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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 36 39
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +19
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 17 38 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.68% 4.35% 5.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.51% 11.88% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 33 60
10th Percentile £450 £415 £437
25th Percentile £458 £420 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -6.05% -6.08%
75th Percentile £500 £494 £503
90th Percentile £524 £504 £538
Scotland median daily rate £473 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +2.72% -3.16% -7.32%

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 261 320 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.10% 36.61% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 201 374
10th Percentile £290 £213 £243
25th Percentile £425 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £459 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -3.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £528
90th Percentile £593 £663 £598
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £15.94 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% -4.06% -22.96%
75th Percentile £28.38 £18.03 -
90th Percentile - £20.81 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +24.82% -70.43% +41.98%

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
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 (11.76%) GeoServer
2 1 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (88.24%) Serverless
3 13 (76.47%) Amazon S3
3 13 (76.47%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (23.53%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (23.53%) GitHub
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (17.65%) CloudFront
5 3 (17.65%) Firebase
5 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (11.76%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (11.76%) Azure
6 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (23.53%) GIS
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.88%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 6 (35.29%) Cypress.io
3 3 (17.65%) Storybook
4 2 (11.76%) GitLab
5 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
5 1 (5.88%) Snyk
General
1 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) React Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (82.35%) AWS CDK
2 8 (47.06%) React
3 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
4 4 (23.53%) PostGIS
5 3 (17.65%) AWS Amplify
5 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
5 3 (17.65%) Jest
5 3 (17.65%) Next.js
5 3 (17.65%) Node.js
5 3 (17.65%) RESTful
5 3 (17.65%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (11.76%) Spring
7 1 (5.88%) Loki
7 1 (5.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
1 13 (76.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 11 (64.71%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Human-Centred Design
3 6 (35.29%) Inclusive Design
3 6 (35.29%) User Experience
4 5 (29.41%) Microservices
5 4 (23.53%) Architecture Roadmap
5 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Kanban
5 4 (23.53%) Pair Programming
5 4 (23.53%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) TDD
5 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
6 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) TypeScript
2 7 (41.18%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) OCP
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Ansible
2 4 (23.53%) Grafana
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) HAProxy
3 1 (5.88%) Kibana
3 1 (5.88%) linkerd
3 1 (5.88%) Podman
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
1 2 (11.76%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle