AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the North West

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 120 121 120
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -20
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 15 29 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.54% 0.96% 1.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 2.58% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 45
10th Percentile £404 £465 £409
25th Percentile £444 £497 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £638
90th Percentile £573 £650 £645
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 887 1,122 1,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.77% 37.25% 35.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 836 1,101
10th Percentile £281 £300 £213
25th Percentile £393 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 35 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.83 £14.70
25th Percentile - £16.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.41 £26.40
Median % change year-on-year -28.34% -15.10% +38.92%
75th Percentile £26.50 £41.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.54 £64.65 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the North West

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the North West

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the North West

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester -5 13 £525 -4.55% 4
Cheshire - 2 £401 - 1
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (6.67%) nginx
1 1 (6.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (53.33%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (53.33%) Serverless
4 7 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
5 6 (40.00%) Snowflake
6 3 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (6.67%) GCP
8 1 (6.67%) GitHub
8 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SSL
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 6 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) MySQL
2 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Git
2 6 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (26.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (46.67%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) Site Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (6.67%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) CentOS
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) DevOps
2 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
5 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
7 3 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
7 3 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 3 (20.00%) IT Strategy
7 3 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Software Delivery
7 3 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
8 2 (13.33%) SDLC
8 2 (13.33%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Bash
2 7 (46.67%) Go
3 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) Ruby
5 1 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO 22301
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) NCSC
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Terraform
2 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (46.67%) Ansible
4 6 (40.00%) HP Fortify
5 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (6.67%) Consul
6 1 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (6.67%) Graphite
6 1 (6.67%) HAProxy
6 1 (6.67%) Istio
6 1 (6.67%) linkerd
6 1 (6.67%) Packer
6 1 (6.67%) Podman
6 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (6.67%) Puppet
6 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (13.33%) Sage
4 1 (6.67%) PagerDuty
4 1 (6.67%) VMware