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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 387 420
Rank change year-on-year +95 +33 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 332 165 189
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.48% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.37% 1.32% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 124 153
10th Percentile £381 £404 £428
25th Percentile £428 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £579 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -13.47%

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 13,986 12,486 15,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.01% 36.29% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,543 8,302 10,995
10th Percentile £307 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 176 273
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.33 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.07 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.40 £28.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.08 £69.72 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +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 17 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 17 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 +70 244 £503 -4.38% 54
London +45 132 £519 -1.38% 19
UK excluding London +17 130 £500 - 46
Work from Home +33 106 £553 +6.76% 31
North of England -21 55 £500 -15.25% 18
Midlands -3 33 £475 +11.76% 8
West Midlands -4 30 £475 +11.76% 7
Yorkshire -25 26 £500 -31.03% 11
North West -22 21 £430 -4.44% 6
Scotland +9 18 £525 +6.28%
South West +7 10 £700 +40.00% 7
East of England - 9 £550 - 2
North East -5 8 £575 -2.54% 1
South East -12 6 £650 -18.75% 7
East Midlands -25 3 £375 -11.76% 1
Wales +3 2 - - 4

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 (10.24%) Confluence
2 11 (3.31%) nginx
3 6 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.51%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 327 (98.49%) AWS
2 218 (65.66%) Amazon S3
3 198 (59.64%) Serverless
4 197 (59.34%) AWS Lambda
5 160 (48.19%) Amazon EC2
6 118 (35.54%) Amazon ECS
6 118 (35.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 114 (34.34%) GitHub
8 96 (28.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 94 (28.31%) GitHub Actions
10 81 (24.40%) Amazon EKS
11 57 (17.17%) Azure
12 46 (13.86%) Amazon ELB
13 39 (11.75%) Route 53
14 37 (11.14%) Datadog
15 35 (10.54%) AWS Fargate
16 28 (8.43%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (7.83%) AWS CloudTrail
17 26 (7.83%) AWS KMS
18 24 (7.23%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 60 (18.07%) DNS
2 56 (16.87%) Firewall
3 33 (9.94%) VPN
4 23 (6.93%) HTTP
5 22 (6.63%) SSL
5 22 (6.63%) TCP/IP
6 20 (6.02%) SMTP
7 19 (5.72%) FTP
7 19 (5.72%) SSH
8 16 (4.82%) Network Security
8 16 (4.82%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (3.31%) IMAP
10 6 (1.81%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (1.51%) DHCP
12 2 (0.60%) LAN
12 2 (0.60%) 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 (34.94%) Amazon RDS
2 63 (18.98%) DynamoDB
3 34 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (8.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 24 (7.23%) MySQL
6 19 (5.72%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (5.72%) Relational Database
7 13 (3.92%) RDBMS
8 12 (3.61%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.31%) MongoDB
10 10 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.41%) Redis
12 6 (1.81%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.81%) DB2
13 5 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.51%) SQL Server
14 4 (1.20%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.90%) Big Data
15 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 142 (42.77%) Jenkins
2 120 (36.14%) GitLab
3 96 (28.92%) Git
4 36 (10.84%) JIRA
5 20 (6.02%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.61%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.71%) Maven
8 7 (2.11%) JUnit
9 5 (1.51%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.51%) Gradle
9 5 (1.51%) Postman
9 5 (1.51%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.20%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.20%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.90%) Mocha
11 3 (0.90%) NUnit
11 3 (0.90%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.60%) SoapUI
General
1 77 (23.19%) Public Sector
2 66 (19.88%) Social Skills
3 23 (6.93%) Finance
4 16 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.01%) Banking
7 5 (1.51%) Military
8 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Front Office
9 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Legal
11 1 (0.30%) Games
11 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 117 (35.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 92 (27.71%) AWS Engineer
3 62 (18.67%) AWS DevOps
4 58 (17.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 53 (15.96%) Senior
6 38 (11.45%) Architect
7 35 (10.54%) Platform Engineer
8 33 (9.94%) Developer
9 31 (9.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 24 (7.23%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 21 (6.33%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (6.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 19 (5.72%) Lead
14 15 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.92%) AWS Architect
15 13 (3.92%) Python Engineer
16 11 (3.31%) Data Engineer
16 11 (3.31%) DevOps Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.31%) Software Engineer
16 11 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.75%) Node.js
2 36 (10.84%) Kafka
3 33 (9.94%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (8.13%) REST
5 24 (7.23%) AWS CDK
6 23 (6.93%) React
7 21 (6.33%) JWT
8 18 (5.42%) LDAP
9 17 (5.12%) OAuth
9 17 (5.12%) Spring Boot
10 16 (4.82%) RESTful
11 14 (4.22%) boto
12 12 (3.61%) Spring
13 11 (3.31%) pytest
14 10 (3.01%) FastAPI
15 9 (2.71%) .NET
15 9 (2.71%) Lambda Expressions
16 8 (2.41%) AngularJS
17 7 (2.11%) ActiveMQ
17 7 (2.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.16%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.83%) Replication
3 24 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.71%) NHS
4 9 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.81%) IVR
7 6 (1.81%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.51%) DataPower
8 5 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.51%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.51%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 67 (20.18%) Linux
2 27 (8.13%) Windows
3 23 (6.93%) Amazon Linux
4 21 (6.33%) VMS
5 11 (3.31%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.31%) Unix
6 8 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.90%) 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
1 226 (68.07%) CI/CD
2 211 (63.55%) DevOps
3 185 (55.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (30.12%) Containerisation
5 83 (25.00%) Agile
6 80 (24.10%) Observability
7 72 (21.69%) Microservices
8 51 (15.36%) Infrastructure Automation
8 51 (15.36%) Migration
8 51 (15.36%) Platform Engineering
9 49 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (14.16%) Cloud Security
11 46 (13.86%) High Availability
12 43 (12.95%) Incident Response
13 40 (12.05%) Configuration Management
13 40 (12.05%) Event-Driven
13 40 (12.05%) Performance Tuning
14 37 (11.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 36 (10.84%) Mentoring
15 36 (10.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 191 (57.53%) Python
2 79 (23.80%) Bash
3 53 (15.96%) Java
4 43 (12.95%) SQL
5 39 (11.75%) PowerShell
6 24 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 22 (6.63%) Groovy
8 19 (5.72%) Shell Script
9 18 (5.42%) Go
9 18 (5.42%) JavaScript
10 11 (3.31%) Perl
11 6 (1.81%) C#
12 3 (0.90%) Korn
12 3 (0.90%) PHP
13 2 (0.60%) Bicep
13 2 (0.60%) PromQL
14 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.30%) Scala
14 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (37.65%) Security Cleared
2 103 (31.02%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.25%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.42%) Degree
5 17 (5.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.11%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.93%) QA
2 16 (4.82%) GDPR
3 14 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.61%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.11%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.11%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.20%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.90%) NCSC
8 3 (0.90%) NIST
8 3 (0.90%) PMO
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.60%) SLA
10 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 166 (50.00%) Docker
2 22 (6.63%) Active Directory
3 19 (5.72%) DFS Replication
4 11 (3.31%) Dovecot
4 11 (3.31%) Postfix
4 11 (3.31%) Squid
5 2 (0.60%) Snort
6 1 (0.30%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 241 (72.59%) Terraform
2 127 (38.25%) Kubernetes
3 97 (29.22%) Grafana
4 89 (26.81%) Prometheus
5 59 (17.77%) Ansible
6 11 (3.31%) Nessus
6 11 (3.31%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.01%) Proxmox
8 8 (2.41%) Kibana
8 8 (2.41%) Puppet
9 7 (2.11%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (1.81%) Argo
11 5 (1.51%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (1.20%) Packer
13 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.90%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.60%) logstash
14 2 (0.60%) Nagios
14 2 (0.60%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 27 (8.13%) ServiceNow
2 26 (7.83%) Splunk
3 25 (7.53%) F5
4 23 (6.93%) CheckPoint
4 23 (6.93%) Dynatrace
4 23 (6.93%) Palo Alto
5 19 (5.72%) Microsoft
6 11 (3.31%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.11%) Cisco
7 7 (2.11%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.81%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.81%) IBM
9 5 (1.51%) Avaya
9 5 (1.51%) Dell
9 5 (1.51%) Genesys
9 5 (1.51%) Gigya
9 5 (1.51%) Google
9 5 (1.51%) Sybase
9 5 (1.51%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.20%) CloudEndure