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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 354 409
Rank change year-on-year +1 +55 +3
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 316 171 179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.57% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 117 135
10th Percentile £350 £358 £405
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £653 £647 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £500 £543
% change year-on-year -9.50% -7.92% -5.57%
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 17,533 10,917 13,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 37.81% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 7,438 9,909
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 253 349
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% +31.02% -42.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.13 £70.75 £68.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -35.21%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -23 251 £490 -2.00% 51
London +27 160 £525 +2.44% 30
UK excluding London -47 116 £453 -9.50% 22
Work from Home -24 105 £475 -9.52% 28
Midlands -40 43 £472 -5.60% 4
West Midlands -47 41 £475 -5.00% 2
Scotland +5 21 £440 -12.00%
North of England -76 19 £425 +6.25% 8
South East -53 16 £393 -31.65% 7
East of England -30 9 £450 -18.18% 1
North East -19 7 £425 - 2
North West -50 7 £395 +5.47% 4
South West -33 5 £619 +5.32% 1
Yorkshire -64 5 £456 -8.75% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 -
Wales - 2 £525 - 1
East Midlands -25 1 £425 -20.86% 2

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 38 (12.03%) Confluence
2 26 (8.23%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.43%) Apache
3 14 (4.43%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.90%) CICS
4 6 (1.90%) SAS
5 4 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 313 (99.05%) AWS
2 188 (59.49%) Amazon S3
3 184 (58.23%) Serverless
4 177 (56.01%) AWS Lambda
5 135 (42.72%) Amazon EC2
6 114 (36.08%) Amazon EKS
7 106 (33.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 105 (33.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 105 (33.23%) GitHub
9 92 (29.11%) Amazon ECS
10 84 (26.58%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (15.82%) Azure
12 49 (15.51%) Amazon SQS
13 43 (13.61%) Route 53
14 40 (12.66%) AWS KMS
15 32 (10.13%) AWS CodePipeline
16 27 (8.54%) Amazon Kinesis
17 26 (8.23%) AWS CloudTrail
18 22 (6.96%) Amazon EMR
19 21 (6.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.33%) DNS
2 17 (5.38%) Firewall
3 9 (2.85%) Network Security
4 7 (2.22%) HTTP
5 6 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.58%) SNMP
6 5 (1.58%) VPN
6 5 (1.58%) WAN
7 4 (1.27%) SSL
8 2 (0.63%) BGP
8 2 (0.63%) CTI
8 2 (0.63%) OSPF
8 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.32%) Internet
9 1 (0.32%) LAN
9 1 (0.32%) PSTN
9 1 (0.32%) RTP
9 1 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (30.38%) Amazon RDS
2 77 (24.37%) DynamoDB
3 51 (16.14%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (13.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 37 (11.71%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (8.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (5.70%) Tableau
8 16 (5.06%) Power BI
9 14 (4.43%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.48%) Redis
10 11 (3.48%) SQL Server
11 10 (3.16%) DB2
11 10 (3.16%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.85%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (2.22%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.22%) MySQL
15 6 (1.90%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.90%) Metadata
15 6 (1.90%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 119 (37.66%) Jenkins
2 104 (32.91%) GitLab
3 70 (22.15%) Git
4 48 (15.19%) JIRA
5 24 (7.59%) JUnit
6 22 (6.96%) Maven
6 22 (6.96%) Mockito
7 21 (6.65%) SonarQube
8 19 (6.01%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.43%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.11%) jMock
11 11 (3.48%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.53%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.53%) Cucumber
13 7 (2.22%) Postman
14 6 (1.90%) Gatling
14 6 (1.90%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.58%) MLflow
16 4 (1.27%) Jaeger
16 4 (1.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 80 (25.32%) Public Sector
3 30 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.86%) Finance
5 15 (4.75%) Banking
6 13 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.27%) Law
10 3 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.95%) Legal
10 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.63%) Military
11 2 (0.63%) Police
11 2 (0.63%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Billing
12 1 (0.32%) Games
12 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (24.05%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (16.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (14.24%) Developer
4 42 (13.29%) Architect
5 39 (12.34%) Senior
6 33 (10.44%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (9.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 28 (8.86%) AWS Architect
9 25 (7.91%) Java Developer
10 24 (7.59%) Data Engineer
11 21 (6.65%) Lead
12 19 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 16 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (5.06%) Senior Developer
15 14 (4.43%) Analyst
15 14 (4.43%) Site Engineer
16 12 (3.80%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (3.80%) Delivery Manager
16 12 (3.80%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.56%) RESTful
2 44 (13.92%) Kafka
3 40 (12.66%) Node.js
3 40 (12.66%) REST
4 37 (11.71%) Spring
4 37 (11.71%) Spring Boot
5 36 (11.39%) AWS CDK
6 29 (9.18%) SOAP
7 27 (8.54%) Web Services
8 22 (6.96%) Hibernate
8 22 (6.96%) JPA
9 20 (6.33%) OAuth
9 20 (6.33%) OpenTelemetry
9 20 (6.33%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (6.01%) AngularJS
10 19 (6.01%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (5.70%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (5.70%) Spring Batch
11 18 (5.70%) Spring Integration
12 15 (4.75%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 89 (28.16%) Cloud Native
2 43 (13.61%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (7.91%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.53%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.53%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.53%) Replication
6 7 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.90%) DataPower
7 6 (1.90%) Online Banking
7 6 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.27%) IVR
10 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.95%) PACS
10 3 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (20.25%) Linux
2 16 (5.06%) Windows
3 8 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.53%) zOS
4 5 (1.58%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (1.58%) Unix
5 4 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.95%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.32%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (74.05%) CI/CD
2 162 (51.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 160 (50.63%) DevOps
4 120 (37.97%) Agile
5 106 (33.54%) Observability
6 101 (31.96%) Containerisation
7 77 (24.37%) Microservices
8 66 (20.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (18.04%) Scrum
9 57 (18.04%) Test Automation
10 55 (17.41%) Platform Engineering
11 49 (15.51%) Migration
12 45 (14.24%) Performance Tuning
13 39 (12.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 38 (12.03%) Analytics
15 37 (11.71%) Event-Driven
16 36 (11.39%) Root Cause Analysis
17 34 (10.76%) ETL
17 34 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
17 34 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (45.25%) Python
2 79 (25.00%) SQL
3 67 (21.20%) Java
4 65 (20.57%) Bash
5 32 (10.13%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.91%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.70%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.70%) Shell Script
8 15 (4.75%) Scala
9 9 (2.85%) Go
10 8 (2.53%) Groovy
11 6 (1.90%) C#
11 6 (1.90%) JCL
12 4 (1.27%) Bicep
12 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.27%) Perl
13 2 (0.63%) C
13 2 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.32%) COBOL
14 1 (0.32%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 144 (45.57%) Security Cleared
2 127 (40.19%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.44%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.16%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.53%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.53%) Degree
8 6 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.91%) QA
2 16 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.48%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.53%) NIST
5 7 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.22%) SLA
6 6 (1.90%) GDPR
6 6 (1.90%) PMO
7 5 (1.58%) GRC
8 4 (1.27%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.27%) NCSC
9 3 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.63%) WCAG
11 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 129 (40.82%) Docker
2 11 (3.48%) Postfix
3 8 (2.53%) Squid
4 4 (1.27%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.32%) IAG
5 1 (0.32%) KVM
5 1 (0.32%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 191 (60.44%) Terraform
2 124 (39.24%) Grafana
3 105 (33.23%) Kubernetes
4 95 (30.06%) Prometheus
5 35 (11.08%) Ansible
6 11 (3.48%) Puppet
7 9 (2.85%) Istio
8 7 (2.22%) Argo
9 6 (1.90%) Packer
10 4 (1.27%) Kibana
10 4 (1.27%) Suricata
11 3 (0.95%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.95%) Rancher
12 2 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.63%) linkerd
12 2 (0.63%) Nagios
12 2 (0.63%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (7.28%) Splunk
2 18 (5.70%) Dynatrace
3 17 (5.38%) Jaspersoft
3 17 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.43%) Atlassian
5 10 (3.16%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.53%) New Relic
7 7 (2.22%) Databricks
7 7 (2.22%) Informatica
8 6 (1.90%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.90%) Cribl.io
8 6 (1.90%) Denodo
8 6 (1.90%) Oracle
9 5 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.27%) Confluent
10 4 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.27%) Sybase
10 4 (1.27%) Tenable
10 4 (1.27%) Trend Micro
11 3 (0.95%) PagerDuty