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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 325 401
Rank change year-on-year -14 +76 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 365 240 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.73% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 1.96% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 169 112
10th Percentile £372 £358 £406
25th Percentile £415 £438 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £607
90th Percentile £652 £639 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -16.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.94
25th Percentile - - £68.59
Median hourly rate - - £70.94
75th Percentile - - £72.34
90th Percentile - - £72.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.94

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 18,803 12,233 13,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.20% 37.23% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,416 8,198 9,163
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 312 273
10th Percentile £15.86 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +14.41% -31.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £53.00
90th Percentile £82.32 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -18.59%

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 7 August 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 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 7 August 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 -14 294 £495 -1.00% 111
London +6 174 £519 +1.22% 63
UK excluding London -51 147 £463 -2.63% 56
Work from Home -10 138 £472 -5.60% 47
Midlands -40 50 £472 -0.63% 5
West Midlands -46 48 £475 - 5
North of England -71 35 £463 +12.12% 19
Scotland -1 22 £433 -13.50% 3
South East -52 21 £459 -14.60% 16
North East -27 17 £425 - 8
East of England -22 10 £500 - 7
North West -48 10 £495 +23.75% 5
Yorkshire -44 8 £500 +5.26% 6
South West -32 6 £444 -14.66% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
East Midlands -14 1 £425 -20.86%
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 48 (13.15%) Confluence
2 21 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.11%) Apache
4 12 (3.29%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.92%) SAS
6 6 (1.64%) CICS
6 6 (1.64%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.10%) Trello
3 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 365 (100.00%) AWS
2 234 (64.11%) Amazon S3
3 216 (59.18%) Serverless
4 213 (58.36%) AWS Lambda
5 160 (43.84%) Amazon EC2
6 119 (32.60%) Amazon EKS
7 115 (31.51%) GitHub
8 110 (30.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 109 (29.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 92 (25.21%) Amazon ECS
11 86 (23.56%) GitHub Actions
12 70 (19.18%) Azure
13 52 (14.25%) AWS KMS
14 45 (12.33%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (10.14%) Datadog
16 35 (9.59%) Amazon Kinesis
16 35 (9.59%) Route 53
17 34 (9.32%) Amazon EMR
18 33 (9.04%) AWS CloudTrail
19 32 (8.77%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.21%) Firewall
2 14 (3.84%) DNS
3 13 (3.56%) Network Security
4 7 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.64%) SNMP
5 6 (1.64%) SSL
6 5 (1.37%) CTI
6 5 (1.37%) HTTP
6 5 (1.37%) WAN
7 3 (0.82%) VPN
8 2 (0.55%) SMS
9 1 (0.27%) BGP
9 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.27%) Internet
9 1 (0.27%) PSTN
9 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.27%) RTP
9 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (28.49%) Amazon RDS
2 84 (23.01%) DynamoDB
3 53 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (14.25%) Amazon Athena
5 37 (10.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (9.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (7.12%) Power BI
8 24 (6.58%) MongoDB
9 21 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (4.66%) Tableau
11 15 (4.11%) Redis
12 11 (3.01%) SQL Server
13 10 (2.74%) Data Lake
13 10 (2.74%) Db2
14 9 (2.47%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.19%) NoSQL
16 7 (1.92%) Metadata
17 6 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
17 6 (1.64%) Pentaho
18 5 (1.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 129 (35.34%) Jenkins
2 118 (32.33%) GitLab
3 91 (24.93%) Git
4 65 (17.81%) JIRA
5 27 (7.40%) Bitbucket
6 26 (7.12%) JUnit
7 25 (6.85%) Mockito
8 20 (5.48%) Maven
9 17 (4.66%) SonarQube
10 12 (3.29%) DbUnit
11 11 (3.01%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (3.01%) jMock
12 8 (2.19%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.92%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.92%) Postman
14 6 (1.64%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.37%) Cypress.io
15 5 (1.37%) Gatling
16 4 (1.10%) Jaeger
16 4 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 98 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 90 (24.66%) Public Sector
3 42 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.68%) Finance
5 23 (6.30%) Banking
6 15 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.64%) Law
9 5 (1.37%) Back Office
10 3 (0.82%) Front Office
10 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Legal
10 3 (0.82%) Military
10 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Publishing
11 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.55%) Retail
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (23.29%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (14.52%) Developer
2 53 (14.52%) Senior
3 51 (13.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (10.41%) Architect
5 37 (10.14%) AWS DevOps
6 35 (9.59%) Data Engineer
7 31 (8.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (8.49%) Lead
8 30 (8.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 25 (6.85%) Java Developer
10 21 (5.75%) Scrum Master
11 19 (5.21%) AWS Architect
11 19 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (4.66%) Lead DevOps
12 17 (4.66%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (4.38%) Site Engineer
14 15 (4.11%) AWS Data Engineer
15 14 (3.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (14.52%) RESTful
2 49 (13.42%) REST
3 48 (13.15%) Spring
4 44 (12.05%) Spring Boot
5 42 (11.51%) Kafka
6 41 (11.23%) Node.js
7 36 (9.86%) AWS CDK
8 29 (7.95%) SOAP
9 23 (6.30%) PySpark
9 23 (6.30%) Web Services
10 21 (5.75%) AngularJS
11 19 (5.21%) ActiveMQ
12 16 (4.38%) Hibernate
12 16 (4.38%) JPA
12 16 (4.38%) Spring Batch
12 16 (4.38%) Spring Integration
13 15 (4.11%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (3.84%) Spring Cloud
15 12 (3.29%) GraphQL
15 12 (3.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 114 (31.23%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.78%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.32%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.29%) Replication
5 11 (3.01%) IVR
6 10 (2.74%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.47%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.19%) CMDB
8 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.92%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.64%) DataPower
10 6 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.64%) Online Banking
11 5 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.89%) Linux
2 20 (5.48%) Windows
3 16 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.92%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.92%) zOS
6 6 (1.64%) Unix
7 5 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.27%) CentOS
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (75.07%) CI/CD
2 208 (56.99%) DevOps
3 196 (53.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 162 (44.38%) Agile
5 121 (33.15%) Observability
6 105 (28.77%) Containerisation
7 87 (23.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (22.19%) Microservices
9 76 (20.82%) Platform Engineering
9 76 (20.82%) Test Automation
10 63 (17.26%) Scrum
11 58 (15.89%) AI
12 53 (14.52%) Migration
12 53 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
13 50 (13.70%) Data Modelling
13 50 (13.70%) Root Cause Analysis
14 47 (12.88%) Data Pipeline
15 46 (12.60%) Analytics
15 46 (12.60%) Event-Driven
16 44 (12.05%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 183 (50.14%) Python
2 92 (25.21%) SQL
3 78 (21.37%) Bash
4 72 (19.73%) Java
5 39 (10.68%) PowerShell
6 27 (7.40%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.75%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.56%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.01%) Scala
10 10 (2.74%) Groovy
11 7 (1.92%) Go
12 6 (1.64%) JCL
13 5 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.37%) Perl
14 4 (1.10%) C#
15 3 (0.82%) Bicep
16 2 (0.55%) C
16 2 (0.55%) Korn
16 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
17 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (45.75%) Security Cleared
2 149 (40.82%) SC Cleared
3 55 (15.07%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (3.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.01%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.01%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.37%) Degree
11 4 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.82%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.27%) CISSP
13 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.59%) QA
2 31 (8.49%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.47%) SLA
4 8 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.64%) GDPR
6 6 (1.64%) PMO
7 5 (1.37%) WCAG
8 4 (1.10%) GRC
9 3 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.82%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.82%) NCSC
10 2 (0.55%) HL7
10 2 (0.55%) NIST
11 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 139 (38.08%) Docker
2 9 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.47%) Postfix
3 8 (2.19%) IAG
3 8 (2.19%) Squid
4 1 (0.27%) KVM
4 1 (0.27%) QEMU
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 218 (59.73%) Terraform
2 125 (34.25%) Grafana
3 119 (32.60%) Kubernetes
4 97 (26.58%) Prometheus
5 54 (14.79%) Ansible
6 10 (2.74%) Puppet
7 9 (2.47%) Istio
7 9 (2.47%) Packer
8 6 (1.64%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.37%) Argo
9 5 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.10%) Suricata
11 3 (0.82%) Kibana
11 3 (0.82%) Rancher
12 2 (0.55%) Consul
12 2 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.55%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.27%) systemd
13 1 (0.27%) yum
Vendors
1 33 (9.04%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.95%) ServiceNow
3 22 (6.03%) Splunk
4 18 (4.93%) Informatica
5 15 (4.11%) Jaspersoft
6 13 (3.56%) Microsoft
7 12 (3.29%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.74%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.19%) Nexthink
10 7 (1.92%) Confluent
10 7 (1.92%) Cribl.io
10 7 (1.92%) Oracle
10 7 (1.92%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.64%) Databricks
11 6 (1.64%) Denodo
11 6 (1.64%) New Relic
12 5 (1.37%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.10%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.10%) Google
13 4 (1.10%) Trend Micro