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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 348 416
Rank change year-on-year +4 +68 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 328 180 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.61% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.62% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 126 132
10th Percentile £356 £358 £405
25th Percentile £410 £437 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -0.60% -12.52%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £648 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
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 17,731 11,129 14,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.81% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 7,522 9,999
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £635
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 270 355
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.86 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £28.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.02% +32.79% -39.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.17
% change year-on-year +94.60% +0.52% -29.26%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -10 261 £488 -2.50% 48
London +34 169 £525 +2.44% 24
UK excluding London -46 117 £450 -10.00% 30
Work from Home -9 115 £463 -11.57% 37
Midlands -45 44 £472 -5.60% 4
West Midlands -39 42 £475 -5.00% 3
Scotland -1 21 £440 -12.00% 1
North of England -69 20 £419 +4.69% 9
South East -62 15 £393 -31.65% 9
East of England -21 9 £450 -18.18% 1
North East -27 9 £413 - 2
North West -36 6 £390 +4.14% 5
Yorkshire -52 5 £456 -3.95% 2
South West -24 4 £538 +2.87% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
Wales - 2 £525 - 1
East Midlands -24 1 £425 -20.86% 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 46 (14.02%) Confluence
2 27 (8.23%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.57%) Apache
3 15 (4.57%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.13%) SAS
5 6 (1.83%) CICS
6 5 (1.52%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.22%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 327 (99.70%) AWS
2 201 (61.28%) Amazon S3
3 198 (60.37%) Serverless
4 190 (57.93%) AWS Lambda
5 140 (42.68%) Amazon EC2
6 117 (35.67%) Amazon EKS
7 110 (33.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 109 (33.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 107 (32.62%) GitHub
10 94 (28.66%) Amazon ECS
11 86 (26.22%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (16.16%) Azure
13 52 (15.85%) Amazon SQS
14 44 (13.41%) Route 53
15 42 (12.80%) AWS KMS
16 31 (9.45%) AWS CodePipeline
17 30 (9.15%) Amazon EMR
18 29 (8.84%) Amazon Kinesis
19 28 (8.54%) AWS CloudTrail
20 26 (7.93%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.18%) DNS
2 16 (4.88%) Firewall
3 10 (3.05%) Network Security
4 6 (1.83%) HTTP
4 6 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.52%) SNMP
5 5 (1.52%) WAN
6 4 (1.22%) SSL
6 4 (1.22%) VPN
7 3 (0.91%) CTI
8 2 (0.61%) BGP
8 2 (0.61%) OSPF
8 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.30%) Internet
9 1 (0.30%) PSTN
9 1 (0.30%) RTP
9 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (29.57%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (24.39%) DynamoDB
3 50 (15.24%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (13.41%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (12.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (10.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (7.01%) Power BI
8 18 (5.49%) Tableau
9 16 (4.88%) MongoDB
10 15 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (4.27%) Redis
12 10 (3.05%) NoSQL
12 10 (3.05%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.74%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.74%) Db2
14 7 (2.13%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.13%) DocumentDB
15 6 (1.83%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.83%) Metadata
15 6 (1.83%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 123 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 110 (33.54%) GitLab
3 77 (23.48%) Git
4 57 (17.38%) JIRA
5 24 (7.32%) JUnit
6 22 (6.71%) Maven
6 22 (6.71%) Mockito
7 20 (6.10%) SonarQube
8 18 (5.49%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.27%) DbUnit
10 13 (3.96%) jMock
11 11 (3.35%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.44%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.44%) Cucumber
13 7 (2.13%) Postman
14 6 (1.83%) Gatling
14 6 (1.83%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.52%) MLflow
16 4 (1.22%) Gradle
16 4 (1.22%) Jaeger
General
1 88 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 85 (25.91%) Public Sector
3 33 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.84%) Finance
5 16 (4.88%) Banking
6 13 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.13%) Law
9 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Legal
9 3 (0.91%) Military
9 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.61%) Police
10 2 (0.61%) Publishing
10 2 (0.61%) Retail
11 1 (0.30%) Front Office
11 1 (0.30%) Games
11 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (24.39%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (16.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (14.94%) Developer
