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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 502 576
Rank change year-on-year -48 +74 +105
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 43 16 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.051% 0.059%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 10 17
10th Percentile £402 £475 £418
25th Percentile £465 £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 £625
90th Percentile £611 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +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 14,580 11,565 14,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.98% 36.95% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,051 7,681 10,622
10th Percentile £306 £313 £286
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 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 167 307
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.35 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% +17.69% +0.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £43.75 £50.92
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £24.66 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.76% +17.43% +7.69%

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 January 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 28 January 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 -50 32 £525 -25.00% 13
Work from Home -5 19 £575 +9.52% 4
UK excluding London -46 19 £545 +3.81% 9
London -16 17 £475 -32.14% 5
North of England -52 6 £550 +10.00%
Scotland +3 4 £540 +2.86%
Yorkshire - 4 £550 -
South East - 4 £600 - 2
South West - 3 £406 - 5
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 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (65.12%) AWS CloudFormation
3 24 (55.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 22 (51.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (41.86%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (41.86%) Serverless
6 16 (37.21%) Amazon S3
6 16 (37.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (34.88%) AWS KMS
8 14 (32.56%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (32.56%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (30.23%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (23.26%) GitHub
10 10 (23.26%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (20.93%) Entra ID
12 7 (16.28%) AWS Control Tower
12 7 (16.28%) Route 53
13 6 (13.95%) Azure
13 6 (13.95%) Datadog
14 3 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) Anycast
3 1 (2.33%) BGP
3 1 (2.33%) DMVPN
3 1 (2.33%) DNS
3 1 (2.33%) HTTP
3 1 (2.33%) IPsec
3 1 (2.33%) LAN
3 1 (2.33%) MPLS
3 1 (2.33%) NGFW
3 1 (2.33%) OSPF
3 1 (2.33%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.33%) WAN
3 1 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (32.56%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.65%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.33%) Redis
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (37.21%) Jenkins
2 13 (30.23%) Git
3 7 (16.28%) GitLab
4 2 (4.65%) Metasploit
4 2 (4.65%) Snyk
5 1 (2.33%) AppScan
5 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.33%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 16 (37.21%) Public Sector
2 12 (27.91%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (27.91%) Architect
3 10 (23.26%) Security Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) AWS Architect
4 8 (18.60%) Cloud Architect
5 7 (16.28%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (13.95%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (13.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (11.63%) Lead
7 5 (11.63%) Lead Architect
7 5 (11.63%) Lead Cloud Architect
8 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) AWS Data Architect
9 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Data Architect
10 2 (4.65%) AWS Solution Architect
10 2 (4.65%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) Node.js
2 2 (4.65%) Kafka
2 2 (4.65%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.33%) Memcached
3 1 (2.33%) React
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.65%) Replication
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.33%) SCADA
3 1 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Kali Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Cloud Security
2 19 (44.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
4 16 (37.21%) Migration
5 14 (32.56%) DevOps
6 13 (30.23%) Containerisation
6 13 (30.23%) Threat Detection
7 11 (25.58%) Roadmaps
8 10 (23.26%) RBAC
9 9 (20.93%) Incident Response
9 9 (20.93%) Secrets Management
9 9 (20.93%) SIEM
10 8 (18.60%) Cost Optimisation
10 8 (18.60%) Key Management
10 8 (18.60%) Runbook
10 8 (18.60%) Validation
11 7 (16.28%) DevSecOps
11 7 (16.28%) Observability
12 6 (13.95%) FinOps
12 6 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) Python
2 12 (27.91%) Bash
3 6 (13.95%) Go
4 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.65%) Java
6 1 (2.33%) C
6 1 (2.33%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) Lisp
6 1 (2.33%) PHP
6 1 (2.33%) SQL
6 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) AWS Certification
2 15 (34.88%) Security Cleared
3 14 (32.56%) SC Cleared
4 12 (27.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) NCSC
2 7 (16.28%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (16.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (13.95%) NIST
4 5 (11.63%) GDPR
5 3 (6.98%) PCI DSS
6 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
6 2 (4.65%) HIPAA
6 2 (4.65%) SOC 2
7 1 (2.33%) COBIT
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
2 6 (13.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (4.65%) Snort
4 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (74.42%) Terraform
2 7 (16.28%) Ansible
2 7 (16.28%) Grafana
2 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.95%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.65%) Nessus
4 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Citrix
2 8 (18.60%) CloudEndure
2 8 (18.60%) Splunk
3 6 (13.95%) Tenable
4 2 (4.65%) ArcSight
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco
4 2 (4.65%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (4.65%) F5
4 2 (4.65%) Imperva
4 2 (4.65%) Qualys
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.33%) Intel
5 1 (2.33%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) New Relic
5 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Veracode