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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 357 443
Rank change year-on-year +33 +86 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 299 173 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.56% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 1.50% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 135 141
10th Percentile £377 £402 £406
25th Percentile £417 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

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 14,804 11,512 14,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.90% 37.21% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,180 7,657 10,686
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 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 173 323
10th Percentile £14.36 £16.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.90 £21.46 £16.28
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £49.54
90th Percentile £80.40 £68.75 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £24.83 £20.99
% change year-on-year +47.00% +18.32% +5.72%

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 4 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 4 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 +5 218 £525 - 69
London +18 127 £525 - 30
UK excluding London -6 112 £525 - 52
Work from Home -11 82 £565 +8.03% 30
North of England -34 49 £525 -15.32% 11
Yorkshire -37 21 £521 -28.10% 9
Midlands -42 21 £475 +6.26% 13
North West -18 20 £525 +5.05% 2
Scotland +9 18 £525 +5.00% 4
West Midlands -31 18 £475 -5.00% 10
South West -8 10 £700 +19.15% 5
North East -11 8 £575 -2.54%
South East -20 8 £358 -37.74% 12
East of England - 6 £550 - 5
East Midlands -28 3 £375 -6.25% 3
Wales - 3 £500 - 2

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 18 (6.02%) Confluence
2 11 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.34%) nginx
5 6 (2.01%) Apache
6 2 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 293 (97.99%) AWS
2 191 (63.88%) Serverless
3 185 (61.87%) AWS Lambda
4 177 (59.20%) Amazon S3
5 125 (41.81%) Amazon ECS
6 117 (39.13%) Amazon EC2
7 112 (37.46%) GitHub
8 106 (35.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 99 (33.11%) Amazon EKS
10 93 (31.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 90 (30.10%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (19.40%) Azure
13 40 (13.38%) Route 53
14 33 (11.04%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (11.04%) AWS Fargate
15 31 (10.37%) Datadog
16 28 (9.36%) Amazon ELB
17 25 (8.36%) AWS CodePipeline
18 23 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
19 22 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.05%) DNS
2 41 (13.71%) Firewall
3 22 (7.36%) VPN
4 16 (5.35%) HTTP
5 14 (4.68%) Network Security
5 14 (4.68%) SSL
5 14 (4.68%) TCP/IP
6 10 (3.34%) FTP
6 10 (3.34%) SMTP
6 10 (3.34%) SSH
7 7 (2.34%) IMAP
7 7 (2.34%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (1.00%) WAN
9 2 (0.67%) BGP
9 2 (0.67%) OSPF
9 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.33%) DHCP
10 1 (0.33%) LAN
10 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (32.78%) Amazon RDS
2 65 (21.74%) DynamoDB
3 36 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (10.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 26 (8.70%) MySQL
6 21 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (6.02%) Relational Database
8 17 (5.69%) NoSQL
9 15 (5.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (4.35%) MongoDB
10 13 (4.35%) Redis
11 10 (3.34%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.01%) Big Data
12 6 (2.01%) DB2
13 5 (1.67%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.67%) DocumentDB
14 4 (1.34%) SQL Server
15 3 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
15 3 (1.00%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 128 (42.81%) Jenkins
2 118 (39.46%) GitLab
3 66 (22.07%) Git
4 22 (7.36%) JIRA
5 12 (4.01%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.34%) Vagrant
7 9 (3.01%) Maven
8 7 (2.34%) JUnit
9 6 (2.01%) Gradle
10 5 (1.67%) Mocha
10 5 (1.67%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.34%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.34%) NUnit
11 4 (1.34%) Postman
11 4 (1.34%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.00%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.00%) Gatling
12 3 (1.00%) MLflow
General
1 73 (24.41%) Public Sector
2 61 (20.40%) Social Skills
3 25 (8.36%) Finance
4 15 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.68%) Banking
5 11 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.67%) Military
8 3 (1.00%) Front Office
8 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.33%) Games
10 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 95 (31.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (26.42%) AWS Engineer
3 50 (16.72%) AWS DevOps
4 48 (16.05%) Architect
5 47 (15.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 39 (13.04%) Senior
7 33 (11.04%) Developer
8 28 (9.36%) Platform Engineer
