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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 357 428
Rank change year-on-year +44 +71 -6
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 308 181 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.81% 0.57% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 1.56% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 139 133
10th Percentile £384 £400 £413
25th Percentile £419 £457 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £613 £595 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%

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 14,381 11,627 14,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 36.67% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,922 7,739 10,418
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
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 £726 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 173 287
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.58 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.27 £17.61
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +4.33%
75th Percentile £58.33 £43.75 £51.79
90th Percentile £79.25 £68.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% +26.19% +10.06%

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 22 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 22 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 +35 230 £525 -0.19% 153
London +28 134 £525 -0.19% 22
UK excluding London -17 116 £525 - 148
Work from Home +3 86 £575 +9.94% 106
North of England -39 50 £525 -11.02% 27
Midlands -35 23 £475 +11.76% 15
Yorkshire -37 22 £521 -28.10% 15
North West -23 20 £435 -11.22% 8
West Midlands -28 20 £475 -2.56% 6
Scotland 0 17 £525 +5.63% 5
South West -4 11 £700 +27.27% 16
North East -10 8 £575 -2.54% 4
East of England - 8 £550 - 29
South East -27 7 £650 - 45
East Midlands -24 3 £375 -6.25% 8
Wales - 3 £500 - 10

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 22 (7.14%) Confluence
2 9 (2.92%) nginx
3 8 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.62%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 303 (98.38%) AWS
2 191 (62.01%) Amazon S3
3 189 (61.36%) Serverless
4 184 (59.74%) AWS Lambda
5 129 (41.88%) Amazon EC2
6 122 (39.61%) Amazon ECS
7 107 (34.74%) GitHub
8 101 (32.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 100 (32.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 91 (29.55%) Amazon EKS
11 86 (27.92%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (18.51%) Azure
13 41 (13.31%) Route 53
14 40 (12.99%) Amazon ELB
15 33 (10.71%) AWS Fargate
16 32 (10.39%) Datadog
17 30 (9.74%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (7.79%) AWS CodePipeline
19 22 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
20 21 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 55 (17.86%) DNS
2 53 (17.21%) Firewall
3 30 (9.74%) VPN
4 22 (7.14%) SSL
4 22 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 18 (5.84%) HTTP
5 18 (5.84%) Network Security
6 14 (4.55%) FTP
6 14 (4.55%) SMTP
6 14 (4.55%) SSH
7 9 (2.92%) IMAP
7 9 (2.92%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.97%) WAN
9 2 (0.65%) BGP
9 2 (0.65%) OSPF
9 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.32%) DHCP
10 1 (0.32%) LAN
10 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (32.79%) Amazon RDS
2 66 (21.43%) DynamoDB
3 35 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (10.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 26 (8.44%) MySQL
6 22 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (5.84%) NoSQL
8 17 (5.52%) Relational Database
9 13 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (4.22%) MongoDB
10 12 (3.90%) Redis
11 10 (3.25%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.62%) Big Data
12 5 (1.62%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.62%) DB2
12 5 (1.62%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.97%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (0.97%) Metadata
14 3 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 137 (44.48%) Jenkins
2 122 (39.61%) GitLab
3 77 (25.00%) Git
4 25 (8.12%) JIRA
5 14 (4.55%) Vagrant
6 11 (3.57%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.60%) Maven
8 7 (2.27%) JUnit
9 5 (1.62%) Gradle
9 5 (1.62%) Postman
9 5 (1.62%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.30%) Mocha
10 4 (1.30%) NUnit
10 4 (1.30%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.97%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.97%) Gatling
12 2 (0.65%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.65%) Snyk
General
1 77 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 67 (21.75%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.47%) Finance
4 15 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.25%) Banking
7 6 (1.95%) Military
8 4 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.97%) Front Office
9 3 (0.97%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Games
