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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 501 559
Rank change year-on-year -91 +58 +76
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 33 18 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.062% 0.066%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 23
10th Percentile £450 £429 £470
25th Percentile £513 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £534 £635
90th Percentile £650 £669 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +2.38% -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 17,001 10,920 13,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 37.57% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,473 7,513 9,833
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -1.97% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 247 347
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +36.51% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £36.81
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.87 £21.39 £17.72
% change year-on-year +95.76% +20.71% -29.12%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -107 25 £525 +2.44% 16
London -57 15 £525 +14.75% 9
Work from Home -22 13 £600 +14.29% 6
UK excluding London -95 10 £538 +2.38% 5
South East - 4 £600 - 2
East of England -32 2 £488 -7.14%
Midlands - 2 £544 -
West Midlands - 2 £544 -
Scotland -1 1 £313 -40.38%
South West -30 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 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (69.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 20 (60.61%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (51.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (48.48%) AWS KMS
6 14 (42.42%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (42.42%) Serverless
7 13 (39.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (36.36%) AWS Control Tower
9 10 (30.30%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (30.30%) Entra ID
10 8 (24.24%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (24.24%) Amazon S3
11 7 (21.21%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (12.12%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (12.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (12.12%) Azure
13 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
13 3 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (9.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DNS
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) VPN
2 1 (3.03%) Anycast
2 1 (3.03%) BGP
2 1 (3.03%) DMVPN
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) IPsec
2 1 (3.03%) LAN
2 1 (3.03%) MPLS
2 1 (3.03%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) NGFW
2 1 (3.03%) OSPF
2 1 (3.03%) SSL
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (15.15%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (15.15%) DynamoDB
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Snyk
2 2 (6.06%) Burp Suite
2 2 (6.06%) GitLab
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Metasploit
3 1 (3.03%) AppScan
3 1 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) Postman
3 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.03%) sqlmap
General
1 14 (42.42%) Public Sector
2 8 (24.24%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Legal
4 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (42.42%) Architect
3 10 (30.30%) Cloud Architect
3 10 (30.30%) Security Engineer
4 9 (27.27%) AWS Architect
5 5 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Lead
5 5 (15.15%) Lead Architect
5 5 (15.15%) Lead Cloud Architect
6 4 (12.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Security Architect
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Site Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) AWS CDK
1 3 (9.09%) Kafka
1 3 (9.09%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) Node.js
2 2 (6.06%) React
2 2 (6.06%) YAML
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.03%) JSON
3 1 (3.03%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) SCADA
4 1 (3.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
1 16 (48.48%) Migration
2 14 (42.42%) CI/CD
2 14 (42.42%) Cloud Security
3 13 (39.39%) Runbook
4 12 (36.36%) RBAC
4 12 (36.36%) Threat Detection
5 11 (33.33%) Validation
6 10 (30.30%) DevOps
7 8 (24.24%) FinOps
8 6 (18.18%) DevSecOps
8 6 (18.18%) Incident Response
8 6 (18.18%) ITIL
8 6 (18.18%) Network Segmentation
8 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
8 6 (18.18%) SIEM
8 6 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (15.15%) Agile
9 5 (15.15%) BCP
9 5 (15.15%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Bash
1 7 (21.21%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.06%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) Groovy
4 1 (3.03%) Lisp
4 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) AWS Certification
2 12 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 10 (30.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CISSP
4 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) NCSC
2 7 (21.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (18.18%) NIST
4 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (9.09%) GDPR
6 2 (6.06%) GRC
6 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
7 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
7 1 (3.03%) COBIT
7 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (12.12%) Docker
3 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.03%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (72.73%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Ansible
2 2 (6.06%) Grafana
2 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Fluentd
3 1 (3.03%) logstash
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.03%) Nessus
3 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Citrix
2 6 (18.18%) CloudEndure
3 4 (12.12%) Tenable
4 3 (9.09%) Qualys
5 2 (6.06%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (3.03%) Cribl.io
6 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.03%) LogRhythm
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.03%) Okta
6 1 (3.03%) PagerDuty
6 1 (3.03%) Trend Micro
6 1 (3.03%) Veracode
6 1 (3.03%) Virgin Media