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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 308 410
Rank change year-on-year -25 +102 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 386 277 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.84% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 2.24% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 195 101
10th Percentile £383 £376 £400
25th Percentile £437 £449 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -2.59% +7.22% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.66 - -

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 18,989 12,346 13,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.81% 37.40% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,599 8,215 8,949
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 308 205
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.20
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.70 £54.06 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.62 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +46.34% -28.07% +5.56%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -43 310 £500 - 167
London +1 185 £543 +3.33% 88
UK excluding London -79 147 £470 -2.59% 99
Work from Home -27 143 £500 - 259
Midlands -52 43 £463 -2.63% 17
North of England -69 42 £500 +11.73% 26
West Midlands -51 40 £466 -1.95% 9
South East -34 27 £480 -4.00% 18
North East -26 20 £425 - 7
Scotland -25 17 £485 -3.00% 11
North West -51 14 £607 +47.03% 8
East of England -27 10 £500 -9.09% 14
Yorkshire -55 8 £569 +17.88% 11
South West -42 5 £350 -32.69% 10
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 2
East Midlands -18 2 £392 -27.09% 8
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 49 (12.69%) Confluence
2 20 (5.18%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.15%) Apache
4 13 (3.37%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.07%) SAS
6 7 (1.81%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.04%) CICS
7 4 (1.04%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Trello
2 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 385 (99.74%) AWS
2 229 (59.33%) Serverless
3 227 (58.81%) Amazon S3
4 226 (58.55%) AWS Lambda
5 148 (38.34%) Amazon EC2
6 131 (33.94%) Amazon EKS
7 120 (31.09%) GitHub
8 114 (29.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 111 (28.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 97 (25.13%) Amazon ECS
11 86 (22.28%) GitHub Actions
12 80 (20.73%) Azure
13 51 (13.21%) AWS KMS
14 45 (11.66%) Amazon SQS
15 38 (9.84%) Datadog
16 37 (9.59%) AWS Step Functions
17 36 (9.33%) Amazon Kinesis
17 36 (9.33%) Route 53
18 35 (9.07%) AWS CloudTrail
19 34 (8.81%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.99%) Firewall
2 16 (4.15%) Network Security
3 15 (3.89%) DNS
4 8 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.81%) HTTP
5 7 (1.81%) SSL
6 6 (1.55%) SNMP
7 5 (1.30%) CTI
7 5 (1.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.78%) SMS
8 3 (0.78%) VPN
9 2 (0.52%) FTP
9 2 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.52%) IMAP
9 2 (0.52%) SMTP
9 2 (0.52%) SSH
10 1 (0.26%) Internet
10 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (29.02%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (20.47%) DynamoDB
3 64 (16.58%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (13.21%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (11.40%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (8.55%) MongoDB
7 32 (8.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (5.70%) Power BI
9 21 (5.44%) Redis
10 14 (3.63%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.37%) MySQL
12 11 (2.85%) DocumentDB
12 11 (2.85%) Tableau
13 10 (2.59%) Data Lake
13 10 (2.59%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.07%) Db2
16 6 (1.55%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (1.55%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 136 (35.23%) Jenkins
2 130 (33.68%) GitLab
3 90 (23.32%) Git
4 66 (17.10%) JIRA
5 23 (5.96%) Bitbucket
6 19 (4.92%) JUnit
7 17 (4.40%) Mockito
8 13 (3.37%) Maven
9 10 (2.59%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.59%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.33%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.81%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.81%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.81%) Postman
12 6 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (1.55%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.55%) JMeter
12 6 (1.55%) jMock
13 5 (1.30%) Gatling
13 5 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 105 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 97 (25.13%) Public Sector
3 39 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.07%) Finance
5 22 (5.70%) Banking
6 18 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.81%) Back Office
7 7 (1.81%) Law
7 7 (1.81%) Military
8 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.30%) Front Office
9 4 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.78%) Legal
10 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.78%) Publishing
11 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.52%) Retail
12 1 (0.26%) Billing
12 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 83 (21.50%) AWS Engineer
2 68 (17.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 61 (15.80%) Senior
4 47 (12.18%) Developer
5 44 (11.40%) Architect
6 43 (11.14%) AWS DevOps
7 39 (10.10%) Data Engineer
8 38 (9.84%) Lead
9 35 (9.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 34 (8.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (6.22%) AWS Architect
12 23 (5.96%) Scrum Master
13 20 (5.18%) Senior Data Engineer
