AWS CloudFormation Contracts

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS CloudFormation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 270 267
Rank change year-on-year -97 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 239 585 944
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.98% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 2.65% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 468 637
10th Percentile £416 £428 £450
25th Percentile £456 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +18.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £760 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £508 £530
% change year-on-year -5.51% -4.15% +11.58%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS CloudFormation is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

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 27 April 2024.

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 15 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 27 April 2024. 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 -53 164 £550 -8.33% 79
UK excluding London -43 113 £480 -5.51% 56
London -21 109 £613 +2.08% 32
Work from Home -34 99 £506 -8.00% 69
Scotland -10 60 £463 -3.04% 9
North of England -7 19 £500 -16.67% 18
North West -14 17 £500 -18.03% 9
South East +16 14 £500 -14.89% 5
South West +8 8 £644 +5.10% 8
Wales +21 7 £645 +90.96% 1
Midlands +17 4 £450 -28.00% 9
East Midlands +17 3 £450 -35.71% 4
East of England +12 3 £675 +29.81% 1
Yorkshire +13 2 £500 -16.67% 5
West Midlands +22 1 £350 -44.00% 5

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 5 (2.09%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.67%) nginx
3 3 (1.26%) Confluence
3 3 (1.26%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.84%) Apache
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.84%) Traefik
5 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.42%) IIS
5 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Shopify
2 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 220 (92.05%) AWS
2 136 (56.90%) Serverless
3 115 (48.12%) AWS Lambda
4 98 (41.00%) Amazon S3
5 64 (26.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 58 (24.27%) Amazon EC2
7 53 (22.18%) Azure
8 32 (13.39%) OpenShift
9 29 (12.13%) GitHub
10 23 (9.62%) AWS CodePipeline
11 22 (9.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (8.37%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (8.37%) SaaS
13 19 (7.95%) GCP
14 18 (7.53%) IaaS
15 16 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (6.69%) PaaS
16 14 (5.86%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.02%) Firewall
2 11 (4.60%) VPN
3 9 (3.77%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.26%) Network Security
4 3 (1.26%) SSL
5 2 (0.84%) DNS
5 2 (0.84%) FTP
6 1 (0.42%) IPv4
6 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.42%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (23.85%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (17.99%) Amazon Aurora
3 33 (13.81%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (9.62%) DynamoDB
5 22 (9.21%) MySQL
6 17 (7.11%) Relational Database
6 17 (7.11%) SQL Server
7 16 (6.69%) MongoDB
8 12 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (5.02%) RDBMS
9 9 (3.77%) Data Lake
9 9 (3.77%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.35%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (2.93%) Amazon QuickSight
11 7 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.93%) InfluxDB
12 5 (2.09%) Informix
13 4 (1.67%) GIS
Development Applications
1 45 (18.83%) Jenkins
2 35 (14.64%) GitLab
3 34 (14.23%) Git
4 9 (3.77%) JIRA
4 9 (3.77%) SonarQube
5 8 (3.35%) Cypress.io
6 7 (2.93%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.51%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.09%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.09%) Subversion
9 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.67%) Selenium
10 3 (1.26%) Burp Suite
10 3 (1.26%) Maven
10 3 (1.26%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.84%) AppScan
11 2 (0.84%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.84%) Snyk
12 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 45 (18.83%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.57%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.11%) Finance
4 7 (2.93%) Retail
5 5 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.09%) Legal
5 5 (2.09%) Marketing
6 4 (1.67%) Banking
6 4 (1.67%) German Language
7 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.26%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.84%) Billing
8 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.42%) Front Office
9 1 (0.42%) Games
9 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (27.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (22.18%) AWS Engineer
3 46 (19.25%) Developer
4 39 (16.32%) Senior
5 30 (12.55%) AWS DevOps
6 29 (12.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 28 (11.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (9.21%) Data Engineer
9 21 (8.79%) Architect
10 16 (6.69%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (6.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 14 (5.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.86%) Lead
11 14 (5.86%) Security Architect
12 13 (5.44%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (5.02%) AWS Developer
14 11 (4.60%) Security Engineer
14 11 (4.60%) Site Engineer
15 10 (4.18%) Operations Engineer
15 10 (4.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (27.20%) AWS CDK
2 32 (13.39%) React
3 26 (10.88%) Node.js
4 17 (7.11%) CSS
4 17 (7.11%) HTML
5 16 (6.69%) REST
6 14 (5.86%) ADO
7 13 (5.44%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (5.44%) YAML
8 11 (4.60%) OAuth
8 11 (4.60%) Spring Boot
9 10 (4.18%) Spring
10 8 (3.35%) OAuth2
10 8 (3.35%) RESTful
10 8 (3.35%) Spring Security
11 7 (2.93%) JSON
11 7 (2.93%) Kafka
11 7 (2.93%) PostGIS
12 5 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.95%) Cloud Native
1 19 (7.95%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (7.11%) Public Cloud
3 15 (6.28%) Mobile App
4 13 (5.44%) IoT
5 7 (2.93%) Replication
6 5 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.09%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.67%) PKI
8 3 (1.26%) Clustering
8 3 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.43%) Linux
2 24 (10.04%) Windows
3 17 (7.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (7.11%) Ubuntu
4 11 (4.60%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.26%) CentOS
6 2 (0.84%) Unix
7 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.42%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (54.81%) DevOps
2 123 (51.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 98 (41.00%) CI/CD
4 88 (36.82%) Agile
5 46 (19.25%) Containerisation
6 34 (14.23%) Test Automation
7 29 (12.13%) Cloud Security
7 29 (12.13%) Microservices
8 28 (11.72%) Kanban
8 28 (11.72%) Migration
8 28 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (11.30%) Scrum
10 25 (10.46%) Configuration Management
11 22 (9.21%) Roadmaps
12 20 (8.37%) DevSecOps
13 19 (7.95%) Code Quality
13 19 (7.95%) Human-Centred Design
13 19 (7.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (7.53%) Inclusive Design
14 18 (7.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 113 (47.28%) Python
2 62 (25.94%) TypeScript
3 40 (16.74%) SQL
4 38 (15.90%) Bash
5 37 (15.48%) JavaScript
6 36 (15.06%) Java
7 17 (7.11%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.86%) Go
9 9 (3.77%) Ruby
9 9 (3.77%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.09%) Groovy
11 3 (1.26%) C#
11 3 (1.26%) Scala
12 2 (0.84%) C
12 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.84%) PHP
12 2 (0.84%) U-SQL
13 1 (0.42%) Bicep
13 1 (0.42%) C++
13 1 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.53%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.44%) Degree
5 9 (3.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.26%) SANS
10 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.46%) Accessibility
2 22 (9.21%) QA
3 17 (7.11%) NIST
4 9 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.93%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (2.09%) GDPR
7 3 (1.26%) ISO 22301
7 3 (1.26%) NCSC
8 2 (0.84%) SLA
9 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 77 (32.22%) Docker
2 13 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.42%) Ceph
5 1 (0.42%) NFS
Systems Management
1 121 (50.63%) Terraform
2 75 (31.38%) Kubernetes
3 60 (25.10%) Ansible
4 48 (20.08%) Grafana
5 18 (7.53%) Progress Chef
6 17 (7.11%) Prometheus
7 16 (6.69%) Puppet
8 12 (5.02%) Nagios
9 10 (4.18%) Graylog
10 9 (3.77%) HP Fortify
10 9 (3.77%) Kibana
11 5 (2.09%) Packer
12 3 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.26%) Podman
12 3 (1.26%) Salt
13 2 (0.84%) Consul
13 2 (0.84%) Istio
13 2 (0.84%) linkerd
13 2 (0.84%) Oozie
13 2 (0.84%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 26 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.46%) Splunk
3 15 (6.28%) Oracle
4 11 (4.60%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.77%) Databricks
6 7 (2.93%) Google
6 7 (2.93%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.09%) SAP
7 5 (2.09%) VMware
8 4 (1.67%) Commvault
9 3 (1.26%) Adobe
9 3 (1.26%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.26%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.26%) Sage
9 3 (1.26%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.84%) New Relic
10 2 (0.84%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.84%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.84%) SaltStack