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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 402 447
Rank change year-on-year +113 +45 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 317 159 188
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 0.44% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.37% 1.24% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 109 148
10th Percentile £385 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -4.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £578 £565 £638
90th Percentile £675 £650 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 13,367 12,840 16,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.66% 35.16% 35.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,003 8,459 11,794
10th Percentile £305 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 167 318
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.50 £14.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +46.14%
75th Percentile £44.43 £64.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.73 £70.00 £78.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.74 £22.50
% change year-on-year -37.75% +49.93% +16.04%

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 5 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 5 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 +98 236 £500 -4.94% 201
UK excluding London +52 139 £500 +11.11% 150
London +49 117 £525 -2.42% 110
Work from Home +40 114 £525 +1.94% 138
North of England -9 52 £500 +11.11% 39
Midlands +13 42 £475 +9.32% 13
West Midlands +21 39 £475 - 12
Yorkshire -1 29 £500 -15.54% 12
Scotland +2 18 £525 +16.67% 15
North West -24 17 £413 -2.94% 24
East of England - 16 £550 - 7
South West +16 9 £700 +40.00% 10
North East -7 6 £575 +35.29% 3
South East -3 3 - - 62
East Midlands -19 3 £375 -13.69% 1
Wales +4 2 - - 3

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 (11.99%) Confluence
2 14 (4.42%) nginx
3 5 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.26%) Apache
5 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (3.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 314 (99.05%) AWS
2 224 (70.66%) Amazon S3
3 178 (56.15%) AWS Lambda
3 178 (56.15%) Serverless
4 170 (53.63%) Amazon EC2
5 113 (35.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 101 (31.86%) Amazon ECS
7 94 (29.65%) GitHub
8 86 (27.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 78 (24.61%) GitHub Actions
10 58 (18.30%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (15.77%) Azure
12 48 (15.14%) Amazon ELB
13 44 (13.88%) Route 53
14 39 (12.30%) AWS KMS
15 37 (11.67%) Amazon SQS
16 34 (10.73%) Datadog
17 32 (10.09%) AWS Fargate
18 27 (8.52%) AWS CloudTrail
19 18 (5.68%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 65 (20.50%) Firewall
2 63 (19.87%) DNS
3 35 (11.04%) VPN
4 26 (8.20%) SSL
5 25 (7.89%) HTTP
6 24 (7.57%) SMTP
6 24 (7.57%) SSH
6 24 (7.57%) TCP/IP
7 22 (6.94%) FTP
8 18 (5.68%) Network Security
9 17 (5.36%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (3.79%) IMAP
11 6 (1.89%) DHCP
11 6 (1.89%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.32%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.32%) LAN
12 1 (0.32%) VLAN
12 1 (0.32%) VSAN
12 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (40.06%) Amazon RDS
2 67 (21.14%) DynamoDB
3 44 (13.88%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (9.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 23 (7.26%) MySQL
6 16 (5.05%) Relational Database
7 14 (4.42%) NoSQL
8 13 (4.10%) RDBMS
9 11 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (2.84%) MongoDB
11 8 (2.52%) Redis
11 8 (2.52%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.21%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.89%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.89%) MariaDB
14 5 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (1.58%) DB2
15 4 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.95%) Metadata
17 2 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 142 (44.79%) Jenkins
2 101 (31.86%) Git
3 99 (31.23%) GitLab
4 41 (12.93%) JIRA
5 24 (7.57%) Vagrant
6 17 (5.36%) Maven
7 15 (4.73%) SonarQube
8 14 (4.42%) JUnit
9 6 (1.89%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.89%) Gradle
10 5 (1.58%) Postman
10 5 (1.58%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.26%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.26%) DbUnit
11 4 (1.26%) jMock
11 4 (1.26%) Mockito
12 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.95%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.95%) Gatling
12 3 (0.95%) REST Assured
General
1 69 (21.77%) Public Sector
2 68 (21.45%) Social Skills
3 19 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.73%) Finance
5 12 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (3.47%) Banking
7 4 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.26%) Military
8 3 (0.95%) Front Office
8 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Legal
10 1 (0.32%) Games
10 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 117 (36.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 90 (28.39%) AWS Engineer
3 54 (17.03%) AWS DevOps
