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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 296 408
Rank change year-on-year -47 +112 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 403 290 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.87% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.10% 2.27% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 210 104
10th Percentile £393 £399 £400
25th Percentile £440 £453 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £578 £576
90th Percentile £738 £670 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £477
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.82% -13.27%
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 19,195 12,780 13,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.41% 34.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,755 8,545 8,658
10th Percentile £325 £309 £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 652 294 182
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.14 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.87 £22.83
Median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.18 £65.68
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.93
% change year-on-year +55.68% -43.21% +50.73%

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 16 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 16 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 -45 317 £500 - 42
London -7 188 £550 +4.76% 16
Work from Home -41 151 £500 -4.76% 21
UK excluding London -75 150 £488 -2.50% 29
North of England -59 50 £500 +1.01% 13
Midlands -58 36 £461 -3.00% 3
South East -30 33 £566 +13.25% 9
West Midlands -55 31 £469 -1.26% 3
North East -21 22 £425 -26.09% 3
Scotland -30 16 £450 -12.20% 1
North West -47 15 £600 +32.60% 4
Yorkshire -42 13 £500 +2.04% 6
South West -33 6 £325 -37.50% 3
East of England -38 5 £550 - 1
East Midlands -7 4 £402 -7.59%
Northern Ireland - 4 £496 -
Wales -13 1 £550 -

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 (12.66%) Confluence
2 20 (4.96%) Apache
3 16 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 14 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.99%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.99%) 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 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.50%) Gliffy
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 397 (98.51%) AWS
2 237 (58.81%) Serverless
3 233 (57.82%) AWS Lambda
4 226 (56.08%) Amazon S3
5 155 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
6 154 (38.21%) Amazon EKS
7 129 (32.01%) GitHub
8 127 (31.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 125 (31.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 117 (29.03%) Amazon ECS
11 93 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
12 85 (21.09%) Azure
13 58 (14.39%) Amazon SQS
14 49 (12.16%) AWS KMS
15 44 (10.92%) Amazon EventBridge
16 43 (10.67%) AWS Step Functions
17 41 (10.17%) Datadog
18 39 (9.68%) Amazon EMR
19 38 (9.43%) AWS CloudTrail
20 36 (8.93%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.45%) Firewall
2 18 (4.47%) Network Security
3 15 (3.72%) DNS
4 7 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.49%) HTTP
5 6 (1.49%) SNMP
5 6 (1.49%) SSL
6 5 (1.24%) WAN
7 4 (0.99%) CTI
7 4 (0.99%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.74%) SMS
8 3 (0.74%) VPN
9 2 (0.50%) FTP
9 2 (0.50%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.50%) IMAP
9 2 (0.50%) SMTP
9 2 (0.50%) SSH
10 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (30.02%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (19.60%) DynamoDB
3 62 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (12.66%) Amazon Athena
5 46 (11.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 39 (9.68%) MongoDB
7 30 (7.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (6.20%) Redis
9 21 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (4.71%) Power BI
10 19 (4.71%) SQL Server
11 18 (4.47%) Data Lake
11 18 (4.47%) MySQL
12 13 (3.23%) DocumentDB
13 9 (2.23%) NoSQL
14 8 (1.99%) Electronic Patient Records
15 7 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (1.74%) Db2
16 6 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.49%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 147 (36.48%) GitLab
2 138 (34.24%) Jenkins
3 90 (22.33%) Git
4 65 (16.13%) JIRA
5 24 (5.96%) Bitbucket
6 19 (4.71%) JUnit
7 15 (3.72%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.72%) Mockito
8 11 (2.73%) Maven
9 10 (2.48%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.74%) Artifactory
10 7 (1.74%) JMeter
10 7 (1.74%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.49%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.49%) Postman
11 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.99%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.99%) Gatling
13 3 (0.74%) Mocha
13 3 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 107 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 99 (24.57%) Public Sector
3 43 (10.67%) Finance
4 33 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.20%) Banking
6 21 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.23%) Back Office
8 7 (1.74%) Law
8 7 (1.74%) Military
9 5 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.24%) 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 (0.50%) Billing
12 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 90 (22.33%) AWS Engineer
2 86 (21.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 61 (15.14%) Senior
4 50 (12.41%) AWS DevOps
5 49 (12.16%) Developer
6 44 (10.92%) Architect
7 42 (10.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 42 (10.42%) Data Engineer
8 36 (8.93%) Lead
9 34 (8.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (6.45%) AWS Architect
11 21 (5.21%) Scrum Master
11 21 (5.21%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (4.96%) Lead DevOps
13 19 (4.71%) Senior DevOps
13 19 (4.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.47%) DBA
15 16 (3.97%) AWS Data Engineer
16 15 (3.72%) Java Developer
16 15 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (64.02%) Terraform
2 48 (11.91%) REST
3 47 (11.66%) RESTful
4 46 (11.41%) Kafka
5 41 (10.17%) Node.js
6 39 (9.68%) Spring
7 35 (8.68%) AWS CDK
7 35 (8.68%) Spring Boot
8 28 (6.95%) PySpark
9 17 (4.22%) SOAP
10 16 (3.97%) FastAPI
11 15 (3.72%) React
12 14 (3.47%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (3.47%) Jest
12 14 (3.47%) OAuth
13 13 (3.23%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.23%) Playwright
14 12 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (2.98%) GraphQL
15 11 (2.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 140 (34.74%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.93%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.19%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.46%) Replication
5 14 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.98%) IVR
8 11 (2.73%) CMDB
8 11 (2.73%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.99%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.74%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.74%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.49%) NHS
13 5 (1.24%) Mainframe
14 4 (0.99%) Life Science
14 4 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 63 (15.63%) Linux
2 22 (5.46%) Windows
3 18 (4.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.48%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.99%) Unix
6 6 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.99%) zOS
8 2 (0.50%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (83.87%) CI/CD
2 265 (65.76%) DevOps
3 260 (64.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 175 (43.42%) Agile
5 152 (37.72%) Observability
6 121 (30.02%) Containerisation
7 106 (26.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 88 (21.84%) Test Automation
9 86 (21.34%) Microservices
10 78 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
11 76 (18.86%) Root Cause Analysis
12 67 (16.63%) AI
13 63 (15.63%) Event-Driven
13 63 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
14 58 (14.39%) Software Engineering
15 55 (13.65%) Data Modelling
15 55 (13.65%) Deployment Automation
16 54 (13.40%) Scrum
17 51 (12.66%) Migration
18 48 (11.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 211 (52.36%) Python
2 80 (19.85%) Bash
3 79 (19.60%) SQL
4 78 (19.35%) Java
5 37 (9.18%) PowerShell
6 31 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 27 (6.70%) JavaScript
8 16 (3.97%) Shell Script
9 13 (3.23%) Groovy
10 12 (2.98%) C#
11 11 (2.73%) Scala
12 10 (2.48%) Go
13 8 (1.99%) Bicep
14 7 (1.74%) Perl
15 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.74%) C
16 3 (0.74%) JCL
17 2 (0.50%) Korn
18 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 181 (44.91%) Security Cleared
2 163 (40.45%) SC Cleared
3 88 (21.84%) AWS Certification
4 35 (8.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.22%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (3.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.99%) Degree
10 8 (1.99%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (1.74%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.74%) CISSP
12 3 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.50%) ISEB
13 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.66%) QA
2 42 (10.42%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.99%) GDPR
4 6 (1.49%) NCSC
4 6 (1.49%) SLA
5 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.24%) WCAG
6 3 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.50%) HL7
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) SEPA
8 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 155 (38.46%) Docker
2 16 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.48%) IAG
4 9 (2.23%) Squid
5 4 (0.99%) Postfix
6 2 (0.50%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.50%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.25%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 149 (36.97%) Kubernetes
2 128 (31.76%) Grafana
3 102 (25.31%) Prometheus
4 73 (18.11%) Ansible
5 14 (3.47%) Puppet
6 13 (3.23%) Packer
6 13 (3.23%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.49%) Argo
9 5 (1.24%) Istio
10 4 (0.99%) Suricata
11 3 (0.74%) Consul
11 3 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.74%) Kibana
11 3 (0.74%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.50%) Nessus
12 2 (0.50%) Podman
12 2 (0.50%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.50%) Rancher
13 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (10.67%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.20%) ServiceNow
3 26 (6.45%) Splunk
4 19 (4.71%) Informatica
5 18 (4.47%) Oracle
6 15 (3.72%) Microsoft
7 14 (3.47%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.73%) Google
9 10 (2.48%) Nexthink
10 8 (1.99%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.74%) Confluent
12 6 (1.49%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.49%) Cribl.io
12 6 (1.49%) Denodo
12 6 (1.49%) Jaspersoft
13 5 (1.24%) AppDynamics
13 5 (1.24%) PagerDuty
14 4 (0.99%) Brio
14 4 (0.99%) New Relic
14 4 (0.99%) VMware