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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 337 414
Rank change year-on-year -13 +77 -5
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 356 216 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.66% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 1.77% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 153 110
10th Percentile £354 £358 £405
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £622
90th Percentile £650 £635 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £475 £522
% change year-on-year -3.37% -9.00% -9.22%
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 18,669 12,237 13,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.32% 37.37% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,316 8,189 9,408
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 316 296
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.43 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.63 £50.48
90th Percentile £83.05 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +94.54% -10.14% -21.50%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -7 285 £488 -2.50% 78
London +22 172 £513 +0.99% 35
UK excluding London -35 143 £459 -3.37% 51
Work from Home -8 137 £463 -7.50% 41
Midlands -33 50 £469 -1.26% 7
West Midlands -34 48 £472 -0.63% 7
North of England -68 29 £438 +9.38% 18
Scotland -1 25 £440 -12.00% 1
South East -54 20 £402 -30.09% 15
North East -31 12 £413 - 9
East of England -20 10 £500 - 3
North West -49 10 £550 +37.50% 5
Yorkshire -44 7 £550 +25.71% 4
South West -32 6 £444 -14.66% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 -
East Midlands -13 1 £425 -20.86%
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 50 (14.04%) Confluence
2 25 (7.02%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.49%) Apache
4 13 (3.65%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.97%) SAS
6 6 (1.69%) CICS
6 6 (1.69%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.12%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.84%) Trello
3 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 355 (99.72%) AWS
2 223 (62.64%) Amazon S3
3 207 (58.15%) Serverless
4 204 (57.30%) AWS Lambda
5 155 (43.54%) Amazon EC2
6 113 (31.74%) Amazon EKS
7 112 (31.46%) GitHub
8 108 (30.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 107 (30.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 89 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
11 83 (23.31%) GitHub Actions
12 71 (19.94%) Azure
13 53 (14.89%) AWS KMS
14 48 (13.48%) Amazon SQS
15 36 (10.11%) Datadog
16 35 (9.83%) Route 53
17 34 (9.55%) Amazon EMR
17 34 (9.55%) AWS CloudTrail
18 30 (8.43%) Amazon Kinesis
19 29 (8.15%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.34%) Firewall
2 13 (3.65%) Network Security
3 10 (2.81%) DNS
4 7 (1.97%) HTTP
5 6 (1.69%) SNMP
5 6 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.40%) CTI
6 5 (1.40%) WAN
7 4 (1.12%) SSL
8 3 (0.84%) VPN
9 1 (0.28%) BGP
9 1 (0.28%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) PSTN
9 1 (0.28%) RTP
9 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (27.81%) Amazon RDS
2 83 (23.31%) DynamoDB
3 52 (14.61%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (14.61%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (10.96%) Amazon Aurora
5 35 (9.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (7.30%) Power BI
7 21 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (5.34%) MongoDB
9 17 (4.78%) Tableau
10 11 (3.09%) Db2
10 11 (3.09%) Redis
11 10 (2.81%) Data Lake
11 10 (2.81%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.53%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (1.97%) Metadata
13 7 (1.97%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (1.69%) Pentaho
15 5 (1.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 125 (35.11%) Jenkins
2 113 (31.74%) GitLab
3 87 (24.44%) Git
4 67 (18.82%) JIRA
5 26 (7.30%) JUnit
6 25 (7.02%) Bitbucket
6 25 (7.02%) Mockito
7 22 (6.18%) Maven
8 20 (5.62%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.93%) DbUnit
10 13 (3.65%) jMock
11 11 (3.09%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.25%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.25%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.97%) Postman
14 6 (1.69%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.40%) Gatling
15 5 (1.40%) MLflow
16 4 (1.12%) Cypress.io
16 4 (1.12%) Jaeger
General
1 97 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 88 (24.72%) Public Sector
3 42 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.67%) Finance
5 22 (6.18%) Banking
6 12 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.97%) Law
9 4 (1.12%) Back Office
10 3 (0.84%) Front Office
10 3 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.84%) Legal
10 3 (0.84%) Military
10 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.56%) Police
11 2 (0.56%) Publishing
11 2 (0.56%) Retail
12 1 (0.28%) Games
Job Titles
1 83 (23.31%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (15.17%) Senior
3 52 (14.61%) Developer
4 48 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (10.67%) Architect
6 36 (10.11%) Data Engineer
7 34 (9.55%) AWS DevOps
8 31 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (8.43%) Lead
10 28 (7.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 25 (7.02%) Java Developer
12 20 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (5.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 19 (5.34%) AWS Architect
