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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 342 418
Rank change year-on-year +4 +76 -18
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 331 182 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.61% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 1.62% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 129 124
10th Percentile £356 £358 £405
25th Percentile £409 £440 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £602
90th Percentile £645 £650 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.98% -6.52%
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 17,796 11,228 14,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.90% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,899 7,582 9,936
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £631
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 279 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.00 £19.95
% change year-on-year +97.37% -4.76% -26.38%

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 June 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 June 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 -7 264 £488 -2.50% 62
London +17 171 £525 +0.62% 32
Work from Home +13 118 £463 -11.90% 40
UK excluding London -61 118 £450 -10.00% 36
Midlands -38 45 £472 -5.60% 4
West Midlands -38 43 £475 -5.00% 4
Scotland -2 21 £440 -12.00% 3
North of England -69 20 £419 +4.69% 12
South East -49 14 £393 -31.65% 12
North East -26 9 £413 - 2
East of England -29 9 £450 -18.18% 1
North West -45 6 £390 +4.14% 7
South West -27 5 £444 -15.07% 4
Yorkshire -54 5 £456 -3.95% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
Wales - 2 £525 -
East Midlands -25 1 £425 -20.86%

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 47 (14.20%) Confluence
2 27 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.53%) Apache
3 15 (4.53%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.11%) SAS
5 6 (1.81%) CICS
6 5 (1.51%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.21%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.60%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 330 (99.70%) AWS
2 206 (62.24%) Amazon S3
3 202 (61.03%) Serverless
4 194 (58.61%) AWS Lambda
5 143 (43.20%) Amazon EC2
6 117 (35.35%) Amazon EKS
7 109 (32.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 109 (32.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 107 (32.33%) GitHub
9 94 (28.40%) Amazon ECS
10 86 (25.98%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (16.62%) Azure
12 52 (15.71%) Amazon SQS
13 45 (13.60%) Route 53
14 42 (12.69%) AWS KMS
15 32 (9.67%) AWS CodePipeline
16 30 (9.06%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (8.76%) Amazon Kinesis
18 27 (8.16%) AWS CloudTrail
19 26 (7.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.14%) DNS
2 16 (4.83%) Firewall
3 11 (3.32%) Network Security
4 6 (1.81%) HTTP
4 6 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.51%) SNMP
5 5 (1.51%) WAN
6 4 (1.21%) SSL
6 4 (1.21%) VPN
7 3 (0.91%) CTI
8 2 (0.60%) BGP
8 2 (0.60%) OSPF
8 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.30%) Internet
9 1 (0.30%) PSTN
9 1 (0.30%) RTP
9 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (29.91%) Amazon RDS
2 81 (24.47%) DynamoDB
3 50 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (13.60%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (12.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 34 (10.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (7.55%) Power BI
8 18 (5.44%) Tableau
9 16 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (4.83%) MongoDB
10 14 (4.23%) Redis
11 10 (3.02%) Apache Iceberg
11 10 (3.02%) NoSQL
11 10 (3.02%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.72%) Db2
13 7 (2.11%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.11%) DocumentDB
14 6 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (1.81%) Metadata
14 6 (1.81%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 125 (37.76%) Jenkins
2 112 (33.84%) GitLab
3 79 (23.87%) Git
4 58 (17.52%) JIRA
5 24 (7.25%) JUnit
6 22 (6.65%) Maven
6 22 (6.65%) Mockito
7 20 (6.04%) SonarQube
8 18 (5.44%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.23%) DbUnit
10 13 (3.93%) jMock
11 11 (3.32%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.42%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.42%) Cucumber
13 7 (2.11%) Postman
14 6 (1.81%) Gatling
14 6 (1.81%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.51%) MLflow
16 4 (1.21%) Gradle
16 4 (1.21%) Jaeger
General
1 88 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 85 (25.68%) Public Sector
3 33 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.76%) Finance
5 16 (4.83%) Banking
6 13 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.11%) Law
9 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Legal
9 3 (0.91%) Military
9 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.60%) Police
10 2 (0.60%) Publishing
10 2 (0.60%) Retail
11 1 (0.30%) Front Office
11 1 (0.30%) Games
11 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (23.87%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (16.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (14.80%) Developer
3 49 (14.80%) Senior
4 40 (12.08%) Architect
5 38 (11.48%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (9.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 32 (9.67%) Data Engineer
