AWS CloudFormation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 248 210 245
Rank change year-on-year -38 +35 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 99 294 486
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 1.17% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 2.96% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 237 349
10th Percentile £415 £437 £450
25th Percentile £456 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £688
90th Percentile £713 £688 £803
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -5.27% -6.78% +18.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,438 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.02% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

AWS CloudFormation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS CloudFormation trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation.

AWS CloudFormation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

AWS CloudFormation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation.

AWS CloudFormation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (6.06%) Confluence
2 4 (4.04%) nginx
3 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.01%) Apache
4 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.01%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.01%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.01%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (97.98%) AWS
2 53 (53.54%) Serverless
3 47 (47.47%) AWS Lambda
4 42 (42.42%) Amazon S3
5 29 (29.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 26 (26.26%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (22.22%) Azure
8 16 (16.16%) OpenShift
9 13 (13.13%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (9.09%) GitHub
10 9 (9.09%) Route 53
11 8 (8.08%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (8.08%) SaaS
11 8 (8.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (7.07%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (6.06%) AWS CodePipeline
13 6 (6.06%) GCP
13 6 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (5.05%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.08%) Firewall
2 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.03%) VPN
3 1 (1.01%) FTP
3 1 (1.01%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.01%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.26%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (16.16%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (12.12%) MongoDB
5 10 (10.10%) DynamoDB
5 10 (10.10%) MySQL
6 9 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (8.08%) Relational Database
8 7 (7.07%) SQL Server
9 5 (5.05%) InfluxDB
9 5 (5.05%) RDBMS
10 4 (4.04%) Informix
10 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
11 3 (3.03%) Oracle Database
12 2 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (2.02%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (1.01%) Delta Lake
13 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (13.13%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.10%) GitLab
3 9 (9.09%) Git
4 8 (8.08%) JIRA
5 5 (5.05%) Artifactory
6 4 (4.04%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.04%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.03%) Selenium
8 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.02%) Snyk
9 1 (1.01%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.01%) Maven
9 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.01%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.07%) Finance
4 3 (3.03%) Marketing
5 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.01%) Banking
6 1 (1.01%) Games
6 1 (1.01%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (31.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (25.25%) AWS Engineer
3 23 (23.23%) Developer
4 22 (22.22%) Senior
5 15 (15.15%) AWS DevOps
5 15 (15.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 14 (14.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Security Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Architect
9 6 (6.06%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) AWS Developer
11 4 (4.04%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.30%) AWS CDK
2 14 (14.14%) Node.js
3 12 (12.12%) React
4 11 (11.11%) ADO
5 6 (6.06%) CSS
5 6 (6.06%) HTML
5 6 (6.06%) OAuth
5 6 (6.06%) RESTful
5 6 (6.06%) YAML
6 5 (5.05%) JSON
6 5 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (5.05%) REST
7 4 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (4.04%) Spring
7 4 (4.04%) Spring Boot
8 3 (3.03%) Kafka
8 3 (3.03%) OAuth2
8 3 (3.03%) Spring Security
9 2 (2.02%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (2.02%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.12%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (10.10%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.05%) Replication
4 4 (4.04%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.04%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.02%) IoT
6 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (32.32%) Linux
2 15 (15.15%) Ubuntu
3 12 (12.12%) Windows
4 11 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.05%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.02%) Unix
7 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.01%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (56.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 49 (49.49%) DevOps
3 40 (40.40%) Agile
4 37 (37.37%) CI/CD
5 17 (17.17%) Kanban
6 16 (16.16%) Containerisation
6 16 (16.16%) Scrum
7 13 (13.13%) Roadmaps
8 12 (12.12%) Microservices
8 12 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (11.11%) ETL
9 11 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.11%) Migration
9 11 (11.11%) Software Delivery
10 10 (10.10%) Code Quality
10 10 (10.10%) Community of Practice
10 10 (10.10%) Test Automation
11 9 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (9.09%) Code Coverage
11 9 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.36%) Python
2 30 (30.30%) TypeScript
3 16 (16.16%) Bash
3 16 (16.16%) Java
3 16 (16.16%) SQL
4 13 (13.13%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.07%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.04%) Groovy
7 3 (3.03%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.02%) Go
8 2 (2.02%) PHP
8 2 (2.02%) Ruby
9 1 (1.01%) Bicep
9 1 (1.01%) C#
9 1 (1.01%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.04%) Degree
5 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.01%) CISSP
6 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.01%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.13%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.03%) QA
4 2 (2.02%) GDPR
4 2 (2.02%) NIST
4 2 (2.02%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (29.29%) Docker
2 11 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (46.46%) Terraform
2 32 (32.32%) Kubernetes
3 24 (24.24%) Ansible
3 24 (24.24%) Grafana
4 8 (8.08%) Progress Chef
5 7 (7.07%) Kibana
5 7 (7.07%) Puppet
6 5 (5.05%) Packer
7 4 (4.04%) Nagios
7 4 (4.04%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.03%) Consul
8 3 (3.03%) Salt
9 2 (2.02%) Graylog
9 2 (2.02%) Opsgenie
10 1 (1.01%) CASB
10 1 (1.01%) HP Fortify
10 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.01%) PingFederate
10 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (9.09%) Oracle
2 7 (7.07%) Red Hat
2 7 (7.07%) Splunk
3 6 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.03%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.03%) Google
6 2 (2.02%) Commvault
6 2 (2.02%) Databricks
6 2 (2.02%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.02%) Qualys
6 2 (2.02%) SaltStack
6 2 (2.02%) VMware
7 1 (1.01%) Adobe
7 1 (1.01%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.01%) New Relic
7 1 (1.01%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.01%) SAP
7 1 (1.01%) Sitecore