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

 6 months to
25 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 341 413
Rank change year-on-year -8 +72 -15
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 354 218 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.67% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 1.78% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 154 117
10th Percentile £357 £358 £403
25th Percentile £413 £428 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £613
90th Percentile £650 £634 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -3.37% -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 18,750 12,222 13,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.39% 37.35% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,376 8,174 9,529
10th Percentile £327 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 314 305
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £36.87 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.05% +24.15% -36.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.35 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +97.35% -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 25 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 25 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 -7 282 £488 -2.50% 60
London +17 171 £519 +2.22% 26
UK excluding London -35 141 £459 -3.37% 42
Work from Home -19 134 £463 -7.50% 33
Midlands -34 51 £469 -1.26% 6
West Midlands -35 49 £472 -0.63% 6
North of England -73 29 £438 +9.38% 17
Scotland -3 25 £440 -12.00% 2
South East -58 17 £393 -31.65% 8
North East -32 12 £413 - 10
East of England -18 10 £500 - 2
North West -54 10 £550 +37.50% 4
Yorkshire -53 7 £550 +25.71% 3
South West -28 6 £444 -14.66% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
East Midlands -15 1 £425 -20.86%
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 49 (13.84%) Confluence
2 25 (7.06%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.52%) Apache
4 13 (3.67%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.98%) SAS
6 6 (1.69%) CICS
6 6 (1.69%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.13%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.56%) Trello
3 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 353 (99.72%) AWS
2 226 (63.84%) Amazon S3
3 210 (59.32%) Serverless
4 206 (58.19%) AWS Lambda
5 157 (44.35%) Amazon EC2
6 113 (31.92%) Amazon EKS
7 110 (31.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 108 (30.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 108 (30.51%) GitHub
9 92 (25.99%) Amazon ECS
10 80 (22.60%) GitHub Actions
11 68 (19.21%) Azure
12 53 (14.97%) AWS KMS
13 49 (13.84%) Amazon SQS
14 36 (10.17%) Route 53
15 34 (9.60%) Amazon EMR
15 34 (9.60%) AWS CloudTrail
16 33 (9.32%) Datadog
17 30 (8.47%) Amazon Kinesis
18 29 (8.19%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.37%) Firewall
2 13 (3.67%) Network Security
3 10 (2.82%) DNS
4 7 (1.98%) HTTP
5 6 (1.69%) SNMP
5 6 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.41%) CTI
6 5 (1.41%) WAN
7 4 (1.13%) SSL
8 3 (0.85%) VPN
9 1 (0.28%) BGP
9 1 (0.28%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) PSTN
9 1 (0.28%) RTP
9 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (28.53%) Amazon RDS
2 83 (23.45%) DynamoDB
3 52 (14.69%) Amazon Athena
4 51 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (10.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 35 (9.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (7.34%) Power BI
8 21 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (5.37%) MongoDB
10 17 (4.80%) Tableau
11 11 (3.11%) Redis
12 10 (2.82%) Data Lake
12 10 (2.82%) Db2
12 10 (2.82%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.54%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (1.98%) Metadata
14 7 (1.98%) NoSQL
15 6 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.69%) Pentaho
16 5 (1.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 123 (34.75%) Jenkins
2 109 (30.79%) GitLab
3 87 (24.58%) Git
4 65 (18.36%) JIRA
5 26 (7.34%) JUnit
6 25 (7.06%) Mockito
7 24 (6.78%) Bitbucket
8 22 (6.21%) Maven
9 20 (5.65%) SonarQube
10 14 (3.95%) DbUnit
11 13 (3.67%) jMock
12 11 (3.11%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (2.26%) Artifactory
13 8 (2.26%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.98%) Postman
15 6 (1.69%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.41%) Gatling
16 5 (1.41%) MLflow
17 4 (1.13%) Gradle
17 4 (1.13%) Jaeger
General
1 97 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 89 (25.14%) Public Sector
3 42 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.17%) Finance
5 20 (5.65%) Banking
6 12 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.98%) Law
9 4 (1.13%) Back Office
10 3 (0.85%) Front Office
10 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Legal
10 3 (0.85%) Military
10 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.56%) Police
11 2 (0.56%) Publishing
11 2 (0.56%) Retail
12 1 (0.28%) Games
Job Titles
1 85 (24.01%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (14.97%) Developer
2 53 (14.97%) Senior
3 49 (13.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (10.73%) Architect
5 36 (10.17%) Data Engineer
6 35 (9.89%) AWS DevOps
7 31 (8.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 29 (8.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 27 (7.63%) Lead
10 25 (7.06%) Java Developer
11 20 (5.65%) AWS Architect
11 20 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (5.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 19 (5.37%) Scrum Master
13 17 (4.80%) Site Engineer
14 16 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (4.52%) Senior Developer
15 15 (4.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 14 (3.95%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.12%) RESTful
2 45 (12.71%) REST
3 42 (11.86%) Kafka
3 42 (11.86%) Node.js
4 41 (11.58%) Spring
5 39 (11.02%) Spring Boot
6 36 (10.17%) AWS CDK
7 31 (8.76%) SOAP
8 27 (7.63%) Web Services
9 24 (6.78%) PySpark
10 20 (5.65%) ActiveMQ
10 20 (5.65%) AngularJS
11 18 (5.08%) Hibernate
11 18 (5.08%) JPA
11 18 (5.08%) Spring Batch
11 18 (5.08%) Spring Integration
12 17 (4.80%) OpenTelemetry
13 16 (4.52%) OAuth
13 16 (4.52%) Spring Cloud
14 13 (3.67%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 108 (30.51%) Cloud Native
2 45 (12.71%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (9.04%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.54%) Replication
6 9 (2.54%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.26%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.98%) CMDB
8 7 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.98%) IVR
8 7 (1.98%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.69%) DataPower
9 6 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.69%) Online Banking
10 5 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.85%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.95%) Linux
2 23 (6.50%) Windows
3 15 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.26%) zOS
5 6 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.41%) Unix
7 4 (1.13%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.13%) 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
1 264 (74.58%) CI/CD
2 197 (55.65%) DevOps
3 188 (53.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (43.79%) Agile
5 115 (32.49%) Observability
6 109 (30.79%) Containerisation
7 84 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (22.32%) Microservices
9 74 (20.90%) Platform Engineering
10 70 (19.77%) Test Automation
11 63 (17.80%) Scrum
12 56 (15.82%) AI
12 56 (15.82%) Migration
13 51 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (13.28%) Data Pipeline
15 46 (12.99%) Analytics
16 45 (12.71%) Data Modelling
16 45 (12.71%) Event-Driven
17 43 (12.15%) Machine Learning
17 43 (12.15%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 181 (51.13%) Python
2 90 (25.42%) SQL
3 75 (21.19%) Bash
4 68 (19.21%) Java
5 36 (10.17%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.34%) TypeScript
7 22 (6.21%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.39%) Scala
8 12 (3.39%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.54%) Groovy
10 7 (1.98%) Go
11 6 (1.69%) JCL
11 6 (1.69%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.41%) Bicep
12 5 (1.41%) Perl
13 4 (1.13%) C#
14 2 (0.56%) C
14 2 (0.56%) Korn
14 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.28%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 162 (45.76%) Security Cleared
2 146 (41.24%) SC Cleared
3 48 (13.56%) AWS Certification
4 23 (6.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (4.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (4.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.11%) SAFe Agilist
7 10 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.98%) Degree
9 6 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) PMP
12 1 (0.28%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.04%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.91%) QA
3 9 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.26%) SLA
5 7 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.69%) GDPR
6 6 (1.69%) PMO
7 5 (1.41%) GRC
8 4 (1.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.85%) NCSC
9 3 (0.85%) WCAG
10 2 (0.56%) NIST
11 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.28%) HL7
11 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 131 (37.01%) Docker
2 11 (3.11%) Postfix
3 8 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.26%) Squid
4 7 (1.98%) IAG
5 1 (0.28%) KVM
5 1 (0.28%) QEMU
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 209 (59.04%) Terraform
2 125 (35.31%) Grafana
3 113 (31.92%) Kubernetes
4 95 (26.84%) Prometheus
5 46 (12.99%) Ansible
6 11 (3.11%) Istio
7 10 (2.82%) Puppet
8 8 (2.26%) Packer
9 6 (1.69%) Argo
10 4 (1.13%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.13%) Suricata
11 3 (0.85%) Rancher
12 2 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.56%) Kibana
12 2 (0.56%) linkerd
12 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.28%) Control-M
13 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.28%) yum
13 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (7.34%) Dynatrace
1 26 (7.34%) ServiceNow
2 21 (5.93%) Splunk
3 19 (5.37%) Informatica
4 17 (4.80%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (3.95%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.11%) Microsoft
7 9 (2.54%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.26%) Oracle
9 7 (1.98%) Cribl.io
9 7 (1.98%) Databricks
9 7 (1.98%) Nexthink
10 6 (1.69%) Confluent
10 6 (1.69%) Denodo
10 6 (1.69%) New Relic
11 5 (1.41%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.13%) Trend Micro
13 3 (0.85%) Sybase
14 2 (0.56%) Google
14 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
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