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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 345 430
Rank change year-on-year -19 +85 -29
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 297 176 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.60% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.60% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 131 135
10th Percentile £356 £363 £405
25th Percentile £410 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% -1.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £591
90th Percentile £675 £738 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.10% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.94
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £71.87

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 16,965 11,000 14,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.96% 37.64% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,535 7,642 10,006
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £633
90th Percentile £700 £733 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.32% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 250 348
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.78 £27.43 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.70% +30.60% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.56 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.53 £17.72
% change year-on-year +120.67% +21.47% -28.03%

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 30 April 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 15 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 30 April 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 -22 231 £500 -2.20% 34
London +25 144 £525 +2.94% 20
UK excluding London -51 111 £472 -10.10% 16
Work from Home -20 91 £475 -9.52% 13
West Midlands -37 35 £472 -5.60% 2
Midlands -50 35 £472 -8.97% 2
Scotland +11 24 £440 -16.19% 1
North of England -79 23 £509 -5.26% 5
South East -42 13 £392 -31.91% 4
North West -41 9 £550 +40.66% 4
Yorkshire -55 9 £509 -29.83%
South West -26 8 £700 +19.15% 2
East of England -31 8 £500 - 2
North East -19 5 £466 -24.84% 1
Wales - 1 £500 -

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 32 (10.77%) Confluence
2 21 (7.07%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.37%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.03%) Apache
5 6 (2.02%) SAS
6 4 (1.35%) CICS
6 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 294 (98.99%) AWS
2 185 (62.29%) Serverless
3 179 (60.27%) AWS Lambda
4 178 (59.93%) Amazon S3
5 116 (39.06%) Amazon EC2
6 104 (35.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 104 (35.02%) GitHub
7 102 (34.34%) Amazon ECS
8 93 (31.31%) Amazon EKS
9 86 (28.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 84 (28.28%) GitHub Actions
11 56 (18.86%) Azure
12 45 (15.15%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (12.46%) AWS CodePipeline
14 33 (11.11%) AWS KMS
15 32 (10.77%) Route 53
16 31 (10.44%) Amazon Kinesis
17 22 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
17 22 (7.41%) Datadog
18 20 (6.73%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.07%) DNS
2 14 (4.71%) Firewall
3 7 (2.36%) HTTP
4 5 (1.68%) SNMP
4 5 (1.68%) VPN
5 3 (1.01%) Network Security
5 3 (1.01%) WAN
6 2 (0.67%) BGP
6 2 (0.67%) OSPF
6 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.67%) SSL
6 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.34%) CTI
7 1 (0.34%) DHCP
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (29.29%) Amazon RDS
2 77 (25.93%) DynamoDB
3 40 (13.47%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (12.46%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (11.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 30 (10.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (6.40%) Tableau
8 17 (5.72%) Power BI
9 13 (4.38%) MongoDB
10 12 (4.04%) MySQL
11 11 (3.70%) NoSQL
12 10 (3.37%) Relational Database
13 9 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (2.69%) Data Lake
14 8 (2.69%) DB2
14 8 (2.69%) SQL Server
15 7 (2.36%) Redis
16 6 (2.02%) Big Data
16 6 (2.02%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 101 (34.01%) Jenkins
2 98 (33.00%) GitLab
3 58 (19.53%) Git
4 39 (13.13%) JIRA
5 19 (6.40%) JUnit
6 18 (6.06%) Maven
7 17 (5.72%) Mockito
8 16 (5.39%) SonarQube
9 14 (4.71%) Bitbucket
10 11 (3.70%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.70%) jMock
11 9 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.68%) MLflow
12 5 (1.68%) Postman
13 4 (1.35%) Gradle
13 4 (1.35%) Jaeger
13 4 (1.35%) NUnit
13 4 (1.35%) Terragrunt
14 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
14 3 (1.01%) Mocha
General
1 82 (27.61%) Public Sector
2 74 (24.92%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.45%) Finance
4 29 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (3.70%) Banking
7 8 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.01%) Police
9 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.67%) Military
9 2 (0.67%) Retail
10 1 (0.34%) Billing
10 1 (0.34%) Front Office
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
Job Titles
1 69 (23.23%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (16.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 48 (16.16%) Developer
4 39 (13.13%) Architect
5 38 (12.79%) Senior
6 33 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (9.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.74%) Data Engineer
8 23 (7.74%) Java Developer
9 19 (6.40%) AWS Architect
9 19 (6.40%) Lead
9 19 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (4.71%) Senior Developer
11 13 (4.38%) Analyst
12 12 (4.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.04%) Delivery Manager
12 12 (4.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 12 (4.04%) Technical Manager
13 11 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
13 11 (3.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.82%) Node.js
2 41 (13.80%) REST
3 40 (13.47%) Kafka
4 37 (12.46%) AWS CDK
5 34 (11.45%) Spring
5 34 (11.45%) Spring Boot
6 32 (10.77%) RESTful
7 23 (7.74%) Elastic Stack
7 23 (7.74%) OAuth
8 22 (7.41%) OpenTelemetry
9 21 (7.07%) SOAP
9 21 (7.07%) Web Services
10 19 (6.40%) AngularJS
11 18 (6.06%) Hibernate
11 18 (6.06%) JPA
11 18 (6.06%) Spring Cloud
12 15 (5.05%) JWT
13 14 (4.71%) ActiveMQ
13 14 (4.71%) Spring Batch
13 14 (4.71%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 82 (27.61%) Cloud Native
2 45 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.03%) Mainframe
4 9 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.69%) NHS
5 8 (2.69%) Replication
6 7 (2.36%) DataPower
6 7 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.36%) IVR
7 5 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.35%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.35%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.35%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.20%) Linux
2 13 (4.38%) Windows
3 7 (2.36%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (2.36%) Unix
4 6 (2.02%) zOS
5 4 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.34%) Debian
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (70.03%) CI/CD
2 159 (53.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 152 (51.18%) DevOps
4 110 (37.04%) Agile
5 103 (34.68%) Observability
6 96 (32.32%) Containerisation
7 75 (25.25%) Microservices
8 73 (24.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (19.87%) Test Automation
10 51 (17.17%) Migration
11 50 (16.84%) Performance Tuning
12 49 (16.50%) Platform Engineering
12 49 (16.50%) Scrum
13 46 (15.49%) Analytics
14 43 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (12.46%) ETL
15 37 (12.46%) Event-Driven
16 35 (11.78%) Data Modelling
16 35 (11.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 34 (11.45%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 146 (49.16%) Python
2 74 (24.92%) SQL
3 63 (21.21%) Java
4 53 (17.85%) Bash
5 25 (8.42%) PowerShell
6 24 (8.08%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.41%) Shell Script
8 19 (6.40%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.70%) Go
9 11 (3.70%) Scala
10 8 (2.69%) C#
11 5 (1.68%) Bicep
11 5 (1.68%) Groovy
11 5 (1.68%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.35%) JCL
13 3 (1.01%) Perl
14 2 (0.67%) C
14 2 (0.67%) Korn
14 2 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.34%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 139 (46.80%) Security Cleared
2 120 (40.40%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.45%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (3.03%) Degree
7 8 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.36%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (2.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.68%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.35%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.74%) QA
2 18 (6.06%) PCI DSS
3 15 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 15 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.71%) GDPR
5 10 (3.37%) NIST
6 9 (3.03%) PMO
7 7 (2.36%) SLA
8 6 (2.02%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.68%) GRC
10 4 (1.35%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.35%) ISO 20022
11 3 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (1.01%) NCSC
12 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.67%) WCAG
13 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 132 (44.44%) Docker
2 10 (3.37%) Postfix
3 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) IAG
4 1 (0.34%) KVM
4 1 (0.34%) QEMU
4 1 (0.34%) Squid
Systems Management
1 187 (62.96%) Terraform
2 106 (35.69%) Grafana
3 92 (30.98%) Kubernetes
4 84 (28.28%) Prometheus
5 28 (9.43%) Ansible
6 8 (2.69%) Istio
7 7 (2.36%) Puppet
8 6 (2.02%) Kibana
8 6 (2.02%) Packer
9 5 (1.68%) Argo
10 4 (1.35%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.01%) Karpenter
11 3 (1.01%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.01%) Rancher
11 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.67%) linkerd
12 2 (0.67%) logstash
12 2 (0.67%) Nagios
12 2 (0.67%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 28 (9.43%) Splunk
2 18 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.39%) Dynatrace
4 14 (4.71%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (4.71%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.70%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.69%) Databricks
7 7 (2.36%) Informatica
8 6 (2.02%) AVEVA
8 6 (2.02%) Cisco
8 6 (2.02%) Cribl.io
8 6 (2.02%) Denodo
8 6 (2.02%) New Relic
8 6 (2.02%) Oracle
9 5 (1.68%) Avaya
9 5 (1.68%) Genesys
9 5 (1.68%) IBM
10 4 (1.35%) Dell
10 4 (1.35%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.35%) Salesforce