AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 100 142 144
Rank change year-on-year +42 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 2 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.13% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.40% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile - £513 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £470
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +11.70% -3.09%
75th Percentile - £538 £581
90th Percentile - - £645
South East median daily rate £578 £500 £588
% change year-on-year +15.50% -14.89% +13.20%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the Thames Valley

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the Thames Valley

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +31 2 £650 +23.81% 15
AWS CloudFormation
South East

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) SonarCloud
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) NGFW
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic