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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 524 569
Rank change year-on-year -14 +45 +149
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 46 16 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.048% 0.074%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 9 17
10th Percentile £338 £475 £418
25th Percentile £417 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £638
90th Percentile £614 £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 14,059 12,143 15,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.05% 36.19% 34.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,635 8,097 10,788
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
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% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 176 264
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £14.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +6.55% +14.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £44.71 £58.19
90th Percentile £77.70 £68.75 £78.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.42 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.11% +15.14% +6.54%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 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 -7 35 £475 -32.14% 77
Work from Home +16 21 £575 +15.00% 51
UK excluding London -39 21 £525 - 78
London +6 18 £475 -32.14% 9
North of England -36 7 £550 +10.00% 15
Yorkshire - 5 £550 - 6
Scotland +6 4 £540 +2.86% 5
South East - 4 £600 - 17
Midlands - 3 £325 - 20
South West - 3 £406 - 11
West Midlands - 3 £325 - 9
North East - 2 £466 - 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 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (69.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 25 (54.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 22 (47.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 21 (45.65%) Amazon S3
6 20 (43.48%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (43.48%) Serverless
7 19 (41.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 17 (36.96%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (34.78%) AWS KMS
10 14 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (26.09%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (26.09%) GitHub
11 12 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (23.91%) Entra ID
13 8 (17.39%) AWS Control Tower
13 8 (17.39%) Azure
13 8 (17.39%) Datadog
14 6 (13.04%) Route 53
15 4 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) DNS
1 4 (8.70%) Firewall
2 3 (6.52%) DHCP
3 1 (2.17%) HTTP
3 1 (2.17%) LAN
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.17%) VPN
3 1 (2.17%) WAN
3 1 (2.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.35%) MySQL
7 1 (2.17%) CouchDB
7 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.17%) Metadata
7 1 (2.17%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.17%) Redis
7 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (39.13%) Jenkins
2 13 (28.26%) Git
3 7 (15.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Metasploit
4 1 (2.17%) Snyk
General
1 13 (28.26%) Finance
1 13 (28.26%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Games
4 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Architect
3 8 (17.39%) AWS Architect
3 8 (17.39%) Cloud Architect
4 7 (15.22%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Security Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Lead
6 5 (10.87%) Lead Architect
6 5 (10.87%) Lead Cloud Architect
7 4 (8.70%) Senior
8 3 (6.52%) Administrator
8 3 (6.52%) AWS Administrator
8 3 (6.52%) AWS Data Architect
8 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Node.js
2 3 (6.52%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.35%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) Kafka
4 1 (2.17%) Memcached
4 1 (2.17%) React
4 1 (2.17%) RESTful
4 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.35%) Replication
3 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (41.30%) CI/CD
2 19 (41.30%) DevOps
3 18 (39.13%) Cloud Security
4 15 (32.61%) Containerisation
5 12 (26.09%) Threat Detection
6 11 (23.91%) Migration
6 11 (23.91%) Roadmaps
7 10 (21.74%) Incident Response
8 9 (19.57%) Secrets Management
9 7 (15.22%) Configuration Management
9 7 (15.22%) Cost Optimisation
9 7 (15.22%) Key Management
9 7 (15.22%) Network Segmentation
9 7 (15.22%) Observability
9 7 (15.22%) Runbook
9 7 (15.22%) SIEM
10 6 (13.04%) ITIL
10 6 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.96%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) Bash
3 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.04%) Go
5 2 (4.35%) SQL
6 1 (2.17%) C
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) PHP
6 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (30.43%) AWS Certification
3 13 (28.26%) SC Cleared
4 11 (23.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (17.39%) NCSC
3 7 (15.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (15.22%) NIST
4 3 (6.52%) GDPR
5 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
5 2 (4.35%) HIPAA
5 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.17%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (30.43%) Docker
2 6 (13.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.35%) Snort
Systems Management
1 37 (80.43%) Terraform
2 8 (17.39%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) Grafana
3 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
4 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (6.52%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) CloudEndure
2 7 (15.22%) Citrix
2 7 (15.22%) Splunk
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Tenable
4 3 (6.52%) AppDynamics
4 3 (6.52%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.35%) ArcSight
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco
5 2 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.35%) F5
5 2 (4.35%) Imperva
6 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.17%) Intel
6 1 (2.17%) New Relic
6 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.17%) Qualys
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow