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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 516 549
Rank change year-on-year -110 +33 +59
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 49 36 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.11% 0.063%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.29% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 20
10th Percentile £381 £325 -
25th Percentile £431 £408 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £625 £534 £645
90th Percentile £672 £643 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +1.90% -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 18,718 12,228 13,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 37.28% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,357 8,194 9,320
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 312 284
10th Percentile £16.12 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +18.79% -33.86%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £52.18
90th Percentile £83.15 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.00%

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 31 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 31 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 -122 34 £533 +12.11% 11
Work from Home -39 22 £539 +13.42% 6
London -60 22 £544 +22.19% 11
UK excluding London -87 12 £535 +1.90% 4
Scotland - 4 £432 - 2
South East - 3 £533 - 1
East of England -22 2 £425 -19.05%
North West -53 2 £640 -
North of England -75 2 £640 +27.90%
Midlands -56 1 £538 +55.80%
West Midlands -65 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 (6.12%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.04%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (67.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 32 (65.31%) Serverless
3 32 (65.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 30 (61.22%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (48.98%) Amazon S3
5 24 (48.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (44.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 18 (36.73%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (36.73%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (36.73%) AWS KMS
8 15 (30.61%) GitHub
9 11 (22.45%) Route 53
10 10 (20.41%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (16.33%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (16.33%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (16.33%) Azure
12 7 (14.29%) Amazon Macie
12 7 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
12 7 (14.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) Firewall
2 6 (12.24%) DNS
3 5 (10.20%) Network Security
4 4 (8.16%) SSL
4 4 (8.16%) WAN
5 1 (2.04%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.73%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (12.24%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.04%) Metadata
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.29%) JIRA
3 6 (12.24%) Git
4 4 (8.16%) GitLab
5 1 (2.04%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.04%) Maven
5 1 (2.04%) Metasploit
5 1 (2.04%) Postman
5 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.04%) Snyk
5 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.04%) sqlmap
General
1 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Finance
3 3 (6.12%) Legal
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Games
5 1 (2.04%) Local Government
5 1 (2.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Architect
1 16 (32.65%) AWS Architect
1 16 (32.65%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (24.49%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (24.49%) Security Engineer
3 10 (20.41%) Technical Architect
4 7 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Network Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Security Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) Apollo GraphQL
1 7 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 7 (14.29%) RESTful
2 4 (8.16%) ARM Templates
2 4 (8.16%) REST
3 3 (6.12%) SAML
4 2 (4.08%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (4.08%) OAuth
4 2 (4.08%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.08%) OpenID
4 2 (4.08%) SOAP
4 2 (4.08%) YAML
5 1 (2.04%) JSON
5 1 (2.04%) Kafka
5 1 (2.04%) LDAP
5 1 (2.04%) Node.js
5 1 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.04%) pytest
5 1 (2.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 5 (10.20%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (8.16%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.08%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.04%) NHS
6 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.04%) PKI
6 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Linux
2 10 (20.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (16.33%) Windows
4 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (67.35%) CI/CD
2 28 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (46.94%) DevOps
4 15 (30.61%) Cloud Security
5 13 (26.53%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (24.49%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (22.45%) Agile
7 11 (22.45%) SIEM
8 10 (20.41%) Roadmaps
9 9 (18.37%) Containerisation
9 9 (18.37%) Incident Response
9 9 (18.37%) Migration
10 8 (16.33%) AI
10 8 (16.33%) Data Integration
10 8 (16.33%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (16.33%) Threat Detection
11 7 (14.29%) API Design
11 7 (14.29%) Microservices
11 7 (14.29%) Observability
11 7 (14.29%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.86%) Python
2 16 (32.65%) Bash
3 11 (22.45%) PowerShell
4 8 (16.33%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.12%) Bicep
6 3 (6.12%) Groovy
6 3 (6.12%) Java
7 1 (2.04%) C
7 1 (2.04%) R
7 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) SC Cleared
1 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 7 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.12%) CISSP
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.04%) Degree
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.12%) NIST
3 2 (4.08%) NCSC
4 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.04%) GDPR
4 1 (2.04%) GRC
4 1 (2.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.29%) Docker
3 3 (6.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (69.39%) Terraform
2 16 (32.65%) Kubernetes
3 11 (22.45%) Grafana
3 11 (22.45%) Prometheus
4 8 (16.33%) Ansible
5 4 (8.16%) Packer
5 4 (8.16%) Puppet
6 2 (4.08%) Argo
6 2 (4.08%) Istio
6 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.04%) CloudForms
7 1 (2.04%) Fluentd
7 1 (2.04%) logstash
7 1 (2.04%) QRadar
7 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.04%) systemd
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 5 (10.20%) PagerDuty
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.12%) Trend Micro
5 2 (4.08%) Citrix
5 2 (4.08%) Google
5 2 (4.08%) Okta
5 2 (4.08%) Splunk
6 1 (2.04%) Cribl.io
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle
6 1 (2.04%) Qualys
6 1 (2.04%) Sonatype
6 1 (2.04%) Tenable