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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 367 423
Rank change year-on-year +65 +56 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 314 167 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 0.52% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.25% 1.44% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 125 139
10th Percentile £385 £410 £425
25th Percentile £418 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -13.39%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £543
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.92% -11.35%

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 13,956 11,603 14,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.12% 36.37% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,594 7,712 10,520
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% -1.30% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 169 254
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.35 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%
75th Percentile £56.69 £43.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £79.63 £65.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £20.77
% change year-on-year +7.35% +16.42% +6.51%

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 January 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 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 January 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 +39 232 £525 -0.19% 73
London +35 131 £525 -0.24% 21
UK excluding London +10 120 £525 +5.00% 59
Work from Home +21 94 £555 +6.73% 51
North of England -17 52 £518 -12.29% 15
Midlands -25 25 £475 +11.76% 4
Yorkshire -33 23 £518 -28.62% 7
West Midlands -18 22 £475 +11.76% 3
North West -21 21 £430 -13.09% 7
Scotland +6 17 £525 +6.28% 1
South West -7 11 £700 +27.27% 9
East of England - 9 £550 - 9
North East -4 8 £575 -2.54% 1
South East -19 7 £650 - 17
East Midlands -21 3 £375 -11.14%
Wales +1 2 - - 3

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 31 (9.87%) Confluence
2 10 (3.18%) nginx
3 7 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.59%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 309 (98.41%) AWS
2 199 (63.38%) Amazon S3
3 192 (61.15%) Serverless
4 187 (59.55%) AWS Lambda
5 139 (44.27%) Amazon EC2
6 119 (37.90%) Amazon ECS
7 114 (36.31%) GitHub
8 103 (32.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 94 (29.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 94 (29.94%) GitHub Actions
10 88 (28.03%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (17.83%) Azure
12 42 (13.38%) Amazon ELB
13 41 (13.06%) Route 53
14 35 (11.15%) AWS Fargate
15 31 (9.87%) Datadog
16 30 (9.55%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (7.01%) AWS Step Functions
18 21 (6.69%) AWS CloudTrail
19 20 (6.37%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 55 (17.52%) DNS
2 53 (16.88%) Firewall
3 28 (8.92%) VPN
4 22 (7.01%) SSL
4 22 (7.01%) TCP/IP
5 20 (6.37%) HTTP
6 16 (5.10%) FTP
6 16 (5.10%) Network Security
6 16 (5.10%) SMTP
6 16 (5.10%) SSH
7 15 (4.78%) OpenLDAP
8 10 (3.18%) IMAP
9 1 (0.32%) DHCP
9 1 (0.32%) LAN
9 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (32.80%) Amazon RDS
2 63 (20.06%) DynamoDB
3 36 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (9.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 28 (8.92%) MySQL
6 20 (6.37%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (5.73%) Relational Database
8 17 (5.41%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.82%) MongoDB
9 12 (3.82%) Redis
10 11 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (3.50%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.59%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.27%) Big Data
12 4 (1.27%) DB2
12 4 (1.27%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 140 (44.59%) Jenkins
2 129 (41.08%) GitLab
3 89 (28.34%) Git
4 33 (10.51%) JIRA
5 16 (5.10%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.82%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.55%) Maven
8 5 (1.59%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.59%) Gradle
8 5 (1.59%) JUnit
8 5 (1.59%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.27%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.27%) NUnit
9 4 (1.27%) Postman
9 4 (1.27%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.96%) Mocha
11 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.64%) Hamcrest
11 2 (0.64%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.64%) Selenium
General
1 78 (24.84%) Public Sector
2 62 (19.75%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.01%) Finance
4 14 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.87%) Banking
7 6 (1.91%) Military
8 4 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.96%) Front Office
9 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.64%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Games
11 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 110 (35.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 86 (27.39%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (18.79%) AWS DevOps
4 55 (17.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 47 (14.97%) Senior
