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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 320 389
Rank change year-on-year -10 +69 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 376 238 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.72% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 1.94% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 168 113
10th Percentile £381 £358 £413
25th Percentile £425 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £609
90th Percentile £664 £639 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.95% - -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.94
25th Percentile - - £68.59
Median hourly rate - - £70.94
75th Percentile - - £72.34
90th Percentile - - £72.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.94

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 18,763 12,249 13,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.16% 37.16% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,394 8,203 9,135
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 616 315 265
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.19 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +12.72% -29.03%
75th Percentile £69.00 £47.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.31 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 August 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 August 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 -7 306 £500 +1.01% 182
London +19 183 £525 +2.94% 108
UK excluding London -54 147 £466 -1.95% 84
Work from Home -8 140 £475 -5.00% 75
Midlands -34 51 £469 -1.26% 14
West Midlands -30 48 £475 - 8
North of England -68 36 £463 +15.63% 25
South East -49 23 £480 -10.79% 20
Scotland -2 19 £450 -10.00% 3
North East -27 17 £425 - 9
North West -53 11 £550 +37.50% 10
East of England -19 10 £500 - 9
Yorkshire -47 8 £500 +5.26% 6
South West -40 5 £350 -32.69% 10
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 3
East Midlands -7 2 £392 -27.09% 6
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 49 (13.03%) Confluence
2 21 (5.59%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.72%) Apache
4 11 (2.93%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.86%) SAS
6 6 (1.60%) CICS
6 6 (1.60%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.06%) Trello
3 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 376 (100.00%) AWS
2 232 (61.70%) Amazon S3
3 216 (57.45%) Serverless
4 213 (56.65%) AWS Lambda
5 163 (43.35%) Amazon EC2
6 121 (32.18%) Amazon EKS
7 117 (31.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 115 (30.59%) GitHub
9 113 (30.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (24.47%) Amazon ECS
11 85 (22.61%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (19.15%) Azure
13 57 (15.16%) AWS KMS
14 45 (11.97%) Amazon SQS
15 39 (10.37%) Datadog
16 35 (9.31%) Amazon Kinesis
16 35 (9.31%) Route 53
17 34 (9.04%) AWS CloudTrail
18 33 (8.78%) Amazon EMR
19 31 (8.24%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.32%) Firewall
2 14 (3.72%) DNS
3 13 (3.46%) Network Security
4 7 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.60%) SNMP
5 6 (1.60%) SSL
6 5 (1.33%) CTI
6 5 (1.33%) HTTP
6 5 (1.33%) WAN
7 3 (0.80%) VPN
8 2 (0.53%) SMS
9 1 (0.27%) BGP
9 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.27%) Internet
9 1 (0.27%) PSTN
9 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.27%) RTP
9 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (30.85%) Amazon RDS
2 82 (21.81%) DynamoDB
3 60 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (13.30%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (11.97%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (8.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 28 (7.45%) MongoDB
8 26 (6.91%) Power BI
9 21 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (5.05%) Redis
11 17 (4.52%) Tableau
12 16 (4.26%) SQL Server
13 11 (2.93%) Db2
14 10 (2.66%) Data Lake
14 10 (2.66%) MySQL
15 9 (2.39%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (2.39%) DocumentDB
16 8 (2.13%) NoSQL
17 6 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
17 6 (1.60%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 134 (35.64%) Jenkins
2 120 (31.91%) GitLab
3 91 (24.20%) Git
4 66 (17.55%) JIRA
5 27 (7.18%) Bitbucket
6 26 (6.91%) JUnit
7 25 (6.65%) Mockito
8 20 (5.32%) Maven
9 17 (4.52%) SonarQube
10 12 (3.19%) DbUnit
11 11 (2.93%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (2.93%) jMock
12 8 (2.13%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.86%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.86%) Postman
14 6 (1.60%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.33%) Cypress.io
15 5 (1.33%) Gatling
16 4 (1.06%) Jaeger
16 4 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 109 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 98 (26.06%) Public Sector
3 42 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (10.90%) Finance
5 24 (6.38%) Banking
6 15 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.60%) Law
10 5 (1.33%) Back Office
11 3 (0.80%) Front Office
11 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
11 3 (0.80%) Military
11 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Publishing
11 3 (0.80%) Retail
12 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.27%) Billing
13 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (22.34%) AWS Engineer
2 58 (15.43%) Senior
3 56 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (13.83%) Developer
5 40 (10.64%) Architect
6 39 (10.37%) AWS DevOps
7 35 (9.31%) Data Engineer
8 32 (8.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 31 (8.24%) Lead
10 29 (7.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (6.65%) Java Developer
12 21 (5.59%) Scrum Master
13 20 (5.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 19 (5.05%) AWS Architect
15 18 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
16 17 (4.52%) Lead DevOps
16 17 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
16 17 (4.52%) Site Engineer
17 15 (3.99%) AWS Data Engineer
18 13 (3.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (13.83%) RESTful
2 50 (13.30%) REST
3 49 (13.03%) Spring
4 45 (11.97%) Spring Boot
5 44 (11.70%) Node.js
6 42 (11.17%) Kafka
7 36 (9.57%) AWS CDK
8 29 (7.71%) SOAP
9 23 (6.12%) Web Services
10 22 (5.85%) PySpark
11 21 (5.59%) AngularJS
12 19 (5.05%) ActiveMQ
13 16 (4.26%) Hibernate
13 16 (4.26%) JPA
13 16 (4.26%) Spring Batch
13 16 (4.26%) Spring Integration
14 15 (3.99%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (3.72%) Spring Cloud
16 12 (3.19%) GraphQL
17 11 (2.93%) React
Miscellaneous
1 114 (30.32%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.44%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.04%) Product Ownership
4 19 (5.05%) Replication
5 11 (2.93%) IVR
6 10 (2.66%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.39%) CMDB
7 9 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.39%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.13%) Mainframe
8 8 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.60%) DataPower
10 6 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.60%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.06%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.80%) NHS
12 3 (0.80%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (15.69%) Linux
2 20 (5.32%) Windows
3 16 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.13%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.86%) zOS
6 6 (1.60%) Unix
7 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (74.47%) CI/CD
2 214 (56.91%) DevOps
3 205 (54.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (44.68%) Agile
5 121 (32.18%) Observability
6 106 (28.19%) Containerisation
7 90 (23.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (21.28%) Microservices
9 78 (20.74%) Platform Engineering
10 76 (20.21%) Test Automation
11 63 (16.76%) Scrum
12 60 (15.96%) AI
13 58 (15.43%) Root Cause Analysis
14 56 (14.89%) Data Modelling
15 53 (14.10%) Migration
15 53 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
16 52 (13.83%) Performance Tuning
17 48 (12.77%) Event-Driven
18 45 (11.97%) Analytics
18 45 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 184 (48.94%) Python
2 99 (26.33%) SQL
3 78 (20.74%) Java
4 77 (20.48%) Bash
5 40 (10.64%) PowerShell
6 27 (7.18%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.12%) JavaScript
8 15 (3.99%) Scala
9 13 (3.46%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.93%) Groovy
11 8 (2.13%) C#
12 6 (1.60%) Go
12 6 (1.60%) JCL
12 6 (1.60%) Perl
13 4 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.80%) Bicep
15 2 (0.53%) C
15 2 (0.53%) Korn
15 2 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 176 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 156 (41.49%) SC Cleared
3 61 (16.22%) AWS Certification
4 27 (7.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (3.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (3.19%) Azure Certification
9 11 (2.93%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.33%) Degree
12 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.80%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.27%) CISSP
14 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.57%) QA
2 34 (9.04%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.13%) SLA
4 7 (1.86%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.60%) GDPR
5 6 (1.60%) PMO
6 5 (1.33%) WCAG
7 4 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.06%) GRC
7 4 (1.06%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.80%) NCSC
9 2 (0.53%) HL7
9 2 (0.53%) NIST
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.27%) SEPA
10 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 141 (37.50%) Docker
2 10 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.39%) IAG
3 9 (2.39%) Postfix
4 8 (2.13%) Squid
5 1 (0.27%) KVM
5 1 (0.27%) QEMU
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 225 (59.84%) Terraform
2 125 (33.24%) Grafana
3 122 (32.45%) Kubernetes
4 96 (25.53%) Prometheus
5 55 (14.63%) Ansible
6 10 (2.66%) Puppet
7 9 (2.39%) Istio
7 9 (2.39%) Packer
8 6 (1.60%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.06%) Argo
10 4 (1.06%) Suricata
11 3 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.80%) Kibana
11 3 (0.80%) Rancher
12 2 (0.53%) Consul
12 2 (0.53%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.27%) systemd
13 1 (0.27%) yum
Vendors
1 34 (9.04%) Dynatrace
2 31 (8.24%) ServiceNow
3 22 (5.85%) Splunk
4 18 (4.79%) Informatica
5 15 (3.99%) Jaspersoft
6 13 (3.46%) Microsoft
7 12 (3.19%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.66%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.39%) Nexthink
10 7 (1.86%) Confluent
10 7 (1.86%) Cribl.io
10 7 (1.86%) Oracle
10 7 (1.86%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.60%) Denodo
11 6 (1.60%) New Relic
12 5 (1.33%) Databricks
12 5 (1.33%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.06%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.06%) Google
13 4 (1.06%) Trend Micro