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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 348 433
Rank change year-on-year +44 +85 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 308 176 168
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.83% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 1.51% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 135 137
10th Percentile £385 £405 £421
25th Percentile £431 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -13.39%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £682
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £544
% change year-on-year - -3.49% -11.18%

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 14,203 11,650 14,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.07% 36.62% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,776 7,757 10,516
10th Percentile £306 £313 £296
25th Percentile £406 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.60% -1.45% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 176 276
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.11 £27.50 £24.02
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% +14.49% +6.76%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £66.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +26.19% +9.60%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +24 230 £525 -0.19% 129
London +36 134 £525 -0.24% 21
UK excluding London +9 116 £525 - 121
Work from Home +9 89 £575 +9.94% 77
North of England -39 49 £525 -11.02% 24
Midlands -24 23 £475 +9.32% 13
Yorkshire -36 22 £521 -28.10% 14
West Midlands -21 20 £475 -2.56% 5
North West -20 19 £418 -15.61% 7
Scotland +3 17 £525 +6.28% 3
South West -6 11 £700 +27.27% 12
East of England - 9 £550 - 23
North East -8 8 £575 -2.54% 3
South East -10 7 £650 - 38
East Midlands -29 3 £375 -11.14% 7
Wales - 3 £500 - 7

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 28 (9.09%) Confluence
2 9 (2.92%) nginx
3 8 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.62%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 303 (98.38%) AWS
2 191 (62.01%) Amazon S3
3 190 (61.69%) Serverless
4 185 (60.06%) AWS Lambda
5 132 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
6 119 (38.64%) Amazon ECS
7 112 (36.36%) GitHub
8 97 (31.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 96 (31.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (29.87%) GitHub Actions
11 87 (28.25%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (18.18%) Azure
13 40 (12.99%) Amazon ELB
14 37 (12.01%) Route 53
15 35 (11.36%) AWS Fargate
16 33 (10.71%) Datadog
17 28 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
18 23 (7.47%) AWS CloudTrail
19 22 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
20 21 (6.82%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 53 (17.21%) DNS
2 51 (16.56%) Firewall
3 28 (9.09%) VPN
4 22 (7.14%) SSL
4 22 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 18 (5.84%) HTTP
6 16 (5.19%) Network Security
7 14 (4.55%) FTP
7 14 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
7 14 (4.55%) SMTP
7 14 (4.55%) SSH
8 9 (2.92%) IMAP
9 1 (0.32%) DHCP
9 1 (0.32%) LAN
9 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (31.82%) Amazon RDS
2 65 (21.10%) DynamoDB
3 34 (11.04%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (10.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 26 (8.44%) MySQL
6 21 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (5.84%) NoSQL
8 17 (5.52%) Relational Database
9 13 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (3.90%) MongoDB
11 11 (3.57%) Redis
12 10 (3.25%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.62%) Big Data
13 5 (1.62%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.62%) DB2
14 4 (1.30%) DocumentDB
14 4 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
15 3 (0.97%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 134 (43.51%) Jenkins
2 127 (41.23%) GitLab
3 80 (25.97%) Git
4 30 (9.74%) JIRA
5 14 (4.55%) Vagrant
6 11 (3.57%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.60%) Maven
8 6 (1.95%) JUnit
9 5 (1.62%) Gradle
9 5 (1.62%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.30%) NUnit
10 4 (1.30%) Postman
10 4 (1.30%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.97%) Mocha
12 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.65%) Hamcrest
12 2 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 77 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 63 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.14%) Finance
4 14 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.92%) Banking
7 6 (1.95%) Military
8 4 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.97%) Front Office
9 3 (0.97%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Games
11 1 (0.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 105 (34.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 83 (26.95%) AWS Engineer
3 55 (17.86%) AWS DevOps