7 25 (7.55%) AWS Architect
7 25 (7.55%) Java Developer
8 23 (6.95%) Lead
9 22 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 20 (6.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 18 (5.44%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.14%) Senior Developer
12 17 (5.14%) Site Engineer
13 14 (4.23%) Scrum Master
13 14 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (3.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.93%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.50%) RESTful
2 45 (13.60%) Kafka
3 42 (12.69%) REST
4 40 (12.08%) AWS CDK
5 38 (11.48%) Node.js
5 38 (11.48%) Spring
5 38 (11.48%) Spring Boot
6 29 (8.76%) SOAP
7 27 (8.16%) Web Services
8 24 (7.25%) PySpark
9 22 (6.65%) Hibernate
9 22 (6.65%) JPA
10 20 (6.04%) AngularJS
10 20 (6.04%) OAuth
10 20 (6.04%) OpenTelemetry
10 20 (6.04%) Spring Cloud
11 18 (5.44%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (5.44%) Spring Batch
11 18 (5.44%) Spring Integration
12 15 (4.53%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 99 (29.91%) Cloud Native
2 46 (13.90%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (8.46%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.42%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.42%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.42%) Replication
6 7 (2.11%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.81%) DataPower
7 6 (1.81%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.51%) IVR
8 5 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.91%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.91%) PACS
10 3 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.13%) Linux
2 16 (4.83%) Windows
3 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.11%) zOS
5 5 (1.51%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.21%) Unix
6 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (75.53%) CI/CD
2 179 (54.08%) DevOps
3 177 (53.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 131 (39.58%) Agile
5 109 (32.93%) Containerisation
5 109 (32.93%) Observability
6 80 (24.17%) Microservices
7 69 (20.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (19.94%) Test Automation
9 62 (18.73%) Platform Engineering
10 59 (17.82%) Scrum
11 52 (15.71%) Migration
12 49 (14.80%) Performance Tuning
13 48 (14.50%) Event-Driven
14 43 (12.99%) Analytics
15 42 (12.69%) AI
15 42 (12.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 40 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
17 39 (11.78%) Data Pipeline
17 39 (11.78%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 162 (48.94%) Python
2 88 (26.59%) SQL
3 67 (20.24%) Java
4 66 (19.94%) Bash
5 31 (9.37%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.85%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.74%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.83%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.53%) Scala
10 8 (2.42%) Go
10 8 (2.42%) Groovy
11 6 (1.81%) JCL
12 5 (1.51%) C#
13 4 (1.21%) Bicep
13 4 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.21%) Perl
14 2 (0.60%) C
14 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.30%) COBOL
15 1 (0.30%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 156 (47.13%) Security Cleared
2 140 (42.30%) SC Cleared
3 42 (12.69%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (5.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 13 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (3.32%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (3.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.42%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.11%) Degree
11 4 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.55%) Data Quality
1 25 (7.55%) QA
2 11 (3.32%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.11%) NIST
3 7 (2.11%) SLA
4 6 (1.81%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.81%) GDPR
4 6 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.81%) PMO
5 5 (1.51%) GRC
6 4 (1.21%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.21%) NCSC
7 3 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 132 (39.88%) Docker
2 11 (3.32%) Postfix
3 8 (2.42%) Squid
4 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.30%) IAG
5 1 (0.30%) KVM
5 1 (0.30%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 206 (62.24%) Terraform
2 127 (38.37%) Grafana
3 109 (32.93%) Kubernetes
4 101 (30.51%) Prometheus
5 38 (11.48%) Ansible
6 11 (3.32%) Puppet
7 9 (2.72%) Istio
8 7 (2.11%) Packer
9 6 (1.81%) Argo
10 4 (1.21%) Suricata
11 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.91%) Rancher
12 2 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.60%) Kibana
12 2 (0.60%) linkerd
13 1 (0.30%) Consul
13 1 (0.30%) Control-M
13 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (6.34%) Splunk
2 20 (6.04%) Dynatrace
3 19 (5.74%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.14%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (4.53%) Informatica
6 14 (4.23%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.42%) Databricks
7 8 (2.42%) New Relic
8 7 (2.11%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.81%) AVEVA
9 6 (1.81%) Cribl.io
9 6 (1.81%) Denodo
9 6 (1.81%) Oracle
10 5 (1.51%) Confluent
10 5 (1.51%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.21%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.21%) Sybase
11 4 (1.21%) Trend Micro
12 3 (0.91%) Tenable
13 2 (0.60%) Globalscape