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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 544 601
Rank change year-on-year +33 +57 +136
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudTrail 50 13 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.035% 0.073%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.10% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 5 20
10th Percentile £352 - £445
25th Percentile £409 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £550 - £638
90th Percentile £575 £650 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%

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 12,730 12,898 17,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.37% 34.80% 35.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,497 8,518 12,265
10th Percentile £307 £313 £300
25th Percentile £408 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £712 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 174 326
10th Percentile £15.23 £17.44 £14.77
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +42.89%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £33.93 £22.50
% change year-on-year -41.06% +50.80% +15.38%

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 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 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 +38 40 £471 -32.79% 15
London +38 23 £475 - 7
Work from Home +46 22 £438 -12.50% 9
UK excluding London +7 21 £505 - 11
North of England -19 7 £525 - 2
Yorkshire - 6 £550 -
Midlands - 5 £345 -
West Midlands - 5 £345 -
Scotland +7 4 £540 -
East of England - 3 £538 -
South West - 2 £406 - 5
North East - 1 £466 -

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 2 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 25 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 25 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (50.00%) Serverless
4 24 (48.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 21 (42.00%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (38.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 19 (38.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (34.00%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (32.00%) GitHub
9 13 (26.00%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (26.00%) AWS KMS
9 13 (26.00%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (20.00%) Datadog
11 9 (18.00%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (18.00%) Azure
12 8 (16.00%) Amazon Macie
13 7 (14.00%) Route 53
14 6 (12.00%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) DNS
2 6 (12.00%) Firewall
3 5 (10.00%) Network Security
4 4 (8.00%) DHCP
5 2 (4.00%) SSL
5 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.00%) VPN
6 1 (2.00%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.00%) LAN
6 1 (2.00%) SMS
6 1 (2.00%) tcpdump
6 1 (2.00%) VLAN
6 1 (2.00%) VSAN
6 1 (2.00%) WAN
6 1 (2.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.00%) CouchDB
6 1 (2.00%) Metadata
6 1 (2.00%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (2.00%) MySQL
6 1 (2.00%) Redis
6 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (46.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (32.00%) Git
3 8 (16.00%) GitLab
4 3 (6.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.00%) JIRA
5 1 (2.00%) Metasploit
General
1 9 (18.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (16.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Games
5 1 (2.00%) Law
5 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Security Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Architect
5 6 (12.00%) AWS Architect
5 6 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Senior
7 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Administrator
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Data Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Lead
8 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Site Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) AWS CDK
1 4 (8.00%) Node.js
2 2 (4.00%) AWS Amplify
2 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.00%) Kafka
2 2 (4.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.00%) Memcached
3 1 (2.00%) RESTful
3 1 (2.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.00%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.00%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.00%) PKI
3 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) SUSE
3 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (54.00%) DevOps
2 23 (46.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 20 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 16 (32.00%) Containerisation
5 13 (26.00%) Secrets Management
6 11 (22.00%) Observability
7 10 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 9 (18.00%) Configuration Management
8 9 (18.00%) Threat Detection
9 8 (16.00%) Cost Optimisation
9 8 (16.00%) SIEM
9 8 (16.00%) Workflow
10 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (14.00%) Migration
11 6 (12.00%) DevSecOps
11 6 (12.00%) Key Management
11 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
12 5 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) Python
2 11 (22.00%) Bash
3 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.00%) Go
4 5 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.00%) CodeQL
6 2 (4.00%) SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Java
7 1 (2.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) AWS Certification
3 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (16.00%) NIST
3 4 (8.00%) GDPR
4 3 (6.00%) PCI DSS
4 3 (6.00%) QA
4 3 (6.00%) SOC 2
5 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 2 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.00%) GRC
6 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (32.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.00%) Snort
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (68.00%) Terraform
2 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (18.00%) Ansible
4 7 (14.00%) Grafana
4 7 (14.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (6.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.00%) Kustomize
6 2 (4.00%) Puppet
7 1 (2.00%) Nessus
7 1 (2.00%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Splunk
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.00%) Tenable
4 2 (4.00%) ArcSight
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) CloudEndure
4 2 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (4.00%) F5
4 2 (4.00%) Imperva
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) Intel
5 1 (2.00%) New Relic
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Veeam
5 1 (2.00%) VMware