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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 500 563
Rank change year-on-year -98 +63 +62
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 42 26 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.089% 0.062%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 22
10th Percentile £405 £425 £500
25th Percentile £505 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £625
90th Percentile £650 £678 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £529 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +0.71% -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 17,713 11,130 14,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.50% 37.89% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,857 7,532 9,982
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.79% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 270 357
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.84 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £19.09
% change year-on-year +95.98% +0.26% -30.60%

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 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudTrail in the UK

AWS CloudTrail
Top 9 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 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 -100 30 £525 +2.44% 3
Work from Home -40 20 £533 +1.43% 3
London -65 19 £525 +10.53% 2
UK excluding London -102 8 £529 +0.71% 2
East of England -25 3 £450 -14.29%
West Midlands -58 2 £544 +20.83%
Midlands -64 2 £544 +20.83%
South East - 2 £533 - 1
Scotland -14 1 £313 -40.38%

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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (66.67%) Serverless
3 27 (64.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 26 (61.90%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (59.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (57.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 19 (45.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (33.33%) Amazon S3
10 12 (28.57%) AWS KMS
10 12 (28.57%) GitHub
10 12 (28.57%) Route 53
11 11 (26.19%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (23.81%) Amazon ECR
12 10 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (19.05%) Amazon Macie
13 8 (19.05%) AWS Control Tower
14 6 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (11.90%) CloudFront
16 4 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) DNS
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) Network Security
2 3 (7.14%) SSL
3 2 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (2.38%) Anycast
4 1 (2.38%) BGP
4 1 (2.38%) DMVPN
4 1 (2.38%) IPsec
4 1 (2.38%) MPLS
4 1 (2.38%) NGFW
4 1 (2.38%) OSPF
4 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (14.29%) DynamoDB
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.90%) Git
2 5 (11.90%) JIRA
3 3 (7.14%) GitLab
3 3 (7.14%) Snyk
4 2 (4.76%) Burp Suite
4 2 (4.76%) Metasploit
5 1 (2.38%) AppScan
5 1 (2.38%) Postman
5 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.38%) sqlmap
General
1 9 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.52%) Legal
2 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (42.86%) Architect
3 16 (38.10%) AWS Architect
4 11 (26.19%) Security Engineer
5 10 (23.81%) Technical Architect
6 7 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Security Architect
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
10 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) Developer
10 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) Network Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
11 1 (2.38%) Cloud Network Engineer
11 1 (2.38%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Apollo GraphQL
1 7 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 7 (16.67%) RESTful
2 3 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 3 (7.14%) Kafka
2 3 (7.14%) REST
3 2 (4.76%) OAuth
3 2 (4.76%) OAuth2
3 2 (4.76%) OpenID
3 2 (4.76%) SAML
4 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.38%) JSON
4 1 (2.38%) Node.js
4 1 (2.38%) pytest
4 1 (2.38%) React
4 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.38%) SCADA
5 1 (2.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Kali Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 22 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (35.71%) DevOps
4 14 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 12 (28.57%) Migration
6 9 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (21.43%) Validation
7 8 (19.05%) Microservices
7 8 (19.05%) Roadmaps
7 8 (19.05%) Runbook
7 8 (19.05%) SIEM
8 7 (16.67%) Agile
8 7 (16.67%) API Design
8 7 (16.67%) Data Integration
8 7 (16.67%) Design Patterns
8 7 (16.67%) Technical Debt
8 7 (16.67%) Threat Detection
9 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 6 (14.29%) DevSecOps
9 6 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Python
2 12 (28.57%) Bash
3 8 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.14%) Groovy
5 3 (7.14%) Java
6 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.38%) C
7 1 (2.38%) Lisp
7 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 16 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) NIST
2 3 (7.14%) GDPR
2 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.76%) GRC
3 2 (4.76%) NCSC
3 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.38%) COBIT
4 1 (2.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.52%) Docker
3 3 (7.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (59.52%) Terraform
2 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.05%) Grafana
3 8 (19.05%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.90%) Ansible
5 2 (4.76%) Packer
5 2 (4.76%) Puppet
6 1 (2.38%) CloudForms
6 1 (2.38%) Fluentd
6 1 (2.38%) logstash
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.38%) Nessus
6 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Citrix
2 4 (9.52%) Tenable
3 3 (7.14%) PagerDuty
3 3 (7.14%) Qualys
3 3 (7.14%) Splunk
3 3 (7.14%) Trend Micro
4 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.38%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.38%) Cribl.io
5 1 (2.38%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.38%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.38%) Okta
5 1 (2.38%) Veracode
5 1 (2.38%) Virgin Media