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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 360 414
Rank change year-on-year +1 +54 -22
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 282 171 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.59% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.56% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 125 133
10th Percentile £350 £358 £405
25th Percentile £410 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -1.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £738 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% -4.35%
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 16,972 10,936 13,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 37.58% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,497 7,556 9,907
10th Percentile £321 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.36% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 251 344
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £41.64 £27.35 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +52.25% +29.10% -39.47%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -28.70%

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 8 May 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 15 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 8 May 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 -29 222 £500 -2.44% 48
London +16 143 £513 +0.49% 28
UK excluding London -56 100 £463 -11.90% 25
Work from Home -12 86 £472 -10.10% 25
West Midlands -34 36 £472 -5.60% 5
Midlands -50 36 £472 -8.97% 5
Scotland +2 20 £440 -16.19% 2
North of England -70 17 £463 -13.87% 9
South East -58 13 £392 -31.91% 5
East of England -23 8 £500 - 1
North West -43 8 £400 +2.30% 6
South West -34 6 £619 +5.32% 2
Yorkshire -50 5 £481 -33.62%
North East -18 4 £494 -24.04% 3
Wales - 1 £500 -

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 33 (11.70%) Confluence
2 20 (7.09%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.55%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.19%) Apache
5 6 (2.13%) SAS
6 4 (1.42%) CICS
6 4 (1.42%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 279 (98.94%) AWS
2 171 (60.64%) Amazon S3
2 171 (60.64%) Serverless
3 165 (58.51%) AWS Lambda
4 112 (39.72%) Amazon EC2
5 98 (34.75%) GitHub
6 96 (34.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 94 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
8 93 (32.98%) Amazon EKS
9 82 (29.08%) GitHub Actions
10 81 (28.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 52 (18.44%) Azure
12 46 (16.31%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (13.12%) AWS CodePipeline
14 33 (11.70%) AWS KMS
15 29 (10.28%) Route 53
16 27 (9.57%) Amazon Kinesis
17 20 (7.09%) AWS Step Functions
17 20 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
17 20 (7.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.38%) DNS
2 10 (3.55%) Firewall
3 7 (2.48%) HTTP
4 5 (1.77%) SNMP
4 5 (1.77%) VPN
5 3 (1.06%) Network Security
5 3 (1.06%) WAN
6 2 (0.71%) BGP
6 2 (0.71%) OSPF
6 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.71%) SSL
6 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.35%) CTI
7 1 (0.35%) LAN
7 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (29.79%) Amazon RDS
2 67 (23.76%) DynamoDB
3 36 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (12.41%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (11.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 29 (10.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (6.38%) Tableau
8 16 (5.67%) Power BI
9 11 (3.90%) MongoDB
10 10 (3.55%) MySQL
10 10 (3.55%) NoSQL
11 9 (3.19%) Apache Iceberg
11 9 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.19%) SQL Server
12 8 (2.84%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.84%) DB2
12 8 (2.84%) Redis
13 6 (2.13%) Big Data
13 6 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (2.13%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 97 (34.40%) Jenkins
2 96 (34.04%) GitLab
3 57 (20.21%) Git
4 41 (14.54%) JIRA
5 19 (6.74%) JUnit
6 18 (6.38%) Maven
7 17 (6.03%) Mockito
8 16 (5.67%) SonarQube
9 15 (5.32%) Bitbucket
10 11 (3.90%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.90%) jMock
11 9 (3.19%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.13%) Postman
13 5 (1.77%) MLflow
14 4 (1.42%) Gradle
14 4 (1.42%) Jaeger
14 4 (1.42%) NUnit
14 4 (1.42%) Terragrunt
15 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
15 3 (1.06%) Mocha
General
1 75 (26.60%) Public Sector
2 71 (25.18%) Social Skills
3 28 (9.93%) Finance
4 27 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (3.90%) Banking
7 7 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.06%) Police
9 2 (0.71%) Legal
9 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.71%) Military
9 2 (0.71%) Retail
10 1 (0.35%) Billing
10 1 (0.35%) Front Office
10 1 (0.35%) Games
10 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (24.11%) AWS Engineer
2 50 (17.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (15.96%) Developer
4 37 (13.12%) Senior
5 36 (12.77%) AWS DevOps
6 35 (12.41%) Architect
7 32 (11.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 22 (7.80%) Data Engineer
8 22 (7.80%) Java Developer
9 18 (6.38%) AWS Architect
10 17 (6.03%) Lead
11 16 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.96%) Analyst
12 14 (4.96%) Senior Developer
12 14 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (4.26%) Technical Manager
14 11 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (3.90%) Python Engineer
14 11 (3.90%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.18%) Kafka
1 40 (14.18%) Node.js
2 39 (13.83%) REST
3 36 (12.77%) AWS CDK
4 33 (11.70%) Spring
4 33 (11.70%) Spring Boot
5 29 (10.28%) RESTful
6 23 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
7 22 (7.80%) OpenTelemetry
8 21 (7.45%) OAuth
8 21 (7.45%) SOAP
8 21 (7.45%) Web Services
9 18 (6.38%) Hibernate
9 18 (6.38%) JPA
9 18 (6.38%) Spring Cloud
10 17 (6.03%) AngularJS
11 14 (4.96%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (4.96%) Spring Batch
11 14 (4.96%) Spring Integration
12 13 (4.61%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 81 (28.72%) Cloud Native
2 44 (15.60%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.19%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.19%) Mainframe
4 9 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.48%) DataPower
5 7 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.48%) Replication
6 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.42%) Online Banking
7 4 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.06%) IVR
8 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.06%) NHS
8 3 (1.06%) PACS
8 3 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (19.86%) Linux
2 12 (4.26%) Windows
3 6 (2.13%) zOS
4 5 (1.77%) Unix
5 4 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) Debian
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (70.92%) CI/CD
2 148 (52.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 147 (52.13%) DevOps
4 106 (37.59%) Agile
5 104 (36.88%) Observability
6 95 (33.69%) Containerisation
7 71 (25.18%) Microservices
8 67 (23.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (19.86%) Test Automation
10 50 (17.73%) Platform Engineering
10 50 (17.73%) Scrum
11 47 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
12 45 (15.96%) Migration
13 43 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (13.12%) Analytics
14 37 (13.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 36 (12.77%) ETL
15 36 (12.77%) Event-Driven
16 34 (12.06%) Data Modelling
17 33 (11.70%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 130 (46.10%) Python
2 72 (25.53%) SQL
3 62 (21.99%) Java
4 50 (17.73%) Bash
5 22 (7.80%) PowerShell
6 21 (7.45%) Shell Script
6 21 (7.45%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.03%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.90%) Go
8 11 (3.90%) Scala
9 8 (2.84%) C#
10 5 (1.77%) Groovy
10 5 (1.77%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.42%) Bicep
11 4 (1.42%) JCL
12 3 (1.06%) Perl
13 2 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.35%) COBOL
14 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 131 (46.45%) Security Cleared
2 114 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.35%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 11 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.84%) Degree
6 8 (2.84%) SAFe Agilist
7 6 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.71%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.80%) QA
2 15 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.96%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.19%) NIST
6 8 (2.84%) GDPR
7 7 (2.48%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.48%) SLA
8 6 (2.13%) PMO
9 5 (1.77%) GRC
10 4 (1.42%) ISO 20022
11 3 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (1.06%) NCSC
12 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.71%) WCAG
13 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 121 (42.91%) Docker
2 10 (3.55%) Postfix
3 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) IAG
3 1 (0.35%) KVM
3 1 (0.35%) QEMU
3 1 (0.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 172 (60.99%) Terraform
2 107 (37.94%) Grafana
3 88 (31.21%) Kubernetes
4 83 (29.43%) Prometheus
5 27 (9.57%) Ansible
6 8 (2.84%) Istio
6 8 (2.84%) Puppet
7 6 (2.13%) Argo
7 6 (2.13%) Kibana
8 4 (1.42%) Packer
9 3 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.06%) Karpenter
9 3 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.06%) Rancher
10 2 (0.71%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.71%) linkerd
10 2 (0.71%) logstash
10 2 (0.71%) Nagios
10 2 (0.71%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (7.45%) Splunk
2 16 (5.67%) Dynatrace
3 14 (4.96%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (4.96%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.26%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.90%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.84%) Databricks
7 7 (2.48%) Informatica
8 6 (2.13%) AVEVA
8 6 (2.13%) Cribl.io
8 6 (2.13%) Denodo
8 6 (2.13%) New Relic
8 6 (2.13%) Oracle
9 5 (1.77%) IBM
10 4 (1.42%) Confluent
10 4 (1.42%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.42%) Tenable
11 3 (1.06%) Cisco
11 3 (1.06%) Qualys
11 3 (1.06%) SAP