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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 277 260
Rank change year-on-year -78 -17 +17
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 244 552 928
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.95% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 2.60% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 444 614
10th Percentile £416 £428 £450
25th Percentile £457 £475 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £589
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -6.58% +17.75%
75th Percentile £649 £650 £688
90th Percentile £760 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -6.00% -3.24% +9.66%

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 13,933 21,254 33,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.77% 38.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,370 24,584
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 348 423
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.63
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.18% +25.00% -

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -48 175 £550 -8.33% 92
London -5 120 £575 -4.17% 37
UK excluding London -53 103 £478 -6.00% 55
Work from Home -35 102 £508 -7.64% 60
Scotland -9 52 £463 -2.63% 3
North of England +9 19 £525 -13.93% 20
North West +1 17 £500 -20.00% 11
South East +9 14 £500 -14.89% 5
Wales +25 7 £645 +90.96%
South West -4 7 £644 +3.00% 10
Midlands +24 4 £450 -28.00% 15
East Midlands +19 3 £450 -35.71% 6
Yorkshire +10 2 £600 - 6
East of England +7 2 £675 +29.81%
West Midlands +9 1 £350 -45.74% 9

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 14 (5.74%) nginx
2 13 (5.33%) Confluence
3 6 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.23%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.82%) Apache
5 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.82%) Traefik
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 223 (91.39%) AWS
2 127 (52.05%) Serverless
3 106 (43.44%) AWS Lambda
4 90 (36.89%) Amazon S3
5 66 (27.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 56 (22.95%) Amazon EC2
6 56 (22.95%) Azure
7 30 (12.30%) GitHub
8 25 (10.25%) OpenShift
9 23 (9.43%) AWS CodePipeline
10 22 (9.02%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (9.02%) GCP
10 22 (9.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (8.61%) SaaS
12 19 (7.79%) IaaS
13 17 (6.97%) PaaS
14 14 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (5.33%) Amazon SQS
16 12 (4.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.74%) Firewall
2 10 (4.10%) VPN
3 9 (3.69%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.23%) Network Security
4 3 (1.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.82%) DNS
5 2 (0.82%) FTP
5 2 (0.82%) IPv4
6 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (19.26%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (13.93%) Amazon Aurora
3 31 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (10.66%) DynamoDB
5 22 (9.02%) MySQL
6 17 (6.97%) Relational Database
7 16 (6.56%) MongoDB
7 16 (6.56%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (4.51%) RDBMS
10 9 (3.69%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.69%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (3.28%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.87%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (2.87%) InfluxDB
13 6 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (2.05%) Informix
15 4 (1.64%) GIS
Development Applications
1 46 (18.85%) Git
2 43 (17.62%) Jenkins
3 35 (14.34%) GitLab
4 19 (7.79%) JIRA
5 9 (3.69%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.87%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.46%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.46%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.05%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.05%) Subversion
9 3 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.23%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.23%) Maven
9 3 (1.23%) Selenium
9 3 (1.23%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.82%) AppScan
10 2 (0.82%) JUnit
10 2 (0.82%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.82%) Snyk
11 1 (0.41%) TestNG
General
1 48 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.98%) Public Sector
3 19 (7.79%) Finance
4 7 (2.87%) Retail
5 5 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.05%) Banking
5 5 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.05%) Legal
5 5 (2.05%) Marketing
6 3 (1.23%) German Language
6 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.23%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.82%) Billing
8 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.41%) Games
8 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.41%) Law
8 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (30.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (21.72%) AWS Engineer
