AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.28% 0.29% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 0.79% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £461 £421 -
25th Percentile £478 £434 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% - -
75th Percentile £553 £484 -
90th Percentile £574 £494 -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £463 -
% change year-on-year +24.32% - -

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

AWS CloudFormation falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 245 254 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.93% 37.13% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 195 192
10th Percentile £285 £194 £289
25th Percentile £413 £369 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £575
90th Percentile £649 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.30% +8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £23.40 - £22.83
25th Percentile £28.13 - £28.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +61.07% -17.22%
75th Percentile £56.63 - £46.19
90th Percentile £69.00 - £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Birmingham

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing AWS CloudFormation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM