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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 294 404
Rank change year-on-year -46 +110 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 405 287 152
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.87% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 2.25% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 206 97
10th Percentile £393 £393 £410
25th Percentile £438 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £578 £584
90th Percentile £738 £671 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.55% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.66 - -

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 19,177 12,735 13,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.39% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,727 8,519 8,599
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 646 288 181
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £67.80 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -44.94% +55.49%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -34 320 £500 - 199
London -20 189 £550 +4.76% 107
UK excluding London -85 152 £482 -3.55% 99
Work from Home -29 151 £500 -4.76% 89
North of England -65 50 £500 +1.01% 34
Midlands -60 37 £461 -3.00% 15
South East -34 33 £566 +13.25% 15
West Midlands -55 32 £469 -1.26% 9
North East -24 22 £425 -26.09% 8
Scotland -26 16 £450 -12.20% 10
North West -52 15 £600 +32.60% 13
Yorkshire -42 13 £500 +2.04% 13
South West -32 6 £325 -37.50% 10
East of England -37 6 £488 -11.36% 8
East Midlands -18 4 £402 -7.59% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £496 - 7
Wales -14 1 £550 - 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 51 (12.59%) Confluence
2 21 (5.19%) Apache
3 18 (4.44%) Apache Spark
4 15 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.98%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.98%) SAS
6 4 (0.99%) nginx
7 3 (0.74%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) Appian
8 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Trello
2 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.49%) Gliffy
2 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 399 (98.52%) AWS
2 239 (59.01%) Serverless
3 235 (58.02%) AWS Lambda
4 230 (56.79%) Amazon S3
5 156 (38.52%) Amazon EC2
6 152 (37.53%) Amazon EKS
7 128 (31.60%) GitHub
8 126 (31.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 125 (30.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 116 (28.64%) Amazon ECS
11 93 (22.96%) GitHub Actions
12 83 (20.49%) Azure
13 58 (14.32%) Amazon SQS
14 50 (12.35%) AWS KMS
15 45 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
15 45 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
16 40 (9.88%) Datadog
17 39 (9.63%) Amazon EMR
18 38 (9.38%) AWS CloudTrail
19 37 (9.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.42%) Firewall
2 18 (4.44%) Network Security
3 15 (3.70%) DNS
4 7 (1.73%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.48%) HTTP
5 6 (1.48%) SNMP
5 6 (1.48%) SSL
6 5 (1.23%) WAN
7 4 (0.99%) CTI
7 4 (0.99%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.74%) SMS
8 3 (0.74%) VPN
9 2 (0.49%) FTP
9 2 (0.49%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.49%) IMAP
9 2 (0.49%) SMTP
9 2 (0.49%) SSH
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) Internet
10 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (30.12%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (19.75%) DynamoDB
3 65 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (13.09%) Amazon Athena
5 49 (12.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 38 (9.38%) MongoDB
7 32 (7.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (5.93%) Redis
9 22 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (4.94%) Power BI
11 18 (4.44%) Data Lake
11 18 (4.44%) MySQL
11 18 (4.44%) SQL Server
12 13 (3.21%) DocumentDB
13 9 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.22%) NoSQL
14 8 (1.98%) Electronic Patient Records
15 7 (1.73%) Db2
16 6 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.48%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 149 (36.79%) GitLab
2 141 (34.81%) Jenkins
3 92 (22.72%) Git
4 65 (16.05%) JIRA
5 24 (5.93%) Bitbucket
6 20 (4.94%) JUnit
7 16 (3.95%) Mockito
8 15 (3.70%) Cucumber
9 12 (2.96%) Maven
10 10 (2.47%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.98%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.73%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.73%) JMeter
13 6 (1.48%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.48%) Postman
13 6 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (1.23%) DbUnit
15 4 (0.99%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (0.99%) Gatling
15 4 (0.99%) jMock
General
1 107 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 100 (24.69%) Public Sector
3 43 (10.62%) Finance
4 34 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.17%) Banking
6 21 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.22%) Back Office
8 7 (1.73%) Law
8 7 (1.73%) Military
9 5 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.23%) Front Office
10 4 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.74%) Legal
11 3 (0.74%) Police
11 3 (0.74%) Publishing
11 3 (0.74%) Retail
11 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.49%) Billing
12 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (21.98%) AWS Engineer
2 86 (21.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 60 (14.81%) Senior
4 49 (12.10%) AWS DevOps
4 49 (12.10%) Developer
5 47 (11.60%) Architect
