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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 344 417
Rank change year-on-year +18 +73 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 312 178 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.58% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 1.54% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 140 145
10th Percentile £375 £400 £405
25th Percentile £409 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -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 15,739 11,536 14,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.79% 37.70% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,797 7,823 10,482
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
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 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 181 342
10th Percentile £15.30 £16.75 £14.14
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £27.35 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +45.34% +27.45% -14.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.50 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.50
% change year-on-year +86.10% +30.70% -11.90%

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 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 28 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 -2 227 £525 - 66
London +17 133 £525 - 28
UK excluding London -36 117 £519 -1.19% 41
Work from Home +6 97 £525 - 35
North of England -42 42 £525 -11.02% 18
Midlands -40 28 £475 +6.26% 6
West Midlands -33 25 £500 - 6
Scotland +13 24 £440 -12.00%
Yorkshire -50 20 £518 -28.62% 8
North West -29 14 £480 -3.90% 9
South West -18 10 £700 +19.15% 5
South East -30 10 £390 -32.17% 10
North East -11 8 £575 -2.54% 1
East Midlands -22 3 £375 -6.25%
Wales - 3 £500 -
East of England - 3 £600 - 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 21 (6.73%) Confluence
2 11 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.60%) Apache
5 4 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.64%) CICS
6 2 (0.64%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 308 (98.72%) AWS
2 195 (62.50%) Serverless
3 192 (61.54%) Amazon S3
4 189 (60.58%) AWS Lambda
5 139 (44.55%) Amazon EC2
6 125 (40.06%) Amazon ECS
7 114 (36.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 109 (34.94%) GitHub
9 104 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 101 (32.37%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (18.27%) Azure
13 41 (13.14%) Route 53
14 38 (12.18%) Amazon SQS
15 30 (9.62%) AWS CodePipeline
16 29 (9.29%) Amazon ELB
17 28 (8.97%) AWS Fargate
18 26 (8.33%) AWS KMS
18 26 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
19 25 (8.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.18%) DNS
2 32 (10.26%) Firewall
3 21 (6.73%) VPN
4 13 (4.17%) Network Security
4 13 (4.17%) SSL
4 13 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.88%) HTTP
6 3 (0.96%) FTP
6 3 (0.96%) SMTP
6 3 (0.96%) SSH
6 3 (0.96%) WAN
7 2 (0.64%) BGP
7 2 (0.64%) IMAP
7 2 (0.64%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.64%) OSPF
7 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.32%) DHCP
8 1 (0.32%) LAN
8 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (34.29%) Amazon RDS
2 74 (23.72%) DynamoDB
3 35 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (9.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 21 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (6.73%) MySQL
6 14 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (4.49%) MongoDB
7 13 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 13 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.88%) DB2
8 9 (2.88%) Redis
9 8 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.24%) Power BI
10 7 (2.24%) Tableau
11 6 (1.92%) Big Data
12 5 (1.60%) DocumentDB
12 5 (1.60%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 121 (38.78%) Jenkins
2 114 (36.54%) GitLab
3 70 (22.44%) Git
4 25 (8.01%) JIRA
5 18 (5.77%) JUnit
6 16 (5.13%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.17%) Maven
8 11 (3.53%) Mockito
9 8 (2.56%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.24%) DbUnit
10 7 (2.24%) jMock
11 5 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.60%) Mocha
11 5 (1.60%) Postman
12 4 (1.28%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.28%) NUnit
12 4 (1.28%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.96%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.96%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.96%) Snyk
General
1 84 (26.92%) Public Sector
2 63 (20.19%) Social Skills
3 33 (10.58%) Finance
4 23 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (3.85%) Banking
7 6 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.60%) Military
9 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.96%) Police
10 2 (0.64%) Front Office
10 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Games
11 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Law
11 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (25.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 78 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (15.06%) Developer
