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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 320 415
Rank change year-on-year -33 +95 +1
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 363 251 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.76% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 2.04% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 180 101
10th Percentile £381 £358 £413
25th Percentile £425 £439 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £600
90th Percentile £672 £638 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.95% - -11.21%
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 18,745 12,285 13,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.95% 37.24% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,400 8,196 9,048
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 320 231
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £21.59
% change year-on-year +72.23% -12.60% -20.04%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -38 285 £500 - 46
London -5 169 £533 +1.43% 17
Work from Home -23 138 £475 -5.00% 27
UK excluding London -71 138 £466 -1.95% 36
Midlands -43 41 £463 -2.63% 4
West Midlands -44 38 £466 -1.95% 3
North of England -61 37 £475 +18.75% 13
South East -48 23 £500 -6.98% 12
Scotland -13 19 £450 -10.00% 2
North East -23 18 £425 - 3
North West -51 13 £575 +43.75% 5
East of England -27 10 £500 -4.76%
Yorkshire -43 6 £638 +34.21% 5
South West -42 5 £350 -32.69% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
East Midlands -12 2 £392 -27.09% 1
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 44 (12.12%) Confluence
2 23 (6.34%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.41%) Apache
4 13 (3.58%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.20%) SAS
6 7 (1.93%) Jupyter
7 6 (1.65%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Trello
2 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 362 (99.72%) AWS
2 213 (58.68%) Amazon S3
3 212 (58.40%) Serverless
4 209 (57.58%) AWS Lambda
5 142 (39.12%) Amazon EC2
6 122 (33.61%) Amazon EKS
7 111 (30.58%) GitHub
8 107 (29.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 104 (28.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 84 (23.14%) Amazon ECS
11 80 (22.04%) GitHub Actions
12 73 (20.11%) Azure
13 48 (13.22%) AWS KMS
14 41 (11.29%) Amazon SQS
15 38 (10.47%) Datadog
16 36 (9.92%) Amazon Kinesis
17 34 (9.37%) Amazon EMR
17 34 (9.37%) AWS CloudTrail
18 31 (8.54%) AWS Step Functions
18 31 (8.54%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.34%) Firewall
2 14 (3.86%) Network Security
3 12 (3.31%) DNS
4 7 (1.93%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.65%) SNMP
5 6 (1.65%) SSL
6 5 (1.38%) CTI
6 5 (1.38%) HTTP
6 5 (1.38%) WAN
7 3 (0.83%) SMS
7 3 (0.83%) VPN
8 1 (0.28%) BGP
8 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
8 1 (0.28%) PSTN
8 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.28%) RTP
8 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (28.37%) Amazon RDS
2 76 (20.94%) DynamoDB
3 59 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (14.05%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (11.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (8.54%) MongoDB
8 22 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (6.06%) Power BI
9 20 (5.51%) Redis
10 15 (4.13%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.31%) MySQL
11 12 (3.31%) Tableau
12 11 (3.03%) Data Lake
13 10 (2.75%) Db2
13 10 (2.75%) DocumentDB
14 9 (2.48%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.20%) NoSQL
16 6 (1.65%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.65%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 128 (35.26%) Jenkins
2 125 (34.44%) GitLab
3 80 (22.04%) Git
4 62 (17.08%) JIRA
5 22 (6.06%) Bitbucket
6 20 (5.51%) JUnit
7 19 (5.23%) Mockito
8 14 (3.86%) Maven
9 11 (3.03%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.75%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.20%) DbUnit
11 8 (2.20%) Postman
11 8 (2.20%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.93%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.93%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (1.93%) jMock
13 6 (1.65%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.38%) Gatling
15 4 (1.10%) JMeter
15 4 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 89 (24.52%) Public Sector
3 38 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (10.47%) Finance
4 24 (6.61%) Banking
5 16 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.65%) Law
8 5 (1.38%) Back Office
9 4 (1.10%) Military
10 3 (0.83%) Front Office
10 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Legal
10 3 (0.83%) Publishing
10 3 (0.83%) Retail
11 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Billing
12 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (21.76%) AWS Engineer
2 60 (16.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 57 (15.70%) Senior
4 46 (12.67%) Developer
5 40 (11.02%) Architect
6 37 (10.19%) AWS DevOps
7 34 (9.37%) Data Engineer
8 31 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (8.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 30 (8.26%) Lead
10 21 (5.79%) AWS Architect
10 21 (5.79%) Scrum Master
11 19 (5.23%) Java Developer
11 19 (5.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (4.68%) Lead DevOps
