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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 358 442
Rank change year-on-year +44 +84 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 298 183 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.58% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 1.57% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 140 141
10th Percentile £381 £407 £406
25th Percentile £418 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% -8.33%

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 14,708 11,652 14,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.96% 37.06% 33.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,122 7,742 10,751
10th Percentile £306 £313 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 172 318
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.78 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 £43.94 £50.19
90th Percentile £79.75 £73.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £24.42 £21.00
% change year-on-year +33.09% +16.29% +5.40%

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 31 January 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 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 31 January 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 +13 219 £525 -0.19% 58
London +9 128 £525 -0.19% 25
UK excluding London -11 111 £534 +1.71% 45
Work from Home +1 84 £575 +9.52% 34
North of England -29 49 £525 -15.32% 9
Yorkshire -34 21 £521 -28.10% 7
North West -20 20 £525 +5.05% 2
Midlands -33 20 £475 +6.98% 7
Scotland +3 17 £525 +5.00% 2
West Midlands -31 17 £475 +5.56% 6
South West -10 11 £700 +19.15% 2
North East -14 8 £575 -2.54%
South East -20 8 £504 - 17
East of England - 6 £550 - 6
East Midlands -23 3 £375 -6.25% 1
Wales - 3 £500 - 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 18 (6.04%) Confluence
2 9 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.35%) nginx
5 6 (2.01%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 293 (98.32%) AWS
2 192 (64.43%) Serverless
3 186 (62.42%) AWS Lambda
4 180 (60.40%) Amazon S3
5 125 (41.95%) Amazon ECS
6 119 (39.93%) Amazon EC2
7 111 (37.25%) GitHub
8 106 (35.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (32.89%) Amazon EKS
10 93 (31.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 89 (29.87%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (18.79%) Azure
13 40 (13.42%) Route 53
14 33 (11.07%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (11.07%) AWS Fargate
15 31 (10.40%) Amazon ELB
15 31 (10.40%) Datadog
16 25 (8.39%) AWS CodePipeline
17 23 (7.72%) AWS CloudTrail
18 22 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (15.10%) DNS
2 43 (14.43%) Firewall
3 25 (8.39%) VPN
4 17 (5.70%) SSL
4 17 (5.70%) TCP/IP
5 16 (5.37%) HTTP
5 16 (5.37%) Network Security
6 10 (3.36%) FTP
6 10 (3.36%) SMTP
6 10 (3.36%) SSH
7 7 (2.35%) IMAP
7 7 (2.35%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (1.01%) WAN
9 2 (0.67%) BGP
9 2 (0.67%) OSPF
9 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.34%) DHCP
10 1 (0.34%) LAN
10 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (33.22%) Amazon RDS
2 66 (22.15%) DynamoDB
3 34 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (9.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 26 (8.72%) MySQL
6 21 (7.05%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (5.70%) NoSQL
7 17 (5.70%) Relational Database
8 13 (4.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (4.36%) MongoDB
8 13 (4.36%) Redis
9 10 (3.36%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.68%) Big Data
10 5 (1.68%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.68%) DB2
10 5 (1.68%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.34%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.01%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 130 (43.62%) Jenkins
2 119 (39.93%) GitLab
3 68 (22.82%) Git
4 22 (7.38%) JIRA
5 12 (4.03%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.36%) Vagrant
7 8 (2.68%) Maven
8 7 (2.35%) JUnit
9 5 (1.68%) Gradle
9 5 (1.68%) Mocha
9 5 (1.68%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.34%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.34%) NUnit
10 4 (1.34%) Postman
10 4 (1.34%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.01%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.01%) Gatling
11 3 (1.01%) MLflow
General
1 74 (24.83%) Public Sector
2 62 (20.81%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.05%) Finance
4 15 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.36%) Banking
7 6 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.68%) Military
9 3 (1.01%) Front Office
9 3 (1.01%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 96 (32.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (26.51%) AWS Engineer
3 51 (17.11%) AWS DevOps
4 48 (16.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 47 (15.77%) Architect
6 41 (13.76%) Senior
7 32 (10.74%) Developer
8 28 (9.40%) Platform Engineer
