4 (1.01%) jMock
General
1 104 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 100 (25.32%) Public Sector
3 38 (9.62%) Finance
4 34 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.57%) Banking
6 21 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.28%) Back Office
8 7 (1.77%) Law
8 7 (1.77%) Military
9 5 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.27%) Front Office
10 4 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.76%) Legal
11 3 (0.76%) Publishing
12 2 (0.51%) Billing
12 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.51%) Police
12 2 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (22.53%) AWS Engineer
2 84 (21.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 61 (15.44%) Senior
4 49 (12.41%) Developer
5 48 (12.15%) AWS DevOps
6 46 (11.65%) Architect
7 41 (10.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 41 (10.38%) Data Engineer
8 37 (9.37%) Lead
9 33 (8.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 27 (6.84%) AWS Architect
11 21 (5.32%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (5.06%) Scrum Master
13 19 (4.81%) Lead DevOps
13 19 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
13 19 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.56%) DBA
15 17 (4.30%) Java Developer
16 15 (3.80%) AWS Data Engineer
17 14 (3.54%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (63.54%) Terraform
2 47 (11.90%) REST
3 45 (11.39%) RESTful
4 43 (10.89%) Kafka
5 39 (9.87%) Node.js
5 39 (9.87%) Spring
6 35 (8.86%) Spring Boot
7 32 (8.10%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.58%) PySpark
9 18 (4.56%) SOAP
10 16 (4.05%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (4.05%) FastAPI
11 14 (3.54%) AngularJS
11 14 (3.54%) React
12 13 (3.29%) Jest
12 13 (3.29%) Playwright
13 12 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (3.04%) OAuth
13 12 (3.04%) Web Services
14 11 (2.78%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 135 (34.18%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.11%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.61%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.57%) Replication
5 14 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.04%) IVR
8 11 (2.78%) CMDB
8 11 (2.78%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.03%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.52%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.52%) NHS
11 5 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.27%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.01%) Life Science
12 4 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 62 (15.70%) Linux
2 22 (5.57%) Windows
3 18 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.53%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.03%) Unix
6 6 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.01%) zOS
8 2 (0.51%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (84.56%) CI/CD
2 258 (65.32%) DevOps
3 254 (64.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 171 (43.29%) Agile
5 147 (37.22%) Observability
6 119 (30.13%) Containerisation
7 101 (25.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 88 (22.28%) Test Automation
9 84 (21.27%) Microservices
10 76 (19.24%) Platform Engineering
11 75 (18.99%) Root Cause Analysis
12 64 (16.20%) AI
13 60 (15.19%) Event-Driven
13 60 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 57 (14.43%) Data Modelling
15 56 (14.18%) Software Engineering
16 54 (13.67%) Scrum
17 52 (13.16%) Analytics
17 52 (13.16%) Deployment Automation
18 49 (12.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 208 (52.66%) Python
2 86 (21.77%) SQL
3 79 (20.00%) Bash
4 76 (19.24%) Java
5 37 (9.37%) PowerShell
6 28 (7.09%) TypeScript
7 26 (6.58%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.54%) Shell Script
9 13 (3.29%) Groovy
9 13 (3.29%) Scala
10 11 (2.78%) C#
11 10 (2.53%) Go
12 8 (2.03%) Bicep
13 7 (1.77%) Perl
14 4 (1.01%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.76%) C
15 3 (0.76%) JCL
16 2 (0.51%) Korn
17 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 179 (45.32%) Security Cleared
2 161 (40.76%) SC Cleared
3 83 (21.01%) AWS Certification
4 34 (8.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.30%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (3.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (2.03%) Degree
10 8 (2.03%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (1.77%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.76%) CISSP
13 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.51%) ISEB
14 2 (0.51%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (11.39%) QA
2 40 (10.13%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.77%) GDPR
5 6 (1.52%) NCSC
5 6 (1.52%) SLA
6 5 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.27%) WCAG
7 4 (1.01%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.51%) HL7
9 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.25%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) SEPA
10 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 151 (38.23%) Docker
2 16 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.53%) IAG
4 9 (2.28%) Squid
5 5 (1.27%) Postfix
6 2 (0.51%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.51%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.25%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 144 (36.46%) Kubernetes
2 126 (31.90%) Grafana
3 100 (25.32%) Prometheus
4 72 (18.23%) Ansible
5 14 (3.54%) Puppet
6 13 (3.29%) Packer
6 13 (3.29%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.27%) Argo
8 5 (1.27%) Istio
9 4 (1.01%) Suricata
10 3 (0.76%) Consul
10 3 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.76%) Kibana
10 3 (0.76%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.51%) Nessus
11 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.51%) Rancher
12 1 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.25%) linkerd
Vendors
1 43 (10.89%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.34%) ServiceNow
3 25 (6.33%) Splunk
4 19 (4.81%) Informatica
5 17 (4.30%) Microsoft
5 17 (4.30%) Oracle
6 13 (3.29%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.53%) Google
7 10 (2.53%) Nexthink
8 9 (2.28%) Confluent
9 8 (2.03%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.77%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.52%) Cribl.io
11 6 (1.52%) Denodo
12 5 (1.27%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.27%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.01%) Brio
13 4 (1.01%) New Relic
13 4 (1.01%) VMware