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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 352 420
Rank change year-on-year +3 +68 -13
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 292 175 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.60% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.59% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 129 133
10th Percentile £354 £362 £405
25th Percentile £409 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £522 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -0.57% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £738 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.67% -4.55% -4.35%
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 16,881 11,015 13,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.78% 37.60% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,436 7,643 9,909
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.74% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 251 343
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.95
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.30 £34.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -28.15%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -26 227 £500 -2.44% 43
London +19 142 £506 -0.74% 28
UK excluding London -50 109 £469 -10.67% 19
Work from Home -12 88 £466 -11.29% 21
West Midlands -40 35 £472 -5.60% 2
Midlands -53 35 £472 -8.97% 2
Scotland +5 24 £440 -16.19% 1
North of England -67 20 £500 -6.89% 7
South East -47 13 £392 -31.91% 6
South West -28 9 £700 +19.15% 2
North West -40 9 £550 +40.66% 6
East of England -29 8 £500 - 1
Yorkshire -48 6 £500 -31.03%
North East -22 5 £466 -24.84% 1
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 32 (10.96%) Confluence
2 20 (6.85%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.08%) Apache
5 6 (2.05%) SAS
6 4 (1.37%) CICS
6 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 289 (98.97%) AWS
2 180 (61.64%) Serverless
3 174 (59.59%) Amazon S3
3 174 (59.59%) AWS Lambda
4 113 (38.70%) Amazon EC2
5 104 (35.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 98 (33.56%) Amazon ECS
6 98 (33.56%) GitHub
7 92 (31.51%) Amazon EKS
8 84 (28.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 83 (28.42%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (18.49%) Azure
11 45 (15.41%) Amazon SQS
12 37 (12.67%) AWS CodePipeline
13 33 (11.30%) AWS KMS
14 31 (10.62%) Amazon Kinesis
15 30 (10.27%) Route 53
16 21 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (7.19%) Datadog
17 20 (6.85%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.85%) DNS
2 12 (4.11%) Firewall
3 7 (2.40%) HTTP
4 5 (1.71%) SNMP
4 5 (1.71%) VPN
5 3 (1.03%) Network Security
5 3 (1.03%) WAN
6 2 (0.68%) BGP
6 2 (0.68%) OSPF
6 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.68%) SSL
6 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.34%) CTI
7 1 (0.34%) DHCP
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (28.77%) Amazon RDS
2 74 (25.34%) DynamoDB
3 38 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (12.67%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (11.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 29 (9.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (6.16%) Tableau
8 16 (5.48%) Power BI
9 13 (4.45%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.77%) MySQL
10 11 (3.77%) NoSQL
11 9 (3.08%) Apache Iceberg
11 9 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.74%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.74%) DB2
12 8 (2.74%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.74%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.40%) Redis
14 6 (2.05%) Big Data
14 6 (2.05%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 98 (33.56%) Jenkins
2 96 (32.88%) GitLab
3 57 (19.52%) Git
4 40 (13.70%) JIRA
5 19 (6.51%) JUnit
6 18 (6.16%) Maven
7 17 (5.82%) Mockito
8 16 (5.48%) SonarQube
9 14 (4.79%) Bitbucket
10 11 (3.77%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.77%) jMock
11 9 (3.08%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.05%) Postman
13 5 (1.71%) MLflow
14 4 (1.37%) Gradle
14 4 (1.37%) Jaeger
14 4 (1.37%) NUnit
14 4 (1.37%) Terragrunt
15 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
15 3 (1.03%) Mocha
General
1 80 (27.40%) Public Sector
2 71 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.64%) Finance
4 28 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (3.77%) Banking
7 8 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.03%) Police
9 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.68%) Military
9 2 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.34%) Billing
10 1 (0.34%) Front Office
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
Job Titles
1 67 (22.95%) AWS Engineer
2 50 (17.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (16.10%) Developer
4 39 (13.36%) Architect
5 38 (13.01%) Senior
6 34 (11.64%) AWS DevOps
7 30 (10.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.88%) Java Developer
9 22 (7.53%) Data Engineer
10 19 (6.51%) AWS Architect
11 18 (6.16%) Lead
12 17 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (4.79%) Analyst
13 14 (4.79%) Senior Developer
14 12 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (4.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (4.11%) Technical Manager
15 11 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.77%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.75%) Node.js
2 41 (14.04%) REST
3 40 (13.70%) Kafka
4 37 (12.67%) AWS CDK
5 34 (11.64%) Spring
5 34 (11.64%) Spring Boot
6 32 (10.96%) RESTful
7 23 (7.88%) Elastic Stack
8 22 (7.53%) OAuth
8 22 (7.53%) OpenTelemetry
9 21 (7.19%) SOAP
9 21 (7.19%) Web Services
10 18 (6.16%) AngularJS
10 18 (6.16%) Hibernate
10 18 (6.16%) JPA
10 18 (6.16%) Spring Cloud
11 14 (4.79%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (4.79%) JWT
11 14 (4.79%) Spring Batch
11 14 (4.79%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 81 (27.74%) Cloud Native
2 44 (15.07%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.08%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.08%) Mainframe
4 9 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.74%) NHS
6 7 (2.40%) DataPower
6 7 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.40%) IVR
6 7 (2.40%) Replication
7 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.37%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.37%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.03%) PACS
9 3 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (19.86%) Linux
2 13 (4.45%) Windows
3 7 (2.40%) Unix
4 6 (2.05%) zOS
5 5 (1.71%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) Android
8 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.34%) Debian
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (69.86%) CI/CD
2 155 (53.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 150 (51.37%) DevOps
4 109 (37.33%) Agile
5 105 (35.96%) Observability
6 94 (32.19%) Containerisation
7 73 (25.00%) Microservices
8 71 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (20.55%) Test Automation
10 50 (17.12%) Migration
10 50 (17.12%) Scrum
11 48 (16.44%) Performance Tuning
11 48 (16.44%) Platform Engineering
12 44 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (14.38%) Analytics
14 37 (12.67%) Event-Driven
15 36 (12.33%) ETL
16 35 (11.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 34 (11.64%) Data Modelling
18 32 (10.96%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 138 (47.26%) Python
2 72 (24.66%) SQL
3 64 (21.92%) Java
4 52 (17.81%) Bash
5 24 (8.22%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.88%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.53%) Shell Script
8 18 (6.16%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.77%) Go
9 11 (3.77%) Scala
10 8 (2.74%) C#
11 5 (1.71%) Groovy
11 5 (1.71%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.37%) Bicep
12 4 (1.37%) JCL
13 3 (1.03%) Perl
14 2 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.34%) Korn
15 1 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
15 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 136 (46.58%) Security Cleared
2 117 (40.07%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.30%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 11 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.74%) Degree
7 7 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.40%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.37%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.88%) QA
2 18 (6.16%) PCI DSS
3 15 (5.14%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.79%) GDPR
4 14 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.08%) NIST
5 9 (3.08%) PMO
6 7 (2.40%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.40%) SLA
7 5 (1.71%) GRC
8 4 (1.37%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.37%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (1.03%) NCSC
10 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.68%) WCAG
11 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 127 (43.49%) Docker
2 10 (3.42%) Postfix
3 2 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) IAG
4 1 (0.34%) KVM
4 1 (0.34%) QEMU
4 1 (0.34%) Squid
Systems Management
1 182 (62.33%) Terraform
2 106 (36.30%) Grafana
3 91 (31.16%) Kubernetes
4 84 (28.77%) Prometheus
5 26 (8.90%) Ansible
6 8 (2.74%) Istio
7 7 (2.40%) Puppet
8 6 (2.05%) Kibana
9 5 (1.71%) Argo
10 4 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
10 4 (1.37%) Packer
11 3 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.03%) Karpenter
11 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.03%) Rancher
11 3 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.68%) linkerd
12 2 (0.68%) logstash
12 2 (0.68%) Nagios
12 2 (0.68%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 24 (8.22%) Splunk
2 18 (6.16%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.48%) Dynatrace
4 14 (4.79%) Jaspersoft
5 13 (4.45%) Microsoft
6 11 (3.77%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.74%) Databricks
8 7 (2.40%) Informatica
9 6 (2.05%) AVEVA
9 6 (2.05%) Cisco
9 6 (2.05%) Cribl.io
9 6 (2.05%) Denodo
9 6 (2.05%) New Relic
9 6 (2.05%) Oracle
10 5 (1.71%) Avaya
10 5 (1.71%) Genesys
10 5 (1.71%) IBM
11 4 (1.37%) Dell
11 4 (1.37%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (1.37%) Salesforce