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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 508 549
Rank change year-on-year -106 +41 +61
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 47 36 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.11% 0.063%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.29% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 30 20
10th Percentile £381 £325 -
25th Percentile £441 £408 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £631 £534 £645
90th Percentile £672 £643 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +1.43% -12.50% +14.29%

All Cloud Computing 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 18,544 12,257 13,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.35% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,240 8,205 9,347
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £616 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.14% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 314 288
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £69.94 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £82.94 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.75%

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 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudTrail in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Top 11 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 29 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 -116 31 £529 +11.32% 9
London -59 20 £544 +22.19% 8
Work from Home -59 19 £533 +12.11% 6
UK excluding London -106 11 £533 +1.43% 4
Scotland - 4 £432 - 1
East of England -21 2 £425 -19.05%
North West -48 2 £640 - 1
North of England -76 2 £640 +27.90% 1
South East - 2 £533 - 1
Midlands -63 1 £538 +55.80%
West Midlands -63 1 £538 +55.80%

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 3 (6.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (70.21%) Serverless
3 32 (68.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 31 (65.96%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (63.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (51.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (48.94%) Amazon S3
8 20 (42.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 17 (36.17%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (36.17%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (36.17%) AWS KMS
10 12 (25.53%) GitHub
11 11 (23.40%) Route 53
12 10 (21.28%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (19.15%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (17.02%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (17.02%) AWS Control Tower
15 7 (14.89%) Amazon Macie
15 7 (14.89%) Datadog
16 6 (12.77%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.02%) Firewall
2 5 (10.64%) Network Security
3 4 (8.51%) DNS
3 4 (8.51%) WAN
4 3 (6.38%) SSL
5 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (38.30%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (14.89%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (12.77%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.13%) Metadata
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.89%) JIRA
3 5 (10.64%) Git
4 3 (6.38%) GitLab
5 1 (2.13%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.13%) Metasploit
5 1 (2.13%) Postman
5 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.13%) Snyk
5 1 (2.13%) sqlmap
General
1 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
1 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Legal
3 3 (6.38%) Finance
4 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (36.17%) Architect
1 17 (36.17%) AWS Architect
2 16 (34.04%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) Security Engineer
4 10 (21.28%) Technical Architect
5 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Network Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) AWS Developer
9 2 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) AWS Security Architect
9 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) Apollo GraphQL
1 7 (14.89%) GraphQL
1 7 (14.89%) RESTful
2 4 (8.51%) REST
3 3 (6.38%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.38%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (4.26%) OAuth
4 2 (4.26%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.26%) OpenID
4 2 (4.26%) SAML
4 2 (4.26%) SOAP
5 1 (2.13%) JSON
5 1 (2.13%) Kafka
5 1 (2.13%) Node.js
5 1 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.13%) pytest
5 1 (2.13%) React
5 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.77%) Security Posture
3 5 (10.64%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (6.38%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.26%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Linux
2 9 (19.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (17.02%) Windows
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (68.09%) CI/CD
2 26 (55.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (44.68%) DevOps
4 13 (27.66%) Cloud Security
5 11 (23.40%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (21.28%) Agile
6 10 (21.28%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (21.28%) Roadmaps
6 10 (21.28%) SIEM
7 9 (19.15%) Migration
8 8 (17.02%) Containerisation
8 8 (17.02%) Data Integration
8 8 (17.02%) Observability
9 7 (14.89%) AI
9 7 (14.89%) API Design
9 7 (14.89%) Design Patterns
9 7 (14.89%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (14.89%) Microservices
9 7 (14.89%) Technical Debt
9 7 (14.89%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) Python
2 15 (31.91%) Bash
3 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
4 8 (17.02%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.38%) Groovy
6 3 (6.38%) Java
7 2 (4.26%) Bicep
8 1 (2.13%) C
8 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) AWS Certification
1 14 (29.79%) SC Cleared
1 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.38%) NIST
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) GRC
2 1 (2.13%) NCSC
2 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.64%) Docker
3 3 (6.38%) Squid
Systems Management
1 32 (68.09%) Terraform
2 13 (27.66%) Kubernetes
3 10 (21.28%) Grafana
3 10 (21.28%) Prometheus
4 7 (14.89%) Ansible
5 4 (8.51%) Packer
5 4 (8.51%) Puppet
6 2 (4.26%) Argo
6 2 (4.26%) Istio
6 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.13%) CloudForms
7 1 (2.13%) Fluentd
7 1 (2.13%) logstash
7 1 (2.13%) QRadar
7 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (12.77%) Red Hat
2 5 (10.64%) PagerDuty
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.38%) Trend Micro
4 2 (4.26%) Citrix
4 2 (4.26%) Google
4 2 (4.26%) Okta
4 2 (4.26%) Splunk
5 1 (2.13%) Cribl.io
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle
5 1 (2.13%) Qualys
5 1 (2.13%) Tenable