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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 351 407
Rank change year-on-year +5 +56 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 306 170 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 1.57% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 118 136
10th Percentile £350 £358 £405
25th Percentile £406 £428 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £571 £584 £600
90th Percentile £653 £665 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £500 £543
% change year-on-year -8.60% -7.92% -5.57%
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 17,393 10,826 13,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 37.79% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,681 7,404 9,904
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 243 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.32 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.25 £66.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -33.08%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -26 244 £490 -2.00% 62
London +28 157 £525 +2.44% 32
UK excluding London -50 110 £457 -8.60% 30
Work from Home -16 100 £475 -9.52% 31
Midlands -41 42 £475 -5.00% 4
West Midlands -38 41 £475 -5.00% 2
Scotland +2 20 £440 -12.00%
North of England -74 18 £419 -4.29% 14
South East -45 14 £393 -31.65% 8
East of England -28 9 £450 -18.18% 1
North West -43 7 £395 +1.02% 8
North East -24 6 £419 - 4
South West -22 5 £619 +5.32% 2
Yorkshire -58 5 £456 -8.75% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 -
Wales - 1 £500 - 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 36 (11.76%) Confluence
2 25 (8.17%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (4.25%) Apache
3 13 (4.25%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.96%) CICS
4 6 (1.96%) SAS
5 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.98%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.65%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.33%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 303 (99.02%) AWS
2 181 (59.15%) Amazon S3
3 176 (57.52%) Serverless
4 171 (55.88%) AWS Lambda
5 129 (42.16%) Amazon EC2
6 106 (34.64%) Amazon EKS
7 101 (33.01%) GitHub
8 100 (32.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 99 (32.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 87 (28.43%) Amazon ECS
11 80 (26.14%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (16.01%) Azure
13 47 (15.36%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (13.07%) AWS KMS
15 39 (12.75%) Route 53
16 32 (10.46%) AWS CodePipeline
17 27 (8.82%) Amazon Kinesis
18 24 (7.84%) AWS CloudTrail
19 21 (6.86%) Amazon EMR
20 20 (6.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.54%) DNS
2 17 (5.56%) Firewall
3 7 (2.29%) HTTP
3 7 (2.29%) Network Security
4 6 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.63%) SNMP
5 5 (1.63%) VPN
5 5 (1.63%) WAN
6 4 (1.31%) SSL
7 2 (0.65%) BGP
7 2 (0.65%) CTI
7 2 (0.65%) OSPF
7 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.33%) Internet
8 1 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.33%) PSTN
8 1 (0.33%) RTP
8 1 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (29.74%) Amazon RDS
2 75 (24.51%) DynamoDB
3 49 (16.01%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (13.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 36 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (5.88%) Tableau
8 16 (5.23%) Power BI
9 14 (4.58%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.59%) Redis
11 10 (3.27%) DB2
11 10 (3.27%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.94%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (2.94%) SQL Server
13 8 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (2.29%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.29%) MySQL
15 6 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.96%) Metadata
15 6 (1.96%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 115 (37.58%) Jenkins
2 99 (32.35%) GitLab
3 68 (22.22%) Git
4 46 (15.03%) JIRA
5 24 (7.84%) JUnit
6 22 (7.19%) Maven
6 22 (7.19%) Mockito
7 20 (6.54%) SonarQube
8 18 (5.88%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.58%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.25%) jMock
11 11 (3.59%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.61%) Cucumber
13 7 (2.29%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.29%) Postman
14 6 (1.96%) Gatling
14 6 (1.96%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.63%) MLflow
16 4 (1.31%) Jaeger
16 4 (1.31%) Terragrunt
General
1 81 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 78 (25.49%) Public Sector
3 29 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.50%) Finance
5 13 (4.25%) Banking
5 13 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.98%) Legal
8 3 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.65%) Law
9 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.65%) Military
9 2 (0.65%) Police
9 2 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.33%) Billing
10 1 (0.33%) Games
10 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (24.18%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (14.71%) Developer
4 41 (13.40%) Architect
5 38 (12.42%) Senior
6 32 (10.46%) AWS DevOps
7 28 (9.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 25 (8.17%) AWS Architect
