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

 6 months to
2 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 343 411
Rank change year-on-year -8 +68 -3
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 336 198 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.64% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.69% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 140 127
10th Percentile £353 £358 £405
25th Percentile £413 £436 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £559 £540 £608
90th Percentile £634 £627 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% -4.76% -8.70%
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 18,201 11,694 14,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.37% 37.76% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,105 7,832 10,022
10th Percentile £331 £313 £303
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 295 359
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.10
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.31 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.09% +26.18% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.43 £72.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.97
% change year-on-year +102.70% -10.01% -18.48%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -19 266 £488 -2.50% 78
London +22 170 £513 - 36
Work from Home -8 127 £475 -5.00% 46
UK excluding London -74 124 £455 -9.00% 54
Midlands -32 45 £472 -0.63% 8
West Midlands -40 43 £475 - 6
Scotland +1 24 £440 -12.00% 4
North of England -74 21 £425 +6.25% 11
South East -47 16 £393 -31.65% 21
East of England -18 10 £500 -9.09% 1
North East -23 9 £413 - 2
Yorkshire -47 6 £463 -2.63% 3
North West -54 6 £390 +8.94% 6
South West -34 4 £444 -15.07% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
Wales - 2 £525 - 2
East Midlands -20 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 48 (14.29%) Confluence
2 25 (7.44%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.17%) Apache
4 12 (3.57%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.08%) SAS
6 6 (1.79%) CICS
7 5 (1.49%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.19%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.60%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 335 (99.70%) AWS
2 212 (63.10%) Amazon S3
3 197 (58.63%) Serverless
4 192 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
5 153 (45.54%) Amazon EC2
6 110 (32.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 108 (32.14%) Amazon EKS
8 107 (31.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 103 (30.65%) GitHub
10 89 (26.49%) Amazon ECS
11 77 (22.92%) GitHub Actions
12 60 (17.86%) Azure
13 48 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
14 47 (13.99%) AWS KMS
15 42 (12.50%) Route 53
16 33 (9.82%) Amazon EMR
16 33 (9.82%) AWS CodePipeline
16 33 (9.82%) Datadog
17 30 (8.93%) AWS CloudTrail
18 25 (7.44%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.36%) Firewall
2 13 (3.87%) DNS
3 12 (3.57%) Network Security
4 7 (2.08%) WAN
5 6 (1.79%) HTTP
5 6 (1.79%) SNMP
5 6 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.49%) VPN
7 4 (1.19%) SSL
8 3 (0.89%) BGP
8 3 (0.89%) CTI
9 2 (0.60%) OSPF
9 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.30%) Internet
10 1 (0.30%) PSTN
10 1 (0.30%) RTP
10 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (29.76%) Amazon RDS
2 78 (23.21%) DynamoDB
3 48 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
4 45 (13.39%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (11.01%) Amazon Aurora
6 34 (10.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (7.44%) Power BI
8 19 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (5.06%) Tableau
10 16 (4.76%) MongoDB
11 11 (3.27%) Redis
12 10 (2.98%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.68%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.68%) Db2
14 8 (2.38%) Data Lake
15 7 (2.08%) Metadata
16 6 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.79%) NoSQL
16 6 (1.79%) Pentaho
17 5 (1.49%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 124 (36.90%) Jenkins
2 107 (31.85%) GitLab
3 84 (25.00%) Git
4 63 (18.75%) JIRA
5 25 (7.44%) JUnit
6 23 (6.85%) Mockito
7 22 (6.55%) Maven
8 20 (5.95%) Bitbucket
8 20 (5.95%) SonarQube
9 14 (4.17%) DbUnit
10 13 (3.87%) jMock
11 11 (3.27%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (2.68%) Cucumber
13 8 (2.38%) Artifactory
13 8 (2.38%) Postman
14 6 (1.79%) Gatling
14 6 (1.79%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.49%) MLflow
16 4 (1.19%) Gradle
16 4 (1.19%) Jaeger
General
1 93 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 85 (25.30%) Public Sector
3 37 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.93%) Finance
5 17 (5.06%) Banking
6 13 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.08%) Law
10 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.89%) Legal
10 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.60%) Military
11 2 (0.60%) Police
11 2 (0.60%) Publishing
11 2 (0.60%) Retail
12 1 (0.30%) Billing
12 1 (0.30%) Games
12 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (23.81%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (15.18%) Senior
3 49 (14.58%) Developer
3 49 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (11.01%) Architect
5 34 (10.12%) AWS DevOps
6 33 (9.82%) Data Engineer
7 28 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 28 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (7.44%) Java Developer
9 24 (7.14%) Lead
10 21 (6.25%) AWS Architect
11 20 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (5.06%) Senior Developer
13 17 (5.06%) Site Engineer
14 15 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
15 14 (4.17%) Scrum Master
16 13 (3.87%) Delivery Manager
16 13 (3.87%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.10%) RESTful
2 41 (12.20%) AWS CDK
2 41 (12.20%) Kafka
3 40 (11.90%) Node.js
3 40 (11.90%) REST
4 35 (10.42%) Spring
4 35 (10.42%) Spring Boot
5 32 (9.52%) SOAP
6 27 (8.04%) Web Services
7 24 (7.14%) PySpark
8 19 (5.65%) AngularJS
8 19 (5.65%) Hibernate
8 19 (5.65%) JPA
9 18 (5.36%) ActiveMQ
9 18 (5.36%) Spring Batch
9 18 (5.36%) Spring Integration
10 17 (5.06%) OpenTelemetry
10 17 (5.06%) Spring Cloud
11 16 (4.76%) OAuth
12 13 (3.87%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 99 (29.46%) Cloud Native
2 43 (12.80%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.74%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.38%) Replication
6 7 (2.08%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.08%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.79%) DataPower
7 6 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.79%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.49%) CMDB
8 5 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.49%) IVR
9 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.89%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (18.45%) Linux
2 22 (6.55%) Windows
3 12 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.08%) zOS
6 5 (1.49%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.19%) Unix
7 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (74.40%) CI/CD
2 186 (55.36%) DevOps
3 174 (51.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (41.07%) Agile
5 109 (32.44%) Containerisation
6 104 (30.95%) Observability
7 73 (21.73%) Microservices
8 72 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (19.64%) Platform Engineering
10 65 (19.35%) Test Automation
11 56 (16.67%) Scrum
12 51 (15.18%) Migration
13 46 (13.69%) AI
14 44 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (12.50%) Analytics
15 42 (12.50%) Event-Driven
16 41 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
16 41 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
18 38 (11.31%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 168 (50.00%) Python
2 84 (25.00%) SQL
3 70 (20.83%) Bash
4 63 (18.75%) Java
5 34 (10.12%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.44%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.36%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.87%) Scala
8 13 (3.87%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.38%) Go
9 8 (2.38%) Groovy
10 6 (1.79%) JCL
11 5 (1.49%) C#
12 4 (1.19%) Bicep
12 4 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.19%) Perl
13 2 (0.60%) C
13 2 (0.60%) Korn
13 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.30%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 154 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 139 (41.37%) SC Cleared
3 46 (13.69%) AWS Certification
4 20 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (5.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (5.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 11 (3.27%) SAFe Agilist
8 8 (2.38%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.08%) Degree
9 7 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.14%) QA
3 9 (2.68%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.38%) SLA
5 6 (1.79%) GDPR
5 6 (1.79%) PMO
6 5 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.49%) GRC
7 4 (1.19%) NCSC
7 4 (1.19%) NIST
8 3 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.89%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) HL7
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 129 (38.39%) Docker
2 11 (3.27%) Postfix
3 8 (2.38%) Squid
4 5 (1.49%) IAG
5 4 (1.19%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.30%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) QEMU
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 203 (60.42%) Terraform
2 120 (35.71%) Grafana
3 108 (32.14%) Kubernetes
4 94 (27.98%) Prometheus
5 43 (12.80%) Ansible
6 11 (3.27%) Puppet
7 9 (2.68%) Istio
8 8 (2.38%) Packer
9 4 (1.19%) Argo
9 4 (1.19%) Suricata
10 3 (0.89%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.89%) Rancher
11 2 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.60%) linkerd
11 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.30%) Consul
12 1 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.30%) Kibana
12 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 23 (6.85%) ServiceNow
3 22 (6.55%) Splunk
4 17 (5.06%) Informatica
4 17 (5.06%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (4.17%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.38%) Databricks
6 8 (2.38%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.38%) New Relic
7 7 (2.08%) Cribl.io
7 7 (2.08%) Oracle
8 6 (1.79%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.79%) Denodo
8 6 (1.79%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.49%) Confluent
9 5 (1.49%) Nexthink
9 5 (1.49%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.19%) Sybase
10 4 (1.19%) Trend Micro
11 3 (0.89%) Tenable
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