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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 272 263
Rank change year-on-year -74 -9 +10
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 257 531 922
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.95% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 2.61% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 429 613
10th Percentile £415 £425 £450
25th Percentile £455 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -4.35% +13.30%
75th Percentile £645 £648 £688
90th Percentile £759 £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 14,077 20,332 33,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.38% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,953 14,710 24,762
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 332 387
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.98 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +79.77% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £28.16 £19.09
% change year-on-year -32.53% +47.51% -4.55%

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 7 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 7 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 -50 174 £550 -8.33% 97
London -7 122 £600 - 39
Work from Home -10 115 £500 -9.09% 61
UK excluding London -52 106 £475 -5.00% 62
Scotland -1 60 £461 -2.89% 8
North of England +1 19 £500 -16.67% 19
North West +6 16 £500 -13.04% 11
South East -1 13 £500 -9.09% 8
Wales +22 6 £645 +90.96%
Midlands +14 4 £450 -28.00% 8
South West -4 4 £644 +4.04% 17
Yorkshire +12 3 £525 -25.00% 7
East Midlands +8 3 £450 -35.71% 2
East of England +1 2 £675 +12.50% 2
West Midlands +6 1 £350 -44.00% 6

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 (5.84%) Confluence
2 14 (5.45%) nginx
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.17%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 228 (88.72%) AWS
2 130 (50.58%) Serverless
3 107 (41.63%) AWS Lambda
4 100 (38.91%) Amazon S3
5 67 (26.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 60 (23.35%) Amazon EC2
7 51 (19.84%) Azure
8 33 (12.84%) GitHub
8 33 (12.84%) OpenShift
9 25 (9.73%) GCP
10 23 (8.95%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (8.17%) AWS CodePipeline
11 21 (8.17%) SaaS
11 21 (8.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (7.39%) IaaS
13 17 (6.61%) PaaS
14 15 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (5.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 14 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.06%) Firewall
2 8 (3.11%) VPN
3 6 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.17%) SSL
5 2 (0.78%) FTP
5 2 (0.78%) IPv4
5 2 (0.78%) Network Security
6 1 (0.39%) DNS
6 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (21.79%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (15.18%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (14.40%) Amazon Aurora
4 27 (10.51%) DynamoDB
5 23 (8.95%) MySQL
6 21 (8.17%) MongoDB
7 16 (6.23%) Relational Database
8 15 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (5.06%) SQL Server
10 10 (3.89%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.50%) Data Lake
11 9 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.50%) InfluxDB
11 9 (3.50%) Informix
11 9 (3.50%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (2.72%) Amazon QuickSight
13 7 (2.72%) Oracle Database
14 6 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (1.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 50 (19.46%) Jenkins
2 46 (17.90%) Git
3 36 (14.01%) GitLab
4 19 (7.39%) JIRA
5 9 (3.50%) CircleCI
5 9 (3.50%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.33%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.95%) Subversion
8 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.56%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.17%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.17%) Maven
9 3 (1.17%) Selenium
10 2 (0.78%) AppScan
10 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.78%) JUnit
10 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.78%) Snyk
11 1 (0.39%) Gradle
General
1 50 (19.46%) Public Sector
2 43 (16.73%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.17%) Finance
4 8 (3.11%) Retail
5 6 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.33%) Banking
6 5 (1.95%) Legal
6 5 (1.95%) Marketing
7 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Billing
10 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Law
10 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (30.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (20.23%) AWS Engineer
3 46 (17.90%) Developer
4 41 (15.95%) Senior
5 33 (12.84%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (12.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 27 (10.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (9.73%) Architect
9 22 (8.56%) Data Engineer
10 17 (6.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 14 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.45%) Security Architect
12 13 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (5.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (5.06%) Site Engineer
13 12 (4.67%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (4.28%) AWS Developer
14 11 (4.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 9 (3.50%) Automation Developer
15 9 (3.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (24.90%) AWS CDK
2 28 (10.89%) Node.js
3 27 (10.51%) React
4 14 (5.45%) REST
5 13 (5.06%) ADO
5 13 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (5.06%) RESTful
6 11 (4.28%) CSS
6 11 (4.28%) HTML
7 9 (3.50%) Kafka
7 9 (3.50%) Spring Boot
7 9 (3.50%) YAML
8 8 (3.11%) OAuth
8 8 (3.11%) Spring
9 7 (2.72%) JSON
9 7 (2.72%) PostGIS
9 7 (2.72%) SpaCy
10 6 (2.33%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (2.33%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.56%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.23%) Public Cloud
4 15 (5.84%) Mobile App
5 14 (5.45%) IoT
6 9 (3.50%) Replication
7 4 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.17%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.78%) Clustering
9 2 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.39%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (24.90%) Linux
2 18 (7.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (6.61%) Windows
4 16 (6.23%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.56%) Unix
7 2 (0.78%) CentOS
8 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (54.86%) DevOps
2 132 (51.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 105 (40.86%) CI/CD
4 90 (35.02%) Agile
5 45 (17.51%) Containerisation
6 35 (13.62%) Migration
7 31 (12.06%) Cloud Security
7 31 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (11.67%) Scrum
9 29 (11.28%) Kanban
10 26 (10.12%) Roadmaps
10 26 (10.12%) Test Automation
11 25 (9.73%) Microservices
12 24 (9.34%) DevSecOps
13 21 (8.17%) Configuration Management
14 20 (7.78%) Code Quality
14 20 (7.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 20 (7.78%) Software Engineering
15 19 (7.39%) Artificial Intelligence
15 19 (7.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 105 (40.86%) Python
2 65 (25.29%) TypeScript
3 41 (15.95%) Bash
3 41 (15.95%) SQL
4 34 (13.23%) JavaScript
5 31 (12.06%) Java
6 15 (5.84%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.45%) Go
8 11 (4.28%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.89%) Ruby
10 7 (2.72%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.95%) Groovy
12 2 (0.78%) PHP
12 2 (0.78%) Scala
12 2 (0.78%) U-SQL
13 1 (0.39%) C
13 1 (0.39%) C#
13 1 (0.39%) C++
13 1 (0.39%) Perl
13 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 57 (22.18%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.78%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.06%) Degree
5 11 (4.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.72%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.17%) SANS
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.39%) CISSP
11 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.78%) Accessibility
2 17 (6.61%) NIST
2 17 (6.61%) QA
3 5 (1.95%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.95%) GDPR
3 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.17%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.78%) NCSC
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (35.80%) Docker
2 19 (7.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) Ceph
5 1 (0.39%) NFS
Systems Management
1 148 (57.59%) Terraform
2 94 (36.58%) Kubernetes
3 61 (23.74%) Ansible
4 51 (19.84%) Grafana
5 20 (7.78%) Progress Chef
6 18 (7.00%) Prometheus
7 17 (6.61%) Puppet
8 14 (5.45%) Packer
9 10 (3.89%) Consul
9 10 (3.89%) Nagios
10 9 (3.50%) Graylog
10 9 (3.50%) HP Fortify
11 8 (3.11%) Kibana
12 4 (1.56%) Salt
13 2 (0.78%) Ambari
13 2 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.78%) Nessus
13 2 (0.78%) Oozie
13 2 (0.78%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.78%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 22 (8.56%) Splunk
2 21 (8.17%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.78%) Oracle
4 11 (4.28%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.89%) Google
6 9 (3.50%) Databricks
6 9 (3.50%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.95%) Commvault
8 4 (1.56%) Adobe
8 4 (1.56%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.56%) SAP
8 4 (1.56%) VMware
9 3 (1.17%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.17%) Sage
9 3 (1.17%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.78%) New Relic
10 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.78%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.78%) Veracode