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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 338 423
Rank change year-on-year -6 +85 -19
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 344 208 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.64% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.71% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 148 130
10th Percentile £355 £358 £405
25th Percentile £413 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -4.76% -8.30%
75th Percentile £567 £540 £605
90th Percentile £639 £626 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £495 £516
% change year-on-year -8.59% -3.98% -10.35%
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 18,565 12,152 14,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.37% 37.62% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,331 8,124 10,096
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 312 357
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +102.70% -10.14% -20.69%

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 9 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 9 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 -23 271 £488 -2.50% 60
London +23 173 £525 +2.44% 24
Work from Home -5 127 £475 -5.00% 31
UK excluding London -68 127 £453 -8.59% 47
Midlands -45 46 £472 -0.63% 7
West Midlands -48 44 £475 - 4
Scotland +3 25 £440 -12.00% 5
North of England -79 21 £425 +6.25% 12
South East -43 17 £393 -31.65% 11
East of England -21 10 £500 -9.09% 3
North East -25 9 £413 - 2
North West -45 6 £390 +8.94% 7
Yorkshire -53 6 £463 -2.63% 3
South West -35 4 £444 -15.07% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 2
Wales - 2 £525 - 1
East Midlands -15 1 £425 -20.86% 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 49 (14.24%) Confluence
2 25 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.07%) Apache
4 12 (3.49%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.03%) SAS
6 6 (1.74%) CICS
7 5 (1.45%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.16%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.58%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.29%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 343 (99.71%) AWS
2 217 (63.08%) Amazon S3
3 201 (58.43%) Serverless
4 196 (56.98%) AWS Lambda
5 158 (45.93%) Amazon EC2
6 113 (32.85%) Amazon EKS
7 112 (32.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 111 (32.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 110 (31.98%) GitHub
10 91 (26.45%) Amazon ECS
11 83 (24.13%) GitHub Actions
12 62 (18.02%) Azure
13 48 (13.95%) Amazon SQS
13 48 (13.95%) AWS KMS
14 42 (12.21%) Route 53
15 35 (10.17%) Datadog
16 33 (9.59%) Amazon EMR
16 33 (9.59%) AWS CodePipeline
17 30 (8.72%) AWS CloudTrail
18 27 (7.85%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.52%) Firewall
2 13 (3.78%) DNS
3 12 (3.49%) Network Security
4 7 (2.03%) WAN
5 6 (1.74%) HTTP
5 6 (1.74%) SNMP
5 6 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.45%) VPN
7 4 (1.16%) SSL
8 3 (0.87%) BGP
8 3 (0.87%) CTI
9 2 (0.58%) OSPF
9 2 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.29%) Internet
10 1 (0.29%) PSTN
10 1 (0.29%) RTP
10 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (29.94%) Amazon RDS
2 78 (22.67%) DynamoDB
3 50 (14.53%) Amazon Athena
4 46 (13.37%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (11.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 34 (9.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (7.27%) Power BI
8 19 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (4.94%) Tableau
10 16 (4.65%) MongoDB
11 11 (3.20%) Redis
12 10 (2.91%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.62%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.62%) Db2
14 8 (2.33%) Data Lake
15 7 (2.03%) Metadata
16 6 (1.74%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.74%) NoSQL
16 6 (1.74%) Pentaho
17 5 (1.45%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 129 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 110 (31.98%) GitLab
3 85 (24.71%) Git
4 64 (18.60%) JIRA
5 25 (7.27%) JUnit
6 23 (6.69%) Mockito
7 22 (6.40%) Bitbucket
7 22 (6.40%) Maven
8 20 (5.81%) SonarQube
9 14 (4.07%) DbUnit
10 13 (3.78%) jMock
11 11 (3.20%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (2.62%) Cucumber
13 8 (2.33%) Artifactory
13 8 (2.33%) Postman
14 6 (1.74%) Gatling
14 6 (1.74%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.45%) MLflow
16 4 (1.16%) Gradle
16 4 (1.16%) Jaeger
General
1 97 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 85 (24.71%) Public Sector
3 38 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.30%) Finance
5 17 (4.94%) Banking
6 13 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.03%) Law
10 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Legal
10 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Back Office
11 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.58%) Military
11 2 (0.58%) Police
11 2 (0.58%) Publishing
11 2 (0.58%) Retail
12 1 (0.29%) Billing
12 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (24.13%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (15.41%) Senior
3 51 (14.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (14.24%) Developer
5 37 (10.76%) Architect
6 35 (10.17%) AWS DevOps
7 34 (9.88%) Data Engineer
8 29 (8.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 28 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (7.27%) Java Developer
10 25 (7.27%) Lead
