AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the South East

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 195 217
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 -35
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 14 24 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.25% 0.42% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.42% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 18
10th Percentile £485 £425 £437
25th Percentile - £491 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £519
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +13.20% -4.77%
75th Percentile £538 £647 £617
90th Percentile - £676 £658
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +18.23%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,365 1,692 2,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 24.59% 29.27% 31.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 1,240 1,797
10th Percentile £250 £250 £200
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £632 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 51 64
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.36 £25.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +18.76% -2.21%
75th Percentile £52.38 £68.13 £37.50
90th Percentile £61.59 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -2.33%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the South East

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the South East

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley -4 3 £525 +11.70% 3
West Sussex - 3 £500 -
Berkshire -15 2 £525 -8.30% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) IaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) CloudOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) ADO
2 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Ubuntu
3 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (57.14%) Application Packaging
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
3 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 2 (14.29%) Change Control
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) C
2 1 (7.14%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) Go
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Graylog
3 2 (14.29%) Nagios
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk