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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 336 395
Rank change year-on-year -9 +59 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 362 235 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.71% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.92% 1.92% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 166 117
10th Percentile £356 £358 £405
25th Percentile £413 £436 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £613
90th Percentile £650 £638 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -4.74% -1.96% -15.74%
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 18,822 12,256 13,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.30% 37.26% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,428 8,209 9,287
10th Percentile £325 £313 £311
25th Percentile £420 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 626 312 280
10th Percentile £16.15 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.70 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%
75th Percentile £69.67 £47.50 £52.18
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.75%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -27 289 £488 -1.52% 98
London +6 173 £513 +0.99% 53
UK excluding London -41 144 £453 -4.74% 56
Work from Home -11 138 £463 -7.50% 51
Midlands -33 52 £469 -1.26% 6
West Midlands -43 50 £472 -0.63% 5
North of England -64 31 £425 +6.25% 16
Scotland -2 23 £440 -12.00% 2
South East -51 19 £426 -25.91% 15
North East -27 14 £413 - 4
East of England -18 10 £500 - 5
North West -54 10 £495 +23.75% 6
Yorkshire -42 7 £550 +25.71% 6
South West -37 6 £444 -14.66% 10
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 3
East Midlands -16 1 £425 -20.86% 1
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 50 (13.81%) Confluence
2 23 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.14%) Apache
4 13 (3.59%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.93%) SAS
6 6 (1.66%) CICS
6 6 (1.66%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.10%) Trello
3 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 361 (99.72%) AWS
2 231 (63.81%) Amazon S3
3 213 (58.84%) Serverless
4 210 (58.01%) AWS Lambda
5 160 (44.20%) Amazon EC2
6 116 (32.04%) Amazon EKS
7 113 (31.22%) GitHub
8 109 (30.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 108 (29.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 93 (25.69%) Amazon ECS
11 85 (23.48%) GitHub Actions
12 71 (19.61%) Azure
13 53 (14.64%) AWS KMS
14 46 (12.71%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (10.22%) Route 53
16 36 (9.94%) Datadog
17 34 (9.39%) Amazon EMR
18 33 (9.12%) AWS CloudTrail
19 32 (8.84%) Amazon Kinesis
20 29 (8.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.97%) Firewall
2 13 (3.59%) Network Security
3 11 (3.04%) DNS
4 6 (1.66%) SNMP
4 6 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.38%) CTI
5 5 (1.38%) SSL
5 5 (1.38%) WAN
6 4 (1.10%) HTTP
7 3 (0.83%) VPN
8 1 (0.28%) BGP
8 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
8 1 (0.28%) PSTN
8 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.28%) RTP
8 1 (0.28%) SMS
8 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (27.90%) Amazon RDS
2 84 (23.20%) DynamoDB
3 54 (14.92%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (14.36%) Amazon Athena
5 38 (10.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 35 (9.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (7.18%) Power BI
8 22 (6.08%) MongoDB
9 21 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (4.70%) Tableau
11 12 (3.31%) Redis
12 11 (3.04%) Db2
13 10 (2.76%) Data Lake
14 9 (2.49%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (2.49%) SQL Server
15 8 (2.21%) NoSQL
16 7 (1.93%) Metadata
17 6 (1.66%) BusinessObjects
17 6 (1.66%) Pentaho
18 5 (1.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 130 (35.91%) Jenkins
2 117 (32.32%) GitLab
3 93 (25.69%) Git
4 67 (18.51%) JIRA
5 28 (7.73%) JUnit
6 27 (7.46%) Mockito
7 26 (7.18%) Bitbucket
8 23 (6.35%) Maven
9 19 (5.25%) SonarQube
10 14 (3.87%) DbUnit
11 13 (3.59%) jMock
12 11 (3.04%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (2.21%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.93%) Artifactory
14 7 (1.93%) Postman
15 6 (1.66%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.38%) Cypress.io
16 5 (1.38%) Gatling
17 4 (1.10%) Gradle
17 4 (1.10%) Jaeger
General
1 98 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 87 (24.03%) Public Sector
3 42 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.50%) Finance
5 24 (6.63%) Banking
6 14 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.93%) Law
9 6 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.10%) Back Office
11 3 (0.83%) Front Office
11 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Legal
11 3 (0.83%) Military
11 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Publishing
12 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.55%) Police
12 2 (0.55%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Games
Job Titles
1 84 (23.20%) AWS Engineer
2 58 (16.02%) Developer
3 53 (14.64%) Senior
4 49 (13.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (10.22%) Architect
6 36 (9.94%) AWS DevOps
6 36 (9.94%) Data Engineer
7 31 (8.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (8.29%) Lead
9 29 (8.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 29 (8.01%) Java Developer
10 20 (5.52%) Scrum Master
10 20 (5.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 19 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.97%) AWS Architect
13 17 (4.70%) Lead DevOps
13 17 (4.70%) Site Engineer
14 16 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (4.42%) Senior Developer
15 14 (3.87%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (14.64%) RESTful
2 50 (13.81%) Spring
3 49 (13.54%) REST
4 46 (12.71%) Spring Boot
5 44 (12.15%) Kafka
6 42 (11.60%) Node.js
7 34 (9.39%) AWS CDK
8 31 (8.56%) SOAP
9 26 (7.18%) Web Services
10 24 (6.63%) PySpark
11 23 (6.35%) AngularJS
12 20 (5.52%) ActiveMQ
13 18 (4.97%) Hibernate
13 18 (4.97%) JPA
13 18 (4.97%) Spring Batch
13 18 (4.97%) Spring Integration
14 16 (4.42%) OpenTelemetry
14 16 (4.42%) Spring Cloud
15 13 (3.59%) OAuth
15 13 (3.59%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 114 (31.49%) Cloud Native
2 46 (12.71%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.39%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.76%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.76%) Replication
5 9 (2.49%) IVR
5 9 (2.49%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.21%) Mainframe
6 8 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.93%) CMDB
8 6 (1.66%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.66%) DataPower
8 6 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.66%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.83%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.30%) Linux
2 22 (6.08%) Windows
3 16 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.21%) zOS
5 7 (1.93%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.38%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.38%) Unix
7 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (75.69%) CI/CD
2 205 (56.63%) DevOps
3 189 (52.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 162 (44.75%) Agile
5 119 (32.87%) Observability
6 105 (29.01%) Containerisation
7 87 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (23.76%) Microservices
9 74 (20.44%) Platform Engineering
10 71 (19.61%) Test Automation
11 65 (17.96%) Scrum
12 56 (15.47%) AI
13 55 (15.19%) Migration
14 53 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
15 49 (13.54%) Root Cause Analysis
16 48 (13.26%) Data Modelling
16 48 (13.26%) Data Pipeline
17 47 (12.98%) Analytics
18 46 (12.71%) Event-Driven
19 44 (12.15%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 179 (49.45%) Python
2 93 (25.69%) SQL
3 77 (21.27%) Java
4 76 (20.99%) Bash
5 37 (10.22%) PowerShell
6 27 (7.46%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.80%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.31%) Scala
8 12 (3.31%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.49%) Groovy
10 8 (2.21%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.66%) Go
11 6 (1.66%) JCL
12 5 (1.38%) Perl
13 4 (1.10%) Bicep
13 4 (1.10%) C#
14 2 (0.55%) C
14 2 (0.55%) Korn
14 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.28%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 165 (45.58%) Security Cleared
2 148 (40.88%) SC Cleared
3 53 (14.64%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (5.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (4.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (3.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.04%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.04%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.66%) Degree
9 6 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.83%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.28%) CISSP
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PMP
13 1 (0.28%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.12%) QA
2 32 (8.84%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.49%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.49%) SLA
4 7 (1.93%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.66%) GDPR
5 6 (1.66%) PMO
6 5 (1.38%) WCAG
7 4 (1.10%) GRC
7 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.83%) NCSC
9 2 (0.55%) NIST
10 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.28%) HL7
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 138 (38.12%) Docker
2 11 (3.04%) Postfix
3 9 (2.49%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.21%) Squid
5 7 (1.93%) IAG
6 1 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.28%) QEMU
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 212 (58.56%) Terraform
2 127 (35.08%) Grafana
3 117 (32.32%) Kubernetes
4 96 (26.52%) Prometheus
5 50 (13.81%) Ansible
6 10 (2.76%) Istio
6 10 (2.76%) Puppet
7 8 (2.21%) Packer
8 5 (1.38%) Argo
9 4 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.10%) Suricata
10 3 (0.83%) Kibana
10 3 (0.83%) Rancher
11 2 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.28%) Control-M
12 1 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.28%) linkerd
12 1 (0.28%) yum
12 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (8.29%) Dynatrace
2 27 (7.46%) ServiceNow
3 24 (6.63%) Splunk
4 19 (5.25%) Informatica
5 17 (4.70%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (3.87%) Atlassian
7 13 (3.59%) Microsoft
8 10 (2.76%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.21%) Oracle
10 7 (1.93%) Confluent
10 7 (1.93%) Cribl.io
10 7 (1.93%) Databricks
10 7 (1.93%) Nexthink
11 6 (1.66%) Denodo
11 6 (1.66%) New Relic
11 6 (1.66%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.38%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.10%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.10%) Google
13 4 (1.10%) Trend Micro