9 24 (8.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (7.02%) AWS Architect
10 21 (7.02%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 19 (6.35%) Lead
12 18 (6.02%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (6.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 17 (5.69%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (4.35%) Data Engineer
14 13 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.68%) Python Engineer
16 10 (3.34%) Consultant
17 9 (3.01%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.05%) Kafka
2 41 (13.71%) Node.js
3 36 (12.04%) Elastic Stack
4 30 (10.03%) REST
5 27 (9.03%) AWS CDK
5 27 (9.03%) OAuth
6 25 (8.36%) JWT
7 22 (7.36%) React
7 22 (7.36%) Spring Boot
8 20 (6.69%) RESTful
9 17 (5.69%) Spring
10 11 (3.68%) FastAPI
10 11 (3.68%) OAuth2
11 10 (3.34%) .NET
12 9 (3.01%) boto
12 9 (3.01%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (3.01%) PySpark
13 8 (2.68%) Hugging Face
13 8 (2.68%) Lambda Expressions
13 8 (2.68%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.40%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.03%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.68%) Replication
4 10 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.01%) NHS
5 9 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.34%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.01%) IVR
8 5 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.67%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.67%) DataPower
8 5 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.67%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.34%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 55 (18.39%) Linux
2 19 (6.35%) Windows
3 13 (4.35%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (3.68%) VMS
5 9 (3.01%) Unix
6 7 (2.34%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.67%) zOS
9 1 (0.33%) Android
9 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (71.57%) CI/CD
2 187 (62.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 173 (57.86%) DevOps
4 104 (34.78%) Containerisation
5 84 (28.09%) Observability
6 79 (26.42%) Agile
7 76 (25.42%) Microservices
8 48 (16.05%) Event-Driven
8 48 (16.05%) Migration
9 46 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (14.72%) Test Automation
11 43 (14.38%) Platform Engineering
12 42 (14.05%) High Availability
12 42 (14.05%) Incident Response
13 40 (13.38%) Performance Tuning
14 38 (12.71%) Cost Optimisation
15 36 (12.04%) Infrastructure Automation
15 36 (12.04%) Mentoring
16 34 (11.37%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 168 (56.19%) Python
2 63 (21.07%) Bash
3 55 (18.39%) Java
4 44 (14.72%) SQL
5 25 (8.36%) PowerShell
6 21 (7.02%) Shell Script
7 20 (6.69%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.69%) JavaScript
9 12 (4.01%) Go
9 12 (4.01%) Groovy
10 8 (2.68%) C#
11 5 (1.67%) Bicep
12 4 (1.34%) Scala
13 3 (1.00%) Korn
13 3 (1.00%) Perl
14 2 (0.67%) PHP
15 1 (0.33%) C
15 1 (0.33%) COBOL
15 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 93 (31.10%) SC Cleared
3 41 (13.71%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.35%) Degree
5 15 (5.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (3.01%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.34%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.69%) QA
2 18 (6.02%) GDPR
3 16 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (5.02%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.68%) NIST
6 7 (2.34%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.34%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.00%) NCSC
7 3 (1.00%) PMO
7 3 (1.00%) SLA
7 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.67%) WCAG
9 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.33%) GRC
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 154 (51.51%) Docker
2 10 (3.34%) DFS Replication
3 7 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.34%) Dovecot
3 7 (2.34%) Postfix
3 7 (2.34%) Squid
4 1 (0.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 219 (73.24%) Terraform
2 121 (40.47%) Kubernetes
3 91 (30.43%) Grafana
4 82 (27.42%) Prometheus
5 46 (15.38%) Ansible
6 8 (2.68%) Argo
6 8 (2.68%) Kibana
7 7 (2.34%) Nessus
7 7 (2.34%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.34%) Proxmox
7 7 (2.34%) Puppet
8 5 (1.67%) Dell DRAC
8 5 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.00%) Istio
9 3 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.00%) Karpenter
9 3 (1.00%) Packer
10 2 (0.67%) linkerd
10 2 (0.67%) logstash
10 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (9.03%) Splunk
2 16 (5.35%) F5
3 15 (5.02%) CheckPoint
3 15 (5.02%) Dynatrace
3 15 (5.02%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.02%) Palo Alto
3 15 (5.02%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.34%) Databricks
4 7 (2.34%) IBM
4 7 (2.34%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (2.01%) AVEVA
5 6 (2.01%) Cisco
6 5 (1.67%) Avaya
6 5 (1.67%) Dell
6 5 (1.67%) Genesys
6 5 (1.67%) Gigya
6 5 (1.67%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.34%) CloudEndure
7 4 (1.34%) Confluent
7 4 (1.34%) Sybase