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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 299 406
Rank change year-on-year -40 +107 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 399 289 158
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.87% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 2.30% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 206 99
10th Percentile £387 £383 £404
25th Percentile £437 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £576
90th Percentile £718 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -4.60% +11.11% -17.43%
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 19,068 12,578 12,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.73% 38.05% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,647 8,397 8,617
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £719 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 628 296 185
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.50 £16.12
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.25 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.14 £33.00
% change year-on-year +56.78% -42.02% +42.00%

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 1 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 1 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 -35 317 £500 - 227
London -4 192 £550 +4.76% 110
UK excluding London -84 147 £477 -4.60% 127
Work from Home -29 146 £500 - 113
North of England -71 48 £500 +5.26% 48
Midlands -58 37 £466 -1.95% 20
West Midlands -46 34 £469 -1.26% 11
South East -34 30 £533 +6.50% 16
North East -21 22 £425 -26.09% 10
Scotland -24 17 £485 -7.62% 12
North West -54 14 £607 +42.71% 24
Yorkshire -48 12 £500 +2.04% 14
South West -34 6 £325 -37.50% 19
East of England -35 6 £488 -11.36% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 6
East Midlands -17 2 £392 -19.44% 9
Wales -14 1 £550 - 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 48 (12.03%) Confluence
2 22 (5.51%) Apache
3 19 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (4.26%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.01%) Jupyter
5 8 (2.01%) SAS
6 4 (1.00%) nginx
7 3 (0.75%) 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 (1.00%) Trello
2 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.50%) 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
1 397 (99.50%) AWS
2 232 (58.15%) Serverless
3 231 (57.89%) Amazon S3
4 228 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
5 151 (37.84%) Amazon EC2
6 143 (35.84%) Amazon EKS
7 123 (30.83%) GitHub
8 117 (29.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 116 (29.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 108 (27.07%) Amazon ECS
11 90 (22.56%) GitHub Actions
12 82 (20.55%) Azure
13 54 (13.53%) Amazon SQS
13 54 (13.53%) AWS KMS
14 39 (9.77%) Amazon EventBridge
14 39 (9.77%) AWS Step Functions
15 38 (9.52%) Route 53
16 37 (9.27%) Amazon EMR
16 37 (9.27%) Datadog
17 35 (8.77%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.52%) Firewall
2 18 (4.51%) Network Security
3 15 (3.76%) DNS
4 7 (1.75%) HTTP
4 7 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.50%) SNMP
5 6 (1.50%) SSL
6 5 (1.25%) WAN
7 4 (1.00%) CTI
7 4 (1.00%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.75%) SMS
8 3 (0.75%) 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
1 116 (29.07%) Amazon RDS
2 81 (20.30%) DynamoDB
3 65 (16.29%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
5 48 (12.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 38 (9.52%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (5.76%) Redis
9 21 (5.26%) Power BI
10 17 (4.26%) SQL Server
11 16 (4.01%) MySQL
12 15 (3.76%) Data Lake
13 13 (3.26%) DocumentDB
14 9 (2.26%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (2.26%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.26%) Tableau
15 8 (2.01%) Electronic Patient Records
16 7 (1.75%) Db2
17 6 (1.50%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 143 (35.84%) GitLab
2 139 (34.84%) Jenkins
3 91 (22.81%) Git
4 62 (15.54%) JIRA
5 23 (5.76%) Bitbucket
6 20 (5.01%) JUnit
7 17 (4.26%) Mockito
8 14 (3.51%) Maven
9 13 (3.26%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.51%) REST Assured
10 10 (2.51%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.75%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.75%) JMeter
12 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.50%) DbUnit
12 6 (1.50%) Postman
12 6 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.25%) jMock
14 4 (1.00%) Gatling
General
1 106 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 102 (25.56%) Public Sector
3 38 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.27%) Finance
5 23 (5.76%) Banking
6 21 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.26%) Back Office
8 7 (1.75%) Law
8 7 (1.75%) Military
9 6 (1.50%) Front Office
10 5 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Legal
12 3 (0.75%) Publishing
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.50%) Police
13 2 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 87 (21.80%) AWS Engineer
2 82 (20.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (15.54%) Senior
4 53 (13.28%) Developer
5 46 (11.53%) Architect
5 46 (11.53%) AWS DevOps
6 42 (10.53%) Data Engineer
7 39 (9.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 37 (9.27%) Lead
9 33 (8.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (6.52%) AWS Architect
11 21 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (5.01%) Scrum Master
13 19 (4.76%) Java Developer
13 19 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (4.26%) AWS Data Engineer
14 17 (4.26%) DBA
14 17 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (63.16%) Terraform
2 48 (12.03%) REST
2 48 (12.03%) RESTful
3 45 (11.28%) Kafka
4 43 (10.78%) Spring
5 41 (10.28%) Node.js
6 39 (9.77%) Spring Boot
7 30 (7.52%) AWS CDK
8 27 (6.77%) PySpark
9 19 (4.76%) SOAP
10 17 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (4.01%) AngularJS
11 16 (4.01%) React
12 15 (3.76%) FastAPI
13 14 (3.51%) Jest
14 13 (3.26%) OAuth
14 13 (3.26%) Playwright
14 13 (3.26%) Web Services
15 11 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
15 11 (2.76%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 137 (34.34%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.52%) Product Ownership
4 21 (5.26%) Replication
5 14 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.01%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.01%) IVR
7 11 (2.76%) CMDB
7 11 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.50%) NHS
11 5 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.25%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 62 (15.54%) Linux
2 21 (5.26%) Windows
3 18 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.51%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.51%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.01%) Unix
6 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.00%) 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
1 329 (82.46%) CI/CD
2 256 (64.16%) DevOps
3 254 (63.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 174 (43.61%) Agile
5 145 (36.34%) Observability
6 121 (30.33%) Containerisation
7 101 (25.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 88 (22.06%) Test Automation
9 83 (20.80%) Microservices
10 73 (18.30%) Platform Engineering
10 73 (18.30%) Root Cause Analysis
11 64 (16.04%) AI
12 60 (15.04%) Data Modelling
12 60 (15.04%) Event-Driven
13 59 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
14 56 (14.04%) Scrum
14 56 (14.04%) Software Engineering
15 51 (12.78%) Analytics
15 51 (12.78%) Migration
16 50 (12.53%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 206 (51.63%) Python
2 89 (22.31%) SQL
3 80 (20.05%) Java
4 77 (19.30%) Bash
5 36 (9.02%) PowerShell
6 27 (6.77%) JavaScript
6 27 (6.77%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.51%) Shell Script
8 13 (3.26%) Groovy
8 13 (3.26%) Scala
9 11 (2.76%) C#
10 8 (2.01%) Bicep
10 8 (2.01%) Go
11 7 (1.75%) Perl
12 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.75%) C
13 3 (0.75%) JCL
14 2 (0.50%) Korn
15 1 (0.25%) Ladder Logic
15 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 182 (45.61%) Security Cleared
2 164 (41.10%) SC Cleared
3 78 (19.55%) AWS Certification
4 31 (7.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (6.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.26%) Degree
9 9 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (2.01%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (1.50%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.75%) CISSP
13 3 (0.75%) 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 46 (11.53%) QA
2 42 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.75%) GDPR
5 6 (1.50%) NCSC
5 6 (1.50%) SLA
6 5 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.25%) WCAG
7 4 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.00%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.50%) HL7
8 2 (0.50%) 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
1 151 (37.84%) Docker
2 15 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.51%) IAG
4 9 (2.26%) Squid
5 6 (1.50%) 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 (37.09%) Kubernetes
2 129 (32.33%) Grafana
3 102 (25.56%) Prometheus
4 70 (17.54%) Ansible
5 13 (3.26%) Packer
5 13 (3.26%) Puppet
6 12 (3.01%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.25%) Argo
8 5 (1.25%) Istio
9 4 (1.00%) Suricata
10 3 (0.75%) Consul
10 3 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.75%) Kibana
10 3 (0.75%) 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%) linkerd
Vendors
1 43 (10.78%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.27%) ServiceNow
3 25 (6.27%) Splunk
4 19 (4.76%) Informatica
5 17 (4.26%) Oracle
6 16 (4.01%) Microsoft
7 13 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.51%) Nexthink
9 9 (2.26%) Confluent
9 9 (2.26%) Google
9 9 (2.26%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (2.01%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.01%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.50%) Cribl.io
11 6 (1.50%) Denodo
12 5 (1.25%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.25%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.00%) Brio
13 4 (1.00%) New Relic
13 4 (1.00%) VMware