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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 369 426
Rank change year-on-year +71 +57 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 326 168 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 0.50% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.31% 1.39% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 126 142
10th Percentile £379 £410 £425
25th Percentile £418 £457 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £600
90th Percentile £691 £738 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.50% -9.09% -11.11%

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 14,111 12,063 14,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.14% 36.23% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,669 8,042 10,715
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
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 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 174 265
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.65 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%
75th Percentile £56.50 £44.90 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +7.35% +15.14% +7.69%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 +54 238 £523 -0.67% 418
London +33 130 £525 -0.19% 66
UK excluding London +15 126 £523 +4.50% 389
Work from Home +24 101 £555 +7.25% 186
North of England -30 53 £509 -13.77% 92
Midlands -20 29 £475 +11.76% 76
West Midlands -4 26 £475 +11.76% 41
Yorkshire -28 24 £509 -29.83% 48
North West -19 21 £430 -12.24% 40
Scotland +7 18 £525 +6.28% 23
South West +7 11 £700 +40.00% 46
East of England - 9 £550 - 56
North East -4 8 £575 -2.54% 4
South East -7 7 £650 - 82
East Midlands -20 3 £375 -11.14% 30
Wales +1 2 - - 11

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 (9.82%) Confluence
2 10 (3.07%) nginx
3 7 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.07%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 321 (98.47%) AWS
2 211 (64.72%) Amazon S3
3 197 (60.43%) Serverless
4 194 (59.51%) AWS Lambda
5 154 (47.24%) Amazon EC2
6 117 (35.89%) GitHub
7 116 (35.58%) Amazon ECS
8 113 (34.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 97 (29.75%) GitHub Actions
10 94 (28.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 84 (25.77%) Amazon EKS
12 58 (17.79%) Azure
13 43 (13.19%) Amazon ELB
14 37 (11.35%) Route 53
15 36 (11.04%) Datadog
16 35 (10.74%) AWS Fargate
17 28 (8.59%) Amazon SQS
18 25 (7.67%) AWS CloudTrail
18 25 (7.67%) AWS CodePipeline
19 23 (7.06%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 56 (17.18%) DNS
2 54 (16.56%) Firewall
3 33 (10.12%) VPN
4 22 (6.75%) SSL
4 22 (6.75%) TCP/IP
5 21 (6.44%) HTTP
6 17 (5.21%) FTP
6 17 (5.21%) SMTP
6 17 (5.21%) SSH
7 16 (4.91%) Network Security
8 15 (4.60%) OpenLDAP
9 10 (3.07%) IMAP
10 6 (1.84%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (1.23%) DHCP
12 1 (0.31%) LAN
12 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (34.05%) Amazon RDS
2 61 (18.71%) DynamoDB
3 34 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (8.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 26 (7.98%) MySQL
6 20 (6.13%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (5.52%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.99%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.68%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (3.37%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.45%) Redis
12 5 (1.53%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.53%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.23%) Big Data
13 4 (1.23%) DB2
13 4 (1.23%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.92%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 140 (42.94%) Jenkins
2 125 (38.34%) GitLab
3 92 (28.22%) Git
4 34 (10.43%) JIRA
5 17 (5.21%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.68%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.45%) Maven
8 5 (1.53%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.53%) Gradle
8 5 (1.53%) JUnit
8 5 (1.53%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.23%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.23%) NUnit
9 4 (1.23%) Postman
9 4 (1.23%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.92%) Mocha
11 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.61%) Gatling
11 2 (0.61%) Hamcrest
General
1 79 (24.23%) Public Sector
2 64 (19.63%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.06%) Finance
4 14 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.07%) Banking
7 6 (1.84%) Military
8 4 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.92%) Front Office
9 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Legal
11 1 (0.31%) Games
11 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 116 (35.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 92 (28.22%) AWS Engineer
3 63 (19.33%) AWS DevOps
4 59 (18.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 51 (15.64%) Senior
6 39 (11.96%) Architect
7 34 (10.43%) Platform Engineer
8 31 (9.51%) Developer
9 30 (9.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (7.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 20 (6.13%) Senior DevOps
12 19 (5.83%) Lead
12 19 (5.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.99%) AWS Architect
15 12 (3.68%) Python Engineer
16 11 (3.37%) Consultant
16 11 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
17 10 (3.07%) Data Engineer
17 10 (3.07%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.96%) Node.js
2 37 (11.35%) Kafka
3 34 (10.43%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (8.59%) REST
5 24 (7.36%) AWS CDK
6 23 (7.06%) React
7 22 (6.75%) JWT
8 18 (5.52%) OAuth
9 17 (5.21%) LDAP
10 16 (4.91%) Spring Boot
11 15 (4.60%) RESTful
12 14 (4.29%) boto
13 11 (3.37%) pytest
13 11 (3.37%) Spring
14 10 (3.07%) .NET
14 10 (3.07%) FastAPI
15 9 (2.76%) AngularJS
15 9 (2.76%) Lambda Expressions
16 7 (2.15%) Pandas
16 7 (2.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (7.06%) Replication
4 10 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.76%) NHS
6 8 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.84%) IVR
7 6 (1.84%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.53%) DataPower
8 5 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.53%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.23%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (19.94%) Linux
2 24 (7.36%) Windows
3 20 (6.13%) Amazon Linux
4 18 (5.52%) VMS
5 11 (3.37%) Unix
6 10 (3.07%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.31%) Android
9 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (69.02%) CI/CD
2 205 (62.88%) DevOps
3 189 (57.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (30.37%) Containerisation
5 85 (26.07%) Observability
6 83 (25.46%) Agile
7 74 (22.70%) Microservices
8 51 (15.64%) Infrastructure Automation
9 50 (15.34%) Migration
10 48 (14.72%) Platform Engineering
11 47 (14.42%) High Availability
11 47 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (13.50%) Cloud Security
12 44 (13.50%) Incident Response
13 43 (13.19%) Event-Driven
14 42 (12.88%) Performance Tuning
15 39 (11.96%) Configuration Management
16 36 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (11.04%) Mentoring
16 36 (11.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 188 (57.67%) Python
2 78 (23.93%) Bash
3 50 (15.34%) Java
4 40 (12.27%) SQL
5 35 (10.74%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.06%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.44%) Shell Script
8 19 (5.83%) Groovy
9 17 (5.21%) Go
9 17 (5.21%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.76%) Perl
11 7 (2.15%) C#
12 3 (0.92%) Korn
12 3 (0.92%) PHP
13 2 (0.61%) Bicep
13 2 (0.61%) Scala
14 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.31%) PromQL
14 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 127 (38.96%) Security Cleared
2 104 (31.90%) SC Cleared
3 43 (13.19%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.52%) Degree
5 17 (5.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (3.68%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.15%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.36%) QA
2 17 (5.21%) GDPR
3 14 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.68%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.15%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.84%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.92%) NCSC
8 3 (0.92%) NIST
8 3 (0.92%) PMO
9 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.61%) SLA
9 2 (0.61%) WCAG
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 163 (50.00%) Docker
2 19 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.21%) DFS Replication
4 10 (3.07%) Dovecot
4 10 (3.07%) Postfix
4 10 (3.07%) Squid
5 2 (0.61%) Snort
6 1 (0.31%) KVM
Systems Management
1 241 (73.93%) Terraform
2 127 (38.96%) Kubernetes
3 99 (30.37%) Grafana
4 91 (27.91%) Prometheus
5 61 (18.71%) Ansible
6 11 (3.37%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.07%) Nessus
7 10 (3.07%) Proxmox
8 9 (2.76%) Puppet
9 8 (2.45%) Argo
9 8 (2.45%) Kibana
10 7 (2.15%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.53%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (1.23%) Packer
13 3 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.92%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.61%) logstash
14 2 (0.61%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (7.98%) Splunk
2 25 (7.67%) Dynatrace
2 25 (7.67%) F5
3 23 (7.06%) CheckPoint
3 23 (7.06%) Palo Alto
4 22 (6.75%) ServiceNow
5 18 (5.52%) Microsoft
6 10 (3.07%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.15%) Cisco
7 7 (2.15%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.84%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.84%) IBM
9 5 (1.53%) Avaya
9 5 (1.53%) Dell
9 5 (1.53%) Genesys
9 5 (1.53%) Gigya
9 5 (1.53%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.23%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.23%) Confluent
10 4 (1.23%) Databricks