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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 292 419
Rank change year-on-year -43 +127 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 394 287 153
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.87% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 2.27% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 204 95
10th Percentile £388 £400 £408
25th Percentile £440 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £578 £586
90th Percentile £738 £671 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.55% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.66 - -

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 18,899 12,656 13,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.62% 38.21% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,531 8,445 8,675
10th Percentile £325 £309 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 287 184
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.40 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.71 £18.87 £22.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +47.55%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -51 309 £519 +3.75% 228
London -16 183 £555 +5.71% 125
Work from Home -22 149 £500 -4.17% 102
UK excluding London -66 148 £482 -3.55% 111
North of England -69 49 £500 +1.01% 38
Midlands -53 35 £466 -1.95% 21
South East -41 32 £533 +6.50% 15
West Midlands -55 32 £469 -1.26% 10
North East -25 22 £425 -26.09% 8
Scotland -22 16 £450 -12.20% 10
North West -52 15 £600 +32.60% 17
Yorkshire -39 12 £500 +2.04% 13
South West -26 6 £325 -37.50% 11
East of England -43 6 £488 -11.36% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 £496 - 8
East Midlands -15 2 £392 -19.44% 11
Wales -11 1 £550 - 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 49 (12.44%) Confluence
2 21 (5.33%) Apache
3 17 (4.31%) Apache Spark
4 15 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.03%) Jupyter
5 8 (2.03%) SAS
6 4 (1.02%) nginx
7 3 (0.76%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) Appian
8 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Trello
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) Gliffy
2 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 391 (99.24%) AWS
2 231 (58.63%) Serverless
3 227 (57.61%) AWS Lambda
4 224 (56.85%) Amazon S3
5 153 (38.83%) Amazon EC2
6 149 (37.82%) Amazon EKS
7 125 (31.73%) GitHub
8 123 (31.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 121 (30.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 112 (28.43%) Amazon ECS
11 93 (23.60%) GitHub Actions
12 82 (20.81%) Azure
13 54 (13.71%) Amazon SQS
14 50 (12.69%) AWS KMS
15 43 (10.91%) Amazon EventBridge
16 42 (10.66%) AWS Step Functions
17 38 (9.64%) Amazon EMR
17 38 (9.64%) AWS CloudTrail
17 38 (9.64%) Datadog
18 37 (9.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.60%) Firewall
2 18 (4.57%) Network Security
3 15 (3.81%) DNS
4 7 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.52%) HTTP
5 6 (1.52%) SNMP
5 6 (1.52%) SSL
6 5 (1.27%) WAN
7 4 (1.02%) CTI
7 4 (1.02%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.76%) SMS
8 3 (0.76%) VPN
9 2 (0.51%) FTP
9 2 (0.51%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.51%) IMAP
9 2 (0.51%) SMTP
9 2 (0.51%) SSH
10 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (30.20%) Amazon RDS
2 78 (19.80%) DynamoDB
3 64 (16.24%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (13.20%) Amazon Athena
5 49 (12.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 37 (9.39%) MongoDB
7 31 (7.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (6.09%) Redis
9 22 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (5.08%) Power BI
11 18 (4.57%) SQL Server
12 17 (4.31%) Data Lake
12 17 (4.31%) MySQL
13 13 (3.30%) DocumentDB
14 9 (2.28%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.03%) Electronic Patient Records
16 7 (1.78%) Db2
16 7 (1.78%) NoSQL
17 6 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
17 6 (1.52%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 146 (37.06%) GitLab
2 140 (35.53%) Jenkins
3 91 (23.10%) Git
4 63 (15.99%) JIRA
5 24 (6.09%) Bitbucket
6 18 (4.57%) JUnit
7 15 (3.81%) Mockito
8 14 (3.55%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.54%) Maven
9 10 (2.54%) REST Assured
10 8 (2.03%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.78%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.78%) JMeter
12 6 (1.52%) Postman
12 6 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (1.27%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.27%) DbUnit
14 4 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (1.02%) Gatling
14 4 (1.02%) jMock
General
1 104 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 99 (25.13%) Public Sector
3 38 (9.64%) Finance
4 34 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.58%) Banking
6 21 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.28%) Back Office
8 7 (1.78%) Law
8 7 (1.78%) Military
9 5 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.27%) Front Office
10 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.76%) Legal
11 3 (0.76%) Publishing
12 2 (0.51%) Billing
12 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.51%) Police
12 2 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (22.34%) AWS Engineer
2 85 (21.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 60 (15.23%) Senior
4 49 (12.44%) AWS DevOps
5 48 (12.18%) Developer
6 46 (11.68%) Architect
