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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 349 411
Rank change year-on-year +6 +62 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 322 180 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.61% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 1.62% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 126 132
10th Percentile £356 £358 £405
25th Percentile £413 £437 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -0.60% -12.52%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £600
90th Percentile £643 £648 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
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 17,544 11,129 14,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.89% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 7,531 9,982
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.79% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 270 357
10th Percentile £15.91 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.06 £19.14 £19.09
% change year-on-year +93.68% +0.26% -30.60%

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 10 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 10 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 -18 254 £489 -2.25% 45
London +21 164 £525 +2.44% 23
UK excluding London -50 116 £450 -10.00% 26
Work from Home -2 111 £469 -10.33% 34
Midlands -45 44 £472 -5.60% 2
West Midlands -33 42 £475 -5.00% 2
Scotland -5 21 £440 -12.00% 1
North of England -72 20 £419 +4.69% 10
South East -59 15 £393 -31.65% 7
North East -16 9 £413 - 2
East of England -23 9 £450 -18.18% 1
North West -43 6 £390 +4.14% 4
Yorkshire -55 5 £456 -3.95% 4
South West -24 3 £538 +2.87% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
Wales - 2 £525 - 1
East Midlands -29 1 £425 -20.86%

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 43 (13.35%) Confluence
2 27 (8.39%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.66%) Apache
3 15 (4.66%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.17%) SAS
5 6 (1.86%) CICS
6 5 (1.55%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.24%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.62%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.31%) CMS
9 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 321 (99.69%) AWS
2 195 (60.56%) Amazon S3
3 193 (59.94%) Serverless
4 185 (57.45%) AWS Lambda
5 136 (42.24%) Amazon EC2
6 117 (36.34%) Amazon EKS
7 108 (33.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 107 (33.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 106 (32.92%) GitHub
10 95 (29.50%) Amazon ECS
11 85 (26.40%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (16.15%) Amazon SQS
13 50 (15.53%) Azure
14 44 (13.66%) Route 53
15 41 (12.73%) AWS KMS
16 31 (9.63%) AWS CodePipeline
17 28 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
18 27 (8.39%) Amazon EMR
19 26 (8.07%) AWS CloudTrail
20 24 (7.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.28%) DNS
2 15 (4.66%) Firewall
3 10 (3.11%) Network Security
4 6 (1.86%) HTTP
4 6 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.55%) SNMP
6 4 (1.24%) SSL
6 4 (1.24%) VPN
6 4 (1.24%) WAN
7 3 (0.93%) CTI
8 2 (0.62%) BGP
8 2 (0.62%) OSPF
8 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.31%) Internet
9 1 (0.31%) PSTN
9 1 (0.31%) RTP
9 1 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (30.12%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (24.53%) DynamoDB
3 50 (15.53%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 41 (12.73%) Amazon Athena
6 30 (9.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 20 (6.21%) Power BI
8 18 (5.59%) Tableau
9 15 (4.66%) MongoDB
10 13 (4.04%) Redis
11 12 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (3.11%) NoSQL
12 10 (3.11%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.80%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.80%) Db2
14 7 (2.17%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.17%) DocumentDB
14 7 (2.17%) MySQL
15 6 (1.86%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (1.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 121 (37.58%) Jenkins
2 107 (33.23%) GitLab
3 74 (22.98%) Git
4 53 (16.46%) JIRA
5 24 (7.45%) JUnit
6 22 (6.83%) Maven
6 22 (6.83%) Mockito
7 20 (6.21%) SonarQube
8 18 (5.59%) Bitbucket
9 14 (4.35%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.04%) jMock
11 11 (3.42%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.48%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.48%) Cucumber
13 7 (2.17%) Postman
14 6 (1.86%) Gatling
14 6 (1.86%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.55%) MLflow
16 4 (1.24%) Gradle
16 4 (1.24%) Jaeger
General
1 87 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 85 (26.40%) Public Sector
3 33 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.01%) Finance
5 16 (4.97%) Banking
6 13 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.17%) Law
9 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.93%) Legal
9 3 (0.93%) Military
9 3 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.62%) Police
10 2 (0.62%) Publishing
10 2 (0.62%) Retail
11 1 (0.31%) Front Office
11 1 (0.31%) Games
11 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (24.53%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (16.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 50 (15.53%) Developer
4 45 (13.98%) Senior
5 40 (12.42%) Architect
6 36 (11.18%) AWS DevOps
7 31 (9.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 27 (8.39%) Data Engineer
9 25 (7.76%) AWS Architect
9 25 (7.76%) Java Developer
10 22 (6.83%) Lead
11 21 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (5.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (5.28%) Senior Developer
15 16 (4.97%) Site Engineer
16 13 (4.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 13 (4.04%) Delivery Manager
16 13 (4.04%) Scrum Master
17 12 (3.73%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.60%) RESTful
2 45 (13.98%) Kafka
3 42 (13.04%) REST
4 40 (12.42%) AWS CDK
5 39 (12.11%) Node.js
6 37 (11.49%) Spring
6 37 (11.49%) Spring Boot
7 29 (9.01%) SOAP
8 27 (8.39%) Web Services
9 22 (6.83%) Hibernate
9 22 (6.83%) JPA
10 20 (6.21%) AngularJS
10 20 (6.21%) OAuth
10 20 (6.21%) OpenTelemetry
10 20 (6.21%) PySpark
10 20 (6.21%) Spring Cloud
11 18 (5.59%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (5.59%) Spring Batch
11 18 (5.59%) Spring Integration
12 15 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 98 (30.43%) Cloud Native
2 45 (13.98%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.48%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.48%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.48%) Replication
6 7 (2.17%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.86%) DataPower
7 6 (1.86%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.55%) IVR
9 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.93%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.93%) PACS
10 3 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.63%) Linux
2 15 (4.66%) Windows
3 7 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.17%) zOS
4 5 (1.55%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.24%) Unix
5 4 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (75.16%) CI/CD
2 170 (52.80%) DevOps
3 168 (52.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (38.82%) Agile
5 109 (33.85%) Containerisation
6 106 (32.92%) Observability
7 79 (24.53%) Microservices
8 66 (20.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (18.94%) Platform Engineering
9 61 (18.94%) Test Automation
10 58 (18.01%) Scrum
11 51 (15.84%) Migration
12 45 (13.98%) Performance Tuning
13 43 (13.35%) Event-Driven
14 42 (13.04%) Analytics
14 42 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 38 (11.80%) ETL
15 38 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
17 36 (11.18%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 153 (47.52%) Python
2 82 (25.47%) SQL
3 67 (20.81%) Java
4 66 (20.50%) Bash
5 31 (9.63%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.76%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.90%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.97%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.66%) Scala
10 8 (2.48%) Go
10 8 (2.48%) Groovy
11 6 (1.86%) JCL
12 5 (1.55%) C#
13 4 (1.24%) Bicep
13 4 (1.24%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.24%) Perl
14 2 (0.62%) C
14 2 (0.62%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.31%) COBOL
15 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 151 (46.89%) Security Cleared
2 135 (41.93%) SC Cleared
3 39 (12.11%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (4.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 13 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (3.42%) SAFe Agilist
7 10 (3.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.48%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.17%) Degree
10 4 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.62%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.07%) QA
2 20 (6.21%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.42%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.48%) NIST
5 7 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.17%) SLA
6 6 (1.86%) GDPR
6 6 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.86%) PMO
7 5 (1.55%) GRC
8 4 (1.24%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.24%) NCSC
9 3 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.31%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 129 (40.06%) Docker
2 11 (3.42%) Postfix
3 8 (2.48%) Squid
4 4 (1.24%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.31%) IAG
5 1 (0.31%) KVM
5 1 (0.31%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 199 (61.80%) Terraform
2 125 (38.82%) Grafana
3 108 (33.54%) Kubernetes
4 100 (31.06%) Prometheus
5 36 (11.18%) Ansible
6 11 (3.42%) Puppet
7 9 (2.80%) Istio
8 7 (2.17%) Argo
9 6 (1.86%) Packer
10 4 (1.24%) Suricata
11 3 (0.93%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.93%) Rancher
12 2 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.62%) linkerd
13 1 (0.31%) Consul
13 1 (0.31%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.31%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.31%) Podman
13 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (6.52%) Splunk
2 20 (6.21%) Dynatrace
3 19 (5.90%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.28%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.42%) Informatica
7 8 (2.48%) New Relic
8 7 (2.17%) Databricks
8 7 (2.17%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.86%) AVEVA
9 6 (1.86%) Cribl.io
9 6 (1.86%) Denodo
9 6 (1.86%) Oracle
10 5 (1.55%) Confluent
11 4 (1.24%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.24%) Sybase
11 4 (1.24%) Tenable
11 4 (1.24%) Trend Micro
12 3 (0.93%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.93%) Qualys