AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 241 282
Rank change year-on-year -39 +41 -58
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 105 234 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.00% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 2.99% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 203 165
10th Percentile £415 £425 £413
25th Percentile £436 £460 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -3.24% +9.66%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £625
90th Percentile £642 £650 £662
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -5.27% -6.78% +18.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,280 7,819 9,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.73% 33.27% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 5,787 7,266
10th Percentile £213 £250 £207
25th Percentile £368 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 227 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.19
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Scotland -10 53 £463 -3.44% 3
North of England -2 18 £500 -18.03% 23
North West +3 17 £500 -20.00% 12
South East -1 14 £500 -9.09% 5
South West +5 8 £644 +4.04% 10
Wales +24 7 £645 +90.96%
Midlands +26 4 £450 -28.00% 15
East Midlands +18 3 £450 -35.71% 6
East of England 0 3 £675 +29.81%
Yorkshire +19 1 - - 7
West Midlands +19 1 £350 -45.74% 9
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (2.86%) GeoServer
2 2 (1.90%) nginx
2 2 (1.90%) Traefik
3 1 (0.95%) Confluence
3 1 (0.95%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 101 (96.19%) AWS
2 60 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 58 (55.24%) Serverless
4 56 (53.33%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (32.38%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (27.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (21.90%) OpenShift
8 18 (17.14%) Azure
9 14 (13.33%) AWS CodePipeline
10 11 (10.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (8.57%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (5.71%) Snowflake
13 6 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (3.81%) Rekognition
15 4 (3.81%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.57%) TCP/IP
2 8 (7.62%) Firewall
2 8 (7.62%) VPN
3 2 (1.90%) DNS
3 2 (1.90%) Network Security
3 2 (1.90%) SSL
4 1 (0.95%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (45.71%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (32.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (18.10%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (13.33%) MySQL
5 12 (11.43%) MongoDB
6 10 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (8.57%) Relational Database
7 9 (8.57%) SQL Server
8 8 (7.62%) Oracle Database
9 7 (6.67%) InfluxDB
9 7 (6.67%) RDBMS
10 6 (5.71%) Data Lake
10 6 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (5.71%) DynamoDB
10 6 (5.71%) NoSQL
11 5 (4.76%) Informix
12 4 (3.81%) GIS
13 2 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.95%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 22 (20.95%) GitLab
2 20 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 16 (15.24%) Git
4 8 (7.62%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.71%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.90%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.95%) AppScan
7 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.95%) JIRA
7 1 (0.95%) JUnit
7 1 (0.95%) Subversion
7 1 (0.95%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 15 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.67%) Finance
4 4 (3.81%) German Language
5 3 (2.86%) Banking
5 3 (2.86%) Legal
5 3 (2.86%) Retail
6 1 (0.95%) Games
6 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (26.67%) Developer
2 24 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (21.90%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (15.24%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (15.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 15 (14.29%) Data Engineer
6 10 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Senior
8 8 (7.62%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Database Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) DBA
9 7 (6.67%) Software Developer
10 6 (5.71%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Site Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Administrator
12 4 (3.81%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.81%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (49.52%) AWS CDK
2 17 (16.19%) React
3 12 (11.43%) Node.js
4 10 (9.52%) CSS
4 10 (9.52%) HTML
5 9 (8.57%) REST
6 8 (7.62%) ADO
7 7 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.67%) PostGIS
8 6 (5.71%) Spring Boot
9 5 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.76%) Spring
10 3 (2.86%) OAuth
10 3 (2.86%) OAuth2
10 3 (2.86%) Spring Security
11 2 (1.90%) cloud-init
11 2 (1.90%) Lambda Expressions
12 1 (0.95%) Java EE
12 1 (0.95%) RESTful
12 1 (0.95%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.48%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.67%) Replication
4 2 (1.90%) Clustering
4 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.90%) PKI
5 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (33.33%) Linux
2 16 (15.24%) Ubuntu
3 12 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (9.52%) Windows
5 3 (2.86%) CentOS
5 3 (2.86%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (58.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 55 (52.38%) DevOps
3 44 (41.90%) Agile
4 39 (37.14%) CI/CD
5 24 (22.86%) Kanban
6 22 (20.95%) Migration
6 22 (20.95%) Scrum
7 18 (17.14%) Containerisation
8 15 (14.29%) Code Quality
9 14 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 12 (11.43%) Human-Centred Design
10 12 (11.43%) Machine Learning
10 12 (11.43%) Microservices
10 12 (11.43%) Roadmaps
11 11 (10.48%) Community of Practice
11 11 (10.48%) Inclusive Design
11 11 (10.48%) Mentoring
11 11 (10.48%) Software Delivery
12 10 (9.52%) Analytics
12 10 (9.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 54 (51.43%) Python
2 36 (34.29%) TypeScript
3 30 (28.57%) SQL
4 26 (24.76%) Bash
5 17 (16.19%) JavaScript
6 16 (15.24%) Java
7 10 (9.52%) Go
8 6 (5.71%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.76%) Groovy
9 5 (4.76%) Ruby
10 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.90%) C
11 2 (1.90%) PHP
12 1 (0.95%) C++
12 1 (0.95%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.86%) Degree
5 2 (1.90%) SANS
5 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.14%) Accessibility
2 10 (9.52%) QA
3 5 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.86%) GDPR
4 3 (2.86%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.90%) NCSC
5 2 (1.90%) NIST
6 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (37.14%) Docker
2 9 (8.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (41.90%) Terraform
2 40 (38.10%) Ansible
3 38 (36.19%) Grafana
4 33 (31.43%) Kubernetes
5 11 (10.48%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.57%) Kibana
6 9 (8.57%) Nagios
7 7 (6.67%) Graylog
7 7 (6.67%) HP Fortify
8 6 (5.71%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.81%) Puppet
10 2 (1.90%) Consul
10 2 (1.90%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.90%) Graphite
10 2 (1.90%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.90%) Istio
10 2 (1.90%) linkerd
10 2 (1.90%) Packer
10 2 (1.90%) Podman
10 2 (1.90%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (15.24%) Splunk
2 14 (13.33%) Oracle
3 13 (12.38%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.81%) Commvault
5 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.90%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.90%) Google
6 2 (1.90%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.90%) Sage
6 2 (1.90%) VMware
7 1 (0.95%) SAP
7 1 (0.95%) Veracode