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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 354 408
Rank change year-on-year -1 +54 +1
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 291 175 176
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.59% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.57% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 133 138
10th Percentile £350 £365 £405
25th Percentile £400 £440 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -1.24% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £599
90th Percentile £675 £735 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -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 16,867 11,134 14,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.17% 37.72% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,484 7,745 10,000
10th Percentile £319 £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 £704 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 252 349
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.36 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.64 £27.43 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.83% +30.60% -38.95%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.01% -27.13%

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 25 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 25 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 -18 226 £500 -2.44% 35
London +7 145 £500 -1.96% 17
UK excluding London -44 103 £475 -9.52% 20
Work from Home -6 86 £472 -10.10% 31
West Midlands -40 30 £475 -5.00% 1
Midlands -42 30 £475 - 2
North of England -70 23 £518 -12.29% 7
Scotland +17 22 £440 -16.19% 1
Yorkshire -56 10 £509 -29.83% 1
South East -58 10 £390 -32.17% 4
South West -35 9 £700 +19.15% 2
North West -40 9 £550 +53.63% 4
East of England -32 8 £500 - 4
North East -21 4 £521 -16.05% 2
Wales - 1 £500 -

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 24 (8.25%) Confluence
2 21 (7.22%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.44%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.75%) Apache
5 4 (1.37%) CICS
5 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.69%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 288 (98.97%) AWS
2 184 (63.23%) Serverless
3 178 (61.17%) AWS Lambda
4 177 (60.82%) Amazon S3
5 114 (39.18%) Amazon EC2
6 104 (35.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 103 (35.40%) GitHub
8 102 (35.05%) Amazon ECS
9 85 (29.21%) Amazon EKS
10 84 (28.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 80 (27.49%) GitHub Actions
12 61 (20.96%) Azure
13 43 (14.78%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (11.68%) AWS CodePipeline
15 33 (11.34%) AWS KMS
16 32 (11.00%) Route 53
17 27 (9.28%) Amazon Kinesis
17 27 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
18 22 (7.56%) Datadog
19 20 (6.87%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.56%) DNS
2 15 (5.15%) Firewall
3 7 (2.41%) HTTP
4 5 (1.72%) VPN
5 4 (1.37%) SNMP
6 3 (1.03%) Network Security
6 3 (1.03%) WAN
7 2 (0.69%) BGP
7 2 (0.69%) OSPF
7 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.69%) SSL
7 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.34%) CTI
8 1 (0.34%) DHCP
8 1 (0.34%) LAN
8 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (29.21%) Amazon RDS
2 77 (26.46%) DynamoDB
3 42 (14.43%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (11.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 32 (11.00%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (8.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (6.53%) Tableau
8 15 (5.15%) MongoDB
9 13 (4.47%) MySQL
9 13 (4.47%) Power BI
10 12 (4.12%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.78%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.75%) DB2
12 8 (2.75%) Redis
12 8 (2.75%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.06%) Big Data
14 5 (1.72%) Data Vault
14 5 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.72%) Metadata
14 5 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 91 (31.27%) GitLab
3 57 (19.59%) Git
4 31 (10.65%) JIRA
5 19 (6.53%) JUnit
6 18 (6.19%) Maven
7 17 (5.84%) Mockito
8 16 (5.50%) SonarQube
9 11 (3.78%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.78%) DbUnit
9 11 (3.78%) jMock
10 9 (3.09%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.72%) MLflow
11 5 (1.72%) Postman
12 4 (1.37%) Gradle
12 4 (1.37%) Jaeger
12 4 (1.37%) NUnit
12 4 (1.37%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.03%) Mocha
General
1 81 (27.84%) Public Sector
2 70 (24.05%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.68%) Finance
4 32 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (3.78%) Banking
7 9 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.03%) Police
9 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.69%) Military
10 1 (0.34%) Billing
10 1 (0.34%) Front Office
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (22.68%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (17.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (16.84%) Developer
4 39 (13.40%) Architect
5 35 (12.03%) Senior
6 32 (11.00%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (9.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.25%) Java Developer
