AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 221 261
Rank change year-on-year -74 +40 -18
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 107 225 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.99% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% 3.04% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 194 189
10th Percentile £414 £425 £425
25th Percentile £433 £452 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £625
90th Percentile £623 £650 £671
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +11.65%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation 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 in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Scotland -2 60 £461 -2.89% 7
North of England 0 20 £450 -25.00% 16
North West +1 15 £475 -13.64% 8
South East +3 13 £500 -9.09% 9
Wales +25 6 £645 +90.96%
Yorkshire +13 5 £450 -35.71% 7
Midlands +11 4 £450 -28.00% 8
South West -16 4 £644 +4.04% 16
East Midlands +6 3 £450 -35.71% 2
East of England -3 2 £675 +12.50% 2
West Midlands +10 1 £350 -44.00% 6
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.80%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.93%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.93%) nginx
2 1 (0.93%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 102 (95.33%) AWS
2 68 (63.55%) Amazon S3
3 64 (59.81%) Serverless
4 61 (57.01%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (34.58%) Amazon EC2
6 31 (28.97%) OpenShift
7 30 (28.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (14.02%) AWS CodePipeline
9 14 (13.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (11.21%) Azure
11 8 (7.48%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (6.54%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (5.61%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (5.61%) Snowflake
13 6 (5.61%) Textract
14 5 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (4.67%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (3.74%) AWS CodeBuild
15 4 (3.74%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.54%) Firewall
2 6 (5.61%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.61%) VPN
3 2 (1.87%) IPv4
3 2 (1.87%) Network Security
3 2 (1.87%) SSL
4 1 (0.93%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (47.66%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (31.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 24 (22.43%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (15.89%) MongoDB
5 13 (12.15%) MySQL
6 12 (11.21%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (7.48%) InfluxDB
7 8 (7.48%) Informix
7 8 (7.48%) Relational Database
8 7 (6.54%) Oracle Database
9 6 (5.61%) Data Lake
9 6 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (5.61%) DynamoDB
9 6 (5.61%) NoSQL
9 6 (5.61%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.74%) GIS
10 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 23 (21.50%) Jenkins
2 20 (18.69%) GitLab
3 11 (10.28%) Git
4 8 (7.48%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.61%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.87%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.93%) AppScan
7 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.93%) JIRA
7 1 (0.93%) JUnit
7 1 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 37 (34.58%) Public Sector
2 13 (12.15%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.61%) Finance
4 3 (2.80%) Banking
4 3 (2.80%) Legal
4 3 (2.80%) Retail
5 1 (0.93%) Games
5 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.93%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (29.91%) Developer
2 24 (22.43%) AWS Engineer
3 23 (21.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (14.95%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (14.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 15 (14.02%) Data Engineer
6 11 (10.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Automation Developer
7 9 (8.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Database Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Site Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Software Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) AWS Developer
11 5 (4.67%) DBA
11 5 (4.67%) Full Stack Developer
11 5 (4.67%) Senior
12 4 (3.74%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (54.21%) AWS CDK
2 19 (17.76%) React
3 12 (11.21%) Node.js
3 12 (11.21%) REST
4 11 (10.28%) CSS
4 11 (10.28%) HTML
5 8 (7.48%) ADO
6 7 (6.54%) PostGIS
6 7 (6.54%) SpaCy
6 7 (6.54%) Spring Boot
7 6 (5.61%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (5.61%) Spring
8 5 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (3.74%) OAuth
9 4 (3.74%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.74%) PyTorch
9 4 (3.74%) Spring Security
10 2 (1.87%) Lambda Expressions
11 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
11 1 (0.93%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.08%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.41%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.48%) Replication
4 7 (6.54%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.93%) Clustering
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (31.78%) Linux
2 16 (14.95%) Ubuntu
3 12 (11.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (7.48%) Windows
5 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.87%) CentOS
7 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (57.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 54 (50.47%) DevOps
3 44 (41.12%) Agile
4 42 (39.25%) CI/CD
5 26 (24.30%) Kanban
6 24 (22.43%) Scrum
7 19 (17.76%) Migration
8 18 (16.82%) Code Quality
9 16 (14.95%) Containerisation
10 15 (14.02%) Machine Learning
11 14 (13.08%) Community of Practice
11 14 (13.08%) Roadmaps
11 14 (13.08%) Test Automation
12 13 (12.15%) Human-Centred Design
12 13 (12.15%) Inclusive Design
12 13 (12.15%) User Experience
13 12 (11.21%) Code Coverage
13 12 (11.21%) Microservices
13 12 (11.21%) Natural Language Processing
13 12 (11.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 55 (51.40%) Python
2 42 (39.25%) TypeScript
3 29 (27.10%) SQL
4 26 (24.30%) Bash
5 17 (15.89%) Java
5 17 (15.89%) JavaScript
6 9 (8.41%) Go
7 7 (6.54%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.61%) Groovy
9 4 (3.74%) Ruby
10 3 (2.80%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.87%) PHP
12 1 (0.93%) C
12 1 (0.93%) C++
12 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (6.54%) AWS Certification
1 7 (6.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (3.74%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.87%) Degree
4 2 (1.87%) SANS
4 2 (1.87%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.69%) Accessibility
2 9 (8.41%) QA
3 5 (4.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.80%) GDPR
4 3 (2.80%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (39.25%) Docker
2 9 (8.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (40.19%) Grafana
2 39 (36.45%) Terraform
3 38 (35.51%) Ansible
4 34 (31.78%) Kubernetes
5 9 (8.41%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.48%) Kibana
7 7 (6.54%) HP Fortify
7 7 (6.54%) Nagios
7 7 (6.54%) Progress Chef
8 6 (5.61%) Graylog
9 4 (3.74%) Puppet
10 1 (0.93%) Consul
10 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.93%) Graphite
10 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.93%) Istio
10 1 (0.93%) linkerd
10 1 (0.93%) Nessus
10 1 (0.93%) Packer
10 1 (0.93%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Oracle
2 14 (13.08%) Splunk
3 7 (6.54%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.74%) Commvault
4 4 (3.74%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.87%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.87%) Google
6 2 (1.87%) Sage
7 1 (0.93%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.93%) Veracode
7 1 (0.93%) VMware