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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 392 449
Rank change year-on-year +101 +57 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 328 174 181
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.39% 1.35% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 127 146
10th Percentile £385 £408 £450
25th Percentile £438 £455 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -12.70%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £619
90th Percentile £688 £743 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% -12.80%

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 13,699 12,927 16,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.22% 35.65% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,298 8,532 11,566
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 187 295
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.87 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.74
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +13.21% +20.45%
75th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.35 £21.52
% change year-on-year -17.73% +27.12% +13.24%

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 November 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 30 November 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 +66 242 £505 -3.90% 57
UK excluding London +52 132 £500 - 47
London +60 128 £525 -0.19% 26
Work from Home +41 110 £531 +2.51% 39
North of England -19 56 £500 -11.50% 13
Midlands 0 37 £475 +9.32% 12
West Midlands +13 34 £475 - 9
Yorkshire -10 28 £500 -29.82% 3
North West -15 20 £435 -3.33% 8
Scotland +4 17 £525 +8.14% 2
South West +16 10 £700 +40.00% 4
East of England - 9 £550 - 1
North East -6 8 £575 -2.54% 2
South East -6 4 £650 -18.75% 12
East Midlands -22 3 £375 -13.69% 3
Wales +1 2 - - 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 37 (11.28%) Confluence
2 12 (3.66%) nginx
3 5 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.22%) Apache
4 4 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (3.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 325 (99.09%) AWS
2 220 (67.07%) Amazon S3
3 196 (59.76%) Serverless
4 195 (59.45%) AWS Lambda
5 166 (50.61%) Amazon EC2
6 119 (36.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 114 (34.76%) Amazon ECS
8 105 (32.01%) GitHub
9 91 (27.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 85 (25.91%) GitHub Actions
11 74 (22.56%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (15.85%) Azure
13 47 (14.33%) Amazon ELB
14 41 (12.50%) Route 53
15 39 (11.89%) Datadog
16 33 (10.06%) AWS Fargate
17 31 (9.45%) Amazon SQS
18 30 (9.15%) AWS KMS
19 24 (7.32%) AWS CloudTrail
20 23 (7.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (18.29%) DNS
2 58 (17.68%) Firewall
3 34 (10.37%) VPN
4 24 (7.32%) HTTP
4 24 (7.32%) SSL
5 23 (7.01%) SMTP
6 22 (6.71%) TCP/IP
7 21 (6.40%) FTP
7 21 (6.40%) SSH
8 17 (5.18%) OpenLDAP
9 16 (4.88%) Network Security
10 12 (3.66%) IMAP
11 7 (2.13%) DHCP
12 6 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.30%) LAN
13 1 (0.30%) VLAN
13 1 (0.30%) VSAN
13 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (37.20%) Amazon RDS
2 65 (19.82%) DynamoDB
3 36 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (9.15%) Amazon Aurora
5 24 (7.32%) MySQL
6 19 (5.79%) Relational Database
7 17 (5.18%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (4.27%) NoSQL
9 13 (3.96%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.74%) MongoDB
11 8 (2.44%) Redis
12 7 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.13%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.83%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.52%) DB2
14 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.52%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.22%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 140 (42.68%) Jenkins
2 113 (34.45%) GitLab
3 99 (30.18%) Git
4 39 (11.89%) JIRA
5 23 (7.01%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.66%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.05%) Maven
8 8 (2.44%) JUnit
9 5 (1.52%) Gradle
9 5 (1.52%) Postman
9 5 (1.52%) SonarLint
10 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.91%) Gatling
10 3 (0.91%) Mocha
10 3 (0.91%) NUnit
10 3 (0.91%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.61%) SoapUI
General
1 79 (24.09%) Public Sector
2 66 (20.12%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.40%) Finance
4 17 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.05%) Banking
7 5 (1.52%) Military
8 4 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Front Office
9 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.61%) 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
1 116 (35.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 93 (28.35%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (17.99%) AWS DevOps
4 55 (16.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 52 (15.85%) Senior
6 36 (10.98%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (10.06%) Architect
7 33 (10.06%) Developer