14 19 (4.92%) Lead DevOps
15 18 (4.66%) Java Developer
16 16 (4.15%) AWS Data Engineer
16 16 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
17 15 (3.89%) DBA
18 14 (3.63%) Senior DevOps
18 14 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (62.18%) Terraform
2 50 (12.95%) RESTful
3 45 (11.66%) REST
3 45 (11.66%) Spring
4 44 (11.40%) Node.js
5 42 (10.88%) Kafka
6 41 (10.62%) Spring Boot
7 35 (9.07%) AWS CDK
8 24 (6.22%) PySpark
9 19 (4.92%) SOAP
10 15 (3.89%) AngularJS
11 14 (3.63%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (3.63%) React
12 13 (3.37%) Web Services
13 12 (3.11%) FastAPI
13 12 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (2.85%) GraphQL
14 11 (2.85%) Jest
14 11 (2.85%) Playwright
15 9 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 127 (32.90%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.59%) Product Ownership
3 35 (9.07%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.92%) Replication
5 13 (3.37%) IVR
6 11 (2.85%) CMDB
6 11 (2.85%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.07%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.55%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.55%) NHS
11 5 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.04%) DataPower
12 4 (1.04%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.04%) Online Banking
12 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.51%) Linux
2 22 (5.70%) Windows
3 18 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.59%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.81%) Unix
6 6 (1.55%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.30%) zOS
8 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.52%) CentOS
10 1 (0.26%) Android
10 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.26%) Debian
10 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (78.50%) CI/CD
2 243 (62.95%) DevOps
3 234 (60.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 171 (44.30%) Agile
5 130 (33.68%) Observability
6 115 (29.79%) Containerisation
7 95 (24.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (22.28%) Test Automation
9 77 (19.95%) Microservices
10 75 (19.43%) Platform Engineering
11 64 (16.58%) Root Cause Analysis
12 63 (16.32%) AI
13 61 (15.80%) Scrum
14 56 (14.51%) Data Modelling
15 53 (13.73%) Event-Driven
16 51 (13.21%) Performance Tuning
16 51 (13.21%) Software Engineering
17 50 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 49 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
19 46 (11.92%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 193 (50.00%) Python
2 88 (22.80%) SQL
3 79 (20.47%) Java
4 75 (19.43%) Bash
5 37 (9.59%) PowerShell
6 30 (7.77%) TypeScript
7 27 (6.99%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.15%) Scala
9 14 (3.63%) Groovy
10 11 (2.85%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.33%) C#
12 7 (1.81%) Bicep
12 7 (1.81%) Perl
13 6 (1.55%) Go
14 4 (1.04%) JCL
14 4 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.52%) C
15 2 (0.52%) Korn
16 1 (0.26%) Ladder Logic
16 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 174 (45.08%) Security Cleared
2 155 (40.16%) SC Cleared
3 71 (18.39%) AWS Certification
4 28 (7.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (6.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (4.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (4.40%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.85%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (2.07%) Degree
12 4 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.04%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.78%) CISSP
13 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.26%) RHCE
15 1 (0.26%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.18%) QA
2 39 (10.10%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.55%) GDPR
4 6 (1.55%) NCSC
5 5 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.30%) SLA
5 5 (1.30%) WCAG
6 4 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.04%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.52%) HL7
8 2 (0.52%) PMO
9 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) NIST
9 1 (0.26%) SEPA
9 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 145 (37.56%) Docker
2 15 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.85%) IAG
4 10 (2.59%) Squid
5 7 (1.81%) Postfix
6 2 (0.52%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.52%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.26%) KVM
7 1 (0.26%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 136 (35.23%) Kubernetes
2 122 (31.61%) Grafana
3 95 (24.61%) Prometheus
4 68 (17.62%) Ansible
5 12 (3.11%) Packer
5 12 (3.11%) Puppet
6 11 (2.85%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.30%) Argo
8 5 (1.30%) Istio
9 4 (1.04%) Suricata
10 3 (0.78%) Consul
10 3 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.78%) Kibana
10 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.52%) Nessus
11 2 (0.52%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.52%) Rancher
12 1 (0.26%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (10.36%) Dynatrace
2 29 (7.51%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.96%) Splunk
4 19 (4.92%) Informatica
5 16 (4.15%) Microsoft
6 12 (3.11%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.85%) Nexthink
7 11 (2.85%) Oracle
8 10 (2.59%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (2.07%) Atlassian
9 8 (2.07%) Confluent
9 8 (2.07%) Google
9 8 (2.07%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.55%) Cribl.io
10 6 (1.55%) Denodo
10 6 (1.55%) PagerDuty
11 5 (1.30%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.30%) New Relic
12 4 (1.04%) Trend Micro
13 3 (0.78%) VMware