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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 323 401
Rank change year-on-year -28 +78 -10
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 356 235 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.71% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 1.92% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 166 115
10th Percentile £357 £358 £405
25th Percentile £413 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £611
90th Percentile £652 £641 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -3.37% -3.85% -14.09%
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 18,613 12,245 13,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.22% 37.21% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,280 8,214 9,247
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £617 £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 619 311 273
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.56% +13.46% -31.00%
75th Percentile £69.79 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.05 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -19.36%

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 4 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 4 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 -26 286 £488 -2.50% 106
London +15 172 £513 - 59
UK excluding London -49 141 £459 -3.37% 55
Work from Home -10 137 £463 -7.50% 55
Midlands -33 51 £472 -0.63% 6
West Midlands -38 49 £475 - 6
North of England -53 31 £425 +6.25% 17
Scotland -4 22 £433 -13.50% 1
South East -53 18 £450 -16.28% 17
North East -28 14 £413 - 5
East of England -18 10 £500 - 6
North West -53 10 £495 +23.75% 5
Yorkshire -47 7 £550 +15.79% 7
South West -41 6 £444 -14.66% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 2
East Midlands -9 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 50 (14.04%) Confluence
2 21 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.21%) Apache
4 12 (3.37%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.97%) SAS
6 6 (1.69%) CICS
6 6 (1.69%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.12%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.12%) Trello
3 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 356 (100.00%) AWS
2 230 (64.61%) Amazon S3
3 212 (59.55%) Serverless
4 209 (58.71%) AWS Lambda
5 160 (44.94%) Amazon EC2
6 115 (32.30%) Amazon EKS
7 111 (31.18%) GitHub
8 107 (30.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 105 (29.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 92 (25.84%) Amazon ECS
11 83 (23.31%) GitHub Actions
12 69 (19.38%) Azure
13 52 (14.61%) AWS KMS
14 46 (12.92%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (10.39%) Route 53
16 36 (10.11%) Datadog
17 34 (9.55%) Amazon EMR
18 33 (9.27%) Amazon Kinesis
18 33 (9.27%) AWS CloudTrail
19 30 (8.43%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.78%) Firewall
2 13 (3.65%) Network Security
3 11 (3.09%) DNS
4 6 (1.69%) SNMP
4 6 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.40%) CTI
5 5 (1.40%) SSL
5 5 (1.40%) WAN
6 4 (1.12%) HTTP
7 3 (0.84%) VPN
8 1 (0.28%) BGP
8 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
8 1 (0.28%) PSTN
8 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.28%) RTP
8 1 (0.28%) SMS
8 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (28.65%) Amazon RDS
2 84 (23.60%) DynamoDB
3 52 (14.61%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (14.61%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (10.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 33 (9.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (7.30%) Power BI
7 22 (6.18%) MongoDB
8 21 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (4.78%) Tableau
10 12 (3.37%) Redis
11 10 (2.81%) Data Lake
11 10 (2.81%) Db2
12 9 (2.53%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (2.53%) SQL Server
13 8 (2.25%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.97%) Metadata
15 6 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.69%) Pentaho
16 5 (1.40%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 128 (35.96%) Jenkins
2 115 (32.30%) GitLab
3 92 (25.84%) Git
4 67 (18.82%) JIRA
5 28 (7.87%) JUnit
6 27 (7.58%) Bitbucket
6 27 (7.58%) Mockito
7 22 (6.18%) Maven
8 19 (5.34%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.93%) DbUnit
10 13 (3.65%) jMock
11 11 (3.09%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.25%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.97%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.97%) Postman
14 6 (1.69%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.40%) Cypress.io
15 5 (1.40%) Gatling
16 4 (1.12%) Jaeger
17 3 (0.84%) MLflow
General
1 98 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 86 (24.16%) Public Sector
3 42 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.67%) Finance
5 23 (6.46%) Banking
6 14 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.97%) Law
9 6 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.40%) Back Office
11 3 (0.84%) Front Office
11 3 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Legal
11 3 (0.84%) Military
11 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Publishing
12 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.56%) Police
12 2 (0.56%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 84 (23.60%) AWS Engineer
2 57 (16.01%) Developer
3 54 (15.17%) Senior
4 48 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (10.11%) Architect
5 36 (10.11%) AWS DevOps
6 35 (9.83%) Data Engineer
7 31 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (8.43%) Lead
9 29 (8.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 28 (7.87%) Java Developer
11 20 (5.62%) Scrum Master
12 19 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (5.06%) AWS Architect
14 17 (4.78%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (4.78%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (4.49%) Senior Developer
15 16 (4.49%) Site Engineer
16 15 (4.21%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (14.61%) RESTful
2 49 (13.76%) REST
2 49 (13.76%) Spring
3 45 (12.64%) Spring Boot
4 42 (11.80%) Node.js
5 41 (11.52%) Kafka
6 33 (9.27%) AWS CDK
7 31 (8.71%) SOAP
8 25 (7.02%) Web Services
9 23 (6.46%) AngularJS
9 23 (6.46%) PySpark
10 21 (5.90%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (5.06%) Hibernate
11 18 (5.06%) JPA
11 18 (5.06%) Spring Batch
11 18 (5.06%) Spring Integration
12 16 (4.49%) Spring Cloud
13 15 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (3.65%) PowerMock
15 12 (3.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 112 (31.46%) Cloud Native
2 45 (12.64%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (9.27%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.81%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.81%) Replication
5 9 (2.53%) IVR
5 9 (2.53%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.97%) CMDB
7 7 (1.97%) Mainframe
7 7 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.69%) DataPower
8 6 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.69%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.57%) Linux
2 20 (5.62%) Windows
3 16 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.97%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.97%) zOS
6 5 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.40%) Unix
7 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (75.56%) CI/CD
2 203 (57.02%) DevOps
3 185 (51.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 160 (44.94%) Agile
5 115 (32.30%) Observability
6 103 (28.93%) Containerisation
7 84 (23.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 84 (23.60%) Microservices
8 73 (20.51%) Platform Engineering
9 69 (19.38%) Test Automation
10 64 (17.98%) Scrum
11 55 (15.45%) AI
12 53 (14.89%) Migration
12 53 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (13.48%) Data Modelling
13 48 (13.48%) Root Cause Analysis
14 47 (13.20%) Data Pipeline
15 46 (12.92%) Event-Driven
16 45 (12.64%) Analytics
17 44 (12.36%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 176 (49.44%) Python
2 90 (25.28%) SQL
3 76 (21.35%) Java
4 74 (20.79%) Bash
5 37 (10.39%) PowerShell
6 27 (7.58%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.90%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.37%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.09%) Scala
10 9 (2.53%) Groovy
11 8 (2.25%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.69%) Go
12 6 (1.69%) JCL
13 5 (1.40%) Perl
14 4 (1.12%) C#
15 3 (0.84%) Bicep
16 2 (0.56%) C
16 2 (0.56%) Korn
16 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
17 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (45.79%) Security Cleared
2 146 (41.01%) SC Cleared
3 52 (14.61%) AWS Certification
4 20 (5.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (5.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (3.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.09%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.09%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.40%) Degree
11 4 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.84%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.28%) CISSP
13 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.28%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.27%) QA
2 30 (8.43%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.25%) SLA
4 6 (1.69%) GDPR
4 6 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.69%) PMO
5 5 (1.40%) WCAG
6 4 (1.12%) GRC
7 3 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.84%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.84%) NCSC
8 2 (0.56%) NIST
9 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 136 (38.20%) Docker
2 11 (3.09%) Postfix
3 9 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.25%) Squid
5 7 (1.97%) IAG
6 1 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.28%) QEMU
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 208 (58.43%) Terraform
2 123 (34.55%) Grafana
3 114 (32.02%) Kubernetes
4 94 (26.40%) Prometheus
5 50 (14.04%) Ansible
6 10 (2.81%) Puppet
7 9 (2.53%) Istio
8 8 (2.25%) Packer
9 5 (1.40%) Argo
10 4 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.12%) Suricata
11 3 (0.84%) Kibana
11 3 (0.84%) Rancher
12 2 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.28%) Consul
13 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.28%) systemd
13 1 (0.28%) yum
13 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (8.43%) Dynatrace
2 27 (7.58%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.90%) Splunk
4 18 (5.06%) Informatica
5 17 (4.78%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (3.93%) Atlassian
7 13 (3.65%) Microsoft
8 10 (2.81%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.97%) Confluent
9 7 (1.97%) Cribl.io
9 7 (1.97%) Nexthink
9 7 (1.97%) Oracle
10 6 (1.69%) Databricks
10 6 (1.69%) Denodo
10 6 (1.69%) New Relic
10 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.40%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.12%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.12%) Google
12 4 (1.12%) Trend Micro