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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 350 430
Rank change year-on-year +31 +80 -17
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 302 189 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.60% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 1.62% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 144 138
10th Percentile £382 £400 £413
25th Percentile £431 £453 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £619 £593 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%

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 14,631 11,646 14,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.02% 36.99% 33.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,078 7,737 10,540
10th Percentile £306 £313 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 169 304
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.35 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +17.40% -0.32%
75th Percentile £58.75 £43.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £24.66 £21.00
% change year-on-year +31.79% +17.43% +7.69%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -3 224 £525 - 145
London +21 132 £525 -0.19% 23
UK excluding London -15 111 £525 +2.44% 143
Work from Home -4 83 £575 +9.94% 137
North of England -41 48 £525 -11.02% 22
Midlands -44 22 £475 +9.32% 12
Yorkshire -39 21 £521 -28.10% 11
North West -19 19 £480 -2.04% 7
West Midlands -21 19 £475 +5.56% 9
Scotland 0 17 £525 +5.00% 6
South West -6 11 £700 +19.15% 18
North East -12 8 £575 -2.54% 4
South East -24 7 £650 - 44
East of England - 6 £550 - 31
East Midlands -29 3 £375 -6.25% 3
Wales - 3 £500 - 10

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 20 (6.62%) Confluence
2 8 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.65%) nginx
3 7 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 297 (98.34%) AWS
2 189 (62.58%) Serverless
3 187 (61.92%) Amazon S3
4 183 (60.60%) AWS Lambda
5 127 (42.05%) Amazon EC2
6 123 (40.73%) Amazon ECS
7 109 (36.09%) GitHub
8 105 (34.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 99 (32.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 95 (31.46%) Amazon EKS
11 87 (28.81%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (18.54%) Azure
13 41 (13.58%) Route 53
14 38 (12.58%) Amazon ELB
15 33 (10.93%) AWS Fargate
16 32 (10.60%) Datadog
17 30 (9.93%) Amazon SQS
18 25 (8.28%) AWS CodePipeline
19 22 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
20 21 (6.95%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 52 (17.22%) DNS
2 50 (16.56%) Firewall
3 30 (9.93%) VPN
4 22 (7.28%) SSL
4 22 (7.28%) TCP/IP
5 18 (5.96%) Network Security
6 16 (5.30%) HTTP
7 12 (3.97%) FTP
7 12 (3.97%) SMTP
7 12 (3.97%) SSH
8 8 (2.65%) IMAP
8 8 (2.65%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.99%) WAN
10 2 (0.66%) BGP
10 2 (0.66%) OSPF
10 2 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.33%) DHCP
11 1 (0.33%) LAN
11 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (32.78%) Amazon RDS
2 65 (21.52%) DynamoDB
3 35 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (9.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 26 (8.61%) MySQL
6 21 (6.95%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (5.96%) NoSQL
8 17 (5.63%) Relational Database
9 14 (4.64%) MongoDB
10 13 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (4.30%) Redis
11 10 (3.31%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.66%) Big Data
12 5 (1.66%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.66%) DB2
12 5 (1.66%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.32%) SQL Server
14 3 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
14 3 (0.99%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 136 (45.03%) Jenkins
2 120 (39.74%) GitLab
3 76 (25.17%) Git
4 24 (7.95%) JIRA
5 12 (3.97%) SonarQube
5 12 (3.97%) Vagrant
6 8 (2.65%) Maven
7 7 (2.32%) JUnit
8 5 (1.66%) Gradle
8 5 (1.66%) Postman
8 5 (1.66%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.32%) Mocha
9 4 (1.32%) NUnit
9 4 (1.32%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.99%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.99%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.99%) Gatling
11 2 (0.66%) Snyk
General
1 74 (24.50%) Public Sector
2 63 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.62%) Finance
4 15 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.31%) Banking
7 6 (1.99%) Military
8 5 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Front Office
9 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Legal
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 97 (32.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (26.82%) AWS Engineer
3 52 (17.22%) AWS DevOps
4 49 (16.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 47 (15.56%) Senior
6 45 (14.90%) Architect
7 31 (10.26%) Developer
