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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 549 588
Rank change year-on-year +16 +39 +130
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 46 15 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.041% 0.065%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 8 14
10th Percentile £350 £484 £495
25th Percentile £406 £488 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -6.82% -18.52%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £625
90th Percentile £613 £619 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.24% - -10.26%

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 13,781 12,889 16,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.42% 35.33% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,331 8,489 11,658
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 179 303
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.44 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £17.88
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +5.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £50.88 £56.88 £60.94
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +36.36% +15.30%

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 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudTrail in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Top 12 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 21 November 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 +15 35 £466 -33.43% 21
Work from Home +22 21 £456 -8.75% 4
London +8 20 £475 - 13
UK excluding London -23 19 £466 -11.24% 12
North of England -37 7 £550 - 3
Yorkshire - 5 £550 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £345 -
Midlands - 5 £345 - 1
Scotland -5 4 £540 +2.86% 1
North East - 2 £466 - 1
South West - 2 £406 - 2
East of England - 1 £538 - 1

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
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (63.04%) AWS CloudFormation
3 25 (54.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 25 (54.35%) Amazon S3
4 23 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (50.00%) Serverless
5 21 (45.65%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (36.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 16 (34.78%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (32.61%) GitHub
8 15 (32.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (28.26%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (26.09%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (21.74%) AWS KMS
11 10 (21.74%) Datadog
12 9 (19.57%) Azure
13 7 (15.22%) Route 53
14 5 (10.87%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (8.70%) Amazon Macie
15 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) DNS
2 4 (8.70%) DHCP
2 4 (8.70%) Firewall
3 3 (6.52%) Network Security
4 1 (2.17%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.17%) LAN
4 1 (2.17%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.17%) VLAN
4 1 (2.17%) VSAN
4 1 (2.17%) WAN
4 1 (2.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.35%) MySQL
6 1 (2.17%) CouchDB
6 1 (2.17%) Metadata
6 1 (2.17%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (2.17%) Redis
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (45.65%) Jenkins
2 15 (32.61%) Git
3 7 (15.22%) GitLab
4 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) JIRA
5 1 (2.17%) Metasploit
General
1 9 (19.57%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (41.30%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Security Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Architect
4 6 (13.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) AWS Architect
5 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) Administrator
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Administrator
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Data Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Site Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) AWS CDK
1 3 (6.52%) Node.js
2 2 (4.35%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (2.17%) Kafka
3 1 (2.17%) Memcached
3 1 (2.17%) RESTful
3 1 (2.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.52%) Replication
3 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.17%) PKI
4 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) SUSE
3 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) DevOps
2 21 (45.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 18 (39.13%) Cloud Security
4 15 (32.61%) Containerisation
5 11 (23.91%) Secrets Management
6 9 (19.57%) Incident Response
6 9 (19.57%) Observability
7 8 (17.39%) Configuration Management
8 7 (15.22%) Cost Optimisation
8 7 (15.22%) Key Management
9 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (13.04%) Migration
9 6 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (13.04%) SIEM
9 6 (13.04%) Workflow
10 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (10.87%) Roadmaps
10 5 (10.87%) Threat Detection
11 4 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) Bash
3 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.04%) Go
5 2 (4.35%) CodeQL
5 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.35%) SQL
6 1 (2.17%) C
6 1 (2.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.57%) AWS Certification
3 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (15.22%) NIST
3 3 (6.52%) GDPR
3 3 (6.52%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.35%) HIPAA
4 2 (4.35%) QA
4 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.17%) GRC
5 1 (2.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.35%) Snort
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (69.57%) Terraform
2 8 (17.39%) Ansible
2 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.04%) Grafana
3 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (6.52%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.17%) Nessus
5 1 (2.17%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Splunk
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) AppDynamics
3 3 (6.52%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.52%) Tenable
4 2 (4.35%) ArcSight
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco
4 2 (4.35%) CloudEndure
4 2 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (4.35%) F5
4 2 (4.35%) Imperva
5 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) Intel
5 1 (2.17%) New Relic
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Veeam
5 1 (2.17%) VMware