AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 49 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.86% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 0.64% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £566 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.10%
75th Percentile £653 - -
90th Percentile £670 - -
South West median daily rate £530 £488 £575
% change year-on-year +8.72% -15.22% -4.17%

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 170 156 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 48.85% 38.71% 37.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 93 121
10th Percentile £225 £460 £413
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £688
90th Percentile £700 £721 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £31.53 £30.00 £20.88
25th Percentile £31.59 £30.75 £47.44
Median hourly rate £34.34 £33.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% -57.69% -18.96%
75th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - £80.25
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -73.04% +164.15% -54.11%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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
Cheltenham +19 2 £625 - 2
AWS CloudFormation
South West

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) C
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Podman