AWS CloudFormation Contracts in Scotland

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS CloudFormation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 67 110
Rank change year-on-year -4 +43 -36
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 52 118 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.41% 4.27% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.12% 11.80% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 103 52
10th Percentile £414 £425 £416
25th Percentile £430 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £508
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -6.40% +7.98%
75th Percentile £491 £508 £550
90th Percentile £514 £564 £575
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -6.82% -6.14% +17.20%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

AWS CloudFormation is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 730 1,000 1,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.84% 36.19% 31.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 739 786
10th Percentile £228 £250 £301
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.34%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £574
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 18
10th Percentile £15.94 £18.25 £19.09
25th Percentile £16.50 £45.00 £20.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -56.93%
75th Percentile £19.57 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £34.48 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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
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 13 May 2024. 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 +12 33 £458 -4.49% 2
Glasgow -3 9 £495 -0.30% 1
Lanarkshire - 2 £443 -
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 3 (5.77%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (88.46%) Serverless
3 45 (86.54%) Amazon S3
3 45 (86.54%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (40.38%) OpenShift
5 15 (28.85%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (21.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 11 (21.15%) AWS CodePipeline
8 9 (17.31%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (9.62%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (7.69%) Rekognition
10 4 (7.69%) Textract
11 3 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (5.77%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (5.77%) AWS CodeCommit
12 2 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 1 (1.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) SSL
2 1 (1.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (80.77%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (48.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (23.08%) MongoDB
4 11 (21.15%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (19.23%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (15.38%) Oracle Database
7 6 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (11.54%) InfluxDB
8 5 (9.62%) Informix
9 4 (7.69%) GIS
10 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) GitLab
2 11 (21.15%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.54%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.85%) Git
5 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.92%) JIRA
5 1 (1.92%) JUnit
General
1 25 (48.08%) Public Sector
2 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (53.85%) Developer
2 13 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Software Developer
4 6 (11.54%) AWS Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (9.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Automation Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Database Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Senior
6 4 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Python Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (92.31%) AWS CDK
2 15 (28.85%) React
3 10 (19.23%) Node.js
4 9 (17.31%) CSS
4 9 (17.31%) HTML
4 9 (17.31%) REST
5 7 (13.46%) PostGIS
6 6 (11.54%) Spring Boot
7 5 (9.62%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (9.62%) Spring
8 3 (5.77%) OAuth
8 3 (5.77%) OAuth2
8 3 (5.77%) Spring Security
9 2 (3.85%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.92%) Java EE
10 1 (1.92%) RESTful
10 1 (1.92%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (13.46%) Replication
3 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
2 10 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (13.46%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (67.31%) Agile
2 32 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (46.15%) Kanban
4 22 (42.31%) CI/CD
4 22 (42.31%) Scrum
5 19 (36.54%) DevOps
6 12 (23.08%) Code Quality
6 12 (23.08%) Machine Learning
7 11 (21.15%) Community of Practice
7 11 (21.15%) Human-Centred Design
7 11 (21.15%) Microservices
7 11 (21.15%) Migration
7 11 (21.15%) Test Automation
8 10 (19.23%) Code Coverage
8 10 (19.23%) Inclusive Design
8 10 (19.23%) Mentoring
8 10 (19.23%) TDD
8 10 (19.23%) User Experience
9 9 (17.31%) Natural Language Processing
9 9 (17.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 34 (65.38%) TypeScript
2 33 (63.46%) Python
3 15 (28.85%) JavaScript
3 15 (28.85%) SQL
4 14 (26.92%) Bash
5 13 (25.00%) Java
6 6 (11.54%) Shell Script
7 5 (9.62%) Groovy
8 1 (1.92%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (32.69%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.62%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (28.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (51.92%) Grafana
2 14 (26.92%) Ansible
3 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
4 9 (17.31%) Kibana
5 3 (5.77%) Terraform
6 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) Oracle
2 4 (7.69%) Commvault
3 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.85%) Sage
5 1 (1.92%) Google