AWS CloudFormation Contracts

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 369 271
Rank change year-on-year +122 -98 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 318 240 584
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 0.55% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.89% 1.70% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 188 468
10th Percentile £400 £416 £428
25th Percentile £494 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £678 £650 £650
90th Percentile £815 £760 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £508
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation.

Hourly rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +118 234 £600 +9.09% 238
Work from Home +100 163 £600 +18.34% 140
London +87 163 £600 -2.04% 143
UK excluding London +17 76 £500 +4.17% 104
North of England +39 30 £513 +2.50% 55
Scotland -27 24 £475 +2.76% 6
North West +8 14 £400 -20.00% 34
Yorkshire +26 13 £725 +45.00% 14
South East +36 7 £578 +15.50% 18
Midlands +27 7 £500 +11.11% 8
West Midlands +21 6 £450 +28.57% 2
South West +41 4 £563 -12.62% 8
East of England +33 3 £500 -25.93% 1
North East - 3 £585 - 8
East Midlands +8 1 £700 +55.56% 6
Wales -1 1 £600 -6.90% 2

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (8.49%) nginx
2 17 (5.35%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.35%) Confluence
3 12 (3.77%) Traefik
4 11 (3.46%) Apache
5 5 (1.57%) IIS
5 5 (1.57%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.63%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.31%) JBoss
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 313 (98.43%) AWS
2 138 (43.40%) Serverless
3 130 (40.88%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (38.05%) Amazon S3
5 74 (23.27%) Amazon EC2
6 64 (20.13%) Amazon ECS
7 60 (18.87%) Azure
8 59 (18.55%) PaaS
9 58 (18.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 54 (16.98%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (16.98%) GitHub
11 51 (16.04%) GCP
12 48 (15.09%) IaaS
13 44 (13.84%) Amazon SQS
13 44 (13.84%) SaaS
14 43 (13.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 35 (11.01%) AWS CodePipeline
16 31 (9.75%) GitHub Actions
17 30 (9.43%) AWS Fargate
18 23 (7.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (19.81%) DNS
2 54 (16.98%) Firewall
3 52 (16.35%) TCP/IP
4 39 (12.26%) HTTP
5 23 (7.23%) DHCP
6 21 (6.60%) VPN
7 19 (5.97%) BGP
8 18 (5.66%) HTTPS
8 18 (5.66%) OSPF
9 11 (3.46%) Network Security
10 7 (2.20%) Internet
11 6 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
11 6 (1.89%) SSL
12 4 (1.26%) NGFW
13 2 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.63%) WAN
13 2 (0.63%) Wireless
14 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
14 1 (0.31%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (28.62%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (14.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 43 (13.52%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (8.18%) MongoDB
6 25 (7.86%) DynamoDB
7 18 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (3.77%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.14%) Hadoop
9 10 (3.14%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.83%) NoSQL
11 8 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.52%) Apache Hive
11 8 (2.52%) Big Data
11 8 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (2.20%) MySQL
13 6 (1.89%) SQL Server
14 5 (1.57%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (1.57%) Parquet
14 5 (1.57%) Presto
Development Applications
1 112 (35.22%) Jenkins
2 68 (21.38%) GitLab
3 39 (12.26%) Git
4 19 (5.97%) JIRA
5 15 (4.72%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.52%) CircleCI
6 8 (2.52%) git-flow
7 5 (1.57%) Poetry
8 4 (1.26%) Gradle
8 4 (1.26%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.31%) Maven
11 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.31%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.31%) Vagrant
General
1 62 (19.50%) Public Sector
2 57 (17.92%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.26%) Finance
4 21 (6.60%) Banking
5 20 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.72%) Front Office
7 9 (2.83%) Military
8 6 (1.89%) Marketing
9 3 (0.94%) Back Office
9 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.94%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.94%) Retail
10 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.31%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.31%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.31%) Legal
11 1 (0.31%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.31%) Police
11 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (28.93%) AWS Engineer
1 92 (28.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 69 (21.70%) Architect
3 66 (20.75%) Senior
4 47 (14.78%) AWS DevOps
5 45 (14.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 43 (13.52%) AWS Architect
7 41 (12.89%) Senior DevOps
8 39 (12.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 37 (11.64%) Developer
10 36 (11.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 27 (8.49%) Cloud Architect
12 25 (7.86%) Technical Architect
13 22 (6.92%) Data Engineer
14 21 (6.60%) Lead
15 18 (5.66%) Cloud Native Architect
16 17 (5.35%) Platform Engineer
16 17 (5.35%) Python Engineer
17 14 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 14 (4.40%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (15.09%) AWS CDK
2 31 (9.75%) Node.js
3 27 (8.49%) Kafka
4 24 (7.55%) cloud-init
4 24 (7.55%) React
5 19 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (4.40%) Keycloak
6 14 (4.40%) REST
7 11 (3.46%) CSS
7 11 (3.46%) HTML
8 10 (3.14%) Spring Boot
9 9 (2.83%) AngularJS
9 9 (2.83%) Sass
10 8 (2.52%) RESTful
11 7 (2.20%) JSON
11 7 (2.20%) WebSockets
12 6 (1.89%) Angular 2
12 6 (1.89%) HTML5
12 6 (1.89%) PostGIS
12 6 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.41%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.97%) Public Cloud
3 14 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.40%) PKI
4 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.89%) Security Posture
5 5 (1.57%) Tandem
6 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.63%) Clustering
8 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.63%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 82 (25.79%) Linux
2 40 (12.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 31 (9.75%) Unix
4 29 (9.12%) CentOS
5 20 (6.29%) Windows
6 9 (2.83%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (60.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 185 (58.18%) CI/CD
3 167 (52.52%) DevOps
4 92 (28.93%) Agile
4 92 (28.93%) Containerisation
5 61 (19.18%) Continuous Integration
6 57 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (14.47%) Cloud Security
8 40 (12.58%) Software Engineering
8 40 (12.58%) Test Automation
9 39 (12.26%) High Availability
9 39 (12.26%) Observability
10 34 (10.69%) Microservices
11 30 (9.43%) Deployment Automation
12 28 (8.81%) Mentoring
12 28 (8.81%) Migration
13 25 (7.86%) ETL
13 25 (7.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (7.55%) Configuration Management
14 24 (7.55%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 175 (55.03%) Python
2 64 (20.13%) Bash
3 47 (14.78%) SQL
4 46 (14.47%) JavaScript
5 42 (13.21%) Go
5 42 (13.21%) Java
6 40 (12.58%) TypeScript
7 30 (9.43%) Bicep
8 21 (6.60%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.89%) Groovy
9 6 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.26%) R
11 3 (0.94%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.63%) Gremlin
12 2 (0.63%) Scala
12 2 (0.63%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 101 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 95 (29.87%) SC Cleared
3 57 (17.92%) AWS Certification
4 32 (10.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.46%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.52%) Degree
8 7 (2.20%) OCP
8 7 (2.20%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (1.57%) CISM
9 5 (1.57%) CISSP
10 4 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.94%) RHCA
11 3 (0.94%) RHCE
11 3 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.31%) CEH
13 1 (0.31%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.03%) NCSC
2 7 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.89%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.57%) GDPR
5 4 (1.26%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.94%) NIST
6 3 (0.94%) QA
7 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 94 (29.56%) Docker
2 16 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.63%) vSphere
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.31%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 235 (73.90%) Terraform
2 125 (39.31%) Kubernetes
3 58 (18.24%) Ansible
4 56 (17.61%) Grafana
5 53 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 33 (10.38%) Packer
7 24 (7.55%) Progress Chef
8 22 (6.92%) Puppet
9 20 (6.29%) Consul
10 16 (5.03%) linkerd
10 16 (5.03%) ZABBIX
11 15 (4.72%) Istio
12 14 (4.40%) HAProxy
12 14 (4.40%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (4.40%) Rancher
13 9 (2.83%) Kibana
14 7 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (1.57%) Argo
17 2 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (7.23%) Cisco
2 21 (6.60%) Palo Alto
3 20 (6.29%) Microsoft
4 19 (5.97%) CheckPoint
4 19 (5.97%) Fortinet
4 19 (5.97%) Splunk
5 14 (4.40%) Okta
5 14 (4.40%) Red Hat
6 12 (3.77%) Apple
6 12 (3.77%) ESET
7 11 (3.46%) Google
8 9 (2.83%) Oracle
9 6 (1.89%) VMware
10 5 (1.57%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.26%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.94%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.94%) Citrix
12 3 (0.94%) IBM
12 3 (0.94%) Imperva
12 3 (0.94%) Salesforce