4 45 (14.42%) Senior
5 42 (13.46%) AWS DevOps
6 41 (13.14%) Architect
7 39 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 22 (7.05%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (6.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 19 (6.09%) AWS Architect
10 19 (6.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 19 (6.09%) Java Developer
11 18 (5.77%) Lead
11 18 (5.77%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (5.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.81%) Data Engineer
13 13 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
13 13 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
15 11 (3.53%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.06%) Node.js
2 41 (13.14%) Kafka
2 41 (13.14%) REST
3 35 (11.22%) Elastic Stack
4 32 (10.26%) AWS CDK
5 31 (9.94%) OAuth
6 28 (8.97%) Spring
6 28 (8.97%) Spring Boot
7 22 (7.05%) JWT
7 22 (7.05%) RESTful
8 18 (5.77%) React
9 16 (5.13%) AngularJS
10 14 (4.49%) OAuth2
10 14 (4.49%) Web Services
11 13 (4.17%) Hibernate
11 13 (4.17%) JPA
11 13 (4.17%) SOAP
11 13 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
12 11 (3.53%) .NET
12 11 (3.53%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 68 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 42 (13.46%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.53%) Replication
4 9 (2.88%) Algorithms
4 9 (2.88%) Mainframe
4 9 (2.88%) NHS
4 9 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.24%) DataPower
5 7 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.92%) IVR
7 5 (1.60%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.96%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.64%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 59 (18.91%) Linux
2 15 (4.81%) Windows
3 8 (2.56%) Unix
4 7 (2.24%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.28%) VMS
6 4 (1.28%) zOS
7 3 (0.96%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.32%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 187 (59.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 164 (52.56%) DevOps
4 102 (32.69%) Containerisation
5 94 (30.13%) Observability
6 92 (29.49%) Agile
7 82 (26.28%) Microservices
8 63 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (16.99%) Migration
10 47 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (14.42%) Test Automation
12 44 (14.10%) Incident Response
12 44 (14.10%) Performance Tuning
13 42 (13.46%) High Availability
14 41 (13.14%) Platform Engineering
15 39 (12.50%) Analytics
16 38 (12.18%) Event-Driven
16 38 (12.18%) Infrastructure Automation
17 37 (11.86%) Cost Optimisation
18 33 (10.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 165 (52.88%) Python
2 66 (21.15%) Bash
3 60 (19.23%) Java
4 56 (17.95%) SQL
5 25 (8.01%) PowerShell
6 24 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 18 (5.77%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.45%) JavaScript
9 14 (4.49%) Go
10 9 (2.88%) C#
11 5 (1.60%) Bicep
11 5 (1.60%) Groovy
11 5 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.28%) Scala
13 3 (0.96%) Korn
14 2 (0.64%) JCL
14 2 (0.64%) PHP
14 2 (0.64%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 131 (41.99%) Security Cleared
2 106 (33.97%) SC Cleared
3 43 (13.78%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (3.53%) Degree
7 7 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.41%) QA
2 18 (5.77%) GDPR
3 17 (5.45%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (3.21%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.88%) NIST
7 8 (2.56%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.92%) PMO
8 6 (1.92%) SLA
9 5 (1.60%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.96%) GRC
10 3 (0.96%) NCSC
10 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.64%) WCAG
12 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 147 (47.12%) Docker
2 8 (2.56%) Postfix
3 5 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.96%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.64%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 204 (65.38%) Terraform
2 101 (32.37%) Kubernetes
3 94 (30.13%) Grafana
4 76 (24.36%) Prometheus
5 44 (14.10%) Ansible
6 9 (2.88%) Argo
7 8 (2.56%) Kibana
8 7 (2.24%) Puppet
9 6 (1.92%) Istio
9 6 (1.92%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.60%) Dell DRAC
10 5 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.96%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.96%) Packer
12 2 (0.64%) linkerd
12 2 (0.64%) logstash
12 2 (0.64%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.64%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (8.01%) Splunk
2 18 (5.77%) ServiceNow
3 15 (4.81%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.49%) CheckPoint
4 14 (4.49%) F5
4 14 (4.49%) Palo Alto
5 11 (3.53%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.53%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (3.21%) Databricks
7 8 (2.56%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.24%) IBM
9 6 (1.92%) AVEVA
9 6 (1.92%) New Relic
10 5 (1.60%) Avaya
10 5 (1.60%) Cisco
10 5 (1.60%) Dell
10 5 (1.60%) Genesys
10 5 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.60%) Sybase
11 4 (1.28%) Salesforce