AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the City of London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 150 134
Rank change year-on-year +35 -16 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 11 27 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.74% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.95% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 54
10th Percentile £452 £448 £463
25th Percentile £519 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +8.33% +15.94%
75th Percentile £708 £684 £775
90th Percentile £730 £718 £873
Central London median daily rate £645 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -0.77% +8.33% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 858 1,388 1,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.96% 38.08% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 941 1,452
10th Percentile £363 £313 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £17.39 £65.57 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £84.09 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -73.24% +388.40% -7.43%
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £57.30 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £17.22
% change year-on-year -72.73% +379.16% -26.58%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the City of London

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the City of London

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the City of London

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) GitHub
3 5 (45.45%) Azure
4 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (36.36%) Serverless
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
5 3 (27.27%) GCP
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (9.09%) Datadog
7 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
7 1 (9.09%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
1 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) Scylla
3 1 (9.09%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) Subversion
4 1 (9.09%) AppScan
4 1 (9.09%) Burp Suite
4 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
4 1 (9.09%) GoCD
4 1 (9.09%) Gradle
4 1 (9.09%) JUnit
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (9.09%) Spinnaker
4 1 (9.09%) Terragrunt
4 1 (9.09%) TestNG
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) http4s
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) SAML
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
4 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (18.18%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 2 (18.18%) Change Control
7 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Microservices
7 2 (18.18%) Open Source
7 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Project Management
7 2 (18.18%) Service Catalogue
7 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
8 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (9.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Ceph
2 1 (9.09%) NFS
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (36.36%) Ansible
4 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
4 3 (27.27%) Puppet
5 2 (18.18%) Grafana
5 2 (18.18%) Graylog
5 2 (18.18%) Nagios
5 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
6 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (9.09%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (9.09%) HP Fortify
6 1 (9.09%) Mesos
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (9.09%) Nessus
6 1 (9.09%) SCCM
6 1 (9.09%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Checkmarx
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) New Relic
3 1 (9.09%) Veracode
3 1 (9.09%) VMware