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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 392 455
Rank change year-on-year +101 +63 -20
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 333 165 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 0.46% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.43% 1.29% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 117 143
10th Percentile £387 £400 £428
25th Percentile £450 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £687 £750 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +1.21% -5.90% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,723 12,801 16,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.44% 35.32% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,292 8,430 11,680
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 172 303
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.58 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.32 £18.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +10.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £50.81 £58.95 £61.94
90th Percentile £77.63 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year -25.00% +34.83% +17.41%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 +76 249 £506 -3.75% 167
UK excluding London +41 144 £500 +1.21% 80
London +51 127 £525 -1.36% 96
Work from Home +46 118 £531 +3.01% 103
North of England -13 54 £500 -7.41% 38
Midlands -1 42 £475 +9.32% 7
West Midlands +12 39 £475 - 5
Yorkshire -20 28 £500 -29.82% 13
Scotland +2 20 £525 +10.53% 8
North West -18 19 £430 +1.18% 23
East of England - 16 £550 - 7
South West +12 10 £700 +40.00% 6
North East -7 7 £575 -2.54% 2
South East +2 3 - - 13
East Midlands -24 3 £375 -13.69% 2
Wales +4 2 - - 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 38 (11.41%) Confluence
2 14 (4.20%) nginx
3 5 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.20%) Apache
4 4 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (3.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 330 (99.10%) AWS
2 233 (69.97%) Amazon S3
3 196 (58.86%) AWS Lambda
3 196 (58.86%) Serverless
4 174 (52.25%) Amazon EC2
5 121 (36.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 110 (33.03%) Amazon ECS
7 100 (30.03%) GitHub
8 91 (27.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 80 (24.02%) GitHub Actions
10 66 (19.82%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (15.32%) Azure
12 48 (14.41%) Amazon ELB
13 45 (13.51%) Route 53
14 40 (12.01%) Datadog
15 37 (11.11%) AWS KMS
16 36 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
17 32 (9.61%) AWS Fargate
18 26 (7.81%) AWS CloudTrail
19 21 (6.31%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 63 (18.92%) DNS
2 62 (18.62%) Firewall
3 35 (10.51%) VPN
4 25 (7.51%) HTTP
4 25 (7.51%) SSL
5 24 (7.21%) SMTP
5 24 (7.21%) SSH
6 23 (6.91%) TCP/IP
7 22 (6.61%) FTP
8 17 (5.11%) Network Security
8 17 (5.11%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (3.60%) IMAP
10 7 (2.10%) DHCP
11 6 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.30%) LAN
12 1 (0.30%) VLAN
12 1 (0.30%) VSAN
12 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (38.44%) Amazon RDS
2 76 (22.82%) DynamoDB
3 43 (12.91%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (9.01%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (6.61%) MySQL
6 16 (4.80%) Relational Database
7 15 (4.50%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (4.20%) NoSQL
9 13 (3.90%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.70%) MongoDB
11 8 (2.40%) Redis
12 7 (2.10%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.80%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.80%) Oracle Database
14 5 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (1.50%) DB2
14 5 (1.50%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 145 (43.54%) Jenkins
2 106 (31.83%) GitLab
3 101 (30.33%) Git
4 41 (12.31%) JIRA
5 24 (7.21%) Vagrant
6 16 (4.80%) Maven
7 15 (4.50%) SonarQube
8 14 (4.20%) JUnit
9 6 (1.80%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.50%) Gradle
10 5 (1.50%) Postman
10 5 (1.50%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.20%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.20%) DbUnit
11 4 (1.20%) jMock
11 4 (1.20%) Mockito
12 3 (0.90%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.90%) Gatling
12 3 (0.90%) Mocha
12 3 (0.90%) REST Assured
General
1 77 (23.12%) Public Sector
2 71 (21.32%) Social Skills
3 23 (6.91%) Finance
4 19 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.60%) Banking
5 12 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.20%) Military
7 3 (0.90%) Front Office
7 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.30%) Games
9 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 117 (35.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 93 (27.93%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (17.72%) AWS DevOps
4 55 (16.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 49 (14.71%) Senior
6 38 (11.41%) Architect
7 36 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
8 34 (10.21%) Developer