8 32 (9.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 25 (7.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 21 (6.40%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (6.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 19 (5.79%) Lead
13 15 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.96%) Python Engineer
14 13 (3.96%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.66%) DevOps Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.35%) Consultant
16 11 (3.35%) Java Developer
16 11 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (10.98%) Node.js
2 32 (9.76%) Kafka
3 28 (8.54%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (8.23%) REST
5 24 (7.32%) AWS CDK
6 21 (6.40%) JWT
6 21 (6.40%) React
7 19 (5.79%) LDAP
8 18 (5.49%) Spring Boot
9 17 (5.18%) OAuth
9 17 (5.18%) RESTful
10 13 (3.96%) Spring
11 12 (3.66%) boto
12 11 (3.35%) AngularJS
12 11 (3.35%) pytest
13 10 (3.05%) FastAPI
14 9 (2.74%) GraphQL
14 9 (2.74%) Lambda Expressions
15 8 (2.44%) .NET
15 8 (2.44%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.45%) Replication
3 23 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.74%) NHS
5 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.83%) IVR
8 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.52%) DataPower
8 5 (1.52%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.52%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.91%) Clustering
10 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (20.73%) Linux
2 28 (8.54%) Windows
3 26 (7.93%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (7.32%) VMS
5 11 (3.35%) Ubuntu
6 10 (3.05%) Unix
7 7 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.30%) Android
9 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.30%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (66.77%) CI/CD
2 218 (66.46%) DevOps
3 178 (54.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (30.49%) Containerisation
5 84 (25.61%) Agile
6 74 (22.56%) Observability
7 71 (21.65%) Microservices
8 53 (16.16%) Platform Engineering
9 52 (15.85%) Infrastructure Automation
10 51 (15.55%) High Availability
10 51 (15.55%) Migration
11 49 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (14.02%) Cloud Security
13 42 (12.80%) Event-Driven
14 41 (12.50%) Configuration Management
14 41 (12.50%) Incident Response
14 41 (12.50%) Mentoring
15 40 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
16 36 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 34 (10.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 190 (57.93%) Python
2 74 (22.56%) Bash
3 53 (16.16%) Java
4 44 (13.41%) SQL
5 43 (13.11%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.62%) Groovy
7 23 (7.01%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.18%) Go
8 17 (5.18%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.88%) JavaScript
10 13 (3.96%) Perl
11 5 (1.52%) C#
12 3 (0.91%) Korn
13 2 (0.61%) Bicep
13 2 (0.61%) PHP
13 2 (0.61%) PromQL
13 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 104 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 41 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (4.88%) Degree
6 15 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (4.27%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.61%) MCSE
11 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.71%) QA
2 18 (5.49%) GDPR
3 13 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.96%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.83%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.22%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.91%) NCSC
7 3 (0.91%) PMO
8 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.61%) NIST
8 2 (0.61%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 163 (49.70%) Docker
2 24 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.40%) DFS Replication
4 13 (3.96%) Postfix
5 12 (3.66%) Dovecot
5 12 (3.66%) Squid
6 2 (0.61%) Snort
7 1 (0.30%) KVM
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 235 (71.65%) Terraform
2 120 (36.59%) Kubernetes
3 97 (29.57%) Grafana
4 94 (28.66%) Prometheus
5 54 (16.46%) Ansible
6 12 (3.66%) Nessus
7 11 (3.35%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.05%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.13%) Puppet
10 6 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.52%) Argo
12 4 (1.22%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (1.22%) Kibana
12 4 (1.22%) Packer
13 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.61%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.61%) logstash
14 2 (0.61%) SELinux
14 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (9.15%) ServiceNow
2 25 (7.62%) F5
3 24 (7.32%) Dynatrace
3 24 (7.32%) Splunk
4 23 (7.01%) CheckPoint
4 23 (7.01%) Palo Alto
5 18 (5.49%) Microsoft
6 13 (3.96%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.13%) Cisco
8 6 (1.83%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.52%) Avaya
9 5 (1.52%) Genesys
9 5 (1.52%) Gigya
9 5 (1.52%) Google
9 5 (1.52%) IBM
9 5 (1.52%) Oracle
9 5 (1.52%) Sybase
9 5 (1.52%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.22%) CA Agile Central