13 19 (5.34%) Scrum Master
14 17 (4.78%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (4.78%) Site Engineer
15 16 (4.49%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (4.49%) Senior Developer
16 15 (4.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.76%) RESTful
2 46 (12.92%) REST
3 43 (12.08%) Spring
4 42 (11.80%) Kafka
5 41 (11.52%) Node.js
6 40 (11.24%) Spring Boot
7 36 (10.11%) AWS CDK
8 31 (8.71%) SOAP
9 27 (7.58%) Web Services
10 24 (6.74%) PySpark
11 20 (5.62%) ActiveMQ
11 20 (5.62%) AngularJS
12 18 (5.06%) Hibernate
12 18 (5.06%) JPA
12 18 (5.06%) Spring Batch
12 18 (5.06%) Spring Integration
13 17 (4.78%) OpenTelemetry
14 16 (4.49%) Spring Cloud
15 15 (4.21%) OAuth
16 13 (3.65%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 108 (30.34%) Cloud Native
2 46 (12.92%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.99%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.37%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.81%) Replication
6 9 (2.53%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.25%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.25%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.97%) CMDB
8 7 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.97%) IVR
9 6 (1.69%) DataPower
9 6 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.69%) Online Banking
10 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.57%) Linux
2 23 (6.46%) Windows
3 15 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.25%) zOS
5 6 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.40%) Unix
7 4 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 199 (55.90%) DevOps
3 187 (52.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 159 (44.66%) Agile
5 117 (32.87%) Observability
6 111 (31.18%) Containerisation
7 85 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (22.19%) Microservices
9 74 (20.79%) Platform Engineering
10 71 (19.94%) Test Automation
11 63 (17.70%) Scrum
12 57 (16.01%) AI
13 56 (15.73%) Migration
14 51 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (13.20%) Data Pipeline
16 46 (12.92%) Analytics
16 46 (12.92%) Data Modelling
17 45 (12.64%) Event-Driven
17 45 (12.64%) Root Cause Analysis
18 44 (12.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 179 (50.28%) Python
2 91 (25.56%) SQL
3 75 (21.07%) Bash
4 70 (19.66%) Java
5 36 (10.11%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.30%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.90%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.37%) Scala
9 11 (3.09%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.53%) Groovy
11 7 (1.97%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.69%) Go
12 6 (1.69%) JCL
13 5 (1.40%) Bicep
13 5 (1.40%) Perl
14 4 (1.12%) C#
15 2 (0.56%) C
15 2 (0.56%) Korn
15 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.28%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 163 (45.79%) Security Cleared
2 146 (41.01%) SC Cleared
3 51 (14.33%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (5.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (4.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (3.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.09%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.09%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.69%) Degree
9 6 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.84%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.28%) CISSP
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PMP
13 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.99%) Data Quality
1 32 (8.99%) QA
2 9 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.25%) SLA
4 7 (1.97%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.69%) GDPR
5 6 (1.69%) PMO
6 5 (1.40%) GRC
7 4 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.12%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.84%) NCSC
8 3 (0.84%) WCAG
9 2 (0.56%) NIST
10 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.28%) HL7
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 132 (37.08%) Docker
2 11 (3.09%) Postfix
3 8 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.25%) Squid
4 7 (1.97%) IAG
5 1 (0.28%) KVM
5 1 (0.28%) QEMU
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 208 (58.43%) Terraform
2 128 (35.96%) Grafana
3 116 (32.58%) Kubernetes
4 94 (26.40%) Prometheus
5 49 (13.76%) Ansible
6 11 (3.09%) Istio
7 10 (2.81%) Puppet
8 8 (2.25%) Packer
9 6 (1.69%) Argo
10 4 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.12%) Suricata
11 3 (0.84%) Rancher
12 2 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.56%) Kibana
12 2 (0.56%) linkerd
12 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.28%) Control-M
13 1 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.28%) yum
13 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (8.43%) Dynatrace
2 26 (7.30%) ServiceNow
3 25 (7.02%) Splunk
4 19 (5.34%) Informatica
5 17 (4.78%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (3.93%) Atlassian
7 13 (3.65%) Microsoft
8 9 (2.53%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.25%) Oracle
10 7 (1.97%) Cribl.io
10 7 (1.97%) Databricks
10 7 (1.97%) Nexthink
11 6 (1.69%) Confluent
11 6 (1.69%) Denodo
11 6 (1.69%) New Relic
12 5 (1.40%) PagerDuty
12 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.12%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.12%) Google
13 4 (1.12%) Trend Micro