AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the North of England

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 136 167 163
Rank change year-on-year +31 -4 -19
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 30 18 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.91% 0.38% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.70% 1.28% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 43
10th Percentile £358 £406 £426
25th Percentile £400 £450 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £741 £550 £650
90th Percentile £750 £575 £680
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the North of England

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the North of England

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the North of England

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +14 14 £400 -20.00% 46
Yorkshire +20 13 £725 - 21
North East - 3 £585 - 12
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (33.33%) nginx
2 7 (23.33%) Traefik
3 3 (10.00%) Apache
3 3 (10.00%) Tomcat
4 2 (6.67%) IIS
5 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (56.67%) Amazon ECS
3 14 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (36.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
6 9 (30.00%) Entra ID
7 8 (26.67%) Amazon S3
8 7 (23.33%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (13.33%) Serverless
10 3 (10.00%) AWS KMS
11 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (6.67%) GitHub
11 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (6.67%) Nutanix
12 1 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (3.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 13 (43.33%) DNS
2 9 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 18 (60.00%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.00%) Military
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (56.67%) Senior
3 15 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (36.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Developer
9 1 (3.33%) DevOps Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Digital Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Lead
9 1 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
9 1 (3.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (56.67%) cloud-init
2 10 (33.33%) Kafka
3 9 (30.00%) Keycloak
4 3 (10.00%) .NET
4 3 (10.00%) Node.js
4 3 (10.00%) OAuth
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) PKI
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (80.00%) Linux
2 21 (70.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (66.67%) CentOS
4 18 (60.00%) Unix
5 3 (10.00%) Windows
6 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
6 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 24 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 24 (80.00%) DevOps
3 14 (46.67%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (43.33%) Secrets Management
5 9 (30.00%) Cloud Security
5 9 (30.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 9 (30.00%) Identity Management
5 9 (30.00%) Observability
5 9 (30.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 8 (26.67%) Agile
7 7 (23.33%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (10.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
8 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.00%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
9 2 (6.67%) ITIL
9 2 (6.67%) Network Architecture
9 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) Bash
2 21 (70.00%) Python
3 18 (60.00%) Go
4 3 (10.00%) SQL
5 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.33%) Groovy
6 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) NCSC
2 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (80.00%) Terraform
2 18 (60.00%) Packer
3 12 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 11 (36.67%) Kubernetes
4 11 (36.67%) ZABBIX
5 10 (33.33%) Grafana
6 9 (30.00%) Consul
6 9 (30.00%) Istio
6 9 (30.00%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (30.00%) linkerd
6 9 (30.00%) Rancher
7 7 (23.33%) HAProxy
8 3 (10.00%) Kibana
9 2 (6.67%) Ansible
9 2 (6.67%) Nagios
10 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Okta
1 9 (30.00%) Splunk
2 7 (23.33%) Apple
2 7 (23.33%) ESET
3 3 (10.00%) AppDynamics
4 2 (6.67%) Dell
4 2 (6.67%) HP
4 2 (6.67%) IBM
4 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
4 2 (6.67%) VMware