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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 16 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 631 | 517 | 549 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -114 | +32 | +60 |
| Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail | 58 | 48 | 15 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK | 0.10% | 0.14% | 0.040% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 0.30% | 0.38% | 0.11% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 51 | 41 | 8 |
| 10th Percentile | £400 | £350 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £450 | £406 | £500 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £545 | £475 | £538 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +14.74% | -11.63% | -8.51% |
| 75th Percentile | £630 | £544 | £607 |
| 90th Percentile | £675 | £575 | £651 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £588 | £483 | £595 |
| % change year-on-year | +21.64% | -18.82% | +13.33% |
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.
| 6 months to 16 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 19,195 | 12,780 | 13,078 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK | 34.70% | 38.41% | 34.77% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 12,755 | 8,545 | 8,658 |
| 10th Percentile | £325 | £309 | £313 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £410 | £419 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £625 | £613 | £638 |
| 90th Percentile | £715 | £713 | £738 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £500 | £475 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.26% | -5.00% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 652 | 294 | 182 |
| 10th Percentile | £15.50 | £15.14 | £16.30 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.90 | £18.87 | £22.83 |
| Median hourly rate | £31.25 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +24.25% | -28.14% | +7.99% |
| 75th Percentile | £67.50 | £43.18 | £65.68 |
| 90th Percentile | £78.75 | £67.00 | £70.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £30.00 | £19.27 | £33.93 |
| % change year-on-year | +55.68% | -43.21% | +50.73% |
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 Daily Rate Trend
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 16 October 2026.
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 16 October 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 | -135 | 42 | £516 | +12.72% | 26 |
| London | -83 | 28 | £488 | +2.63% | 15 |
| Work from Home | -77 | 22 | £533 | +21.71% | 5 |
| UK excluding London | -99 | 14 | £588 | +21.64% | 12 |
| South East | - | 5 | £575 | - | 3 |
| North of England | -66 | 4 | £630 | +30.48% | 2 |
| North West | - | 4 | £630 | - | 1 |
| Scotland | -28 | 3 | £550 | +1.85% | 2 |
| East of England | -29 | 1 | £400 | -25.58% | |
| Midlands | -52 | 1 | £358 | +3.77% | |
| East Midlands | - | 1 | £358 | - |
AWS CloudTrail Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 58 |
| 2 | Virtual Private Cloud | 69.0% | 40 |
| 3 | Amazon CloudWatch | 65.5% | 38 |
| 4 | Serverless | 60.3% | 35 |
| 5 | AWS Lambda | 55.2% | 32 |
| 6 | Amazon EKS | 44.8% | 26 |
| 6 | AWS CloudFormation | 44.8% | 26 |
| 8 | Amazon GuardDuty | 43.1% | 25 |
| 8 | Amazon S3 | 43.1% | 25 |
| 10 | Amazon EC2 | 34.5% | 20 |
| 11 | GitHub | 31.0% | 18 |
| 12 | AWS KMS | 29.3% | 17 |
| 13 | GCP | 27.6% | 16 |
| 14 | Amazon ECS | 25.9% | 15 |
| 15 | Azure | 22.4% | 13 |
| 16 | Route 53 | 20.7% | 12 |
| 17 | AWS Step Functions | 13.8% | 8 |
| 18 | Amazon ECR | 12.1% | 7 |
| 18 | Amazon Macie | 12.1% | 7 |
| 18 | Azure DevOps | 12.1% | 7 |