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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 349 431
Rank change year-on-year +3 +82 -30
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 295 174 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.60% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.57% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 139 131
10th Percentile £357 £400 £400
25th Percentile £402 £442 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £600
90th Percentile £699 £728 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -7.56%
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 16,324 11,080 14,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.02% 38.17% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,117 7,789 10,220
10th Percentile £313 £313 £291
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -0.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £637
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £489
% change year-on-year -0.84% -2.04% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 217 353
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -18.64%
75th Percentile £66.88 £41.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year +86.80% +35.95% -19.45%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -38 217 £520 -0.95% 85
London -9 135 £525 +1.69% 39
UK excluding London -55 98 £500 -4.76% 53
Work from Home -14 96 £513 -2.38% 46
North of England -64 28 £521 -11.65% 26
Midlands -52 25 £488 +9.06% 3
West Midlands -43 24 £500 - 2
Scotland +10 19 £364 -30.62%
Yorkshire -47 15 £518 -28.62% 5
South East -44 11 £392 -31.91% 13
South West -14 10 £700 +19.15% 3
North West -32 10 £475 +5.61% 12
East of England -28 4 £588 +17.50% 8
North East -16 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 21 (7.12%) Confluence
2 16 (5.42%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.69%) Apache
5 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.02%) CICS
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 292 (98.98%) AWS
2 199 (67.46%) Serverless
3 193 (65.42%) AWS Lambda
4 184 (62.37%) Amazon S3
5 138 (46.78%) Amazon EC2
6 119 (40.34%) Amazon ECS
7 118 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 113 (38.31%) GitHub
9 102 (34.58%) Amazon EKS
10 96 (32.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 92 (31.19%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (19.66%) Azure
13 38 (12.88%) Route 53
14 36 (12.20%) AWS CodePipeline
15 35 (11.86%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (9.83%) Datadog
17 28 (9.49%) AWS Fargate
18 27 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
19 23 (7.80%) AWS CloudTrail
19 23 (7.80%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.14%) DNS
2 19 (6.44%) Firewall
3 10 (3.39%) VPN
4 6 (2.03%) Network Security
5 4 (1.36%) HTTP
5 4 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.02%) SSL
6 3 (1.02%) WAN
7 2 (0.68%) BGP
7 2 (0.68%) OSPF
7 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.34%) CTI
8 1 (0.34%) DHCP
8 1 (0.34%) LAN
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (34.92%) Amazon RDS
2 75 (25.42%) DynamoDB
3 33 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (9.15%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (7.46%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (6.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (5.76%) MySQL
8 15 (5.08%) MongoDB
9 13 (4.41%) Relational Database
10 11 (3.73%) NoSQL
11 10 (3.39%) DB2
11 10 (3.39%) Tableau
12 9 (3.05%) Power BI
12 9 (3.05%) Redis
13 8 (2.71%) SQL Server
14 6 (2.03%) Big Data
15 5 (1.69%) DocumentDB
15 5 (1.69%) RDBMS
16 4 (1.36%) Data Lake
17 3 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 108 (36.61%) Jenkins
2 103 (34.92%) GitLab
3 55 (18.64%) Git
4 27 (9.15%) JIRA
5 18 (6.10%) JUnit
6 13 (4.41%) Maven
6 13 (4.41%) Mockito
7 12 (4.07%) SonarQube
8 11 (3.73%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.71%) DbUnit
9 8 (2.71%) jMock
10 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (2.03%) Postman
11 4 (1.36%) NUnit
11 4 (1.36%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.02%) JMeter
12 3 (1.02%) MLflow
12 3 (1.02%) Mocha
12 3 (1.02%) Snyk
General
1 79 (26.78%) Public Sector
2 63 (21.36%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.20%) Finance
4 30 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.07%) Banking
6 11 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Police
9 2 (0.68%) Games
9 2 (0.68%) Military
10 1 (0.34%) Billing
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (24.41%) AWS Engineer
2 58 (19.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (15.93%) Developer
4 40 (13.56%) Architect
5 38 (12.88%) Senior