12 17 (4.68%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.41%) Site Engineer
14 15 (4.13%) DBA
15 14 (3.86%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (61.98%) Terraform
2 48 (13.22%) RESTful
3 44 (12.12%) REST
3 44 (12.12%) Spring
4 42 (11.57%) Kafka
5 41 (11.29%) Node.js
6 40 (11.02%) Spring Boot
7 34 (9.37%) AWS CDK
8 23 (6.34%) PySpark
8 23 (6.34%) SOAP
9 16 (4.41%) Web Services
10 15 (4.13%) AngularJS
11 14 (3.86%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (3.58%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (3.31%) GraphQL
13 12 (3.31%) React
14 10 (2.75%) Hibernate
14 10 (2.75%) JPA
14 10 (2.75%) Playwright
14 10 (2.75%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 115 (31.68%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.19%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.37%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.96%) Replication
5 13 (3.58%) IVR
6 11 (3.03%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.75%) CMDB
8 9 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.20%) Mainframe
9 8 (2.20%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.20%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.65%) DataPower
11 6 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.65%) Online Banking
12 4 (1.10%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.83%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (14.88%) Linux
2 18 (4.96%) Windows
3 16 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.20%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.93%) zOS
6 6 (1.65%) Unix
7 4 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (76.58%) CI/CD
2 215 (59.23%) DevOps
3 209 (57.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (42.70%) Agile
5 119 (32.78%) Observability
6 101 (27.82%) Containerisation
7 85 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (22.04%) Test Automation
9 74 (20.39%) Microservices
10 73 (20.11%) Platform Engineering
11 63 (17.36%) AI
12 59 (16.25%) Root Cause Analysis
13 57 (15.70%) Scrum
14 53 (14.60%) Data Modelling
14 53 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
15 50 (13.77%) Performance Tuning
16 48 (13.22%) Migration
17 47 (12.95%) Event-Driven
17 47 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 46 (12.67%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 183 (50.41%) Python
2 89 (24.52%) SQL
3 76 (20.94%) Bash
3 76 (20.94%) Java
4 38 (10.47%) PowerShell
5 28 (7.71%) TypeScript
6 26 (7.16%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.41%) Scala
8 12 (3.31%) Groovy
9 11 (3.03%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.75%) C#
11 7 (1.93%) Perl
12 6 (1.65%) JCL
13 4 (1.10%) Bicep
13 4 (1.10%) Go
13 4 (1.10%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.55%) C
14 2 (0.55%) Korn
15 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 161 (44.35%) Security Cleared
2 142 (39.12%) SC Cleared
3 63 (17.36%) AWS Certification
4 28 (7.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 23 (6.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (4.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 14 (3.86%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.03%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.65%) Degree
11 4 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.10%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.55%) CISSP
13 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.28%) ISEB
14 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.47%) QA
2 33 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.75%) SLA
4 8 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.65%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.38%) WCAG
7 4 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.10%) GDPR
7 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.83%) NCSC
8 3 (0.83%) PMO
9 2 (0.55%) GRC
9 2 (0.55%) HL7
10 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.28%) NIST
10 1 (0.28%) SEPA
10 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 135 (37.19%) Docker
2 12 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.75%) IAG
4 8 (2.20%) Squid
5 6 (1.65%) Postfix
6 1 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.28%) QEMU
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 125 (34.44%) Kubernetes
2 119 (32.78%) Grafana
3 94 (25.90%) Prometheus
4 60 (16.53%) Ansible
5 10 (2.75%) Packer
5 10 (2.75%) Puppet
6 8 (2.20%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.38%) Argo
8 5 (1.38%) Istio
9 4 (1.10%) Suricata
10 3 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.83%) Kibana
11 2 (0.55%) Consul
11 2 (0.55%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.28%) Rancher
12 1 (0.28%) systemd
12 1 (0.28%) yum
Vendors
1 35 (9.64%) Dynatrace
2 24 (6.61%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.79%) Splunk
4 19 (5.23%) Informatica
5 12 (3.31%) Microsoft
6 11 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.75%) Nexthink
7 10 (2.75%) Oracle
8 9 (2.48%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (2.20%) Atlassian
9 8 (2.20%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.93%) Confluent
11 6 (1.65%) Cribl.io
11 6 (1.65%) Denodo
12 5 (1.38%) Databricks
12 5 (1.38%) Google
12 5 (1.38%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.10%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.10%) New Relic
13 4 (1.10%) Trend Micro