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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 349 411
Rank change year-on-year -2 +62 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 320 176 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.61% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 1.61% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 122 133
10th Percentile £352 £358 £405
25th Percentile £411 £436 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £543
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.92% -5.57%
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 17,428 10,911 13,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 37.85% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,684 7,405 9,873
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £619 £634
90th Percentile £710 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 262 347
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.81 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.89% +30.23% -42.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.55 £72.38 £69.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £20.24 £17.80
% change year-on-year +82.85% +13.68% -35.27%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -16 255 £490 -2.00% 58
London +23 164 £525 +2.44% 35
UK excluding London -59 116 £450 -10.00% 24
Work from Home -2 109 £472 -9.75% 35
Midlands -42 44 £472 -5.60% 5
West Midlands -39 42 £475 -5.00% 4
North of England -70 21 £413 +3.13% 7
Scotland -2 20 £440 -12.00%
South East -50 15 £393 -31.65% 8
North East -21 9 £413 - 1
East of England -31 9 £450 -18.18% 1
North West -33 7 £395 +5.47% 4
Yorkshire -60 5 £456 -8.75% 2
South West -32 4 £538 +2.38% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 -
Wales - 2 £525 - 1
East Midlands -27 1 £425 -20.86% 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 42 (13.13%) Confluence
2 27 (8.44%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.69%) Apache
3 15 (4.69%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.19%) SAS
5 6 (1.88%) CICS
6 5 (1.56%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.25%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.63%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.31%) CMS
9 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 319 (99.69%) AWS
2 193 (60.31%) Amazon S3
3 189 (59.06%) Serverless
4 182 (56.88%) AWS Lambda
5 138 (43.13%) Amazon EC2
6 116 (36.25%) Amazon EKS
7 109 (34.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 108 (33.75%) GitHub
9 103 (32.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 93 (29.06%) Amazon ECS
11 87 (27.19%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (15.94%) Azure
13 50 (15.63%) Amazon SQS
14 44 (13.75%) Route 53
15 41 (12.81%) AWS KMS
16 31 (9.69%) AWS CodePipeline
17 27 (8.44%) Amazon Kinesis
18 26 (8.13%) Amazon EMR
18 26 (8.13%) AWS CloudTrail
19 24 (7.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.25%) DNS
2 15 (4.69%) Firewall
3 10 (3.13%) Network Security
4 7 (2.19%) HTTP
5 6 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.56%) SNMP
6 5 (1.56%) VPN
6 5 (1.56%) WAN
7 4 (1.25%) SSL
8 2 (0.63%) BGP
8 2 (0.63%) CTI
8 2 (0.63%) OSPF
8 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.31%) Internet
9 1 (0.31%) LAN
9 1 (0.31%) PSTN
9 1 (0.31%) RTP
9 1 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (30.31%) Amazon RDS
2 77 (24.06%) DynamoDB
3 51 (15.94%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (13.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 41 (12.81%) Amazon Athena
6 30 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (5.94%) Power BI
8 18 (5.63%) Tableau
9 16 (5.00%) MongoDB
10 13 (4.06%) Redis
11 11 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (3.44%) SQL Server
12 10 (3.13%) DB2
12 10 (3.13%) NoSQL
13 9 (2.81%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (2.19%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.19%) DocumentDB
14 7 (2.19%) MySQL
15 6 (1.88%) Metadata
15 6 (1.88%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 121 (37.81%) Jenkins
2 109 (34.06%) GitLab
3 74 (23.13%) Git
4 52 (16.25%) JIRA
5 24 (7.50%) JUnit
6 22 (6.88%) Maven
6 22 (6.88%) Mockito
7 20 (6.25%) SonarQube
8 18 (5.63%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.38%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.06%) jMock
11 11 (3.44%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.50%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.50%) Cucumber
13 7 (2.19%) Postman
14 6 (1.88%) Gatling
14 6 (1.88%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.56%) MLflow
16 4 (1.25%) Jaeger
16 4 (1.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 86 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 83 (25.94%) Public Sector
3 32 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.75%) Finance
5 15 (4.69%) Banking
6 13 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.25%) Law
10 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.94%) Legal
10 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.63%) Military
11 2 (0.63%) Police
11 2 (0.63%) Publishing
11 2 (0.63%) Retail
12 1 (0.31%) Front Office
12 1 (0.31%) Games
12 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (23.75%) AWS Engineer
2 50 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (14.69%) Developer
4 44 (13.75%) Architect
5 42 (13.13%) Senior
6 34 (10.63%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (9.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 28 (8.75%) AWS Architect
