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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 389 441
Rank change year-on-year +102 +52 -7
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 329 175 184
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% 1.35% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 128 149
10th Percentile £387 £409 £458
25th Percentile £439 £456 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% -12.80%

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 13,810 12,971 16,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.31% 35.58% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,372 8,543 11,601
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 189 302
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.02 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +22.73%
75th Percentile £52.33 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £21.82
% change year-on-year -18.18% +26.03% +14.36%

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 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 29 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 +74 243 £509 -3.28% 56
UK excluding London +37 132 £500 - 46
London +68 129 £525 -0.19% 26
Work from Home +41 112 £536 +3.57% 38
North of England -16 56 £500 -11.50% 12
Midlands -4 37 £475 +9.32% 12
West Midlands +9 34 £475 - 9
Yorkshire -7 28 £500 -29.82% 2
North West -20 20 £435 -3.33% 8
Scotland +1 17 £525 +8.14% 2
South West +16 10 £700 +40.00% 4
East of England - 9 £550 - 1
North East -5 8 £575 -2.54% 2
South East +3 4 £650 -18.75% 12
East Midlands -17 3 £375 -13.69% 3
Wales +2 2 - - 3

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 37 (11.25%) Confluence
2 13 (3.95%) nginx
3 5 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.22%) Apache
4 4 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (3.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 326 (99.09%) AWS
2 222 (67.48%) Amazon S3
3 198 (60.18%) Serverless
4 197 (59.88%) AWS Lambda
5 167 (50.76%) Amazon EC2
6 119 (36.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 115 (34.95%) Amazon ECS
8 105 (31.91%) GitHub
9 92 (27.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 85 (25.84%) GitHub Actions
11 74 (22.49%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (15.81%) Azure
13 47 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
14 42 (12.77%) Route 53
15 39 (11.85%) Datadog
16 34 (10.33%) AWS Fargate
17 32 (9.73%) Amazon SQS
18 30 (9.12%) AWS KMS
19 24 (7.29%) AWS CloudTrail
20 23 (6.99%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (18.24%) DNS
2 58 (17.63%) Firewall
3 34 (10.33%) VPN
4 24 (7.29%) HTTP
4 24 (7.29%) SSL
5 23 (6.99%) SMTP
6 22 (6.69%) SSH
6 22 (6.69%) TCP/IP
7 21 (6.38%) FTP
8 17 (5.17%) OpenLDAP
9 16 (4.86%) Network Security
10 12 (3.65%) IMAP
11 7 (2.13%) DHCP
12 6 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.30%) LAN
13 1 (0.30%) VLAN
13 1 (0.30%) VSAN
13 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (37.39%) Amazon RDS
2 66 (20.06%) DynamoDB
3 37 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (9.12%) Amazon Aurora
5 24 (7.29%) MySQL
6 19 (5.78%) Relational Database
7 17 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (4.26%) NoSQL
9 13 (3.95%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.74%) MongoDB
11 8 (2.43%) Redis
12 7 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.13%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.82%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.52%) DB2
14 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.52%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.22%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 141 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 113 (34.35%) GitLab
3 99 (30.09%) Git
4 39 (11.85%) JIRA
5 23 (6.99%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.65%) SonarQube
7 11 (3.34%) Maven
8 9 (2.74%) JUnit
9 5 (1.52%) Gradle
9 5 (1.52%) Postman
9 5 (1.52%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.91%) Gatling
11 3 (0.91%) Mocha
11 3 (0.91%) NUnit
11 3 (0.91%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.61%) Serenity BDD
General
1 79 (24.01%) Public Sector
2 66 (20.06%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.38%) Finance
4 17 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.04%) Banking
7 5 (1.52%) Military
8 4 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Front Office
9 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Legal
11 1 (0.30%) Games
11 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 116 (35.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 93 (28.27%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (17.93%) AWS DevOps
4 55 (16.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 52 (15.81%) Senior
6 36 (10.94%) Platform Engineer
7 34 (10.33%) Developer
8 32 (9.73%) Architect
8 32 (9.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 25 (7.60%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 21 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (6.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 19 (5.78%) Lead
