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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 526 564
Rank change year-on-year -18 +38 +134
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 44 16 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.048% 0.072%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 9 18
10th Percentile £333 £475 £429
25th Percentile £414 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £634
90th Percentile £609 £710 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%

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 14,157 12,014 14,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.16% 36.22% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,708 8,004 10,646
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 176 265
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +8.35% +12.80%
75th Percentile £56.69 £44.53 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.38 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +12.53% +15.14% +8.64%

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 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudTrail in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Top 12 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 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -15 34 £475 -32.14% 14
UK excluding London -38 21 £525 - 9
Work from Home +13 19 £575 +15.00% 6
London -2 17 £475 -32.14% 9
North of England -50 7 £550 +10.00%
Yorkshire - 5 £550 -
Scotland +10 4 £540 +2.86% 1
South East - 4 £600 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £325 - 3
South West - 3 £406 - 3
Midlands - 3 £325 - 3
North East - 2 £466 -

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 (2.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (70.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 25 (56.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 21 (47.73%) Amazon S3
5 20 (45.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 20 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (45.45%) Serverless
6 18 (40.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (38.64%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (36.36%) AWS KMS
9 14 (31.82%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (27.27%) GitHub
10 12 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (25.00%) Entra ID
12 8 (18.18%) Azure
12 8 (18.18%) Datadog
13 7 (15.91%) AWS Control Tower
14 6 (13.64%) Route 53
15 4 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) DNS
1 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) DHCP
3 1 (2.27%) HTTP
3 1 (2.27%) LAN
3 1 (2.27%) Network Security
3 1 (2.27%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.27%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) WAN
3 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (11.36%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.55%) MySQL
7 1 (2.27%) CouchDB
7 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.27%) Metadata
7 1 (2.27%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.27%) Redis
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (40.91%) Jenkins
2 13 (29.55%) Git
3 7 (15.91%) GitLab
4 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.27%) JIRA
4 1 (2.27%) Metasploit
4 1 (2.27%) Snyk
General
1 13 (29.55%) Public Sector
2 12 (27.27%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Games
5 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Architect
3 7 (15.91%) AWS Architect
3 7 (15.91%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (15.91%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Security Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (11.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Lead
5 5 (11.36%) Lead Architect
5 5 (11.36%) Lead Cloud Architect
6 4 (9.09%) Senior
7 3 (6.82%) Administrator
7 3 (6.82%) AWS Administrator
7 3 (6.82%) AWS Data Architect
7 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Node.js
2 3 (6.82%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.55%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.27%) .NET
4 1 (2.27%) Kafka
4 1 (2.27%) Memcached
4 1 (2.27%) React
4 1 (2.27%) RESTful
4 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
1 2 (4.55%) Replication
2 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) CI/CD
1 19 (43.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (38.64%) DevOps
3 16 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 15 (34.09%) Containerisation
5 12 (27.27%) Threat Detection
6 11 (25.00%) Migration
6 11 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 9 (20.45%) Incident Response
7 9 (20.45%) Secrets Management
8 7 (15.91%) Configuration Management
8 7 (15.91%) Cost Optimisation
8 7 (15.91%) Key Management
8 7 (15.91%) Observability
8 7 (15.91%) Runbook
8 7 (15.91%) SIEM
9 6 (13.64%) ITIL
9 6 (13.64%) Network Segmentation
9 6 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (38.64%) Python
2 11 (25.00%) Bash
3 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.64%) Go
5 2 (4.55%) SQL
6 1 (2.27%) C
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) PHP
6 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.82%) AWS Certification
3 13 (29.55%) SC Cleared
4 11 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) NCSC
2 7 (15.91%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (15.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (11.36%) NIST
4 3 (6.82%) GDPR
5 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
5 2 (4.55%) HIPAA
5 2 (4.55%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Docker
2 6 (13.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.55%) Snort
Systems Management
1 36 (81.82%) Terraform
2 8 (18.18%) Ansible
3 7 (15.91%) Grafana
3 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
4 6 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (6.82%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) CloudEndure
2 7 (15.91%) Citrix
2 7 (15.91%) Splunk
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.09%) Tenable
4 3 (6.82%) AppDynamics
4 3 (6.82%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.55%) ArcSight
5 2 (4.55%) Cisco
5 2 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.55%) F5
5 2 (4.55%) Imperva
6 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.27%) Intel
6 1 (2.27%) New Relic
6 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.27%) Qualys
6 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow