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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 311 421
Rank change year-on-year -25 +110 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 371 261 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 0.80% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 2.14% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 186 103
10th Percentile £381 £358 £413
25th Percentile £425 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £600
90th Percentile £680 £638 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -1.05% +2.70% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.66 - -

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 18,749 12,200 13,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.94% 37.26% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,413 8,127 9,000
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 313 224
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £81.55 £70.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.13 £19.14 £24.18
% change year-on-year +62.66% -20.86% -10.44%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -39 295 £500 - 170
London -8 175 £525 +1.25% 101
Work from Home -9 140 £488 -2.50% 73
UK excluding London -66 140 £470 -1.05% 95
Midlands -53 41 £463 -2.63% 16
West Midlands -48 38 £466 -1.95% 11
North of England -65 38 £488 +21.88% 22
South East -38 26 £500 - 17
North East -28 19 £444 - 6
Scotland -17 17 £485 -3.00% 9
North West -62 12 £600 +50.00% 10
East of England -26 10 £500 -4.76% 12
Yorkshire -43 7 £638 +34.21% 6
South West -38 5 £350 -32.69% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 11
East Midlands -15 2 £392 -27.09% 5
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 46 (12.40%) Confluence
2 20 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.31%) Apache
4 13 (3.50%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.16%) SAS
6 7 (1.89%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.08%) CICS
8 3 (0.81%) nginx
9 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Trello
2 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 370 (99.73%) AWS
2 221 (59.57%) Amazon S3
3 220 (59.30%) Serverless
4 217 (58.49%) AWS Lambda
5 142 (38.27%) Amazon EC2
6 123 (33.15%) Amazon EKS
7 115 (31.00%) GitHub
8 109 (29.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 108 (29.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 89 (23.99%) Amazon ECS
11 83 (22.37%) GitHub Actions
12 77 (20.75%) Azure
13 49 (13.21%) AWS KMS
14 44 (11.86%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (9.97%) AWS Step Functions
16 36 (9.70%) Amazon Kinesis
16 36 (9.70%) Datadog
17 35 (9.43%) Amazon EMR
17 35 (9.43%) AWS CloudTrail
18 34 (9.16%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.01%) Firewall
2 14 (3.77%) Network Security
3 13 (3.50%) DNS
4 7 (1.89%) HTTP
4 7 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.62%) SNMP
5 6 (1.62%) SSL
6 5 (1.35%) CTI
6 5 (1.35%) WAN
7 3 (0.81%) SMS
7 3 (0.81%) VPN
8 2 (0.54%) FTP
8 2 (0.54%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.54%) IMAP
8 2 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.54%) SMTP
8 2 (0.54%) SSH
9 1 (0.27%) BGP
9 1 (0.27%) Internet
9 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (29.38%) Amazon RDS
2 77 (20.75%) DynamoDB
3 62 (16.71%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (13.75%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (11.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 34 (9.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 30 (8.09%) MongoDB
8 22 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (5.93%) Power BI
9 20 (5.39%) Redis
10 14 (3.77%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.50%) MySQL
12 12 (3.23%) Tableau
13 11 (2.96%) Data Lake
14 10 (2.70%) DocumentDB
14 10 (2.70%) NoSQL
15 9 (2.43%) Apache Iceberg
16 8 (2.16%) Db2
17 6 (1.62%) BusinessObjects
17 6 (1.62%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 127 (34.23%) Jenkins
2 121 (32.61%) GitLab
3 85 (22.91%) Git
4 63 (16.98%) JIRA
5 22 (5.93%) Bitbucket
6 18 (4.85%) JUnit
7 17 (4.58%) Mockito
8 13 (3.50%) Maven
9 10 (2.70%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.43%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.16%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.89%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.89%) DbUnit
12 7 (1.89%) Postman
13 6 (1.62%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.62%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.62%) jMock
14 5 (1.35%) Gatling
15 4 (1.08%) JMeter
15 4 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 105 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 94 (25.34%) Public Sector
3 39 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.43%) Finance
5 22 (5.93%) Banking
6 17 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.62%) Back Office
8 6 (1.62%) Law
9 5 (1.35%) Military
10 4 (1.08%) Front Office
11 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Legal
11 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Publishing
12 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.54%) Retail
13 1 (0.27%) Billing
13 1 (0.27%) Games
13 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (21.83%) AWS Engineer
2 66 (17.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 58 (15.63%) Senior
4 46 (12.40%) Developer
5 41 (11.05%) AWS DevOps
6 40 (10.78%) Architect
7 37 (9.97%) Data Engineer
8 33 (8.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 33 (8.89%) Lead
9 32 (8.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (5.93%) AWS Architect
11 21 (5.66%) Scrum Master
