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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 376 428
Rank change year-on-year +91 +52 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 330 170 183
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.39% 1.32% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 125 148
10th Percentile £384 £405 £463
25th Percentile £431 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -13.39%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £628
90th Percentile £689 £745 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £543
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.62% -11.35%

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 13,800 12,832 15,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 35.93% 35.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,381 8,507 11,432
10th Percentile £306 £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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 179 296
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.44 £14.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%
75th Percentile £51.38 £46.84 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.80 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.05
% change year-on-year -17.05% +28.86% +9.27%

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 10 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 10 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 +60 242 £500 -4.94% 60
UK excluding London +30 131 £500 -2.44% 54
London +45 129 £513 -2.57% 22
Work from Home +34 109 £540 +4.25% 33
North of England -14 56 £500 -15.25% 19
Midlands -7 34 £475 +11.76% 6
West Midlands +3 31 £475 +11.76% 5
Yorkshire -20 28 £500 -31.03% 9
North West -10 20 £435 -3.33% 8
Scotland +8 18 £525 +6.28% 3
South West -4 10 £700 +40.00% 7
East of England - 9 £550 - 1
North East -2 8 £575 -2.54% 2
South East -13 5 £650 -18.75% 10
East Midlands -21 3 £375 -13.69% 1
Wales +3 2 - - 5

