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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 334 411
Rank change year-on-year -16 +77 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 356 230 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.70% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.90% 1.88% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 164 111
10th Percentile £354 £358 £405
25th Percentile £413 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -5.62%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £619
90th Percentile £650 £634 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -4.21% -3.85% -14.09%
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 18,718 12,228 13,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 37.28% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,357 8,194 9,320
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 312 284
10th Percentile £16.12 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +18.79% -33.86%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £52.18
90th Percentile £83.15 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.00%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -33 285 £488 -2.50% 94
London +10 171 £513 +0.99% 50
UK excluding London -33 141 £455 -4.21% 51
Work from Home -2 138 £463 -7.50% 41
Midlands -34 52 £469 -1.26% 6
West Midlands -43 50 £472 -0.63% 5
North of England -68 29 £425 +6.25% 19
Scotland 0 22 £440 -12.00% 1
South East -50 19 £426 -25.91% 15
North East -33 12 £413 - 8
East of England -20 10 £500 - 5
North West -56 10 £495 +23.75% 5
Yorkshire -56 7 £550 +25.71% 6
South West -38 6 £444 -14.66% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
East Midlands -13 1 £425 -20.86% 1
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 50 (14.04%) Confluence
2 23 (6.46%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.21%) Apache
4 13 (3.65%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.97%) SAS
6 6 (1.69%) CICS
6 6 (1.69%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.12%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.84%) Trello
3 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 355 (99.72%) AWS
2 227 (63.76%) Amazon S3
3 208 (58.43%) Serverless
4 205 (57.58%) AWS Lambda
5 158 (44.38%) Amazon EC2
6 112 (31.46%) Amazon EKS
7 111 (31.18%) GitHub
8 108 (30.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 108 (30.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 88 (24.72%) Amazon ECS
10 83 (23.31%) GitHub Actions
11 71 (19.94%) Azure
12 52 (14.61%) AWS KMS
13 45 (12.64%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (10.39%) Route 53
15 36 (10.11%) Datadog
16 34 (9.55%) Amazon EMR
17 33 (9.27%) AWS CloudTrail
18 32 (8.99%) Amazon Kinesis
19 29 (8.15%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.06%) Firewall
2 13 (3.65%) Network Security
3 11 (3.09%) DNS
4 6 (1.69%) SNMP
4 6 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.40%) CTI
5 5 (1.40%) SSL
5 5 (1.40%) WAN
6 4 (1.12%) HTTP
7 3 (0.84%) VPN
8 1 (0.28%) BGP
8 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
8 1 (0.28%) PSTN
8 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.28%) RTP
8 1 (0.28%) SMS
8 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (27.53%) Amazon RDS
2 84 (23.60%) DynamoDB
3 52 (14.61%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (14.61%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (10.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 35 (9.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (7.30%) Power BI
7 21 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (5.34%) MongoDB
9 17 (4.78%) Tableau
10 11 (3.09%) Db2
10 11 (3.09%) Redis
11 10 (2.81%) Data Lake
12 9 (2.53%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (2.53%) SQL Server
13 8 (2.25%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.97%) Metadata
15 6 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.69%) Pentaho
16 5 (1.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 127 (35.67%) Jenkins
2 113 (31.74%) GitLab
3 89 (25.00%) Git
4 66 (18.54%) JIRA
5 27 (7.58%) JUnit
6 26 (7.30%) Mockito
7 25 (7.02%) Bitbucket
8 23 (6.46%) Maven
9 19 (5.34%) SonarQube
10 14 (3.93%) DbUnit
11 13 (3.65%) jMock
12 11 (3.09%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (2.25%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.97%) Artifactory
14 7 (1.97%) Postman
15 6 (1.69%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.40%) Gatling
17 4 (1.12%) Cypress.io
17 4 (1.12%) Gradle
17 4 (1.12%) Jaeger
General
1 98 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 85 (23.88%) Public Sector
3 42 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.67%) Finance
5 22 (6.18%) Banking
6 12 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.97%) Law
9 6 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.12%) Back Office
11 3 (0.84%) Front Office
11 3 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Legal
11 3 (0.84%) Military
11 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Publishing
12 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.56%) Police
12 2 (0.56%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 83 (23.31%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (14.89%) Developer
2 53 (14.89%) Senior
3 48 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (10.39%) Architect
5 36 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 35 (9.83%) AWS DevOps
7 31 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (8.43%) Lead
9 28 (7.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 26 (7.30%) Java Developer
11 20 (5.62%) Scrum Master
