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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 499 569
Rank change year-on-year -69 +70 +86
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 44 16 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.099% 0.055% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 14 25
10th Percentile £439 £447 £455
25th Percentile £511 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £581 £563 £645
90th Percentile £618 £659 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +2.38% -12.50% +9.09%

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 16,431 11,080 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.90% 38.11% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,210 7,785 10,216
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 217 352
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.50 £39.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.23 £23.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +92.47% +32.62% -19.45%

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 March 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 31 March 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 -85 32 £525 +5.00% 16
Work from Home -23 18 £575 +9.73% 11
London -50 16 £525 -7.89% 11
UK excluding London -94 16 £538 +2.38% 8
North of England -67 4 £550 +10.00%
South East - 4 £600 - 4
Yorkshire - 3 £550 -
South West - 3 £406 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £544 -
East of England - 2 £488 - 1
Midlands - 2 £544 -
Scotland -2 1 £313 -40.38%
North East - 1 £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%) Apache
1 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (72.73%) AWS CloudFormation
3 25 (56.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 23 (52.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 23 (52.27%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (52.27%) Serverless
5 20 (45.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 19 (43.18%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (40.91%) AWS KMS
8 17 (38.64%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (38.64%) Amazon S3
9 16 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (27.27%) AWS Control Tower
11 10 (22.73%) Entra ID
11 10 (22.73%) GitHub
11 10 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (20.45%) Route 53
13 4 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (9.09%) Azure
13 4 (9.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (4.55%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) Anycast
3 1 (2.27%) BGP
3 1 (2.27%) DMVPN
3 1 (2.27%) HTTP
3 1 (2.27%) IPsec
3 1 (2.27%) LAN
3 1 (2.27%) MPLS
3 1 (2.27%) Network Security
3 1 (2.27%) NGFW
3 1 (2.27%) OSPF
3 1 (2.27%) SSL
3 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.91%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (11.36%) DynamoDB
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.27%) MySQL
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.73%) Git
3 9 (20.45%) GitLab
4 3 (6.82%) Snyk
5 2 (4.55%) Burp Suite
5 2 (4.55%) JIRA
5 2 (4.55%) Metasploit
6 1 (2.27%) AppScan
6 1 (2.27%) Postman
6 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.27%) sqlmap
General
1 16 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (52.27%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (29.55%) Architect
3 11 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 10 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (20.45%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (20.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (18.18%) AWS Architect
7 7 (15.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 6 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (11.36%) Lead
9 5 (11.36%) Lead Architect
9 5 (11.36%) Lead Cloud Architect
10 4 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 4 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
11 2 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
11 2 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 2 (4.55%) AWS Solution Architect
11 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
11 2 (4.55%) Security Architect
11 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) AWS CDK
1 3 (6.82%) Kafka
1 3 (6.82%) REST
2 2 (4.55%) YAML
3 1 (2.27%) .NET
3 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.27%) JSON
3 1 (2.27%) Node.js
3 1 (2.27%) pytest
3 1 (2.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.27%) Replication
3 1 (2.27%) SCADA
3 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
1 2 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 24 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 18 (40.91%) Migration
4 15 (34.09%) Cloud Security
4 15 (34.09%) DevOps
5 13 (29.55%) Runbook
6 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 12 (27.27%) RBAC
6 12 (27.27%) Threat Detection
7 11 (25.00%) Secrets Management
7 11 (25.00%) Validation
8 10 (22.73%) Cost Optimisation
9 9 (20.45%) Observability
9 9 (20.45%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (18.18%) FinOps
10 8 (18.18%) Incident Response
10 8 (18.18%) Key Management
10 8 (18.18%) Roadmaps
11 7 (15.91%) DevSecOps
11 7 (15.91%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 17 (38.64%) Python
2 16 (36.36%) Bash
3 6 (13.64%) Go
4 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.82%) Java
6 2 (4.55%) SQL
7 1 (2.27%) C
7 1 (2.27%) C#
7 1 (2.27%) Groovy
7 1 (2.27%) Lisp
7 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (38.64%) AWS Certification
2 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 11 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CISSP
4 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) NCSC
2 7 (15.91%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (15.91%) NIST
3 6 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (9.09%) GDPR
5 2 (4.55%) GRC
5 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.55%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (2.27%) COBIT
6 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Docker
2 6 (13.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 36 (81.82%) Terraform
2 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
3 8 (18.18%) Grafana
4 7 (15.91%) Prometheus
5 6 (13.64%) Ansible
6 1 (2.27%) Fluentd
6 1 (2.27%) logstash
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.27%) Nessus
6 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Citrix
2 8 (18.18%) CloudEndure
3 4 (9.09%) Tenable
4 3 (6.82%) Qualys
4 3 (6.82%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.27%) Cribl.io
5 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.27%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.27%) Okta
5 1 (2.27%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.27%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.27%) Veracode
5 1 (2.27%) Virgin Media