AWS CloudTrail Contract Job Trends

Amazon AWS CloudTrail
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AWS CloudTrail skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 547 575
Rank change year-on-year +19 +28 +148
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 49 14 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.039% 0.064%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 7 14
10th Percentile £350 £483 £384
25th Percentile £406 £488 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -16.98%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £625
90th Percentile £615 £638 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £524 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.24% +5.00% -13.04%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS CloudTrail 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 13,903 12,948 15,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.09% 35.84% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,469 8,560 11,316
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 184 295
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.66 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +18.20% +13.66%
75th Percentile £52.00 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £27.24 £21.05
% change year-on-year -15.56% +29.39% +9.27%

AWS CloudTrail
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS CloudTrail relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS CloudTrail job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS CloudTrail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudTrail over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudTrail in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudTrail within the UK over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. 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 -1 38 £475 -32.14% 9
Work from Home +26 24 £550 +10.00% 5
UK excluding London -30 22 £524 -0.24% 6
London +20 20 £475 - 5
North of England -37 7 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £550 -
Scotland +6 4 £540 +2.86%
South East - 4 £600 - 2
Midlands - 4 £325 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £325 -
North East - 2 £466 -
South West - 2 £406 - 2
East of England - 1 £538 -

AWS CloudTrail
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 1 (2.04%) Confluence
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (65.31%) AWS CloudFormation
3 24 (48.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 23 (46.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 22 (44.90%) Amazon S3
6 20 (40.82%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (40.82%) Serverless
7 19 (38.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (36.73%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (32.65%) AWS KMS
10 13 (26.53%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (24.49%) GitHub
11 12 (24.49%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (22.45%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (20.41%) Entra ID
14 9 (18.37%) Azure
15 8 (16.33%) Datadog
16 7 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
16 7 (14.29%) Route 53
17 5 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) DNS
2 4 (8.16%) DHCP
2 4 (8.16%) Firewall
3 3 (6.12%) Network Security
4 1 (2.04%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.04%) LAN
4 1 (2.04%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.04%) VLAN
4 1 (2.04%) VSAN
4 1 (2.04%) WAN
4 1 (2.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (12.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.08%) MySQL
6 1 (2.04%) CouchDB
6 1 (2.04%) Metadata
6 1 (2.04%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (2.04%) Redis
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (36.73%) Jenkins
2 13 (26.53%) Git
3 7 (14.29%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.04%) JIRA
4 1 (2.04%) Metasploit
General
1 14 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 13 (26.53%) Finance
3 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Games
5 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (24.49%) Architect
3 9 (18.37%) AWS Architect
4 8 (16.33%) Cloud Architect
4 8 (16.33%) Security Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (8.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Lead
8 4 (8.16%) Lead Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Lead Cloud Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Senior
9 3 (6.12%) Administrator
9 3 (6.12%) AWS Data Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Data Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) AWS CDK
1 3 (6.12%) Node.js
2 2 (4.08%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) Memcached
3 1 (2.04%) RESTful
3 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Replication
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.04%) PKI
4 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.04%) SUSE
3 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (40.82%) DevOps
3 18 (36.73%) Cloud Security
4 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
5 15 (30.61%) Containerisation
6 12 (24.49%) Migration
7 11 (22.45%) Secrets Management
8 10 (20.41%) Roadmaps
8 10 (20.41%) Threat Detection
9 9 (18.37%) Incident Response
10 8 (16.33%) Configuration Management
11 7 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
11 7 (14.29%) Key Management
11 7 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
11 7 (14.29%) Observability
12 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (12.24%) RBAC
12 6 (12.24%) SIEM
13 5 (10.20%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.65%) Python
2 10 (20.41%) Bash
3 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.24%) Go
5 2 (4.08%) SQL
6 1 (2.04%) C
6 1 (2.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) AWS Certification
3 12 (24.49%) SC Cleared
4 10 (20.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (14.29%) NCSC
2 7 (14.29%) NIST
3 5 (10.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (6.12%) GDPR
4 3 (6.12%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
5 2 (4.08%) HIPAA
5 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.04%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (28.57%) Docker
2 5 (10.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.08%) Snort
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (73.47%) Terraform
2 8 (16.33%) Ansible
3 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 6 (12.24%) Grafana
4 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (6.12%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.04%) Nessus
6 1 (2.04%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) CloudEndure
1 7 (14.29%) Splunk
2 6 (12.24%) Citrix
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.12%) AppDynamics
4 3 (6.12%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.12%) Tenable
5 2 (4.08%) ArcSight
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco
5 2 (4.08%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.08%) F5
5 2 (4.08%) Imperva
6 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) Intel
6 1 (2.04%) New Relic
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle
6 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.04%) Veeam
6 1 (2.04%) VMware