AWS CloudFormation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 227 209 256
Rank change year-on-year -18 +47 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 115 277 470
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 1.16% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 2.94% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 226 338
10th Percentile £409 £438 £450
25th Percentile £456 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £688
90th Percentile £650 £675 £783
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +11.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

AWS CloudFormation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS CloudFormation trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation.

AWS CloudFormation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

AWS CloudFormation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation.

AWS CloudFormation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (6.96%) Confluence
2 5 (4.35%) nginx
3 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.87%) CMS
4 1 (0.87%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.87%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.87%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 111 (96.52%) AWS
2 64 (55.65%) Serverless
3 57 (49.57%) AWS Lambda
4 54 (46.96%) Amazon S3
5 34 (29.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 31 (26.96%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (17.39%) OpenShift
8 18 (15.65%) Azure
9 15 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (13.04%) GitHub
10 12 (10.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (10.43%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
12 9 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (7.83%) Route 53
13 8 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (6.96%) GCP
13 8 (6.96%) SaaS
13 8 (6.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (6.09%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.22%) Firewall
2 1 (0.87%) FTP
2 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.87%) Network Security
2 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (19.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 22 (19.13%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (12.17%) MongoDB
4 13 (11.30%) DynamoDB
5 11 (9.57%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (6.96%) MySQL
7 7 (6.09%) Informix
8 6 (5.22%) InfluxDB
8 6 (5.22%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.35%) NoSQL
9 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (3.48%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (2.61%) Oracle Database
11 3 (2.61%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.87%) GIS
12 1 (0.87%) Redis
12 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (14.78%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.43%) Git
3 9 (7.83%) GitLab
3 9 (7.83%) JIRA
4 6 (5.22%) CircleCI
5 5 (4.35%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.61%) Selenium
7 2 (1.74%) Snyk
7 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.87%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.87%) Maven
8 1 (0.87%) Terragrunt
General
1 26 (22.61%) Public Sector
2 23 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.83%) Finance
4 3 (2.61%) Marketing
5 2 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.74%) Retail
6 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.87%) Games
6 1 (0.87%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (31.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (22.61%) AWS Engineer
2 26 (22.61%) Developer
2 26 (22.61%) Senior
3 18 (15.65%) AWS DevOps
3 18 (15.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (9.57%) Architect
5 11 (9.57%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) AWS Developer
9 6 (5.22%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.22%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (32.17%) AWS CDK
2 16 (13.91%) Node.js
3 14 (12.17%) React
4 10 (8.70%) ADO
5 9 (7.83%) RESTful
6 8 (6.96%) CSS
6 8 (6.96%) HTML
7 6 (5.22%) OAuth
7 6 (5.22%) REST
8 5 (4.35%) JSON
8 5 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.35%) Spring
8 5 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 4 (3.48%) Kafka
9 4 (3.48%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.48%) SpaCy
9 4 (3.48%) Spring Security
10 3 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.61%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (2.61%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (10.43%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.96%) Replication
4 4 (3.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.61%) IoT
5 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.96%) Linux
2 14 (12.17%) Ubuntu
3 12 (10.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.09%) Windows
5 2 (1.74%) Unix
5 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.87%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (56.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 54 (46.96%) DevOps
3 47 (40.87%) Agile
4 43 (37.39%) CI/CD
5 21 (18.26%) Kanban
6 20 (17.39%) Roadmaps
6 20 (17.39%) Scrum
7 18 (15.65%) Containerisation
8 17 (14.78%) Migration
9 14 (12.17%) Mentoring
10 13 (11.30%) Community of Practice
10 13 (11.30%) ETL
10 13 (11.30%) Microservices
10 13 (11.30%) Software Engineering
10 13 (11.30%) Test Automation
11 12 (10.43%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (10.43%) Code Quality
11 12 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (9.57%) User Experience
13 10 (8.70%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 40 (34.78%) Python
1 40 (34.78%) TypeScript
2 21 (18.26%) SQL
3 17 (14.78%) Bash
3 17 (14.78%) JavaScript
4 16 (13.91%) Java
5 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.48%) Groovy
7 3 (2.61%) Ruby
7 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.74%) Go
8 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.74%) PHP
9 1 (0.87%) Bicep
9 1 (0.87%) C#
9 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (20.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.83%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.35%) Degree
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.87%) CISSP
6 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.87%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.61%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.74%) GDPR
3 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.74%) NIST
3 2 (1.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 37 (32.17%) Docker
2 12 (10.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (50.43%) Terraform
2 39 (33.91%) Kubernetes
3 28 (24.35%) Grafana
4 26 (22.61%) Ansible
5 8 (6.96%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.09%) Kibana
6 7 (6.09%) Puppet
7 6 (5.22%) Packer
8 4 (3.48%) Consul
8 4 (3.48%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.61%) Salt
10 2 (1.74%) Nagios
10 2 (1.74%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.87%) CASB
11 1 (0.87%) Graylog
11 1 (0.87%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.87%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.87%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (11.30%) Oracle
2 6 (5.22%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.35%) Google
3 5 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 5 (4.35%) Splunk
4 4 (3.48%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.61%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.61%) Commvault
5 3 (2.61%) Databricks
5 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.74%) Adobe
6 2 (1.74%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.74%) Qualys
6 2 (1.74%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.74%) VMware
7 1 (0.87%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.87%) New Relic
7 1 (0.87%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.87%) SAP
7 1 (0.87%) Sitecore