12 18 (4.85%) Java Developer
12 18 (4.85%) Lead DevOps
12 18 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (4.04%) AWS Data Engineer
13 15 (4.04%) DBA
14 14 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 13 (3.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (62.80%) Terraform
2 47 (12.67%) RESTful
3 43 (11.59%) Node.js
3 43 (11.59%) REST
3 43 (11.59%) Spring
4 41 (11.05%) Kafka
5 39 (10.51%) Spring Boot
6 35 (9.43%) AWS CDK
7 23 (6.20%) PySpark
8 19 (5.12%) SOAP
9 14 (3.77%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.77%) React
10 13 (3.50%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (3.50%) OpenTelemetry
10 13 (3.50%) Web Services
11 11 (2.96%) FastAPI
11 11 (2.96%) GraphQL
12 10 (2.70%) Playwright
13 9 (2.43%) Jest
13 9 (2.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 119 (32.08%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.70%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (9.43%) Product Ownership
4 19 (5.12%) Replication
5 13 (3.50%) IVR
6 11 (2.96%) CMDB
6 11 (2.96%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.16%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.62%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.08%) DataPower
11 4 (1.08%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.08%) NHS
11 4 (1.08%) Online Banking
12 3 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 56 (15.09%) Linux
2 20 (5.39%) Windows
3 16 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.70%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (2.43%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.89%) Unix
7 6 (1.62%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.35%) zOS
9 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.27%) Android
10 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.27%) CentOS
10 1 (0.27%) Debian
10 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (77.90%) CI/CD
2 228 (61.46%) DevOps
3 225 (60.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (44.20%) Agile
5 123 (33.15%) Observability
6 106 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 91 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (21.56%) Test Automation
9 77 (20.75%) Platform Engineering
10 72 (19.41%) Microservices
11 63 (16.98%) AI
12 62 (16.71%) Root Cause Analysis
13 59 (15.90%) Scrum
14 56 (15.09%) Data Modelling
15 53 (14.29%) Event-Driven
16 52 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
17 50 (13.48%) Performance Tuning
18 48 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
19 47 (12.67%) Software Engineering
20 45 (12.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 188 (50.67%) Python
2 89 (23.99%) SQL
3 76 (20.49%) Java
4 75 (20.22%) Bash
5 38 (10.24%) PowerShell
6 30 (8.09%) TypeScript
7 26 (7.01%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.31%) Scala
9 14 (3.77%) Groovy
10 11 (2.96%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.43%) C#
12 7 (1.89%) Perl
13 4 (1.08%) Bicep
13 4 (1.08%) Go
13 4 (1.08%) JCL
13 4 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.54%) Korn
15 1 (0.27%) Ladder Logic
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 166 (44.74%) Security Cleared
2 147 (39.62%) SC Cleared
3 68 (18.33%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (6.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (4.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (4.31%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.96%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.89%) Degree
12 4 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.08%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.54%) CISSP
14 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.32%) QA
2 36 (9.70%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.62%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.35%) SLA
5 5 (1.35%) WCAG
6 4 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.08%) GDPR
6 4 (1.08%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.81%) NCSC
7 3 (0.81%) PMO
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) HL7
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.27%) NIST
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 141 (38.01%) Docker
2 12 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.96%) IAG
4 10 (2.70%) Squid
5 7 (1.89%) Postfix
6 2 (0.54%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.54%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 127 (34.23%) Kubernetes
2 119 (32.08%) Grafana
3 94 (25.34%) Prometheus
4 65 (17.52%) Ansible
5 10 (2.70%) Packer
5 10 (2.70%) Puppet
6 8 (2.16%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.35%) Argo
8 5 (1.35%) Istio
9 4 (1.08%) Suricata
10 3 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.81%) Kibana
11 2 (0.54%) Consul
11 2 (0.54%) Nessus
11 2 (0.54%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.54%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.27%) Rancher
12 1 (0.27%) WSUS
12 1 (0.27%) yum
Vendors
1 36 (9.70%) Dynatrace
2 27 (7.28%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.66%) Splunk
4 19 (5.12%) Informatica
5 13 (3.50%) Microsoft
6 11 (2.96%) Nexthink
6 11 (2.96%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.70%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (2.70%) Oracle
8 8 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.89%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.89%) Confluent
10 6 (1.62%) Cribl.io
10 6 (1.62%) Denodo
10 6 (1.62%) Google
11 5 (1.35%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.08%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.08%) New Relic
12 4 (1.08%) Trend Micro
13 3 (0.81%) Databricks