AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the North West

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 118 129
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -20
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 12 17 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.62% 0.63% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.90% 1.95% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 23
10th Percentile £350 £406 £475
25th Percentile £358 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £438 £550 £638
90th Percentile £475 £575 £650
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 633 871 1,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.48% 32.13% 37.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 620 840
10th Percentile £293 £280 £312
25th Percentile £398 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 64 38
10th Percentile - £13.00 £15.92
25th Percentile £12.82 - £17.09
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -35.41% -5.80%
75th Percentile £47.12 £26.50 £55.55
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.18 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.26 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -38.94% +62.79%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the North West

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the North West

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the North West

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester +16 7 £425 -22.73% 46
Cheshire +2 5 £358 -10.78% 26
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (25.00%) Apache
1 3 (25.00%) nginx
1 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (58.33%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (58.33%) Amazon S3
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (33.33%) Serverless
5 3 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 3 (25.00%) GitHub
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (16.67%) Nutanix
6 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Node.js
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (25.00%) OAuth
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (8.33%) NestJS
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (16.67%) CentOS
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Secrets Management
5 3 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (16.67%) ITIL
6 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 2 (16.67%) OO
6 2 (16.67%) Pair Programming
6 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Secure Coding
6 2 (16.67%) SOLID
6 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 2 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kibana
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Nagios
3 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) ZABBIX
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (16.67%) Dell
2 2 (16.67%) HP
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Ping Identity