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 35 (10.61%) Confluence
2 11 (3.33%) nginx
3 5 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.21%) Apache
4 4 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (3.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 325 (98.48%) AWS
2 219 (66.36%) Amazon S3
3 196 (59.39%) Serverless
4 195 (59.09%) AWS Lambda
5 162 (49.09%) Amazon EC2
6 117 (35.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 116 (35.15%) Amazon ECS
8 107 (32.42%) GitHub
9 93 (28.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 87 (26.36%) GitHub Actions
11 76 (23.03%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (15.76%) Azure
13 45 (13.64%) Amazon ELB
14 39 (11.82%) Route 53
15 37 (11.21%) Datadog
16 33 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
17 29 (8.79%) Amazon SQS
18 27 (8.18%) AWS KMS
19 24 (7.27%) AWS CloudTrail
19 24 (7.27%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 57 (17.27%) DNS
1 57 (17.27%) Firewall
2 32 (9.70%) VPN
3 23 (6.97%) HTTP
4 22 (6.67%) SSL
4 22 (6.67%) TCP/IP
5 21 (6.36%) SMTP
6 20 (6.06%) FTP
6 20 (6.06%) SSH
7 16 (4.85%) Network Security
7 16 (4.85%) OpenLDAP
8 11 (3.33%) IMAP
9 6 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (1.52%) DHCP
11 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.30%) LAN
11 1 (0.30%) VLAN
11 1 (0.30%) VSAN
11 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (35.45%) Amazon RDS
2 64 (19.39%) DynamoDB
3 34 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (8.48%) Amazon Aurora
5 23 (6.97%) MySQL
6 19 (5.76%) Relational Database
7 18 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (3.94%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.94%) RDBMS
9 10 (3.03%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.42%) Redis
11 6 (1.82%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.82%) DB2
12 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.52%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.21%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 140 (42.42%) Jenkins
2 118 (35.76%) GitLab
3 96 (29.09%) Git
4 37 (11.21%) JIRA
5 21 (6.36%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.64%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.73%) Maven
8 7 (2.12%) JUnit
9 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.52%) Gradle
9 5 (1.52%) Postman
9 5 (1.52%) SonarLint
10 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.91%) Gatling
10 3 (0.91%) Mocha
10 3 (0.91%) NUnit
10 3 (0.91%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.61%) Hamcrest
11 2 (0.61%) SoapUI
General
1 78 (23.64%) Public Sector
2 67 (20.30%) Social Skills
3 22 (6.67%) Finance
4 17 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.03%) 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
1 118 (35.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 92 (27.88%) AWS Engineer
3 60 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
4 56 (16.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 52 (15.76%) Senior
6 35 (10.61%) Platform Engineer
7 34 (10.30%) Architect
8 32 (9.70%) Developer
9 31 (9.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 24 (7.27%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 21 (6.36%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 19 (5.76%) Lead
14 15 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.94%) Python Engineer
16 12 (3.64%) Software Engineer
17 11 (3.33%) Consultant
17 11 (3.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
17 11 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
18 10 (3.03%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (10.91%) Node.js
2 34 (10.30%) Kafka
3 29 (8.79%) Elastic Stack
4 26 (7.88%) REST
5 24 (7.27%) AWS CDK
6 21 (6.36%) JWT
6 21 (6.36%) React
7 18 (5.45%) LDAP
8 17 (5.15%) OAuth
8 17 (5.15%) Spring Boot
9 16 (4.85%) RESTful
10 14 (4.24%) boto
11 12 (3.64%) Spring
12 11 (3.33%) pytest
13 10 (3.03%) FastAPI
14 9 (2.73%) AngularJS
14 9 (2.73%) Lambda Expressions
15 8 (2.42%) .NET
15 8 (2.42%) GraphQL
16 7 (2.12%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.85%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.48%) Replication
3 22 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.73%) NHS
5 9 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.12%) 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 (1.21%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 67 (20.30%) Linux
2 28 (8.48%) Windows
3 24 (7.27%) Amazon Linux
4 22 (6.67%) VMS
5 11 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.33%) Unix
6 8 (2.42%) 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
1 222 (67.27%) CI/CD
2 215 (65.15%) DevOps
3 183 (55.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (30.30%) Containerisation
5 83 (25.15%) Agile
6 76 (23.03%) Observability
7 72 (21.82%) Microservices
8 52 (15.76%) Platform Engineering
9 51 (15.45%) Infrastructure Automation
9 51 (15.45%) Migration
10 49 (14.85%) High Availability
10 49 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (13.33%) Cloud Security
12 42 (12.73%) Incident Response
13 41 (12.42%) Event-Driven
14 40 (12.12%) Mentoring
14 40 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
15 39 (11.82%) Configuration Management
16 37 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 36 (10.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 192 (58.18%) Python
2 77 (23.33%) Bash
3 52 (15.76%) Java
4 42 (12.73%) SQL
5 41 (12.42%) PowerShell
6 23 (6.97%) Groovy
6 23 (6.97%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.76%) Shell Script
8 18 (5.45%) Go
9 16 (4.85%) JavaScript
10 12 (3.64%) Perl
11 5 (1.52%) C#
12 3 (0.91%) Korn
13 2 (0.61%) Bicep
13 2 (0.61%) PHP
13 2 (0.61%) PromQL
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.30%) R
14 1 (0.30%) Scala
14 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (37.58%) Security Cleared
2 103 (31.21%) SC Cleared
3 43 (13.03%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.45%) Degree
5 17 (5.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (3.94%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.12%) 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%) MCSE
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.67%) QA
2 17 (5.15%) GDPR
3 13 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.64%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.12%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.82%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.21%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.91%) NCSC
8 3 (0.91%) PMO
9 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.61%) NIST
9 2 (0.61%) SLA
10 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 164 (49.70%) Docker
2 23 (6.97%) Active Directory
3 20 (6.06%) DFS Replication
4 11 (3.33%) Dovecot
4 11 (3.33%) Postfix
4 11 (3.33%) 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 (72.12%) Terraform
2 124 (37.58%) Kubernetes
3 97 (29.39%) Grafana
4 91 (27.58%) Prometheus
5 54 (16.36%) Ansible
6 11 (3.33%) Nessus
6 11 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.03%) Proxmox
8 7 (2.12%) Puppet
8 7 (2.12%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (1.52%) Argo
9 5 (1.52%) Dell DRAC
10 4 (1.21%) Kibana
10 4 (1.21%) Packer
11 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.61%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.61%) logstash
12 2 (0.61%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (8.48%) ServiceNow
2 27 (8.18%) Splunk
3 25 (7.58%) F5
4 24 (7.27%) Dynatrace
5 23 (6.97%) CheckPoint
5 23 (6.97%) Palo Alto
6 19 (5.76%) Microsoft
7 11 (3.33%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (2.12%) Cisco
8 7 (2.12%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.82%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.82%) IBM
10 5 (1.52%) Avaya
10 5 (1.52%) Dell
10 5 (1.52%) Genesys
10 5 (1.52%) Gigya
10 5 (1.52%) Google
10 5 (1.52%) Sybase
10 5 (1.52%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.21%) CloudEndure