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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 361 424
Rank change year-on-year +38 +63 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 309 173 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.57% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 1.50% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 136 145
10th Percentile £375 £402 £405
25th Percentile £414 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
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 15,331 11,497 14,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.71% 37.67% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,520 7,753 10,544
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 £631 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 179 332
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.65 £14.14
25th Percentile £20.29 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.51% +27.91% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.18 £75.84 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £19.31
% change year-on-year +76.53% +25.22% -8.05%

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 23 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 23 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 +11 225 £525 -0.10% 71
London +20 131 £525 - 32
UK excluding London -13 115 £525 - 48
Work from Home +9 90 £543 +3.43% 35
North of England -30 43 £525 -15.32% 19
Midlands -37 27 £475 +6.26% 9
West Midlands -39 24 £500 - 9
Scotland +12 22 £483 -3.50%
Yorkshire -42 22 £518 -28.62% 10
North West -25 13 £525 +5.05% 9
South West -10 10 £700 +19.15% 3
South East -23 9 £380 -33.91% 15
North East -14 8 £575 -2.54%
East of England - 4 £600 - 2
East Midlands -27 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 (6.80%) Confluence
2 11 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.94%) Apache
5 3 (0.97%) nginx
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 305 (98.71%) AWS
2 197 (63.75%) Serverless
3 193 (62.46%) Amazon S3
4 191 (61.81%) AWS Lambda
5 134 (43.37%) Amazon EC2
6 125 (40.45%) Amazon ECS
7 109 (35.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 107 (34.63%) GitHub
9 104 (33.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 100 (32.36%) Amazon EKS
11 90 (29.13%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (18.12%) Azure
13 38 (12.30%) Route 53
14 36 (11.65%) Amazon SQS
15 30 (9.71%) Amazon ELB
16 28 (9.06%) AWS CodePipeline
16 28 (9.06%) AWS Fargate
17 25 (8.09%) AWS KMS
17 25 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
17 25 (8.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.65%) DNS
2 34 (11.00%) Firewall
3 21 (6.80%) VPN
4 13 (4.21%) Network Security
4 13 (4.21%) SSL
4 13 (4.21%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.24%) HTTP
6 4 (1.29%) FTP
6 4 (1.29%) SMTP
6 4 (1.29%) SSH
7 3 (0.97%) IMAP
7 3 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.97%) WAN
8 2 (0.65%) BGP
8 2 (0.65%) OSPF
8 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.32%) DHCP
9 1 (0.32%) LAN
9 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (34.30%) Amazon RDS
2 70 (22.65%) DynamoDB
3 34 (11.00%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (9.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 21 (6.80%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (6.80%) MySQL
6 15 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (4.53%) MongoDB
8 13 (4.21%) NoSQL
8 13 (4.21%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.91%) Redis
10 7 (2.27%) DB2
10 7 (2.27%) Power BI
10 7 (2.27%) Tableau
11 6 (1.94%) Big Data
12 5 (1.62%) DocumentDB
12 5 (1.62%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.62%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 122 (39.48%) Jenkins
2 112 (36.25%) GitLab
3 69 (22.33%) Git
4 25 (8.09%) JIRA
5 15 (4.85%) JUnit
6 14 (4.53%) SonarQube
7 11 (3.56%) Maven
8 8 (2.59%) Mockito
9 6 (1.94%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.94%) DbUnit
9 6 (1.94%) jMock
10 5 (1.62%) Mocha
11 4 (1.29%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.29%) NUnit
11 4 (1.29%) Postman
11 4 (1.29%) Terragrunt
11 4 (1.29%) Vagrant
12 3 (0.97%) Gatling
12 3 (0.97%) MLflow
12 3 (0.97%) Snyk
General
1 83 (26.86%) Public Sector
2 63 (20.39%) Social Skills
3 28 (9.06%) Finance
4 22 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.91%) Banking
7 6 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.62%) Military
9 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.97%) Police
10 2 (0.65%) Front Office
10 2 (0.65%) 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 79 (25.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 76 (24.60%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (14.56%) Developer
4 44 (14.24%) Senior
5 43 (13.92%) Architect
6 41 (13.27%) AWS DevOps
7 38 (12.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.44%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (6.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 20 (6.47%) AWS Architect
10 20 (6.47%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.83%) Lead
11 18 (5.83%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (5.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.50%) Cloud Architect
