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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 281 405
Rank change year-on-year -47 +124 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 391 284 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.87% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.07% 2.32% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 201 100
10th Percentile £384 £381 £405
25th Percentile £431 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £692 £650 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.50% +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 18,897 12,259 13,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 37.75% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,538 8,167 8,755
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% -1.69%
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 619 290 193
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.44 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £19.27 £30.88
% change year-on-year +66.06% -37.59% +20.02%

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 22 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 22 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 -57 311 £500 - 191
London +2 188 £550 +4.76% 93
Work from Home -21 147 £500 - 92
UK excluding London -88 145 £473 -5.50% 117
North of England -69 44 £500 +5.26% 38
Midlands -57 39 £463 -2.63% 18
West Midlands -54 36 £469 -1.26% 11
South East -39 27 £480 -4.00% 21
North East -19 21 £425 -27.66% 7
Scotland -27 17 £485 -7.62% 10
North West -58 13 £613 +44.24% 13
Yorkshire -53 10 £513 +6.22% 18
East of England -39 9 £450 -18.18% 4
South West -36 6 £325 -37.50% 15
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 8
East Midlands -16 2 £392 -19.44% 7
Wales -9 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 45 (11.51%) Confluence
2 21 (5.37%) Apache
3 20 (5.12%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (4.35%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.05%) Jupyter
5 8 (2.05%) SAS
6 4 (1.02%) CICS
6 4 (1.02%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) 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 (0.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 390 (99.74%) AWS
2 228 (58.31%) Amazon S3
2 228 (58.31%) Serverless
3 224 (57.29%) AWS Lambda
4 148 (37.85%) Amazon EC2
5 133 (34.02%) Amazon EKS
6 120 (30.69%) GitHub
7 112 (28.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 111 (28.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 98 (25.06%) Amazon ECS
10 87 (22.25%) GitHub Actions
11 80 (20.46%) Azure
12 51 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
12 51 (13.04%) AWS KMS
13 39 (9.97%) AWS Step Functions
13 39 (9.97%) Datadog
14 38 (9.72%) Amazon EventBridge
15 37 (9.46%) Amazon EMR
15 37 (9.46%) Amazon Kinesis
15 37 (9.46%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.91%) Firewall
2 16 (4.09%) DNS
2 16 (4.09%) Network Security
3 8 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.79%) HTTP
4 7 (1.79%) SSL
5 6 (1.53%) SNMP
6 5 (1.28%) CTI
6 5 (1.28%) WAN
7 3 (0.77%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.77%) SMS
7 3 (0.77%) VPN
8 2 (0.51%) FTP
8 2 (0.51%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.51%) IMAP
8 2 (0.51%) SMTP
8 2 (0.51%) SSH
9 1 (0.26%) BGP
9 1 (0.26%) Internet
9 1 (0.26%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (28.64%) Amazon RDS
2 81 (20.72%) DynamoDB
3 64 (16.37%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (14.07%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (11.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (8.44%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (5.63%) Power BI
10 21 (5.37%) Redis
11 16 (4.09%) SQL Server
12 15 (3.84%) Data Lake
13 14 (3.58%) MySQL
14 11 (2.81%) DocumentDB
15 10 (2.56%) Tableau
16 9 (2.30%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (2.30%) NoSQL
17 8 (2.05%) Db2
17 8 (2.05%) Electronic Patient Records
18 6 (1.53%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 136 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 135 (34.53%) GitLab
3 90 (23.02%) Git
4 61 (15.60%) JIRA
5 22 (5.63%) Bitbucket
6 20 (5.12%) JUnit
7 18 (4.60%) Mockito
8 15 (3.84%) Maven
9 11 (2.81%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.81%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.05%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.79%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.79%) DbUnit
12 6 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (1.53%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.53%) JMeter
12 6 (1.53%) jMock
13 5 (1.28%) Gatling
13 5 (1.28%) Postman
13 5 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 106 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 98 (25.06%) Public Sector
3 41 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.46%) Finance
5 23 (5.88%) Banking
6 19 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.30%) Back Office
8 7 (1.79%) Law
8 7 (1.79%) Military
9 6 (1.53%) Front Office
10 5 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Legal
12 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Publishing
13 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.51%) Retail
14 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
2 76 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (15.86%) Senior
4 49 (12.53%) Developer
5 45 (11.51%) Architect
6 44 (11.25%) AWS DevOps
7 42 (10.74%) Data Engineer
8 38 (9.72%) Lead
9 37 (9.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 34 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (6.14%) AWS Architect