7 42 (10.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 39 (9.90%) Data Engineer
9 38 (9.64%) Lead
10 33 (8.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (6.85%) AWS Architect
12 21 (5.33%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (5.08%) Lead DevOps
13 20 (5.08%) Scrum Master
14 19 (4.82%) Senior DevOps
14 19 (4.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (4.57%) DBA
16 16 (4.06%) Java Developer
17 15 (3.81%) AWS Data Engineer
18 14 (3.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (63.96%) Terraform
2 47 (11.93%) REST
3 45 (11.42%) RESTful
4 44 (11.17%) Kafka
5 38 (9.64%) Node.js
5 38 (9.64%) Spring
6 34 (8.63%) Spring Boot
7 32 (8.12%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.60%) PySpark
9 17 (4.31%) SOAP
10 16 (4.06%) FastAPI
11 15 (3.81%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (3.55%) React
13 13 (3.30%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.30%) Jest
13 13 (3.30%) Playwright
14 12 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (3.05%) OAuth
15 11 (2.79%) GraphQL
15 11 (2.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 135 (34.26%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.63%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.58%) Replication
5 14 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.05%) IVR
8 11 (2.79%) CMDB
8 11 (2.79%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.03%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.52%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.52%) NHS
11 5 (1.27%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.02%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 62 (15.74%) Linux
2 22 (5.58%) Windows
3 18 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.54%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.03%) Unix
6 6 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.02%) zOS
8 2 (0.51%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (84.26%) CI/CD
2 259 (65.74%) DevOps
3 256 (64.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 170 (43.15%) Agile
5 147 (37.31%) Observability
6 118 (29.95%) Containerisation
7 101 (25.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 89 (22.59%) Test Automation
9 83 (21.07%) Microservices
10 75 (19.04%) Platform Engineering
10 75 (19.04%) Root Cause Analysis
11 65 (16.50%) AI
12 61 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 60 (15.23%) Event-Driven
14 57 (14.47%) Data Modelling
15 56 (14.21%) Software Engineering
16 53 (13.45%) Scrum
17 52 (13.20%) Deployment Automation
18 49 (12.44%) Analytics
18 49 (12.44%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 208 (52.79%) Python
2 82 (20.81%) SQL
3 80 (20.30%) Bash
4 75 (19.04%) Java
5 37 (9.39%) PowerShell
6 28 (7.11%) TypeScript
7 26 (6.60%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.55%) Shell Script
9 13 (3.30%) Groovy
9 13 (3.30%) Scala
10 11 (2.79%) C#
11 10 (2.54%) Go
12 8 (2.03%) Bicep
13 7 (1.78%) Perl
14 4 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.76%) C
15 3 (0.76%) JCL
16 2 (0.51%) Korn
17 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 179 (45.43%) Security Cleared
2 161 (40.86%) SC Cleared
3 84 (21.32%) AWS Certification
4 34 (8.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (6.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.31%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (3.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (2.03%) Degree
10 8 (2.03%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (1.78%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.76%) CISSP
13 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.51%) ISEB
14 2 (0.51%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (11.42%) QA
2 41 (10.41%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.03%) GDPR
4 6 (1.52%) NCSC
4 6 (1.52%) SLA
5 5 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.27%) WCAG
6 4 (1.02%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.51%) HL7
8 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) SEPA
9 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 150 (38.07%) Docker
2 16 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.54%) IAG
4 9 (2.28%) Squid
5 5 (1.27%) Postfix
6 2 (0.51%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.51%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.25%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 145 (36.80%) Kubernetes
2 125 (31.73%) Grafana
3 100 (25.38%) Prometheus
4 72 (18.27%) Ansible
5 14 (3.55%) Puppet
6 13 (3.30%) Packer
6 13 (3.30%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.27%) Argo
8 5 (1.27%) Istio
9 4 (1.02%) Suricata
10 3 (0.76%) Consul
10 3 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.76%) Kibana
10 3 (0.76%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.51%) Nessus
11 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.51%) Rancher
12 1 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.25%) linkerd
Vendors
1 43 (10.91%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.36%) ServiceNow
3 25 (6.35%) Splunk
4 19 (4.82%) Informatica
5 17 (4.31%) Oracle
6 16 (4.06%) Microsoft
7 13 (3.30%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.54%) Google
8 10 (2.54%) Nexthink
9 9 (2.28%) Confluent
10 8 (2.03%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.78%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.78%) Jaspersoft
12 6 (1.52%) Cribl.io
12 6 (1.52%) Denodo
13 5 (1.27%) AppDynamics
13 5 (1.27%) PagerDuty
14 4 (1.02%) Brio
14 4 (1.02%) New Relic
14 4 (1.02%) VMware