AWS CloudFormation Contracts in Manchester

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 69 81 83
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 10 15 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.08% 0.99% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.63% 2.69% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 30
10th Percentile £400 - £498
25th Percentile £406 £450 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £563 £650
90th Percentile £750 £575 -
North West median daily rate £400 £500 £618
% change year-on-year -20.00% -19.03% +2.92%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in Manchester

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in Manchester

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in Manchester

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Altrincham - 1 - - 2
AWS CloudFormation
North West

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (20.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Developer
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) cloud-init
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) CentOS
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Unix
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
5 1 (10.00%) RBAC
5 1 (10.00%) Secrets Management
5 1 (10.00%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Bash
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) Go
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Packer
3 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (30.00%) ZABBIX
4 2 (20.00%) Ansible
4 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (20.00%) Nagios
5 1 (10.00%) Consul
5 1 (10.00%) Grafana
5 1 (10.00%) Istio
5 1 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (10.00%) linkerd
5 1 (10.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Dell
1 2 (20.00%) HP
1 2 (20.00%) IBM
1 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk