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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 359 412
Rank change year-on-year +45 +53 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 315 172 171
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.57% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 1.51% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 136 144
10th Percentile £375 £402 £405
25th Percentile £410 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.94
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 15,488 11,383 14,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.80% 37.68% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,641 7,699 10,509
10th Percentile £311 £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 £632 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -3.26% -1.80% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 178 338
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.60 £14.09
25th Percentile £20.31 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +27.91% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.12 £76.01 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £19.12
% change year-on-year +76.53% +26.46% -8.95%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +16 231 £525 -0.10% 63
London +15 135 £525 - 32
UK excluding London -6 117 £523 -0.48% 39
Work from Home +9 93 £540 +2.76% 34
North of England -45 43 £525 -15.32% 15
Midlands -41 28 £475 +6.26% 8
West Midlands -38 25 £500 - 8
Scotland +14 22 £483 -3.50%
Yorkshire -41 22 £518 -28.62% 6
North West -26 13 £525 +5.05% 9
South West -11 10 £700 +19.15% 2
South East -25 10 £390 -32.17% 13
North East -12 8 £575 -2.54%
East of England - 4 £600 - 1
East Midlands -30 3 £375 -6.25%
Wales - 3 £500 -

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 21 (6.67%) Confluence
2 11 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.90%) Apache
5 3 (0.95%) nginx
5 3 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 311 (98.73%) AWS
2 199 (63.17%) Serverless
3 196 (62.22%) Amazon S3
4 193 (61.27%) AWS Lambda
5 137 (43.49%) Amazon EC2
6 127 (40.32%) Amazon ECS
7 113 (35.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 108 (34.29%) GitHub
9 104 (33.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 100 (31.75%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (28.89%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (18.41%) Azure
13 40 (12.70%) Route 53
14 37 (11.75%) Amazon SQS
15 30 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
15 30 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
16 28 (8.89%) AWS Fargate
17 26 (8.25%) AWS KMS
17 26 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
18 25 (7.94%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.06%) DNS
2 34 (10.79%) Firewall
3 21 (6.67%) VPN
4 13 (4.13%) Network Security
4 13 (4.13%) SSL
4 13 (4.13%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.17%) HTTP
6 4 (1.27%) FTP
6 4 (1.27%) SMTP
6 4 (1.27%) SSH
7 3 (0.95%) IMAP
7 3 (0.95%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.95%) WAN
8 2 (0.63%) BGP
8 2 (0.63%) OSPF
8 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.32%) DHCP
9 1 (0.32%) LAN
9 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (33.97%) Amazon RDS
2 73 (23.17%) DynamoDB
3 35 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (9.21%) Amazon Aurora
5 21 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (6.67%) MySQL
6 15 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (4.44%) MongoDB
8 13 (4.13%) NoSQL
8 13 (4.13%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.86%) Redis
10 7 (2.22%) DB2
10 7 (2.22%) Power BI
10 7 (2.22%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.22%) Tableau
11 6 (1.90%) Big Data
12 5 (1.59%) DocumentDB
12 5 (1.59%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 123 (39.05%) Jenkins
2 112 (35.56%) GitLab
3 70 (22.22%) Git
4 25 (7.94%) JIRA
5 16 (5.08%) JUnit
6 15 (4.76%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.81%) Maven
8 9 (2.86%) Mockito
9 8 (2.54%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.90%) DbUnit
10 6 (1.90%) jMock
11 5 (1.59%) Mocha
12 4 (1.27%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.27%) NUnit
12 4 (1.27%) Postman
12 4 (1.27%) Terragrunt
12 4 (1.27%) Vagrant
13 3 (0.95%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.95%) Gatling
13 3 (0.95%) Snyk
General
1 85 (26.98%) Public Sector
2 63 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 28 (8.89%) Finance
4 22 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.86%) Banking
7 6 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.59%) Military
9 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.95%) Police
10 2 (0.63%) Front Office
10 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Games
11 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Law
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 81 (25.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 78 (24.76%) AWS Engineer
3 46 (14.60%) Developer
4 45 (14.29%) Architect
4 45 (14.29%) Senior
5 43 (13.65%) AWS DevOps
6 40 (12.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 23 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
8 21 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 20 (6.35%) AWS Architect
9 20 (6.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.71%) Java Developer
10 18 (5.71%) Lead
10 18 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
10 18 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.40%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (4.76%) Data Engineer
13 13 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
15 11 (3.49%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.92%) Node.js
2 44 (13.97%) Kafka
3 40 (12.70%) REST
4 35 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
5 31 (9.84%) OAuth
6 30 (9.52%) AWS CDK
7 26 (8.25%) Spring
7 26 (8.25%) Spring Boot
8 22 (6.98%) JWT
9 20 (6.35%) RESTful
10 19 (6.03%) React
11 15 (4.76%) AngularJS
12 14 (4.44%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (4.44%) OAuth2
13 12 (3.81%) Hibernate
13 12 (3.81%) JPA
13 12 (3.81%) Spring Cloud
14 11 (3.49%) .NET
14 11 (3.49%) PySpark
14 11 (3.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 65 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 40 (12.70%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.49%) Replication
4 10 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 9 (2.86%) NHS
6 7 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.22%) Mainframe
7 6 (1.90%) IVR
7 6 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.59%) DataPower
8 5 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.95%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 59 (18.73%) Linux
2 16 (5.08%) Windows
3 8 (2.54%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (2.54%) Unix
4 6 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.59%) VMS
6 4 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.63%) zOS
8 1 (0.32%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (69.84%) CI/CD
2 190 (60.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 168 (53.33%) DevOps
4 107 (33.97%) Containerisation
5 95 (30.16%) Agile
6 91 (28.89%) Observability
7 83 (26.35%) Microservices
8 60 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (17.14%) Migration
10 46 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (13.65%) Incident Response
11 43 (13.65%) Platform Engineering
12 42 (13.33%) Event-Driven
12 42 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
13 41 (13.02%) High Availability
13 41 (13.02%) Test Automation
14 38 (12.06%) Cost Optimisation
14 38 (12.06%) Infrastructure Automation
15 37 (11.75%) Analytics
16 33 (10.48%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 165 (52.38%) Python
2 64 (20.32%) Bash
3 61 (19.37%) Java
4 53 (16.83%) SQL
5 24 (7.62%) PowerShell
6 22 (6.98%) Shell Script
7 18 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.40%) JavaScript
9 14 (4.44%) Go
10 8 (2.54%) C#
11 6 (1.90%) Groovy
12 5 (1.59%) Bicep
12 5 (1.59%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.27%) Scala
14 3 (0.95%) Korn
15 2 (0.63%) PHP
15 2 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.32%) R
16 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (41.59%) Security Cleared
2 107 (33.97%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.97%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.81%) Degree
7 11 (3.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.54%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.22%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.35%) QA
2 19 (6.03%) GDPR
3 17 (5.40%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (3.17%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.86%) NIST
7 8 (2.54%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.90%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.90%) PMO
9 4 (1.27%) SLA
10 3 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.95%) GRC
10 3 (0.95%) NCSC
10 3 (0.95%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.63%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.63%) WCAG
12 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 150 (47.62%) Docker
2 8 (2.54%) Postfix
3 5 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.27%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.95%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.95%) Squid
6 1 (0.32%) Snort
Systems Management
1 208 (66.03%) Terraform
2 105 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 94 (29.84%) Grafana
4 77 (24.44%) Prometheus
5 44 (13.97%) Ansible
6 9 (2.86%) Argo
7 8 (2.54%) Kibana
8 7 (2.22%) Puppet
9 6 (1.90%) Istio
9 6 (1.90%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.59%) Dell DRAC
10 5 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.95%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.95%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.95%) Nessus
11 3 (0.95%) Packer
11 3 (0.95%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.63%) linkerd
12 2 (0.63%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 26 (8.25%) Splunk
2 19 (6.03%) ServiceNow
3 17 (5.40%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.76%) F5
5 14 (4.44%) CheckPoint
5 14 (4.44%) Palo Alto
6 12 (3.81%) Dynatrace
7 11 (3.49%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (2.54%) Databricks
9 7 (2.22%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.22%) IBM
10 6 (1.90%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.90%) Cisco
10 6 (1.90%) New Relic
11 5 (1.59%) Avaya
11 5 (1.59%) Dell
11 5 (1.59%) Genesys
11 5 (1.59%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.59%) Sybase
12 4 (1.27%) Salesforce