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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 378 430
Rank change year-on-year +88 +52 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 328 172 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.37% 1.34% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 125 145
10th Percentile £385 £405 £448
25th Percentile £438 £456 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -12.70%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £689 £745 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% -11.92%

All Cloud 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 13,815 12,799 15,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.14% 35.73% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,383 8,453 11,352
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 185 294
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.73 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +14.29% +19.32%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £27.35 £21.36
% change year-on-year -16.49% +28.07% +13.14%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 +72 243 £503 -4.29% 56
UK excluding London +33 133 £500 - 51
London +38 127 £525 -0.19% 21
Work from Home +44 109 £536 +3.57% 38
North of England -20 56 £500 -11.50% 20
Midlands +3 37 £475 +9.32% 7
West Midlands +7 34 £475 - 5
Yorkshire -10 28 £500 -29.82% 7
North West -21 20 £435 -3.33% 11
Scotland +2 17 £525 +6.28% 2
South West +10 10 £700 +40.00% 6
East of England - 9 £550 - 1
North East -5 8 £575 -2.54% 2
South East 0 5 £650 -18.75% 12
East Midlands -21 3 £375 -13.69% 2
Wales -2 2 - - 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 37 (11.28%) Confluence
2 12 (3.66%) nginx
3 5 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.22%) Apache
4 4 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (3.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 323 (98.48%) AWS
2 219 (66.77%) Amazon S3
3 195 (59.45%) Serverless
4 194 (59.15%) AWS Lambda
5 165 (50.30%) Amazon EC2
6 118 (35.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 114 (34.76%) Amazon ECS
8 105 (32.01%) GitHub
9 90 (27.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 85 (25.91%) GitHub Actions
11 74 (22.56%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (15.55%) Azure
13 47 (14.33%) Amazon ELB
14 41 (12.50%) Route 53
15 37 (11.28%) Datadog
16 33 (10.06%) AWS Fargate
17 30 (9.15%) Amazon SQS
17 30 (9.15%) AWS KMS
18 24 (7.32%) AWS CloudTrail
19 22 (6.71%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 60 (18.29%) DNS
1 60 (18.29%) Firewall
2 34 (10.37%) VPN
3 24 (7.32%) HTTP
3 24 (7.32%) SSL
4 23 (7.01%) SMTP
5 22 (6.71%) TCP/IP
6 21 (6.40%) FTP
6 21 (6.40%) SSH
7 17 (5.18%) OpenLDAP
8 16 (4.88%) Network Security
9 12 (3.66%) IMAP
10 7 (2.13%) DHCP
11 6 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.30%) LAN
12 1 (0.30%) VLAN
12 1 (0.30%) VSAN
12 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (36.59%) Amazon RDS
2 63 (19.21%) DynamoDB
3 35 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (8.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 23 (7.01%) MySQL
6 19 (5.79%) Relational Database
7 17 (5.18%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (3.96%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.96%) RDBMS
9 10 (3.05%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.44%) Redis
11 7 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.83%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.52%) DB2
13 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.52%) SQL Server
14 4 (1.22%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 140 (42.68%) Jenkins
2 113 (34.45%) GitLab
3 99 (30.18%) Git
4 39 (11.89%) JIRA
5 23 (7.01%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.66%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.05%) Maven
8 8 (2.44%) JUnit
9 5 (1.52%) Gradle
9 5 (1.52%) Postman
9 5 (1.52%) SonarLint
10 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.91%) Gatling
10 3 (0.91%) Mocha
10 3 (0.91%) NUnit
10 3 (0.91%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.61%) Hamcrest
11 2 (0.61%) Selenium
General
1 79 (24.09%) Public Sector
2 67 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.40%) Finance
4 17 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.05%) Banking
7 5 (1.52%) Military
8 4 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Front Office
9 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Legal
11 1 (0.30%) Games
11 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 116 (35.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 93 (28.35%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (17.99%) AWS DevOps
4 55 (16.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 52 (15.85%) Senior
6 36 (10.98%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (10.06%) Architect
7 33 (10.06%) Developer