8 25 (8.17%) Java Developer
9 23 (7.52%) Data Engineer
10 19 (6.21%) Lead
11 17 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 16 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (5.23%) Senior Developer
13 14 (4.58%) Analyst
13 14 (4.58%) Site Engineer
14 12 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (3.92%) Scrum Master
14 12 (3.92%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.03%) RESTful
2 44 (14.38%) Kafka
3 40 (13.07%) REST
4 39 (12.75%) Node.js
5 37 (12.09%) Spring
5 37 (12.09%) Spring Boot
6 33 (10.78%) AWS CDK
7 29 (9.48%) SOAP
8 27 (8.82%) Web Services
9 22 (7.19%) Hibernate
9 22 (7.19%) JPA
10 21 (6.86%) OpenTelemetry
11 20 (6.54%) Spring Cloud
12 19 (6.21%) AngularJS
13 18 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
13 18 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (5.88%) OAuth
13 18 (5.88%) Spring Batch
13 18 (5.88%) Spring Integration
14 14 (4.58%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 83 (27.12%) Cloud Native
2 40 (13.07%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.61%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.61%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.61%) Replication
6 6 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.96%) DataPower
6 6 (1.96%) Online Banking
7 5 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.63%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.31%) IVR
9 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.98%) PACS
9 3 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.65%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (19.93%) Linux
2 15 (4.90%) Windows
3 8 (2.61%) zOS
4 7 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.63%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.31%) Unix
7 3 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.98%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.33%) Android
9 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.33%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (72.88%) CI/CD
2 152 (49.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 151 (49.35%) DevOps
4 116 (37.91%) Agile
5 103 (33.66%) Observability
6 92 (30.07%) Containerisation
7 73 (23.86%) Microservices
8 63 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (18.30%) Test Automation
10 55 (17.97%) Scrum
11 53 (17.32%) Platform Engineering
12 46 (15.03%) Migration
13 45 (14.71%) Performance Tuning
14 37 (12.09%) Analytics
14 37 (12.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 36 (11.76%) Event-Driven
16 34 (11.11%) ETL
16 34 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
17 33 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
18 32 (10.46%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 137 (44.77%) Python
2 77 (25.16%) SQL
3 66 (21.57%) Java
4 59 (19.28%) Bash
5 27 (8.82%) PowerShell
6 24 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.88%) Shell Script
8 15 (4.90%) Scala
9 9 (2.94%) Go
10 8 (2.61%) Groovy
11 6 (1.96%) C#
11 6 (1.96%) JCL
12 4 (1.31%) Bicep
12 4 (1.31%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.31%) Perl
13 2 (0.65%) C
13 2 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.33%) COBOL
14 1 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 142 (46.41%) Security Cleared
2 125 (40.85%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.13%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.27%) SAFe Agilist
6 8 (2.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.29%) Degree
8 6 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.52%) QA
2 15 (4.90%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.92%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.94%) NIST
5 8 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.29%) SLA
7 6 (1.96%) GDPR
7 6 (1.96%) PMO
8 5 (1.63%) GRC
9 4 (1.31%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.98%) NCSC
11 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.65%) WCAG
12 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 122 (39.87%) Docker
2 11 (3.59%) Postfix
3 8 (2.61%) Squid
4 4 (1.31%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.33%) IAG
5 1 (0.33%) KVM
5 1 (0.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 183 (59.80%) Terraform
2 121 (39.54%) Grafana
3 99 (32.35%) Kubernetes
4 91 (29.74%) Prometheus
5 32 (10.46%) Ansible
6 10 (3.27%) Puppet
7 8 (2.61%) Istio
8 6 (1.96%) Argo
8 6 (1.96%) Packer
9 5 (1.63%) Kibana
10 4 (1.31%) Suricata
11 3 (0.98%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.98%) Rancher
12 2 (0.65%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.65%) linkerd
12 2 (0.65%) Nagios
12 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (7.19%) Splunk
2 17 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (5.23%) Dynatrace
4 15 (4.90%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.58%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.59%) Microsoft
7 7 (2.29%) Databricks
7 7 (2.29%) Informatica
7 7 (2.29%) New Relic
8 6 (1.96%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.96%) Cribl.io
8 6 (1.96%) Denodo
8 6 (1.96%) Oracle
9 4 (1.31%) Confluent
9 4 (1.31%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.31%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.31%) Tenable
9 4 (1.31%) Trend Micro
10 3 (0.98%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.98%) Qualys