3 41 (16.80%) Developer
3 41 (16.80%) Senior
4 30 (12.30%) AWS DevOps
5 29 (11.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 26 (10.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (9.43%) Data Engineer
8 22 (9.02%) Architect
9 17 (6.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.74%) Security Architect
12 13 (5.33%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (5.33%) Site Engineer
13 11 (4.51%) AWS Developer
13 11 (4.51%) Security Engineer
14 10 (4.10%) Operations Engineer
14 10 (4.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 9 (3.69%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.95%) AWS CDK
2 29 (11.89%) Node.js
3 24 (9.84%) React
4 14 (5.74%) ADO
5 13 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (5.33%) YAML
6 12 (4.92%) REST
6 12 (4.92%) RESTful
7 9 (3.69%) CSS
7 9 (3.69%) HTML
8 8 (3.28%) Kafka
8 8 (3.28%) OAuth
8 8 (3.28%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.87%) JSON
9 7 (2.87%) PostGIS
9 7 (2.87%) Spring
10 5 (2.05%) Jest
10 5 (2.05%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (2.05%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.61%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (7.38%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.38%) Public Cloud
3 15 (6.15%) Mobile App
4 13 (5.33%) IoT
5 7 (2.87%) Replication
6 5 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.23%) Clustering
8 3 (1.23%) PKI
9 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (26.64%) Linux
2 22 (9.02%) Windows
3 17 (6.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (6.97%) Ubuntu
4 10 (4.10%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.64%) Unix
6 3 (1.23%) CentOS
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (56.56%) DevOps
2 119 (48.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 102 (41.80%) CI/CD
4 88 (36.07%) Agile
5 44 (18.03%) Containerisation
6 30 (12.30%) Migration
7 29 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (11.07%) Cloud Security
8 27 (11.07%) Scrum
9 26 (10.66%) Kanban
9 26 (10.66%) Microservices
10 25 (10.25%) Test Automation
11 24 (9.84%) Configuration Management
12 21 (8.61%) DevSecOps
12 21 (8.61%) Roadmaps
12 21 (8.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (6.97%) Code Quality
13 17 (6.97%) SDLC
14 16 (6.56%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (6.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 108 (44.26%) Python
2 55 (22.54%) TypeScript
3 41 (16.80%) Bash
3 41 (16.80%) SQL
4 32 (13.11%) Java
4 32 (13.11%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.79%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.15%) Go
7 9 (3.69%) Ruby
7 9 (3.69%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.05%) Groovy
9 3 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.23%) Scala
10 2 (0.82%) C
10 2 (0.82%) C#
10 2 (0.82%) PHP
10 2 (0.82%) U-SQL
11 1 (0.41%) C++
11 1 (0.41%) Perl
11 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (24.18%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.15%) AWS Certification
3 15 (6.15%) Degree
4 10 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.23%) SANS
9 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.41%) CISSP
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.02%) QA
2 17 (6.97%) Accessibility
2 17 (6.97%) NIST
3 9 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.05%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (2.05%) GDPR
5 3 (1.23%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.23%) NCSC
6 2 (0.82%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (34.84%) Docker
2 14 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.41%) Ceph
5 1 (0.41%) NFS
Systems Management
1 134 (54.92%) Terraform
2 85 (34.84%) Kubernetes
3 57 (23.36%) Ansible
4 43 (17.62%) Grafana
5 18 (7.38%) Progress Chef
5 18 (7.38%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.56%) Puppet
7 15 (6.15%) Packer
8 12 (4.92%) Nagios
9 11 (4.51%) Consul
10 10 (4.10%) Graylog
11 9 (3.69%) HP Fortify
11 9 (3.69%) Kibana
12 3 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.23%) Podman
12 3 (1.23%) Salt
13 2 (0.82%) Graphite
13 2 (0.82%) Istio
13 2 (0.82%) linkerd
13 2 (0.82%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 26 (10.66%) Splunk
2 24 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.56%) Oracle
4 11 (4.51%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.10%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.69%) Databricks
6 9 (3.69%) Google
7 5 (2.05%) VMware
8 4 (1.64%) Commvault
8 4 (1.64%) SAP
9 3 (1.23%) Adobe
9 3 (1.23%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.23%) Checkmarx
9 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.23%) Sage
9 3 (1.23%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.82%) New Relic
10 2 (0.82%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.82%) Qualys
10 2 (0.82%) SaltStack