6 42 (10.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 42 (10.37%) Data Engineer
7 38 (9.38%) Lead
8 34 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
9 28 (6.91%) AWS Architect
10 21 (5.19%) Scrum Master
10 21 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
11 20 (4.94%) Lead DevOps
12 19 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
12 19 (4.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.44%) DBA
14 16 (3.95%) AWS Data Engineer
14 16 (3.95%) Java Developer
15 14 (3.46%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (63.70%) Terraform
2 49 (12.10%) REST
3 47 (11.60%) Kafka
3 47 (11.60%) RESTful
4 40 (9.88%) Node.js
4 40 (9.88%) Spring
5 36 (8.89%) Spring Boot
6 34 (8.40%) AWS CDK
7 28 (6.91%) PySpark
8 18 (4.44%) SOAP
9 16 (3.95%) FastAPI
10 15 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
10 15 (3.70%) React
11 14 (3.46%) Jest
12 13 (3.21%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.21%) OAuth
12 13 (3.21%) Playwright
13 12 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (2.96%) GraphQL
13 12 (2.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 140 (34.57%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.88%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (8.64%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.43%) Replication
5 14 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.96%) IVR
8 11 (2.72%) CMDB
8 11 (2.72%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.98%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.73%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.48%) NHS
12 6 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.23%) Mainframe
14 4 (0.99%) Life Science
14 4 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 64 (15.80%) Linux
2 22 (5.43%) Windows
3 18 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.47%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.98%) Unix
6 6 (1.48%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.99%) zOS
8 2 (0.49%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (83.70%) CI/CD
2 265 (65.43%) DevOps
3 261 (64.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 175 (43.21%) Agile
5 153 (37.78%) Observability
6 121 (29.88%) Containerisation
7 106 (26.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 90 (22.22%) Test Automation
9 86 (21.23%) Microservices
10 77 (19.01%) Platform Engineering
11 76 (18.77%) Root Cause Analysis
12 68 (16.79%) AI
13 64 (15.80%) Event-Driven
13 64 (15.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 58 (14.32%) Data Modelling
14 58 (14.32%) Software Engineering
15 55 (13.58%) Deployment Automation
15 55 (13.58%) Scrum
16 52 (12.84%) Migration
17 50 (12.35%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 213 (52.59%) Python
2 83 (20.49%) SQL
3 80 (19.75%) Bash
4 79 (19.51%) Java
5 37 (9.14%) PowerShell
6 30 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 26 (6.42%) JavaScript
8 16 (3.95%) Shell Script
9 13 (3.21%) Groovy
9 13 (3.21%) Scala
10 11 (2.72%) C#
11 10 (2.47%) Go
12 8 (1.98%) Bicep
13 7 (1.73%) Perl
14 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.74%) C
15 3 (0.74%) JCL
16 2 (0.49%) Korn
17 1 (0.25%) Ladder Logic
17 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 181 (44.69%) Security Cleared
2 163 (40.25%) SC Cleared
3 86 (21.23%) AWS Certification
4 34 (8.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.22%) Degree
9 9 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.98%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (1.73%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.74%) CISSP
13 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.49%) ISEB
14 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.60%) QA
2 42 (10.37%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.98%) GDPR
4 6 (1.48%) NCSC
4 6 (1.48%) SLA
5 5 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.23%) WCAG
6 4 (0.99%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.49%) HL7
8 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) SEPA
9 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 154 (38.02%) Docker
2 16 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.47%) IAG
4 9 (2.22%) Squid
5 5 (1.23%) Postfix
6 2 (0.49%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.49%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.25%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 148 (36.54%) Kubernetes
2 129 (31.85%) Grafana
3 103 (25.43%) Prometheus
4 72 (17.78%) Ansible
5 14 (3.46%) Puppet
6 13 (3.21%) Packer
6 13 (3.21%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.23%) Argo
8 5 (1.23%) Istio
9 4 (0.99%) Suricata
10 3 (0.74%) Consul
10 3 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.74%) Kibana
10 3 (0.74%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.49%) Nessus
11 2 (0.49%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.49%) Rancher
12 1 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.25%) linkerd
Vendors
1 43 (10.62%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.16%) ServiceNow
3 25 (6.17%) Splunk
4 19 (4.69%) Informatica
5 18 (4.44%) Oracle
6 16 (3.95%) Microsoft
7 14 (3.46%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.72%) Google
9 10 (2.47%) Nexthink
10 9 (2.22%) Confluent
11 8 (1.98%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.73%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.73%) Jaspersoft
13 6 (1.48%) Cribl.io
13 6 (1.48%) Denodo
14 5 (1.23%) AppDynamics
14 5 (1.23%) PagerDuty
15 4 (0.99%) Brio
15 4 (0.99%) New Relic
15 4 (0.99%) VMware