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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 327 397
Rank change year-on-year -9 +70 +5
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 362 237 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.72% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.93% 1.94% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 167 112
10th Percentile £381 £358 £413
25th Percentile £424 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £610
90th Percentile £672 £640 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.94
25th Percentile - - £68.59
Median hourly rate - - £70.94
75th Percentile - - £72.34
90th Percentile - - £72.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.94

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 18,735 12,238 13,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.11% 37.16% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,373 8,183 9,139
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -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 613 318 262
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.35
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
Median % change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.41 £54.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 13 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 13 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 -11 293 £500 - 103
London +1 175 £525 +2.44% 53
UK excluding London -63 140 £463 -2.63% 54
Work from Home -10 135 £475 -5.00% 45
Midlands -42 45 £466 -1.95% 7
West Midlands -33 42 £469 -1.26% 4
North of England -58 36 £463 +15.63% 16
South East -44 23 £480 -10.79% 16
Scotland -5 18 £485 -3.00% 2
North East -27 17 £425 - 6
North West -51 11 £550 +37.50% 4
East of England -21 10 £500 - 6
Yorkshire -44 8 £500 +5.26% 6
South West -37 5 £350 -32.69% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
East Midlands -16 2 £392 -27.09% 3
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 42 (11.60%) Confluence
2 21 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.87%) Apache
4 11 (3.04%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.93%) SAS
6 6 (1.66%) CICS
6 6 (1.66%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.10%) Trello
3 2 (0.55%) 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
1 362 (100.00%) AWS
2 218 (60.22%) Amazon S3
3 211 (58.29%) Serverless
4 208 (57.46%) AWS Lambda
5 149 (41.16%) Amazon EC2
6 120 (33.15%) Amazon EKS
7 114 (31.49%) GitHub
8 111 (30.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 106 (29.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 89 (24.59%) Amazon ECS
11 84 (23.20%) GitHub Actions
12 71 (19.61%) Azure
13 49 (13.54%) AWS KMS
14 43 (11.88%) Amazon SQS
15 39 (10.77%) Datadog
16 35 (9.67%) Amazon Kinesis
17 34 (9.39%) AWS CloudTrail
17 34 (9.39%) Route 53
18 32 (8.84%) Amazon EMR
19 30 (8.29%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.52%) Firewall
2 14 (3.87%) DNS
3 13 (3.59%) Network Security
4 7 (1.93%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.66%) SNMP
5 6 (1.66%) SSL
6 5 (1.38%) CTI
6 5 (1.38%) HTTP
6 5 (1.38%) WAN
7 3 (0.83%) VPN
8 2 (0.55%) SMS
9 1 (0.28%) BGP
9 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.28%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) PSTN
9 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.28%) RTP
9 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (29.01%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (21.82%) DynamoDB
3 58 (16.02%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (13.54%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (11.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 33 (9.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 28 (7.73%) MongoDB
8 23 (6.35%) Power BI
9 21 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (5.25%) Redis
11 16 (4.42%) SQL Server
12 14 (3.87%) Tableau
13 11 (3.04%) Db2
14 10 (2.76%) Data Lake
14 10 (2.76%) MySQL
15 9 (2.49%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (2.49%) DocumentDB
16 8 (2.21%) NoSQL
17 6 (1.66%) BusinessObjects
17 6 (1.66%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 130 (35.91%) Jenkins
2 118 (32.60%) GitLab
3 82 (22.65%) Git
4 59 (16.30%) JIRA
5 25 (6.91%) Bitbucket
6 24 (6.63%) JUnit
7 23 (6.35%) Mockito
8 18 (4.97%) Maven
9 15 (4.14%) SonarQube
10 11 (3.04%) DbUnit
11 10 (2.76%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (2.76%) jMock
12 8 (2.21%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.93%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.93%) Postman
14 6 (1.66%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.38%) Cypress.io
15 5 (1.38%) Gatling
16 4 (1.10%) Jaeger
16 4 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 90 (24.86%) Public Sector
3 40 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.50%) Finance
5 24 (6.63%) Banking
6 15 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.66%) Law
9 5 (1.38%) Back Office
10 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Front Office
11 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Legal
11 3 (0.83%) Military
11 3 (0.83%) Publishing
11 3 (0.83%) Retail
12 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.28%) Billing
13 1 (0.28%) Games
13 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (22.93%) AWS Engineer
2 58 (16.02%) Senior
3 56 (15.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (13.81%) Developer
5 41 (11.33%) Architect
6 39 (10.77%) AWS DevOps
7 34 (9.39%) Data Engineer
8 32 (8.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 30 (8.29%) Lead
10 29 (8.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (6.35%) Java Developer
12 21 (5.80%) Scrum Master
13 20 (5.52%) AWS Architect
13 20 (5.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (4.97%) Platform Engineer
15 17 (4.70%) Lead DevOps
15 17 (4.70%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (4.70%) Site Engineer
16 14 (3.87%) AWS Data Engineer
17 13 (3.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (14.09%) RESTful
2 48 (13.26%) REST
3 47 (12.98%) Spring
4 43 (11.88%) Spring Boot
5 42 (11.60%) Kafka
5 42 (11.60%) Node.js
6 34 (9.39%) AWS CDK
7 27 (7.46%) SOAP
8 21 (5.80%) PySpark
8 21 (5.80%) Web Services
9 19 (5.25%) AngularJS
10 17 (4.70%) ActiveMQ
11 15 (4.14%) OpenTelemetry
12 14 (3.87%) Hibernate
12 14 (3.87%) JPA
12 14 (3.87%) Spring Batch
12 14 (3.87%) Spring Integration
13 12 (3.31%) GraphQL
13 12 (3.31%) Spring Cloud
14 11 (3.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 113 (31.22%) Cloud Native
2 41 (11.33%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.39%) Product Ownership
4 19 (5.25%) Replication
5 11 (3.04%) IVR
6 10 (2.76%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.49%) CMDB
7 9 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.49%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.21%) Mainframe
8 8 (2.21%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.66%) DataPower
9 6 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.66%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.10%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.83%) NHS
11 3 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.75%) Linux
2 20 (5.52%) Windows
3 16 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.93%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.93%) zOS
6 6 (1.66%) Unix
7 5 (1.38%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.28%) Android
9 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (76.24%) CI/CD
2 211 (58.29%) DevOps
3 204 (56.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 156 (43.09%) Agile
5 120 (33.15%) Observability
6 103 (28.45%) Containerisation
7 80 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 78 (21.55%) Microservices
9 76 (20.99%) Test Automation
10 75 (20.72%) Platform Engineering
11 61 (16.85%) Scrum
12 60 (16.57%) AI
13 58 (16.02%) Root Cause Analysis
14 53 (14.64%) Data Modelling
15 51 (14.09%) Performance Tuning
15 51 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
16 50 (13.81%) Migration
17 48 (13.26%) Event-Driven
18 45 (12.43%) Analytics
19 44 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 182 (50.28%) Python
2 94 (25.97%) SQL
3 77 (21.27%) Bash
4 76 (20.99%) Java
5 40 (11.05%) PowerShell
6 27 (7.46%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.35%) JavaScript
8 15 (4.14%) Scala
9 11 (3.04%) Groovy
9 11 (3.04%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.21%) C#
11 6 (1.66%) Go
11 6 (1.66%) JCL
11 6 (1.66%) Perl
12 4 (1.10%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.83%) Bicep
14 2 (0.55%) C
14 2 (0.55%) Korn
14 2 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (45.03%) Security Cleared
2 143 (39.50%) SC Cleared
3 62 (17.13%) AWS Certification
4 28 (7.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (3.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (3.31%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.04%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.38%) Degree
12 4 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.83%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.28%) CISSP
14 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.28%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.94%) QA
2 32 (8.84%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.21%) SLA
4 7 (1.93%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.66%) GDPR
6 5 (1.38%) WCAG
7 4 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.10%) GRC
7 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.10%) PMO
8 3 (0.83%) NCSC
9 2 (0.55%) HL7
9 2 (0.55%) NIST
10 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.28%) SEPA
10 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 137 (37.85%) Docker
2 10 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.49%) IAG
4 8 (2.21%) Postfix
4 8 (2.21%) Squid
5 1 (0.28%) KVM
5 1 (0.28%) QEMU
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 224 (61.88%) Terraform
2 122 (33.70%) Grafana
2 122 (33.70%) Kubernetes
3 95 (26.24%) Prometheus
4 55 (15.19%) Ansible
5 10 (2.76%) Puppet
6 9 (2.49%) Istio
6 9 (2.49%) Packer
7 6 (1.66%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.10%) Argo
9 4 (1.10%) Suricata
10 3 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.83%) Kibana
10 3 (0.83%) Rancher
11 2 (0.55%) Consul
11 2 (0.55%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.28%) systemd
Vendors
1 34 (9.39%) Dynatrace
2 24 (6.63%) ServiceNow
3 22 (6.08%) Splunk
4 18 (4.97%) Informatica
5 13 (3.59%) Jaspersoft
5 13 (3.59%) Microsoft
6 11 (3.04%) Atlassian
7 10 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.49%) Nexthink
9 7 (1.93%) Confluent
9 7 (1.93%) Cribl.io
9 7 (1.93%) Oracle
9 7 (1.93%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.66%) Denodo
10 6 (1.66%) New Relic
11 5 (1.38%) Databricks
11 5 (1.38%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.10%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.10%) Google
12 4 (1.10%) Trend Micro