Amazon CloudWatch Contract Job Trends
Amazon CloudWatch
UK
The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 11 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 331 | 278 | 394 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -53 | +116 | +56 |
| Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch | 432 | 327 | 156 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK | 0.78% | 0.94% | 0.43% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 2.22% | 2.43% | 1.23% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 319 | 239 | 108 |
| 10th Percentile | £387 | £385 | £400 |
| 25th Percentile | £433 | £450 | £442 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £513 | £513 | £520 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -1.44% | -5.45% |
| 75th Percentile | £625 | £578 | £563 |
| 90th Percentile | £738 | £676 | £741 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £476 | £500 | £476 |
| % change year-on-year | -4.80% | +5.04% | -9.33% |
| 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 citing cloud computing skills.
| 6 months to 11 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills | 19,459 | 13,483 | 12,687 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK | 34.98% | 38.63% | 35.22% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 12,982 | 9,106 | 8,350 |
| 10th Percentile | £330 | £306 | £313 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £406 | £420 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £627 | £613 | £638 |
| 90th Percentile | £725 | £713 | £738 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £500 | £475 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.26% | -5.00% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 680 | 325 | 165 |
| 10th Percentile | £15.50 | £15.14 | £18.82 |
| 25th Percentile | £19.20 | £18.87 | £23.80 |
| Median hourly rate | £35.00 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +39.17% | -28.14% | +9.38% |
| 75th Percentile | £69.56 | £44.09 | £60.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £79.10 | £71.78 | £70.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £33.99 | £21.00 | £33.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +61.86% | -36.36% | +46.67% |
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 Daily Rate Trend
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 11 November 2026.
Amazon CloudWatch Hourly Rate Trend
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 11 November 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | -39 | 340 | £533 | +6.50% | 179 |
| London | -8 | 211 | £550 | +4.76% | 103 |
| Work from Home | -34 | 176 | £500 | -4.76% | 96 |
| UK excluding London | -96 | 142 | £476 | -4.80% | 83 |
| North of England | -64 | 55 | £500 | - | 30 |
| South East | -36 | 32 | £600 | - | 12 |
| Midlands | -60 | 26 | £423 | -11.05% | 17 |
| North East | -19 | 22 | £425 | -26.09% | 10 |
| West Midlands | -54 | 21 | £470 | -1.11% | 13 |
| Yorkshire | -37 | 18 | £500 | - | 7 |
| Scotland | -31 | 16 | £425 | -19.05% | 7 |
| North West | -50 | 15 | £575 | +33.72% | 13 |
| South West | -33 | 5 | £325 | -53.57% | 3 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 5 | £496 | - | 10 |
| East Midlands | -10 | 4 | £402 | +7.20% | 4 |
| East of England | -40 | 2 | £476 | -13.45% | 5 |
| Wales | -10 | 1 | £550 | - |
Amazon CloudWatch Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 97.9% | 423 |
| 2 | Serverless | 60.2% | 260 |
| 3 | AWS Lambda | 59.3% | 256 |
| 4 | Amazon S3 | 56.0% | 242 |
| 5 | Amazon EC2 | 38.2% | 165 |
| 6 | Amazon EKS | 36.3% | 157 |
| 6 | AWS CloudFormation | 36.3% | 157 |
| 8 | GitHub | 29.9% | 129 |
| 9 | Virtual Private Cloud | 29.6% | 128 |
| 10 | Amazon ECS | 28.0% | 121 |
| 11 | Azure | 22.9% | 99 |
| 12 | GitHub Actions | 19.4% | 84 |
| 13 | Amazon SQS | 15.5% | 67 |
| 14 | AWS Step Functions | 11.8% | 51 |
| 14 | Route 53 | 11.8% | 51 |
| 16 | AWS KMS | 11.3% | 49 |
| 17 | Amazon EventBridge | 11.1% | 48 |
| 18 | Datadog | 10.2% | 44 |
| 19 | AWS CloudTrail | 9.5% | 41 |
| 20 | Amazon EMR | 8.3% | 36 |