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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 351 411
Rank change year-on-year +13 +60 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 348 211 179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.65% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 1.74% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 149 127
10th Percentile £351 £358 £405
25th Percentile £413 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £611
90th Percentile £638 £602 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £483 £528
% change year-on-year -5.28% -8.62% -8.17%
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 18,579 12,154 14,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.45% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,330 8,142 9,946
10th Percentile £328 £313 £308
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 310 353
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.24 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -21.50%

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 15 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 15 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 -6 276 £477 -4.60% 115
London +29 173 £513 +1.49% 25
UK excluding London -57 133 £457 -5.28% 114
Work from Home -18 131 £463 -7.50% 105
Midlands -37 49 £469 -1.26% 20
West Midlands -45 47 £472 -0.63% 13
Scotland +3 25 £440 -12.00% 10
North of England -73 22 £425 +6.25% 28
South East -52 17 £393 -31.65% 22
East of England -19 10 £500 -9.09% 16
North East -32 9 £413 - 10
North West -48 7 £470 +25.50% 10
South West -31 6 £444 -15.07% 13
Yorkshire -57 6 £463 -2.63% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 6
Wales - 2 £525 - 3
East Midlands -14 1 £425 -20.86% 7

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 (14.08%) Confluence
2 24 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.02%) Apache
4 11 (3.16%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.01%) SAS
6 6 (1.72%) CICS
7 5 (1.44%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.15%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.57%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.29%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 347 (99.71%) AWS
2 224 (64.37%) Amazon S3
3 204 (58.62%) Serverless
4 200 (57.47%) AWS Lambda
5 158 (45.40%) Amazon EC2
6 110 (31.61%) Amazon EKS
6 110 (31.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 109 (31.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 107 (30.75%) GitHub
9 88 (25.29%) Amazon ECS
10 79 (22.70%) GitHub Actions
11 63 (18.10%) Azure
12 49 (14.08%) AWS KMS
13 47 (13.51%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (11.78%) Route 53
15 33 (9.48%) Datadog
16 32 (9.20%) Amazon EMR
16 32 (9.20%) AWS CloudTrail
17 30 (8.62%) AWS CodePipeline
18 29 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.75%) Firewall
2 13 (3.74%) Network Security
3 12 (3.45%) DNS
4 7 (2.01%) HTTP
4 7 (2.01%) WAN
5 6 (1.72%) SNMP
5 6 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.44%) CTI
6 5 (1.44%) VPN
7 4 (1.15%) SSL
8 3 (0.86%) BGP
9 2 (0.57%) OSPF
9 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.29%) Internet
10 1 (0.29%) PSTN
10 1 (0.29%) RTP
10 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (29.31%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (22.99%) DynamoDB
3 51 (14.66%) Amazon Athena
4 48 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (11.21%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (9.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (7.18%) Power BI
8 19 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (4.89%) MongoDB
9 17 (4.89%) Tableau
10 11 (3.16%) Redis
11 10 (2.87%) Db2
11 10 (2.87%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.59%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (2.30%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.01%) Metadata
15 6 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.72%) Pentaho
16 4 (1.15%) NoSQL
16 4 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 127 (36.49%) Jenkins
2 109 (31.32%) GitLab
3 86 (24.71%) Git
4 65 (18.68%) JIRA
5 24 (6.90%) JUnit
6 23 (6.61%) Bitbucket
6 23 (6.61%) Mockito
7 22 (6.32%) Maven
8 20 (5.75%) SonarQube
9 14 (4.02%) DbUnit
10 13 (3.74%) jMock
11 11 (3.16%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (2.59%) Cucumber
13 8 (2.30%) Artifactory
13 8 (2.30%) Postman
14 6 (1.72%) Gatling
14 6 (1.72%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.44%) MLflow
16 4 (1.15%) Gradle
16 4 (1.15%) Jaeger
General
1 96 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 86 (24.71%) Public Sector
3 40 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.06%) Finance
5 19 (5.46%) Banking
6 11 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.01%) Law
10 3 (0.86%) Back Office
10 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.86%) Legal
10 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Front Office
11 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.57%) Military
11 2 (0.57%) Police
11 2 (0.57%) Publishing
11 2 (0.57%) Retail
12 1 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 82 (23.56%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (15.23%) Developer
3 52 (14.94%) Senior
4 48 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (10.63%) Architect
6 34 (9.77%) AWS DevOps
6 34 (9.77%) Data Engineer
7 30 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (8.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 28 (8.05%) Lead
9 24 (6.90%) Java Developer
10 20 (5.75%) AWS Architect
10 20 (5.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 19 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.89%) Scrum Master
12 17 (4.89%) Site Engineer
13 16 (4.60%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (4.60%) Senior Developer
14 14 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.02%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.22%) RESTful
2 43 (12.36%) REST
3 42 (12.07%) Node.js
4 39 (11.21%) AWS CDK
5 37 (10.63%) Kafka
5 37 (10.63%) Spring
6 36 (10.34%) Spring Boot
7 32 (9.20%) SOAP
8 27 (7.76%) Web Services
9 23 (6.61%) PySpark
10 20 (5.75%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (5.46%) AngularJS
12 18 (5.17%) Hibernate
12 18 (5.17%) JPA
12 18 (5.17%) Spring Batch
12 18 (5.17%) Spring Integration
13 16 (4.60%) OpenTelemetry
13 16 (4.60%) Spring Cloud
14 15 (4.31%) OAuth
15 14 (4.02%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 102 (29.31%) Cloud Native
2 42 (12.07%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.59%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.59%) Replication
6 8 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.30%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.01%) IVR
7 7 (2.01%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.72%) CMDB
8 6 (1.72%) DataPower
8 6 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.72%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.86%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (17.53%) Linux
2 23 (6.61%) Windows
3 14 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.30%) zOS
5 6 (1.72%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.15%) Unix
6 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (74.71%) CI/CD
2 195 (56.03%) DevOps
3 184 (52.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (42.24%) Agile
5 110 (31.61%) Containerisation
6 106 (30.46%) Observability
7 78 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 75 (21.55%) Microservices
9 71 (20.40%) Platform Engineering
10 67 (19.25%) Test Automation
11 59 (16.95%) Scrum
12 54 (15.52%) Migration
13 52 (14.94%) AI
14 48 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (12.93%) Analytics
16 42 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
16 42 (12.07%) Event-Driven
16 42 (12.07%) Performance Tuning
17 41 (11.78%) Machine Learning
17 41 (11.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 178 (51.15%) Python
2 86 (24.71%) SQL
3 72 (20.69%) Bash
4 64 (18.39%) Java
5 36 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.18%) TypeScript
7 22 (6.32%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.45%) Scala
8 12 (3.45%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.59%) Groovy
10 8 (2.30%) Go
11 6 (1.72%) JCL
12 5 (1.44%) C#
12 5 (1.44%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.44%) Perl
13 4 (1.15%) Bicep
14 2 (0.57%) C
14 2 (0.57%) Korn
14 2 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.29%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 155 (44.54%) Security Cleared
2 140 (40.23%) SC Cleared
3 49 (14.08%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (4.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.16%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (2.87%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.01%) Degree
10 7 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.29%) PMP
13 1 (0.29%) RHCE
13 1 (0.29%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.90%) QA
3 8 (2.30%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.30%) SLA
4 6 (1.72%) GDPR
4 6 (1.72%) PMO
5 5 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.44%) GRC
6 4 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.15%) NCSC
7 3 (0.86%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.57%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) HL7
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 131 (37.64%) Docker
2 11 (3.16%) Postfix
3 8 (2.30%) Squid
4 7 (2.01%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.72%) IAG
6 1 (0.29%) KVM
6 1 (0.29%) QEMU
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 208 (59.77%) Terraform
2 122 (35.06%) Grafana
3 108 (31.03%) Kubernetes
4 94 (27.01%) Prometheus
5 44 (12.64%) Ansible
6 10 (2.87%) Puppet
7 9 (2.59%) Istio
8 8 (2.30%) Packer
9 4 (1.15%) Argo
9 4 (1.15%) Suricata
10 3 (0.86%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.86%) Rancher
11 2 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.57%) linkerd
11 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.29%) Consul
12 1 (0.29%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.29%) Kibana
12 1 (0.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (7.18%) ServiceNow
2 24 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 21 (6.03%) Splunk
4 17 (4.89%) Informatica
4 17 (4.89%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (4.02%) Atlassian
6 9 (2.59%) Microsoft
7 8 (2.30%) Databricks
7 8 (2.30%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.01%) Cribl.io
8 7 (2.01%) New Relic
8 7 (2.01%) Oracle
9 6 (1.72%) AVEVA
9 6 (1.72%) Denodo
9 6 (1.72%) Nexthink
10 5 (1.44%) Confluent
10 5 (1.44%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.15%) Trend Micro
12 3 (0.86%) Sybase
13 2 (0.57%) SAP