Amazon CloudWatch Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon CloudWatch
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon CloudWatch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 502 478
Rank change year-on-year +80 -24 +149
Permanent jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 80 65 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.55% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 51 47 51
10th Percentile £52,400 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,975 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,309 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.23% -12.51% -11.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £88,750 £72,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £63,750 £61,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.08% -2.00% -16.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Amazon CloudWatch falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,565 11,840 12,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.44% 32.26% 37.72%
Number of salaries quoted 6,779 6,449 9,881
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon CloudWatch relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Amazon CloudWatch job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon CloudWatch
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon CloudWatch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon CloudWatch in the UK excluding London

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +43 35 £60,000 +19.26% 12
Midlands +33 22 £55,200 +0.36% 7
Yorkshire +9 18 £60,000 - 8
West Midlands +38 17 £68,750 +25.00% 7
North West +39 16 £60,000 +19.26% 4
Scotland 0 8 £74,500 +48.09%
South West +7 7 £72,500 +61.11% 6
South East +14 5 £66,250 +76.67% 7
East Midlands - 5 £54,000 -
East of England +25 4 £85,000 +13.33% 4
North East +5 1 £55,200 +9.72%
Wales +4 1 £55,200 +9.72% 2
Amazon CloudWatch
UK

Amazon CloudWatch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (8.75%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) nginx
3 3 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.25%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 76 (95.00%) AWS
2 40 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 36 (45.00%) Azure
4 35 (43.75%) Serverless
5 34 (42.50%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (36.25%) GitHub
8 27 (33.75%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 21 (26.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 21 (26.25%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (26.25%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (17.50%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (17.50%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (13.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (13.75%) SaaS
13 10 (12.50%) GCP
14 9 (11.25%) Amazon ELB
14 9 (11.25%) AWS KMS
14 9 (11.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.75%) Firewall
2 12 (15.00%) DNS
3 9 (11.25%) FTP
3 9 (11.25%) HTTP
3 9 (11.25%) SMTP
3 9 (11.25%) SSH
4 5 (6.25%) LAN
4 5 (6.25%) WAN
5 4 (5.00%) BGP
5 4 (5.00%) IMAP
5 4 (5.00%) MPLS
5 4 (5.00%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (5.00%) Wireless
6 3 (3.75%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (3.75%) VPN
7 2 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (36.25%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (28.75%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (27.50%) SQL Server
4 20 (25.00%) DynamoDB
5 17 (21.25%) NoSQL
6 8 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.25%) DB2
10 1 (1.25%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.25%) MySQL
10 1 (1.25%) Power BI
10 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (42.50%) Git
2 31 (38.75%) Jenkins
3 14 (17.50%) JIRA
4 11 (13.75%) GitLab
5 9 (11.25%) Vagrant
6 7 (8.75%) Cucumber
6 7 (8.75%) Selenium
7 6 (7.50%) JUnit
8 3 (3.75%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.50%) Subversion
10 1 (1.25%) Appium
10 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.25%) Gradle
General
1 40 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.75%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Billing
5 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.25%) Advertising
7 1 (1.25%) Automotive
7 1 (1.25%) Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Developer
2 16 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (17.50%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (17.50%) Senior
5 13 (16.25%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (15.00%) .NET Developer
7 9 (11.25%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (11.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 9 (11.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) AWS Developer
9 6 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Senior Developer
9 6 (7.50%) Software Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.25%) RESTful
2 16 (20.00%) React
3 14 (17.50%) .NET
3 14 (17.50%) .NET Core
4 13 (16.25%) ASP.NET
4 13 (16.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 13 (16.25%) AWS CDK
4 13 (16.25%) Blazor
5 10 (12.50%) Spring
6 9 (11.25%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (11.25%) Spring Boot
7 6 (7.50%) Django
7 6 (7.50%) Flask
7 6 (7.50%) Node.js
7 6 (7.50%) pytest
8 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.00%) LDAP
8 4 (5.00%) Loki
8 4 (5.00%) REST
9 3 (3.75%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (33.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.00%) Replication
4 4 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.50%) IVR
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.50%) Linux
2 9 (11.25%) VMS
3 7 (8.75%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (8.75%) Ubuntu
3 7 (8.75%) Windows
4 4 (5.00%) Unix
5 3 (3.75%) Debian
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (82.50%) DevOps
2 62 (77.50%) CI/CD
3 37 (46.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (36.25%) Containerisation
5 27 (33.75%) Agile
6 23 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (27.50%) Cloud Security
7 22 (27.50%) Microservices
8 19 (23.75%) Observability
9 18 (22.50%) Deployment Automation
9 18 (22.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (16.25%) Application Security
11 13 (16.25%) Configuration Management
12 11 (13.75%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (13.75%) Mentoring
13 10 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 10 (12.50%) TDD
14 9 (11.25%) SDLC
14 9 (11.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (43.75%) Python
2 26 (32.50%) SQL
3 22 (27.50%) Java
4 20 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 13 (16.25%) Bash
6 9 (11.25%) Groovy
7 6 (7.50%) Delphi
7 6 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 5 (6.25%) Perl
9 4 (5.00%) Kotlin
9 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.75%) C#
11 2 (2.50%) Go
11 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
11 2 (2.50%) Ruby
12 1 (1.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (26.25%) AWS Certification
2 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
2 14 (17.50%) Security Cleared
3 11 (13.75%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (11.25%) Degree
5 5 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.75%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 38 (47.50%) Docker
2 6 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.00%) DFS Replication
3 4 (5.00%) Dovecot
3 4 (5.00%) Postfix
3 4 (5.00%) Squid
3 4 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.25%) iptables
Systems Management
1 53 (66.25%) Terraform
2 31 (38.75%) Grafana
3 27 (33.75%) Prometheus
4 21 (26.25%) Kubernetes
5 11 (13.75%) Ansible
6 4 (5.00%) Nessus
6 4 (5.00%) Proxmox
7 3 (3.75%) Control-M
8 2 (2.50%) Kibana
8 2 (2.50%) Nagios
9 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.25%) Puppet
9 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) ServiceNow
2 12 (15.00%) Oracle
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.00%) Splunk
4 5 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.00%) F5
5 4 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (5.00%) Google
5 4 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (3.75%) Foundry
6 3 (3.75%) Informatica
7 2 (2.50%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.50%) Avaya
7 2 (2.50%) Genesys
8 1 (1.25%) Databricks
8 1 (1.25%) Dell
8 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.25%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.25%) Red Hat