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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 294 409
Rank change year-on-year -52 +115 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 377 267 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.83% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 2.21% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 189 102
10th Percentile £381 £369 £413
25th Percentile £430 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% -14.29%
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 18,744 12,058 12,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.94% 37.32% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,461 8,019 8,883
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 603 308 214
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £19.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £29.16 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.56% -2.80% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.06 £59.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.62 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.27 £28.00
% change year-on-year +68.66% -31.18% +3.70%

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 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 4 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 -33 300 £500 - 188
London -20 177 £525 - 111
UK excluding London -68 142 £470 -1.05% 103
Work from Home -20 140 £488 -2.50% 136
Midlands -51 41 £463 -2.63% 20
North of England -71 40 £488 +18.18% 25
West Midlands -49 38 £466 -1.95% 14
South East -48 26 £500 - 19
North East -18 20 £425 - 4
Scotland -18 17 £485 -3.00% 10
North West -51 13 £607 +51.63% 13
East of England -24 10 £500 -9.09% 10
Yorkshire -51 7 £638 +34.21% 8
South West -45 5 £350 -32.69% 11
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 8
East Midlands -22 2 £392 -27.09% 6
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 49 (13.00%) Confluence
2 21 (5.57%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (4.51%) Apache
4 13 (3.45%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.12%) SAS
6 7 (1.86%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.06%) CICS
8 3 (0.80%) nginx
9 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Trello
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 376 (99.73%) AWS
2 225 (59.68%) Amazon S3
2 225 (59.68%) Serverless
3 222 (58.89%) AWS Lambda
4 144 (38.20%) Amazon EC2
5 124 (32.89%) Amazon EKS
6 115 (30.50%) GitHub
7 109 (28.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 107 (28.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 91 (24.14%) Amazon ECS
10 83 (22.02%) GitHub Actions
11 77 (20.42%) Azure
12 51 (13.53%) AWS KMS
13 46 (12.20%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (9.81%) AWS Step Functions
15 36 (9.55%) AWS CloudTrail
16 35 (9.28%) Amazon Kinesis
16 35 (9.28%) Datadog
16 35 (9.28%) Route 53
17 34 (9.02%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.16%) Firewall
2 16 (4.24%) Network Security
3 13 (3.45%) DNS
4 7 (1.86%) HTTP
4 7 (1.86%) SSL
4 7 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.59%) SNMP
6 5 (1.33%) CTI
6 5 (1.33%) WAN
7 3 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.80%) SMS
7 3 (0.80%) VPN
8 2 (0.53%) FTP
8 2 (0.53%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.53%) IMAP
8 2 (0.53%) SMTP
8 2 (0.53%) SSH
9 1 (0.27%) PSTN
9 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (29.18%) Amazon RDS
2 77 (20.42%) DynamoDB
3 63 (16.71%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (13.26%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (11.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (8.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (8.49%) MongoDB
8 22 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (5.84%) Power BI
9 21 (5.57%) Redis
10 14 (3.71%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.45%) MySQL
12 12 (3.18%) Tableau
13 11 (2.92%) DocumentDB
14 10 (2.65%) Data Lake
14 10 (2.65%) NoSQL
15 9 (2.39%) Apache Iceberg
16 8 (2.12%) Db2
17 6 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
17 6 (1.59%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 127 (33.69%) Jenkins
2 125 (33.16%) GitLab
3 89 (23.61%) Git
4 66 (17.51%) JIRA
5 22 (5.84%) Bitbucket
6 19 (5.04%) JUnit
7 17 (4.51%) Mockito
8 13 (3.45%) Maven
9 10 (2.65%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.65%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.39%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.86%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.86%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.86%) Postman
12 6 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (1.59%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.59%) jMock
13 5 (1.33%) Gatling
13 5 (1.33%) JMeter
13 5 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 105 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 95 (25.20%) Public Sector
3 39 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.28%) Finance
5 22 (5.84%) Banking
6 18 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.59%) Back Office
8 6 (1.59%) Law
9 5 (1.33%) Military
10 4 (1.06%) Front Office
11 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
11 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Publishing
12 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.53%) Retail
13 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Local Government
13 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (21.75%) AWS Engineer
2 68 (18.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 59 (15.65%) Senior
4 47 (12.47%) Developer
5 42 (11.14%) AWS DevOps
6 40 (10.61%) Architect
7 38 (10.08%) Data Engineer
8 34 (9.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 34 (9.02%) Lead
9 33 (8.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (5.84%) AWS Architect
11 21 (5.57%) Scrum Master
12 19 (5.04%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (4.77%) Java Developer
13 18 (4.77%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
15 15 (3.98%) AWS Data Engineer
15 15 (3.98%) DBA
16 14 (3.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 13 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (62.07%) Terraform
2 48 (12.73%) RESTful
3 45 (11.94%) REST
4 44 (11.67%) Node.js
5 43 (11.41%) Spring
6 41 (10.88%) Kafka
7 39 (10.34%) Spring Boot
8 35 (9.28%) AWS CDK
9 24 (6.37%) PySpark
10 19 (5.04%) SOAP
11 15 (3.98%) AngularJS
12 14 (3.71%) React
13 13 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
13 13 (3.45%) Web Services
14 12 (3.18%) OpenTelemetry
15 11 (2.92%) FastAPI
15 11 (2.92%) GraphQL
15 11 (2.92%) Jest
15 11 (2.92%) Playwright
16 9 (2.39%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 123 (32.63%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.55%) Product Ownership
3 34 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.04%) Replication
5 13 (3.45%) IVR
6 11 (2.92%) CMDB
6 11 (2.92%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.39%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.12%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.59%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.06%) DataPower
12 4 (1.06%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.06%) NHS
12 4 (1.06%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.85%) Linux
2 22 (5.84%) Windows
3 17 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.65%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.86%) Unix
6 6 (1.59%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.33%) zOS
8 4 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.27%) CentOS
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
9 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (77.98%) CI/CD
2 234 (62.07%) DevOps
3 225 (59.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (44.83%) Agile
5 122 (32.36%) Observability
6 108 (28.65%) Containerisation
7 92 (24.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (21.75%) Test Automation
9 76 (20.16%) Platform Engineering
10 73 (19.36%) Microservices
11 64 (16.98%) AI
12 62 (16.45%) Root Cause Analysis
13 60 (15.92%) Scrum
14 55 (14.59%) Data Modelling
15 52 (13.79%) Event-Driven
15 52 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
16 50 (13.26%) Performance Tuning
17 48 (12.73%) Software Engineering
17 48 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
18 47 (12.47%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 190 (50.40%) Python
2 90 (23.87%) SQL
3 77 (20.42%) Java
4 74 (19.63%) Bash
5 37 (9.81%) PowerShell
6 31 (8.22%) TypeScript
7 27 (7.16%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.24%) Scala
9 14 (3.71%) Groovy
10 11 (2.92%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.39%) C#
12 7 (1.86%) Perl
13 5 (1.33%) Bicep
13 5 (1.33%) Go
14 4 (1.06%) JCL
14 4 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.53%) Korn
16 1 (0.27%) C
16 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 170 (45.09%) Security Cleared
2 152 (40.32%) SC Cleared
3 68 (18.04%) AWS Certification
4 28 (7.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (6.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (4.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (4.51%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.92%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (2.12%) Degree
12 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.06%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.80%) CISSP
13 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.67%) QA
2 37 (9.81%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.33%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.33%) SLA
4 5 (1.33%) WCAG
5 4 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.06%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.80%) GDPR
6 3 (0.80%) NCSC
6 3 (0.80%) PMO
7 2 (0.53%) HL7
8 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.27%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 144 (38.20%) Docker
2 15 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.92%) IAG
4 10 (2.65%) Squid
5 7 (1.86%) Postfix
6 2 (0.53%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.53%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 131 (34.75%) Kubernetes
2 117 (31.03%) Grafana
3 92 (24.40%) Prometheus
4 66 (17.51%) Ansible
5 11 (2.92%) Packer
6 10 (2.65%) Puppet
7 9 (2.39%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.33%) Argo
10 4 (1.06%) Istio
10 4 (1.06%) Suricata
11 3 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.80%) Kibana
12 2 (0.53%) Consul
12 2 (0.53%) Nessus
12 2 (0.53%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.53%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.27%) Podman
13 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (9.81%) Dynatrace
2 28 (7.43%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.57%) Splunk
4 19 (5.04%) Informatica
5 14 (3.71%) Microsoft
6 12 (3.18%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.92%) Nexthink
7 11 (2.92%) Oracle
8 10 (2.65%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (2.12%) Atlassian
9 8 (2.12%) Confluent
9 8 (2.12%) Google
9 8 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.59%) Cribl.io
10 6 (1.59%) Denodo
10 6 (1.59%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.06%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.06%) Databricks
11 4 (1.06%) New Relic
11 4 (1.06%) Trend Micro