6 33 (11.19%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (9.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 25 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (7.12%) Java Developer
10 19 (6.44%) AWS Architect
10 19 (6.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 18 (6.10%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.76%) Data Engineer
13 15 (5.08%) Lead
14 12 (4.07%) Analyst
14 12 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (4.07%) Senior Developer
14 12 (4.07%) Technical Manager
15 11 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.25%) Node.js
2 41 (13.90%) Kafka
3 37 (12.54%) REST
4 34 (11.53%) AWS CDK
5 32 (10.85%) Spring Boot
6 31 (10.51%) Spring
7 28 (9.49%) Elastic Stack
8 26 (8.81%) OAuth
8 26 (8.81%) RESTful
9 18 (6.10%) JWT
10 16 (5.42%) SOAP
10 16 (5.42%) Web Services
11 14 (4.75%) AngularJS
11 14 (4.75%) Hibernate
11 14 (4.75%) JPA
11 14 (4.75%) OpenTelemetry
11 14 (4.75%) Spring Cloud
12 13 (4.41%) OAuth2
12 13 (4.41%) React
13 12 (4.07%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 70 (23.73%) Cloud Native
2 44 (14.92%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.39%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.71%) DataPower
5 8 (2.71%) NHS
5 8 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.37%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.37%) IVR
6 7 (2.37%) Replication
7 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.02%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (19.32%) Linux
2 13 (4.41%) Windows
3 9 (3.05%) Unix
4 6 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.69%) zOS
6 4 (1.36%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (70.51%) CI/CD
2 173 (58.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 146 (49.49%) DevOps
4 99 (33.56%) Containerisation
5 96 (32.54%) Observability
6 94 (31.86%) Agile
7 79 (26.78%) Microservices
8 67 (22.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (16.27%) Test Automation
11 47 (15.93%) Migration
12 45 (15.25%) Performance Tuning
13 44 (14.92%) Platform Engineering
14 39 (13.22%) Analytics
15 38 (12.88%) Cost Optimisation
16 37 (12.54%) High Availability
17 35 (11.86%) Event-Driven
17 35 (11.86%) Incident Response
18 34 (11.53%) Scrum
18 34 (11.53%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (50.51%) Python
2 61 (20.68%) SQL
3 56 (18.98%) Bash
4 54 (18.31%) Java
5 25 (8.47%) Shell Script
6 23 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 21 (7.12%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.42%) JavaScript
9 15 (5.08%) Go
10 9 (3.05%) C#
11 6 (2.03%) Scala
12 5 (1.69%) Bicep
12 5 (1.69%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.02%) JCL
13 3 (1.02%) Korn
14 2 (0.68%) C
14 2 (0.68%) PHP
14 2 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.34%) COBOL
15 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (41.02%) Security Cleared
2 97 (32.88%) SC Cleared
3 36 (12.20%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.71%) Degree
8 7 (2.37%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.02%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.46%) QA
2 17 (5.76%) PCI DSS
3 16 (5.42%) GDPR
4 15 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (4.07%) Data Quality
6 10 (3.39%) NIST
7 9 (3.05%) PMO
8 8 (2.71%) SLA
9 7 (2.37%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.36%) GRC
10 4 (1.36%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.68%) NCSC
11 2 (0.68%) WCAG
12 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 141 (47.80%) Docker
2 7 (2.37%) Postfix
3 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) IAG
Systems Management
1 195 (66.10%) Terraform
2 96 (32.54%) Kubernetes
3 88 (29.83%) Grafana
4 79 (26.78%) Prometheus
5 33 (11.19%) Ansible
6 8 (2.71%) Kibana
7 7 (2.37%) Argo
7 7 (2.37%) Istio
8 5 (1.69%) Dell DRAC
8 5 (1.69%) Puppet
8 5 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (1.36%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.02%) Karpenter
10 3 (1.02%) Packer
11 2 (0.68%) linkerd
11 2 (0.68%) logstash
11 2 (0.68%) Nagios
11 2 (0.68%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (8.14%) Splunk
2 16 (5.42%) ServiceNow
3 14 (4.75%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.39%) Databricks
4 10 (3.39%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (3.05%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.37%) IBM
7 6 (2.03%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.03%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.03%) New Relic
8 5 (1.69%) Avaya
8 5 (1.69%) Cisco
8 5 (1.69%) Dell
8 5 (1.69%) Genesys
8 5 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.69%) Sybase
9 4 (1.36%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.36%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.36%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.02%) Confluent