AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 238 252
Rank change year-on-year -55 +14 -16
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 105 229 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.00% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% 3.05% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 198 194
10th Percentile £415 £425 £427
25th Percentile £438 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £628 £650 £672
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +15.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,368 7,504 10,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.75% 32.74% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,795 5,530 7,416
10th Percentile £215 £240 £208
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 218 278
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.68 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year -35.27% +43.47% -4.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £30.60
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.58 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

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 2 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 2 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 -10 58 £463 -2.63% 12
North of England +13 20 £500 -16.67% 16
North West +5 17 £500 -16.67% 8
South East -3 13 £500 -9.09% 9
Wales +22 6 £645 +90.96%
Midlands +19 4 £450 -28.00% 9
South West -8 4 £644 +4.04% 12
Yorkshire +18 3 £525 -25.00% 5
East Midlands +9 3 £450 -35.71% 1
East of England +1 2 £675 +15.38% 2
West Midlands +7 1 £350 -44.00% 8
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 (2.86%) GeoServer
2 2 (1.90%) nginx
2 2 (1.90%) Traefik
3 1 (0.95%) Confluence
3 1 (0.95%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 101 (96.19%) AWS
2 65 (61.90%) Amazon S3
3 61 (58.10%) Serverless
4 59 (56.19%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (34.29%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (27.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 29 (27.62%) OpenShift
7 14 (13.33%) AWS CodePipeline
8 12 (11.43%) Azure
9 11 (10.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (5.71%) Snowflake
11 6 (5.71%) Textract
11 6 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (2.86%) IaaS
14 3 (2.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.67%) Firewall
1 7 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.71%) VPN
3 2 (1.90%) DNS
3 2 (1.90%) IPv4
3 2 (1.90%) Network Security
3 2 (1.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (31.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 22 (20.95%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (13.33%) MongoDB
5 12 (11.43%) MySQL
6 10 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (7.62%) Oracle Database
8 7 (6.67%) InfluxDB
8 7 (6.67%) Relational Database
9 6 (5.71%) Data Lake
9 6 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (5.71%) DynamoDB
9 6 (5.71%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.76%) Informix
10 5 (4.76%) RDBMS
11 4 (3.81%) GIS
12 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 23 (21.90%) Jenkins
2 22 (20.95%) GitLab
3 12 (11.43%) Git
4 8 (7.62%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.71%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.90%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.95%) AppScan
7 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.95%) JIRA
7 1 (0.95%) JUnit
7 1 (0.95%) Subversion
7 1 (0.95%) Travis CI
General
1 36 (34.29%) Public Sector
2 13 (12.38%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.67%) Finance
4 3 (2.86%) Banking
4 3 (2.86%) Legal
4 3 (2.86%) Retail
5 1 (0.95%) Games
5 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (30.48%) Developer
2 25 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (21.90%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (15.24%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (15.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 15 (14.29%) Data Engineer
6 11 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Automation Developer
7 9 (8.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Site Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Software Developer
10 6 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Database Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) AWS Developer
11 5 (4.76%) DBA
11 5 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Senior
12 4 (3.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (53.33%) AWS CDK
2 19 (18.10%) React
3 12 (11.43%) Node.js
3 12 (11.43%) REST
4 11 (10.48%) CSS
4 11 (10.48%) HTML
5 8 (7.62%) ADO
6 7 (6.67%) PostGIS
6 7 (6.67%) SpaCy
6 7 (6.67%) Spring Boot
7 6 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (5.71%) Spring
8 5 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (3.81%) OAuth
9 4 (3.81%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.81%) PyTorch
9 4 (3.81%) Spring Security
10 2 (1.90%) cloud-init
10 2 (1.90%) Lambda Expressions
11 1 (0.95%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.57%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.67%) Replication
4 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.90%) Clustering
5 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.90%) PKI
6 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (32.38%) Linux
2 16 (15.24%) Ubuntu
3 12 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (7.62%) Windows
5 3 (2.86%) CentOS
5 3 (2.86%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (58.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 55 (52.38%) DevOps
3 44 (41.90%) CI/CD
4 43 (40.95%) Agile
5 24 (22.86%) Kanban
6 22 (20.95%) Scrum
7 19 (18.10%) Migration
8 18 (17.14%) Code Quality
8 18 (17.14%) Containerisation
9 15 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 14 (13.33%) Test Automation
11 13 (12.38%) Community of Practice
11 13 (12.38%) Human-Centred Design
11 13 (12.38%) Inclusive Design
11 13 (12.38%) Microservices
11 13 (12.38%) Roadmaps
11 13 (12.38%) User Experience
12 12 (11.43%) Code Coverage
12 12 (11.43%) Natural Language Processing
12 12 (11.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 56 (53.33%) Python
2 40 (38.10%) TypeScript
3 27 (25.71%) Bash
3 27 (25.71%) SQL
4 18 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 17 (16.19%) Java
6 10 (9.52%) Go
7 6 (5.71%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.76%) Groovy
8 5 (4.76%) Ruby
9 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.90%) C
10 2 (1.90%) PHP
11 1 (0.95%) C++
11 1 (0.95%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) Degree
4 2 (1.90%) SANS
4 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.05%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.62%) QA
3 5 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.86%) GDPR
4 3 (2.86%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.90%) NCSC
5 2 (1.90%) NIST
6 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (41.90%) Docker
2 9 (8.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (39.05%) Grafana
2 40 (38.10%) Terraform
3 36 (34.29%) Kubernetes
4 35 (33.33%) Ansible
5 10 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.57%) Kibana
7 7 (6.67%) HP Fortify
7 7 (6.67%) Nagios
8 6 (5.71%) Graylog
8 6 (5.71%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.81%) Puppet
10 2 (1.90%) Consul
10 2 (1.90%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.90%) Graphite
10 2 (1.90%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.90%) Istio
10 2 (1.90%) linkerd
10 2 (1.90%) Packer
10 2 (1.90%) Podman
10 2 (1.90%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (14.29%) Splunk
2 14 (13.33%) Oracle
3 7 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.81%) Commvault
5 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.90%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.90%) Google
6 2 (1.90%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.90%) Sage
6 2 (1.90%) VMware
7 1 (0.95%) Veracode