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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 363 427
Rank change year-on-year +61 +64 -6
Contract jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 306 166 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.53% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 1.44% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 125 139
10th Percentile £385 £405 £425
25th Percentile £418 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -13.39%
75th Percentile £625 £590 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £543
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.92% -11.35%

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 13,788 11,490 14,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 36.46% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,471 7,633 10,499
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 168 258
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.43 £23.11
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% +18.68% +2.70%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £80.50 £64.83 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £20.77
% change year-on-year +7.35% +16.42% +8.40%

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 12 January 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 16 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 12 January 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 +25 227 £525 -0.19% 72
London +32 128 £525 -0.19% 19
UK excluding London +18 118 £525 +5.00% 60
Work from Home +10 91 £555 +6.73% 51
North of England -24 51 £521 -11.65% 15
Midlands -28 24 £475 +11.76% 4
Yorkshire -23 23 £518 -28.62% 7
West Midlands -17 21 £475 +11.76% 3
North West -24 20 £425 -14.10% 7
Scotland +6 17 £525 +6.28% 1
South West -7 11 £700 +27.27% 9
East of England - 9 £550 - 9
North East -5 8 £575 -2.54% 1
South East -11 7 £650 - 18
East Midlands -21 3 £375 -11.14%
Wales - 2 - - 3