9 26 (8.13%) Data Engineer
10 25 (7.81%) Java Developer
11 21 (6.56%) Lead
12 19 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (5.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 16 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (5.00%) Senior Developer
13 16 (5.00%) Site Engineer
14 13 (4.06%) Scrum Master
15 12 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
15 12 (3.75%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.69%) Kafka
2 46 (14.38%) RESTful
3 41 (12.81%) Node.js
3 41 (12.81%) REST
4 38 (11.88%) AWS CDK
5 37 (11.56%) Spring
5 37 (11.56%) Spring Boot
6 29 (9.06%) SOAP
7 27 (8.44%) Web Services
8 22 (6.88%) Hibernate
8 22 (6.88%) JPA
9 20 (6.25%) AngularJS
9 20 (6.25%) OAuth
9 20 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
9 20 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (5.94%) PySpark
11 18 (5.63%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (5.63%) Spring Batch
11 18 (5.63%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 93 (29.06%) Cloud Native
2 45 (14.06%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (8.75%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.50%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.50%) Replication
6 6 (1.88%) DataPower
6 6 (1.88%) Online Banking
6 6 (1.88%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.25%) IVR
9 3 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.94%) PACS
9 3 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (19.38%) Linux
2 16 (5.00%) Windows
3 8 (2.50%) zOS
4 7 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.56%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.25%) Unix
6 4 (1.25%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.31%) Android
9 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.31%) CentOS
9 1 (0.31%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 165 (51.56%) DevOps
2 165 (51.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 124 (38.75%) Agile
4 108 (33.75%) Observability
5 104 (32.50%) Containerisation
6 76 (23.75%) Microservices
7 66 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (19.06%) Test Automation
9 58 (18.13%) Platform Engineering
9 58 (18.13%) Scrum
10 50 (15.63%) Migration
11 45 (14.06%) Performance Tuning
12 42 (13.13%) Analytics
13 41 (12.81%) Event-Driven
14 39 (12.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (11.56%) ETL
16 36 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
16 36 (11.25%) Root Cause Analysis
17 35 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 149 (46.56%) Python
2 83 (25.94%) SQL
3 67 (20.94%) Bash
4 66 (20.63%) Java
5 32 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 26 (8.13%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.94%) JavaScript
8 16 (5.00%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.69%) Scala
10 8 (2.50%) Go
10 8 (2.50%) Groovy
11 6 (1.88%) C#
11 6 (1.88%) JCL
12 4 (1.25%) Bicep
12 4 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.25%) Perl
13 2 (0.63%) C
13 2 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.31%) COBOL
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 147 (45.94%) Security Cleared
2 132 (41.25%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.63%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 11 (3.44%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.50%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.88%) Degree
10 5 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.13%) QA
2 19 (5.94%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.44%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.50%) NIST
5 7 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.19%) SLA
6 6 (1.88%) GDPR
6 6 (1.88%) PMO
7 5 (1.56%) GRC
8 4 (1.25%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.25%) NCSC
9 3 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.63%) WCAG
11 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.31%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 130 (40.63%) Docker
2 11 (3.44%) Postfix
3 8 (2.50%) Squid
4 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.31%) IAG
5 1 (0.31%) KVM
5 1 (0.31%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 198 (61.88%) Terraform
2 126 (39.38%) Grafana
3 106 (33.13%) Kubernetes
4 97 (30.31%) Prometheus
5 38 (11.88%) Ansible
6 11 (3.44%) Puppet
7 9 (2.81%) Istio
8 7 (2.19%) Argo
9 6 (1.88%) Packer
10 4 (1.25%) Kibana
10 4 (1.25%) Suricata
11 3 (0.94%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.94%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.94%) Rancher
12 2 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.63%) linkerd
13 1 (0.31%) Consul
13 1 (0.31%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.31%) Podman
13 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (6.56%) Splunk
2 20 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 18 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.31%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (4.38%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.13%) Informatica
7 8 (2.50%) Microsoft
7 8 (2.50%) New Relic
8 7 (2.19%) Databricks
9 6 (1.88%) AVEVA
9 6 (1.88%) Cribl.io
9 6 (1.88%) Denodo
9 6 (1.88%) Oracle
10 5 (1.56%) Confluent
11 4 (1.25%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.25%) Sybase
11 4 (1.25%) Tenable
11 4 (1.25%) Trend Micro
12 3 (0.94%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.94%) Qualys