Amazon AWS CloudFormation
South Wales > Cardiff
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 5 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | 27 | 41 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | +14 | +13 |
| Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff | - | 3.33% | 0.60% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | - | 6.48% | 1.90% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £563 | £288 |
| 25th Percentile | - | £592 | £306 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | £645 | £338 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | +90.96% | -32.50% |
| 75th Percentile | - | £678 | £369 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £689 | £388 |
| South Wales median daily rate | £600 | £645 | £338 |
| % change year-on-year | -6.90% | +90.96% | -32.50% |
All Cloud Skills
Cardiff
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 Cardiff.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 62 | 108 | 105 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff | 39.49% | 51.43% | 31.44% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 52 | 90 | 86 |
| 10th Percentile | £200 | £183 | £201 |
| 25th Percentile | £235 | £370 | £356 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £403 | £500 | £538 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -19.50% | -6.98% | +13.16% |
| 75th Percentile | £491 | £550 | £600 |
| 90th Percentile | £588 | £624 | £663 |
| South Wales median daily rate | £400 | £500 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | -20.00% | -4.76% | +10.53% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | £19.06 | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £19.88 | £12.25 | £16.22 |
| Median hourly rate | £22.50 | £12.50 | £16.45 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +80.00% | -23.99% | -3.97% |
| 75th Percentile | £23.75 | £12.75 | £16.67 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| South Wales median hourly rate | £22.50 | £12.50 | £14.25 |
| % change year-on-year | +80.00% | -12.28% | +2.50% |
AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff
Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.
AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Cardiff.