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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 273 263
Rank change year-on-year -67 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 249 536 932
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.96% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 2.62% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 436 621
10th Percentile £420 £428 £450
25th Percentile £456 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £688
90th Percentile £760 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -64 169 £550 -8.33% 94
London -2 118 £600 - 41
Work from Home -26 110 £506 -8.00% 59
UK excluding London -66 105 £475 -5.00% 61
Scotland -12 58 £463 -2.63% 11
North of England +7 20 £500 -16.67% 18
North West +10 17 £500 -16.67% 9
South East -2 13 £500 -9.09% 7
Wales +22 6 £645 +90.96%
Midlands +17 4 £450 -28.00% 11
South West -12 4 £644 +4.04% 12
Yorkshire +15 3 £525 -25.00% 7
East Midlands +11 3 £450 -35.71% 1
East of England -2 2 £675 +15.38% 2
West Midlands +6 1 £350 -44.00% 10

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 15 (6.02%) Confluence
1 15 (6.02%) nginx
2 5 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.20%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) IIS
4 2 (0.80%) Traefik
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.01%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 223 (89.56%) AWS
2 128 (51.41%) Serverless
3 106 (42.57%) AWS Lambda
4 97 (38.96%) Amazon S3
5 66 (26.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 59 (23.69%) Amazon EC2
7 50 (20.08%) Azure
8 32 (12.85%) GitHub
9 30 (12.05%) OpenShift
10 24 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (9.64%) GCP
11 22 (8.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (8.43%) SaaS
13 20 (8.03%) AWS CodePipeline
14 19 (7.63%) IaaS
15 18 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (6.83%) PaaS
17 15 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
18 12 (4.82%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.22%) Firewall
2 8 (3.21%) VPN
3 7 (2.81%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.20%) SSL
5 2 (0.80%) DNS
5 2 (0.80%) FTP
5 2 (0.80%) IPv4
5 2 (0.80%) Network Security
6 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (21.29%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (14.46%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (14.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 27 (10.84%) DynamoDB
5 23 (9.24%) MySQL
6 18 (7.23%) MongoDB
7 15 (6.02%) Relational Database
8 12 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (4.82%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.61%) Data Lake
9 9 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.61%) NoSQL
9 9 (3.61%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.21%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (3.21%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.81%) Amazon QuickSight
11 7 (2.81%) InfluxDB
12 6 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (2.01%) Informix
14 4 (1.61%) GIS
Development Applications
1 50 (20.08%) Jenkins
2 46 (18.47%) Git
3 37 (14.86%) GitLab
4 19 (7.63%) JIRA
5 9 (3.61%) CircleCI
5 9 (3.61%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.41%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.01%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.01%) Subversion
8 4 (1.61%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.61%) Selenium
8 4 (1.61%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.20%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.20%) Maven
10 2 (0.80%) AppScan
10 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.80%) JUnit
10 2 (0.80%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.80%) Snyk
11 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 48 (19.28%) Public Sector
2 42 (16.87%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.84%) Finance
4 7 (2.81%) Banking
4 7 (2.81%) Retail
5 6 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.01%) Legal
6 5 (2.01%) Marketing
7 4 (1.61%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Billing
10 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.40%) Games
10 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (31.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (20.48%) AWS Engineer
3 46 (18.47%) Developer
4 40 (16.06%) Senior
5 32 (12.85%) AWS DevOps
6 31 (12.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 25 (10.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (9.64%) Architect
9 22 (8.84%) Data Engineer
10 17 (6.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 14 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.62%) Security Architect
12 13 (5.22%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (5.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (5.22%) Site Engineer
13 11 (4.42%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (4.02%) AWS Developer
14 10 (4.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 9 (3.61%) Automation Developer
15 9 (3.61%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (24.10%) AWS CDK
2 28 (11.24%) Node.js
3 27 (10.84%) React
4 15 (6.02%) REST
5 14 (5.62%) ADO
6 13 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (5.22%) RESTful
7 11 (4.42%) CSS
7 11 (4.42%) HTML
8 9 (3.61%) Kafka
8 9 (3.61%) OAuth
8 9 (3.61%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.61%) YAML
9 8 (3.21%) Spring
10 7 (2.81%) JSON
10 7 (2.81%) PostGIS
10 7 (2.81%) SpaCy
11 6 (2.41%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (2.41%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.41%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.84%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (6.02%) Mobile App
2 15 (6.02%) Public Cloud
3 14 (5.62%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.62%) IoT
4 7 (2.81%) Replication
5 4 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.20%) Clustering
6 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.80%) PKI
8 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 64 (25.70%) Linux
2 17 (6.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 17 (6.83%) Ubuntu
2 17 (6.83%) Windows
3 6 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.61%) Unix
5 3 (1.20%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (55.42%) DevOps
2 126 (50.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (42.97%) CI/CD
4 86 (34.54%) Agile
5 46 (18.47%) Containerisation
6 31 (12.45%) Migration
7 30 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (11.65%) Cloud Security
9 27 (10.84%) Microservices
9 27 (10.84%) Scrum
10 26 (10.44%) Kanban
10 26 (10.44%) Test Automation
11 24 (9.64%) Roadmaps
12 22 (8.84%) Configuration Management
12 22 (8.84%) DevSecOps
13 20 (8.03%) Code Quality
13 20 (8.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (7.63%) Artificial Intelligence
14 19 (7.63%) Mentoring
14 19 (7.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 106 (42.57%) Python
2 61 (24.50%) TypeScript
3 42 (16.87%) Bash
4 38 (15.26%) SQL
5 35 (14.06%) JavaScript
6 31 (12.45%) Java
7 15 (6.02%) Go
7 15 (6.02%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.42%) Ruby
9 10 (4.02%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.01%) Groovy
10 5 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.80%) C
11 2 (0.80%) PHP
11 2 (0.80%) Scala
11 2 (0.80%) U-SQL
12 1 (0.40%) C#
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) Perl
12 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (23.69%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.47%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.23%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.22%) Degree
5 9 (3.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.81%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.01%) DV Cleared
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 (8.03%) Accessibility
2 17 (6.83%) NIST
3 16 (6.43%) QA
4 5 (2.01%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (2.01%) GDPR
4 5 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.20%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.20%) NCSC
6 2 (0.80%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 93 (37.35%) Docker
2 18 (7.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.40%) Ceph
5 1 (0.40%) NFS
Systems Management
1 142 (57.03%) Terraform
2 91 (36.55%) Kubernetes
3 57 (22.89%) Ansible
4 49 (19.68%) Grafana
5 19 (7.63%) Progress Chef
5 19 (7.63%) Prometheus
6 17 (6.83%) Puppet
7 15 (6.02%) Packer
8 11 (4.42%) Consul
9 10 (4.02%) Nagios
10 9 (3.61%) Graylog
10 9 (3.61%) HP Fortify
10 9 (3.61%) Kibana
11 4 (1.61%) Salt
12 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.80%) Ambari
13 2 (0.80%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.80%) Istio
13 2 (0.80%) linkerd
13 2 (0.80%) Oozie
Vendors
1 24 (9.64%) Splunk
2 20 (8.03%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.83%) Oracle
4 11 (4.42%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.61%) Databricks
5 9 (3.61%) Google
6 7 (2.81%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.01%) VMware
8 4 (1.61%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.61%) Commvault
8 4 (1.61%) SAP
9 3 (1.20%) Adobe
9 3 (1.20%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.20%) Sage
9 3 (1.20%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.80%) New Relic
10 2 (0.80%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.80%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.80%) SaltStack