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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 509 569
Rank change year-on-year -45 +60 +101
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 46 16 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.052% 0.065%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 11 19
10th Percentile £423 £475 £440
25th Percentile £505 £481 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £648
90th Percentile £618 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +3.81% +10.53% -13.64%

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 15,384 11,479 14,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.93% 37.42% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,559 7,701 10,517
10th Percentile £310 £313 £288
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 £631 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 173 331
10th Percentile £14.95 £17.00 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.05 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £59.93 £45.00 £52.29
90th Percentile £78.83 £76.85 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £24.18 £20.25
% change year-on-year +65.43% +19.41% -1.89%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -52 32 £525 -12.50% 13
Work from Home -7 21 £575 +9.52% 3
London -21 18 £525 -25.00% 5
UK excluding London -67 18 £545 +3.81% 9
North of England -54 5 £550 +10.00% 1
Scotland +4 4 £540 +2.86%
South East - 4 £600 - 2
South West - 3 £406 - 4
Yorkshire - 3 £550 -
North East - 2 £466 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £525 - 2

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
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (67.39%) AWS CloudFormation
3 25 (54.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 22 (47.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 21 (45.65%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (45.65%) Serverless
6 19 (41.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 18 (39.13%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (39.13%) AWS KMS
8 17 (36.96%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (36.96%) Amazon S3
9 14 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (23.91%) AWS Control Tower
11 10 (21.74%) Entra ID
11 10 (21.74%) GitHub
11 10 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (19.57%) Route 53
13 6 (13.04%) Azure
14 5 (10.87%) Datadog
15 4 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) VPN
3 1 (2.17%) Anycast
3 1 (2.17%) BGP
3 1 (2.17%) DMVPN
3 1 (2.17%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) HTTP
3 1 (2.17%) IPsec
3 1 (2.17%) LAN
3 1 (2.17%) MPLS
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) NGFW
3 1 (2.17%) OSPF
3 1 (2.17%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.17%) WAN
3 1 (2.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.96%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (10.87%) DynamoDB
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%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.17%) Redis
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 13 (28.26%) Git
3 7 (15.22%) GitLab
4 2 (4.35%) Metasploit
4 2 (4.35%) Snyk
5 1 (2.17%) AppScan
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 20 (43.48%) Public Sector
2 12 (26.09%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (34.78%) Architect
3 11 (23.91%) AWS Architect
4 10 (21.74%) Security Engineer
5 9 (19.57%) Cloud Architect
6 7 (15.22%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (13.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (13.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) Lead
8 5 (10.87%) Lead Architect
8 5 (10.87%) Lead Cloud Architect
9 4 (8.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) AWS Data Architect
10 3 (6.52%) AWS Solution Architect
10 3 (6.52%) Data Architect
10 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Node.js
2 2 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 2 (4.35%) Kafka
2 2 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (2.17%) .NET
3 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.17%) JSON
3 1 (2.17%) Memcached
3 1 (2.17%) React
3 1 (2.17%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.35%) Replication
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.17%) SCADA
3 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (45.65%) CI/CD
3 20 (43.48%) Migration
4 19 (41.30%) Cloud Security
5 16 (34.78%) DevOps
6 14 (30.43%) Containerisation
7 12 (26.09%) Threat Detection
8 11 (23.91%) RBAC
8 11 (23.91%) Roadmaps
9 10 (21.74%) Cost Optimisation
9 10 (21.74%) Secrets Management
10 9 (19.57%) Key Management
10 9 (19.57%) Observability
10 9 (19.57%) Runbook
10 9 (19.57%) SIEM
10 9 (19.57%) Validation
11 8 (17.39%) FinOps
11 8 (17.39%) Incident Response
12 7 (15.22%) DevSecOps
12 7 (15.22%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) Python
2 13 (28.26%) Bash
3 6 (13.04%) Go
4 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) C
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Lisp
6 1 (2.17%) PHP
6 1 (2.17%) SQL
6 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) AWS Certification
2 14 (30.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
3 13 (28.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.17%) CISSP
4 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) NCSC
2 7 (15.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (15.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (13.04%) GDPR
3 6 (13.04%) NIST
4 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (6.52%) SOC 2
5 2 (4.35%) GRC
5 2 (4.35%) HIPAA
5 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.17%) COBIT
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 6 (13.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.17%) Snort
Systems Management
1 36 (78.26%) Terraform
2 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.22%) Grafana
4 6 (13.04%) Ansible
4 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.35%) Nessus
6 1 (2.17%) Fluentd
6 1 (2.17%) logstash
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Citrix
2 8 (17.39%) CloudEndure
3 6 (13.04%) Splunk
4 4 (8.70%) Tenable
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.35%) Qualys
6 1 (2.17%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.17%) Cribl.io
6 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.17%) Imperva
6 1 (2.17%) Intel
6 1 (2.17%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.17%) New Relic
6 1 (2.17%) Okta
6 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.17%) Veracode
6 1 (2.17%) Virgin Media