AWS CloudFormation Contracts

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 276 266
Rank change year-on-year -70 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 250 541 926
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.95% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.58% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 438 613
10th Percentile £416 £427 £450
25th Percentile £456 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £586
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -6.14% +17.20%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £688
90th Percentile £760 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -6.50% -3.24% +10.53%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,826 20,933 33,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.49% 36.75% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 15,157 24,567
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 336 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
% change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation.

Hourly rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England -45 172 £550 -8.33% 96
London 0 118 £600 - 42
UK excluding London -40 108 £475 -6.50% 54
Work from Home -24 107 £506 -8.00% 66
Scotland -7 59 £463 -2.63% 4
North of England +5 20 £500 -17.36% 18
North West +6 17 £500 -20.00% 10
South East +2 13 £500 -9.09% 7
Wales +22 6 £645 +90.96%
South West -7 6 £644 +3.00% 9
Midlands +22 4 £450 -28.00% 14
East Midlands +12 3 £450 -35.71% 6
Yorkshire +8 3 £525 -12.50% 6
East of England +4 2 £675 +29.81% 1
West Midlands +19 1 £350 -45.74% 8

AWS CloudFormation
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 14 (5.60%) nginx
2 13 (5.20%) Confluence
3 6 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.20%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.80%) Apache
5 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.80%) Traefik
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 228 (91.20%) AWS
2 134 (53.60%) Serverless
3 113 (45.20%) AWS Lambda
4 99 (39.60%) Amazon S3
5 66 (26.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 57 (22.80%) Amazon EC2
7 51 (20.40%) Azure
8 29 (11.60%) GitHub
9 28 (11.20%) OpenShift
10 23 (9.20%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (8.80%) AWS CodePipeline
11 22 (8.80%) GCP
11 22 (8.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (8.40%) SaaS
13 19 (7.60%) IaaS
14 17 (6.80%) PaaS
15 14 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (4.80%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.80%) Firewall
2 8 (3.20%) VPN
3 7 (2.80%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.20%) Network Security
4 3 (1.20%) SSL
5 2 (0.80%) DNS
5 2 (0.80%) FTP
5 2 (0.80%) IPv4
6 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (21.20%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (16.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 33 (13.20%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (10.80%) DynamoDB
5 20 (8.00%) MySQL
6 16 (6.40%) MongoDB
7 15 (6.00%) Relational Database
8 13 (5.20%) SQL Server
9 12 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (3.60%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.60%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.60%) RDBMS
11 8 (3.20%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.80%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.80%) InfluxDB
13 5 (2.00%) Informix
14 4 (1.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 47 (18.80%) Git
2 45 (18.00%) Jenkins
3 35 (14.00%) GitLab
4 19 (7.60%) JIRA
5 9 (3.60%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.20%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.40%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.40%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.00%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.00%) Subversion
9 3 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.20%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.20%) Maven
9 3 (1.20%) Selenium
9 3 (1.20%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.80%) AppScan
10 2 (0.80%) JUnit
10 2 (0.80%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.80%) Snyk
11 1 (0.40%) TestNG
General
1 45 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.60%) Public Sector
3 20 (8.00%) Finance
4 7 (2.80%) Retail
5 5 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.00%) Banking
5 5 (2.00%) Legal
5 5 (2.00%) Marketing
6 4 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.80%) Billing
8 2 (0.80%) German Language
9 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.40%) Games
9 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Law
9 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (21.20%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (19.20%) Developer
4 40 (16.00%) Senior
5 30 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
6 29 (11.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 25 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (9.60%) Data Engineer
9 23 (9.20%) Architect
10 17 (6.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 16 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.60%) Security Architect
13 13 (5.20%) Cloud Architect
13 13 (5.20%) Site Engineer
14 11 (4.40%) Automation Developer
14 11 (4.40%) AWS Developer
15 10 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
15 10 (4.00%) Security Engineer
15 10 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (25.20%) AWS CDK
2 30 (12.00%) Node.js
3 24 (9.60%) React
4 14 (5.60%) ADO
5 13 (5.20%) RESTful
6 12 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (4.80%) REST
7 11 (4.40%) YAML
8 9 (3.60%) CSS
8 9 (3.60%) HTML
9 8 (3.20%) Kafka
9 8 (3.20%) OAuth
9 8 (3.20%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.80%) JSON
10 7 (2.80%) PostGIS
10 7 (2.80%) SpaCy
10 7 (2.80%) Spring
11 6 (2.40%) PyTorch
12 5 (2.00%) Jest
12 5 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.80%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (6.80%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.00%) Mobile App
3 15 (6.00%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.20%) IoT
5 7 (2.80%) Replication
6 4 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.20%) Clustering
7 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.80%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 62 (24.80%) Linux
2 18 (7.20%) Windows
3 17 (6.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (6.80%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.20%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.60%) Unix
6 3 (1.20%) CentOS
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (53.60%) DevOps
2 126 (50.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 105 (42.00%) CI/CD
4 92 (36.80%) Agile
5 44 (17.60%) Containerisation
6 32 (12.80%) Scrum
7 31 (12.40%) Kanban
8 29 (11.60%) Migration
9 28 (11.20%) Cloud Security
9 28 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (10.40%) Microservices
11 25 (10.00%) Test Automation
12 23 (9.20%) Configuration Management
12 23 (9.20%) Machine Learning
13 22 (8.80%) Artificial Intelligence
13 22 (8.80%) DevSecOps
14 21 (8.40%) Roadmaps
14 21 (8.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (8.00%) Code Quality
16 18 (7.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 114 (45.60%) Python
2 62 (24.80%) TypeScript
3 41 (16.40%) Bash
4 39 (15.60%) SQL
5 33 (13.20%) JavaScript
6 31 (12.40%) Java
7 17 (6.80%) PowerShell
8 15 (6.00%) Go
9 9 (3.60%) Ruby
9 9 (3.60%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.00%) Groovy
11 4 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.20%) Scala
13 2 (0.80%) C
13 2 (0.80%) PHP
13 2 (0.80%) U-SQL
14 1 (0.40%) Bicep
14 1 (0.40%) C#
14 1 (0.40%) C++
14 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 58 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.40%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.60%) Degree
5 9 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.20%) SANS
10 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.40%) CISSP
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 19 (7.60%) QA
3 17 (6.80%) NIST
4 7 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (2.00%) GDPR
7 3 (1.20%) ISO 22301
7 3 (1.20%) NCSC
8 2 (0.80%) SLA
9 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 91 (36.40%) Docker
2 15 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.40%) Ceph
5 1 (0.40%) NFS
Systems Management
1 135 (54.00%) Terraform
2 90 (36.00%) Kubernetes
3 54 (21.60%) Ansible
4 47 (18.80%) Grafana
5 18 (7.20%) Progress Chef
6 17 (6.80%) Prometheus
7 16 (6.40%) Puppet
8 15 (6.00%) Packer
9 11 (4.40%) Consul
10 10 (4.00%) Nagios
11 9 (3.60%) Graylog
11 9 (3.60%) HP Fortify
11 9 (3.60%) Kibana
12 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.20%) Podman
12 3 (1.20%) Salt
13 2 (0.80%) Graphite
13 2 (0.80%) Istio
13 2 (0.80%) linkerd
13 2 (0.80%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 25 (10.00%) Splunk
2 21 (8.40%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.40%) Oracle
4 11 (4.40%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.00%) Databricks
6 9 (3.60%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.20%) Google
8 5 (2.00%) VMware
9 4 (1.60%) Commvault
9 4 (1.60%) SAP
10 3 (1.20%) Adobe
10 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.20%) Checkmarx
10 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.20%) Sage
10 3 (1.20%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.80%) New Relic
11 2 (0.80%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.80%) Qualys
11 2 (0.80%) SaltStack