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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 352 440
Rank change year-on-year -1 +88 -40
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 302 182 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.62% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.63% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 146 129
10th Percentile £356 £397 £400
25th Percentile £405 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £600
90th Percentile £692 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
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 16,662 11,142 14,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.90% 38.12% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,817 10,154
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £491
% change year-on-year -0.21% -2.99% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 464 223 342
10th Percentile £15.54 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -24.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.39 £35.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.00 £61.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -21.24%

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 4 April 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 16 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 4 April 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 -30 225 £513 -0.73% 85
London +10 145 £525 +2.44% 39
UK excluding London -62 97 £500 -4.76% 53
Work from Home -16 95 £506 -3.57% 46
North of England -73 26 £521 -3.47% 26
Midlands -58 25 £475 +6.26% 3
West Midlands -42 24 £475 -5.00% 2
Scotland +14 20 £400 -23.81%
Yorkshire -50 13 £518 -28.62% 5
South West -18 10 £700 +19.15% 3
North West -46 10 £475 +21.48% 12
South East -44 9 £392 -31.91% 13
East of England -28 5 £575 +15.00% 8
North East -18 3 £575 -2.54% 9
Wales - 2 £500 -
East Midlands -32 1 £322 -19.50% 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 20 (6.62%) Confluence
2 17 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.99%) Apache
5 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.99%) CICS
7 2 (0.66%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 299 (99.01%) AWS
2 207 (68.54%) Serverless
3 201 (66.56%) AWS Lambda
4 190 (62.91%) Amazon S3
5 136 (45.03%) Amazon EC2
6 120 (39.74%) Amazon ECS
6 120 (39.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 115 (38.08%) GitHub
8 98 (32.45%) Amazon EKS
9 91 (30.13%) GitHub Actions
10 90 (29.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 56 (18.54%) Azure
12 39 (12.91%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (12.91%) Route 53
13 36 (11.92%) AWS CodePipeline
14 27 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (8.61%) Datadog
16 25 (8.28%) AWS Fargate
17 24 (7.95%) AWS KMS
18 23 (7.62%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.95%) DNS
2 17 (5.63%) Firewall
3 7 (2.32%) VPN
4 5 (1.66%) HTTP
5 3 (0.99%) Network Security
5 3 (0.99%) WAN
6 2 (0.66%) BGP
6 2 (0.66%) OSPF
6 2 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.33%) CTI
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) LAN
7 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.33%) SSL
7 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (34.44%) Amazon RDS
2 78 (25.83%) DynamoDB
3 35 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (9.60%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (8.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 20 (6.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (5.63%) MongoDB
8 16 (5.30%) Tableau
9 15 (4.97%) MySQL
10 14 (4.64%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.97%) NoSQL
12 10 (3.31%) DB2
13 9 (2.98%) Power BI
14 8 (2.65%) Redis
14 8 (2.65%) SQL Server
15 6 (1.99%) Big Data
16 5 (1.66%) DocumentDB
16 5 (1.66%) RDBMS
17 4 (1.32%) Data Lake
18 3 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 105 (34.77%) Jenkins
2 99 (32.78%) GitLab
3 57 (18.87%) Git
4 28 (9.27%) JIRA
5 19 (6.29%) JUnit
6 16 (5.30%) Maven
7 14 (4.64%) Mockito
8 13 (4.30%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.31%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.98%) DbUnit
10 9 (2.98%) jMock
11 7 (2.32%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (1.99%) Postman
13 4 (1.32%) Gradle
13 4 (1.32%) MLflow
13 4 (1.32%) NUnit
13 4 (1.32%) Terragrunt
14 3 (0.99%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.99%) JMeter
14 3 (0.99%) Mocha
General
1 81 (26.82%) Public Sector
2 68 (22.52%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.59%) Finance
4 34 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.30%) Banking
6 11 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.99%) Police
9 2 (0.66%) Games
9 2 (0.66%) Military
10 1 (0.33%) Billing
10 1 (0.33%) Front Office
10 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.33%) Law
10 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (23.84%) AWS Engineer
2 55 (18.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 52 (17.22%) Developer
4 39 (12.91%) Senior
5 38 (12.58%) Architect