12 17 (5.50%) Java Developer
13 15 (4.85%) Data Engineer
14 13 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (3.88%) Delivery Manager
16 11 (3.56%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.89%) Node.js
2 44 (14.24%) Kafka
3 39 (12.62%) REST
4 35 (11.33%) Elastic Stack
5 31 (10.03%) OAuth
6 30 (9.71%) AWS CDK
7 25 (8.09%) Spring
7 25 (8.09%) Spring Boot
8 22 (7.12%) JWT
9 20 (6.47%) RESTful
10 19 (6.15%) React
11 14 (4.53%) AngularJS
11 14 (4.53%) OAuth2
12 13 (4.21%) ActiveMQ
13 11 (3.56%) FastAPI
13 11 (3.56%) Hibernate
13 11 (3.56%) JPA
13 11 (3.56%) PySpark
13 11 (3.56%) Spring Cloud
14 10 (3.24%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 65 (21.04%) Cloud Native
2 39 (12.62%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.24%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.91%) Algorithms
4 9 (2.91%) NHS
4 9 (2.91%) Replication
5 7 (2.27%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.94%) IVR
6 6 (1.94%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.62%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.62%) DataPower
7 5 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.97%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.97%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.65%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 58 (18.77%) Linux
2 14 (4.53%) Windows
3 8 (2.59%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (2.59%) Unix
4 6 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.62%) VMS
6 4 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.65%) zOS
8 1 (0.32%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (69.90%) CI/CD
2 189 (61.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 164 (53.07%) DevOps
4 106 (34.30%) Containerisation
5 94 (30.42%) Agile
6 90 (29.13%) Observability
7 80 (25.89%) Microservices
8 60 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 52 (16.83%) Migration
10 46 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (13.59%) Incident Response
11 42 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (13.27%) Event-Driven
12 41 (13.27%) High Availability
12 41 (13.27%) Performance Tuning
12 41 (13.27%) Test Automation
13 38 (12.30%) Cost Optimisation
14 37 (11.97%) Analytics
14 37 (11.97%) Infrastructure Automation
15 33 (10.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 162 (52.43%) Python
2 63 (20.39%) Bash
3 60 (19.42%) Java
4 51 (16.50%) SQL
5 22 (7.12%) Shell Script
6 21 (6.80%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.83%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.50%) JavaScript
9 13 (4.21%) Go
10 8 (2.59%) C#
11 6 (1.94%) Groovy
12 5 (1.62%) Bicep
12 5 (1.62%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.29%) Scala
14 3 (0.97%) Korn
15 2 (0.65%) PHP
15 2 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.32%) R
16 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (41.42%) Security Cleared
2 104 (33.66%) SC Cleared
3 42 (13.59%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.88%) Degree
7 9 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.59%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.27%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.47%) QA
2 18 (5.83%) GDPR
3 16 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.18%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.24%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.91%) NIST
6 8 (2.59%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.94%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.94%) PMO
8 4 (1.29%) SLA
9 3 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.97%) NCSC
9 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.65%) GRC
10 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.65%) WCAG
11 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 149 (48.22%) Docker
2 8 (2.59%) Postfix
3 5 (1.62%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.29%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.97%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.97%) Squid
6 1 (0.32%) Snort
Systems Management
1 205 (66.34%) Terraform
2 104 (33.66%) Kubernetes
3 92 (29.77%) Grafana
4 76 (24.60%) Prometheus
5 44 (14.24%) Ansible
6 9 (2.91%) Argo
7 8 (2.59%) Kibana
8 7 (2.27%) Puppet
9 6 (1.94%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.62%) Dell DRAC
10 5 (1.62%) Istio
10 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.97%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.97%) Nessus
11 3 (0.97%) Packer
11 3 (0.97%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.65%) logstash
12 2 (0.65%) Nagios
12 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 26 (8.41%) Splunk
2 19 (6.15%) ServiceNow
3 15 (4.85%) F5
3 15 (4.85%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.53%) CheckPoint
4 14 (4.53%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.88%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.24%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (2.59%) Databricks
8 7 (2.27%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.27%) IBM
9 6 (1.94%) AVEVA
9 6 (1.94%) Cisco
9 6 (1.94%) New Relic
10 5 (1.62%) Avaya
10 5 (1.62%) Dell
10 5 (1.62%) Genesys
10 5 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.62%) Sybase
11 4 (1.29%) Salesforce