4 51 (16.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 47 (14.83%) Senior
6 36 (11.36%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (10.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 31 (9.78%) Architect
9 30 (9.46%) Developer
10 26 (8.20%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 20 (6.31%) Senior DevOps
12 19 (5.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 16 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (4.73%) Lead
15 14 (4.42%) AWS Architect
16 13 (4.10%) Java Developer
16 13 (4.10%) Software Engineer
17 12 (3.79%) DBA
17 12 (3.79%) DevOps Platform Engineer
17 12 (3.79%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.46%) Kafka
2 25 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (7.89%) REST
3 24 (7.57%) Node.js
4 20 (6.31%) Spring Boot
5 19 (5.99%) LDAP
5 19 (5.99%) React
6 18 (5.68%) AWS CDK
6 18 (5.68%) RESTful
6 18 (5.68%) Spring
7 17 (5.36%) JWT
8 14 (4.42%) AngularJS
9 13 (4.10%) OAuth
10 12 (3.79%) boto
11 11 (3.47%) ActiveMQ
12 10 (3.15%) FastAPI
12 10 (3.15%) pytest
13 9 (2.84%) GraphQL
13 9 (2.84%) Lambda Expressions
14 7 (2.21%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 34 (10.73%) Replication
3 17 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.58%) Clustering
7 5 (1.58%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.26%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.63%) DataPower
10 2 (0.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 70 (22.08%) Linux
2 31 (9.78%) Windows
3 29 (9.15%) Amazon Linux
4 25 (7.89%) VMS
5 11 (3.47%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.84%) Unix
7 3 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.32%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.32%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (66.56%) DevOps
2 203 (64.04%) CI/CD
3 162 (51.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (28.71%) Containerisation
5 86 (27.13%) Agile
6 66 (20.82%) Observability
7 59 (18.61%) Microservices
8 53 (16.72%) Infrastructure Automation
9 51 (16.09%) Platform Engineering
10 48 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (14.83%) Cloud Security
12 45 (14.20%) High Availability
12 45 (14.20%) Migration
13 41 (12.93%) Configuration Management
13 41 (12.93%) Mentoring
14 38 (11.99%) Event-Driven
14 38 (11.99%) Incident Response
15 33 (10.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 33 (10.41%) Performance Tuning
16 32 (10.09%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 183 (57.73%) Python
2 69 (21.77%) Bash
3 54 (17.03%) Java
4 45 (14.20%) PowerShell
5 42 (13.25%) SQL
6 26 (8.20%) Groovy
7 20 (6.31%) JavaScript
7 20 (6.31%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.36%) Go
9 14 (4.42%) Perl
9 14 (4.42%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.63%) Bicep
10 2 (0.63%) C#
10 2 (0.63%) Korn
10 2 (0.63%) PHP
10 2 (0.63%) PromQL
10 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.32%) C
11 1 (0.32%) R
11 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 116 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 100 (31.55%) SC Cleared
3 42 (13.25%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (4.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (4.73%) Degree
6 14 (4.42%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 4 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.63%) MCSE
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.31%) QA
2 14 (4.42%) GDPR
3 9 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.21%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.26%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.26%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.26%) NIST
7 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.95%) NCSC
8 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 157 (49.53%) Docker
2 25 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 22 (6.94%) DFS Replication
4 16 (5.05%) Postfix
5 12 (3.79%) Dovecot
5 12 (3.79%) Squid
6 2 (0.63%) Snort
7 1 (0.32%) KVM
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 219 (69.09%) Terraform
2 114 (35.96%) Kubernetes
3 92 (29.02%) Prometheus
4 91 (28.71%) Grafana
5 57 (17.98%) Ansible
6 12 (3.79%) Nessus
7 10 (3.15%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.15%) Proxmox
8 8 (2.52%) Puppet
9 6 (1.89%) Packer
9 6 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (1.58%) Argo
11 4 (1.26%) Dell DRAC
11 4 (1.26%) Kibana
12 3 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.63%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.63%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.63%) SELinux
13 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (9.46%) ServiceNow
2 25 (7.89%) F5
2 25 (7.89%) Splunk
3 24 (7.57%) Dynatrace
4 23 (7.26%) CheckPoint
4 23 (7.26%) Palo Alto
5 18 (5.68%) Microsoft
6 16 (5.05%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (3.15%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.84%) Oracle
9 8 (2.52%) AppDynamics
10 7 (2.21%) CA Agile Central
10 7 (2.21%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.58%) Gigya
11 5 (1.58%) Google
11 5 (1.58%) Sybase
11 5 (1.58%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.26%) CloudEndure
12 4 (1.26%) Dell
13 3 (0.95%) Databricks