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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 301 397
Rank change year-on-year -44 +96 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 384 276 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.85% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 2.27% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 194 103
10th Percentile £385 £375 £401
25th Percentile £440 £450 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £597
90th Percentile £693 £650 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -14.29%
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 18,877 12,179 13,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.69% 37.52% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,526 8,111 8,851
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 297 201
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.65 £52.50 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -34.55% +11.11%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -41 309 £500 - 277
London -9 184 £550 +4.76% 150
UK excluding London -89 146 £473 -4.55% 150
Work from Home -26 142 £500 - 116
Midlands -47 42 £463 -2.63% 26
North of England -67 42 £500 +11.73% 48
West Midlands -54 39 £463 -2.63% 17
South East -40 27 £480 -4.00% 25
North East -19 20 £425 - 10
Scotland -21 16 £520 -0.95% 17
North West -51 13 £613 +48.61% 19
East of England -35 10 £500 -9.09% 10
Yorkshire -42 9 £500 +3.63% 19
South West -48 6 £325 -37.50% 18
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 5
East Midlands -12 2 £392 -27.09% 9
Wales - 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 (12.76%) Confluence
2 19 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (4.43%) Apache
4 12 (3.13%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.08%) SAS
6 7 (1.82%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.04%) CICS
7 4 (1.04%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Trello
2 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 383 (99.74%) AWS
2 228 (59.38%) Serverless
3 227 (59.11%) Amazon S3
4 225 (58.59%) AWS Lambda
5 147 (38.28%) Amazon EC2
6 132 (34.38%) Amazon EKS
7 120 (31.25%) GitHub
8 112 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 111 (28.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 98 (25.52%) Amazon ECS
11 86 (22.40%) GitHub Actions
12 79 (20.57%) Azure
13 51 (13.28%) AWS KMS
14 46 (11.98%) Amazon SQS
15 38 (9.90%) AWS Step Functions
15 38 (9.90%) Datadog
16 37 (9.64%) Amazon Kinesis
17 36 (9.38%) Route 53
18 35 (9.11%) Amazon EventBridge
19 33 (8.59%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.03%) Firewall
2 16 (4.17%) Network Security
3 15 (3.91%) DNS
4 8 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.82%) HTTP
5 7 (1.82%) SSL
6 6 (1.56%) SNMP
7 5 (1.30%) CTI
7 5 (1.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.78%) SMS
8 3 (0.78%) VPN
9 2 (0.52%) FTP
9 2 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.52%) IMAP
9 2 (0.52%) SMTP
9 2 (0.52%) SSH
10 1 (0.26%) BGP
10 1 (0.26%) Internet
10 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (29.17%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (20.57%) DynamoDB
3 65 (16.93%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (13.28%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (11.46%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (8.59%) MongoDB
7 30 (7.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (5.73%) Power BI
9 21 (5.47%) Redis
10 15 (3.91%) SQL Server
11 14 (3.65%) MySQL
12 11 (2.86%) DocumentDB
12 11 (2.86%) Tableau
13 10 (2.60%) Data Lake
13 10 (2.60%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.34%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.08%) Db2
16 6 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 135 (35.16%) Jenkins
2 129 (33.59%) GitLab
3 90 (23.44%) Git
4 66 (17.19%) JIRA
5 24 (6.25%) Bitbucket
6 18 (4.69%) JUnit
7 16 (4.17%) Mockito
8 14 (3.65%) Maven
9 11 (2.86%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.34%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.08%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.82%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.82%) DbUnit
13 6 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.56%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.56%) JMeter
13 6 (1.56%) jMock
14 5 (1.30%) Gatling
14 5 (1.30%) Postman
14 5 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 97 (25.26%) Public Sector
3 42 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.38%) Finance
5 22 (5.73%) Banking
6 18 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.08%) Back Office
8 7 (1.82%) Law
8 7 (1.82%) Military
9 6 (1.56%) Front Office
10 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Legal
12 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Publishing
13 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.52%) Retail
14 1 (0.26%) Billing
14 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (21.09%) AWS Engineer
2 68 (17.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (16.15%) Senior
4 49 (12.76%) Developer
5 44 (11.46%) Architect
6 43 (11.20%) AWS DevOps
7 39 (10.16%) Data Engineer
7 39 (10.16%) Lead
8 35 (9.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 34 (8.85%) Cloud Engineer
10 24 (6.25%) AWS Architect
11 23 (5.99%) Scrum Master
12 21 (5.47%) Senior Data Engineer
13 19 (4.95%) Java Developer
13 19 (4.95%) Lead DevOps
14 16 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
15 15 (3.91%) DBA
15 15 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
16 14 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
16 14 (3.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (61.98%) Terraform
2 51 (13.28%) RESTful
3 45 (11.72%) REST
4 44 (11.46%) Node.js
4 44 (11.46%) Spring
5 40 (10.42%) Kafka
5 40 (10.42%) Spring Boot
6 35 (9.11%) AWS CDK
7 23 (5.99%) PySpark
8 19 (4.95%) SOAP
9 16 (4.17%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.91%) ActiveMQ
10 15 (3.91%) React
11 13 (3.39%) FastAPI
11 13 (3.39%) Web Services
12 12 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (2.86%) GraphQL
13 11 (2.86%) Jest
13 11 (2.86%) Playwright
14 10 (2.60%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 128 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.64%) Product Ownership
3 35 (9.11%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.95%) Replication
5 13 (3.39%) IVR
6 12 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.86%) CMDB
7 11 (2.86%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.08%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.56%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.56%) NHS
11 5 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.04%) DataPower
12 4 (1.04%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.04%) Online Banking
12 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.58%) Linux
2 22 (5.73%) Windows
3 18 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.60%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.82%) Unix
6 6 (1.56%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.30%) zOS
8 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.52%) CentOS
10 1 (0.26%) Android
10 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.26%) Debian
10 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (79.17%) CI/CD
2 242 (63.02%) DevOps
3 234 (60.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 171 (44.53%) Agile
5 131 (34.11%) Observability
6 116 (30.21%) Containerisation
7 97 (25.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (22.14%) Test Automation
9 77 (20.05%) Microservices
10 74 (19.27%) Platform Engineering
11 64 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
12 62 (16.15%) AI
13 61 (15.89%) Scrum
14 57 (14.84%) Data Modelling
15 55 (14.32%) Event-Driven
16 53 (13.80%) Performance Tuning
17 52 (13.54%) Software Engineering
17 52 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
18 51 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
19 47 (12.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 193 (50.26%) Python
2 88 (22.92%) SQL
3 78 (20.31%) Java
4 74 (19.27%) Bash
5 37 (9.64%) PowerShell
6 31 (8.07%) TypeScript
7 28 (7.29%) JavaScript
8 15 (3.91%) Scala
9 14 (3.65%) Groovy
10 11 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.08%) C#
12 7 (1.82%) Bicep
12 7 (1.82%) Perl
13 6 (1.56%) Go
14 4 (1.04%) JCL
14 4 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.52%) C
15 2 (0.52%) Korn
16 1 (0.26%) Ladder Logic
16 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 173 (45.05%) Security Cleared
2 154 (40.10%) SC Cleared
3 72 (18.75%) AWS Certification
4 28 (7.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (4.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (4.43%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.86%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (2.34%) Degree
12 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.04%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.78%) CISSP
14 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
16 1 (0.26%) RHCE
16 1 (0.26%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.24%) QA
2 39 (10.16%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.56%) GDPR
4 6 (1.56%) NCSC
5 5 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.30%) SLA
5 5 (1.30%) WCAG
6 4 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.04%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.52%) HL7
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.52%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) SEPA
8 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 145 (37.76%) Docker
2 15 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.86%) IAG
4 10 (2.60%) Squid
5 7 (1.82%) Postfix
6 2 (0.52%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.52%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.26%) KVM
7 1 (0.26%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 136 (35.42%) Kubernetes
2 121 (31.51%) Grafana
3 94 (24.48%) Prometheus
4 68 (17.71%) Ansible
5 12 (3.13%) Packer
5 12 (3.13%) Puppet
6 11 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.30%) Argo
8 5 (1.30%) Istio
9 4 (1.04%) Suricata
10 3 (0.78%) Consul
10 3 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.78%) Kibana
10 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.52%) Nessus
11 2 (0.52%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.52%) Rancher
12 1 (0.26%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (10.42%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.55%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.99%) Splunk
4 19 (4.95%) Informatica
5 15 (3.91%) Microsoft
6 12 (3.13%) Oracle
6 12 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.86%) Nexthink
8 10 (2.60%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (2.08%) Atlassian
9 8 (2.08%) Confluent
9 8 (2.08%) Google
9 8 (2.08%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.56%) Cribl.io
10 6 (1.56%) Denodo
10 6 (1.56%) PagerDuty
11 5 (1.30%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.30%) New Relic
12 4 (1.04%) Trend Micro
13 3 (0.78%) VMware