9 21 (7.22%) Data Engineer
10 19 (6.53%) AWS Architect
11 18 (6.19%) Lead
11 18 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.81%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.47%) Analyst
14 12 (4.12%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (4.12%) Technical Manager
15 11 (3.78%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (3.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 10 (3.44%) Python Engineer
16 10 (3.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.18%) Node.js
2 41 (14.09%) Kafka
2 41 (14.09%) REST
3 36 (12.37%) AWS CDK
3 36 (12.37%) Spring Boot
4 35 (12.03%) Spring
5 33 (11.34%) RESTful
6 28 (9.62%) OAuth
7 23 (7.90%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (7.22%) OpenTelemetry
8 21 (7.22%) SOAP
8 21 (7.22%) Web Services
9 20 (6.87%) JWT
10 19 (6.53%) AngularJS
11 18 (6.19%) Hibernate
11 18 (6.19%) JPA
11 18 (6.19%) Spring Cloud
12 15 (5.15%) React
13 14 (4.81%) ActiveMQ
13 14 (4.81%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 76 (26.12%) Cloud Native
2 50 (17.18%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.09%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.09%) Mainframe
4 9 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.75%) NHS
5 8 (2.75%) Replication
6 7 (2.41%) DataPower
6 7 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.41%) IVR
7 5 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.37%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.37%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.03%) PACS
9 3 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 59 (20.27%) Linux
2 13 (4.47%) Windows
3 8 (2.75%) Unix
4 7 (2.41%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.06%) zOS
6 5 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) Debian
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (69.42%) CI/CD
2 160 (54.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 147 (50.52%) DevOps
4 102 (35.05%) Agile
5 96 (32.99%) Observability
6 94 (32.30%) Containerisation
7 78 (26.80%) Microservices
8 70 (24.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (18.21%) Test Automation
10 52 (17.87%) Performance Tuning
11 49 (16.84%) Migration
12 47 (16.15%) Analytics
13 46 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (15.12%) Platform Engineering
15 42 (14.43%) Scrum
16 38 (13.06%) Event-Driven
17 35 (12.03%) ETL
18 33 (11.34%) Data Pipeline
19 32 (11.00%) Data Modelling
19 32 (11.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 143 (49.14%) Python
2 69 (23.71%) SQL
3 61 (20.96%) Java
4 48 (16.49%) Bash
5 24 (8.25%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.90%) Shell Script
6 23 (7.90%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.84%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.78%) Go
9 9 (3.09%) Scala
10 8 (2.75%) C#
11 5 (1.72%) Bicep
11 5 (1.72%) Groovy
11 5 (1.72%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.37%) JCL
13 3 (1.03%) Perl
14 2 (0.69%) C
14 2 (0.69%) Korn
14 2 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 134 (46.05%) Security Cleared
2 115 (39.52%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.68%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (3.09%) Degree
7 8 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.06%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.37%) SAFe Agilist
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.56%) QA
2 18 (6.19%) PCI DSS
3 15 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 15 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.81%) GDPR
5 10 (3.44%) NIST
6 9 (3.09%) PMO
7 7 (2.41%) SLA
8 6 (2.06%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.72%) GRC
10 4 (1.37%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.37%) ISO 20022
11 3 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (1.03%) NCSC
12 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.69%) WCAG
13 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 136 (46.74%) Docker
2 10 (3.44%) Postfix
3 3 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) IAG
4 1 (0.34%) KVM
4 1 (0.34%) QEMU
4 1 (0.34%) Squid
Systems Management
1 186 (63.92%) Terraform
2 99 (34.02%) Grafana
3 92 (31.62%) Kubernetes
4 81 (27.84%) Prometheus
5 30 (10.31%) Ansible
6 8 (2.75%) Istio
7 6 (2.06%) Argo
7 6 (2.06%) Kibana
8 5 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
8 5 (1.72%) Packer
8 5 (1.72%) Puppet
9 4 (1.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.03%) Karpenter
10 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.03%) Rancher
11 2 (0.69%) linkerd
11 2 (0.69%) logstash
11 2 (0.69%) Nagios
11 2 (0.69%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 28 (9.62%) Splunk
2 18 (6.19%) ServiceNow
3 14 (4.81%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (4.81%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.78%) Atlassian
4 11 (3.78%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.75%) Databricks
6 6 (2.06%) AVEVA
6 6 (2.06%) Cisco
6 6 (2.06%) New Relic
7 5 (1.72%) Avaya
7 5 (1.72%) Confluent
7 5 (1.72%) Cribl.io
7 5 (1.72%) Dell
7 5 (1.72%) Genesys
7 5 (1.72%) IBM
8 4 (1.37%) Informatica
8 4 (1.37%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.37%) Salesforce