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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 324 413
Rank change year-on-year -10 +89 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 369 243 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 0.74% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% 1.99% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 173 105
10th Percentile £381 £358 £413
25th Percentile £425 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £584 £555 £600
90th Percentile £669 £638 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.95% - -11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £72.66 - £71.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.66 - £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 18,790 12,183 13,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 37.17% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,435 8,132 9,072
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 321 247
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.57
Median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.15%
75th Percentile £69.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.42
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.88% -15.52%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -31 292 £500 +1.01% 40
London -1 174 £534 +4.66% 14
Work from Home -20 141 £475 -5.00% 22
UK excluding London -64 139 £466 -1.95% 32
Midlands -43 42 £463 -2.63% 4
West Midlands -46 39 £466 -1.95% 3
North of England -72 37 £475 +18.75% 10
South East -45 24 £480 -10.70% 12
Scotland -13 18 £485 -3.00% 3
North East -20 18 £425 - 3
North West -48 13 £575 +43.75% 3
East of England -16 10 £500 -
Yorkshire -47 6 £638 +34.21% 4
South West -48 5 £350 -32.69% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
East Midlands -18 2 £392 -27.09% 1
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 44 (11.92%) Confluence
2 23 (6.23%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.34%) Apache
4 13 (3.52%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.17%) SAS
6 7 (1.90%) Jupyter
7 6 (1.63%) CICS
8 4 (1.08%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.27%) nginx
9 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Trello
2 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 368 (99.73%) AWS
2 216 (58.54%) Amazon S3
3 214 (57.99%) Serverless
4 211 (57.18%) AWS Lambda
5 146 (39.57%) Amazon EC2
6 122 (33.06%) Amazon EKS
7 112 (30.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 112 (30.35%) GitHub
8 104 (28.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 86 (23.31%) Amazon ECS
10 81 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
11 76 (20.60%) Azure
12 49 (13.28%) AWS KMS
13 42 (11.38%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (10.30%) Datadog
15 36 (9.76%) Amazon Kinesis
16 34 (9.21%) Amazon EMR
16 34 (9.21%) AWS CloudTrail
16 34 (9.21%) Route 53
17 31 (8.40%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.23%) Firewall
2 15 (4.07%) DNS
3 14 (3.79%) Network Security
4 7 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.63%) SNMP
5 6 (1.63%) SSL
6 5 (1.36%) CTI
6 5 (1.36%) HTTP
6 5 (1.36%) WAN
7 3 (0.81%) SMS
7 3 (0.81%) VPN
8 1 (0.27%) BGP
8 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.27%) Internet
8 1 (0.27%) PSTN
8 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.27%) RTP
8 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (28.18%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (21.41%) DynamoDB
3 60 (16.26%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (13.82%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (11.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (8.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (8.40%) MongoDB
8 22 (5.96%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (5.96%) Power BI
9 20 (5.42%) Redis
10 18 (4.88%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.25%) MySQL
11 12 (3.25%) Tableau
12 11 (2.98%) Data Lake
13 10 (2.71%) Db2
13 10 (2.71%) DocumentDB
14 9 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.17%) NoSQL
16 6 (1.63%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.63%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 129 (34.96%) Jenkins
2 125 (33.88%) GitLab
3 81 (21.95%) Git
4 61 (16.53%) JIRA
5 24 (6.50%) Bitbucket
6 21 (5.69%) JUnit
7 20 (5.42%) Mockito
8 15 (4.07%) Maven
9 12 (3.25%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.71%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.17%) DbUnit
11 8 (2.17%) Postman
11 8 (2.17%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.90%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.90%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (1.90%) jMock
13 6 (1.63%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.36%) Gatling
15 4 (1.08%) JMeter
15 4 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 91 (24.66%) Public Sector
3 38 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (10.30%) Finance
4 24 (6.50%) Banking
5 16 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.63%) Law
8 5 (1.36%) Back Office
9 4 (1.08%) Military
10 3 (0.81%) Front Office
10 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.81%) Legal
10 3 (0.81%) Publishing
10 3 (0.81%) Retail
11 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Billing
12 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 81 (21.95%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (16.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 58 (15.72%) Senior
4 47 (12.74%) Developer
5 43 (11.65%) Architect
6 39 (10.57%) AWS DevOps
7 34 (9.21%) Data Engineer
8 32 (8.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 31 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (8.13%) Lead
11 21 (5.69%) AWS Architect
11 21 (5.69%) Scrum Master
12 20 (5.42%) Java Developer
12 20 (5.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 17 (4.61%) Lead DevOps
13 17 (4.61%) Senior Data Engineer
13 17 (4.61%) Site Engineer
14 16 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
15 15 (4.07%) DBA
16 14 (3.79%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (62.06%) Terraform
2 48 (13.01%) RESTful
3 45 (12.20%) REST
3 45 (12.20%) Spring
4 42 (11.38%) Kafka
4 42 (11.38%) Node.js
5 41 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 34 (9.21%) AWS CDK
7 24 (6.50%) SOAP
8 23 (6.23%) PySpark
9 17 (4.61%) Web Services
10 16 (4.34%) AngularJS
11 15 (4.07%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (3.79%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (3.25%) GraphQL
13 12 (3.25%) React
14 11 (2.98%) Hibernate
14 11 (2.98%) JPA
14 11 (2.98%) Spring Batch
14 11 (2.98%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 115 (31.17%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.30%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.21%) Product Ownership
4 21 (5.69%) Replication
5 13 (3.52%) IVR
6 11 (2.98%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.71%) CMDB
8 9 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.44%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.17%) Mainframe
9 8 (2.17%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.63%) DataPower
11 6 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.63%) Online Banking
12 4 (1.08%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.81%) NHS
13 3 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (14.63%) Linux
2 21 (5.69%) Windows
3 16 (4.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.90%) zOS
6 6 (1.63%) Unix
7 4 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.27%) CentOS
8 1 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (76.42%) CI/CD
2 219 (59.35%) DevOps
3 210 (56.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 156 (42.28%) Agile
5 120 (32.52%) Observability
6 102 (27.64%) Containerisation
7 85 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (21.68%) Test Automation
9 77 (20.87%) Microservices
10 74 (20.05%) Platform Engineering
11 63 (17.07%) AI
12 60 (16.26%) Root Cause Analysis
13 58 (15.72%) Scrum
14 53 (14.36%) Data Modelling
15 52 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
16 51 (13.82%) Migration
16 51 (13.82%) Performance Tuning
17 48 (13.01%) Event-Driven
18 46 (12.47%) Analytics
18 46 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 186 (50.41%) Python
2 92 (24.93%) SQL
3 77 (20.87%) Bash
3 77 (20.87%) Java
4 42 (11.38%) PowerShell
5 28 (7.59%) TypeScript
6 26 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.34%) Scala
8 12 (3.25%) Groovy
9 11 (2.98%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.71%) C#
11 7 (1.90%) Perl
12 6 (1.63%) JCL
13 5 (1.36%) Go
14 4 (1.08%) Bicep
14 4 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.54%) C
15 2 (0.54%) Korn
16 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 165 (44.72%) Security Cleared
2 146 (39.57%) SC Cleared
3 65 (17.62%) AWS Certification
4 28 (7.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 23 (6.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (4.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 14 (3.79%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.98%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.63%) Degree
12 4 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.08%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.54%) CISSP
14 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.27%) ISEB
15 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.30%) QA
2 33 (8.94%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.44%) SLA
4 8 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.36%) GDPR
6 5 (1.36%) WCAG
7 4 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.08%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.81%) GRC
8 3 (0.81%) NCSC
8 3 (0.81%) PMO
9 2 (0.54%) HL7
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.27%) NIST
10 1 (0.27%) SEPA
10 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 136 (36.86%) Docker
2 12 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.71%) IAG
4 8 (2.17%) Squid
5 6 (1.63%) Postfix
6 1 (0.27%) KVM
6 1 (0.27%) QEMU
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 126 (34.15%) Kubernetes
2 120 (32.52%) Grafana
3 95 (25.75%) Prometheus
4 60 (16.26%) Ansible
5 10 (2.71%) Packer
5 10 (2.71%) Puppet
6 8 (2.17%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.63%) Istio
7 6 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.36%) Argo
9 4 (1.08%) Suricata
10 3 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.81%) Kibana
11 2 (0.54%) Consul
11 2 (0.54%) Rancher
11 2 (0.54%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.27%) systemd
12 1 (0.27%) yum
Vendors
1 35 (9.49%) Dynatrace
2 24 (6.50%) ServiceNow
3 20 (5.42%) Splunk
4 19 (5.15%) Informatica
5 15 (4.07%) Microsoft
6 11 (2.98%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.71%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (2.71%) Nexthink
7 10 (2.71%) Oracle
8 8 (2.17%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.17%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.90%) Confluent
10 6 (1.63%) Cribl.io
10 6 (1.63%) Denodo
11 5 (1.36%) Databricks
11 5 (1.36%) Google
11 5 (1.36%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.08%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.08%) New Relic
12 4 (1.08%) Trend Micro