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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 360 421
Rank change year-on-year +57 +61 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 311 169 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.53% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 1.46% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 129 137
10th Percentile £385 £407 £421
25th Percentile £418 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -13.39%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £682
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +2.44% -3.30% -13.47%

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 14,073 11,553 14,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.07% 36.55% 34.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,677 7,681 10,395
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 172 255
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.61 £27.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +19.57% +2.22%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.94 £53.63
90th Percentile £80.50 £68.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year - +27.59% +8.40%

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 14 January 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 16 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 14 January 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 +32 232 £525 -0.19% 78
London +20 133 £525 -0.24% 20
UK excluding London +8 118 £525 +2.44% 66
Work from Home +17 92 £565 +8.03% 53
North of England -32 51 £521 -11.65% 18
Midlands -24 24 £475 +11.76% 4
Yorkshire -31 23 £518 -28.62% 12
West Midlands -17 21 £475 +11.76% 3
North West -20 20 £425 -14.10% 5
Scotland 0 17 £525 +5.63% 1
South West -9 11 £700 +27.27% 9
East of England - 9 £550 - 11
North East -9 8 £575 -2.54% 1
South East -15 7 £650 - 19
East Midlands -24 3 £375 -11.14%
Wales - 2 - - 3

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 30 (9.65%) Confluence
2 9 (2.89%) nginx
3 8 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.57%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 306 (98.39%) AWS
2 196 (63.02%) Amazon S3
3 192 (61.74%) Serverless
4 187 (60.13%) AWS Lambda
5 136 (43.73%) Amazon EC2
6 118 (37.94%) Amazon ECS
7 115 (36.98%) GitHub
8 100 (32.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 96 (30.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 95 (30.55%) GitHub Actions
11 88 (28.30%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (18.01%) Azure
13 41 (13.18%) Amazon ELB
14 39 (12.54%) Route 53
15 36 (11.58%) AWS Fargate
16 33 (10.61%) Datadog
17 29 (9.32%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (7.07%) AWS CodePipeline
19 21 (6.75%) Amazon Kinesis
19 21 (6.75%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 54 (17.36%) DNS
2 52 (16.72%) Firewall
3 28 (9.00%) VPN
4 22 (7.07%) SSL
4 22 (7.07%) TCP/IP
5 19 (6.11%) HTTP
6 16 (5.14%) Network Security
7 15 (4.82%) FTP
7 15 (4.82%) SMTP
7 15 (4.82%) SSH
8 14 (4.50%) OpenLDAP
9 9 (2.89%) IMAP
10 1 (0.32%) DHCP
10 1 (0.32%) LAN
10 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (32.15%) Amazon RDS
2 64 (20.58%) DynamoDB
3 34 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (9.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 27 (8.68%) MySQL
6 20 (6.43%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (5.79%) NoSQL
8 17 (5.47%) Relational Database
9 12 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (3.86%) MongoDB
9 12 (3.86%) Redis
10 10 (3.22%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.61%) Big Data
11 5 (1.61%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.61%) DB2
12 4 (1.29%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 137 (44.05%) Jenkins
2 128 (41.16%) GitLab
3 85 (27.33%) Git
4 32 (10.29%) JIRA
5 15 (4.82%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.86%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.57%) Maven
8 6 (1.93%) JUnit
9 5 (1.61%) Gradle
9 5 (1.61%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.29%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.29%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.29%) NUnit
10 4 (1.29%) Postman
10 4 (1.29%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.96%) Mocha
12 2 (0.64%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.64%) Gatling
12 2 (0.64%) Serenity BDD
General
1 77 (24.76%) Public Sector
2 62 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.75%) Finance
4 14 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.89%) Banking
7 6 (1.93%) Military
8 4 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.96%) Front Office
9 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.64%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Games
11 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 108 (34.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 83 (26.69%) AWS Engineer
3 57 (18.33%) AWS DevOps
4 53 (17.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 47 (15.11%) Senior
6 42 (13.50%) Architect
7 32 (10.29%) Platform Engineer
8 30 (9.65%) Developer