13 15 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.95%) Python Engineer
14 13 (3.95%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.65%) DevOps Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.34%) AWS Developer
16 11 (3.34%) Consultant
16 11 (3.34%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (10.94%) Node.js
2 32 (9.73%) Kafka
3 28 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (8.21%) REST
5 24 (7.29%) AWS CDK
6 21 (6.38%) JWT
6 21 (6.38%) React
7 19 (5.78%) LDAP
8 18 (5.47%) Spring Boot
9 17 (5.17%) OAuth
9 17 (5.17%) RESTful
10 14 (4.26%) Spring
11 12 (3.65%) boto
12 11 (3.34%) AngularJS
12 11 (3.34%) pytest
13 10 (3.04%) FastAPI
14 9 (2.74%) GraphQL
14 9 (2.74%) Lambda Expressions
15 8 (2.43%) .NET
15 8 (2.43%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.59%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.42%) Replication
3 23 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.74%) NHS
7 7 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.82%) IVR
9 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.52%) DataPower
9 5 (1.52%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.52%) N-Tier
9 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.22%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.91%) Clustering
11 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 69 (20.97%) Linux
2 28 (8.51%) Windows
3 27 (8.21%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (7.29%) VMS
5 11 (3.34%) Ubuntu
6 10 (3.04%) Unix
7 7 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.30%) Android
9 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.30%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (66.57%) CI/CD
1 219 (66.57%) DevOps
2 177 (53.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 101 (30.70%) Containerisation
4 85 (25.84%) Agile
5 74 (22.49%) Observability
6 71 (21.58%) Microservices
7 53 (16.11%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (15.81%) Infrastructure Automation
9 51 (15.50%) High Availability
9 51 (15.50%) Migration
10 49 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (13.98%) Cloud Security
12 42 (12.77%) Event-Driven
13 41 (12.46%) Configuration Management
13 41 (12.46%) Incident Response
13 41 (12.46%) Mentoring
14 40 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
15 36 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 35 (10.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 192 (58.36%) Python
2 74 (22.49%) Bash
3 54 (16.41%) Java
4 44 (13.37%) PowerShell
4 44 (13.37%) SQL
5 25 (7.60%) Groovy
6 24 (7.29%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.17%) Go
7 17 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 16 (4.86%) JavaScript
9 13 (3.95%) Perl
10 5 (1.52%) C#
11 3 (0.91%) Korn
12 2 (0.61%) Bicep
12 2 (0.61%) PHP
12 2 (0.61%) PromQL
12 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.30%) C
13 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (37.39%) Security Cleared
2 104 (31.61%) SC Cleared
3 41 (12.46%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (4.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (4.86%) Degree
6 14 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.61%) MCSE
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.99%) QA
2 18 (5.47%) GDPR
3 13 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.95%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.82%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.22%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.91%) NCSC
7 3 (0.91%) PMO
8 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.61%) NIST
8 2 (0.61%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 164 (49.85%) Docker
2 24 (7.29%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.38%) DFS Replication
4 13 (3.95%) Postfix
5 12 (3.65%) Dovecot
5 12 (3.65%) Squid
6 2 (0.61%) Snort
7 1 (0.30%) KVM
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 235 (71.43%) Terraform
2 120 (36.47%) Kubernetes
3 97 (29.48%) Grafana
4 94 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 54 (16.41%) Ansible
6 12 (3.65%) Nessus
7 11 (3.34%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.04%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.13%) Puppet
10 6 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.52%) Argo
11 5 (1.52%) Kibana
11 5 (1.52%) Packer
12 4 (1.22%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.61%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.61%) logstash
14 2 (0.61%) SELinux
14 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (9.42%) ServiceNow
2 25 (7.60%) F5
3 24 (7.29%) Dynatrace
3 24 (7.29%) Splunk
4 23 (6.99%) CheckPoint
4 23 (6.99%) Palo Alto
5 17 (5.17%) Microsoft
6 13 (3.95%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.13%) Cisco
8 6 (1.82%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.52%) Avaya
9 5 (1.52%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.52%) Genesys
9 5 (1.52%) Gigya
9 5 (1.52%) Google
9 5 (1.52%) IBM
9 5 (1.52%) Oracle
9 5 (1.52%) Sybase
9 5 (1.52%) Zscaler