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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 299 408
Rank change year-on-year -40 +109 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 393 286 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.87% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 2.29% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 203 98
10th Percentile £381 £382 £404
25th Percentile £429 £450 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £592
90th Percentile £691 £649 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.66 - -

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 19,034 12,488 13,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.69% 37.84% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,629 8,337 8,771
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 299 187
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.31
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -19.70% -5.44%
75th Percentile £67.65 £52.33 £64.61
90th Percentile £81.13 £67.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +29.67%

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 September 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 September 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 -46 313 £500 - 229
London -13 188 £550 +4.76% 116
UK excluding London -90 147 £475 -5.00% 129
Work from Home -22 145 £500 - 106
North of England -59 47 £500 +5.26% 44
Midlands -53 38 £463 -2.63% 16
West Midlands -46 35 £469 -1.26% 10
South East -46 27 £480 -4.00% 24
North East -27 22 £425 -26.09% 6
Scotland -30 17 £485 -7.62% 11
North West -59 14 £607 +42.71% 20
Yorkshire -46 11 £500 +2.04% 18
East of England -40 9 £450 -18.18% 7
South West -36 6 £325 -37.50% 18
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 7
East Midlands -13 2 £392 -19.44% 6
Wales -13 1 £550 - 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 47 (11.96%) Confluence
2 21 (5.34%) Apache
3 20 (5.09%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (4.33%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.04%) Jupyter
5 8 (2.04%) SAS
6 4 (1.02%) CICS
6 4 (1.02%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Appian
7 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Trello
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 391 (99.49%) AWS
2 229 (58.27%) Amazon S3
2 229 (58.27%) Serverless
3 225 (57.25%) AWS Lambda
4 145 (36.90%) Amazon EC2
5 136 (34.61%) Amazon EKS
6 123 (31.30%) GitHub
7 112 (28.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 110 (27.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 102 (25.95%) Amazon ECS
10 88 (22.39%) GitHub Actions
11 80 (20.36%) Azure
12 54 (13.74%) Amazon SQS
13 52 (13.23%) AWS KMS
14 39 (9.92%) AWS Step Functions
14 39 (9.92%) Datadog
15 38 (9.67%) Amazon EventBridge
16 37 (9.41%) Amazon EMR
16 37 (9.41%) Amazon Kinesis
17 36 (9.16%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.87%) Firewall
2 16 (4.07%) DNS
2 16 (4.07%) Network Security
3 7 (1.78%) HTTP
3 7 (1.78%) SSL
3 7 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.53%) SNMP
5 5 (1.27%) WAN
6 4 (1.02%) CTI
7 3 (0.76%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.76%) SMS
7 3 (0.76%) VPN
8 2 (0.51%) FTP
8 2 (0.51%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.51%) IMAP
8 2 (0.51%) SMTP
8 2 (0.51%) SSH
9 1 (0.25%) Internet
9 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (28.24%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (20.36%) DynamoDB
3 65 (16.54%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (14.25%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (11.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 36 (9.16%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (5.34%) Power BI
9 21 (5.34%) Redis
10 16 (4.07%) SQL Server
11 15 (3.82%) Data Lake
11 15 (3.82%) MySQL
12 13 (3.31%) DocumentDB
13 9 (2.29%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.29%) NoSQL
13 9 (2.29%) Tableau
14 8 (2.04%) Db2
14 8 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
15 6 (1.53%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 140 (35.62%) GitLab
2 137 (34.86%) Jenkins
3 91 (23.16%) Git
4 63 (16.03%) JIRA
5 23 (5.85%) Bitbucket
6 19 (4.83%) JUnit
7 17 (4.33%) Mockito
8 14 (3.56%) Maven
9 11 (2.80%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.54%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.04%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.78%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.53%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.53%) DbUnit
13 6 (1.53%) JMeter
13 6 (1.53%) Postman
14 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (1.27%) Gatling
14 5 (1.27%) jMock
14 5 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 98 (24.94%) Public Sector
3 40 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.16%) Finance
5 23 (5.85%) Banking
6 21 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.29%) Back Office
8 7 (1.78%) Law
8 7 (1.78%) Military
9 6 (1.53%) Front Office
10 5 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Legal
12 3 (0.76%) Publishing
13 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.51%) Retail
14 1 (0.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 87 (22.14%) AWS Engineer
2 78 (19.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (15.78%) Senior
4 52 (13.23%) Developer
5 46 (11.70%) Architect
6 45 (11.45%) AWS DevOps
7 42 (10.69%) Data Engineer
8 38 (9.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 38 (9.67%) Lead
9 34 (8.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (6.36%) AWS Architect
11 21 (5.34%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (5.09%) Scrum Master
13 19 (4.83%) Lead DevOps
14 18 (4.58%) Java Developer
15 17 (4.33%) AWS Data Engineer
16 16 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
16 16 (4.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 15 (3.82%) DBA
18 14 (3.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (62.09%) Terraform
2 49 (12.47%) REST
2 49 (12.47%) RESTful
3 44 (11.20%) Kafka
3 44 (11.20%) Node.js
4 43 (10.94%) Spring
5 39 (9.92%) Spring Boot
6 28 (7.12%) AWS CDK
7 27 (6.87%) PySpark
8 20 (5.09%) SOAP
9 16 (4.07%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (4.07%) AngularJS
9 16 (4.07%) React
10 14 (3.56%) FastAPI
10 14 (3.56%) Web Services
11 13 (3.31%) Jest
11 13 (3.31%) OAuth
12 12 (3.05%) GraphQL
13 11 (2.80%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (2.80%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 136 (34.61%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.91%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (8.91%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.83%) Replication
4 14 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.05%) Data Structures
5 12 (3.05%) IVR
6 11 (2.80%) CMDB
7 10 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.53%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.53%) NHS
10 5 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.02%) DataPower
11 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.02%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (15.27%) Linux
2 21 (5.34%) Windows
3 18 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.54%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.04%) Unix
6 6 (1.53%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.27%) zOS
8 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.51%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) Android
10 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.25%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (80.92%) CI/CD
2 250 (63.61%) DevOps
3 244 (62.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 175 (44.53%) Agile
5 144 (36.64%) Observability
6 115 (29.26%) Containerisation
7 100 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (21.88%) Test Automation
9 79 (20.10%) Microservices
10 73 (18.58%) Root Cause Analysis
11 72 (18.32%) Platform Engineering
12 62 (15.78%) AI
13 59 (15.01%) Data Modelling
13 59 (15.01%) Event-Driven
14 57 (14.50%) Scrum
15 56 (14.25%) Software Engineering
15 56 (14.25%) Stakeholder Management
16 51 (12.98%) Analytics
16 51 (12.98%) Performance Tuning
16 51 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 201 (51.15%) Python
2 90 (22.90%) SQL
3 79 (20.10%) Java
4 76 (19.34%) Bash
5 37 (9.41%) PowerShell
6 30 (7.63%) TypeScript
7 29 (7.38%) JavaScript
8 15 (3.82%) Shell Script
9 14 (3.56%) Groovy
9 14 (3.56%) Scala
10 10 (2.54%) C#
11 8 (2.04%) Bicep
12 7 (1.78%) Perl
13 6 (1.53%) Go
14 4 (1.02%) JCL
14 4 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.76%) C
16 2 (0.51%) Korn
17 1 (0.25%) Ladder Logic
17 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (45.04%) Security Cleared
2 158 (40.20%) SC Cleared
3 76 (19.34%) AWS Certification
4 30 (7.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (6.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.33%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (3.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (2.54%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (2.29%) Degree
11 8 (2.04%) SAFe Agilist
12 5 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.27%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.76%) CISSP
13 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.25%) RHCE
15 1 (0.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.21%) QA
2 42 (10.69%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.78%) GDPR
5 6 (1.53%) NCSC
5 6 (1.53%) SLA
6 5 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.27%) WCAG
7 4 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.02%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.51%) HL7
8 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) SEPA
9 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 148 (37.66%) Docker
2 15 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.80%) IAG
4 10 (2.54%) Squid
5 6 (1.53%) Postfix
6 2 (0.51%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.51%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.25%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 142 (36.13%) Kubernetes
2 125 (31.81%) Grafana
3 98 (24.94%) Prometheus
4 69 (17.56%) Ansible
5 13 (3.31%) Puppet
6 12 (3.05%) Packer
6 12 (3.05%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.27%) Argo
8 5 (1.27%) Istio
9 4 (1.02%) Suricata
10 3 (0.76%) Consul
10 3 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.76%) Kibana
10 3 (0.76%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.51%) Nessus
11 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.51%) Rancher
12 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 43 (10.94%) Dynatrace
2 30 (7.63%) ServiceNow
3 25 (6.36%) Splunk
4 20 (5.09%) Informatica
5 16 (4.07%) Microsoft
6 15 (3.82%) Oracle
7 13 (3.31%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.80%) Nexthink
9 10 (2.54%) Confluent
10 9 (2.29%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (2.04%) Google
11 8 (2.04%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.78%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.53%) Cribl.io
13 6 (1.53%) Denodo
13 6 (1.53%) PagerDuty
14 5 (1.27%) AppDynamics
15 4 (1.02%) New Relic
15 4 (1.02%) Trend Micro
15 4 (1.02%) VMware