AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 65 82
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 51 52 58
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.32% 3.09% 2.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.92% 8.83% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 41 52
10th Percentile £340 £420 £413
25th Percentile £360 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -12.11% -1.04% -5.33%
75th Percentile £525 £519 £538
90th Percentile £542 £544 £545
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% -6.52%

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 572 589 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.24% 34.98% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 366 499
10th Percentile £313 £269 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £526 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.84 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £20.47 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +35.97% +41.82% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.68 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Scotland

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS CloudFormation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 December 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 14 December 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
Glasgow +21 32 £400 -19.52% 5
Edinburgh -9 19 £516 +8.91% 4
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 6 (11.76%) Apache
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.96%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (78.43%) Serverless
3 39 (76.47%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (50.98%) Amazon S3
5 21 (41.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 14 (27.45%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (21.57%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (19.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (15.69%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (15.69%) OpenShift
11 7 (13.73%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (11.76%) Amazon MSK
13 5 (9.80%) Azure
14 4 (7.84%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (7.84%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (7.84%) GitHub
14 4 (7.84%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (25.49%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (23.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (19.61%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (15.69%) DynamoDB
6 6 (11.76%) Delta Lake
7 5 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 15 (29.41%) GitLab
3 11 (21.57%) Git
4 9 (17.65%) MLflow
5 7 (13.73%) Bitbucket
5 7 (13.73%) JIRA
5 7 (13.73%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (11.76%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.96%) Snyk
7 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (41.18%) Finance
2 19 (37.25%) Public Sector
3 9 (17.65%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Architect
3 9 (17.65%) Senior
4 7 (13.73%) AWS Architect
4 7 (13.73%) Developer
5 6 (11.76%) Lead
5 6 (11.76%) Technical Leader
6 5 (9.80%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (9.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) AWS Data Architect
7 3 (5.88%) AWS Solution Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) Node.js
2 10 (19.61%) AWS CDK
3 8 (15.69%) PySpark
4 7 (13.73%) React
5 5 (9.80%) CSS
5 5 (9.80%) HTML
5 5 (9.80%) PyTorch
6 4 (7.84%) SpaCy
7 3 (5.88%) Next.js
7 3 (5.88%) REST
7 3 (5.88%) scikit-learn
7 3 (5.88%) Spring
7 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.88%) TensorFlow
8 2 (3.92%) OAuth
8 2 (3.92%) OAuth2
8 2 (3.92%) Spring MVC
8 2 (3.92%) Spring Web Flow
8 2 (3.92%) Thymeleaf
8 2 (3.92%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) IVR
1 6 (11.76%) NHS
2 5 (9.80%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.80%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) Derivative
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 28 (54.90%) CI/CD
2 28 (54.90%) DevOps
3 18 (35.29%) Agile
3 18 (35.29%) Containerisation
3 18 (35.29%) Migration
4 15 (29.41%) Microservices
5 11 (21.57%) Test Automation
6 10 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (17.65%) AI
7 9 (17.65%) Analytics
7 9 (17.65%) Data Engineering
7 9 (17.65%) Machine Learning
7 9 (17.65%) Roadmaps
7 9 (17.65%) Unit Testing
8 8 (15.69%) Mentoring
9 7 (13.73%) Cloud Security
9 7 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (13.73%) Data Protection
9 7 (13.73%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 39 (76.47%) Python
2 12 (23.53%) Java
3 10 (19.61%) PowerShell
3 10 (19.61%) TypeScript
4 9 (17.65%) SQL
5 6 (11.76%) Perl
5 6 (11.76%) Ruby
6 5 (9.80%) Bash
7 2 (3.92%) Go
7 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.96%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) AWS Certification
2 6 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (7.84%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Degree
5 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) Accessibility
2 7 (13.73%) GDPR
2 7 (13.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (11.76%) PCI DSS
4 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.88%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.88%) PMO
5 1 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.96%) NCSC
5 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (43.14%) Docker
2 4 (7.84%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (50.98%) Terraform
2 18 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.69%) Grafana
4 5 (9.80%) Ansible
5 2 (3.92%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) Argo
6 1 (1.96%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.96%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Databricks
2 5 (9.80%) Avaya
2 5 (9.80%) Cisco
2 5 (9.80%) Genesys
2 5 (9.80%) Oracle
3 4 (7.84%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
3 4 (7.84%) Splunk
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.88%) Pega
5 1 (1.96%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.96%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.96%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) Ping Identity