AWS CloudFormation Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 36 48
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 +57
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 21 37 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.36% 4.54% 5.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.50% 12.17% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 35 63
10th Percentile £415 £415 £437
25th Percentile £451 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £479
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% -3.97% -1.74%
75th Percentile £517 £489 £506
90th Percentile £542 £509 £530
Scotland median daily rate £475 £463 £477
% change year-on-year +2.76% -3.04% -9.14%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in Edinburgh

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in Edinburgh

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in Edinburgh

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (9.52%) GeoServer
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (85.71%) Serverless
3 17 (80.95%) Amazon S3
3 17 (80.95%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (47.62%) AWS CodePipeline
4 10 (47.62%) OpenShift
5 5 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (23.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 5 (23.81%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (19.05%) AWS CodeBuild
6 4 (19.05%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 4 (19.05%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (19.05%) Route 53
7 3 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (14.29%) PaaS
7 3 (14.29%) SaaS
8 2 (9.52%) CloudFront
9 1 (4.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (19.05%) GIS
6 3 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (9.52%) InfluxDB
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
8 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 7 (33.33%) GitLab
3 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
4 3 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 3 (14.29%) Git
5 1 (4.76%) Storybook
General
1 13 (61.90%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Developer
6 1 (4.76%) React Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (90.48%) AWS CDK
2 7 (33.33%) React
3 6 (28.57%) PostGIS
4 5 (23.81%) REST
4 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
5 3 (14.29%) Next.js
5 3 (14.29%) Node.js
6 2 (9.52%) Spring
7 1 (4.76%) .NET
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (4.76%) CSS
7 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
7 1 (4.76%) Jest
7 1 (4.76%) Loki
7 1 (4.76%) PySpark
7 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (4.76%) RESTful
7 1 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 14 (66.67%) Agile
3 12 (57.14%) DevOps
4 11 (52.38%) Kanban
4 11 (52.38%) Scrum
5 9 (42.86%) Human-Centred Design
5 9 (42.86%) Inclusive Design
5 9 (42.86%) TDD
5 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
6 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 6 (28.57%) Data Transformation
7 6 (28.57%) User Experience
8 5 (23.81%) Code Coverage
8 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
8 5 (23.81%) Data Integration
8 5 (23.81%) Data Migration
8 5 (23.81%) Migration
8 5 (23.81%) Unit Testing
9 4 (19.05%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) TypeScript
3 7 (33.33%) Bash
3 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (33.33%) SQL
4 6 (28.57%) Java
5 4 (19.05%) Groovy
6 1 (4.76%) Go
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (4.76%) OCP
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Accessibility
2 3 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Grafana
2 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (23.81%) Ansible
4 3 (14.29%) Kibana
5 2 (9.52%) Terraform
6 1 (4.76%) HAProxy
6 1 (4.76%) linkerd
6 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
1 1 (4.76%) ForgeRock
1 1 (4.76%) Imperva
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle