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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 295 401
Rank change year-on-year -39 +106 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 382 271 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.82% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 2.20% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 189 103
10th Percentile £383 £374 £400
25th Percentile £437 £447 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £694
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 18,981 12,340 13,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.83% 37.41% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,589 8,206 8,882
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
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 619 306 207
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.63 £54.69 £60.83
90th Percentile £81.45 £71.73 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -33.33% +11.11%

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 10 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 10 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 -39 304 £500 - 110
London -10 179 £533 +2.06% 58
UK excluding London -85 146 £470 -1.05% 72
Work from Home -23 141 £494 -1.25% 49
Midlands -56 43 £463 -2.63% 13
North of England -66 41 £500 +21.21% 16
West Midlands -45 40 £466 -1.95% 8
South East -41 27 £480 -4.00% 14
North East -27 20 £425 - 4
Scotland -37 17 £485 -3.00% 9
North West -59 13 £607 +51.63% 5
East of England -34 10 £500 -9.09% 8
Yorkshire -54 8 £569 +19.74% 7
South West -42 5 £350 -32.69% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 4
East Midlands -18 2 £392 -27.09% 5
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 (12.83%) Confluence
2 21 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (4.45%) Apache
4 13 (3.40%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.09%) SAS
6 7 (1.83%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.05%) CICS
8 3 (0.79%) nginx
9 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Trello
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 381 (99.74%) AWS
2 230 (60.21%) Serverless
3 228 (59.69%) Amazon S3
4 227 (59.42%) AWS Lambda
5 147 (38.48%) Amazon EC2
6 127 (33.25%) Amazon EKS
7 118 (30.89%) GitHub
8 108 (28.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 107 (28.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 94 (24.61%) Amazon ECS
11 85 (22.25%) GitHub Actions
12 78 (20.42%) Azure
13 51 (13.35%) AWS KMS
14 46 (12.04%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (9.69%) AWS Step Functions
16 36 (9.42%) Amazon Kinesis
16 36 (9.42%) AWS CloudTrail
16 36 (9.42%) Datadog
17 35 (9.16%) Route 53
18 34 (8.90%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.07%) Firewall
2 16 (4.19%) Network Security
3 13 (3.40%) DNS
4 7 (1.83%) HTTP
4 7 (1.83%) SSL
4 7 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.57%) SNMP
6 5 (1.31%) CTI
6 5 (1.31%) WAN
7 3 (0.79%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.79%) SMS
7 3 (0.79%) VPN
8 2 (0.52%) FTP
8 2 (0.52%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.52%) IMAP
8 2 (0.52%) SMTP
8 2 (0.52%) SSH
9 1 (0.26%) PSTN
9 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (29.58%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (20.94%) DynamoDB
3 64 (16.75%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (13.61%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (11.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (8.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (8.38%) MongoDB
8 23 (6.02%) Power BI
9 22 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (5.50%) Redis
11 14 (3.66%) SQL Server
12 13 (3.40%) MySQL
13 12 (3.14%) Tableau
14 11 (2.88%) DocumentDB
15 10 (2.62%) Data Lake
15 10 (2.62%) NoSQL
16 9 (2.36%) Apache Iceberg
17 8 (2.09%) Db2
18 6 (1.57%) BusinessObjects
18 6 (1.57%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 130 (34.03%) Jenkins
2 127 (33.25%) GitLab
3 90 (23.56%) Git
4 66 (17.28%) JIRA
5 23 (6.02%) Bitbucket
6 19 (4.97%) JUnit
7 17 (4.45%) Mockito
8 13 (3.40%) Maven
9 10 (2.62%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.62%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.36%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.83%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.83%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.83%) Postman
12 6 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (1.57%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.57%) jMock
13 5 (1.31%) Gatling
13 5 (1.31%) JMeter
13 5 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 104 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 95 (24.87%) Public Sector
3 40 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.42%) Finance
5 22 (5.76%) Banking
6 18 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.83%) Back Office
8 6 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.57%) Law
9 5 (1.31%) Front Office
9 5 (1.31%) Military
10 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Legal
10 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Publishing
11 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.52%) Retail
12 1 (0.26%) Billing
12 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 84 (21.99%) AWS Engineer
2 68 (17.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 60 (15.71%) Senior
4 47 (12.30%) Developer
5 42 (10.99%) AWS DevOps
6 40 (10.47%) Data Engineer
7 39 (10.21%) Architect
8 38 (9.95%) Lead
9 34 (8.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 34 (8.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (6.02%) Scrum Master
11 22 (5.76%) AWS Architect
12 20 (5.24%) Senior Data Engineer
13 19 (4.97%) Lead DevOps
14 18 (4.71%) Java Developer
15 17 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
16 16 (4.19%) AWS Data Engineer
17 15 (3.93%) DBA
18 14 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 13 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (61.52%) Terraform
2 50 (13.09%) RESTful
3 45 (11.78%) REST
3 45 (11.78%) Spring
4 44 (11.52%) Node.js
5 41 (10.73%) Kafka
5 41 (10.73%) Spring Boot
6 35 (9.16%) AWS CDK
7 24 (6.28%) PySpark
8 19 (4.97%) SOAP
9 15 (3.93%) AngularJS
10 14 (3.66%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (3.66%) React
11 13 (3.40%) Web Services
12 12 (3.14%) FastAPI
12 12 (3.14%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (2.88%) GraphQL
13 11 (2.88%) Jest
13 11 (2.88%) Playwright
14 9 (2.36%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 126 (32.98%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.69%) Product Ownership
3 34 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.97%) Replication
5 13 (3.40%) IVR
6 11 (2.88%) CMDB
6 11 (2.88%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.09%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.57%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.31%) NHS
12 4 (1.05%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.05%) DataPower
12 4 (1.05%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.05%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.66%) Linux
2 22 (5.76%) Windows
3 17 (4.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.62%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.62%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.83%) Unix
6 6 (1.57%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.31%) zOS
8 4 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.26%) Android
9 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.26%) CentOS
9 1 (0.26%) Debian
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (78.01%) CI/CD
2 238 (62.30%) DevOps
3 229 (59.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 171 (44.76%) Agile
5 126 (32.98%) Observability
6 111 (29.06%) Containerisation
7 96 (25.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (21.99%) Test Automation
9 75 (19.63%) Microservices
9 75 (19.63%) Platform Engineering
10 64 (16.75%) Root Cause Analysis
11 63 (16.49%) AI
12 62 (16.23%) Scrum
13 57 (14.92%) Data Modelling
14 53 (13.87%) Event-Driven
15 51 (13.35%) Performance Tuning
15 51 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
15 51 (13.35%) Software Engineering
16 49 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
17 47 (12.30%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 193 (50.52%) Python
2 90 (23.56%) SQL
3 79 (20.68%) Java
4 75 (19.63%) Bash
5 37 (9.69%) PowerShell
6 31 (8.12%) TypeScript
7 27 (7.07%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.19%) Scala
9 14 (3.66%) Groovy
10 11 (2.88%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.36%) C#
12 7 (1.83%) Perl
13 5 (1.31%) Bicep
13 5 (1.31%) Go
14 4 (1.05%) JCL
14 4 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.52%) Korn
16 1 (0.26%) C
16 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 172 (45.03%) Security Cleared
2 154 (40.31%) SC Cleared
3 69 (18.06%) AWS Certification
4 27 (7.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (6.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (4.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (4.45%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.88%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (2.62%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (2.09%) Degree
12 4 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.05%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.79%) CISSP
13 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.04%) QA
2 39 (10.21%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.09%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.31%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.31%) SLA
4 5 (1.31%) WCAG
5 4 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.05%) GDPR
5 4 (1.05%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.79%) NCSC
6 3 (0.79%) PMO
7 2 (0.52%) HL7
8 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.26%) SEPA
8 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 146 (38.22%) Docker
2 15 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.88%) IAG
4 10 (2.62%) Squid
5 7 (1.83%) Postfix
6 2 (0.52%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.52%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.26%) KVM
7 1 (0.26%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 131 (34.29%) Kubernetes
2 117 (30.63%) Grafana
3 91 (23.82%) Prometheus
4 67 (17.54%) Ansible
5 11 (2.88%) Packer
6 10 (2.62%) Puppet
7 9 (2.36%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.31%) Argo
10 4 (1.05%) Istio
10 4 (1.05%) Suricata
11 3 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.79%) Kibana
12 2 (0.52%) Consul
12 2 (0.52%) Nessus
12 2 (0.52%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.52%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.26%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.26%) Podman
13 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (9.69%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.59%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.50%) Splunk
4 19 (4.97%) Informatica
5 15 (3.93%) Microsoft
6 12 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.88%) Nexthink
7 11 (2.88%) Oracle
8 10 (2.62%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (2.09%) Atlassian
9 8 (2.09%) Confluent
9 8 (2.09%) Google
9 8 (2.09%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.57%) Cribl.io
10 6 (1.57%) Denodo
10 6 (1.57%) PagerDuty
11 5 (1.31%) New Relic
12 4 (1.05%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.05%) Trend Micro
13 3 (0.79%) Databricks