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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 525 542
Rank change year-on-year -87 +17 +57
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 57 40 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.054%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.32% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 34 14
10th Percentile £381 £333 -
25th Percentile £436 £408 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £584
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -18.63% +0.43%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £608
90th Percentile £652 £631 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £599
% change year-on-year +2.38% -12.32% +22.82%

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 18,997 12,357 13,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.79% 37.43% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,598 8,222 8,954
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 614 307 208
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.22
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.80 £54.38 £60.72
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.67 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.25 £29.25
% change year-on-year +48.15% -30.77% +8.33%

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 11 September 2026.

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 11 September 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 -115 42 £500 +5.26% 22
London -70 27 £488 +5.41% 11
Work from Home -72 22 £533 +18.33% 10
UK excluding London -100 15 £538 +2.38% 13
Scotland -12 4 £432 -21.55% 1
North of England -69 4 £630 +26.04% 5
North West - 4 £630 - 4
South East - 3 £533 - 2
East of England -35 2 £425 -19.05% 1
Midlands -51 2 £448 +29.78% 4
West Midlands -51 1 £538 +55.80% 1
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.75%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 36 (63.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 35 (61.40%) Serverless
5 32 (56.14%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (47.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 25 (43.86%) Amazon S3
7 25 (43.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (36.84%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (31.58%) AWS KMS
10 15 (26.32%) GCP
10 15 (26.32%) GitHub
11 12 (21.05%) Azure
12 11 (19.30%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (19.30%) Route 53
13 10 (17.54%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (12.28%) Amazon ECR
14 7 (12.28%) Amazon Macie
14 7 (12.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) Firewall
2 8 (14.04%) Network Security
3 6 (10.53%) DNS
4 4 (7.02%) SSL
4 4 (7.02%) WAN
5 1 (1.75%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (12.28%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.77%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.75%) Metadata
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (24.56%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.28%) Git
2 7 (12.28%) JIRA
3 5 (8.77%) GitLab
4 1 (1.75%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.75%) Maven
4 1 (1.75%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.75%) Postman
4 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.75%) sqlmap
General
1 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.77%) Finance
4 4 (7.02%) Legal
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Games
6 1 (1.75%) Local Government
6 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) Architect
1 16 (28.07%) AWS Architect
2 15 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (22.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (21.05%) Security Engineer
5 10 (17.54%) Technical Architect
6 9 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (7.02%) Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Network Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Cloud Network Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 2 (3.51%) AWS Security Architect
11 2 (3.51%) Data Engineer
11 2 (3.51%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 2 (3.51%) Migration Architect
11 2 (3.51%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (57.89%) Terraform
2 7 (12.28%) Apollo GraphQL
2 7 (12.28%) GraphQL
2 7 (12.28%) RESTful
3 5 (8.77%) ARM Templates
4 4 (7.02%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (5.26%) REST
5 3 (5.26%) SAML
6 2 (3.51%) OAuth
6 2 (3.51%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.51%) OpenID
6 2 (3.51%) SOAP
6 2 (3.51%) YAML
7 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.75%) LDAP
7 1 (1.75%) Node.js
7 1 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.75%) pytest
7 1 (1.75%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 9 (15.79%) Security Posture
3 6 (10.53%) Cloud Security Posture
4 5 (8.77%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.75%) NHS
7 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.05%) Linux
1 12 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (15.79%) Windows
3 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (61.40%) CI/CD
2 30 (52.63%) DevOps
3 28 (49.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (35.09%) Cloud Security
4 20 (35.09%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (33.33%) SIEM
6 18 (31.58%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (22.81%) Agile
7 13 (22.81%) Incident Response
8 12 (21.05%) Containerisation
8 12 (21.05%) Identity Access Management
9 11 (19.30%) Data Protection
10 10 (17.54%) Roadmaps
11 9 (15.79%) AI
11 9 (15.79%) Analytics
11 9 (15.79%) DevSecOps
11 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (15.79%) Migration
11 9 (15.79%) Network Segmentation
12 8 (14.04%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (38.60%) Python
2 17 (29.82%) Bash
3 13 (22.81%) PowerShell
4 8 (14.04%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.77%) Bicep
6 4 (7.02%) Java
6 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.26%) Groovy
8 2 (3.51%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (3.51%) SQL
9 1 (1.75%) C
9 1 (1.75%) R
9 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (29.82%) SC Cleared
1 17 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 15 (26.32%) AWS Certification
3 7 (12.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.77%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (7.02%) CISSP
6 3 (5.26%) Degree
6 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.51%) NCSC
2 2 (3.51%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (17.54%) Docker
2 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.26%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (22.81%) Grafana
3 12 (21.05%) Prometheus
4 9 (15.79%) Ansible
5 4 (7.02%) Packer
5 4 (7.02%) Progress Chef
5 4 (7.02%) Puppet
6 2 (3.51%) Argo
6 2 (3.51%) Istio
7 1 (1.75%) CloudForms
7 1 (1.75%) Podman
7 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.75%) systemd
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Red Hat
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.77%) Google
3 5 (8.77%) PagerDuty
3 5 (8.77%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.26%) Trend Micro
5 2 (3.51%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.75%) Citrix
6 1 (1.75%) Okta
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle
6 1 (1.75%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk