AWS CloudFormation Contracts in Scotland

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 91 71 59
Rank change year-on-year -20 -12 +71
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 25 59 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.54% 2.66% 4.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 7.99% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 55 106
10th Percentile £413 £415 £425
25th Percentile £436 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £477
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% -3.04% -9.14%
75th Percentile £529 £506 £508
90th Percentile £549 £530 £557
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -6.78%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in Scotland

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in Scotland

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in Scotland

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh -10 21 £475 +3.32% 3
Glasgow -4 2 £429 -15.22% 6
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (8.00%) GeoServer
2 1 (4.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (84.00%) Serverless
3 20 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 20 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (48.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 12 (48.00%) OpenShift
5 6 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (24.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 6 (24.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 5 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 5 (20.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 5 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (20.00%) PaaS
6 5 (20.00%) Route 53
7 4 (16.00%) SaaS
8 3 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (8.00%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (64.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (36.00%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (28.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (16.00%) GIS
6 2 (8.00%) InfluxDB
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
7 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) GitLab
1 10 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (16.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.00%) Gradle
4 1 (4.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) Storybook
General
1 15 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Data Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Developer
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.00%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) React Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (84.00%) AWS CDK
2 8 (32.00%) React
3 6 (24.00%) PostGIS
3 6 (24.00%) REST
4 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (12.00%) Next.js
5 3 (12.00%) Node.js
6 2 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (8.00%) Spring
7 1 (4.00%) .NET
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (4.00%) CSS
7 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
7 1 (4.00%) Jest
7 1 (4.00%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (4.00%) Loki
7 1 (4.00%) PySpark
7 1 (4.00%) RESTful
7 1 (4.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (68.00%) Agile
3 15 (60.00%) DevOps
4 13 (52.00%) Kanban
4 13 (52.00%) Scrum
5 11 (44.00%) Test Automation
6 10 (40.00%) Human-Centred Design
6 10 (40.00%) Inclusive Design
6 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (40.00%) TDD
7 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
7 7 (28.00%) Data Transformation
8 6 (24.00%) Data Integration
8 6 (24.00%) Data Migration
8 6 (24.00%) Migration
8 6 (24.00%) User Experience
9 5 (20.00%) Code Coverage
9 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 5 (20.00%) Microservices
9 5 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Bash
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 8 (32.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (28.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) Groovy
5 2 (8.00%) Go
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (4.00%) OCP
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Grafana
1 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Ansible
3 4 (16.00%) Terraform
4 3 (12.00%) Kibana
5 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.00%) HAProxy
6 1 (4.00%) linkerd
6 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Imperva
2 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle