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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 554 598
Rank change year-on-year +34 +44 +162
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 39 19 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.050% 0.083%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 12 29
10th Percentile £330 - £413
25th Percentile £406 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £584 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.63% -2.71% -7.69%
75th Percentile £538 £621 £638
90th Percentile £633 £729 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £598 £450
% change year-on-year -12.13% +32.78% -21.74%

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 12,359 13,112 17,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.52% 34.29% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 8,846 12,789
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 197 342
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.50 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £52.25 £62.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -35.77% +11.11% +40.30%

AWS CloudTrail
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS CloudTrail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudTrail 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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudTrail in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Top 11 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 17 September 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 +56 36 £475 -20.83% 17
London +42 21 £475 -21.65% 13
Work from Home +14 18 £450 -21.74% 7
UK excluding London +10 16 £525 -12.13% 8
West Midlands - 5 £345 -
East of England - 5 £525 -
Midlands - 5 £345 -
North of England -10 4 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 4 £500 -
South West +23 1 £625 +4.17%
Scotland -7 1 £550 -

AWS CloudTrail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (46.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 17 (43.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 17 (43.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (35.90%) Amazon S3
5 14 (35.90%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (35.90%) Serverless
6 12 (30.77%) AWS KMS
7 10 (25.64%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (25.64%) Azure
8 9 (23.08%) GitHub
9 8 (20.51%) Amazon Macie
10 7 (17.95%) Datadog
11 6 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (12.82%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) DNS
2 5 (12.82%) Network Security
3 4 (10.26%) DHCP
3 4 (10.26%) Firewall
3 4 (10.26%) SSL
4 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.13%) VPN
4 2 (5.13%) X.509
5 1 (2.56%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.56%) LAN
5 1 (2.56%) SMS
5 1 (2.56%) tcpdump
5 1 (2.56%) VLAN
5 1 (2.56%) VSAN
5 1 (2.56%) WAN
5 1 (2.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.56%) Metadata
3 1 (2.56%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.38%) Git
3 3 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.13%) GitLab
5 1 (2.56%) JIRA
5 1 (2.56%) Metasploit
General
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.56%) Law
4 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Security Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Architect
4 5 (12.82%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
5 4 (10.26%) AWS Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Lead
5 4 (10.26%) Security Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Administrator
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Administrator
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Security Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Security Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) AWS CDK
2 2 (5.13%) AWS Amplify
2 2 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.13%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.56%) Node.js
3 1 (2.56%) RESTful
3 1 (2.56%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) PKI
3 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.13%) Low-Code
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
4 1 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.56%) SUSE
3 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Cloud Security
1 19 (48.72%) DevOps
2 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
4 9 (23.08%) Threat Detection
5 8 (20.51%) Configuration Management
5 8 (20.51%) Incident Response
5 8 (20.51%) Secrets Management
5 8 (20.51%) SIEM
5 8 (20.51%) Workflow
6 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.38%) DevSecOps
7 6 (15.38%) Observability
7 6 (15.38%) RBAC
8 5 (12.82%) Key Management
8 5 (12.82%) Threat Modelling
9 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
3 3 (7.69%) Bash
3 3 (7.69%) CodeQL
4 2 (5.13%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.21%) AWS Certification
2 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (23.08%) NIST
3 5 (12.82%) GDPR
4 4 (10.26%) SOC 2
5 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
5 3 (7.69%) QA
6 2 (5.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (5.13%) FIPS 140-2
6 2 (5.13%) NIST 800
7 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
7 1 (2.56%) GRC
7 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 6 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.13%) Snort
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (51.28%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Ansible
2 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.13%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) Kustomize
4 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.13%) Puppet
5 1 (2.56%) Nessus
5 1 (2.56%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Splunk
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.69%) Tenable
4 2 (5.13%) ArcSight
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco
4 2 (5.13%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (5.13%) F5
4 2 (5.13%) Imperva
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.56%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Intel
5 1 (2.56%) New Relic
5 1 (2.56%) Okta
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Veeam
5 1 (2.56%) VMware