4 52 (16.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 45 (14.61%) Senior
6 43 (13.96%) Architect
7 31 (10.06%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (9.42%) Developer
9 27 (8.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 22 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.84%) Lead
11 18 (5.84%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (5.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.52%) AWS Architect
13 14 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.57%) Consultant
15 11 (3.57%) Data Engineer
15 11 (3.57%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.29%) Kafka
2 38 (12.34%) Node.js
3 33 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (10.71%) REST
4 24 (7.79%) AWS CDK
5 22 (7.14%) JWT
5 22 (7.14%) OAuth
5 22 (7.14%) React
6 19 (6.17%) Spring Boot
7 18 (5.84%) RESTful
8 16 (5.19%) LDAP
9 14 (4.55%) boto
9 14 (4.55%) Spring
10 11 (3.57%) pytest
11 10 (3.25%) .NET
11 10 (3.25%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.92%) Lambda Expressions
12 9 (2.92%) OAuth2
13 8 (2.60%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.60%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.21%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.42%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.84%) Replication
4 9 (2.92%) NHS
4 9 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.95%) IVR
6 6 (1.95%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.62%) DataPower
7 5 (1.62%) N-Tier
7 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (19.48%) Linux
2 21 (6.82%) Windows
3 17 (5.52%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (4.87%) VMS
5 11 (3.57%) Unix
6 9 (2.92%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.32%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (69.81%) CI/CD
2 190 (61.69%) DevOps
3 183 (59.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (31.17%) Containerisation
5 88 (28.57%) Observability
6 78 (25.32%) Agile
7 75 (24.35%) Microservices
8 49 (15.91%) Migration
9 48 (15.58%) Event-Driven
10 46 (14.94%) Incident Response
11 45 (14.61%) Infrastructure Automation
11 45 (14.61%) Platform Engineering
12 44 (14.29%) High Availability
12 44 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
14 41 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (12.01%) Cloud Security
16 36 (11.69%) Test Automation
17 35 (11.36%) Cost Optimisation
18 34 (11.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 180 (58.44%) Python
2 73 (23.70%) Bash
3 54 (17.53%) Java
4 43 (13.96%) SQL
5 29 (9.42%) PowerShell
6 22 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 22 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.19%) Go
7 16 (5.19%) Groovy
7 16 (5.19%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.27%) C#
8 7 (2.27%) Perl
9 3 (0.97%) Bicep
9 3 (0.97%) Korn
9 3 (0.97%) Scala
10 2 (0.65%) PHP
11 1 (0.32%) C
11 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 126 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 103 (33.44%) SC Cleared
3 40 (12.99%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.19%) Degree
5 14 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.44%) QA
2 18 (5.84%) GDPR
2 18 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.60%) NIST
5 7 (2.27%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.95%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.30%) NCSC
8 3 (0.97%) PMO
8 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.65%) SLA
9 2 (0.65%) WCAG
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 161 (52.27%) Docker
2 14 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.55%) DFS Replication
3 9 (2.92%) Dovecot
3 9 (2.92%) Postfix
3 9 (2.92%) Squid
4 2 (0.65%) Snort
5 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 229 (74.35%) Terraform
2 127 (41.23%) Kubernetes
3 91 (29.55%) Grafana
4 85 (27.60%) Prometheus
5 60 (19.48%) Ansible
6 10 (3.25%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.92%) Nessus
7 9 (2.92%) Proxmox
7 9 (2.92%) Puppet
8 8 (2.60%) Kibana
9 7 (2.27%) Argo
9 7 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (1.62%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.97%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.97%) Packer
12 2 (0.65%) logstash
12 2 (0.65%) Nagios
12 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (8.12%) F5
1 25 (8.12%) Splunk
2 23 (7.47%) CheckPoint
2 23 (7.47%) Palo Alto
3 20 (6.49%) Dynatrace
4 19 (6.17%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.87%) Microsoft
6 9 (2.92%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.27%) Cisco
7 7 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.95%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.95%) IBM
9 5 (1.62%) Avaya
9 5 (1.62%) Dell
9 5 (1.62%) Genesys
9 5 (1.62%) Gigya
9 5 (1.62%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.30%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.30%) Confluent
10 4 (1.30%) Databricks