9 24 (8.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (7.05%) AWS Architect
10 21 (7.05%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 19 (6.38%) Lead
12 18 (6.04%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (6.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 17 (5.70%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.69%) Data Engineer
15 11 (3.69%) Python Engineer
16 10 (3.36%) Consultant
17 9 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.44%) Kafka
2 42 (14.09%) Node.js
3 36 (12.08%) Elastic Stack
4 30 (10.07%) REST
5 26 (8.72%) AWS CDK
5 26 (8.72%) OAuth
6 25 (8.39%) JWT
7 23 (7.72%) React
8 21 (7.05%) Spring Boot
9 20 (6.71%) RESTful
10 16 (5.37%) Spring
11 11 (3.69%) FastAPI
12 10 (3.36%) .NET
12 10 (3.36%) OAuth2
13 9 (3.02%) boto
13 9 (3.02%) Lambda Expressions
14 8 (2.68%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.68%) LDAP
14 8 (2.68%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (2.68%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.47%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.73%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.70%) Replication
4 9 (3.02%) NHS
4 9 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.01%) IVR
6 6 (2.01%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.68%) DataPower
7 5 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.68%) N-Tier
7 5 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.01%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 55 (18.46%) Linux
2 17 (5.70%) Windows
3 13 (4.36%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (3.69%) VMS
5 9 (3.02%) Unix
6 7 (2.35%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Android
8 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (71.48%) CI/CD
2 186 (62.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 177 (59.40%) DevOps
4 104 (34.90%) Containerisation
5 82 (27.52%) Observability
6 79 (26.51%) Agile
7 74 (24.83%) Microservices
8 49 (16.44%) Event-Driven
9 46 (15.44%) Migration
9 46 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (14.77%) High Availability
11 43 (14.43%) Incident Response
11 43 (14.43%) Test Automation
12 42 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (13.76%) Platform Engineering
14 40 (13.42%) Performance Tuning
15 38 (12.75%) Infrastructure Automation
15 38 (12.75%) Mentoring
16 37 (12.42%) Cost Optimisation
17 33 (11.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 168 (56.38%) Python
2 65 (21.81%) Bash
3 54 (18.12%) Java
4 40 (13.42%) SQL
5 25 (8.39%) PowerShell
6 21 (7.05%) Shell Script
6 21 (7.05%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.70%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.03%) Go
8 12 (4.03%) Groovy
9 8 (2.68%) C#
10 4 (1.34%) Bicep
11 3 (1.01%) Korn
11 3 (1.01%) Perl
11 3 (1.01%) Scala
12 2 (0.67%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) C
13 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) R
13 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (39.26%) Security Cleared
2 93 (31.21%) SC Cleared
3 40 (13.42%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (5.03%) Degree
5 9 (3.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 9 (3.02%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.71%) QA
2 18 (6.04%) GDPR
3 16 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.70%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.68%) NIST
6 7 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.35%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.68%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (1.01%) NCSC
8 3 (1.01%) PMO
8 3 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.67%) SLA
9 2 (0.67%) WCAG
10 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.34%) GRC
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 157 (52.68%) Docker
2 10 (3.36%) DFS Replication
3 7 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.35%) Dovecot
3 7 (2.35%) Postfix
3 7 (2.35%) Squid
4 1 (0.34%) Snort
Systems Management
1 220 (73.83%) Terraform
2 120 (40.27%) Kubernetes
3 88 (29.53%) Grafana
4 81 (27.18%) Prometheus
5 49 (16.44%) Ansible
6 8 (2.68%) Argo
6 8 (2.68%) Kibana
7 7 (2.35%) Nessus
7 7 (2.35%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.35%) Proxmox
7 7 (2.35%) Puppet
8 5 (1.68%) Dell DRAC
8 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.01%) Karpenter
9 3 (1.01%) Packer
10 2 (0.67%) Istio
10 2 (0.67%) logstash
10 2 (0.67%) Nagios
10 2 (0.67%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 24 (8.05%) Splunk
2 19 (6.38%) F5
3 18 (6.04%) CheckPoint
3 18 (6.04%) Palo Alto
4 15 (5.03%) Dynatrace
4 15 (5.03%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.03%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.35%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (2.01%) AVEVA
6 6 (2.01%) Cisco
6 6 (2.01%) Databricks
6 6 (2.01%) IBM
7 5 (1.68%) Avaya
7 5 (1.68%) Dell
7 5 (1.68%) Genesys
7 5 (1.68%) Gigya
7 5 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.34%) New Relic
8 4 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.34%) Sybase