6 33 (10.93%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (9.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (7.95%) Java Developer
8 24 (7.95%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (6.29%) AWS Architect
9 19 (6.29%) Data Engineer
10 18 (5.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 17 (5.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 17 (5.63%) Lead
12 16 (5.30%) Senior Developer
13 14 (4.64%) Analyst
14 12 (3.97%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
14 12 (3.97%) Technical Manager
15 11 (3.64%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.56%) Node.js
2 43 (14.24%) Kafka
3 40 (13.25%) REST
4 36 (11.92%) Spring Boot
5 35 (11.59%) Spring
6 34 (11.26%) AWS CDK
7 30 (9.93%) RESTful
8 27 (8.94%) Elastic Stack
8 27 (8.94%) OAuth
9 19 (6.29%) JWT
10 17 (5.63%) SOAP
10 17 (5.63%) Web Services
11 16 (5.30%) AngularJS
11 16 (5.30%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (4.97%) Hibernate
12 15 (4.97%) JPA
12 15 (4.97%) React
12 15 (4.97%) Spring Cloud
13 14 (4.64%) PySpark
14 13 (4.30%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 72 (23.84%) Cloud Native
2 47 (15.56%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.31%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.65%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.65%) DataPower
5 8 (2.65%) NHS
5 8 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.32%) IVR
7 6 (1.99%) Replication
8 5 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.99%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.99%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 57 (18.87%) Linux
2 13 (4.30%) Windows
3 9 (2.98%) Unix
4 6 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.66%) zOS
6 4 (1.32%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.33%) VMS
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (68.54%) CI/CD
2 174 (57.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 148 (49.01%) DevOps
4 100 (33.11%) Agile
4 100 (33.11%) Containerisation
5 96 (31.79%) Observability
6 80 (26.49%) Microservices
7 69 (22.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (16.89%) Migration
9 51 (16.89%) Test Automation
10 48 (15.89%) Performance Tuning
11 45 (14.90%) Platform Engineering
12 40 (13.25%) Analytics
13 39 (12.91%) Event-Driven
14 36 (11.92%) Scrum
15 35 (11.59%) Cost Optimisation
16 34 (11.26%) Secrets Management
17 32 (10.60%) ETL
17 32 (10.60%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 148 (49.01%) Python
2 65 (21.52%) SQL
3 59 (19.54%) Java
4 53 (17.55%) Bash
5 25 (8.28%) TypeScript
6 24 (7.95%) Shell Script
7 22 (7.28%) PowerShell
8 17 (5.63%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.97%) Go
10 8 (2.65%) C#
11 7 (2.32%) Scala
12 5 (1.66%) Bicep
12 5 (1.66%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.99%) JCL
13 3 (0.99%) Korn
14 2 (0.66%) C
14 2 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.33%) COBOL
15 1 (0.33%) R
15 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (42.05%) Security Cleared
2 105 (34.77%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.60%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (4.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.98%) Degree
8 7 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.32%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.66%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.99%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.66%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.95%) QA
2 17 (5.63%) PCI DSS
3 15 (4.97%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (4.30%) GDPR
5 10 (3.31%) NIST
6 9 (2.98%) PMO
7 8 (2.65%) SLA
8 7 (2.32%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.32%) GRC
9 4 (1.32%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.66%) NCSC
10 2 (0.66%) WCAG
11 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 142 (47.02%) Docker
2 8 (2.65%) Postfix
3 3 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.33%) IAG
4 1 (0.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 197 (65.23%) Terraform
2 104 (34.44%) Kubernetes
3 91 (30.13%) Grafana
4 78 (25.83%) Prometheus
5 28 (9.27%) Ansible
6 8 (2.65%) Kibana
7 7 (2.32%) Argo
7 7 (2.32%) Istio
8 5 (1.66%) Dell DRAC
8 5 (1.66%) Puppet
8 5 (1.66%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.99%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.99%) Packer
11 2 (0.66%) linkerd
11 2 (0.66%) logstash
11 2 (0.66%) Nagios
11 2 (0.66%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.66%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (7.95%) Splunk
2 16 (5.30%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.30%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.64%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (2.98%) Atlassian
5 9 (2.98%) Databricks
6 7 (2.32%) IBM
7 6 (1.99%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.99%) New Relic
8 5 (1.66%) Avaya
8 5 (1.66%) Cisco
8 5 (1.66%) Dell
8 5 (1.66%) Genesys
8 5 (1.66%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.66%) Sybase
9 4 (1.32%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.32%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.99%) Confluent