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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 321 398
Rank change year-on-year -31 +77 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 364 239 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.73% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 1.96% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 170 106
10th Percentile £381 £358 £413
25th Percentile £425 £436 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £582 £555 £600
90th Percentile £672 £638 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £71.87
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 18,783 12,214 13,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.07% 37.16% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,416 8,148 9,109
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £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 610 316 251
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.27 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%
75th Percentile £69.80 £47.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £82.26 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -16.03%

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 18 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 18 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 -40 294 £500 +2.04% 128
London +11 175 £525 +3.45% 73
UK excluding London -63 141 £463 -2.63% 66
Work from Home -8 135 £475 -5.00% 51
Midlands -44 44 £463 -2.63% 8
West Midlands -39 41 £469 -1.26% 5
North of England -74 37 £463 +15.63% 20
South East -56 24 £460 -14.42% 21
Scotland -7 18 £485 -3.00% 4
North East -24 17 £425 - 5
North West -53 12 £575 +43.75% 9
East of England -24 10 £500 - 4
Yorkshire -48 8 £500 +5.26% 6
South West -40 5 £350 -32.69% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 3
East Midlands -18 2 £392 -27.09% 3
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 41 (11.26%) Confluence
2 21 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.85%) Apache
4 11 (3.02%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.92%) SAS
6 6 (1.65%) CICS
6 6 (1.65%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.10%) Trello
2 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 363 (99.73%) AWS
2 215 (59.07%) Amazon S3
3 212 (58.24%) Serverless
4 209 (57.42%) AWS Lambda
5 146 (40.11%) Amazon EC2
6 121 (33.24%) Amazon EKS
7 113 (31.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 113 (31.04%) GitHub
8 104 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 87 (23.90%) Amazon ECS
10 83 (22.80%) GitHub Actions
11 73 (20.05%) Azure
12 49 (13.46%) AWS KMS
13 43 (11.81%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (10.71%) Datadog
15 35 (9.62%) Amazon Kinesis
15 35 (9.62%) AWS CloudTrail
16 34 (9.34%) Route 53
17 32 (8.79%) Amazon EMR
18 31 (8.52%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.77%) Firewall
2 14 (3.85%) DNS
2 14 (3.85%) Network Security
3 7 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.65%) SNMP
4 6 (1.65%) SSL
5 5 (1.37%) CTI
5 5 (1.37%) HTTP
5 5 (1.37%) WAN
6 3 (0.82%) VPN
7 2 (0.55%) SMS
8 1 (0.27%) BGP
8 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.27%) Internet
8 1 (0.27%) PSTN
8 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.27%) RTP
8 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (28.85%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (21.70%) DynamoDB
3 60 (16.48%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (13.46%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (12.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (9.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (7.97%) MongoDB
8 22 (6.04%) Power BI
9 21 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (5.49%) Redis
11 18 (4.95%) SQL Server
12 13 (3.57%) Tableau
13 12 (3.30%) MySQL
14 11 (3.02%) Db2
15 10 (2.75%) Data Lake
16 9 (2.47%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (2.47%) DocumentDB
17 8 (2.20%) NoSQL
18 6 (1.65%) BusinessObjects
18 6 (1.65%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 129 (35.44%) Jenkins
2 119 (32.69%) GitLab
3 81 (22.25%) Git
4 58 (15.93%) JIRA
5 24 (6.59%) Bitbucket
6 23 (6.32%) JUnit
7 22 (6.04%) Mockito
8 17 (4.67%) Maven
9 14 (3.85%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.75%) DbUnit
11 9 (2.47%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (2.47%) jMock
12 8 (2.20%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.92%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.92%) Postman
14 6 (1.65%) 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
1 100 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 88 (24.18%) Public Sector
3 38 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (10.44%) Finance
4 24 (6.59%) Banking
5 15 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.65%) Law
8 5 (1.37%) Back Office
9 3 (0.82%) Front Office
9 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.82%) Legal
9 3 (0.82%) Military
9 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.82%) Publishing
9 3 (0.82%) Retail
10 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.27%) Billing
11 1 (0.27%) Games
11 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (22.53%) AWS Engineer
2 57 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (15.66%) Senior
3 50 (13.74%) Developer
4 42 (11.54%) Architect
5 39 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
6 34 (9.34%) Data Engineer
7 32 (8.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 31 (8.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (8.24%) Lead
10 23 (6.32%) Java Developer
11 21 (5.77%) AWS Architect
11 21 (5.77%) Scrum Master
12 20 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 17 (4.67%) Lead DevOps
13 17 (4.67%) Senior Data Engineer
13 17 (4.67%) Site Engineer
14 16 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
15 14 (3.85%) AWS Data Engineer
15 14 (3.85%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.74%) RESTful
2 47 (12.91%) REST
3 46 (12.64%) Spring
4 43 (11.81%) Kafka
5 42 (11.54%) Spring Boot
6 41 (11.26%) Node.js
7 33 (9.07%) AWS CDK
8 26 (7.14%) SOAP
9 21 (5.77%) PySpark
10 20 (5.49%) Web Services
11 18 (4.95%) AngularJS
12 17 (4.67%) ActiveMQ
13 15 (4.12%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (3.57%) Hibernate
14 13 (3.57%) JPA
14 13 (3.57%) Spring Batch
14 13 (3.57%) Spring Integration
15 12 (3.30%) GraphQL
15 12 (3.30%) React
16 11 (3.02%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 115 (31.59%) Cloud Native
2 40 (10.99%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.34%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.49%) Replication
5 11 (3.02%) IVR
6 10 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.47%) CMDB
7 9 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.20%) Mainframe
8 8 (2.20%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.65%) DataPower
9 6 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.65%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.10%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.66%) Linux
2 21 (5.77%) Windows
3 17 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.92%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.92%) zOS
6 6 (1.65%) 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
1 280 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 214 (58.79%) DevOps
3 207 (56.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (42.58%) Agile
5 119 (32.69%) Observability
6 101 (27.75%) Containerisation
7 80 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 78 (21.43%) Microservices
9 76 (20.88%) Test Automation
10 72 (19.78%) Platform Engineering
11 61 (16.76%) Scrum
12 60 (16.48%) AI
13 59 (16.21%) Root Cause Analysis
14 53 (14.56%) Data Modelling
15 52 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
16 51 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
17 50 (13.74%) Migration
18 49 (13.46%) Event-Driven
19 46 (12.64%) Analytics
20 45 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (50.27%) Python
2 93 (25.55%) SQL
3 78 (21.43%) Bash
4 77 (21.15%) Java
5 41 (11.26%) PowerShell
6 27 (7.42%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.32%) JavaScript
8 15 (4.12%) Scala
9 11 (3.02%) Groovy
10 10 (2.75%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.47%) C#
12 6 (1.65%) Go
12 6 (1.65%) JCL
12 6 (1.65%) Perl
13 4 (1.10%) Bicep
13 4 (1.10%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.55%) C
14 2 (0.55%) Korn
14 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 162 (44.51%) Security Cleared
2 142 (39.01%) SC Cleared
3 64 (17.58%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.02%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.65%) 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 2 (0.55%) CISSP
13 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.89%) QA
2 32 (8.79%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.20%) SLA
4 7 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.65%) GDPR
6 5 (1.37%) WCAG
7 4 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.10%) GRC
7 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.82%) NCSC
8 3 (0.82%) PMO
9 2 (0.55%) HL7
9 2 (0.55%) NIST
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.27%) SEPA
10 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 134 (36.81%) Docker
2 11 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.47%) IAG
4 8 (2.20%) Postfix
4 8 (2.20%) Squid
5 1 (0.27%) KVM
5 1 (0.27%) QEMU
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 227 (62.36%) Terraform
2 124 (34.07%) Kubernetes
3 123 (33.79%) Grafana
4 94 (25.82%) Prometheus
5 55 (15.11%) Ansible
6 10 (2.75%) Puppet
7 9 (2.47%) Packer
8 7 (1.92%) Istio
8 7 (1.92%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.37%) Argo
9 5 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.10%) Suricata
11 3 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.82%) Kibana
11 3 (0.82%) Rancher
12 2 (0.55%) Consul
12 2 (0.55%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.27%) systemd
13 1 (0.27%) yum
Vendors
1 34 (9.34%) Dynatrace
2 23 (6.32%) ServiceNow
3 22 (6.04%) Splunk
4 18 (4.95%) Informatica
5 15 (4.12%) Microsoft
6 12 (3.30%) Jaspersoft
7 11 (3.02%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.75%) Atlassian
9 9 (2.47%) Nexthink
10 8 (2.20%) Oracle
11 7 (1.92%) Confluent
11 7 (1.92%) Cribl.io
11 7 (1.92%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.65%) Denodo
12 6 (1.65%) New Relic
13 5 (1.37%) Databricks
13 5 (1.37%) Google
13 5 (1.37%) PagerDuty
14 4 (1.10%) AppDynamics
14 4 (1.10%) Trend Micro