4 48 (14.63%) Senior
5 40 (12.20%) Architect
6 37 (11.28%) AWS DevOps
7 32 (9.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 30 (9.15%) Data Engineer
9 25 (7.62%) AWS Architect
9 25 (7.62%) Java Developer
10 22 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (6.71%) Lead
11 20 (6.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (5.18%) Senior Developer
13 17 (5.18%) Site Engineer
14 13 (3.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.96%) Delivery Manager
14 13 (3.96%) Scrum Master
14 13 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.33%) RESTful
2 46 (14.02%) Kafka
3 42 (12.80%) REST
4 40 (12.20%) AWS CDK
5 38 (11.59%) Node.js
6 37 (11.28%) Spring
6 37 (11.28%) Spring Boot
7 29 (8.84%) SOAP
8 27 (8.23%) Web Services
9 23 (7.01%) PySpark
10 22 (6.71%) Hibernate
10 22 (6.71%) JPA
11 20 (6.10%) AngularJS
11 20 (6.10%) OAuth
11 20 (6.10%) OpenTelemetry
11 20 (6.10%) Spring Cloud
12 18 (5.49%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (5.49%) Spring Batch
12 18 (5.49%) Spring Integration
13 15 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 98 (29.88%) Cloud Native
2 46 (14.02%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (8.54%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.44%) Replication
6 7 (2.13%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.13%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.83%) DataPower
7 6 (1.83%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.52%) IVR
8 5 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.91%) PACS
10 3 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (18.60%) Linux
2 16 (4.88%) Windows
3 8 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.13%) zOS
5 5 (1.52%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.22%) Unix
6 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (75.30%) CI/CD
2 175 (53.35%) DevOps
2 175 (53.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 128 (39.02%) Agile
4 109 (33.23%) Containerisation
5 108 (32.93%) Observability
6 79 (24.09%) Microservices
7 66 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (19.51%) Test Automation
9 62 (18.90%) Platform Engineering
10 58 (17.68%) Scrum
11 52 (15.85%) Migration
12 48 (14.63%) Performance Tuning
13 46 (14.02%) Event-Driven
14 43 (13.11%) Analytics
14 43 (13.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 40 (12.20%) AI
15 40 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
16 38 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
16 38 (11.59%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 160 (48.78%) Python
2 86 (26.22%) SQL
3 67 (20.43%) Bash
3 67 (20.43%) Java
4 31 (9.45%) PowerShell
5 25 (7.62%) TypeScript
6 19 (5.79%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.88%) Shell Script
8 15 (4.57%) Scala
9 8 (2.44%) Go
9 8 (2.44%) Groovy
10 6 (1.83%) JCL
11 5 (1.52%) C#
12 4 (1.22%) Bicep
12 4 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.22%) Perl
13 2 (0.61%) C
13 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.30%) COBOL
14 1 (0.30%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 153 (46.65%) Security Cleared
2 137 (41.77%) SC Cleared
3 42 (12.80%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (4.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 13 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (3.35%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (3.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.44%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.13%) Degree
11 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.93%) QA
2 23 (7.01%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.35%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.44%) NIST
5 7 (2.13%) SLA
6 6 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.83%) GDPR
6 6 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.83%) PMO
7 5 (1.52%) GRC
8 4 (1.22%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.22%) NCSC
9 3 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 129 (39.33%) Docker
2 11 (3.35%) Postfix
3 8 (2.44%) Squid
4 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.30%) IAG
5 1 (0.30%) KVM
5 1 (0.30%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 206 (62.80%) Terraform
2 127 (38.72%) Grafana
3 109 (33.23%) Kubernetes
4 101 (30.79%) Prometheus
5 38 (11.59%) Ansible
6 12 (3.66%) Puppet
7 9 (2.74%) Istio
8 7 (2.13%) Argo
8 7 (2.13%) Packer
9 4 (1.22%) Suricata
10 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.91%) Rancher
11 2 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.61%) Kibana
11 2 (0.61%) linkerd
12 1 (0.30%) Consul
12 1 (0.30%) Control-M
12 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (6.40%) Splunk
2 20 (6.10%) Dynatrace
3 19 (5.79%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.18%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (4.27%) Atlassian
5 14 (4.27%) Informatica
6 8 (2.44%) Databricks
6 8 (2.44%) New Relic
7 7 (2.13%) Microsoft
8 6 (1.83%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.83%) Cribl.io
8 6 (1.83%) Denodo
8 6 (1.83%) Oracle
9 5 (1.52%) Confluent
9 5 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.22%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.22%) Sybase
10 4 (1.22%) Tenable
10 4 (1.22%) Trend Micro
11 3 (0.91%) Qualys