9 28 (9.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 22 (7.07%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 20 (6.43%) Senior DevOps
12 19 (6.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 18 (5.79%) Lead
14 16 (5.14%) AWS Architect
15 14 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
15 14 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (3.54%) Consultant
16 11 (3.54%) Data Engineer
16 11 (3.54%) Python Engineer
16 11 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.15%) Kafka
2 39 (12.54%) Node.js
3 34 (10.93%) Elastic Stack
4 32 (10.29%) REST
5 23 (7.40%) AWS CDK
5 23 (7.40%) React
6 22 (7.07%) JWT
6 22 (7.07%) OAuth
7 19 (6.11%) Spring Boot
8 18 (5.79%) RESTful
9 16 (5.14%) LDAP
10 14 (4.50%) boto
10 14 (4.50%) Spring
11 11 (3.54%) pytest
12 10 (3.22%) .NET
12 10 (3.22%) FastAPI
13 9 (2.89%) Lambda Expressions
13 9 (2.89%) OAuth2
14 8 (2.57%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.04%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.11%) Replication
4 10 (3.22%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.89%) NHS
6 8 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.93%) IVR
7 6 (1.93%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.61%) DataPower
8 5 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.61%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.61%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.29%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.29%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (19.29%) Linux
2 21 (6.75%) Windows
3 18 (5.79%) Amazon Linux
4 16 (5.14%) VMS
5 11 (3.54%) Unix
6 9 (2.89%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.32%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (69.77%) CI/CD
2 195 (62.70%) DevOps
3 183 (58.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (30.87%) Containerisation
5 90 (28.94%) Observability
6 78 (25.08%) Agile
7 76 (24.44%) Microservices
8 48 (15.43%) Migration
9 46 (14.79%) Event-Driven
9 46 (14.79%) Platform Engineering
10 44 (14.15%) Incident Response
10 44 (14.15%) Infrastructure Automation
10 44 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (13.83%) Performance Tuning
12 42 (13.50%) High Availability
13 40 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (11.90%) Cost Optimisation
15 36 (11.58%) Cloud Security
15 36 (11.58%) Configuration Management
15 36 (11.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 183 (58.84%) Python
2 75 (24.12%) Bash
3 53 (17.04%) Java
4 44 (14.15%) SQL
5 30 (9.65%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.40%) Shell Script
7 22 (7.07%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.47%) Go
8 17 (5.47%) Groovy
9 16 (5.14%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.57%) Perl
11 7 (2.25%) C#
12 3 (0.96%) Bicep
12 3 (0.96%) Korn
12 3 (0.96%) PHP
12 3 (0.96%) Scala
13 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.32%) PromQL
13 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (40.19%) Security Cleared
2 102 (32.80%) SC Cleared
3 38 (12.22%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.14%) Degree
5 14 (4.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.54%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.25%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.00%) QA
2 18 (5.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (5.47%) GDPR
4 13 (4.18%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.25%) HIPAA
5 7 (2.25%) NIST
6 6 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.93%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.96%) NCSC
7 3 (0.96%) PMO
7 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.64%) SLA
8 2 (0.64%) WCAG
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 164 (52.73%) Docker
2 15 (4.82%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.82%) DFS Replication
3 9 (2.89%) Dovecot
3 9 (2.89%) Postfix
3 9 (2.89%) Squid
4 2 (0.64%) Snort
5 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 231 (74.28%) Terraform
2 129 (41.48%) Kubernetes
3 95 (30.55%) Grafana
4 89 (28.62%) Prometheus
5 61 (19.61%) Ansible
6 11 (3.54%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.22%) Puppet
8 9 (2.89%) Nessus
8 9 (2.89%) Proxmox
9 8 (2.57%) Kibana
10 7 (2.25%) Argo
10 7 (2.25%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.61%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.96%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.96%) Packer
13 2 (0.64%) logstash
13 2 (0.64%) Nagios
13 2 (0.64%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (8.36%) Splunk
2 25 (8.04%) F5
3 23 (7.40%) CheckPoint
3 23 (7.40%) Palo Alto
4 22 (7.07%) Dynatrace
5 20 (6.43%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.82%) Microsoft
7 9 (2.89%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (2.25%) Cisco
8 7 (2.25%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.93%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.93%) IBM
10 5 (1.61%) Avaya
10 5 (1.61%) Dell
10 5 (1.61%) Genesys
10 5 (1.61%) Gigya
10 5 (1.61%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.29%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.29%) Confluent
11 4 (1.29%) Databricks