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 30 (9.80%) Confluence
2 9 (2.94%) nginx
3 7 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 301 (98.37%) AWS
2 195 (63.73%) Amazon S3
3 189 (61.76%) Serverless
4 184 (60.13%) AWS Lambda
5 135 (44.12%) Amazon EC2
6 115 (37.58%) Amazon ECS
7 111 (36.27%) GitHub
8 100 (32.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 92 (30.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 91 (29.74%) GitHub Actions
11 85 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
12 55 (17.97%) Azure
13 41 (13.40%) Amazon ELB
14 39 (12.75%) Route 53
15 35 (11.44%) AWS Fargate
16 31 (10.13%) Datadog
17 28 (9.15%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (6.86%) AWS CloudTrail
18 21 (6.86%) AWS Step Functions
19 20 (6.54%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 54 (17.65%) DNS
2 52 (16.99%) Firewall
3 28 (9.15%) VPN
4 22 (7.19%) SSL
4 22 (7.19%) TCP/IP
5 19 (6.21%) HTTP
6 16 (5.23%) Network Security
7 15 (4.90%) FTP
7 15 (4.90%) SMTP
7 15 (4.90%) SSH
8 14 (4.58%) OpenLDAP
9 9 (2.94%) IMAP
10 1 (0.33%) DHCP
10 1 (0.33%) LAN
10 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (32.35%) Amazon RDS
2 62 (20.26%) DynamoDB
3 34 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (9.80%) Amazon Aurora
5 27 (8.82%) MySQL
6 20 (6.54%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 17 (5.56%) Relational Database
8 12 (3.92%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.92%) Redis
9 11 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (3.27%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.63%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.31%) Big Data
12 4 (1.31%) DB2
12 4 (1.31%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (0.98%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 135 (44.12%) Jenkins
2 126 (41.18%) GitLab
3 85 (27.78%) Git
4 32 (10.46%) JIRA
5 15 (4.90%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.92%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.61%) Maven
8 5 (1.63%) Gradle
8 5 (1.63%) JUnit
8 5 (1.63%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.31%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.31%) NUnit
9 4 (1.31%) Postman
9 4 (1.31%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.98%) Mocha
11 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.65%) Hamcrest
11 2 (0.65%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 77 (25.16%) Public Sector
2 60 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.86%) Finance
4 14 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.94%) Banking
7 6 (1.96%) Military
8 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.98%) Front Office
9 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 106 (34.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 83 (27.12%) AWS Engineer
3 57 (18.63%) AWS DevOps
4 53 (17.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 46 (15.03%) Senior
6 42 (13.73%) Architect
7 32 (10.46%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (9.48%) Developer
9 28 (9.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 22 (7.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 20 (6.54%) Senior DevOps
12 19 (6.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 18 (5.88%) Lead
14 16 (5.23%) AWS Architect
15 14 (4.58%) Cloud Architect
15 14 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (3.59%) Consultant
16 11 (3.59%) Python Engineer
16 11 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
17 10 (3.27%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.73%) Kafka
2 38 (12.42%) Node.js
3 32 (10.46%) Elastic Stack
3 32 (10.46%) REST
4 23 (7.52%) React
5 22 (7.19%) JWT
5 22 (7.19%) OAuth
6 20 (6.54%) AWS CDK
7 18 (5.88%) RESTful
7 18 (5.88%) Spring Boot
8 16 (5.23%) LDAP
9 14 (4.58%) boto
10 13 (4.25%) Spring
11 11 (3.59%) pytest
12 10 (3.27%) .NET
12 10 (3.27%) FastAPI
13 9 (2.94%) Lambda Expressions
13 9 (2.94%) OAuth2
14 8 (2.61%) AngularJS
15 7 (2.29%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.48%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.21%) Replication
4 10 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.94%) NHS
6 8 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.96%) IVR
7 6 (1.96%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.63%) DataPower
8 5 (1.63%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 58 (18.95%) Linux
2 19 (6.21%) Windows
3 18 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
4 16 (5.23%) VMS
5 11 (3.59%) Unix
6 9 (2.94%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.33%) Android
9 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (69.28%) CI/CD
2 192 (62.75%) DevOps
3 180 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (30.72%) Containerisation
5 87 (28.43%) Observability
6 77 (25.16%) Agile
7 75 (24.51%) Microservices
8 48 (15.69%) Migration
9 46 (15.03%) Platform Engineering
10 45 (14.71%) Event-Driven
11 44 (14.38%) Incident Response
11 44 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (14.05%) Performance Tuning
13 42 (13.73%) High Availability
14 41 (13.40%) Infrastructure Automation
15 38 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (11.76%) Cloud Security
16 36 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
17 35 (11.44%) Test Automation
18 34 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 182 (59.48%) Python
2 75 (24.51%) Bash
3 50 (16.34%) Java
4 42 (13.73%) SQL
5 30 (9.80%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.52%) Shell Script
7 22 (7.19%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.56%) Go
8 17 (5.56%) Groovy
9 16 (5.23%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.61%) Perl
11 7 (2.29%) C#
12 3 (0.98%) Korn
12 3 (0.98%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) Bicep
13 2 (0.65%) Scala
14 1 (0.33%) C
14 1 (0.33%) PromQL
14 1 (0.33%) R
14 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (39.87%) Security Cleared
2 99 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.44%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.23%) Degree
5 13 (4.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.29%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.82%) QA
2 18 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (5.56%) GDPR
4 13 (4.25%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.29%) HIPAA
5 7 (2.29%) NIST
6 6 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.63%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.98%) NCSC
8 3 (0.98%) PMO
8 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.65%) SLA
9 2 (0.65%) WCAG
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 160 (52.29%) Docker
2 15 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.90%) DFS Replication
3 9 (2.94%) Dovecot
3 9 (2.94%) Postfix
3 9 (2.94%) Squid
4 2 (0.65%) Snort
5 1 (0.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 227 (74.18%) Terraform
2 125 (40.85%) Kubernetes
3 95 (31.05%) Grafana
4 86 (28.10%) Prometheus
5 59 (19.28%) Ansible
6 9 (2.94%) Nessus
6 9 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 9 (2.94%) Proxmox
7 8 (2.61%) Kibana
7 8 (2.61%) Puppet
8 7 (2.29%) Argo
8 7 (2.29%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (1.63%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.98%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.98%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.98%) Packer
11 2 (0.65%) logstash
11 2 (0.65%) Nagios
11 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (8.50%) Splunk
2 25 (8.17%) F5
3 23 (7.52%) CheckPoint
3 23 (7.52%) Palo Alto
4 22 (7.19%) Dynatrace
5 20 (6.54%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.90%) Microsoft
7 9 (2.94%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (2.29%) Cisco
8 7 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.96%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.96%) IBM
10 5 (1.63%) Avaya
10 5 (1.63%) Dell
10 5 (1.63%) Genesys
10 5 (1.63%) Gigya
10 5 (1.63%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.31%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.31%) Confluent
11 4 (1.31%) Databricks