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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 166 171
Rank change year-on-year +26 +5 -15
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 24 20 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.72% 0.43% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 1.45% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 32
10th Percentile £355 £411 £462
25th Percentile £368 £450 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -17.36% +0.83%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £650
90th Percentile £743 £590 -
England median daily rate £583 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +5.91% -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 1,101 1,381 2,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.11% 29.71% 36.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 980 1,517
10th Percentile £256 £268 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -6.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £682
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 38
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.05
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -56.94% +81.95%
75th Percentile £73.44 £22.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.49 £44.24 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% -38.24% +58.14%

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 18 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 18 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 +10 15 £400 -20.00% 48
Yorkshire +21 7 £625 +19.05% 24
North East - 2 £416 - 13
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 4 (16.67%) nginx
2 3 (12.50%) Apache
2 3 (12.50%) Tomcat
3 2 (8.33%) IIS
4 1 (4.17%) Confluence
4 1 (4.17%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (45.83%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 7 (29.17%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (25.00%) Serverless
6 5 (20.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (16.67%) AWS KMS
7 4 (16.67%) GitHub
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
9 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
10 1 (4.17%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) DNS
2 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) DHCP
3 2 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (4.17%) Firewall
4 1 (4.17%) SSL
4 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 9 (37.50%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Military
3 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (45.83%) Senior
3 8 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Cloud Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) cloud-init
2 4 (16.67%) Node.js
3 3 (12.50%) .NET
3 3 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 3 (12.50%) OAuth
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) Kafka
4 2 (8.33%) Keycloak
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.17%) NestJS
5 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Clustering
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Linux
2 11 (45.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (41.67%) CentOS
4 8 (33.33%) Unix
5 3 (12.50%) Windows
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 15 (62.50%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 6 (25.00%) Secrets Management
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 3 (12.50%) Microservices
6 3 (12.50%) Observability
6 3 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
7 2 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (8.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) RBAC
7 2 (8.33%) SOLID
7 2 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 12 (50.00%) Bash
3 8 (33.33%) Go
4 4 (16.67%) SQL
5 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (8.33%) Java
7 1 (4.17%) Groovy
7 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) NCSC
1 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (70.83%) Terraform
2 8 (33.33%) Packer
3 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
4 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 4 (16.67%) ZABBIX
5 3 (12.50%) Ansible
5 3 (12.50%) Grafana
5 3 (12.50%) Kibana
6 2 (8.33%) Consul
6 2 (8.33%) Istio
6 2 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (8.33%) linkerd
6 2 (8.33%) Nagios
6 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
6 2 (8.33%) Rancher
7 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (4.17%) HAProxy
7 1 (4.17%) Kustomize
7 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) AppDynamics
1 3 (12.50%) Splunk
2 2 (8.33%) Dell
2 2 (8.33%) HP
2 2 (8.33%) IBM
2 2 (8.33%) Okta
2 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Apple
3 1 (4.17%) ESET
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Ping Identity