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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 357 411
Rank change year-on-year +5 +54 -9
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 295 173 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.59% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.57% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 128 135
10th Percentile £355 £361 £405
25th Percentile £409 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% -0.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £591
90th Percentile £674 £738 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.67% -4.55% -4.35%
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 16,967 11,008 14,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 37.62% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,527 7,641 9,994
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £632
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.32% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 250 346
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.02
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.58 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.72
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.11% -28.03%

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 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 15 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 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 -10 229 £500 -2.44% 41
London +21 143 £506 -0.74% 25
UK excluding London -47 110 £469 -10.67% 19
Work from Home -14 90 £472 -10.10% 21
West Midlands -40 35 £472 -5.60% 2
Midlands -57 35 £472 -8.97% 2
Scotland +9 24 £440 -16.19% 1
North of England -70 22 £500 -6.89% 8
South East -48 13 £392 -31.91% 5
North West -44 9 £550 +40.66% 6
East of England -20 8 £500 - 1
South West -25 8 £700 +19.15% 2
Yorkshire -51 8 £500 -31.03% 1
North East -21 5 £466 -24.84% 1
Wales - 1 £500 -

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 32 (10.85%) Confluence
2 20 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.05%) Apache
5 6 (2.03%) SAS
6 4 (1.36%) CICS
6 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 292 (98.98%) AWS
2 182 (61.69%) Serverless
3 177 (60.00%) Amazon S3
4 176 (59.66%) AWS Lambda
5 115 (38.98%) Amazon EC2
6 103 (34.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 103 (34.92%) GitHub
7 101 (34.24%) Amazon ECS
8 92 (31.19%) Amazon EKS
9 86 (29.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 84 (28.47%) GitHub Actions
11 56 (18.98%) Azure
12 45 (15.25%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (12.54%) AWS CodePipeline
14 33 (11.19%) AWS KMS
15 32 (10.85%) Route 53
16 31 (10.51%) Amazon Kinesis
17 22 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
17 22 (7.46%) Datadog
18 20 (6.78%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.12%) DNS
2 14 (4.75%) Firewall
3 7 (2.37%) HTTP
4 5 (1.69%) SNMP
4 5 (1.69%) VPN
5 3 (1.02%) Network Security
5 3 (1.02%) WAN
6 2 (0.68%) BGP
6 2 (0.68%) OSPF
6 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.68%) SSL
6 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.34%) CTI
7 1 (0.34%) DHCP
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (29.49%) Amazon RDS
2 77 (26.10%) DynamoDB
3 40 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (12.54%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (11.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 29 (9.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (6.44%) Tableau
8 17 (5.76%) Power BI
9 13 (4.41%) MongoDB
10 12 (4.07%) MySQL
11 11 (3.73%) NoSQL
12 10 (3.39%) Relational Database
13 9 (3.05%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (2.71%) Data Lake
14 8 (2.71%) DB2
14 8 (2.71%) SQL Server
15 7 (2.37%) Redis
16 6 (2.03%) Big Data
16 6 (2.03%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 101 (34.24%) Jenkins
2 97 (32.88%) GitLab
3 57 (19.32%) Git
4 40 (13.56%) JIRA
5 19 (6.44%) JUnit
6 18 (6.10%) Maven
7 17 (5.76%) Mockito
8 16 (5.42%) SonarQube
9 14 (4.75%) Bitbucket
10 11 (3.73%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.73%) jMock
11 9 (3.05%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.03%) Postman
13 5 (1.69%) MLflow
14 4 (1.36%) Gradle
14 4 (1.36%) Jaeger
14 4 (1.36%) NUnit
14 4 (1.36%) Terragrunt
15 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
15 3 (1.02%) Mocha
General
1 81 (27.46%) Public Sector
2 73 (24.75%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.53%) Finance
4 29 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (3.73%) Banking
7 8 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Police
9 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.68%) Military
9 2 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.34%) Billing
10 1 (0.34%) Front Office
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
Job Titles
1 68 (23.05%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (16.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 48 (16.27%) Developer
4 39 (13.22%) Architect
5 38 (12.88%) Senior
6 33 (11.19%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (9.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.80%) Java Developer
9 22 (7.46%) Data Engineer
10 19 (6.44%) AWS Architect
10 19 (6.44%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (6.10%) Lead
12 14 (4.75%) Analyst
12 14 (4.75%) Senior Developer
13 12 (4.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (4.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (4.07%) Technical Manager
14 11 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (3.73%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.93%) Node.js
2 42 (14.24%) REST
3 40 (13.56%) Kafka
4 37 (12.54%) AWS CDK
5 34 (11.53%) Spring
5 34 (11.53%) Spring Boot
6 32 (10.85%) RESTful
7 23 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
7 23 (7.80%) OAuth
8 22 (7.46%) OpenTelemetry
9 21 (7.12%) SOAP
9 21 (7.12%) Web Services
10 19 (6.44%) AngularJS
11 18 (6.10%) Hibernate
11 18 (6.10%) JPA
11 18 (6.10%) Spring Cloud
12 15 (5.08%) JWT
13 14 (4.75%) ActiveMQ
13 14 (4.75%) Spring Batch
13 14 (4.75%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 81 (27.46%) Cloud Native
2 45 (15.25%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.05%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.05%) Mainframe
4 9 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.71%) NHS
5 8 (2.71%) Replication
6 7 (2.37%) DataPower
6 7 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.37%) IVR
7 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.36%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.36%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.02%) PACS
9 3 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.34%) Linux
2 13 (4.41%) Windows
3 7 (2.37%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (2.37%) Unix
4 6 (2.03%) zOS
5 4 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) Debian
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (69.83%) CI/CD
2 159 (53.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 150 (50.85%) DevOps
4 110 (37.29%) Agile
5 103 (34.92%) Observability
6 96 (32.54%) Containerisation
7 75 (25.42%) Microservices
8 71 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (20.34%) Test Automation
10 51 (17.29%) Migration
11 50 (16.95%) Scrum
12 49 (16.61%) Platform Engineering
13 48 (16.27%) Performance Tuning
14 44 (14.92%) Analytics
14 44 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (12.54%) Event-Driven
16 36 (12.20%) ETL
17 35 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 34 (11.53%) Data Modelling
19 32 (10.85%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 143 (48.47%) Python
2 72 (24.41%) SQL
3 64 (21.69%) Java
4 53 (17.97%) Bash
5 24 (8.14%) PowerShell
5 24 (8.14%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.46%) Shell Script
7 19 (6.44%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.73%) Go
8 11 (3.73%) Scala
9 8 (2.71%) C#
10 5 (1.69%) Bicep
10 5 (1.69%) Groovy
10 5 (1.69%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.36%) JCL
12 3 (1.02%) Perl
13 2 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.34%) COBOL
14 1 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 138 (46.78%) Security Cleared
2 118 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.53%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (3.05%) Degree
7 8 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.37%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (2.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.36%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.36%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.80%) QA
2 18 (6.10%) PCI DSS
3 15 (5.08%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.75%) GDPR
4 14 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.05%) NIST
5 9 (3.05%) PMO
6 7 (2.37%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.37%) SLA
7 5 (1.69%) GRC
8 4 (1.36%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.36%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (1.02%) NCSC
10 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.68%) WCAG
11 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 132 (44.75%) Docker
2 10 (3.39%) Postfix
3 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) IAG
4 1 (0.34%) KVM
4 1 (0.34%) QEMU
4 1 (0.34%) Squid
Systems Management
1 186 (63.05%) Terraform
2 106 (35.93%) Grafana
3 92 (31.19%) Kubernetes
4 84 (28.47%) Prometheus
5 28 (9.49%) Ansible
6 8 (2.71%) Istio
7 7 (2.37%) Puppet
8 6 (2.03%) Kibana
8 6 (2.03%) Packer
9 5 (1.69%) Argo
10 4 (1.36%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.02%) Karpenter
11 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.02%) Rancher
11 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.68%) linkerd
12 2 (0.68%) logstash
12 2 (0.68%) Nagios
12 2 (0.68%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 27 (9.15%) Splunk
2 18 (6.10%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.42%) Dynatrace
4 14 (4.75%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (4.75%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.73%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.71%) Databricks
7 7 (2.37%) Informatica
8 6 (2.03%) AVEVA
8 6 (2.03%) Cisco
8 6 (2.03%) Cribl.io
8 6 (2.03%) Denodo
8 6 (2.03%) New Relic
8 6 (2.03%) Oracle
9 5 (1.69%) Avaya
9 5 (1.69%) Genesys
9 5 (1.69%) IBM
10 4 (1.36%) Dell
10 4 (1.36%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.36%) Salesforce