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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 286 236
Rank change year-on-year +3 -50 +28
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 71 100 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.47% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 1.84% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 80 191
10th Percentile £353 £413 £425
25th Percentile £401 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £472 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -5.55% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £600
90th Percentile £625 £605 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +7.84% -7.27% -0.90%

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 4,312 5,447 7,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.08% 25.55% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,964 3,774 5,452
10th Percentile £250 £220 £240
25th Percentile £378 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 273 218
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.58
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.95 £27.10
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -26.38% +41.96%
75th Percentile £34.38 £43.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £66.31 £70.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.67% -38.57% +59.09%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +10 23 £411 -8.72% 306
Scotland -32 21 £465 +1.09% 73
North West +12 12 £400 -15.79% 138
Yorkshire +12 9 £500 +11.11% 139
South West +38 8 £600 -6.80% 144
Midlands +15 8 £550 +22.22% 174
West Midlands +17 7 £500 +42.86% 97
East of England +33 6 £500 -25.93% 158
South East +34 5 £565 +13.00% 340
North East - 2 £416 - 29
East Midlands +8 1 £700 +55.56% 77
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 5 (7.04%) nginx
2 3 (4.23%) Apache
2 3 (4.23%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.82%) Confluence
3 2 (2.82%) GeoServer
3 2 (2.82%) IIS
4 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 71 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (47.89%) Serverless
3 31 (43.66%) Amazon S3
4 30 (42.25%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (28.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (26.76%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (23.94%) Azure
8 14 (19.72%) GitHub
9 13 (18.31%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (18.31%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (16.90%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (15.49%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (15.49%) GCP
12 9 (12.68%) SaaS
12 9 (12.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (8.45%) AWS CodePipeline
13 6 (8.45%) PaaS
14 5 (7.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 5 (7.04%) AWS KMS
14 5 (7.04%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.08%) DNS
2 6 (8.45%) Firewall
3 4 (5.63%) Network Security
4 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.23%) VPN
5 2 (2.82%) DHCP
5 2 (2.82%) SSL
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.41%) WAN
6 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (9.86%) Relational Database
5 6 (8.45%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.63%) DynamoDB
6 4 (5.63%) GIS
7 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.82%) MySQL
9 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.41%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (39.44%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.08%) GitLab
3 8 (11.27%) Cypress.io
4 5 (7.04%) JIRA
5 3 (4.23%) Storybook
5 3 (4.23%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.82%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.82%) Git
6 2 (2.82%) Gradle
6 2 (2.82%) Maven
6 2 (2.82%) Selenium
6 2 (2.82%) Snyk
7 1 (1.41%) Appium
7 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.27%) Finance
4 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Back Office
6 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Developer
2 16 (22.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (21.13%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (18.31%) Senior
5 9 (12.68%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (12.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) AWS Developer
6 8 (11.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Software Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) React Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Business Analyst
10 3 (4.23%) Administrator
10 3 (4.23%) Lead
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Systems Administrator
11 2 (2.82%) Data Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Lead DevOps
11 2 (2.82%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.17%) AWS CDK
2 13 (18.31%) React
3 11 (15.49%) Node.js
4 8 (11.27%) OAuth
4 8 (11.27%) RESTful
5 5 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (7.04%) JSON
5 5 (7.04%) OpenID
5 5 (7.04%) SAML
5 5 (7.04%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.63%) AWS Amplify
6 4 (5.63%) OAuth2
6 4 (5.63%) PostGIS
6 4 (5.63%) Spring
7 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.23%) GraphQL
7 3 (4.23%) Jest
7 3 (4.23%) Next.js
7 3 (4.23%) Playwright
7 3 (4.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.82%) Clustering
3 2 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.41%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.49%) Linux
2 5 (7.04%) Windows
3 4 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.82%) CentOS
5 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (73.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 45 (63.38%) CI/CD
3 37 (52.11%) DevOps
4 29 (40.85%) Agile
5 21 (29.58%) Containerisation
6 13 (18.31%) Software Engineering
7 12 (16.90%) Microservices
8 10 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (14.08%) TDD
9 9 (12.68%) Test Automation
10 8 (11.27%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (11.27%) Cost Optimisation
10 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (11.27%) Observability
10 8 (11.27%) RBAC
11 7 (9.86%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (9.86%) DevSecOps
11 7 (9.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
11 7 (9.86%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.62%) Python
2 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
3 17 (23.94%) Java
4 16 (22.54%) TypeScript
5 13 (18.31%) Bash
6 11 (15.49%) SQL
7 7 (9.86%) Shell Script
8 5 (7.04%) Go
9 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
10 3 (4.23%) Groovy
11 2 (2.82%) R
11 2 (2.82%) Ruby
12 1 (1.41%) Bicep
12 1 (1.41%) C
12 1 (1.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) AWS Certification
2 8 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.41%) Degree
6 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.41%) OCP
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.23%) GDPR
2 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.82%) NCSC
3 2 (2.82%) NIST
3 2 (2.82%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (28.17%) Docker
2 10 (14.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (60.56%) Terraform
2 25 (35.21%) Kubernetes
3 17 (23.94%) Ansible
4 8 (11.27%) Grafana
5 7 (9.86%) Prometheus
6 5 (7.04%) Progress Chef
6 5 (7.04%) Puppet
6 5 (7.04%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (5.63%) Kibana
8 3 (4.23%) Salt
9 2 (2.82%) Kustomize
9 2 (2.82%) Nagios
9 2 (2.82%) Podman
9 2 (2.82%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.41%) HAProxy
10 1 (1.41%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (9.86%) AppDynamics
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.04%) Alibaba
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle
4 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.23%) SolarWinds
4 3 (4.23%) VMware
5 2 (2.82%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.82%) Dell
5 2 (2.82%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.82%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.82%) HP
5 2 (2.82%) IBM
5 2 (2.82%) Splunk
6 1 (1.41%) Databricks
6 1 (1.41%) Genesys
6 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.41%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.41%) Spotify
6 1 (1.41%) Ubiquiti