AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the South West

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 107 149 144
Rank change year-on-year +42 -5 +20
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 4 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% 0.25% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.81% 0.98% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 21
10th Percentile - £514 £588
25th Percentile £525 £517 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £644 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +5.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £597 £775 £675
90th Percentile £614 - £725
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 491 816 1,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.26% 25.51% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 616 1,019
10th Percentile £235 £205 £287
25th Percentile £406 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £594 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 29 57
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%
75th Percentile £34.50 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £53.13 £70.00 £78.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the South West

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the South West

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Gloucestershire +16 2 £575 -23.33% 8
Bristol - 2 £563 - 4
AWS CloudFormation
England

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

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Angular 2
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google