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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 293 410
Rank change year-on-year -42 +117 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 394 283 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.87% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.07% 2.29% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 201 97
10th Percentile £381 £381 £403
25th Percentile £431 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £594
90th Percentile £694 £650 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -15.89%
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 19,019 12,350 12,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.67% 37.77% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,616 8,238 8,668
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 291 186
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.28
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £33.27
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -15.84% -4.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £53.13 £64.67
90th Percentile £80.75 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.75 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +59.57% -41.61% +29.67%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -30 313 £500 - 209
London -1 189 £550 +4.76% 97
Work from Home -28 146 £496 -0.78% 102
UK excluding London -94 146 £475 -5.00% 129
North of England -77 45 £500 +5.26% 43
Midlands -56 39 £463 -2.63% 17
West Midlands -46 36 £469 -1.26% 10
South East -39 27 £480 -4.00% 27
North East -22 21 £425 -27.66% 7
Scotland -24 17 £485 -7.62% 12
North West -55 14 £607 +42.71% 17
Yorkshire -54 10 £513 +6.22% 19
East of England -36 9 £450 -18.18% 5
South West -36 6 £325 -37.50% 17
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 6
East Midlands -21 2 £392 -19.44% 7
Wales -12 1 £550 - 2

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 47 (11.93%) Confluence
2 21 (5.33%) Apache
3 20 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (4.31%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.03%) Jupyter
5 8 (2.03%) SAS
6 4 (1.02%) CICS
6 4 (1.02%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Appian
7 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Trello
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Gliffy
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
1 393 (99.75%) AWS
2 231 (58.63%) Amazon S3
3 230 (58.38%) Serverless
4 226 (57.36%) AWS Lambda
5 148 (37.56%) Amazon EC2
6 136 (34.52%) Amazon EKS
7 122 (30.96%) GitHub
8 114 (28.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 112 (28.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 101 (25.63%) Amazon ECS
11 88 (22.34%) GitHub Actions
12 80 (20.30%) Azure
13 54 (13.71%) Amazon SQS
14 52 (13.20%) AWS KMS
15 39 (9.90%) AWS Step Functions
15 39 (9.90%) Datadog
16 38 (9.64%) Amazon EventBridge
17 37 (9.39%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (9.39%) Amazon Kinesis
17 37 (9.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.11%) Firewall
2 17 (4.31%) DNS
3 16 (4.06%) Network Security
4 8 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.78%) HTTP
5 7 (1.78%) SSL
6 6 (1.52%) SNMP
7 5 (1.27%) CTI
7 5 (1.27%) WAN
8 3 (0.76%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.76%) SMS
8 3 (0.76%) VPN
9 2 (0.51%) FTP
9 2 (0.51%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.51%) IMAP
9 2 (0.51%) SMTP
9 2 (0.51%) SSH
10 1 (0.25%) Internet
10 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (28.68%) Amazon RDS
2 81 (20.56%) DynamoDB
3 66 (16.75%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (14.21%) Amazon Athena
5 46 (11.68%) Amazon Aurora
6 35 (8.88%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (5.58%) Power BI
10 21 (5.33%) Redis
11 16 (4.06%) SQL Server
12 15 (3.81%) Data Lake
12 15 (3.81%) MySQL
13 12 (3.05%) DocumentDB
14 10 (2.54%) Tableau
15 9 (2.28%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (2.28%) NoSQL
16 8 (2.03%) Db2
16 8 (2.03%) Electronic Patient Records
17 6 (1.52%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 139 (35.28%) GitLab
2 138 (35.03%) Jenkins
3 90 (22.84%) Git
4 63 (15.99%) JIRA
5 23 (5.84%) Bitbucket
6 20 (5.08%) JUnit
7 18 (4.57%) Mockito
8 15 (3.81%) Maven
9 11 (2.79%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.79%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.03%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.78%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.78%) DbUnit
12 6 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (1.52%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.52%) JMeter
12 6 (1.52%) jMock
12 6 (1.52%) Postman
13 5 (1.27%) Gatling
13 5 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 99 (25.13%) Public Sector
3 41 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.39%) Finance
5 23 (5.84%) Banking
6 20 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.28%) Back Office
8 7 (1.78%) Law
8 7 (1.78%) Military
9 6 (1.52%) Front Office
10 5 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Legal
12 3 (0.76%) Publishing
13 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.51%) Retail
14 1 (0.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 87 (22.08%) AWS Engineer
2 78 (19.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 63 (15.99%) Senior
4 50 (12.69%) Developer
5 46 (11.68%) Architect
6 45 (11.42%) AWS DevOps
7 42 (10.66%) Data Engineer
8 38 (9.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 38 (9.64%) Lead
9 34 (8.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (6.35%) AWS Architect
11 21 (5.33%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (5.08%) Scrum Master
13 19 (4.82%) Java Developer
13 19 (4.82%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (4.31%) AWS Data Engineer
15 16 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
15 16 (4.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 15 (3.81%) DBA
17 14 (3.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (61.93%) Terraform
2 49 (12.44%) REST
2 49 (12.44%) RESTful
3 44 (11.17%) Node.js
3 44 (11.17%) Spring
4 42 (10.66%) Kafka
5 40 (10.15%) Spring Boot
6 30 (7.61%) AWS CDK
7 27 (6.85%) PySpark
8 21 (5.33%) SOAP
9 16 (4.06%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (4.06%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.81%) React
10 15 (3.81%) Web Services
11 14 (3.55%) FastAPI
12 13 (3.30%) OAuth
13 12 (3.05%) GraphQL
13 12 (3.05%) Jest
14 11 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (2.79%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 134 (34.01%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.63%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.82%) Replication
5 13 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.30%) IVR
6 12 (3.05%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.79%) CMDB
8 10 (2.54%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.03%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.52%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.52%) NHS
11 5 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.02%) DataPower
12 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.02%) Online Banking
12 4 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (15.48%) Linux
2 21 (5.33%) Windows
3 18 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.54%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.03%) Unix
6 6 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.27%) zOS
8 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.51%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) Android
10 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.25%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (80.20%) CI/CD
2 250 (63.45%) DevOps
3 245 (62.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (44.67%) Agile
5 143 (36.29%) Observability
6 117 (29.70%) Containerisation
7 100 (25.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (21.32%) Test Automation
9 79 (20.05%) Microservices
10 73 (18.53%) Root Cause Analysis
11 72 (18.27%) Platform Engineering
12 62 (15.74%) AI
13 60 (15.23%) Data Modelling
14 59 (14.97%) Event-Driven
15 58 (14.72%) Scrum
16 57 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 54 (13.71%) Software Engineering
18 52 (13.20%) Performance Tuning
19 51 (12.94%) Analytics
19 51 (12.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 201 (51.02%) Python
2 92 (23.35%) SQL
3 79 (20.05%) Java
4 76 (19.29%) Bash
5 37 (9.39%) PowerShell
6 29 (7.36%) JavaScript
6 29 (7.36%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.81%) Shell Script
8 14 (3.55%) Groovy
8 14 (3.55%) Scala
9 9 (2.28%) C#
10 8 (2.03%) Bicep
11 7 (1.78%) Perl
12 6 (1.52%) Go
13 4 (1.02%) JCL
13 4 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.76%) C
15 2 (0.51%) Korn
16 1 (0.25%) Ladder Logic
16 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 178 (45.18%) Security Cleared
2 159 (40.36%) SC Cleared
3 76 (19.29%) AWS Certification
4 30 (7.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (6.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.31%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (3.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (2.54%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (2.28%) Degree
11 8 (2.03%) SAFe Agilist
12 5 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.27%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.76%) CISSP
13 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.25%) RHCE
15 1 (0.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.93%) QA
2 42 (10.66%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.78%) GDPR
5 6 (1.52%) NCSC
5 6 (1.52%) SLA
6 5 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.27%) WCAG
7 4 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.02%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.51%) HL7
8 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) PMO
9 1 (0.25%) SEPA
9 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 149 (37.82%) Docker
2 15 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.79%) IAG
4 10 (2.54%) Squid
5 7 (1.78%) Postfix
6 2 (0.51%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.51%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.25%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 142 (36.04%) Kubernetes
2 125 (31.73%) Grafana
3 98 (24.87%) Prometheus
4 70 (17.77%) Ansible
5 13 (3.30%) Puppet
6 12 (3.05%) Packer
6 12 (3.05%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.27%) Argo
8 5 (1.27%) Istio
9 4 (1.02%) Suricata
10 3 (0.76%) Consul
10 3 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.76%) Kibana
10 3 (0.76%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.51%) Nessus
11 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.51%) Rancher
12 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.25%) linkerd
Vendors
1 42 (10.66%) Dynatrace
2 30 (7.61%) ServiceNow
3 25 (6.35%) Splunk
4 20 (5.08%) Informatica
5 16 (4.06%) Microsoft
6 14 (3.55%) Oracle
7 13 (3.30%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.79%) Nexthink
9 10 (2.54%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (2.28%) Confluent
11 8 (2.03%) Atlassian
11 8 (2.03%) Google
11 8 (2.03%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.52%) Cribl.io
12 6 (1.52%) Denodo
12 6 (1.52%) PagerDuty
13 5 (1.27%) AppDynamics
14 4 (1.02%) New Relic
14 4 (1.02%) Trend Micro
14 4 (1.02%) VMware