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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 324 415
Rank change year-on-year -16 +91 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 373 242 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.74% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 1.99% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 171 106
10th Percentile £381 £358 £413
25th Percentile £425 £430 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £600
90th Percentile £663 £638 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £71.87
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 18,789 12,188 13,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 37.14% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,436 8,138 9,107
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £714 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 316 250
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.50
Median hourly rate £34.38 £27.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.30% +11.52% -28.57%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £53.56
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -17.81%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -24 297 £500 +3.63% 122
London +5 176 £529 +4.19% 72
UK excluding London -44 143 £463 -2.63% 61
Work from Home -19 141 £475 -5.00% 48
Midlands -32 44 £463 -2.63% 6
West Midlands -48 41 £469 -1.26% 3
North of England -73 38 £469 +17.19% 19
South East -51 25 £460 -14.42% 19
Scotland -9 18 £485 -3.00% 4
North East -22 18 £425 - 5
North West -59 12 £575 +43.75% 9
East of England -28 10 £500 - 3
Yorkshire -47 8 £500 +5.26% 5
South West -43 5 £350 -32.69% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 3
East Midlands -15 2 £392 -27.09% 3
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 41 (10.99%) Confluence
2 22 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.02%) Apache
4 12 (3.22%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.88%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.88%) SAS
6 6 (1.61%) CICS
7 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.07%) Trello
2 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 372 (99.73%) AWS
2 219 (58.71%) Amazon S3
3 216 (57.91%) Serverless
4 213 (57.10%) AWS Lambda
5 150 (40.21%) Amazon EC2
6 123 (32.98%) Amazon EKS
7 114 (30.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 114 (30.56%) GitHub
8 105 (28.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 87 (23.32%) Amazon ECS
10 83 (22.25%) GitHub Actions
11 77 (20.64%) Azure
12 49 (13.14%) AWS KMS
13 44 (11.80%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (10.72%) Datadog
15 37 (9.92%) Amazon Kinesis
16 35 (9.38%) AWS CloudTrail
17 34 (9.12%) Route 53
18 33 (8.85%) Amazon EMR
19 31 (8.31%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.90%) Firewall
2 15 (4.02%) DNS
3 14 (3.75%) Network Security
4 7 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.61%) SNMP
5 6 (1.61%) SSL
6 5 (1.34%) CTI
6 5 (1.34%) HTTP
6 5 (1.34%) WAN
7 3 (0.80%) SMS
7 3 (0.80%) VPN
8 1 (0.27%) BGP
8 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.27%) Internet
8 1 (0.27%) PSTN
8 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.27%) RTP
8 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (28.42%) Amazon RDS
2 81 (21.72%) DynamoDB
3 61 (16.35%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (13.40%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (11.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (8.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 30 (8.04%) MongoDB
8 22 (5.90%) Power BI
9 21 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (5.36%) Redis
11 18 (4.83%) SQL Server
12 13 (3.49%) Tableau
13 12 (3.22%) MySQL
14 11 (2.95%) Data Lake
14 11 (2.95%) Db2
15 10 (2.68%) DocumentDB
16 9 (2.41%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (2.41%) NoSQL
17 6 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
17 6 (1.61%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 131 (35.12%) Jenkins
2 122 (32.71%) GitLab
3 81 (21.72%) Git
4 58 (15.55%) JIRA
5 24 (6.43%) Bitbucket
6 23 (6.17%) JUnit
7 22 (5.90%) Mockito
8 17 (4.56%) Maven
9 14 (3.75%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.68%) DbUnit
11 9 (2.41%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (2.41%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.41%) jMock
12 8 (2.14%) Postman
13 7 (1.88%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.88%) REST Assured
14 6 (1.61%) Cypress.io
15 5 (1.34%) Gatling
16 4 (1.07%) Jaeger
16 4 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 92 (24.66%) Public Sector
3 39 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (10.46%) Finance
4 24 (6.43%) Banking
5 16 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.61%) Law
8 5 (1.34%) Back Office
9 3 (0.80%) Front Office
9 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.80%) Legal
9 3 (0.80%) Military
9 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.80%) Publishing
9 3 (0.80%) Retail
10 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.27%) Billing
11 1 (0.27%) Games
11 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (21.98%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (15.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 57 (15.28%) Senior
4 52 (13.94%) Developer
5 43 (11.53%) Architect
6 39 (10.46%) AWS DevOps
7 34 (9.12%) Data Engineer
8 32 (8.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 31 (8.31%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (8.04%) Lead
11 23 (6.17%) Java Developer
12 21 (5.63%) AWS Architect
12 21 (5.63%) Scrum Master
12 21 (5.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (4.83%) Site Engineer
14 17 (4.56%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (4.56%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
16 14 (3.75%) AWS Data Engineer
16 14 (3.75%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (13.67%) RESTful
2 49 (13.14%) REST
3 47 (12.60%) Spring
4 44 (11.80%) Kafka
4 44 (11.80%) Node.js
5 43 (11.53%) Spring Boot
6 34 (9.12%) AWS CDK
7 26 (6.97%) SOAP
8 21 (5.63%) PySpark
9 20 (5.36%) Web Services
10 18 (4.83%) AngularJS
11 17 (4.56%) ActiveMQ
12 15 (4.02%) OpenTelemetry
13 13 (3.49%) Hibernate
13 13 (3.49%) JPA
13 13 (3.49%) Spring Batch
13 13 (3.49%) Spring Integration
14 12 (3.22%) GraphQL
14 12 (3.22%) React
15 11 (2.95%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 117 (31.37%) Cloud Native
2 41 (10.99%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.12%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.36%) Replication
5 13 (3.49%) IVR
6 10 (2.68%) CMDB
6 10 (2.68%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.14%) Mainframe
8 8 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.61%) DataPower
9 6 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.61%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.07%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.80%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.80%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.28%) Linux
2 21 (5.63%) Windows
3 17 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.88%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.88%) zOS
6 6 (1.61%) Unix
7 5 (1.34%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.27%) CentOS
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (76.14%) CI/CD
2 218 (58.45%) DevOps
3 211 (56.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (42.36%) Agile
5 121 (32.44%) Observability
6 103 (27.61%) Containerisation
7 84 (22.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (21.45%) Microservices
9 79 (21.18%) Test Automation
10 74 (19.84%) Platform Engineering
11 61 (16.35%) AI
11 61 (16.35%) Scrum
12 60 (16.09%) Root Cause Analysis
13 53 (14.21%) Data Modelling
14 52 (13.94%) Performance Tuning
14 52 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
15 50 (13.40%) Event-Driven
15 50 (13.40%) Migration
16 48 (12.87%) Analytics
17 46 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (50.13%) Python
2 94 (25.20%) SQL
3 79 (21.18%) Bash
3 79 (21.18%) Java
4 42 (11.26%) PowerShell
5 27 (7.24%) TypeScript
6 25 (6.70%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.29%) Scala
8 11 (2.95%) Groovy
9 10 (2.68%) C#
9 10 (2.68%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.61%) Go
10 6 (1.61%) JCL
10 6 (1.61%) Perl
11 4 (1.07%) Bicep
11 4 (1.07%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.54%) C
12 2 (0.54%) Korn
12 2 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (44.77%) Security Cleared
2 146 (39.14%) SC Cleared
3 66 (17.69%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 14 (3.75%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.95%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.61%) Degree
12 4 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.07%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.54%) CISSP
14 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.27%) ISEB
15 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.92%) QA
2 32 (8.58%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.41%) SLA
4 8 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.61%) GDPR
6 5 (1.34%) WCAG
7 4 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.07%) GRC
7 4 (1.07%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.80%) NCSC
8 3 (0.80%) PMO
9 2 (0.54%) HL7
9 2 (0.54%) NIST
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.27%) SEPA
10 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 136 (36.46%) Docker
2 11 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.68%) IAG
4 8 (2.14%) Postfix
4 8 (2.14%) Squid
5 1 (0.27%) KVM
5 1 (0.27%) QEMU
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 230 (61.66%) Terraform
2 127 (34.05%) Kubernetes
3 124 (33.24%) Grafana
4 95 (25.47%) Prometheus
5 58 (15.55%) Ansible
6 10 (2.68%) Puppet
7 9 (2.41%) Packer
8 8 (2.14%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.88%) Istio
10 6 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.34%) Argo
12 4 (1.07%) Suricata
13 3 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.80%) Kibana
13 3 (0.80%) Rancher
14 2 (0.54%) Consul
14 2 (0.54%) ZABBIX
15 1 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
15 1 (0.27%) systemd
15 1 (0.27%) yum
Vendors
1 35 (9.38%) Dynatrace
2 25 (6.70%) ServiceNow
3 22 (5.90%) Splunk
4 18 (4.83%) Informatica
5 15 (4.02%) Microsoft
6 12 (3.22%) Jaspersoft
7 11 (2.95%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.68%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.68%) Nexthink
9 8 (2.14%) Oracle
9 8 (2.14%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.88%) Confluent
10 7 (1.88%) Cribl.io
11 6 (1.61%) Denodo
11 6 (1.61%) New Relic
12 5 (1.34%) Databricks
12 5 (1.34%) Google
12 5 (1.34%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.07%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.07%) Trend Micro