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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 313 393
Rank change year-on-year -27 +80 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 375 256 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.79% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.11% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 182 100
10th Percentile £381 £358 £412
25th Percentile £429 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £585 £555 £602
90th Percentile £676 £637 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -0.53% +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 18,752 12,112 13,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.97% 37.26% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,464 8,065 8,932
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 601 312 222
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.88 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.71% -3.75% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.81 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.43 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +71.05% -21.42% -10.44%

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 3 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 3 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 -40 299 £500 - 174
London 0 177 £525 +2.44% 97
Work from Home -3 141 £488 -2.50% 67
UK excluding London -69 141 £473 -0.53% 102
Midlands -49 41 £463 -2.63% 19
North of England -53 39 £500 +25.00% 25
West Midlands -49 38 £466 -1.95% 13
South East -42 26 £500 - 20
North East -24 19 £444 - 6
Scotland -20 17 £485 -3.00% 8
North West -51 13 £607 +51.63% 10
East of England -25 10 £500 -4.76% 10
Yorkshire -47 7 £638 +34.21% 9
South West -39 5 £350 -32.69% 10
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 9
East Midlands -20 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 48 (12.80%) Confluence
2 21 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (4.53%) Apache
4 13 (3.47%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.13%) SAS
6 7 (1.87%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.07%) CICS
8 3 (0.80%) nginx
9 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Trello
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 374 (99.73%) AWS
2 224 (59.73%) Amazon S3
3 222 (59.20%) Serverless
4 219 (58.40%) AWS Lambda
5 144 (38.40%) Amazon EC2
6 123 (32.80%) Amazon EKS
7 116 (30.93%) GitHub
8 109 (29.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 107 (28.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 89 (23.73%) Amazon ECS
11 84 (22.40%) GitHub Actions
12 78 (20.80%) Azure
13 50 (13.33%) AWS KMS
14 44 (11.73%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (9.87%) AWS Step Functions
16 36 (9.60%) AWS CloudTrail
17 35 (9.33%) Amazon Kinesis
17 35 (9.33%) Datadog
18 34 (9.07%) Amazon EMR
18 34 (9.07%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.20%) Firewall
2 16 (4.27%) Network Security
3 13 (3.47%) DNS
4 7 (1.87%) HTTP
4 7 (1.87%) SSL
4 7 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.60%) SNMP
6 5 (1.33%) CTI
6 5 (1.33%) WAN
7 3 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.80%) SMS
7 3 (0.80%) VPN
8 2 (0.53%) FTP
8 2 (0.53%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.53%) IMAP
8 2 (0.53%) SMTP
8 2 (0.53%) SSH
9 1 (0.27%) BGP
9 1 (0.27%) Internet
9 1 (0.27%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (28.80%) Amazon RDS
2 76 (20.27%) DynamoDB
3 62 (16.53%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (11.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (8.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 30 (8.00%) MongoDB
8 22 (5.87%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (5.87%) Power BI
9 20 (5.33%) Redis
10 14 (3.73%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.47%) MySQL
12 12 (3.20%) Tableau
13 10 (2.67%) Data Lake
13 10 (2.67%) DocumentDB
13 10 (2.67%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.40%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.13%) Db2
16 6 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.60%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 126 (33.60%) Jenkins
2 122 (32.53%) GitLab
3 87 (23.20%) Git
4 65 (17.33%) JIRA
5 22 (5.87%) Bitbucket
6 18 (4.80%) JUnit
7 17 (4.53%) Mockito
8 13 (3.47%) Maven
9 10 (2.67%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.40%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.13%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.87%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.87%) DbUnit
12 7 (1.87%) Postman
13 6 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.60%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.60%) jMock
14 5 (1.33%) Gatling
15 4 (1.07%) JMeter
15 4 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 105 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 94 (25.07%) Public Sector
3 39 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.33%) Finance
5 22 (5.87%) Banking
6 17 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.60%) Back Office
8 6 (1.60%) Law
9 5 (1.33%) Military
10 4 (1.07%) Front Office
11 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
11 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Publishing
12 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.53%) Retail
13 1 (0.27%) Games
13 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 80 (21.33%) AWS Engineer
2 67 (17.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 59 (15.73%) Senior
4 46 (12.27%) Developer
5 41 (10.93%) AWS DevOps
6 40 (10.67%) Architect
7 38 (10.13%) Data Engineer
8 34 (9.07%) Lead
9 33 (8.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 32 (8.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (5.87%) AWS Architect
12 21 (5.60%) Scrum Master
13 19 (5.07%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (4.80%) Java Developer
14 18 (4.80%) Lead DevOps
14 18 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
15 15 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
15 15 (4.00%) DBA
16 14 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 13 (3.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (62.13%) Terraform
2 47 (12.53%) RESTful
3 44 (11.73%) REST
4 43 (11.47%) Node.js
4 43 (11.47%) Spring
5 40 (10.67%) Kafka
6 39 (10.40%) Spring Boot
7 35 (9.33%) AWS CDK
8 24 (6.40%) PySpark
9 19 (5.07%) SOAP
10 14 (3.73%) AngularJS
10 14 (3.73%) React
11 13 (3.47%) ActiveMQ
11 13 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
11 13 (3.47%) Web Services
12 11 (2.93%) FastAPI
12 11 (2.93%) GraphQL
13 10 (2.67%) Playwright
14 9 (2.40%) Jest
14 9 (2.40%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 122 (32.53%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.33%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (9.33%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.07%) Replication
4 13 (3.47%) IVR
5 11 (2.93%) CMDB
5 11 (2.93%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.60%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.07%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.07%) DataPower
10 4 (1.07%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.07%) NHS
10 4 (1.07%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.20%) Linux
2 22 (5.87%) Windows
3 17 (4.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.67%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.87%) Unix
6 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.33%) zOS
8 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.27%) CentOS
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
9 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (77.87%) CI/CD
2 232 (61.87%) DevOps
3 225 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (44.80%) Agile
5 123 (32.80%) Observability
6 107 (28.53%) Containerisation
7 91 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (21.60%) Test Automation
9 77 (20.53%) Platform Engineering
10 73 (19.47%) Microservices
11 64 (17.07%) AI
12 63 (16.80%) Root Cause Analysis
13 60 (16.00%) Scrum
14 55 (14.67%) Data Modelling
15 53 (14.13%) Event-Driven
16 52 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
17 50 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
18 48 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
19 47 (12.53%) Migration
19 47 (12.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 190 (50.67%) Python
2 90 (24.00%) SQL
3 77 (20.53%) Java
4 75 (20.00%) Bash
5 38 (10.13%) PowerShell
6 30 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 26 (6.93%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.27%) Scala
9 14 (3.73%) Groovy
10 11 (2.93%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.40%) C#
12 7 (1.87%) Perl
13 6 (1.60%) Go
14 5 (1.33%) Bicep
15 4 (1.07%) JCL
15 4 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.53%) Korn
17 1 (0.27%) Ladder Logic
17 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 168 (44.80%) Security Cleared
2 150 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 68 (18.13%) AWS Certification
4 28 (7.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (4.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (4.53%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.93%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (2.13%) Degree
12 4 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.07%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.80%) CISSP
13 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.27%) ISEB
15 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.47%) QA
2 37 (9.87%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.60%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.33%) SLA
5 5 (1.33%) WCAG
6 4 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.07%) GDPR
6 4 (1.07%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.80%) NCSC
7 3 (0.80%) PMO
8 2 (0.53%) GRC
8 2 (0.53%) HL7
9 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.27%) NIST
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 142 (37.87%) Docker
2 15 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.93%) IAG
4 10 (2.67%) Squid
5 7 (1.87%) Postfix
6 2 (0.53%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.53%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 130 (34.67%) Kubernetes
2 118 (31.47%) Grafana
3 93 (24.80%) Prometheus
4 65 (17.33%) Ansible
5 10 (2.67%) Packer
5 10 (2.67%) Puppet
6 9 (2.40%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.33%) Argo
8 5 (1.33%) Istio
9 4 (1.07%) Suricata
10 3 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.80%) Kibana
11 2 (0.53%) Consul
11 2 (0.53%) Nessus
11 2 (0.53%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.53%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.27%) Rancher
12 1 (0.27%) WSUS
12 1 (0.27%) yum
Vendors
1 36 (9.60%) Dynatrace
2 28 (7.47%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.60%) Splunk
4 19 (5.07%) Informatica
5 14 (3.73%) Microsoft
6 12 (3.20%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.93%) Nexthink
8 10 (2.67%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (2.67%) Oracle
9 8 (2.13%) Atlassian
9 8 (2.13%) Google
9 8 (2.13%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.87%) Confluent
11 6 (1.60%) Cribl.io
11 6 (1.60%) Denodo
11 6 (1.60%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.07%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.07%) Databricks
12 4 (1.07%) New Relic
12 4 (1.07%) Trend Micro