9 33 (9.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 26 (7.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 21 (6.31%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (6.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 18 (5.41%) Lead
14 17 (5.11%) AWS Architect
15 16 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 14 (4.20%) Java Developer
17 13 (3.90%) Software Engineer
18 12 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
18 12 (3.60%) Python Engineer
18 12 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (10.21%) Node.js
2 32 (9.61%) Kafka
3 28 (8.41%) REST
4 25 (7.51%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (6.31%) React
5 21 (6.31%) Spring Boot
6 20 (6.01%) RESTful
7 19 (5.71%) LDAP
7 19 (5.71%) Spring
8 18 (5.41%) AWS CDK
8 18 (5.41%) JWT
9 15 (4.50%) AngularJS
10 14 (4.20%) OAuth
11 12 (3.60%) boto
12 11 (3.30%) ActiveMQ
12 11 (3.30%) pytest
13 10 (3.00%) FastAPI
13 10 (3.00%) GraphQL
14 9 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
15 7 (2.10%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.71%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.91%) Replication
3 22 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.30%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.40%) NHS
6 7 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.80%) IVR
8 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.50%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.20%) Clustering
9 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.90%) DataPower
10 3 (0.90%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (22.22%) Linux
2 32 (9.61%) Windows
3 29 (8.71%) Amazon Linux
4 25 (7.51%) VMS
5 11 (3.30%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.70%) Unix
7 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.30%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (66.07%) DevOps
2 213 (63.96%) CI/CD
3 171 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (29.43%) Containerisation
5 90 (27.03%) Agile
6 68 (20.42%) Observability
7 67 (20.12%) Microservices
8 53 (15.92%) Infrastructure Automation
8 53 (15.92%) Platform Engineering
9 52 (15.62%) Migration
10 51 (15.32%) High Availability
11 50 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (14.71%) Cloud Security
13 42 (12.61%) Configuration Management
14 41 (12.31%) Mentoring
15 40 (12.01%) Incident Response
16 39 (11.71%) Event-Driven
17 36 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
17 36 (10.81%) Test Automation
18 34 (10.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 198 (59.46%) Python
2 74 (22.22%) Bash
3 57 (17.12%) Java
4 48 (14.41%) PowerShell
5 43 (12.91%) SQL
6 26 (7.81%) Groovy
7 23 (6.91%) TypeScript
8 21 (6.31%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.50%) Go
10 14 (4.20%) Perl
10 14 (4.20%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.90%) Korn
12 2 (0.60%) Bicep
12 2 (0.60%) C#
12 2 (0.60%) PHP
12 2 (0.60%) PromQL
12 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.30%) R
13 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 120 (36.04%) Security Cleared
2 104 (31.23%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.21%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (4.80%) Degree
7 14 (4.20%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.80%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.60%) MCSE
13 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.01%) QA
2 19 (5.71%) GDPR
3 13 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.90%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.10%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.50%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.20%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.90%) NCSC
7 3 (0.90%) PMO
8 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.60%) NIST
8 2 (0.60%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 161 (48.35%) Docker
2 26 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 22 (6.61%) DFS Replication
4 16 (4.80%) Postfix
5 12 (3.60%) Dovecot
5 12 (3.60%) Squid
6 2 (0.60%) Snort
7 1 (0.30%) KVM
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 230 (69.07%) Terraform
2 119 (35.74%) Kubernetes
3 95 (28.53%) Prometheus
4 93 (27.93%) Grafana
5 55 (16.52%) Ansible
6 12 (3.60%) Nessus
7 10 (3.00%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.00%) Proxmox
8 7 (2.10%) Puppet
9 6 (1.80%) Packer
9 6 (1.80%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (1.50%) Argo
11 4 (1.20%) Dell DRAC
11 4 (1.20%) Kibana
12 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.60%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.60%) SELinux
13 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (10.21%) ServiceNow
2 25 (7.51%) F5
3 24 (7.21%) Dynatrace
3 24 (7.21%) Splunk
4 23 (6.91%) CheckPoint
4 23 (6.91%) Palo Alto
5 17 (5.11%) Microsoft
6 16 (4.80%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (3.00%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.40%) Oracle
9 7 (2.10%) CA Agile Central
9 7 (2.10%) Cisco
9 7 (2.10%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.50%) Avaya
10 5 (1.50%) Genesys
10 5 (1.50%) Gigya
10 5 (1.50%) Google
10 5 (1.50%) Sybase
10 5 (1.50%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.20%) Dell