Amazon CloudWatch Job Trends

Amazon CloudWatch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Amazon CloudWatch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 569 630
Rank change year-on-year +66 +61 +112
Permanent jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch 175 91 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 0.56% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 135 64 156
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,625 £86,563 £80,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £102,550 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £47,307 £60,000
% change year-on-year +42.69% -21.16% -7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,614 16,386 31,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.35% 37.37% 37.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,625 11,035 25,668
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Amazon CloudWatch
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon CloudWatch job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon CloudWatch
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon CloudWatch over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon CloudWatch in the UK

Amazon CloudWatch
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 March 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
England +30 142 £72,500 +3.57% 77
UK excluding London +29 90 £67,500 +42.69% 53
Work from Home +58 75 £72,500 +3.57% 51
London +32 59 £85,000 +13.33% 20
North of England +2 41 £72,500 +7.41% 19
Yorkshire -11 30 £72,500 - 7
Midlands -4 13 £55,200 +0.36% 8
North West -3 10 £78,750 +21.15% 7
South East -11 10 £62,500 -19.87% 16
South West -19 10 £61,250 +36.11% 5
West Midlands +2 9 £49,500 -10.00% 6
Scotland -9 9 £77,000 +54.00%
East of England +3 7 £85,000 +13.33% 4
East Midlands - 4 £75,000 - 2
Wales -9 1 £55,200 +16.68% 1
North East -17 1 £55,200 -21.14% 5

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 10 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.57%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 170 (97.14%) AWS
2 100 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 96 (54.86%) Serverless
4 95 (54.29%) AWS Lambda
5 81 (46.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 73 (41.71%) GitHub
7 56 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
8 54 (30.86%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (29.14%) Azure
10 44 (25.14%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (24.00%) AWS Step Functions
12 39 (22.29%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (17.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 31 (17.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (16.00%) Datadog
16 23 (13.14%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (11.43%) GCP
18 16 (9.14%) Amazon ECR
18 16 (9.14%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.86%) Firewall
2 10 (5.71%) VPN
3 7 (4.00%) Network Security
4 6 (3.43%) DNS
5 4 (2.29%) BGP
5 4 (2.29%) LAN
5 4 (2.29%) MPLS
5 4 (2.29%) WAN
5 4 (2.29%) Wireless
6 3 (1.71%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (27.43%) DynamoDB
2 43 (24.57%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (24.00%) NoSQL
4 34 (19.43%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (13.14%) SQL Server
6 19 (10.86%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (5.14%) MySQL
9 7 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.00%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.14%) Big Data
11 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.57%) Apache Arrow
12 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.57%) Parquet
12 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 66 (37.71%) Jenkins
2 53 (30.29%) Git
3 46 (26.29%) GitLab
4 12 (6.86%) Selenium
5 11 (6.29%) CircleCI
6 8 (4.57%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.57%) JUnit
7 7 (4.00%) JIRA
8 5 (2.86%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.86%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.29%) Appium
9 4 (2.29%) MLflow
9 4 (2.29%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.71%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.71%) NUnit
General
1 72 (41.14%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.71%) Banking
3 22 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.71%) Finance
5 9 (5.14%) Retail
6 8 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.43%) Retail Banking
8 5 (2.86%) Advertising
8 5 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.71%) Billing
10 3 (1.71%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Automotive
12 1 (0.57%) Aviation
12 1 (0.57%) Games
12 1 (0.57%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 60 (34.29%) Senior
2 49 (28.00%) Developer
3 37 (21.14%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (17.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (15.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (14.86%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (12.00%) Senior Developer
8 17 (9.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 16 (9.14%) Senior DevOps
10 15 (8.57%) Java Developer
11 14 (8.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 13 (7.43%) .NET Developer
12 13 (7.43%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (6.86%) AWS Developer
14 10 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 9 (5.14%) Administrator
15 9 (5.14%) DevOps Administrator
15 9 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (5.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 9 (5.14%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.57%) RESTful
2 25 (14.29%) AWS CDK
3 24 (13.71%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (12.57%) React
5 20 (11.43%) Node.js
6 18 (10.29%) Spring
6 18 (10.29%) Spring Boot
7 17 (9.71%) .NET
7 17 (9.71%) Kafka
8 16 (9.14%) .NET Core
9 13 (7.43%) AngularJS
9 13 (7.43%) ASP.NET
9 13 (7.43%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (7.43%) Blazor
10 12 (6.86%) gRPC
11 11 (6.29%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (6.29%) web3js
12 9 (5.14%) REST
13 8 (4.57%) Django
13 8 (4.57%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 54 (30.86%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.29%) Blockchain
2 11 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (6.29%) Web3
3 7 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.43%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.86%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.14%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 51 (29.14%) Linux
2 16 (9.14%) Windows
3 13 (7.43%) Unix
4 7 (4.00%) CentOS
5 3 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (86.29%) CI/CD
2 143 (81.71%) DevOps
3 113 (64.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 68 (38.86%) Observability
6 52 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (26.86%) Microservices
8 38 (21.71%) Software Engineering
9 35 (20.00%) Agile
9 35 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
9 35 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 28 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
10 28 (16.00%) Event-Driven
11 27 (15.43%) Cloud Security
11 27 (15.43%) High Availability
12 26 (14.86%) Root Cause Analysis
13 25 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (13.71%) Secrets Management
15 22 (12.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 20 (11.43%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (50.86%) Python
2 52 (29.71%) Bash
3 40 (22.86%) SQL
4 34 (19.43%) Java
5 27 (15.43%) PowerShell
6 24 (13.71%) Go
7 18 (10.29%) TypeScript
8 15 (8.57%) Kotlin
9 9 (5.14%) Bicep
10 8 (4.57%) Delphi
11 7 (4.00%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.29%) C#
12 4 (2.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.57%) Dart
13 1 (0.57%) Rust
13 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (23.43%) AWS Certification
2 26 (14.86%) Security Cleared
3 21 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.00%) Degree
5 13 (7.43%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (6.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (3.43%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.71%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.14%) QA
2 4 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.71%) SLA
4 2 (1.14%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (55.43%) Docker
2 4 (2.29%) iptables
2 4 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 121 (69.14%) Terraform
2 82 (46.86%) Kubernetes
3 73 (41.71%) Grafana
4 62 (35.43%) Prometheus
5 43 (24.57%) Ansible
6 7 (4.00%) Proxmox
7 5 (2.86%) Kibana
8 4 (2.29%) Control-M
8 4 (2.29%) Nagios
8 4 (2.29%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.29%) Puppet
9 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (10.86%) Splunk
2 14 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.86%) Oracle
4 7 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.00%) VMware
5 5 (2.86%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.29%) Databricks
6 4 (2.29%) F5
6 4 (2.29%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.29%) Informatica
6 4 (2.29%) Rapid7
6 4 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.71%) Google
8 2 (1.14%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco
9 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.57%) Foundry
9 1 (0.57%) Mercator