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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 509 579
Rank change year-on-year -41 +70 +96
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 46 16 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.052% 0.056%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 10 16
10th Percentile £406 £475 £406
25th Percentile £475 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £631
90th Percentile £614 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +3.81% +10.53% -17.39%

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 14,804 11,512 14,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.90% 37.21% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,180 7,657 10,686
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
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 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 173 323
10th Percentile £14.36 £16.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.90 £21.46 £16.28
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £49.54
90th Percentile £80.40 £68.75 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £24.83 £20.99
% change year-on-year +47.00% +18.32% +5.72%

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 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudTrail in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Top 13 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 4 February 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 -53 34 £525 -25.00% 11
Work from Home -2 21 £575 +9.52% 3
London -19 20 £525 -25.00% 5
UK excluding London -50 18 £545 +3.81% 7
North of England -56 5 £550 +10.00%
Scotland +8 4 £540 +2.86%
South East - 4 £600 - 2
South West - 3 £406 - 3
Yorkshire - 3 £550 -
North East - 2 £466 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £525 - 2
Midlands - 1 £550 -

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 31 (67.39%) AWS CloudFormation
3 26 (56.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 23 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 20 (43.48%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (43.48%) Serverless
6 18 (39.13%) AWS KMS
6 18 (39.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (36.96%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (36.96%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (36.96%) Amazon S3
8 14 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (23.91%) GitHub
9 11 (23.91%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (21.74%) AWS Control Tower
11 9 (19.57%) Entra ID
12 8 (17.39%) Route 53
13 6 (13.04%) Datadog
14 5 (10.87%) Azure
15 4 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) VPN
3 1 (2.17%) Anycast
3 1 (2.17%) BGP
3 1 (2.17%) DMVPN
3 1 (2.17%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) HTTP
3 1 (2.17%) IPsec
3 1 (2.17%) LAN
3 1 (2.17%) MPLS
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) NGFW
3 1 (2.17%) OSPF
3 1 (2.17%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.17%) WAN
3 1 (2.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.78%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (8.70%) DynamoDB
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%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.17%) Redis
7 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (36.96%) Jenkins
2 13 (28.26%) Git
3 7 (15.22%) GitLab
4 2 (4.35%) Metasploit
4 2 (4.35%) Snyk
5 1 (2.17%) AppScan
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 20 (43.48%) Public Sector
2 12 (26.09%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (41.30%) AWS Engineer
2 15 (32.61%) Architect
3 10 (21.74%) AWS Architect
3 10 (21.74%) Security Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Cloud Architect
5 7 (15.22%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Lead
7 5 (10.87%) Lead Architect
7 5 (10.87%) Lead Cloud Architect
8 4 (8.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) AWS Data Architect
9 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Data Architect
10 2 (4.35%) Analyst
10 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Node.js
2 2 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 2 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (2.17%) .NET
3 1 (2.17%) Memcached
3 1 (2.17%) React
3 1 (2.17%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.17%) REST
3 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.35%) Replication
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.17%) SCADA
4 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Kali Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (45.65%) CI/CD
3 20 (43.48%) Migration
4 19 (41.30%) Cloud Security
5 17 (36.96%) DevOps
6 14 (30.43%) Containerisation
7 12 (26.09%) Threat Detection
8 11 (23.91%) RBAC
8 11 (23.91%) Roadmaps
9 10 (21.74%) Secrets Management
10 9 (19.57%) Cost Optimisation
10 9 (19.57%) Key Management
10 9 (19.57%) Runbook
10 9 (19.57%) Validation
11 8 (17.39%) Incident Response
11 8 (17.39%) Observability
11 8 (17.39%) SIEM
12 7 (15.22%) DevSecOps
12 7 (15.22%) FinOps
12 7 (15.22%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.96%) Python
2 12 (26.09%) Bash
3 6 (13.04%) Go
4 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) C
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Lisp
6 1 (2.17%) PHP
6 1 (2.17%) SQL
6 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) AWS Certification
2 16 (34.78%) Security Cleared
3 15 (32.61%) SC Cleared
4 13 (28.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) NCSC
2 7 (15.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (13.04%) NIST
4 5 (10.87%) 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%) COBIT
6 1 (2.17%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 6 (13.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) Snort
Systems Management
1 35 (76.09%) Terraform
2 7 (15.22%) Ansible
2 7 (15.22%) Grafana
2 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.35%) Nessus
4 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Citrix
2 8 (17.39%) CloudEndure
3 6 (13.04%) Splunk
4 5 (10.87%) Tenable
5 2 (4.35%) Qualys
6 1 (2.17%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco
6 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.17%) F5
6 1 (2.17%) Imperva
6 1 (2.17%) Intel
6 1 (2.17%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.17%) New Relic
6 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.17%) Veracode