8 32 (9.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 25 (7.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 21 (6.40%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (6.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 19 (5.79%) Lead
13 15 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.96%) Python Engineer
15 12 (3.66%) DevOps Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.66%) Software Engineer
16 11 (3.35%) Consultant
16 11 (3.35%) Java Developer
16 11 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (10.98%) Node.js
2 32 (9.76%) Kafka
3 28 (8.54%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (8.23%) REST
5 24 (7.32%) AWS CDK
6 21 (6.40%) JWT
6 21 (6.40%) React
7 19 (5.79%) LDAP
8 18 (5.49%) Spring Boot
9 17 (5.18%) OAuth
9 17 (5.18%) RESTful
10 13 (3.96%) Spring
11 12 (3.66%) boto
12 11 (3.35%) pytest
13 10 (3.05%) AngularJS
13 10 (3.05%) FastAPI
14 9 (2.74%) Lambda Expressions
15 8 (2.44%) .NET
15 8 (2.44%) ActiveMQ
15 8 (2.44%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.84%) Replication
3 23 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.74%) NHS
5 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.83%) IVR
8 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.52%) DataPower
8 5 (1.52%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.52%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 69 (21.04%) Linux
2 28 (8.54%) Windows
3 26 (7.93%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (7.32%) VMS
5 11 (3.35%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.35%) Unix
6 8 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.30%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (65.85%) CI/CD
2 215 (65.55%) DevOps
3 177 (53.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (30.49%) Containerisation
5 83 (25.30%) Agile
6 73 (22.26%) Observability
7 71 (21.65%) Microservices
8 53 (16.16%) Platform Engineering
9 51 (15.55%) Infrastructure Automation
10 50 (15.24%) Migration
11 49 (14.94%) High Availability
11 49 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (14.02%) Cloud Security
13 41 (12.50%) Configuration Management
13 41 (12.50%) Event-Driven
13 41 (12.50%) Incident Response
14 40 (12.20%) Mentoring
15 39 (11.89%) Performance Tuning
16 37 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 34 (10.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 189 (57.62%) Python
2 75 (22.87%) Bash
3 53 (16.16%) Java
4 43 (13.11%) SQL
5 42 (12.80%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.62%) Groovy
7 23 (7.01%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.49%) Shell Script
9 17 (5.18%) Go
10 16 (4.88%) JavaScript
11 13 (3.96%) Perl
12 5 (1.52%) C#
13 3 (0.91%) Korn
14 2 (0.61%) Bicep
14 2 (0.61%) PHP
14 2 (0.61%) PromQL
15 1 (0.30%) C
15 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 124 (37.80%) Security Cleared
2 104 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 41 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.49%) Degree
5 17 (5.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (3.96%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.13%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.30%) MCSE
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.71%) QA
2 17 (5.18%) GDPR
3 13 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.66%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.13%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.83%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.22%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.91%) NCSC
8 3 (0.91%) PMO
9 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.61%) NIST
9 2 (0.61%) SLA
10 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 164 (50.00%) Docker
2 24 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.40%) DFS Replication
4 13 (3.96%) Postfix
5 12 (3.66%) Dovecot
5 12 (3.66%) Squid
6 2 (0.61%) Snort
7 1 (0.30%) KVM
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 235 (71.65%) Terraform
2 121 (36.89%) Kubernetes
3 97 (29.57%) Grafana
4 93 (28.35%) Prometheus
5 54 (16.46%) Ansible
6 12 (3.66%) Nessus
7 11 (3.35%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.05%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.13%) Puppet
9 7 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (1.52%) Argo
10 5 (1.52%) Dell DRAC
11 4 (1.22%) Kibana
11 4 (1.22%) Packer
12 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.61%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.61%) Nagios
13 2 (0.61%) SELinux
13 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (9.15%) ServiceNow
2 27 (8.23%) Splunk
3 25 (7.62%) F5
4 24 (7.32%) Dynatrace
5 23 (7.01%) CheckPoint
5 23 (7.01%) Palo Alto
6 17 (5.18%) Microsoft
7 13 (3.96%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.13%) Cisco
8 7 (2.13%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.52%) Avaya
9 5 (1.52%) Dell
9 5 (1.52%) Genesys
9 5 (1.52%) Gigya
9 5 (1.52%) Google
9 5 (1.52%) IBM
9 5 (1.52%) Sybase
9 5 (1.52%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.22%) CloudEndure