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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 493 539
Rank change year-on-year -95 +46 +89
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 43 25 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.086% 0.065%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.23% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 22 23
10th Percentile £450 £425 £500
25th Percentile £513 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £635
90th Percentile £650 £683 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +1.43% -12.50% +14.29%

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 17,428 11,025 13,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 37.84% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,704 7,509 9,922
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 261 348
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.76 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +29.36% +29.36% -43.15%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £41.19
90th Percentile £81.15 £71.25 £69.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.06 £19.97 £17.80
% change year-on-year +85.58% +12.19% -35.27%

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 1 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudTrail in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Top 10 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 1 June 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 -91 31 £529 +0.71% 13
Work from Home -36 20 £552 +5.14% 5
London -58 19 £544 +14.47% 8
UK excluding London -91 10 £533 +1.43% 6
East of England -33 3 £450 -14.29%
South East - 3 £533 - 1
Midlands -52 2 £544 +20.83% 1
West Midlands -54 2 £544 +20.83% 1
Scotland -4 1 £313 -40.38%
South West -27 1 - - 3

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 3 (6.98%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (62.79%) Serverless
2 27 (62.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 26 (60.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 26 (60.47%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 25 (58.14%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (44.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (41.86%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (32.56%) AWS KMS
8 12 (27.91%) Amazon S3
8 12 (27.91%) GitHub
8 12 (27.91%) Route 53
9 11 (25.58%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (23.26%) Amazon ECR
10 10 (23.26%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (23.26%) AWS Control Tower
11 8 (18.60%) Amazon Macie
12 6 (13.95%) Entra ID
13 4 (9.30%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (9.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) Network Security
2 3 (6.98%) SSL
2 3 (6.98%) WAN
3 2 (4.65%) VPN
4 1 (2.33%) Anycast
4 1 (2.33%) BGP
4 1 (2.33%) DMVPN
4 1 (2.33%) HTTP
4 1 (2.33%) IPsec
4 1 (2.33%) LAN
4 1 (2.33%) MPLS
4 1 (2.33%) NGFW
4 1 (2.33%) OSPF
4 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (44.19%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (18.60%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (11.63%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (11.63%) DynamoDB
5 4 (9.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.63%) Git
2 5 (11.63%) JIRA
3 3 (6.98%) GitLab
3 3 (6.98%) Snyk
4 2 (4.65%) Burp Suite
4 2 (4.65%) Metasploit
5 1 (2.33%) AppScan
5 1 (2.33%) Postman
5 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.33%) sqlmap
General
1 11 (25.58%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.30%) Finance
2 4 (9.30%) Legal
2 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Architect
2 19 (44.19%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (39.53%) AWS Architect
4 11 (25.58%) Security Engineer
5 10 (23.26%) Technical Architect
6 7 (16.28%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (13.95%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (11.63%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (9.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 3 (6.98%) Security Architect
11 2 (4.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 2 (4.65%) AWS Solution Architect
11 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
11 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
11 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
11 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
12 1 (2.33%) CloudOps Engineer
12 1 (2.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 1 (2.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) Apollo GraphQL
1 7 (16.28%) GraphQL
1 7 (16.28%) RESTful
2 3 (6.98%) AWS CDK
2 3 (6.98%) Kafka
2 3 (6.98%) REST
3 2 (4.65%) Node.js
3 2 (4.65%) OAuth
3 2 (4.65%) OAuth2
3 2 (4.65%) OpenID
3 2 (4.65%) React
3 2 (4.65%) SAML
3 2 (4.65%) YAML
4 1 (2.33%) .NET
4 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.33%) JSON
4 1 (2.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.95%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.98%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.33%) SCADA
5 1 (2.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Windows
3 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Kali Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (60.47%) CI/CD
2 20 (46.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (34.88%) Cloud Security
4 14 (32.56%) DevOps
4 14 (32.56%) Migration
5 10 (23.26%) Roadmaps
5 10 (23.26%) Runbook
6 9 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (20.93%) Threat Detection
6 9 (20.93%) Validation
7 8 (18.60%) Agile
7 8 (18.60%) Microservices
7 8 (18.60%) RBAC
7 8 (18.60%) SIEM
8 7 (16.28%) API Design
8 7 (16.28%) Data Integration
8 7 (16.28%) Design Patterns
8 7 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (16.28%) Technical Debt
9 6 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) Bash
1 12 (27.91%) Python
2 8 (18.60%) TypeScript
3 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.98%) Groovy
4 3 (6.98%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) SQL
6 1 (2.33%) C
6 1 (2.33%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) Lisp
6 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (41.86%) SC Cleared
1 18 (41.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.91%) AWS Certification
3 6 (13.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CISSP
4 1 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) NIST
2 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.30%) NCSC
3 3 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (6.98%) GDPR
4 2 (4.65%) GRC
4 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.33%) COBIT
5 1 (2.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) Docker
3 3 (6.98%) Squid
4 2 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (60.47%) Terraform
2 9 (20.93%) Grafana
2 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
3 8 (18.60%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.63%) Ansible
5 2 (4.65%) Packer
5 2 (4.65%) Puppet
6 1 (2.33%) CloudForms
6 1 (2.33%) Fluentd
6 1 (2.33%) logstash
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.33%) Nessus
6 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Citrix
2 4 (9.30%) Tenable
3 3 (6.98%) PagerDuty
3 3 (6.98%) Qualys
3 3 (6.98%) Splunk
3 3 (6.98%) Trend Micro
4 2 (4.65%) CloudEndure
4 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.33%) Cribl.io
5 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.33%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) Okta
5 1 (2.33%) Veracode
5 1 (2.33%) Virgin Media