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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 341 411
Rank change year-on-year -10 +70 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 353 218 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.66% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 1.77% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 154 110
10th Percentile £353 £358 £405
25th Percentile £413 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £622
90th Percentile £650 £634 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £475 £522
% change year-on-year -3.37% -9.00% -9.22%
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 18,656 12,322 13,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.33% 37.39% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,322 8,252 9,412
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 317 296
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.13 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.02 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +96.18% -10.14% -20.75%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -9 282 £488 -2.50% 65
London +28 171 £513 +0.99% 31
UK excluding London -41 141 £459 -3.37% 41
Work from Home -2 135 £463 -7.50% 36
Midlands -33 51 £469 -1.26% 7
West Midlands -32 49 £472 -0.63% 7
North of England -69 29 £438 +9.38% 16
Scotland +9 25 £440 -12.00% 1
South East -60 17 £393 -31.65% 8
North East -30 12 £413 - 9
East of England -19 10 £500 - 3
North West -50 10 £550 +37.50% 4
Yorkshire -50 7 £550 +25.71% 3
South West -37 6 £444 -14.66% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
East Midlands -13 1 £425 -20.86%
Wales - 1 £550 - 1

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 49 (13.88%) Confluence
2 25 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.53%) Apache
4 13 (3.68%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.98%) SAS
6 6 (1.70%) CICS
6 6 (1.70%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.13%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.57%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.85%) Trello
3 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 352 (99.72%) AWS
2 225 (63.74%) Amazon S3
3 208 (58.92%) Serverless
4 205 (58.07%) AWS Lambda
5 157 (44.48%) Amazon EC2
6 112 (31.73%) Amazon EKS
7 110 (31.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 108 (30.59%) GitHub
9 106 (30.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 91 (25.78%) Amazon ECS
11 80 (22.66%) GitHub Actions
12 68 (19.26%) Azure
13 53 (15.01%) AWS KMS
14 48 (13.60%) Amazon SQS
15 36 (10.20%) Route 53
16 34 (9.63%) Amazon EMR
16 34 (9.63%) AWS CloudTrail
17 33 (9.35%) Datadog
18 30 (8.50%) Amazon Kinesis
19 29 (8.22%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.38%) Firewall
2 13 (3.68%) Network Security
3 10 (2.83%) DNS
4 7 (1.98%) HTTP
5 6 (1.70%) SNMP
5 6 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.42%) CTI
6 5 (1.42%) WAN
7 4 (1.13%) SSL
8 3 (0.85%) VPN
9 1 (0.28%) BGP
9 1 (0.28%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) PSTN
9 1 (0.28%) RTP
9 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (28.61%) Amazon RDS
2 83 (23.51%) DynamoDB
3 52 (14.73%) Amazon Athena
4 51 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (10.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 35 (9.92%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (7.37%) Power BI
8 21 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (5.38%) MongoDB
10 17 (4.82%) Tableau
11 11 (3.12%) Redis
12 10 (2.83%) Data Lake
12 10 (2.83%) Db2
12 10 (2.83%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.55%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (1.98%) Metadata
14 7 (1.98%) NoSQL
15 6 (1.70%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.70%) Pentaho
16 5 (1.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 122 (34.56%) Jenkins
2 109 (30.88%) GitLab
3 87 (24.65%) Git
4 66 (18.70%) JIRA
5 26 (7.37%) JUnit
6 25 (7.08%) Bitbucket
6 25 (7.08%) Mockito
7 22 (6.23%) Maven
8 20 (5.67%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.97%) DbUnit
10 13 (3.68%) jMock
11 11 (3.12%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.27%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.27%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.98%) Postman
14 6 (1.70%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.42%) Gatling
15 5 (1.42%) MLflow
16 4 (1.13%) Gradle
16 4 (1.13%) Jaeger
General
1 98 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 88 (24.93%) Public Sector
3 42 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.48%) Finance
5 21 (5.95%) Banking
6 12 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.98%) Law
9 4 (1.13%) Back Office
10 3 (0.85%) Front Office
10 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Legal
10 3 (0.85%) Military
10 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.57%) Police
11 2 (0.57%) Publishing
11 2 (0.57%) Retail
12 1 (0.28%) Games
Job Titles
1 84 (23.80%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (15.01%) Senior
3 52 (14.73%) Developer
4 48 (13.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (10.76%) Architect
6 36 (10.20%) Data Engineer
7 34 (9.63%) AWS DevOps
8 31 (8.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 28 (7.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 27 (7.65%) Lead
11 25 (7.08%) Java Developer
12 20 (5.67%) AWS Architect
12 20 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (5.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 19 (5.38%) Scrum Master
14 17 (4.82%) Site Engineer
15 16 (4.53%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (4.53%) Senior Developer
16 15 (4.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 14 (3.97%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.88%) RESTful
2 46 (13.03%) REST
3 42 (11.90%) Kafka
3 42 (11.90%) Spring
4 41 (11.61%) Node.js
5 39 (11.05%) Spring Boot
6 36 (10.20%) AWS CDK
7 31 (8.78%) SOAP
8 27 (7.65%) Web Services
9 24 (6.80%) PySpark
10 20 (5.67%) ActiveMQ
10 20 (5.67%) AngularJS
11 18 (5.10%) Hibernate
11 18 (5.10%) JPA
11 18 (5.10%) Spring Batch
11 18 (5.10%) Spring Integration
12 17 (4.82%) OpenTelemetry
13 16 (4.53%) Spring Cloud
14 15 (4.25%) OAuth
15 13 (3.68%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 108 (30.59%) Cloud Native
2 45 (12.75%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (9.07%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.40%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.55%) Replication
5 9 (2.55%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.98%) CMDB
7 7 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.98%) IVR
7 7 (1.98%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.70%) DataPower
8 6 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.70%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.71%) Linux
2 23 (6.52%) Windows
3 15 (4.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.27%) zOS
5 6 (1.70%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.42%) Unix
7 4 (1.13%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.13%) 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
1 263 (74.50%) CI/CD
2 195 (55.24%) DevOps
3 186 (52.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (43.91%) Agile
5 114 (32.29%) Observability
6 108 (30.59%) Containerisation
7 82 (23.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 78 (22.10%) Microservices
9 74 (20.96%) Platform Engineering
10 70 (19.83%) Test Automation
11 63 (17.85%) Scrum
12 57 (16.15%) AI
13 56 (15.86%) Migration
14 52 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (13.31%) Data Pipeline
16 46 (13.03%) Analytics
17 45 (12.75%) Data Modelling
17 45 (12.75%) Event-Driven
18 43 (12.18%) Machine Learning
19 42 (11.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 180 (50.99%) Python
2 90 (25.50%) SQL
3 75 (21.25%) Bash
4 69 (19.55%) Java
5 36 (10.20%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.37%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.95%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.40%) Scala
9 11 (3.12%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.55%) Groovy
11 7 (1.98%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.70%) Go
12 6 (1.70%) JCL
13 5 (1.42%) Bicep
13 5 (1.42%) Perl
14 4 (1.13%) C#
15 2 (0.57%) C
15 2 (0.57%) Korn
15 2 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 162 (45.89%) Security Cleared
2 146 (41.36%) SC Cleared
3 48 (13.60%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (4.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (4.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (3.12%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.12%) SAFe Agilist
7 10 (2.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.70%) Degree
8 6 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.28%) PMP
12 1 (0.28%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.07%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.93%) QA
3 9 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.27%) SLA
5 7 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.70%) GDPR
6 6 (1.70%) PMO
7 5 (1.42%) GRC
8 4 (1.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.85%) NCSC
9 3 (0.85%) WCAG
10 2 (0.57%) NIST
11 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.28%) HL7
11 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 130 (36.83%) Docker
2 11 (3.12%) Postfix
3 8 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.27%) Squid
4 7 (1.98%) IAG
5 1 (0.28%) KVM
5 1 (0.28%) QEMU
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 207 (58.64%) Terraform
2 124 (35.13%) Grafana
3 113 (32.01%) Kubernetes
4 95 (26.91%) Prometheus
5 46 (13.03%) Ansible
6 11 (3.12%) Istio
7 10 (2.83%) Puppet
8 8 (2.27%) Packer
9 6 (1.70%) Argo
10 4 (1.13%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.13%) Suricata
11 3 (0.85%) Rancher
12 2 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.57%) Kibana
12 2 (0.57%) linkerd
12 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.28%) Control-M
13 1 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.28%) Podman
13 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (7.37%) Dynatrace
1 26 (7.37%) ServiceNow
2 21 (5.95%) Splunk
3 19 (5.38%) Informatica
4 17 (4.82%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (3.97%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.12%) Microsoft
7 9 (2.55%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.27%) Oracle
9 7 (1.98%) Cribl.io
9 7 (1.98%) Databricks
9 7 (1.98%) Nexthink
10 6 (1.70%) Confluent
10 6 (1.70%) Denodo
10 6 (1.70%) New Relic
11 5 (1.42%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.13%) Trend Micro
13 3 (0.85%) Sybase
14 2 (0.57%) Google
14 2 (0.57%) Salesforce