AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 259 289 240
Rank change year-on-year +30 -49 +56
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 77 111 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.53% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 2.04% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 89 205
10th Percentile £400 £415 £425
25th Percentile £424 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £508
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% -3.70%
75th Percentile £621 £538 £619
90th Percentile £739 £609 £650
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -6.78%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +31 30 £513 +2.50% 76
Scotland -20 25 £475 +2.76% 11
North West +14 14 £400 -20.00% 47
Yorkshire +20 13 £725 - 21
South East +39 7 £578 +15.50% 69
Midlands +25 7 £500 +11.11% 23
West Midlands +19 6 £450 +28.57% 10
South West +42 4 £563 -12.62% 19
East of England +30 3 £500 -25.93% 16
North East - 3 £585 - 12
East Midlands +8 1 £700 +55.56% 11
Wales -5 1 £600 -6.90% 4
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (14.29%) nginx
2 7 (9.09%) Traefik
3 3 (3.90%) Apache
3 3 (3.90%) Confluence
3 3 (3.90%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.60%) GeoServer
4 2 (2.60%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (46.75%) Amazon S3
3 34 (44.16%) Serverless
4 32 (41.56%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (32.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 24 (31.17%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (24.68%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (20.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (19.48%) AWS Fargate
10 14 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
11 13 (16.88%) OpenShift
12 9 (11.69%) Entra ID
13 8 (10.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 8 (10.39%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (10.39%) Azure
13 8 (10.39%) GCP
14 7 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
14 7 (9.09%) AWS CodeDeploy
14 7 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.18%) DNS
2 10 (12.99%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.79%) Firewall
4 4 (5.19%) Network Security
5 2 (2.60%) DHCP
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.30%) NGFW
6 1 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.30%) SSL
6 1 (1.30%) VPN
6 1 (1.30%) WAN
6 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.78%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (19.48%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (19.48%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.19%) GIS
6 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.60%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (53.25%) Jenkins
2 30 (38.96%) GitLab
3 4 (5.19%) Artifactory
3 4 (5.19%) Cypress.io
3 4 (5.19%) Git
4 3 (3.90%) JIRA
5 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.30%) Gradle
6 1 (1.30%) Maven
6 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.30%) Storybook
General
1 30 (38.96%) Public Sector
2 10 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.39%) Finance
4 3 (3.90%) Military
5 2 (2.60%) Back Office
5 2 (2.60%) Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (32.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (29.87%) Senior
3 15 (19.48%) Developer
3 15 (19.48%) Senior DevOps
4 14 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Software Engineer
7 8 (10.39%) AWS Developer
7 8 (10.39%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (7.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 2 (2.60%) DevOps Developer
11 2 (2.60%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (33.77%) AWS CDK
2 17 (22.08%) cloud-init
3 12 (15.58%) Node.js
4 10 (12.99%) Kafka
5 9 (11.69%) Keycloak
6 8 (10.39%) React
7 6 (7.79%) PostGIS
7 6 (7.79%) REST
8 5 (6.49%) CSS
8 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.19%) .NET
9 4 (5.19%) Angular 2
9 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.19%) HTML
9 4 (5.19%) HTML5
10 3 (3.90%) Next.js
10 3 (3.90%) OAuth
11 2 (2.60%) Django
11 2 (2.60%) RESTful
11 2 (2.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) PKI
2 8 (10.39%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.49%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Clustering
5 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.30%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (36.36%) Linux
2 23 (29.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (25.97%) CentOS
4 18 (23.38%) Unix
5 4 (5.19%) Windows
6 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (79.22%) CI/CD
2 49 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (62.34%) DevOps
4 36 (46.75%) Agile
5 20 (25.97%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (19.48%) Containerisation
7 14 (18.18%) Kanban
7 14 (18.18%) Scrum
8 13 (16.88%) Secrets Management
8 13 (16.88%) TDD
9 12 (15.58%) Microservices
9 12 (15.58%) Observability
10 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 11 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 10 (12.99%) Cloud Security
11 10 (12.99%) Human-Centred Design
11 10 (12.99%) Inclusive Design
12 9 (11.69%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 9 (11.69%) Identity Management
12 9 (11.69%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (64.94%) Python
2 33 (42.86%) Bash
3 20 (25.97%) Go
4 16 (20.78%) JavaScript
5 14 (18.18%) SQL
5 14 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 10 (12.99%) Java
7 5 (6.49%) Groovy
8 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.60%) R
9 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.68%) SC Cleared
3 13 (16.88%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.60%) CISM
5 2 (2.60%) CISSP
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.30%) CEH
6 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) OCP
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) NCSC
2 5 (6.49%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.19%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.30%) NIST
5 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (22.08%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (55.84%) Terraform
2 28 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 21 (27.27%) Grafana
4 18 (23.38%) Packer
5 16 (20.78%) Prometheus
6 13 (16.88%) Ansible
7 11 (14.29%) ZABBIX
8 10 (12.99%) linkerd
9 9 (11.69%) Consul
9 9 (11.69%) Istio
9 9 (11.69%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (11.69%) Rancher
10 8 (10.39%) HAProxy
11 6 (7.79%) Kibana
12 2 (2.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (2.60%) Nagios
12 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Okta
1 9 (11.69%) Splunk
2 7 (9.09%) Apple
2 7 (9.09%) ESET
3 4 (5.19%) AppDynamics
3 4 (5.19%) Google
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle
4 3 (3.90%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.60%) Dell
5 2 (2.60%) HP
5 2 (2.60%) IBM
5 2 (2.60%) Imperva
5 2 (2.60%) VMware
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco
6 1 (1.30%) Dell KACE
6 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.30%) Meraki
6 1 (1.30%) New Relic
6 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto