AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the South East

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 152 191 198
Rank change year-on-year +39 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 7 14 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.25% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 1.02% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 20
10th Percentile £533 £485 £425
25th Percentile £546 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -14.89% +13.20%
75th Percentile £643 £538 £647
90th Percentile £650 - £676
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the South East

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the South East

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire - 5 £580 - 9
Thames Valley +42 2 £650 +23.81% 14
Berkshire +31 2 £650 +23.81% 7
Surrey - 1 £550 - 4
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Akamai
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
5 1 (14.29%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) NGFW
2 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Angular 2
1 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) HTML5
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) SAML
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Application Security
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CEH
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Dell KACE
2 1 (14.29%) Meraki
2 1 (14.29%) New Relic
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) Ubiquiti