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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 353 416
Rank change year-on-year +15 +63 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 330 184 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.62% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.64% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 129 124
10th Percentile £356 £358 £405
25th Percentile £413 £440 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £602
90th Percentile £638 £646 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.98% -6.52%
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 17,870 11,252 14,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.80% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,937 7,591 10,000
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £634
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.74% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 279 364
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.31 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.39
% change year-on-year +98.73% -7.43% -24.50%

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 18 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 18 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 -13 263 £488 -2.50% 38
London +44 169 £525 +1.25% 16
Work from Home 0 121 £463 -11.90% 24
UK excluding London -59 119 £450 -10.00% 29
Midlands -36 45 £472 -5.60% 3
West Midlands -32 43 £475 -2.56% 3
Scotland -3 21 £440 -12.00% 1
North of England -71 20 £419 +4.69% 8
South East -46 15 £393 -31.65% 12
East of England -26 9 £450 -18.18% 1
North East -29 9 £413 - 2
North West -41 6 £390 +4.14% 3
South West -24 5 £444 -15.07% 3
Yorkshire -63 5 £456 -3.95% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 1
Wales - 2 £525 -
East Midlands -24 1 £425 -20.86%

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 (14.55%) Confluence
2 25 (7.58%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.24%) Apache
4 13 (3.94%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.12%) SAS
6 6 (1.82%) CICS
7 5 (1.52%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.21%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 329 (99.70%) AWS
2 207 (62.73%) Amazon S3
3 201 (60.91%) Serverless
4 193 (58.48%) AWS Lambda
5 144 (43.64%) Amazon EC2
6 114 (34.55%) Amazon EKS
7 109 (33.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 108 (32.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 103 (31.21%) GitHub
10 93 (28.18%) Amazon ECS
11 81 (24.55%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (17.27%) Azure
13 51 (15.45%) Amazon SQS
14 45 (13.64%) Route 53
15 43 (13.03%) AWS KMS
16 32 (9.70%) Amazon EMR
17 31 (9.39%) AWS CodePipeline
18 29 (8.79%) Amazon Kinesis
19 27 (8.18%) AWS CloudTrail
19 27 (8.18%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.15%) Firewall
2 16 (4.85%) DNS
3 12 (3.64%) Network Security
4 6 (1.82%) HTTP
4 6 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.82%) WAN
5 5 (1.52%) SNMP
5 5 (1.52%) VPN
6 4 (1.21%) SSL
7 3 (0.91%) BGP
7 3 (0.91%) CTI
8 2 (0.61%) OSPF
8 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.30%) Internet
9 1 (0.30%) PSTN
9 1 (0.30%) RTP
9 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (29.70%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (24.24%) DynamoDB
3 49 (14.85%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (14.24%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (12.42%) Amazon Aurora
6 34 (10.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (7.58%) Power BI
8 18 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (5.45%) Tableau
9 16 (4.85%) MongoDB
10 14 (4.24%) Redis
11 10 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (2.73%) Db2
12 9 (2.73%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.73%) SQL Server
13 8 (2.42%) DocumentDB
14 7 (2.12%) Data Lake
15 6 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.82%) Metadata
15 6 (1.82%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 123 (37.27%) Jenkins
2 113 (34.24%) GitLab
3 80 (24.24%) Git
4 59 (17.88%) JIRA
5 24 (7.27%) JUnit
6 22 (6.67%) Maven
6 22 (6.67%) Mockito
7 20 (6.06%) SonarQube
8 18 (5.45%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.24%) DbUnit
10 13 (3.94%) jMock
11 11 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.42%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.42%) Cucumber
13 7 (2.12%) Postman
14 6 (1.82%) Gatling
14 6 (1.82%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.52%) MLflow
16 4 (1.21%) Gradle
16 4 (1.21%) Jaeger
General
1 88 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 87 (26.36%) Public Sector
3 34 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.48%) Finance
5 16 (4.85%) Banking
6 13 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.12%) Law
10 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Legal
10 3 (0.91%) Military
10 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.61%) Police
11 2 (0.61%) Publishing
11 2 (0.61%) Retail
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Games
12 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (23.94%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (16.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 50 (15.15%) Developer
4 49 (14.85%) Senior
5 39 (11.82%) Architect
6 38 (11.52%) AWS DevOps
