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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 358 436
Rank change year-on-year +12 +78 -39
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 289 175 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.56% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 139 130
10th Percentile £363 £400 £405
25th Percentile £409 £442 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £547
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.93% -8.92%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £699 £728 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
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 15,989 11,188 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.33% 37.97% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,911 7,738 10,333
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £489
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.20% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 190 360
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £20.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.54 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +47.22% +19.33% -14.52%
75th Percentile £62.13 £42.74 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.34 £62.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.15 £24.00 £17.80
% change year-on-year +79.78% +34.83% -19.38%

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 13 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 13 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 -15 212 £525 - 88
London +7 130 £525 +0.96% 34
UK excluding London -53 98 £500 -4.76% 58
Work from Home -6 90 £519 -1.00% 49
North of England -53 35 £525 -11.02% 25
Midlands -56 21 £488 +8.33% 7
West Midlands -51 19 £500 - 6
Scotland +12 18 £400 -20.00%
Yorkshire -47 16 £509 -29.83% 10
North West -32 11 £435 -11.22% 6
South East -48 11 £392 -31.91% 17
South West -16 10 £700 +19.15% 6
North East -12 8 £575 -2.54% 9
Wales - 3 £500 -
East Midlands -34 2 £379 -14.75% 1
East of England - 1 £600 - 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 18 (6.23%) Confluence
2 15 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.73%) Apache
5 4 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.69%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 286 (98.96%) AWS
2 191 (66.09%) Serverless
3 185 (64.01%) AWS Lambda
4 174 (60.21%) Amazon S3
5 125 (43.25%) Amazon EC2
6 116 (40.14%) Amazon ECS
7 111 (38.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 109 (37.72%) GitHub
9 99 (34.26%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (31.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 91 (31.49%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (18.69%) Azure
13 37 (12.80%) Route 53
14 32 (11.07%) Amazon SQS
15 31 (10.73%) AWS CodePipeline
16 28 (9.69%) AWS Fargate
17 27 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
17 27 (9.34%) Datadog
18 23 (7.96%) AWS KMS
18 23 (7.96%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.65%) DNS
2 18 (6.23%) Firewall
3 10 (3.46%) VPN
4 6 (2.08%) Network Security
5 4 (1.38%) HTTP
6 3 (1.04%) SSL
6 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.04%) WAN
7 2 (0.69%) BGP
7 2 (0.69%) OSPF
7 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.35%) DHCP
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (33.91%) Amazon RDS
2 73 (25.26%) DynamoDB
3 31 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (9.34%) Amazon Aurora
5 23 (7.96%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (6.57%) MySQL
7 17 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (4.84%) MongoDB
9 13 (4.50%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.15%) NoSQL
11 9 (3.11%) DB2
11 9 (3.11%) Redis
12 8 (2.77%) Power BI
12 8 (2.77%) SQL Server
12 8 (2.77%) Tableau
13 7 (2.42%) Big Data
14 5 (1.73%) DocumentDB
14 5 (1.73%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.38%) Data Lake
16 3 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 106 (36.68%) Jenkins
2 103 (35.64%) GitLab
3 51 (17.65%) Git
4 22 (7.61%) JIRA
5 18 (6.23%) JUnit
6 13 (4.50%) SonarQube
7 11 (3.81%) Maven
7 11 (3.81%) Mockito
8 8 (2.77%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.42%) DbUnit
9 7 (2.42%) jMock
10 5 (1.73%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.73%) Mocha
10 5 (1.73%) Postman
11 4 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.38%) NUnit
11 4 (1.38%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.04%) Gatling
12 3 (1.04%) Snyk
General
1 79 (27.34%) Public Sector
2 59 (20.42%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.42%) Finance
4 25 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.81%) Banking
5 11 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.04%) Police
8 2 (0.69%) Military
9 1 (0.35%) Billing
9 1 (0.35%) Front Office
9 1 (0.35%) Games
9 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.35%) Law
9 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (25.26%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (21.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (16.26%) Developer
4 41 (14.19%) Architect
5 37 (12.80%) Senior
6 34 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
7 31 (10.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 21 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (6.57%) AWS Architect
9 19 (6.57%) Java Developer
10 18 (6.23%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 18 (6.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 17 (5.88%) Data Engineer
12 15 (5.19%) Lead
13 13 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (4.15%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (4.15%) Technical Manager
15 10 (3.46%) Senior Developer
15 10 (3.46%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.57%) Node.js
2 40 (13.84%) Kafka
3 37 (12.80%) REST
4 30 (10.38%) Elastic Stack
5 29 (10.03%) Spring Boot
6 28 (9.69%) Spring
7 27 (9.34%) AWS CDK
8 26 (9.00%) OAuth
9 22 (7.61%) RESTful
10 18 (6.23%) JWT
11 14 (4.84%) AngularJS
11 14 (4.84%) React
11 14 (4.84%) Web Services
12 13 (4.50%) Hibernate
12 13 (4.50%) JPA
12 13 (4.50%) OAuth2
12 13 (4.50%) SOAP
12 13 (4.50%) Spring Cloud
13 12 (4.15%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (4.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 69 (23.88%) Cloud Native
2 43 (14.88%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.11%) Mainframe
4 8 (2.77%) NHS
4 8 (2.77%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.42%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.42%) DataPower
5 7 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.42%) Replication
6 6 (2.08%) IVR
7 5 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.04%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.04%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 56 (19.38%) Linux
2 12 (4.15%) Windows
3 9 (3.11%) Unix
4 6 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.38%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.38%) zOS
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (71.28%) CI/CD
2 171 (59.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 142 (49.13%) DevOps
4 95 (32.87%) Containerisation
4 95 (32.87%) Observability
5 89 (30.80%) Agile
6 79 (27.34%) Microservices
7 63 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (17.30%) Migration
8 50 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (15.57%) Test Automation
10 41 (14.19%) Performance Tuning
11 40 (13.84%) Analytics
12 38 (13.15%) Platform Engineering
13 37 (12.80%) Cost Optimisation
14 36 (12.46%) Event-Driven
15 34 (11.76%) High Availability
15 34 (11.76%) Incident Response
15 34 (11.76%) Secrets Management
16 31 (10.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 145 (50.17%) Python
2 57 (19.72%) SQL
3 55 (19.03%) Java
4 53 (18.34%) Bash
5 24 (8.30%) Shell Script
6 20 (6.92%) PowerShell
7 19 (6.57%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.19%) Go
8 15 (5.19%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.11%) C#
10 5 (1.73%) Bicep
10 5 (1.73%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.73%) Scala
11 3 (1.04%) Korn
12 2 (0.69%) C
12 2 (0.69%) JCL
12 2 (0.69%) PHP
12 2 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.35%) COBOL
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (41.52%) Security Cleared
2 97 (33.56%) SC Cleared
3 39 (13.49%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (3.11%) Degree
8 7 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.42%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.73%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.38%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.92%) QA
2 17 (5.88%) GDPR
2 17 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.81%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.11%) NIST
6 8 (2.77%) SLA
7 7 (2.42%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.42%) PMO
8 5 (1.73%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.38%) GRC
10 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.69%) NCSC
10 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.69%) WCAG
11 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 134 (46.37%) Docker
2 6 (2.08%) Postfix
3 4 (1.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 189 (65.40%) Terraform
2 92 (31.83%) Kubernetes
3 87 (30.10%) Grafana
4 74 (25.61%) Prometheus
5 32 (11.07%) Ansible
6 8 (2.77%) Kibana
7 7 (2.42%) Argo
7 7 (2.42%) Istio
8 5 (1.73%) Dell DRAC
8 5 (1.73%) Puppet
8 5 (1.73%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (1.38%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.04%) Karpenter
10 3 (1.04%) Packer
11 2 (0.69%) linkerd
11 2 (0.69%) logstash
11 2 (0.69%) Nagios
11 2 (0.69%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 26 (9.00%) Splunk
2 16 (5.54%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.81%) Databricks
5 9 (3.11%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (2.77%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.77%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.42%) IBM
8 6 (2.08%) AVEVA
9 5 (1.73%) Avaya
9 5 (1.73%) Cisco
9 5 (1.73%) Dell
9 5 (1.73%) Genesys
9 5 (1.73%) New Relic
9 5 (1.73%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.73%) Sybase
10 4 (1.38%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.38%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.38%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.04%) Tenable