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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 366 396
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 294 160 186
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.55% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 1.46% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 113 141
10th Percentile £356 £358 £405
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £660 £690 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £547
% change year-on-year -7.50% -8.51% -4.96%
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 17,106 10,947 13,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.61% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,532 7,522 9,850
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £620 £634
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 515 245 349
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.12 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +35.09% +29.90% -38.94%
75th Percentile £65.13 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £80.12 £73.25 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +89.09% +17.89% -29.12%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -2 227 £500 - 58
London +25 144 £525 +2.44% 28
UK excluding London -55 106 £463 -7.50% 31
Work from Home -20 90 £481 -8.16% 33
Midlands -32 42 £475 -8.39% 5
West Midlands -30 41 £475 -5.00% 3
Scotland +3 19 £440 -12.00%
North of England -73 15 £450 +2.86% 14
South East -46 14 £393 -31.65% 7
East of England -16 9 £450 -10.00% 1
North West -43 7 £395 +1.02% 7
South West -31 5 £619 +5.32% 2
Yorkshire -52 5 £481 -3.75% 2
North East -22 3 £413 - 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 - 1
Wales - 1 £500 - 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 36 (12.24%) Confluence
2 20 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.06%) Apache
3 9 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.04%) SAS
5 4 (1.36%) CICS
5 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 291 (98.98%) AWS
2 175 (59.52%) Amazon S3
3 170 (57.82%) Serverless
4 164 (55.78%) AWS Lambda
5 122 (41.50%) Amazon EC2
6 107 (36.39%) Amazon EKS
7 102 (34.69%) GitHub
8 99 (33.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 95 (32.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 91 (30.95%) Amazon ECS
11 83 (28.23%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (17.69%) Azure
13 50 (17.01%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (13.27%) AWS KMS
15 38 (12.93%) AWS CodePipeline
15 38 (12.93%) Route 53
16 27 (9.18%) Amazon Kinesis
17 21 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (6.80%) AWS CloudTrail
19 18 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.46%) DNS
2 16 (5.44%) Firewall
3 7 (2.38%) HTTP
3 7 (2.38%) Network Security
4 6 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.70%) SNMP
5 5 (1.70%) VPN
6 4 (1.36%) WAN
7 3 (1.02%) SSL
8 2 (0.68%) BGP
8 2 (0.68%) CTI
8 2 (0.68%) OSPF
8 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.34%) Internet
9 1 (0.34%) LAN
9 1 (0.34%) PSTN
9 1 (0.34%) RTP
9 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (30.95%) Amazon RDS
2 63 (21.43%) DynamoDB
3 48 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (14.97%) Amazon Aurora
5 35 (11.90%) Amazon Athena
6 29 (9.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (6.12%) Tableau
8 16 (5.44%) Power BI
9 12 (4.08%) MongoDB
10 10 (3.40%) MySQL
10 10 (3.40%) NoSQL
10 10 (3.40%) Redis
11 9 (3.06%) Apache Iceberg
11 9 (3.06%) SQL Server
12 8 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.72%) DB2
13 7 (2.38%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.38%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.04%) Metadata
14 6 (2.04%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 107 (36.39%) Jenkins
2 93 (31.63%) GitLab
3 69 (23.47%) Git
4 45 (15.31%) JIRA
5 23 (7.82%) JUnit
6 22 (7.48%) Maven
7 21 (7.14%) Mockito
8 20 (6.80%) SonarQube
9 17 (5.78%) Bitbucket
10 14 (4.76%) DbUnit
11 13 (4.42%) jMock
12 11 (3.74%) Bitbucket Server
13 7 (2.38%) Artifactory
14 6 (2.04%) Postman
15 5 (1.70%) MLflow
16 4 (1.36%) Gradle
16 4 (1.36%) Jaeger
16 4 (1.36%) NUnit
16 4 (1.36%) Terragrunt
17 3 (1.02%) Cypress.io
General
1 80 (27.21%) Public Sector
2 72 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.16%) Finance
5 13 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.06%) Banking
7 7 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Military
8 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Police
9 2 (0.68%) Legal
9 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.68%) Retail
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
Job Titles
1 73 (24.83%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (14.97%) Developer
4 40 (13.61%) Architect
4 40 (13.61%) Senior
5 33 (11.22%) AWS DevOps
6 29 (9.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 25 (8.50%) Java Developer
8 23 (7.82%) AWS Architect
9 22 (7.48%) Data Engineer
10 16 (5.44%) Lead
10 16 (5.44%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (5.44%) Senior Developer