11 20 (5.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 19 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (5.06%) AWS Architect
14 17 (4.78%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (4.78%) Site Engineer
15 16 (4.49%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (4.49%) Senior Developer
16 14 (3.93%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (14.33%) RESTful
2 46 (12.92%) REST
2 46 (12.92%) Spring
3 43 (12.08%) Spring Boot
4 42 (11.80%) Kafka
5 40 (11.24%) Node.js
6 34 (9.55%) AWS CDK
7 31 (8.71%) SOAP
8 26 (7.30%) Web Services
9 24 (6.74%) PySpark
10 20 (5.62%) ActiveMQ
10 20 (5.62%) AngularJS
11 18 (5.06%) Hibernate
11 18 (5.06%) JPA
11 18 (5.06%) Spring Batch
11 18 (5.06%) Spring Integration
12 16 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
12 16 (4.49%) Spring Cloud
13 13 (3.65%) PowerMock
14 12 (3.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 110 (30.90%) Cloud Native
2 46 (12.92%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (9.27%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.81%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.81%) Replication
5 9 (2.53%) IVR
5 9 (2.53%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.25%) Mainframe
6 8 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.97%) CMDB
7 7 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.69%) DataPower
8 6 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.69%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.84%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.84%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.57%) Linux
2 22 (6.18%) Windows
3 16 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.25%) zOS
5 7 (1.97%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.40%) Unix
7 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (75.28%) CI/CD
2 201 (56.46%) DevOps
3 187 (52.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (44.10%) Agile
5 118 (33.15%) Observability
6 105 (29.49%) Containerisation
7 86 (24.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (23.03%) Microservices
9 74 (20.79%) Platform Engineering
10 70 (19.66%) Test Automation
11 63 (17.70%) Scrum
12 55 (15.45%) AI
13 53 (14.89%) Migration
14 51 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
15 49 (13.76%) Root Cause Analysis
16 48 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
17 47 (13.20%) Analytics
17 47 (13.20%) Data Modelling
18 45 (12.64%) Event-Driven
19 44 (12.36%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 179 (50.28%) Python
2 93 (26.12%) SQL
3 76 (21.35%) Bash
4 73 (20.51%) Java
5 37 (10.39%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.62%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.37%) Scala
8 12 (3.37%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.53%) Groovy
10 7 (1.97%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.69%) Go
11 6 (1.69%) JCL
12 5 (1.40%) Perl
13 4 (1.12%) Bicep
13 4 (1.12%) C#
14 2 (0.56%) C
14 2 (0.56%) Korn
14 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.28%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 162 (45.51%) Security Cleared
2 146 (41.01%) SC Cleared
3 53 (14.89%) AWS Certification
4 21 (5.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (5.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (4.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (3.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.09%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.09%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.69%) Degree
9 6 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.84%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.28%) CISSP
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PMP
13 1 (0.28%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.99%) Data Quality
1 32 (8.99%) QA
2 9 (2.53%) SLA
3 7 (1.97%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.97%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.69%) GDPR
4 6 (1.69%) PMO
5 4 (1.12%) GRC
5 4 (1.12%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.84%) NCSC
6 3 (0.84%) WCAG
7 2 (0.56%) NIST
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.28%) HL7
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 134 (37.64%) Docker
2 11 (3.09%) Postfix
3 9 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.25%) Squid
5 7 (1.97%) IAG
6 1 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.28%) QEMU
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 209 (58.71%) Terraform
2 125 (35.11%) Grafana
3 113 (31.74%) Kubernetes
4 94 (26.40%) Prometheus
5 50 (14.04%) Ansible
6 10 (2.81%) Istio
6 10 (2.81%) Puppet
7 8 (2.25%) Packer
8 5 (1.40%) Argo
9 4 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.12%) Suricata
10 3 (0.84%) Rancher
11 2 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.56%) Kibana
11 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.28%) Control-M
12 1 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.28%) systemd
12 1 (0.28%) yum
12 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (8.15%) Dynatrace
2 27 (7.58%) ServiceNow
3 24 (6.74%) Splunk
4 19 (5.34%) Informatica
5 17 (4.78%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (3.93%) Atlassian
7 13 (3.65%) Microsoft
8 10 (2.81%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.25%) Oracle
10 7 (1.97%) Cribl.io
10 7 (1.97%) Databricks
10 7 (1.97%) Nexthink
11 6 (1.69%) Confluent
11 6 (1.69%) Denodo
11 6 (1.69%) New Relic
11 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.40%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.12%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.12%) Google
13 4 (1.12%) Trend Micro