6 42 (13.38%) Architect
7 33 (10.51%) Platform Engineer
8 30 (9.55%) Developer
9 29 (9.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (7.32%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 20 (6.37%) Senior DevOps
12 19 (6.05%) Lead
12 19 (6.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 16 (5.10%) AWS Architect
14 14 (4.46%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (3.50%) Consultant
15 11 (3.50%) Python Engineer
15 11 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (3.18%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.38%) Kafka
2 39 (12.42%) Node.js
3 35 (11.15%) Elastic Stack
4 32 (10.19%) REST
5 23 (7.32%) React
6 22 (7.01%) AWS CDK
6 22 (7.01%) JWT
6 22 (7.01%) OAuth
7 18 (5.73%) RESTful
7 18 (5.73%) Spring Boot
8 17 (5.41%) LDAP
9 14 (4.46%) boto
10 13 (4.14%) Spring
11 11 (3.50%) pytest
12 10 (3.18%) .NET
12 10 (3.18%) FastAPI
13 9 (2.87%) Lambda Expressions
13 9 (2.87%) OAuth2
14 8 (2.55%) AngularJS
15 7 (2.23%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.24%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.24%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.37%) Replication
4 10 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.87%) NHS
6 8 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.91%) IVR
7 6 (1.91%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.59%) DataPower
8 5 (1.59%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.27%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.27%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (19.43%) Linux
2 20 (6.37%) Windows
3 19 (6.05%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (5.41%) VMS
5 11 (3.50%) Unix
6 10 (3.18%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.32%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (69.43%) CI/CD
2 196 (62.42%) DevOps
3 184 (58.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (30.89%) Containerisation
5 89 (28.34%) Observability
6 78 (24.84%) Agile
7 76 (24.20%) Microservices
8 48 (15.29%) Migration
8 48 (15.29%) Platform Engineering
9 46 (14.65%) Event-Driven
10 45 (14.33%) Incident Response
10 45 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (14.01%) High Availability
11 44 (14.01%) Performance Tuning
12 42 (13.38%) Infrastructure Automation
13 38 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (11.78%) Cloud Security
14 37 (11.78%) Cost Optimisation
14 37 (11.78%) Test Automation
15 36 (11.46%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (58.92%) Python
2 77 (24.52%) Bash
3 51 (16.24%) Java
4 43 (13.69%) SQL
5 31 (9.87%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.32%) Shell Script
6 23 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.73%) Groovy
8 17 (5.41%) Go
8 17 (5.41%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.55%) Perl
10 7 (2.23%) C#
11 3 (0.96%) Korn
11 3 (0.96%) PHP
12 2 (0.64%) Bicep
12 2 (0.64%) Scala
13 1 (0.32%) C
13 1 (0.32%) PromQL
13 1 (0.32%) R
13 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (39.17%) Security Cleared
2 100 (31.85%) SC Cleared
3 42 (13.38%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.41%) Degree
5 16 (5.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (3.82%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.23%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.92%) QA
2 18 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (5.41%) GDPR
4 14 (4.46%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.23%) HIPAA
5 7 (2.23%) NIST
6 6 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.27%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.96%) NCSC
8 3 (0.96%) PMO
9 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.64%) SLA
9 2 (0.64%) WCAG
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 164 (52.23%) Docker
2 16 (5.10%) DFS Replication
3 15 (4.78%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.18%) Dovecot
4 10 (3.18%) Postfix
4 10 (3.18%) Squid
5 2 (0.64%) Snort
6 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 232 (73.89%) Terraform
2 128 (40.76%) Kubernetes
3 99 (31.53%) Grafana
4 90 (28.66%) Prometheus
5 59 (18.79%) Ansible
6 10 (3.18%) Nessus
6 10 (3.18%) Proxmox
7 9 (2.87%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.55%) Argo
8 8 (2.55%) Kibana
8 8 (2.55%) Puppet
9 7 (2.23%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (1.59%) Dell DRAC
11 4 (1.27%) Packer
12 3 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.96%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.64%) logstash
13 2 (0.64%) Nagios
13 2 (0.64%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (8.28%) Splunk
2 25 (7.96%) F5
3 23 (7.32%) CheckPoint
3 23 (7.32%) Palo Alto
4 22 (7.01%) Dynatrace
5 21 (6.69%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.78%) Microsoft
7 10 (3.18%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (2.23%) Cisco
8 7 (2.23%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.91%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.91%) IBM
10 5 (1.59%) Avaya
10 5 (1.59%) Dell
10 5 (1.59%) Genesys
10 5 (1.59%) Gigya
10 5 (1.59%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.27%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.27%) Confluent
11 4 (1.27%) Databricks