11 21 (6.10%) AWS Architect
12 20 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (4.94%) Senior Developer
14 17 (4.94%) Site Engineer
15 16 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
16 15 (4.36%) Scrum Master
17 13 (3.78%) Delivery Manager
17 13 (3.78%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.08%) RESTful
2 41 (11.92%) AWS CDK
2 41 (11.92%) Kafka
3 40 (11.63%) Node.js
3 40 (11.63%) REST
4 36 (10.47%) Spring
4 36 (10.47%) Spring Boot
5 32 (9.30%) SOAP
6 27 (7.85%) Web Services
7 24 (6.98%) PySpark
8 20 (5.81%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (5.52%) AngularJS
9 19 (5.52%) Hibernate
9 19 (5.52%) JPA
10 18 (5.23%) Spring Batch
10 18 (5.23%) Spring Integration
11 17 (4.94%) OpenTelemetry
11 17 (4.94%) Spring Cloud
12 16 (4.65%) OAuth
13 14 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 103 (29.94%) Cloud Native
2 43 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.85%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.62%) Replication
6 8 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.03%) Mainframe
7 7 (2.03%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.74%) CMDB
8 6 (1.74%) DataPower
8 6 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.74%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.45%) IVR
10 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.87%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (18.60%) Linux
2 23 (6.69%) Windows
3 13 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.03%) zOS
6 6 (1.74%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.16%) Unix
7 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.29%) Android
8 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.29%) CentOS
8 1 (0.29%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (74.71%) CI/CD
2 192 (55.81%) DevOps
3 181 (52.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (41.57%) Agile
5 111 (32.27%) Containerisation
6 107 (31.10%) Observability
7 77 (22.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (21.51%) Microservices
9 70 (20.35%) Platform Engineering
10 65 (18.90%) Test Automation
11 57 (16.57%) Scrum
12 50 (14.53%) Migration
13 47 (13.66%) AI
14 45 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
15 43 (12.50%) Event-Driven
16 42 (12.21%) Analytics
16 42 (12.21%) Data Pipeline
16 42 (12.21%) Performance Tuning
16 42 (12.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 39 (11.34%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 173 (50.29%) Python
2 86 (25.00%) SQL
3 72 (20.93%) Bash
4 65 (18.90%) Java
5 35 (10.17%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.27%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.23%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.78%) Scala
8 13 (3.78%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.62%) Groovy
10 8 (2.33%) Go
11 6 (1.74%) JCL
12 5 (1.45%) C#
12 5 (1.45%) Perl
13 4 (1.16%) Bicep
13 4 (1.16%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.58%) C
14 2 (0.58%) Korn
14 2 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.29%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 156 (45.35%) Security Cleared
2 142 (41.28%) SC Cleared
3 48 (13.95%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (4.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (4.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 11 (3.20%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (2.62%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.03%) Degree
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.29%) PMP
13 1 (0.29%) RHCE
13 1 (0.29%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.27%) QA
3 9 (2.62%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.33%) SLA
5 6 (1.74%) GDPR
5 6 (1.74%) PMO
6 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.45%) GRC
7 4 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.16%) NCSC
7 4 (1.16%) NIST
8 3 (0.87%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.29%) HL7
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 133 (38.66%) Docker
2 11 (3.20%) Postfix
3 8 (2.33%) Squid
4 6 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.74%) IAG
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
5 1 (0.29%) QEMU
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 209 (60.76%) Terraform
2 121 (35.17%) Grafana
3 112 (32.56%) Kubernetes
4 96 (27.91%) Prometheus
5 46 (13.37%) Ansible
6 12 (3.49%) Puppet
7 9 (2.62%) Istio
8 8 (2.33%) Packer
9 4 (1.16%) Argo
9 4 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.16%) Suricata
10 3 (0.87%) Rancher
11 2 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.58%) linkerd
11 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.29%) Consul
12 1 (0.29%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.29%) Kibana
12 1 (0.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (7.27%) ServiceNow
2 24 (6.98%) Dynatrace
3 21 (6.10%) Splunk
4 17 (4.94%) Informatica
4 17 (4.94%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (4.07%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.33%) Databricks
6 8 (2.33%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.33%) New Relic
7 7 (2.03%) Cribl.io
7 7 (2.03%) Oracle
7 7 (2.03%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.74%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.74%) Denodo
8 6 (1.74%) Nexthink
9 5 (1.45%) Confluent
9 5 (1.45%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.16%) Sybase
10 4 (1.16%) Trend Micro
11 3 (0.87%) Tenable