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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 400 403
Rank change year-on-year +106 +3 +51
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 284 163 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.42% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.30% 1.23% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 101 190
10th Percentile £376 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £444 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.00% -13.40%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +7.22% -14.29% -12.50%
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 12,372 13,215 17,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.55% 34.30% 35.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,253 8,897 12,770
10th Percentile £312 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 194 337
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.64 £14.97
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.44 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.28 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -36.67% +15.38% +35.06%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon CloudWatch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon CloudWatch 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 September 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 September 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 +92 214 £500 -7.06% 85
UK excluding London +79 127 £483 +7.22% 68
Work from Home +61 109 £500 -4.31% 51
London +32 104 £525 -2.60% 42
Midlands +25 46 £475 +15.15% 7
West Midlands +34 42 £475 - 5
North of England -11 40 £435 -2.68% 16
North West -4 20 £425 +4.94% 9
Scotland -4 20 £525 +16.67% 9
Yorkshire -1 19 £483 -15.16% 6
East of England +16 16 £550 -37.14% 1
South West +20 5 £520 -5.45% 9
East Midlands -7 4 £486 +17.82% 2
South East +18 3 £500 -28.44% 24
Wales +4 1 - - 1
North East -5 1 - - 1

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (12.68%) Confluence
2 18 (6.34%) nginx
3 10 (3.52%) Apache
4 7 (2.46%) CMS
5 6 (2.11%) WordPress
6 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.41%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.06%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 12 (4.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 278 (97.89%) AWS
2 182 (64.08%) Amazon S3
3 138 (48.59%) Amazon EC2
3 138 (48.59%) Serverless
4 134 (47.18%) AWS Lambda
5 95 (33.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 75 (26.41%) Amazon ECS
6 75 (26.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 65 (22.89%) GitHub
8 56 (19.72%) GitHub Actions
9 47 (16.55%) Amazon ELB
9 47 (16.55%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (15.14%) AWS KMS
11 38 (13.38%) Azure
12 37 (13.03%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (12.32%) Route 53
14 31 (10.92%) Datadog
15 25 (8.80%) AWS Fargate
16 20 (7.04%) Amazon Glacier
16 20 (7.04%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 56 (19.72%) DNS
2 55 (19.37%) Firewall
3 29 (10.21%) VPN
4 27 (9.51%) HTTP
5 24 (8.45%) SMTP
5 24 (8.45%) SSH
6 23 (8.10%) SSL
6 23 (8.10%) TCP/IP
7 22 (7.75%) FTP
8 17 (5.99%) OpenLDAP
9 15 (5.28%) Network Security
10 12 (4.23%) IMAP
11 6 (2.11%) DHCP
12 5 (1.76%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (1.06%) VLAN
14 2 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
14 2 (0.70%) HTTPS
15 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
15 1 (0.35%) LAN
15 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (35.21%) Amazon RDS
2 60 (21.13%) DynamoDB
3 40 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (10.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 24 (8.45%) MySQL
6 12 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.23%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.52%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.17%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.11%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.11%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.11%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.11%) Redis
10 5 (1.76%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.06%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.06%) Metadata
11 3 (1.06%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 130 (45.77%) Jenkins
2 87 (30.63%) Git
3 78 (27.46%) GitLab
4 40 (14.08%) JIRA
5 24 (8.45%) Vagrant
6 19 (6.69%) Maven
6 19 (6.69%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.58%) JUnit
8 7 (2.46%) Gradle
9 6 (2.11%) Artifactory
9 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.11%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.11%) jMock
9 6 (2.11%) Mockito
10 5 (1.76%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.76%) Postman
10 5 (1.76%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.06%) Gatling
General
1 62 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 59 (20.77%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.63%) Finance
4 14 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.46%) Banking
7 4 (1.41%) Military
8 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.70%) Front Office
8 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.70%) Legal
9 1 (0.35%) Aviation
9 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 108 (38.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 76 (26.76%) AWS Engineer
3 53 (18.66%) AWS DevOps
4 52 (18.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 45 (15.85%) Senior
6 31 (10.92%) Developer
7 29 (10.21%) Architect
8 26 (9.15%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (7.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 16 (5.63%) Software Engineer
11 15 (5.28%) Senior DevOps
12 14 (4.93%) AWS Architect
12 14 (4.93%) AWS Developer
13 13 (4.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (4.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.23%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.23%) Python Engineer
15 11 (3.87%) Administrator
16 10 (3.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.92%) Kafka
2 25 (8.80%) AWS CDK
3 24 (8.45%) RESTful
4 22 (7.75%) Node.js
4 22 (7.75%) REST
5 21 (7.39%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (6.69%) LDAP
7 17 (5.99%) Spring Boot
8 16 (5.63%) AngularJS
8 16 (5.63%) Spring
9 15 (5.28%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (4.93%) React
11 12 (4.23%) boto
12 11 (3.87%) GraphQL
12 11 (3.87%) OAuth
13 10 (3.52%) JWT
13 10 (3.52%) pytest
14 8 (2.82%) .NET
14 8 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (2.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.92%) Replication
2 28 (9.86%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.52%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.76%) Clustering
6 5 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.76%) N-Tier
6 5 (1.76%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.70%) BBC
9 2 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.70%) Video on Demand
9 2 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.70%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 66 (23.24%) Linux
2 32 (11.27%) Windows
3 26 (9.15%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (8.45%) VMS
5 12 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (3.87%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.11%) Unix
8 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.35%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (71.13%) DevOps
2 181 (63.73%) CI/CD
3 126 (44.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (27.46%) Agile
5 74 (26.06%) Containerisation
6 54 (19.01%) Observability
7 53 (18.66%) Microservices
8 52 (18.31%) Infrastructure Automation
9 41 (14.44%) Cloud Security
9 41 (14.44%) High Availability
9 41 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
10 40 (14.08%) Mentoring
10 40 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (13.38%) Configuration Management
11 38 (13.38%) Event-Driven
12 37 (13.03%) Migration
13 32 (11.27%) Test Automation
14 30 (10.56%) Incident Response
15 29 (10.21%) Software Engineering
16 26 (9.15%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 145 (51.06%) Python
2 55 (19.37%) Java
3 52 (18.31%) Bash
4 45 (15.85%) PowerShell
5 38 (13.38%) SQL
6 27 (9.51%) Groovy
7 22 (7.75%) JavaScript
8 18 (6.34%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.93%) Perl
10 12 (4.23%) Go
11 7 (2.46%) PHP
11 7 (2.46%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.70%) C#
12 2 (0.70%) PromQL
12 2 (0.70%) Scala
12 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 97 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 90 (31.69%) SC Cleared
3 38 (13.38%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.63%) Degree
5 15 (5.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (4.93%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.70%) CCIE
10 2 (0.70%) CCNP
10 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.70%) MCSE
10 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.35%) OCP
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.99%) QA
2 11 (3.87%) GDPR
3 10 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.82%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.76%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.41%) NCSC
7 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.06%) NIST
8 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 127 (44.72%) Docker
2 23 (8.10%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.75%) DFS Replication
4 18 (6.34%) Postfix
5 12 (4.23%) Dovecot
5 12 (4.23%) Squid
6 3 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.70%) Snort
7 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.35%) KVM
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 179 (63.03%) Terraform
2 96 (33.80%) Kubernetes
3 87 (30.63%) Prometheus
4 78 (27.46%) Grafana
5 44 (15.49%) Ansible
6 12 (4.23%) Nessus
6 12 (4.23%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.52%) Proxmox
8 8 (2.82%) Kibana
8 8 (2.82%) Puppet
9 6 (2.11%) Argo
10 5 (1.76%) logstash
11 4 (1.41%) Consul
11 4 (1.41%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.06%) Packer
13 2 (0.70%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.70%) QRadar
13 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (10.21%) ServiceNow
2 25 (8.80%) Dynatrace
3 22 (7.75%) F5
3 22 (7.75%) Splunk
4 20 (7.04%) CheckPoint
4 20 (7.04%) Palo Alto
5 18 (6.34%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (5.63%) Microsoft
7 13 (4.58%) AppDynamics
8 11 (3.87%) Atlassian
9 9 (3.17%) Google
9 9 (3.17%) Oracle
10 6 (2.11%) Cisco
11 5 (1.76%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (1.76%) Gigya
11 5 (1.76%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.06%) Databricks
12 3 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.06%) SAP
12 3 (1.06%) VMware