AWS CloudFormation Contracts in England

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 318 267
Rank change year-on-year -53 -51 +44
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 164 398 737
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.79% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.15% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 314 487
10th Percentile £430 £441 £458
25th Percentile £500 £501 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £699 £663 £700
90th Percentile £775 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +18.00%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in England

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in England

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in England

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in England

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -21 109 £613 +2.08% 32
North of England -7 19 £500 -16.67% 18
North West -14 17 £500 -18.03% 9
South East +16 14 £500 -14.89% 5
South West +8 8 £644 +5.10% 8
Midlands +17 4 £450 -28.00% 9
East Midlands +17 3 £450 -35.71% 4
East of England +12 3 £675 +29.81% 1
Yorkshire +13 2 £500 -16.67% 5
West Midlands +22 1 £350 -44.00% 5
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (3.05%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.44%) nginx
3 2 (1.22%) Apache
3 2 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.22%) Traefik
4 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 146 (89.02%) AWS
2 80 (48.78%) Serverless
3 62 (37.80%) AWS Lambda
4 43 (26.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 42 (25.61%) Azure
6 39 (23.78%) Amazon S3
7 37 (22.56%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (15.85%) GitHub
9 21 (12.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (10.37%) IaaS
11 16 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (9.76%) GCP
11 16 (9.76%) SaaS
12 14 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (8.54%) PaaS
13 12 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (7.32%) AWS CodePipeline
14 10 (6.10%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (6.10%) Route 53
15 9 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.66%) VPN
2 5 (3.05%) Firewall
3 4 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.83%) SSL
5 2 (1.22%) DNS
5 2 (1.22%) FTP
5 2 (1.22%) Network Security
6 1 (0.61%) IPv4
6 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.61%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.02%) DynamoDB
2 20 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (9.15%) MySQL
4 14 (8.54%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.71%) Relational Database
6 9 (5.49%) Data Lake
7 8 (4.88%) RDBMS
8 7 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (4.27%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (3.05%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.22%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.22%) Big Data
11 2 (1.22%) Bigtable
11 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.22%) HBase
Development Applications
1 33 (20.12%) Git
2 27 (16.46%) Jenkins
3 17 (10.37%) GitLab
4 7 (4.27%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.66%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.66%) JIRA
6 4 (2.44%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.44%) Subversion
7 3 (1.83%) Maven
7 3 (1.83%) Selenium
7 3 (1.83%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.22%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.22%) Snyk
9 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.61%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.61%) GoCD
9 1 (0.61%) Gradle
9 1 (0.61%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.61%) Travis CI
General
1 35 (21.34%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.32%) Finance
2 12 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.27%) Retail
4 5 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (3.05%) Marketing
5 4 (2.44%) Banking
5 4 (2.44%) German Language
5 4 (2.44%) Legal
6 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.22%) Billing
7 2 (1.22%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.61%) Front Office
8 1 (0.61%) Games
8 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (33.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (25.61%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (18.90%) Senior
4 26 (15.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (14.02%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (13.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (11.59%) Architect
8 16 (9.76%) Developer
9 14 (8.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 13 (7.93%) Cloud Architect
10 13 (7.93%) Security Architect
11 10 (6.10%) Lead
11 10 (6.10%) Operations Engineer
11 10 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (6.10%) Security Engineer
11 10 (6.10%) Site Engineer
12 9 (5.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 8 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
13 8 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.88%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.76%) Node.js
2 13 (7.93%) ADO
2 13 (7.93%) YAML
3 10 (6.10%) React
4 8 (4.88%) AWS CDK
4 8 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.88%) RESTful
5 7 (4.27%) JSON
5 7 (4.27%) Kafka
6 5 (3.05%) Jest
6 5 (3.05%) Lambda Expressions
6 5 (3.05%) OAuth
6 5 (3.05%) Vue
7 4 (2.44%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.83%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.83%) OpenID
8 3 (1.83%) REST
8 3 (1.83%) VML
8 3 (1.83%) Web Services
9 2 (1.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.93%) Mobile App
2 12 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.32%) IoT
3 10 (6.10%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.44%) PKI
6 3 (1.83%) Clustering
6 3 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.22%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.61%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.17%) Linux
2 16 (9.76%) Windows
3 10 (6.10%) Ubuntu
4 9 (5.49%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.83%) CentOS
7 2 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (57.93%) DevOps
2 79 (48.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (40.85%) CI/CD
4 38 (23.17%) Agile
5 35 (21.34%) Containerisation
6 27 (16.46%) Cloud Security
7 26 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (14.02%) Configuration Management
9 18 (10.98%) DevSecOps
10 16 (9.76%) SDLC
10 16 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (8.54%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (8.54%) Design Patterns
11 14 (8.54%) Microservices
11 14 (8.54%) Test Automation
12 13 (7.93%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (7.93%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (7.32%) Application Security
13 12 (7.32%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (45.12%) Python
2 22 (13.41%) SQL
3 21 (12.80%) Bash
4 20 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 19 (11.59%) Java
6 16 (9.76%) PowerShell
7 15 (9.15%) JavaScript
8 13 (7.93%) Go
9 9 (5.49%) Ruby
10 3 (1.83%) C#
10 3 (1.83%) Scala
10 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.22%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.22%) U-SQL
12 1 (0.61%) Bicep
12 1 (0.61%) C
12 1 (0.61%) C++
12 1 (0.61%) PHP
12 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 32 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.54%) AWS Certification
4 10 (6.10%) Degree
5 9 (5.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.27%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.61%) CISSP
10 1 (0.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.76%) NIST
1 16 (9.76%) QA
2 9 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.44%) GDPR
4 3 (1.83%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.83%) NCSC
5 2 (1.22%) SLA
6 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (33.54%) Docker
2 13 (7.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.61%) Ceph
5 1 (0.61%) NFS
Systems Management
1 103 (62.80%) Terraform
2 58 (35.37%) Kubernetes
3 35 (21.34%) Ansible
4 16 (9.76%) Progress Chef
5 15 (9.15%) Puppet
6 12 (7.32%) Prometheus
7 8 (4.88%) Grafana
8 7 (4.27%) HP Fortify
9 5 (3.05%) Graylog
9 5 (3.05%) Nagios
10 3 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.83%) Packer
10 3 (1.83%) Podman
10 3 (1.83%) Salt
11 2 (1.22%) Consul
11 2 (1.22%) Graphite
11 2 (1.22%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.22%) Istio
11 2 (1.22%) linkerd
11 2 (1.22%) Oozie
Vendors
1 18 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.37%) Splunk
3 8 (4.88%) Databricks
3 8 (4.88%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.66%) Google
6 5 (3.05%) SAP
6 5 (3.05%) VMware
7 3 (1.83%) Adobe
7 3 (1.83%) Sage
7 3 (1.83%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.22%) Dell
8 2 (1.22%) Intel
8 2 (1.22%) New Relic
8 2 (1.22%) Oracle
8 2 (1.22%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.22%) Qualys
8 2 (1.22%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.61%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.61%) Veracode