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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 377 426
Rank change year-on-year +81 +49 -3
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 331 167 184
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.35% 1.36% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 126 148
10th Percentile £376 £406 £425
25th Percentile £418 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £600
90th Percentile £688 £744 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +1.75% -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 14,095 12,239 15,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.09% 36.25% 34.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,644 8,136 10,866
10th Percentile £308 £313 £299
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 175 266
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.40 £27.50 £26.37
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.29% +17.20%
75th Percentile £55.75 £45.59 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.96 £68.75 £78.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £24.18 £20.75
% change year-on-year +3.39% +16.53% +6.41%

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 23 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 23 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 +68 241 £515 -2.09% 264
London +46 130 £525 -0.19% 44
UK excluding London +26 129 £509 +1.75% 253
Work from Home +28 104 £555 +7.25% 184
North of England -19 54 £500 -15.25% 54
Midlands -14 32 £475 +11.76% 44
West Midlands -1 29 £475 +11.76% 28
Yorkshire -24 25 £500 -31.03% 29
North West -20 21 £430 -4.44% 23
Scotland +8 18 £525 +6.28% 16
South West +6 10 £700 +40.00% 32
East of England - 9 £550 - 37
North East -7 8 £575 -2.54% 2
South East -10 7 £650 -18.75% 60
East Midlands -20 3 £375 -11.76% 13
Wales 0 2 - - 7

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 34 (10.27%) Confluence
2 11 (3.32%) nginx
3 7 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 326 (98.49%) AWS
2 215 (64.95%) Amazon S3
3 198 (59.82%) Serverless
4 197 (59.52%) AWS Lambda
5 158 (47.73%) Amazon EC2
6 118 (35.65%) Amazon ECS
7 117 (35.35%) GitHub
7 117 (35.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 97 (29.31%) GitHub Actions
9 93 (28.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 84 (25.38%) Amazon EKS
11 57 (17.22%) Azure
12 45 (13.60%) Amazon ELB
13 39 (11.78%) Route 53
14 36 (10.88%) Datadog
15 34 (10.27%) AWS Fargate
16 28 (8.46%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (7.85%) AWS CloudTrail
18 25 (7.55%) AWS CodePipeline
18 25 (7.55%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (17.82%) DNS
2 55 (16.62%) Firewall
3 33 (9.97%) VPN
4 22 (6.65%) HTTP
4 22 (6.65%) SSL
4 22 (6.65%) TCP/IP
5 19 (5.74%) SMTP
6 18 (5.44%) FTP
6 18 (5.44%) SSH
7 16 (4.83%) Network Security
7 16 (4.83%) OpenLDAP
8 11 (3.32%) IMAP
9 6 (1.81%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (1.51%) DHCP
11 2 (0.60%) LAN
11 2 (0.60%) WAN
12 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.30%) VLAN
12 1 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (34.74%) Amazon RDS
2 61 (18.43%) DynamoDB
3 35 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (9.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 26 (7.85%) MySQL
6 20 (6.04%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (5.44%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.93%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (3.63%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.32%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.42%) Redis
12 6 (1.81%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.21%) Big Data
14 4 (1.21%) DB2
14 4 (1.21%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.91%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 142 (42.90%) Jenkins
2 122 (36.86%) GitLab
3 96 (29.00%) Git
4 36 (10.88%) JIRA
5 19 (5.74%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.63%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.42%) Maven
8 5 (1.51%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.51%) Gradle
8 5 (1.51%) JUnit
8 5 (1.51%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.21%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.21%) NUnit
9 4 (1.21%) Postman
9 4 (1.21%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.91%) Mocha
11 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.60%) Hamcrest
11 2 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 77 (23.26%) Public Sector
2 64 (19.34%) Social Skills
3 23 (6.95%) Finance
4 14 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.02%) Banking
7 5 (1.51%) Military
8 4 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Front Office
9 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.60%) 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
1 117 (35.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 94 (28.40%) AWS Engineer
3 63 (19.03%) AWS DevOps
4 59 (17.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 52 (15.71%) Senior
6 39 (11.78%) Architect
7 35 (10.57%) Platform Engineer
8 31 (9.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 31 (9.37%) Developer
9 24 (7.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 21 (6.34%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (6.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 19 (5.74%) Lead
13 15 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.93%) AWS Architect
14 13 (3.93%) Python Engineer
15 11 (3.32%) Consultant
15 11 (3.32%) Data Engineer
15 11 (3.32%) DevOps Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.78%) Node.js
2 36 (10.88%) Kafka
3 33 (9.97%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (8.46%) REST
5 24 (7.25%) AWS CDK
6 22 (6.65%) JWT
6 22 (6.65%) React
7 18 (5.44%) LDAP
7 18 (5.44%) OAuth
8 16 (4.83%) RESTful
8 16 (4.83%) Spring Boot
9 14 (4.23%) boto
10 11 (3.32%) pytest
10 11 (3.32%) Spring
11 10 (3.02%) .NET
11 10 (3.02%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.72%) Lambda Expressions
13 8 (2.42%) AngularJS
14 7 (2.11%) ActiveMQ
14 7 (2.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.80%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (7.55%) Replication
3 10 (3.02%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.72%) NHS
4 9 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.81%) IVR
5 6 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.81%) Mainframe
6 5 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.51%) DataPower
6 5 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.51%) N-Tier
6 5 (1.51%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.21%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.21%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 67 (20.24%) Linux
2 26 (7.85%) Windows
3 22 (6.65%) Amazon Linux
4 20 (6.04%) VMS
5 11 (3.32%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.32%) Unix
6 8 (2.42%) 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
8 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (68.88%) CI/CD
2 210 (63.44%) DevOps
3 188 (56.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (30.21%) Containerisation
5 83 (25.08%) Observability
6 81 (24.47%) Agile
7 72 (21.75%) Microservices
8 52 (15.71%) Migration
9 51 (15.41%) Infrastructure Automation
10 50 (15.11%) Platform Engineering
11 48 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (14.20%) High Availability
13 46 (13.90%) Cloud Security
14 43 (12.99%) Incident Response
15 42 (12.69%) Event-Driven
16 41 (12.39%) Configuration Management
16 41 (12.39%) Performance Tuning
17 37 (11.18%) Mentoring
18 36 (10.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 35 (10.57%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 192 (58.01%) Python
2 80 (24.17%) Bash
3 51 (15.41%) Java
4 44 (13.29%) SQL
5 38 (11.48%) PowerShell
6 22 (6.65%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.34%) Groovy
8 19 (5.74%) Shell Script
9 18 (5.44%) Go
10 16 (4.83%) JavaScript
11 10 (3.02%) Perl
12 7 (2.11%) C#
13 3 (0.91%) Korn
13 3 (0.91%) PHP
14 2 (0.60%) Bicep
14 2 (0.60%) PromQL
14 2 (0.60%) Scala
15 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.30%) R
15 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (37.76%) Security Cleared
2 103 (31.12%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.29%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.44%) Degree
5 17 (5.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (3.63%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.11%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.25%) QA
2 17 (5.14%) GDPR
3 14 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.63%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.11%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.11%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.21%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.91%) NCSC
8 3 (0.91%) NIST
8 3 (0.91%) PMO
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.60%) SLA
9 2 (0.60%) WCAG
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 165 (49.85%) Docker
2 21 (6.34%) Active Directory
3 18 (5.44%) DFS Replication
4 11 (3.32%) Dovecot
4 11 (3.32%) Postfix
4 11 (3.32%) Squid
5 2 (0.60%) Snort
6 1 (0.30%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 243 (73.41%) Terraform
2 128 (38.67%) Kubernetes
3 100 (30.21%) Grafana
4 91 (27.49%) Prometheus
5 61 (18.43%) Ansible
6 11 (3.32%) Nessus
6 11 (3.32%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.02%) Proxmox
8 9 (2.72%) Puppet
9 8 (2.42%) Argo
9 8 (2.42%) Kibana
10 7 (2.11%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.51%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (1.21%) Packer
13 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.91%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.60%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.60%) logstash
14 2 (0.60%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (7.85%) Splunk
2 25 (7.55%) F5
3 24 (7.25%) ServiceNow
4 23 (6.95%) CheckPoint
4 23 (6.95%) Dynatrace
4 23 (6.95%) Palo Alto
5 19 (5.74%) Microsoft
6 11 (3.32%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.11%) Cisco
7 7 (2.11%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.81%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.81%) IBM
9 5 (1.51%) Avaya
9 5 (1.51%) Dell
9 5 (1.51%) Genesys
9 5 (1.51%) Gigya
9 5 (1.51%) Google
9 5 (1.51%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.21%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.21%) Databricks