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 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 243 351 274
Rank change year-on-year +108 -77 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 317 239 585
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 0.55% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.88% 1.70% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 187 468
10th Percentile £400 £416 £428
25th Percentile £496 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £684 £650 £650
90th Percentile £819 £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 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
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 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -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 1 May 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 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
England +114 233 £600 +9.09% 694
London +86 163 £600 - 201
Work from Home +93 161 £600 +18.11% 312
UK excluding London +30 77 £500 +4.17% 577
North of England +31 30 £513 +2.50% 155
Scotland -20 25 £475 +2.76% 26
North West +14 14 £400 -20.00% 81
Yorkshire +20 13 £725 - 56
South East +39 7 £578 +15.50% 154
Midlands +25 7 £500 +11.11% 98
West Midlands +19 6 £450 +28.57% 50
South West +42 4 £563 -12.62% 64
East of England +30 3 £500 -25.93% 76
North East - 3 £585 - 22
East Midlands +8 1 £700 +55.56% 41
Wales -5 1 £600 -6.90% 14

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 (8.52%) nginx
2 17 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.36%) Confluence
3 12 (3.79%) Traefik
4 11 (3.47%) Apache
5 5 (1.58%) IIS
5 5 (1.58%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.63%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.32%) JBoss
8 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 312 (98.42%) AWS
2 137 (43.22%) Serverless
3 129 (40.69%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (37.85%) Amazon S3
5 74 (23.34%) Amazon EC2
6 64 (20.19%) Amazon ECS
7 60 (18.93%) Azure
8 59 (18.61%) PaaS
9 56 (17.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 55 (17.35%) GitHub
11 54 (17.03%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (16.09%) GCP
13 48 (15.14%) IaaS
14 44 (13.88%) Amazon SQS
14 44 (13.88%) SaaS
15 43 (13.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 36 (11.36%) AWS CodePipeline
17 32 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
18 30 (9.46%) AWS Fargate
19 23 (7.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (19.87%) DNS
2 54 (17.03%) Firewall
3 52 (16.40%) TCP/IP
4 39 (12.30%) HTTP
5 23 (7.26%) DHCP
6 21 (6.62%) VPN
7 19 (5.99%) BGP
8 18 (5.68%) HTTPS
8 18 (5.68%) OSPF
9 11 (3.47%) Network Security
10 7 (2.21%) 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 (0.32%) Kerberos
14 1 (0.32%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (28.71%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (14.51%) Amazon Redshift
3 43 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (9.46%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (8.20%) MongoDB
6 25 (7.89%) DynamoDB
7 19 (5.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (3.79%) Data Lake
9 11 (3.47%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.15%) Hadoop
11 9 (2.84%) NoSQL
12 8 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (2.52%) Apache Hive
12 8 (2.52%) Big Data
12 8 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (2.21%) MySQL
14 6 (1.89%) SQL Server
15 5 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
15 5 (1.58%) Parquet
15 5 (1.58%) Presto
Development Applications
1 111 (35.02%) Jenkins
2 68 (21.45%) GitLab
3 37 (11.67%) Git
4 19 (5.99%) JIRA
5 15 (4.73%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.52%) CircleCI
6 8 (2.52%) git-flow
7 5 (1.58%) Poetry
8 4 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.26%) Gradle
8 4 (1.26%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.95%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.32%) Maven
11 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.32%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.32%) Vagrant
General
1 62 (19.56%) Public Sector
2 57 (17.98%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.30%) Finance
4 21 (6.62%) Banking
5 20 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.73%) Front Office
7 9 (2.84%) Military
8 6 (1.89%) Marketing
9 3 (0.95%) Back Office
9 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.95%) Retail
10 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.32%) Police
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (29.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 91 (28.71%) AWS Engineer
3 69 (21.77%) Architect
4 66 (20.82%) Senior
5 47 (14.83%) AWS DevOps
6 45 (14.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 43 (13.56%) AWS Architect
8 41 (12.93%) Senior DevOps
9 39 (12.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (11.99%) Developer
11 36 (11.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 27 (8.52%) Cloud Architect
13 25 (7.89%) Technical Architect
14 22 (6.94%) Data Engineer
15 21 (6.62%) Lead
16 18 (5.68%) Cloud Native Architect
17 17 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
18 16 (5.05%) Python Engineer
19 14 (4.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 14 (4.42%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.46%) AWS CDK
2 31 (9.78%) Node.js
3 27 (8.52%) Kafka
4 25 (7.89%) React
5 24 (7.57%) cloud-init
6 19 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (4.42%) Keycloak
7 14 (4.42%) REST
8 12 (3.79%) CSS
9 11 (3.47%) HTML
10 10 (3.15%) Spring Boot
11 9 (2.84%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.84%) RESTful
11 9 (2.84%) Sass
12 7 (2.21%) JSON
12 7 (2.21%) WebSockets
13 6 (1.89%) HTML5
13 6 (1.89%) PostGIS
13 6 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.89%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.46%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.99%) Public Cloud
3 14 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.42%) PKI
4 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.89%) Security Posture
5 5 (1.58%) Tandem
6 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.95%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.95%) 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 (25.87%) Linux
2 40 (12.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 31 (9.78%) Unix
4 29 (9.15%) CentOS
5 20 (6.31%) Windows
6 9 (2.84%) 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 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (60.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 184 (58.04%) CI/CD
3 165 (52.05%) DevOps
4 92 (29.02%) Agile
4 92 (29.02%) Containerisation
5 61 (19.24%) Continuous Integration
6 57 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (14.51%) Cloud Security
8 40 (12.62%) Software Engineering
8 40 (12.62%) Test Automation
9 39 (12.30%) High Availability
9 39 (12.30%) Observability
10 34 (10.73%) Microservices
11 31 (9.78%) Deployment Automation
12 28 (8.83%) Mentoring
12 28 (8.83%) Migration
13 25 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (7.57%) Configuration Management
14 24 (7.57%) Open Source
15 23 (7.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 173 (54.57%) Python
2 64 (20.19%) Bash
3 47 (14.83%) SQL
4 46 (14.51%) JavaScript
5 42 (13.25%) Go
6 41 (12.93%) TypeScript
7 40 (12.62%) Java
8 30 (9.46%) Bicep
9 21 (6.62%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.89%) Groovy
10 6 (1.89%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.89%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.26%) R
12 3 (0.95%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.63%) Scala
13 2 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 101 (31.86%) Security Cleared
2 95 (29.97%) SC Cleared
3 57 (17.98%) AWS Certification
4 32 (10.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.52%) Degree
8 7 (2.21%) OCP
8 7 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (1.58%) CISM
9 5 (1.58%) CISSP
10 4 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.95%) RHCA
11 3 (0.95%) RHCE
11 3 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.32%) CEH
13 1 (0.32%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.05%) NCSC
2 7 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.89%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.58%) GDPR
5 4 (1.26%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.95%) NIST
6 3 (0.95%) QA
7 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 94 (29.65%) Docker
2 16 (5.05%) 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 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 235 (74.13%) Terraform
2 125 (39.43%) Kubernetes
3 58 (18.30%) Ansible
4 56 (17.67%) Grafana
5 53 (16.72%) Prometheus
6 33 (10.41%) Packer
7 24 (7.57%) Progress Chef
8 22 (6.94%) Puppet
9 20 (6.31%) Consul
10 16 (5.05%) linkerd
10 16 (5.05%) ZABBIX
11 15 (4.73%) Istio
12 14 (4.42%) HAProxy
12 14 (4.42%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (4.42%) Rancher
13 9 (2.84%) Kibana
14 7 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (1.58%) Argo
17 2 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (7.26%) Cisco
2 21 (6.62%) Palo Alto
3 19 (5.99%) CheckPoint
3 19 (5.99%) Fortinet
3 19 (5.99%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.99%) Splunk
4 14 (4.42%) Okta
4 14 (4.42%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.79%) Apple
5 12 (3.79%) ESET
6 11 (3.47%) Google
7 9 (2.84%) Oracle
8 6 (1.89%) VMware
9 5 (1.58%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.26%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.95%) Citrix
11 3 (0.95%) IBM
11 3 (0.95%) Imperva
11 3 (0.95%) Salesforce