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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 518 541
Rank change year-on-year -106 +23 +69
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 54 39 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.099% 0.12% 0.052%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.32% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 13
10th Percentile £393 £330 -
25th Percentile £441 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £475 £593
Median % change year-on-year +12.11% -19.83% +1.94%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £609
90th Percentile £659 £633 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £599
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.32% +33.06%

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 18,877 12,179 13,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.69% 37.52% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,526 8,111 8,851
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 297 201
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.65 £52.50 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -34.55% +11.11%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -120 40 £488 +2.63% 41
London -80 27 £488 +2.63% 24
Work from Home -59 21 £533 +18.33% 13
UK excluding London -113 13 £550 +4.76% 22
North of England -70 4 £630 +26.04% 7
North West - 4 £630 - 6
Scotland -15 3 £550 - 3
South East - 3 £533 - 4
East of England -32 2 £425 -19.05% 1
Midlands -48 1 £358 +3.77% 2
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 1

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 2 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (68.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 33 (61.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 33 (61.11%) Serverless
4 30 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (48.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 24 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (42.59%) Amazon S3
8 20 (37.04%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (33.33%) AWS KMS
10 17 (31.48%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (27.78%) GCP
12 14 (25.93%) GitHub
13 11 (20.37%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (20.37%) Azure
13 11 (20.37%) Route 53
14 9 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (12.96%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (12.96%) Amazon Macie
15 7 (12.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.22%) Firewall
2 8 (14.81%) Network Security
3 6 (11.11%) DNS
4 4 (7.41%) SSL
4 4 (7.41%) WAN
5 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (12.96%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.26%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.85%) Metadata
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.96%) Git
3 6 (11.11%) JIRA
4 3 (5.56%) GitLab
5 1 (1.85%) Maven
5 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 4 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Games
6 1 (1.85%) Local Government
6 1 (1.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Architect
1 16 (29.63%) AWS Architect
2 12 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (20.37%) Security Engineer
4 10 (18.52%) Technical Architect
5 7 (12.96%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (7.41%) Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Network Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) Applications Architect
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Security Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (55.56%) Terraform
2 7 (12.96%) Apollo GraphQL
2 7 (12.96%) GraphQL
2 7 (12.96%) RESTful
3 5 (9.26%) ARM Templates
4 4 (7.41%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (5.56%) SAML
6 2 (3.70%) OAuth
6 2 (3.70%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.70%) OpenID
6 2 (3.70%) REST
6 2 (3.70%) SOAP
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.85%) LDAP
7 1 (1.85%) Node.js
7 1 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.85%) React
7 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 9 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 6 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.85%) NHS
7 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Linux
1 12 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (16.67%) Windows
3 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 28 (51.85%) DevOps
3 25 (46.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (37.04%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (35.19%) Cloud Security
5 19 (35.19%) SIEM
6 17 (31.48%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (22.22%) Agile
7 12 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (22.22%) Incident Response
8 11 (20.37%) Containerisation
8 11 (20.37%) Data Protection
9 10 (18.52%) Roadmaps
10 9 (16.67%) Analytics
10 9 (16.67%) DevSecOps
10 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (16.67%) Migration
10 9 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
11 8 (14.81%) AI
11 8 (14.81%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) Bash
3 13 (24.07%) PowerShell
4 8 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.26%) Bicep
6 4 (7.41%) Java
6 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.56%) Groovy
8 2 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.85%) C
9 1 (1.85%) R
9 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (29.63%) SC Cleared
1 16 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 15 (27.78%) AWS Certification
3 7 (12.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (9.26%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (7.41%) CISSP
6 3 (5.56%) Degree
6 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) NCSC
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (35.19%) Kubernetes
2 12 (22.22%) Grafana
3 11 (20.37%) Prometheus
4 9 (16.67%) Ansible
5 4 (7.41%) Packer
5 4 (7.41%) Progress Chef
5 4 (7.41%) Puppet
6 2 (3.70%) Argo
6 2 (3.70%) Istio
7 1 (1.85%) CloudForms
7 1 (1.85%) Podman
7 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.85%) systemd
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) Google
3 5 (9.26%) PagerDuty
3 5 (9.26%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.56%) Trend Micro
5 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.85%) Citrix
6 1 (1.85%) Okta
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.85%) Splunk