AWS CloudTrail Contracts

Amazon AWS CloudTrail
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring AWS CloudTrail skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS CloudTrail over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 562 625
Rank change year-on-year +50 +63 +115
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 36 23 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.053% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.16% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 18 40
10th Percentile £362 £500 £413
25th Percentile £417 £566 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -2.44% -1.60%
75th Percentile £538 £640 £638
90th Percentile £683 £657 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +5.00%

All Cloud 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 11,999 14,291 20,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.67% 33.00% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,029 10,038 14,945
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 355 347
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.41 £16.06 £19.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.22 £47.47 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.38 £70.00 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £27.00
% change year-on-year -10.08% -22.28% +40.30%

AWS CloudTrail
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS CloudTrail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudTrail in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudTrail.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudTrail in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudTrail over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudTrail in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Top 12 Contract 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 6 July 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 +66 30 £475 -20.83% 27
Work from Home +34 18 £524 -12.67% 12
UK excluding London +58 17 £525 -12.50% 8
London +41 16 £450 -26.83% 16
Midlands - 5 £345 - 1
East of England - 5 £525 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £345 -
Scotland +8 3 £525 - 1
North of England - 3 £500 -
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
South West +36 1 £625 +4.17% 1
North West - 1 - -

AWS CloudTrail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 18 (50.00%) Serverless
3 17 (47.22%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 15 (41.67%) Amazon S3
5 15 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (36.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 12 (33.33%) AWS KMS
8 11 (30.56%) GitHub
9 9 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (22.22%) Amazon Macie
11 7 (19.44%) Azure
12 6 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (13.89%) Amazon Cognito
13 5 (13.89%) AWS Direct Connect
13 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) DNS
2 5 (13.89%) Network Security
3 4 (11.11%) DHCP
3 4 (11.11%) SSL
4 3 (8.33%) Firewall
4 3 (8.33%) VPN
5 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.56%) X.509
6 1 (2.78%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.78%) LAN
6 1 (2.78%) SMS
6 1 (2.78%) VLAN
6 1 (2.78%) VSAN
6 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (8.33%) Parquet
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) Git
3 3 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Architect
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Architect
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Developer
4 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead
5 4 (11.11%) Security Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Administrator
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Administrator
6 3 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Security Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) AWS CDK
2 3 (8.33%) AWS Amplify
2 3 (8.33%) JSON
3 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.56%) Kafka
3 2 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (2.78%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) PKI
2 3 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) SUSE
3 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) DevOps
2 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 14 (38.89%) Cloud Security
2 14 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (22.22%) RBAC
3 8 (22.22%) Workflow
4 7 (19.44%) Cost Optimisation
4 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (19.44%) Secrets Management
5 6 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 6 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (13.89%) Key Management
6 5 (13.89%) Observability
6 5 (13.89%) Release Management
6 5 (13.89%) SIEM
6 5 (13.89%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (11.11%) DevSecOps
7 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) Shell Script
2 5 (13.89%) SQL
3 4 (11.11%) Bash
3 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.33%) CodeQL
5 1 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) AWS Certification
2 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
3 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 6 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (13.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (19.44%) NIST
2 5 (13.89%) SOC 2
3 4 (11.11%) GDPR
4 3 (8.33%) QA
5 2 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (5.56%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (5.56%) NIST 800
5 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.78%) FedRAMP
6 1 (2.78%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (44.44%) Terraform
2 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.11%) Grafana
3 4 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (8.33%) Ansible
5 2 (5.56%) Kustomize
5 2 (5.56%) Puppet
6 1 (2.78%) Argo
6 1 (2.78%) Cilium
6 1 (2.78%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) AppDynamics
2 3 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 3 (8.33%) Splunk
3 2 (5.56%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Qualys
3 2 (5.56%) Rapid7
3 2 (5.56%) Tenable
4 1 (2.78%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.78%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.78%) Okta
4 1 (2.78%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.78%) Veeam
4 1 (2.78%) VMware