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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 355 407
Rank change year-on-year +2 +52 -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 308 169 179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 1.56% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 116 135
10th Percentile £350 £358 £405
25th Percentile £406 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £569 £578 £600
90th Percentile £653 £648 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £500 £537
% change year-on-year -9.00% -6.80% -6.70%
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 17,432 10,854 13,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.64% 37.75% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,707 7,409 9,915
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £635
90th Percentile £700 £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 555 250 348
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.15 £71.38 £67.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 29 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 29 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 -23 246 £490 -2.00% 30
London +19 158 £525 +2.44% 17
UK excluding London -60 111 £455 -9.00% 15
Work from Home +4 102 £475 -9.35% 20
Midlands -38 43 £472 -5.60% 2
West Midlands -39 41 £475 -5.00%
Scotland +2 20 £440 -12.00%
North of England -73 18 £419 +4.69% 5
South East -42 14 £393 -31.65% 5
East of England -27 9 £450 -18.18% 1
North West -37 7 £395 +5.47% 3
North East -23 6 £419 -
South West -28 5 £619 +5.32% 1
Yorkshire -54 5 £456 -8.75% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 -
East Midlands -28 1 £425 -20.86% 2
Wales - 1 £500 - 1

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 (12.01%) Confluence
2 25 (8.12%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (4.22%) Apache
3 13 (4.22%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.95%) CICS
4 6 (1.95%) SAS
5 4 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.97%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.65%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.32%) CMS
8 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 305 (99.03%) AWS
2 183 (59.42%) Amazon S3
3 179 (58.12%) Serverless
4 173 (56.17%) AWS Lambda
5 130 (42.21%) Amazon EC2
6 107 (34.74%) Amazon EKS
7 103 (33.44%) GitHub
8 101 (32.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 101 (32.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 87 (28.25%) Amazon ECS
10 82 (26.62%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (15.91%) Azure
12 48 (15.58%) Amazon SQS
13 41 (13.31%) Route 53
14 40 (12.99%) AWS KMS
15 32 (10.39%) AWS CodePipeline
16 27 (8.77%) Amazon Kinesis
17 25 (8.12%) AWS CloudTrail
18 21 (6.82%) Amazon EMR
19 20 (6.49%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.49%) DNS
2 17 (5.52%) Firewall
3 8 (2.60%) Network Security
4 7 (2.27%) HTTP
5 6 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.62%) SNMP
6 5 (1.62%) VPN
6 5 (1.62%) WAN
7 4 (1.30%) SSL
8 2 (0.65%) BGP
8 2 (0.65%) CTI
8 2 (0.65%) OSPF
8 2 (0.65%) 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 92 (29.87%) Amazon RDS
2 76 (24.68%) DynamoDB
3 50 (16.23%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
5 36 (11.69%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (5.84%) Tableau
8 16 (5.19%) Power BI
9 14 (4.55%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.57%) Redis
11 10 (3.25%) DB2
11 10 (3.25%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.92%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (2.92%) SQL Server
13 8 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (2.27%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.27%) MySQL
15 6 (1.95%) DocumentDB
15 6 (1.95%) Metadata
15 6 (1.95%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 116 (37.66%) Jenkins
2 100 (32.47%) GitLab
3 69 (22.40%) Git
4 47 (15.26%) JIRA
5 24 (7.79%) JUnit
6 22 (7.14%) Maven
6 22 (7.14%) Mockito
7 21 (6.82%) SonarQube
8 18 (5.84%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.55%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.22%) jMock
11 11 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.60%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.60%) Cucumber
13 7 (2.27%) Postman
14 6 (1.95%) Gatling
14 6 (1.95%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.62%) MLflow
16 4 (1.30%) Gradle
16 4 (1.30%) Jaeger
General
1 81 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 77 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 29 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.44%) Finance
5 13 (4.22%) Banking
5 13 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.97%) Legal
8 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.65%) Law
9 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.65%) Military
9 2 (0.65%) Police
9 2 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.32%) Billing
10 1 (0.32%) Front Office
10 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (24.68%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (14.61%) Developer
4 41 (13.31%) Architect
5 39 (12.66%) Senior
6 33 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (9.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 26 (8.44%) AWS Architect
9 25 (8.12%) Java Developer
10 23 (7.47%) Data Engineer
11 20 (6.49%) Lead
12 18 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (5.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 16 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (5.19%) Senior Developer
15 14 (4.55%) Analyst
15 14 (4.55%) Site Engineer
16 12 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
16 12 (3.90%) Scrum Master
16 12 (3.90%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.94%) RESTful
2 44 (14.29%) Kafka
3 40 (12.99%) Node.js
3 40 (12.99%) REST
4 37 (12.01%) Spring
4 37 (12.01%) Spring Boot
5 35 (11.36%) AWS CDK
6 29 (9.42%) SOAP
7 27 (8.77%) Web Services
8 22 (7.14%) Hibernate
8 22 (7.14%) JPA
9 20 (6.49%) OpenTelemetry
9 20 (6.49%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (6.17%) AngularJS
10 19 (6.17%) OAuth
11 18 (5.84%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (5.84%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (5.84%) Spring Batch
11 18 (5.84%) Spring Integration
12 14 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 84 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 41 (13.31%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (7.79%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.60%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.60%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.60%) Replication
6 6 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.95%) DataPower
6 6 (1.95%) Online Banking
7 5 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.62%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.30%) IVR
9 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.97%) PACS
9 3 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (20.13%) Linux
2 15 (4.87%) Windows
3 8 (2.60%) zOS
4 7 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.62%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.30%) Unix
7 3 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.97%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.32%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (73.05%) CI/CD
2 154 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 153 (49.68%) DevOps
4 117 (37.99%) Agile
5 102 (33.12%) Observability
6 94 (30.52%) Containerisation
7 74 (24.03%) Microservices
8 64 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (18.18%) Scrum
9 56 (18.18%) Test Automation
10 53 (17.21%) Platform Engineering
11 47 (15.26%) Migration
12 45 (14.61%) Performance Tuning
13 37 (12.01%) Analytics
13 37 (12.01%) Event-Driven
13 37 (12.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 34 (11.04%) ETL
14 34 (11.04%) Root Cause Analysis
15 33 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 139 (45.13%) Python
2 78 (25.32%) SQL
3 66 (21.43%) Java
4 61 (19.81%) Bash
5 29 (9.42%) PowerShell
6 25 (8.12%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.84%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.84%) Shell Script
8 15 (4.87%) Scala
9 9 (2.92%) Go
10 8 (2.60%) Groovy
11 6 (1.95%) C#
11 6 (1.95%) JCL
12 4 (1.30%) Bicep
12 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.30%) Perl
13 2 (0.65%) C
13 2 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.32%) COBOL
14 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 142 (46.10%) Security Cleared
2 125 (40.58%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.39%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.25%) SAFe Agilist
6 8 (2.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.60%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.27%) Degree
8 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.79%) QA
2 15 (4.87%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.60%) NIST
5 7 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.27%) SLA
6 6 (1.95%) GDPR
6 6 (1.95%) PMO
7 5 (1.62%) GRC
8 4 (1.30%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.97%) NCSC
10 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.65%) WCAG
11 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 123 (39.94%) Docker
2 11 (3.57%) Postfix
3 8 (2.60%) Squid
4 4 (1.30%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.32%) IAG
5 1 (0.32%) KVM
5 1 (0.32%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 185 (60.06%) Terraform
2 122 (39.61%) Grafana
3 100 (32.47%) Kubernetes
4 92 (29.87%) Prometheus
5 33 (10.71%) Ansible
6 11 (3.57%) Puppet
7 9 (2.92%) Istio
8 7 (2.27%) Argo
9 6 (1.95%) Packer
10 4 (1.30%) Kibana
10 4 (1.30%) Suricata
11 3 (0.97%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.97%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.97%) Rancher
12 2 (0.65%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.65%) linkerd
12 2 (0.65%) Nagios
12 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.32%) Podman
13 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (7.14%) Splunk
2 17 (5.52%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (5.19%) Dynatrace
3 16 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 11 (3.57%) Microsoft
6 7 (2.27%) Databricks
6 7 (2.27%) Informatica
6 7 (2.27%) New Relic
7 6 (1.95%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.95%) Cribl.io
7 6 (1.95%) Denodo
7 6 (1.95%) Oracle
8 4 (1.30%) Confluent
8 4 (1.30%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.30%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.30%) Tenable
8 4 (1.30%) Trend Micro
9 3 (0.97%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.97%) Qualys