7 32 (9.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 32 (9.70%) Data Engineer
8 25 (7.58%) Java Developer
9 24 (7.27%) AWS Architect
10 23 (6.97%) Lead
11 22 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 20 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (5.15%) Senior Developer
14 17 (5.15%) Site Engineer
15 15 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
16 14 (4.24%) Scrum Master
17 13 (3.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 13 (3.94%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.24%) RESTful
2 44 (13.33%) Kafka
3 41 (12.42%) REST
4 39 (11.82%) AWS CDK
5 38 (11.52%) Node.js
6 37 (11.21%) Spring
6 37 (11.21%) Spring Boot
7 29 (8.79%) SOAP
8 27 (8.18%) Web Services
9 24 (7.27%) PySpark
10 22 (6.67%) Hibernate
10 22 (6.67%) JPA
11 20 (6.06%) AngularJS
11 20 (6.06%) Spring Cloud
12 19 (5.76%) OAuth
12 19 (5.76%) OpenTelemetry
13 18 (5.45%) ActiveMQ
13 18 (5.45%) Spring Batch
13 18 (5.45%) Spring Integration
14 14 (4.24%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 97 (29.39%) Cloud Native
2 45 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (8.18%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.42%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.42%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.42%) Replication
6 7 (2.12%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.12%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.82%) DataPower
7 6 (1.82%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.52%) IVR
8 5 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.91%) PACS
10 3 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.18%) Linux
2 16 (4.85%) Windows
3 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.12%) zOS
5 5 (1.52%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.21%) Unix
6 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (74.85%) CI/CD
2 181 (54.85%) DevOps
3 175 (53.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 134 (40.61%) Agile
5 108 (32.73%) Containerisation
6 107 (32.42%) Observability
7 78 (23.64%) Microservices
8 70 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 67 (20.30%) Test Automation
10 62 (18.79%) Platform Engineering
11 58 (17.58%) Scrum
12 51 (15.45%) Migration
13 48 (14.55%) Performance Tuning
14 46 (13.94%) Event-Driven
15 43 (13.03%) AI
16 42 (12.73%) Analytics
16 42 (12.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 39 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
18 37 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
18 37 (11.21%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 163 (49.39%) Python
2 87 (26.36%) SQL
3 67 (20.30%) Bash
4 65 (19.70%) Java
5 31 (9.39%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.88%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.76%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.85%) Shell Script
9 14 (4.24%) Scala
10 8 (2.42%) Go
10 8 (2.42%) Groovy
11 6 (1.82%) JCL
12 4 (1.21%) Bicep
12 4 (1.21%) C#
12 4 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.21%) Perl
13 2 (0.61%) C
13 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.30%) COBOL
14 1 (0.30%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 156 (47.27%) Security Cleared
2 140 (42.42%) SC Cleared
3 42 (12.73%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (5.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 13 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (3.33%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.42%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.12%) Degree
11 5 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.88%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.58%) QA
3 11 (3.33%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.12%) NIST
4 7 (2.12%) SLA
5 6 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.82%) PMO
6 5 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.52%) GDPR
6 5 (1.52%) GRC
7 4 (1.21%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.21%) NCSC
8 3 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 130 (39.39%) Docker
2 11 (3.33%) Postfix
3 8 (2.42%) Squid
4 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.61%) IAG
6 1 (0.30%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 204 (61.82%) Terraform
2 124 (37.58%) Grafana
3 108 (32.73%) Kubernetes
4 99 (30.00%) Prometheus
5 37 (11.21%) Ansible
6 11 (3.33%) Puppet
7 9 (2.73%) Istio
8 7 (2.12%) Packer
9 5 (1.52%) Argo
10 4 (1.21%) Suricata
11 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.91%) Rancher
12 2 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.61%) linkerd
13 1 (0.30%) Consul
13 1 (0.30%) Control-M
13 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.30%) Kibana
13 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (6.67%) Dynatrace
1 22 (6.67%) Splunk
2 20 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 17 (5.15%) Informatica
3 17 (5.15%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (4.24%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.42%) Databricks
5 8 (2.42%) New Relic
6 7 (2.12%) Microsoft
7 6 (1.82%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.82%) Confluent
7 6 (1.82%) Cribl.io
7 6 (1.82%) Denodo
7 6 (1.82%) Oracle
8 5 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.21%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.21%) Sybase
9 4 (1.21%) Trend Micro
10 3 (0.91%) Tenable
11 2 (0.61%) Solace