AWS CloudFormation Contracts in Scotland

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS CloudFormation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 58 94
Rank change year-on-year -10 +36 -16
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 58 121 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.71% 4.53% 2.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.95% 12.56% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 106 73
10th Percentile £415 £425 £420
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -6.86% +7.37%
75th Percentile £494 £503 £550
90th Percentile £510 £538 £575
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +15.00%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

AWS CloudFormation is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 730 963 1,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.14% 36.05% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 711 823
10th Percentile £223 £250 £313
25th Percentile £370 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -2.86% +8.67%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £620 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 17
10th Percentile £16.08 £17.72 £17.74
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -55.10%
75th Percentile £22.28 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £33.05 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -43.53% +69.64% +1.82%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in Scotland

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in Scotland

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Edinburgh +2 37 £450 -6.05% 8
Glasgow -4 9 £495 +3.02% 4
Lanarkshire +5 3 £460 +2.22% 1
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (5.17%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 51 (87.93%) Amazon S3
3 50 (86.21%) Serverless
4 49 (84.48%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (46.55%) OpenShift
6 17 (29.31%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (25.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (18.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 11 (18.97%) AWS CodePipeline
9 7 (12.07%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (10.34%) Textract
11 5 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (8.62%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (5.17%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (5.17%) AWS CodeCommit
13 2 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (3.45%) Rekognition
13 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 1 (1.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) SSL
2 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (82.76%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (24.14%) MongoDB
4 13 (22.41%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (17.24%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (13.79%) Oracle Database
7 6 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (10.34%) InfluxDB
8 5 (8.62%) Informix
9 4 (6.90%) GIS
10 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) GitLab
2 13 (22.41%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.34%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.45%) Git
5 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.72%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
General
1 33 (56.90%) Public Sector
2 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.90%) Finance
4 3 (5.17%) Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (55.17%) Developer
2 13 (22.41%) Data Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Automation Developer
4 7 (12.07%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Software Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Database Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) AWS Developer
6 5 (8.62%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (8.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Senior
7 4 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Python Developer
9 1 (1.72%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (91.38%) AWS CDK
2 18 (31.03%) React
3 12 (20.69%) REST
4 11 (18.97%) CSS
4 11 (18.97%) HTML
5 10 (17.24%) Node.js
6 7 (12.07%) PostGIS
6 7 (12.07%) SpaCy
6 7 (12.07%) Spring Boot
7 6 (10.34%) Spring
8 5 (8.62%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (6.90%) OAuth
9 4 (6.90%) OAuth2
9 4 (6.90%) PyTorch
9 4 (6.90%) Spring Security
10 2 (3.45%) Lambda Expressions
11 1 (1.72%) Java EE
11 1 (1.72%) RESTful
11 1 (1.72%) Spring MVC
11 1 (1.72%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.14%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (12.07%) Replication
3 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Linux
2 10 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (12.07%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (68.97%) Agile
2 35 (60.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (43.10%) CI/CD
4 24 (41.38%) Kanban
5 22 (37.93%) DevOps
5 22 (37.93%) Scrum
6 15 (25.86%) Code Quality
6 15 (25.86%) Machine Learning
7 13 (22.41%) Community of Practice
7 13 (22.41%) Human-Centred Design
7 13 (22.41%) Inclusive Design
7 13 (22.41%) Migration
7 13 (22.41%) Test Automation
7 13 (22.41%) User Experience
8 12 (20.69%) Code Coverage
8 12 (20.69%) Microservices
8 12 (20.69%) Natural Language Processing
8 12 (20.69%) TDD
9 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
9 11 (18.97%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 39 (67.24%) TypeScript
2 35 (60.34%) Python
3 18 (31.03%) SQL
4 17 (29.31%) JavaScript
5 14 (24.14%) Bash
5 14 (24.14%) Java
6 6 (10.34%) Shell Script
7 5 (8.62%) Groovy
8 1 (1.72%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (34.48%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.62%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (32.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (56.90%) Grafana
2 16 (27.59%) Ansible
3 13 (22.41%) Kubernetes
4 9 (15.52%) Kibana
5 3 (5.17%) Terraform
6 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Oracle
2 4 (6.90%) Commvault
3 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.45%) Sage
5 1 (1.72%) Google