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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 356 432
Rank change year-on-year +30 +76 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 292 172 168
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.56% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 1.49% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 133 146
10th Percentile £379 £405 £405
25th Percentile £417 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -9.28%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.94
25th Percentile - - £68.59
Median hourly rate - - £70.94
75th Percentile - - £72.34
90th Percentile - - £72.44
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 14,770 11,534 15,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.88% 37.34% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,142 7,674 10,749
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 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 171 328
10th Percentile £14.45 £16.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.98 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.61 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £50.06
90th Percentile £79.63 £73.75 £72.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £24.18 £20.87
% change year-on-year +53.02% +15.86% +4.35%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +6 211 £525 -0.10% 69
London +13 125 £525 - 33
UK excluding London -25 106 £525 - 49
Work from Home +3 81 £575 +9.52% 31
North of England -36 43 £525 -15.32% 15
Midlands -38 21 £475 +6.26% 9
Yorkshire -46 20 £525 -27.59% 10
Scotland +8 18 £525 +5.00% 2
West Midlands -38 18 £475 -5.00% 9
North West -18 15 £435 -12.96% 5
South West -9 10 £700 +19.15% 4
North East -12 8 £575 -2.54%
South East -21 8 £358 -37.74% 13
East of England - 6 £550 - 4
East Midlands -28 3 £375 -6.25% 1
Wales - 3 £500 - 2

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 18 (6.16%) Confluence
2 11 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.08%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.05%) Apache
4 6 (2.05%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 286 (97.95%) AWS
2 186 (63.70%) Serverless
3 180 (61.64%) AWS Lambda
4 175 (59.93%) Amazon S3
5 120 (41.10%) Amazon ECS
6 111 (38.01%) Amazon EC2
7 105 (35.96%) GitHub
8 102 (34.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 97 (33.22%) Amazon EKS
10 91 (31.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 88 (30.14%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (18.49%) Azure
13 35 (11.99%) Route 53
14 30 (10.27%) Amazon SQS
15 28 (9.59%) AWS Fargate
16 26 (8.90%) Amazon ELB
16 26 (8.90%) Datadog
17 24 (8.22%) AWS CodePipeline
18 23 (7.88%) AWS CloudTrail
19 22 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (13.70%) DNS
2 39 (13.36%) Firewall
3 22 (7.53%) VPN
4 14 (4.79%) HTTP
4 14 (4.79%) Network Security
4 14 (4.79%) SSL
4 14 (4.79%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.74%) FTP
5 8 (2.74%) SMTP
5 8 (2.74%) SSH
6 6 (2.05%) IMAP
6 6 (2.05%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.03%) WAN
8 2 (0.68%) BGP
8 2 (0.68%) OSPF
8 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.34%) DHCP
9 1 (0.34%) LAN
9 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (31.51%) Amazon RDS
2 61 (20.89%) DynamoDB
3 32 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (8.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 21 (7.19%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (7.19%) MySQL
6 15 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (4.45%) MongoDB
7 13 (4.45%) Relational Database
8 12 (4.11%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.74%) Redis
10 6 (2.05%) Big Data
10 6 (2.05%) DB2
11 5 (1.71%) DocumentDB
11 5 (1.71%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.37%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 120 (41.10%) Jenkins
2 115 (39.38%) GitLab
3 61 (20.89%) Git
4 22 (7.53%) JIRA
5 9 (3.08%) JUnit
5 9 (3.08%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.74%) Vagrant
7 6 (2.05%) Maven
8 5 (1.71%) Mocha
9 4 (1.37%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.37%) NUnit
9 4 (1.37%) Postman
9 4 (1.37%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.03%) Gatling
10 3 (1.03%) MLflow
10 3 (1.03%) Mockito
11 2 (0.68%) Hamcrest
General
1 73 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 56 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.22%) Finance
4 16 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.77%) Banking
6 10 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.71%) Military
9 3 (1.03%) Front Office
9 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.03%) Police
10 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 90 (30.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 76 (26.03%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (16.10%) AWS DevOps
4 44 (15.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 43 (14.73%) Architect
6 42 (14.38%) Senior
7 38 (13.01%) Developer
8 26 (8.90%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (7.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (7.19%) AWS Architect
11 20 (6.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 18 (6.16%) Lead
12 18 (6.16%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (6.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 17 (5.82%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (4.45%) Data Engineer
14 13 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.77%) Java Developer
15 11 (3.77%) Python Engineer
16 10 (3.42%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.44%) Kafka
2 42 (14.38%) Node.js
3 35 (11.99%) Elastic Stack
4 32 (10.96%) REST
5 27 (9.25%) AWS CDK
5 27 (9.25%) OAuth
6 21 (7.19%) React
7 20 (6.85%) JWT
8 19 (6.51%) Spring
8 19 (6.51%) Spring Boot
9 14 (4.79%) RESTful
10 11 (3.77%) FastAPI
10 11 (3.77%) OAuth2
11 10 (3.42%) .NET
11 10 (3.42%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.08%) boto
12 9 (3.08%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (3.08%) PySpark
13 8 (2.74%) Hugging Face
13 8 (2.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 60 (20.55%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.11%) Replication
4 9 (3.08%) NHS
4 9 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.40%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.05%) IVR
7 6 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.71%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.71%) DataPower
8 5 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.03%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (18.84%) Linux
2 17 (5.82%) Windows
3 11 (3.77%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (3.08%) Unix
4 9 (3.08%) VMS
5 6 (2.05%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.68%) zOS
8 1 (0.34%) Android
8 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (71.58%) CI/CD
2 184 (63.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 169 (57.88%) DevOps
4 97 (33.22%) Containerisation
5 82 (28.08%) Observability
6 76 (26.03%) Microservices
7 74 (25.34%) Agile
8 48 (16.44%) Migration
9 45 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (14.38%) Event-Driven
10 42 (14.38%) High Availability
10 42 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (14.04%) Incident Response
11 41 (14.04%) Performance Tuning
11 41 (14.04%) Test Automation
12 40 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
13 37 (12.67%) Cost Optimisation
14 35 (11.99%) Infrastructure Automation
15 34 (11.64%) Analytics
16 33 (11.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 158 (54.11%) Python
2 61 (20.89%) Bash
3 54 (18.49%) Java
4 43 (14.73%) SQL
5 23 (7.88%) PowerShell
6 21 (7.19%) Shell Script
7 19 (6.51%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.82%) JavaScript
9 12 (4.11%) Go
10 10 (3.42%) Groovy
11 8 (2.74%) C#
12 5 (1.71%) Bicep
13 4 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.37%) Scala
14 3 (1.03%) Korn
15 2 (0.68%) Perl
15 2 (0.68%) PHP
16 1 (0.34%) COBOL
16 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (39.38%) Security Cleared
2 93 (31.85%) SC Cleared
3 42 (14.38%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (5.14%) Degree
5 12 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.42%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.40%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.85%) QA
2 18 (6.16%) GDPR
3 16 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (5.14%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.74%) NIST
6 7 (2.40%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.40%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.03%) NCSC
7 3 (1.03%) PMO
7 3 (1.03%) SLA
7 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.68%) WCAG
9 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 145 (49.66%) Docker
2 8 (2.74%) DFS Replication
2 8 (2.74%) Postfix
3 6 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.05%) Dovecot
3 6 (2.05%) Squid
4 1 (0.34%) Snort
Systems Management
1 208 (71.23%) Terraform
2 112 (38.36%) Kubernetes
3 88 (30.14%) Grafana
4 77 (26.37%) Prometheus
5 46 (15.75%) Ansible
6 8 (2.74%) Argo
6 8 (2.74%) Kibana
7 7 (2.40%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.40%) Puppet
8 6 (2.05%) Nessus
8 6 (2.05%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.71%) Dell DRAC
9 5 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.03%) Karpenter
10 3 (1.03%) Packer
11 2 (0.68%) Istio
11 2 (0.68%) linkerd
11 2 (0.68%) logstash
11 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (9.25%) Splunk
2 16 (5.48%) F5
3 15 (5.14%) CheckPoint
3 15 (5.14%) Dynatrace
3 15 (5.14%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.14%) Palo Alto
4 13 (4.45%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.74%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (2.40%) Databricks
6 7 (2.40%) IBM
7 6 (2.05%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.05%) Cisco
8 5 (1.71%) Avaya
8 5 (1.71%) Dell
8 5 (1.71%) Genesys
8 5 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.37%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.37%) New Relic
9 4 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.37%) Sybase