12 21 (5.37%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (5.12%) Scrum Master
14 19 (4.86%) Java Developer
14 19 (4.86%) Lead DevOps
15 17 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
16 15 (3.84%) DBA
16 15 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
16 15 (3.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 14 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (61.89%) Terraform
2 49 (12.53%) RESTful
3 48 (12.28%) REST
4 44 (11.25%) Spring
5 43 (11.00%) Node.js
6 40 (10.23%) Spring Boot
7 39 (9.97%) Kafka
8 32 (8.18%) AWS CDK
9 27 (6.91%) PySpark
10 21 (5.37%) SOAP
11 16 (4.09%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (4.09%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.84%) React
13 14 (3.58%) FastAPI
13 14 (3.58%) Web Services
14 12 (3.07%) GraphQL
14 12 (3.07%) OAuth
15 11 (2.81%) Jest
15 11 (2.81%) OpenTelemetry
15 11 (2.81%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 131 (33.50%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.95%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.86%) Replication
5 13 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.32%) IVR
6 12 (3.07%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.81%) CMDB
8 9 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.05%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.53%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.53%) NHS
11 5 (1.28%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.28%) 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 60 (15.35%) Linux
2 21 (5.37%) Windows
3 18 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.56%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.05%) Unix
6 6 (1.53%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.28%) zOS
8 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.51%) CentOS
10 1 (0.26%) Android
10 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.26%) Debian
10 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (80.05%) CI/CD
2 248 (63.43%) DevOps
3 241 (61.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 174 (44.50%) Agile
5 140 (35.81%) Observability
6 116 (29.67%) Containerisation
7 100 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 83 (21.23%) Test Automation
9 79 (20.20%) Microservices
10 73 (18.67%) Platform Engineering
11 71 (18.16%) Root Cause Analysis
12 64 (16.37%) AI
13 60 (15.35%) Data Modelling
14 58 (14.83%) Event-Driven
14 58 (14.83%) Scrum
15 56 (14.32%) Software Engineering
16 55 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 52 (13.30%) Performance Tuning
18 51 (13.04%) Analytics
18 51 (13.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 201 (51.41%) Python
2 91 (23.27%) SQL
3 79 (20.20%) Java
4 74 (18.93%) Bash
5 36 (9.21%) PowerShell
6 30 (7.67%) TypeScript
7 28 (7.16%) JavaScript
8 15 (3.84%) Shell Script
9 14 (3.58%) Groovy
9 14 (3.58%) Scala
10 9 (2.30%) C#
11 8 (2.05%) Bicep
12 7 (1.79%) Perl
13 6 (1.53%) Go
14 4 (1.02%) JCL
14 4 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.77%) C
16 2 (0.51%) Korn
17 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 176 (45.01%) Security Cleared
2 157 (40.15%) SC Cleared
3 74 (18.93%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (6.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (3.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (2.30%) Degree
11 8 (2.05%) SAFe Agilist
12 5 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.28%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.77%) CISSP
13 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.26%) ISEB
15 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.76%) QA
2 41 (10.49%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.53%) GDPR
4 6 (1.53%) NCSC
5 5 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.28%) SLA
5 5 (1.28%) WCAG
6 4 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.02%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.51%) HL7
7 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) SEPA
8 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 146 (37.34%) Docker
2 15 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.81%) IAG
4 10 (2.56%) Squid
5 7 (1.79%) Postfix
6 2 (0.51%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.51%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.26%) HDFS
7 1 (0.26%) KVM
7 1 (0.26%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 139 (35.55%) Kubernetes
2 123 (31.46%) Grafana
3 96 (24.55%) Prometheus
4 70 (17.90%) Ansible
5 13 (3.32%) Puppet
6 12 (3.07%) Packer
6 12 (3.07%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.28%) Argo
8 5 (1.28%) Istio
9 4 (1.02%) Suricata
10 3 (0.77%) Consul
10 3 (0.77%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.77%) Kibana
10 3 (0.77%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.51%) Nessus
11 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.51%) Rancher
12 1 (0.26%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 41 (10.49%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.42%) ServiceNow
3 24 (6.14%) Splunk
4 20 (5.12%) Informatica
5 16 (4.09%) Microsoft
6 14 (3.58%) Oracle
7 13 (3.32%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.81%) Nexthink
9 10 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (2.05%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.05%) Confluent
10 8 (2.05%) Google
10 8 (2.05%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.53%) Cribl.io
11 6 (1.53%) Denodo
11 6 (1.53%) PagerDuty
12 5 (1.28%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.02%) New Relic
13 4 (1.02%) Trend Micro
13 4 (1.02%) VMware