AWS CloudFormation Contracts in Scotland

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 59 125
Rank change year-on-year -8 +66 -47
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 59 124 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.72% 4.41% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.23% 12.09% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 110 41
10th Percentile £415 £425 £413
25th Percentile £433 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% -6.54% +9.04%
75th Percentile £503 £508 £550
90th Percentile £524 £547 £580
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 717 1,026 1,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.01% 36.53% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 772 789
10th Percentile £250 £250 £300
25th Percentile £371 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £647 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 20
10th Percentile £15.36 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.42 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.50 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £28.06 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in Scotland

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in Scotland

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in Scotland

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Edinburgh +14 37 £460 -3.97%
Glasgow -16 10 £506 +2.90%
Lanarkshire - 2 £443 -
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (5.08%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (89.83%) Serverless
3 52 (88.14%) Amazon S3
3 52 (88.14%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (44.07%) OpenShift
5 15 (25.42%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (22.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (18.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 11 (18.64%) AWS CodePipeline
8 9 (15.25%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (8.47%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (6.78%) Rekognition
10 4 (6.78%) Textract
11 3 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (5.08%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (5.08%) AWS CodeCommit
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 1 (1.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) SSL
2 1 (1.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (83.05%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (54.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (20.34%) MongoDB
4 11 (18.64%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (16.95%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (13.56%) Oracle Database
7 6 (10.17%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (10.17%) InfluxDB
8 5 (8.47%) Informix
9 4 (6.78%) GIS
10 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) Jenkins
2 14 (23.73%) GitLab
3 6 (10.17%) Artifactory
3 6 (10.17%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.39%) Git
5 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.69%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) JUnit
General
1 30 (50.85%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (54.24%) Developer
2 13 (22.03%) Data Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Software Developer
4 6 (10.17%) AWS Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Full Stack Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (8.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Automation Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Database Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Lead
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Leader
8 2 (3.39%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (93.22%) AWS CDK
2 22 (37.29%) React
3 16 (27.12%) CSS
3 16 (27.12%) HTML
4 13 (22.03%) REST
5 10 (16.95%) Node.js
5 10 (16.95%) Spring Boot
6 9 (15.25%) Spring
7 7 (11.86%) PostGIS
7 7 (11.86%) Spring Security
8 6 (10.17%) OAuth
8 6 (10.17%) OAuth2
9 5 (8.47%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (6.78%) Spring MVC
10 4 (6.78%) Spring Web Flow
11 3 (5.08%) Thymeleaf
12 2 (3.39%) Lambda Expressions
13 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
13 1 (1.69%) Java EE
13 1 (1.69%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.12%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (11.86%) Replication
3 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (11.86%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (71.19%) Agile
2 36 (61.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (44.07%) CI/CD
4 25 (42.37%) Kanban
5 23 (38.98%) DevOps
6 22 (37.29%) Scrum
7 18 (30.51%) Human-Centred Design
8 17 (28.81%) Inclusive Design
8 17 (28.81%) Test Automation
9 15 (25.42%) Microservices
10 14 (23.73%) Code Quality
11 13 (22.03%) Community of Practice
11 13 (22.03%) TDD
11 13 (22.03%) User Experience
12 12 (20.34%) Code Coverage
12 12 (20.34%) Machine Learning
12 12 (20.34%) Mentoring
12 12 (20.34%) Pair Programming
12 12 (20.34%) Roadmaps
12 12 (20.34%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (69.49%) TypeScript
2 37 (62.71%) Python
3 21 (35.59%) JavaScript
4 18 (30.51%) SQL
5 17 (28.81%) Java
6 14 (23.73%) Bash
7 6 (10.17%) Shell Script
8 5 (8.47%) Groovy
9 1 (1.69%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (40.68%) Accessibility
2 7 (11.86%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (30.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (54.24%) Grafana
2 14 (23.73%) Ansible
3 11 (18.64%) Kubernetes
4 9 (15.25%) Kibana
5 3 (5.08%) Terraform
6 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) Oracle
2 4 (6.78%) Commvault
3 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.39%) Sage
5 1 (1.69%) Google