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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 300 408
Rank change year-on-year -44 +108 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 404 288 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.87% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 2.26% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 208 100
10th Percentile £393 £396 £405
25th Percentile £438 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £578 £579
90th Percentile £738 £670 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.55% +5.26% -13.64%
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 19,185 12,757 13,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.42% 34.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,732 8,532 8,661
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 644 291 182
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £16.41
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £34.47
% change year-on-year +52.79% -43.03% +53.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -38 319 £500 - 205
London +1 189 £550 +4.76% 108
Work from Home -35 151 £500 -4.76% 89
UK excluding London -80 151 £482 -3.55% 99
North of England -65 50 £500 +1.01% 34
Midlands -57 36 £461 -3.00% 16
South East -39 33 £566 +13.25% 16
West Midlands -53 31 £469 -1.26% 9
North East -19 22 £425 -26.09% 9
Scotland -25 16 £450 -12.20% 7
North West -51 15 £600 +32.60% 13
Yorkshire -49 13 £500 +2.04% 12
South West -35 6 £325 -37.50% 11
East of England -37 6 £488 -11.36% 8
East Midlands -12 4 £402 -7.59% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 £496 - 7
Wales -13 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 51 (12.62%) Confluence
2 21 (5.20%) Apache
3 17 (4.21%) Apache Spark
4 15 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.98%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.98%) SAS
6 4 (0.99%) nginx
7 3 (0.74%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) Appian
8 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Trello
2 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.50%) Gliffy
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 398 (98.51%) AWS
2 239 (59.16%) Serverless
3 235 (58.17%) AWS Lambda
4 228 (56.44%) Amazon S3
5 155 (38.37%) Amazon EC2
6 153 (37.87%) Amazon EKS
7 129 (31.93%) GitHub
8 127 (31.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 125 (30.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 117 (28.96%) Amazon ECS
11 93 (23.02%) GitHub Actions
12 84 (20.79%) Azure
13 58 (14.36%) Amazon SQS
14 49 (12.13%) AWS KMS
15 45 (11.14%) Amazon EventBridge
16 44 (10.89%) AWS Step Functions
17 41 (10.15%) Datadog
18 39 (9.65%) Amazon EMR
19 38 (9.41%) AWS CloudTrail
20 36 (8.91%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.44%) Firewall
2 18 (4.46%) Network Security
3 15 (3.71%) DNS
4 7 (1.73%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.49%) HTTP
5 6 (1.49%) SNMP
5 6 (1.49%) SSL
6 5 (1.24%) WAN
7 4 (0.99%) CTI
7 4 (0.99%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.74%) SMS
8 3 (0.74%) VPN
9 2 (0.50%) FTP
9 2 (0.50%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.50%) IMAP
9 2 (0.50%) SMTP
9 2 (0.50%) SSH
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) Internet
10 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (29.95%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (19.55%) DynamoDB
3 63 (15.59%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (12.87%) Amazon Athena
5 47 (11.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 39 (9.65%) MongoDB
7 31 (7.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (6.19%) Redis
9 22 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (4.95%) Power BI
11 19 (4.70%) SQL Server
12 18 (4.46%) Data Lake
12 18 (4.46%) MySQL
13 13 (3.22%) DocumentDB
14 9 (2.23%) NoSQL
15 8 (1.98%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (1.98%) Electronic Patient Records
16 7 (1.73%) Db2
17 6 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
17 6 (1.49%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 148 (36.63%) GitLab
2 139 (34.41%) Jenkins
3 91 (22.52%) Git
4 65 (16.09%) JIRA
5 24 (5.94%) Bitbucket
6 19 (4.70%) JUnit
7 15 (3.71%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.71%) Mockito
8 11 (2.72%) Maven
9 10 (2.48%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.73%) Artifactory
10 7 (1.73%) JMeter
10 7 (1.73%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.49%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.49%) Postman
11 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.99%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.99%) Gatling
13 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (0.74%) Mocha
General
1 107 (26.49%) Social Skills
2 99 (24.50%) Public Sector
3 43 (10.64%) Finance
4 33 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.19%) Banking
6 21 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.23%) Back Office
8 7 (1.73%) Law
8 7 (1.73%) Military
9 5 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.24%) Front Office
10 4 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.74%) Legal
11 3 (0.74%) Police
11 3 (0.74%) Publishing
11 3 (0.74%) Retail
11 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.50%) Billing
12 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 89 (22.03%) AWS Engineer
2 86 (21.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 60 (14.85%) Senior
4 50 (12.38%) AWS DevOps
5 49 (12.13%) Developer
6 46 (11.39%) Architect
7 42 (10.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 42 (10.40%) Data Engineer
8 37 (9.16%) Lead
9 34 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
10 27 (6.68%) AWS Architect
11 21 (5.20%) Scrum Master
11 21 (5.20%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (4.95%) Lead DevOps
13 19 (4.70%) Senior DevOps
13 19 (4.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.46%) DBA
15 16 (3.96%) AWS Data Engineer
16 15 (3.71%) Java Developer
17 14 (3.47%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (63.86%) Terraform
2 48 (11.88%) REST
3 47 (11.63%) Kafka
3 47 (11.63%) RESTful
4 41 (10.15%) Node.js
5 39 (9.65%) Spring
6 35 (8.66%) Spring Boot
7 34 (8.42%) AWS CDK
8 28 (6.93%) PySpark
9 17 (4.21%) SOAP
10 16 (3.96%) FastAPI
11 15 (3.71%) React
12 14 (3.47%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (3.47%) Jest
12 14 (3.47%) OAuth
13 13 (3.22%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.22%) Playwright
14 12 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (2.97%) GraphQL
15 11 (2.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 140 (34.65%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.90%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.42%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.45%) Replication
5 14 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.22%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.97%) IVR
8 11 (2.72%) CMDB
8 11 (2.72%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.98%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.73%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.49%) NHS
12 6 (1.49%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.24%) Mainframe
14 4 (0.99%) Life Science
14 4 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 63 (15.59%) Linux
2 22 (5.45%) Windows
3 18 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.48%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.98%) Unix
6 6 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.99%) zOS
8 2 (0.50%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (83.91%) CI/CD
2 265 (65.59%) DevOps
3 260 (64.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 174 (43.07%) Agile
5 152 (37.62%) Observability
6 120 (29.70%) Containerisation
7 106 (26.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 89 (22.03%) Test Automation
9 86 (21.29%) Microservices
10 77 (19.06%) Platform Engineering
11 76 (18.81%) Root Cause Analysis
12 68 (16.83%) AI
13 64 (15.84%) Event-Driven
14 63 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
15 58 (14.36%) Software Engineering
16 57 (14.11%) Data Modelling
17 55 (13.61%) Deployment Automation
18 54 (13.37%) Scrum
19 51 (12.62%) Migration
20 49 (12.13%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 212 (52.48%) Python
2 81 (20.05%) SQL
3 80 (19.80%) Bash
4 78 (19.31%) Java
5 37 (9.16%) PowerShell
6 31 (7.67%) TypeScript
7 27 (6.68%) JavaScript
8 16 (3.96%) Shell Script
9 13 (3.22%) Groovy
10 12 (2.97%) C#
10 12 (2.97%) Scala
11 10 (2.48%) Go
12 8 (1.98%) Bicep
13 7 (1.73%) Perl
14 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.74%) C
15 3 (0.74%) JCL
16 2 (0.50%) Korn
17 1 (0.25%) Ladder Logic
17 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (44.55%) Security Cleared
2 162 (40.10%) SC Cleared
3 87 (21.53%) AWS Certification
4 34 (8.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (6.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.21%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (3.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.23%) Degree
9 9 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.98%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (1.73%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.74%) CISSP
13 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.50%) ISEB
14 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.63%) QA
2 42 (10.40%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.98%) GDPR
4 6 (1.49%) NCSC
4 6 (1.49%) SLA
5 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.24%) WCAG
6 3 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.50%) HL7
7 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) SEPA
8 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 154 (38.12%) Docker
2 16 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.48%) IAG
4 9 (2.23%) Squid
5 4 (0.99%) Postfix
6 2 (0.50%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.50%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.25%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 148 (36.63%) Kubernetes
2 128 (31.68%) Grafana
3 102 (25.25%) Prometheus
4 72 (17.82%) Ansible
5 14 (3.47%) Puppet
6 13 (3.22%) Packer
6 13 (3.22%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.24%) Argo
8 5 (1.24%) Istio
9 4 (0.99%) Suricata
10 3 (0.74%) Consul
10 3 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.74%) Kibana
10 3 (0.74%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.50%) Nessus
11 2 (0.50%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.50%) Rancher
12 1 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 43 (10.64%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.18%) ServiceNow
3 26 (6.44%) Splunk
4 19 (4.70%) Informatica
5 18 (4.46%) Oracle
6 16 (3.96%) Microsoft
7 14 (3.47%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.72%) Google
9 10 (2.48%) Nexthink
10 8 (1.98%) Confluent
10 8 (1.98%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.49%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.49%) Cribl.io
11 6 (1.49%) Denodo
11 6 (1.49%) Jaspersoft
12 5 (1.24%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.24%) PagerDuty
13 4 (0.99%) Brio
13 4 (0.99%) New Relic
13 4 (0.99%) VMware