AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.53% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate £543 £550 £644
% change year-on-year -1.36% -14.56% +4.04%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 61 32 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 32.45% 35.56% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 24 23
10th Percentile £350 £254 £175
25th Percentile £406 £411 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £185
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +147.82% -63.04%
75th Percentile £688 £556 £400
90th Percentile - £728 £769
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £16.78 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +19.86% -26.32%
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £19.50
% change year-on-year +204.72% -3.23% -64.01%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Dorset

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 19 May 2026. 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
Bournemouth - 1 - -
AWS CloudFormation
South West

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Spinnaker
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Chaos Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk