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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 358 425
Rank change year-on-year +14 +67 -17
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 299 175 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.60% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 1.58% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 133 135
10th Percentile £353 £365 £405
25th Percentile £401 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -1.24% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £591
90th Percentile £670 £735 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.10% -4.55% -4.35%
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 16,931 11,063 13,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.04% 37.69% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,508 7,699 9,928
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 251 346
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.02
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -40.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.71
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.08% -28.09%

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 28 April 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 15 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 28 April 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 -11 232 £500 -2.44% 56
London +13 147 £500 -1.96% 30
UK excluding London -45 109 £472 -10.10% 34
Work from Home -11 88 £472 -10.10% 29
West Midlands -39 34 £472 -5.60% 2
Midlands -46 34 £472 -0.63% 4
Scotland +10 24 £440 -16.19% 3
North of England -75 24 £509 -13.77% 11
South East -55 11 £392 -31.91% 8
North West -33 10 £475 +32.68% 8
Yorkshire -58 10 £509 -29.83% 1
East of England -24 8 £500 - 3
South West -31 8 £700 +19.15% 3
North East -22 4 £521 -16.05% 2
Wales - 1 £500 - 2

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 29 (9.70%) Confluence
2 21 (7.02%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.34%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.68%) Apache
5 4 (1.34%) CICS
5 4 (1.34%) SAS
5 4 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 296 (99.00%) AWS
2 190 (63.55%) Serverless
3 184 (61.54%) AWS Lambda
4 182 (60.87%) Amazon S3
5 116 (38.80%) Amazon EC2
6 107 (35.79%) GitHub
7 106 (35.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 105 (35.12%) Amazon ECS
9 89 (29.77%) Amazon EKS
10 86 (28.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 83 (27.76%) GitHub Actions
12 61 (20.40%) Azure
13 45 (15.05%) Amazon SQS
14 36 (12.04%) AWS CodePipeline
15 33 (11.04%) AWS KMS
16 32 (10.70%) Route 53
17 29 (9.70%) Amazon Kinesis
18 27 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
19 22 (7.36%) Datadog
20 20 (6.69%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.36%) DNS
2 15 (5.02%) Firewall
3 7 (2.34%) HTTP
4 5 (1.67%) VPN
5 4 (1.34%) SNMP
6 3 (1.00%) Network Security
6 3 (1.00%) WAN
7 2 (0.67%) BGP
7 2 (0.67%) OSPF
7 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.67%) SSL
7 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.33%) CTI
8 1 (0.33%) DHCP
8 1 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (29.10%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (26.76%) DynamoDB
3 42 (14.05%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (11.37%) Amazon Athena
4 34 (11.37%) Amazon Aurora
5 28 (9.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (6.35%) Tableau
7 15 (5.02%) Power BI
8 14 (4.68%) MongoDB
9 13 (4.35%) MySQL
10 12 (4.01%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.68%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.68%) DB2
12 8 (2.68%) Redis
12 8 (2.68%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.34%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (2.34%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (2.01%) Big Data
15 5 (1.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (33.78%) Jenkins
2 96 (32.11%) GitLab
3 57 (19.06%) Git
4 36 (12.04%) JIRA
5 19 (6.35%) JUnit
6 18 (6.02%) Maven
7 17 (5.69%) Mockito
8 16 (5.35%) SonarQube
9 13 (4.35%) Bitbucket
10 11 (3.68%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.68%) jMock
11 9 (3.01%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.67%) MLflow
12 5 (1.67%) Postman
13 4 (1.34%) Gradle
13 4 (1.34%) Jaeger
13 4 (1.34%) NUnit
13 4 (1.34%) Terragrunt
14 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
14 3 (1.00%) Mocha
General
1 82 (27.42%) Public Sector
2 72 (24.08%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.71%) Finance
4 32 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (3.68%) Banking
7 9 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.00%) Police
9 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.67%) Military
9 2 (0.67%) Retail
10 1 (0.33%) Billing
10 1 (0.33%) Front Office
10 1 (0.33%) Games
10 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.33%) Law
10 1 (0.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 69 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (16.39%) Developer
4 39 (13.04%) Architect
5 37 (12.37%) Senior
6 33 (11.04%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (9.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.03%) Java Developer
9 23 (7.69%) Data Engineer
10 19 (6.35%) AWS Architect
10 19 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (6.02%) Lead
12 14 (4.68%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.35%) Analyst
14 12 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.01%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (4.01%) Python Engineer
14 12 (4.01%) Technical Manager
15 11 (3.68%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (16.72%) Node.js
2 41 (13.71%) Kafka
2 41 (13.71%) REST
3 38 (12.71%) AWS CDK
4 36 (12.04%) Spring Boot
5 35 (11.71%) Spring
6 33 (11.04%) RESTful
7 28 (9.36%) OAuth
8 23 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (7.02%) OpenTelemetry
9 21 (7.02%) SOAP
9 21 (7.02%) Web Services
10 20 (6.69%) JWT
11 19 (6.35%) AngularJS
12 18 (6.02%) Hibernate
12 18 (6.02%) JPA
12 18 (6.02%) Spring Cloud
13 15 (5.02%) React
14 14 (4.68%) Spring Batch
14 14 (4.68%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 79 (26.42%) Cloud Native
2 50 (16.72%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.01%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.01%) Mainframe
4 9 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.68%) NHS
5 8 (2.68%) Replication
6 7 (2.34%) DataPower
6 7 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.34%) IVR
7 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.34%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.34%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.34%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.34%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 58 (19.40%) Linux
2 13 (4.35%) Windows
3 7 (2.34%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (2.34%) Unix
4 6 (2.01%) zOS
5 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.33%) Debian
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (70.57%) CI/CD
2 164 (54.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 152 (50.84%) DevOps
4 109 (36.45%) Agile
5 100 (33.44%) Observability
6 98 (32.78%) Containerisation
7 79 (26.42%) Microservices
8 73 (24.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (19.06%) Test Automation
10 52 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
11 49 (16.39%) Analytics
11 49 (16.39%) Migration
12 47 (15.72%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (15.72%) Scrum
13 38 (12.71%) Event-Driven
14 37 (12.37%) ETL
15 34 (11.37%) Data Modelling
15 34 (11.37%) Data Pipeline
16 32 (10.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 148 (49.50%) Python
2 72 (24.08%) SQL
3 61 (20.40%) Java
4 48 (16.05%) Bash
5 24 (8.03%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.36%) Shell Script
8 17 (5.69%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.68%) Go
10 9 (3.01%) Scala
11 8 (2.68%) C#
12 5 (1.67%) Bicep
12 5 (1.67%) Groovy
12 5 (1.67%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.34%) JCL
14 3 (1.00%) Perl
15 2 (0.67%) C
15 2 (0.67%) Korn
15 2 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 138 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 119 (39.80%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.37%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (3.01%) Degree
7 8 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (2.01%) SAFe Agilist
10 5 (1.67%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.34%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.69%) QA
2 18 (6.02%) PCI DSS
3 15 (5.02%) Data Quality
3 15 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.68%) GDPR
5 10 (3.34%) NIST
6 9 (3.01%) PMO
7 7 (2.34%) SLA
8 6 (2.01%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.67%) GRC
10 4 (1.34%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.34%) ISO 20022
11 3 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (1.00%) NCSC
12 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.67%) WCAG
13 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 138 (46.15%) Docker
2 10 (3.34%) Postfix
3 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.33%) IAG
4 1 (0.33%) KVM
4 1 (0.33%) QEMU
4 1 (0.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 191 (63.88%) Terraform
2 103 (34.45%) Grafana
3 93 (31.10%) Kubernetes
4 83 (27.76%) Prometheus
5 31 (10.37%) Ansible
6 8 (2.68%) Istio
7 6 (2.01%) Argo
7 6 (2.01%) Kibana
7 6 (2.01%) Packer
8 5 (1.67%) Puppet
9 4 (1.34%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.00%) Karpenter
10 3 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.00%) Rancher
10 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.67%) linkerd
11 2 (0.67%) logstash
11 2 (0.67%) Nagios
11 2 (0.67%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 27 (9.03%) Splunk
2 18 (6.02%) ServiceNow
3 14 (4.68%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (4.68%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.68%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.68%) Databricks
7 6 (2.01%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.01%) Cisco
7 6 (2.01%) New Relic
8 5 (1.67%) Avaya
8 5 (1.67%) Confluent
8 5 (1.67%) Cribl.io
8 5 (1.67%) Genesys
8 5 (1.67%) IBM
8 5 (1.67%) Informatica
9 4 (1.34%) Dell
9 4 (1.34%) Denodo
9 4 (1.34%) Oracle
9 4 (1.34%) Salesforce