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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 349 419
Rank change year-on-year -3 +70 -17
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 288 180 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.61% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 1.61% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 138 136
10th Percentile £353 £386 £400
25th Percentile £400 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -0.38% -11.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £729 £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -9.52% -0.94% -7.83%
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 16,762 11,156 14,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.35% 37.91% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,421 7,770 10,058
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +0.21% -2.86% -3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 472 247 343
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.78 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £19.00 £16.03
Median hourly rate £42.59 £27.76 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% +32.19% -30.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £48.75 £34.38
90th Percentile £82.13 £75.20 £59.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -23.59%

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 18 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 18 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 -31 224 £500 -4.40% 53
London +25 148 £506 -1.79% 28
UK excluding London -55 96 £475 -9.52% 30
Work from Home -28 85 £475 -9.52% 30
West Midlands -48 28 £475 -5.00% 2
Midlands -52 28 £475 +6.26% 3
North of England -68 24 £509 -13.77% 13
Scotland +11 20 £400 -23.81% 2
Yorkshire -51 11 £500 -31.03% 2
North West -47 10 £475 +26.84% 6
South West -21 9 £700 +19.15% 1
South East -38 9 £392 -31.91% 6
East of England -28 5 £450 -10.00% 5
North East -17 3 £575 -7.26% 5
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 21 (7.29%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (6.60%) Confluence
3 10 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.43%) Apache
5 4 (1.39%) CICS
5 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 285 (98.96%) AWS
2 189 (65.63%) Serverless
3 183 (63.54%) AWS Lambda
4 178 (61.81%) Amazon S3
5 118 (40.97%) Amazon EC2
6 109 (37.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 107 (37.15%) Amazon ECS
8 103 (35.76%) GitHub
9 86 (29.86%) Amazon EKS
10 82 (28.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 80 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (18.75%) Azure
13 43 (14.93%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (11.81%) AWS CodePipeline
14 34 (11.81%) Route 53
15 30 (10.42%) AWS KMS
16 28 (9.72%) Amazon Kinesis
17 26 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
18 22 (7.64%) AWS Fargate
18 22 (7.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.29%) DNS
2 13 (4.51%) Firewall
3 5 (1.74%) HTTP
3 5 (1.74%) VPN
4 3 (1.04%) Network Security
4 3 (1.04%) WAN
5 2 (0.69%) BGP
5 2 (0.69%) OSPF
5 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.35%) CTI
6 1 (0.35%) DHCP
6 1 (0.35%) LAN
6 1 (0.35%) SSL
6 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (30.21%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (27.43%) DynamoDB
3 40 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (10.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 30 (10.42%) Amazon Athena
6 24 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (6.60%) Tableau
8 15 (5.21%) MongoDB
9 14 (4.86%) MySQL
9 14 (4.86%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.17%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.82%) DB2
11 11 (3.82%) Power BI
12 8 (2.78%) Redis
12 8 (2.78%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.08%) Big Data
14 5 (1.74%) Data Vault
14 5 (1.74%) Metadata
14 5 (1.74%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 96 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 91 (31.60%) GitLab
3 52 (18.06%) Git
4 26 (9.03%) JIRA
5 22 (7.64%) JUnit
6 18 (6.25%) Maven
7 17 (5.90%) Mockito
8 16 (5.56%) SonarQube
9 11 (3.82%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.82%) DbUnit
9 11 (3.82%) jMock
10 9 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (2.08%) Postman
12 4 (1.39%) Gradle
12 4 (1.39%) MLflow
12 4 (1.39%) NUnit
12 4 (1.39%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.04%) Mocha
General
1 80 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 69 (23.96%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (12.15%) Finance
4 13 (4.51%) Banking
5 12 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.04%) Police
8 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.69%) Military
9 1 (0.35%) Billing
9 1 (0.35%) Front Office
9 1 (0.35%) Games
9 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.35%) Law
9 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (22.57%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (18.75%) Developer
3 50 (17.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (13.54%) Architect
5 37 (12.85%) Senior
6 31 (10.76%) AWS DevOps
7 28 (9.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 27 (9.38%) Java Developer
9 20 (6.94%) Data Engineer
10 19 (6.60%) AWS Architect
10 19 (6.60%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (5.90%) Lead
11 17 (5.90%) Senior Developer
12 14 (4.86%) Analyst
13 13 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.51%) Senior Java Developer
14 12 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (4.17%) Technical Manager
15 11 (3.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.82%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.36%) Node.js
2 44 (15.28%) Kafka
3 41 (14.24%) REST
4 39 (13.54%) Spring Boot
5 38 (13.19%) Spring
6 35 (12.15%) AWS CDK
7 33 (11.46%) RESTful
8 27 (9.38%) OAuth
9 23 (7.99%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (7.29%) SOAP
10 21 (7.29%) Web Services
11 19 (6.60%) AngularJS
11 19 (6.60%) JWT
12 18 (6.25%) Hibernate
12 18 (6.25%) JPA
12 18 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
13 16 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
13 16 (5.56%) React
14 14 (4.86%) ActiveMQ
14 14 (4.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 70 (24.31%) Cloud Native
2 49 (17.01%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.47%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.78%) DataPower
5 8 (2.78%) NHS
5 8 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.43%) IVR
7 6 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.74%) Replication
8 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.39%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.39%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.04%) PACS
10 3 (1.04%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.75%) Linux
2 13 (4.51%) Windows
3 7 (2.43%) Unix
4 6 (2.08%) zOS
5 5 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.35%) Android
8 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.35%) Debian
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 161 (55.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (48.26%) DevOps
4 98 (34.03%) Agile
5 95 (32.99%) Containerisation
6 91 (31.60%) Observability
7 81 (28.13%) Microservices
8 67 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (18.40%) Test Automation
10 51 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (17.36%) Performance Tuning
12 48 (16.67%) Migration
13 45 (15.63%) Analytics
14 41 (14.24%) Platform Engineering
15 39 (13.54%) Scrum
16 38 (13.19%) Event-Driven
17 32 (11.11%) ETL
18 30 (10.42%) Data Modelling
18 30 (10.42%) Incident Response
19 29 (10.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 135 (46.88%) Python
2 71 (24.65%) SQL
3 61 (21.18%) Java
4 43 (14.93%) Bash
5 24 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 23 (7.99%) Shell Script
7 20 (6.94%) PowerShell
8 17 (5.90%) JavaScript
9 10 (3.47%) Go
10 9 (3.13%) Scala
11 8 (2.78%) C#
12 5 (1.74%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.39%) Bicep
13 4 (1.39%) JCL
14 2 (0.69%) C
14 2 (0.69%) Korn
14 2 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.35%) Groovy
15 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
15 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 106 (36.81%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (3.13%) Degree
8 7 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.08%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.39%) SAFe Agilist
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.99%) QA
2 17 (5.90%) PCI DSS
3 15 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 15 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (4.51%) GDPR
5 10 (3.47%) NIST
6 9 (3.13%) PMO
7 7 (2.43%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.43%) SLA
8 4 (1.39%) GRC
8 4 (1.39%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.39%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.69%) NCSC
9 2 (0.69%) WCAG
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 134 (46.53%) Docker
2 10 (3.47%) Postfix
3 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) IAG
4 1 (0.35%) KVM
4 1 (0.35%) QEMU
4 1 (0.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 180 (62.50%) Terraform
2 92 (31.94%) Kubernetes
3 89 (30.90%) Grafana
4 74 (25.69%) Prometheus
5 26 (9.03%) Ansible
6 7 (2.43%) Istio
6 7 (2.43%) Kibana
7 6 (2.08%) Argo
8 5 (1.74%) Dell DRAC
8 5 (1.74%) Puppet
9 4 (1.39%) Packer
9 4 (1.39%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.04%) Karpenter
10 3 (1.04%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.69%) linkerd
11 2 (0.69%) logstash
11 2 (0.69%) Nagios
11 2 (0.69%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 23 (7.99%) Splunk
2 16 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 15 (5.21%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.86%) Jaspersoft
5 11 (3.82%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.78%) Databricks
7 6 (2.08%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.08%) Cisco
7 6 (2.08%) IBM
7 6 (2.08%) New Relic
8 5 (1.74%) Avaya
8 5 (1.74%) Confluent
8 5 (1.74%) Dell
8 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.74%) Genesys
8 5 (1.74%) Sybase
9 4 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.39%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.39%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.04%) Qualys