11 1 (0.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 101 (32.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 83 (26.95%) AWS Engineer
3 54 (17.53%) AWS DevOps
4 51 (16.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 46 (14.94%) Senior
6 44 (14.29%) Architect
7 31 (10.06%) Developer
7 31 (10.06%) Platform Engineer
8 27 (8.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 22 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 19 (6.17%) AWS Architect
10 19 (6.17%) Lead
11 18 (5.84%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (5.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 16 (5.19%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.57%) Consultant
15 11 (3.57%) Data Engineer
16 9 (2.92%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.61%) Kafka
2 40 (12.99%) Node.js
3 34 (11.04%) Elastic Stack
4 29 (9.42%) REST
5 25 (8.12%) AWS CDK
6 23 (7.47%) JWT
6 23 (7.47%) OAuth
6 23 (7.47%) React
7 21 (6.82%) Spring Boot
8 19 (6.17%) RESTful
9 16 (5.19%) Spring
10 10 (3.25%) .NET
10 10 (3.25%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.25%) LDAP
11 9 (2.92%) Lambda Expressions
11 9 (2.92%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.60%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.60%) boto
12 8 (2.60%) PySpark
13 7 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 59 (19.16%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.42%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.84%) Replication
4 9 (2.92%) NHS
5 8 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.95%) IVR
6 6 (1.95%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.62%) DataPower
7 5 (1.62%) N-Tier
7 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (19.16%) Linux
2 21 (6.82%) Windows
3 17 (5.52%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (4.87%) VMS
5 11 (3.57%) Unix
6 9 (2.92%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.32%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (70.45%) CI/CD
2 189 (61.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 187 (60.71%) DevOps
4 98 (31.82%) Containerisation
5 86 (27.92%) Observability
6 79 (25.65%) Agile
7 72 (23.38%) Microservices
8 49 (15.91%) Event-Driven
9 47 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (14.94%) High Availability
10 46 (14.94%) Incident Response
10 46 (14.94%) Migration
11 44 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
12 42 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (13.31%) Infrastructure Automation
13 41 (13.31%) Performance Tuning
14 38 (12.34%) Test Automation
15 37 (12.01%) Cloud Security
15 37 (12.01%) Mentoring
16 35 (11.36%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 177 (57.47%) Python
2 73 (23.70%) Bash
3 56 (18.18%) Java
4 43 (13.96%) SQL
5 29 (9.42%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.47%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 17 (5.52%) JavaScript
9 16 (5.19%) Groovy
10 11 (3.57%) Go
11 8 (2.60%) C#
12 7 (2.27%) Perl
13 3 (0.97%) Bicep
13 3 (0.97%) Korn
13 3 (0.97%) Scala
14 2 (0.65%) PHP
15 1 (0.32%) C
15 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.32%) R
15 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (39.61%) Security Cleared
2 99 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 44 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.52%) Degree
5 16 (5.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.49%) QA
2 18 (5.84%) GDPR
3 17 (5.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.60%) NIST
6 7 (2.27%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.95%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.97%) NCSC
8 3 (0.97%) PMO
8 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.65%) SLA
9 2 (0.65%) WCAG
10 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 165 (53.57%) Docker
2 14 (4.55%) DFS Replication
3 9 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.92%) Dovecot
3 9 (2.92%) Postfix
3 9 (2.92%) Squid
4 2 (0.65%) Snort
5 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 233 (75.65%) Terraform
2 122 (39.61%) Kubernetes
3 92 (29.87%) Grafana
4 87 (28.25%) Prometheus
5 59 (19.16%) Ansible
6 9 (2.92%) Nessus
6 9 (2.92%) Progress Chef
6 9 (2.92%) Proxmox
6 9 (2.92%) Puppet
7 8 (2.60%) Kibana
8 7 (2.27%) Argo
8 7 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (1.62%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.97%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.97%) Packer
11 2 (0.65%) logstash
11 2 (0.65%) Nagios
11 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (8.12%) F5
1 25 (8.12%) Splunk
2 23 (7.47%) CheckPoint
2 23 (7.47%) Palo Alto
3 19 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 18 (5.84%) Dynatrace
5 15 (4.87%) Microsoft
6 9 (2.92%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.27%) Cisco
7 7 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.95%) Databricks
8 6 (1.95%) IBM
9 5 (1.62%) Avaya
9 5 (1.62%) AVEVA
9 5 (1.62%) Dell
9 5 (1.62%) Genesys
9 5 (1.62%) Gigya
9 5 (1.62%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.30%) New Relic
10 4 (1.30%) Sybase