11 15 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (5.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 14 (4.76%) Analyst
13 12 (4.08%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (4.08%) Site Engineer
13 12 (4.08%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.63%) REST
2 40 (13.61%) Kafka
3 38 (12.93%) AWS CDK
3 38 (12.93%) Node.js
3 38 (12.93%) RESTful
4 36 (12.24%) Spring
4 36 (12.24%) Spring Boot
5 26 (8.84%) SOAP
6 25 (8.50%) Web Services
7 22 (7.48%) Hibernate
7 22 (7.48%) JPA
7 22 (7.48%) OpenTelemetry
8 21 (7.14%) OAuth
9 20 (6.80%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (6.80%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (6.46%) AngularJS
11 18 (6.12%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (6.12%) Spring Batch
11 18 (6.12%) Spring Integration
12 13 (4.42%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 82 (27.89%) Cloud Native
2 43 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.06%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.72%) Replication
6 6 (2.04%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.70%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.36%) DataPower
8 4 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.36%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.02%) PACS
9 3 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.41%) Linux
2 13 (4.42%) Windows
3 6 (2.04%) zOS
4 5 (1.70%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (1.70%) Unix
5 4 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) Android
8 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.34%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Debian
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (73.47%) CI/CD
2 153 (52.04%) DevOps
3 147 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (37.41%) Agile
5 104 (35.37%) Observability
6 95 (32.31%) Containerisation
7 77 (26.19%) Microservices
8 64 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (19.05%) Scrum
10 53 (18.03%) Test Automation
11 51 (17.35%) Platform Engineering
12 45 (15.31%) Performance Tuning
13 44 (14.97%) Migration
14 38 (12.93%) Event-Driven
15 37 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (12.24%) ETL
17 35 (11.90%) Analytics
17 35 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 34 (11.56%) Data Modelling
19 32 (10.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 128 (43.54%) Python
2 75 (25.51%) SQL
3 63 (21.43%) Java
4 55 (18.71%) Bash
5 26 (8.84%) TypeScript
6 24 (8.16%) PowerShell
7 18 (6.12%) Shell Script
8 16 (5.44%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.74%) Go
9 11 (3.74%) Scala
10 8 (2.72%) C#
11 7 (2.38%) Groovy
12 5 (1.70%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.36%) Bicep
13 4 (1.36%) JCL
13 4 (1.36%) Perl
14 2 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.34%) C
15 1 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
15 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 141 (47.96%) Security Cleared
2 123 (41.84%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.20%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.40%) SAFe Agilist
6 8 (2.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (2.72%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.38%) Degree
8 6 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.14%) QA
2 16 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.08%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.06%) NIST
5 8 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.38%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.38%) SLA
7 6 (2.04%) GDPR
7 6 (2.04%) PMO
8 5 (1.70%) GRC
9 4 (1.36%) ISO 20022
10 3 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (1.02%) NCSC
11 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.68%) WCAG
12 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 122 (41.50%) Docker
2 11 (3.74%) Postfix
3 7 (2.38%) Squid
4 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.34%) IAG
5 1 (0.34%) KVM
5 1 (0.34%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 178 (60.54%) Terraform
2 125 (42.52%) Grafana
3 94 (31.97%) Kubernetes
4 91 (30.95%) Prometheus
5 30 (10.20%) Ansible
6 10 (3.40%) Puppet
7 8 (2.72%) Istio
8 6 (2.04%) Argo
8 6 (2.04%) Kibana
9 5 (1.70%) Packer
10 4 (1.36%) Suricata
11 3 (1.02%) Karpenter
11 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.02%) Rancher
12 2 (0.68%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.68%) linkerd
12 2 (0.68%) logstash
12 2 (0.68%) Nagios
12 2 (0.68%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (7.14%) Splunk
2 17 (5.78%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (5.44%) Dynatrace
4 15 (5.10%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.76%) Atlassian
6 12 (4.08%) Microsoft
7 7 (2.38%) Databricks
7 7 (2.38%) Informatica
8 6 (2.04%) AVEVA
8 6 (2.04%) Cribl.io
8 6 (2.04%) Denodo
8 6 (2.04%) New Relic
8 6 (2.04%) Oracle
9 4 (1.36%) Confluent
9 4 (1.36%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.36%) Tenable
10 3 (1.02%) Qualys
10 3 (1.02%) SAP
10 3 (1.02%) Trend Micro
11 2 (0.68%) Sybase