8 30 (9.93%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (8.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 22 (7.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 20 (6.62%) AWS Architect
12 19 (6.29%) Lead
13 18 (5.96%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (5.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 17 (5.63%) Cloud Architect
15 14 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (3.64%) Data Engineer
18 10 (3.31%) Consultant
19 9 (2.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.90%) Kafka
2 42 (13.91%) Node.js
3 35 (11.59%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (8.94%) REST
5 24 (7.95%) AWS CDK
5 24 (7.95%) React
6 23 (7.62%) JWT
6 23 (7.62%) OAuth
7 20 (6.62%) RESTful
7 20 (6.62%) Spring Boot
8 15 (4.97%) Spring
9 10 (3.31%) .NET
10 9 (2.98%) FastAPI
10 9 (2.98%) Lambda Expressions
10 9 (2.98%) LDAP
10 9 (2.98%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.65%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.65%) PySpark
12 7 (2.32%) boto
12 7 (2.32%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 59 (19.54%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.27%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.30%) Replication
4 9 (2.98%) NHS
5 8 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.99%) IVR
6 6 (1.99%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.66%) DataPower
7 5 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.66%) N-Tier
7 5 (1.66%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 59 (19.54%) Linux
2 19 (6.29%) Windows
3 15 (4.97%) Amazon Linux
4 13 (4.30%) VMS
5 11 (3.64%) Unix
6 8 (2.65%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.33%) Android
9 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (71.19%) CI/CD
2 186 (61.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 181 (59.93%) DevOps
4 100 (33.11%) Containerisation
5 83 (27.48%) Observability
6 78 (25.83%) Agile
7 72 (23.84%) Microservices
8 48 (15.89%) Event-Driven
9 47 (15.56%) High Availability
10 46 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (14.90%) Incident Response
12 44 (14.57%) Migration
13 42 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (13.91%) Platform Engineering
14 41 (13.58%) Infrastructure Automation
14 41 (13.58%) Performance Tuning
14 41 (13.58%) Test Automation
15 37 (12.25%) Mentoring
16 36 (11.92%) Cost Optimisation
17 34 (11.26%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 174 (57.62%) Python
2 72 (23.84%) Bash
3 54 (17.88%) Java
4 42 (13.91%) SQL
5 28 (9.27%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.62%) Shell Script
7 22 (7.28%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.96%) JavaScript
9 14 (4.64%) Groovy
10 12 (3.97%) Go
11 8 (2.65%) C#
12 6 (1.99%) Perl
13 3 (0.99%) Bicep
13 3 (0.99%) Korn
13 3 (0.99%) Scala
14 2 (0.66%) PHP
15 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.33%) R
15 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (39.74%) Security Cleared
2 97 (32.12%) SC Cleared
3 42 (13.91%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.63%) Degree
5 16 (5.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.32%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.62%) QA
2 18 (5.96%) GDPR
3 16 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (4.30%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.65%) NIST
6 7 (2.32%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.66%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.99%) NCSC
8 3 (0.99%) PMO
8 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.66%) SLA
9 2 (0.66%) WCAG
10 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 165 (54.64%) Docker
2 12 (3.97%) DFS Replication
3 8 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.65%) Dovecot
3 8 (2.65%) Postfix
3 8 (2.65%) Squid
4 1 (0.33%) KVM
4 1 (0.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 227 (75.17%) Terraform
2 118 (39.07%) Kubernetes
3 88 (29.14%) Grafana
4 84 (27.81%) Prometheus
5 57 (18.87%) Ansible
6 8 (2.65%) Argo
6 8 (2.65%) Kibana
6 8 (2.65%) Nessus
6 8 (2.65%) Proxmox
7 7 (2.32%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.32%) Puppet
7 7 (2.32%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.66%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.99%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.99%) Packer
10 2 (0.66%) logstash
10 2 (0.66%) Nagios
10 2 (0.66%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (7.95%) F5
2 23 (7.62%) CheckPoint
2 23 (7.62%) Palo Alto
2 23 (7.62%) Splunk
3 17 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 15 (4.97%) Dynatrace
4 15 (4.97%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.65%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (2.32%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.99%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.99%) Cisco
7 6 (1.99%) Databricks
7 6 (1.99%) IBM
8 5 (1.66%) Avaya
8 5 (1.66%) Dell
8 5 (1.66%) Genesys
8 5 (1.66%) Gigya
8 5 (1.66%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.32%) Sybase