AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Wales

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 46 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 -
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 2 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.44% 0.27% 1.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 0.72% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £337
25th Percentile £463 £575 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £488 £625 £667
90th Percentile - - £671
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £538
% change year-on-year -10.26% +8.84% -4.44%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 125 138 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 27.41% 37.10% 33.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 111 118
10th Percentile £172 £188 £181
25th Percentile £292 £255 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £425 £406
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% +4.62% -15.58%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £560
90th Percentile £711 £625 £627
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 3
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £12.96
Median hourly rate £21.00 £33.64 £13.33
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% +152.36% -15.22%
75th Percentile £21.50 £41.25 £84.67
90th Percentile £30.00 - £127.47
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Wales

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing AWS CloudFormation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
Dyfed - 1 - -
West Wales - 1 £475 - 2
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ForgeRock