AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 237 282
Rank change year-on-year -40 +45 -50
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 108 220 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.96% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.05% 2.89% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 190 165
10th Percentile £415 £425 £414
25th Percentile £438 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -3.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £536 £619 £625
90th Percentile £623 £650 £669
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £589
% change year-on-year -7.27% -6.58% +17.75%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,269 7,610 9,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.93% 33.12% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,741 5,614 7,256
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 220 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.26
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +35.26% -4.39%
75th Percentile £27.25 £64.63 £30.60
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.92
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Scotland 0 59 £463 -2.63% 4
North of England +5 20 £500 -17.36% 18
North West +2 17 £500 -19.03% 9
South East +5 13 £500 -9.09% 5
Wales +25 6 £645 +90.96%
South West -14 6 £644 +4.04% 10
Midlands +25 4 £450 -28.00% 14
East Midlands +12 3 £450 -35.71% 6
Yorkshire +8 3 £525 -12.50% 6
East of England +4 2 £675 +29.81% 2
West Midlands +18 1 £350 -45.74% 8
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (2.78%) GeoServer
2 2 (1.85%) nginx
2 2 (1.85%) Traefik
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 104 (96.30%) AWS
2 66 (61.11%) Amazon S3
3 64 (59.26%) Serverless
4 62 (57.41%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (31.48%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (25.00%) OpenShift
7 14 (12.96%) AWS CodePipeline
7 14 (12.96%) Azure
8 11 (10.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 9 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
10 8 (7.41%) Textract
11 7 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (5.56%) Snowflake
12 6 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (4.63%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (3.70%) Rekognition
15 3 (2.78%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) Firewall
1 7 (6.48%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.56%) VPN
3 2 (1.85%) DNS
3 2 (1.85%) IPv4
3 2 (1.85%) Network Security
3 2 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (48.15%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (35.19%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 12 (11.11%) MySQL
5 10 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (7.41%) Oracle Database
7 7 (6.48%) InfluxDB
7 7 (6.48%) Relational Database
8 6 (5.56%) Data Lake
8 6 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (5.56%) DynamoDB
8 6 (5.56%) NoSQL
9 5 (4.63%) Informix
9 5 (4.63%) RDBMS
9 5 (4.63%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.70%) GIS
11 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 22 (20.37%) GitLab
2 21 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 14 (12.96%) Git
4 8 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.56%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.85%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.93%) AppScan
7 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.93%) JIRA
7 1 (0.93%) JUnit
7 1 (0.93%) Subversion
7 1 (0.93%) Travis CI
General
1 33 (30.56%) Public Sector
2 14 (12.96%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.48%) Finance
4 3 (2.78%) Banking
4 3 (2.78%) Legal
4 3 (2.78%) Retail
5 2 (1.85%) German Language
6 1 (0.93%) Games
6 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (32.41%) Developer
2 25 (23.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (21.30%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (14.81%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (14.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 15 (13.89%) Data Engineer
6 11 (10.19%) Automation Developer
6 11 (10.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Software Developer
9 7 (6.48%) Senior
9 7 (6.48%) Site Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) Database Engineer
11 5 (4.63%) DBA
12 4 (3.70%) Administrator
12 4 (3.70%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (53.70%) AWS CDK
2 16 (14.81%) React
3 12 (11.11%) Node.js
4 9 (8.33%) CSS
4 9 (8.33%) HTML
4 9 (8.33%) REST
5 8 (7.41%) ADO
6 7 (6.48%) PostGIS
6 7 (6.48%) SpaCy
7 6 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (5.56%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.63%) Spring
9 4 (3.70%) PyTorch
10 3 (2.78%) OAuth
10 3 (2.78%) OAuth2
10 3 (2.78%) Spring Security
11 2 (1.85%) cloud-init
11 2 (1.85%) Lambda Expressions
12 1 (0.93%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.48%) Replication
4 2 (1.85%) Clustering
4 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.85%) PKI
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (31.48%) Linux
2 16 (14.81%) Ubuntu
3 12 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (7.41%) Windows
5 3 (2.78%) CentOS
5 3 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 54 (50.00%) DevOps
3 47 (43.52%) Agile
4 41 (37.96%) CI/CD
5 29 (26.85%) Kanban
6 27 (25.00%) Scrum
7 19 (17.59%) Machine Learning
7 19 (17.59%) Migration
8 18 (16.67%) Code Quality
8 18 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 16 (14.81%) Natural Language Processing
10 14 (12.96%) Community of Practice
11 13 (12.04%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (12.04%) Code Coverage
11 13 (12.04%) Mentoring
11 13 (12.04%) User Experience
12 12 (11.11%) Microservices
12 12 (11.11%) Roadmaps
12 12 (11.11%) Test Automation
13 11 (10.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (56.48%) Python
2 42 (38.89%) TypeScript
3 27 (25.00%) Bash
4 26 (24.07%) SQL
5 16 (14.81%) Java
5 16 (14.81%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.26%) Go
7 6 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.63%) Groovy
8 5 (4.63%) Ruby
9 3 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.85%) C
10 2 (1.85%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) C++
11 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (6.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.85%) Degree
4 2 (1.85%) SANS
4 2 (1.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.52%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.41%) QA
3 6 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.78%) GDPR
5 3 (2.78%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.85%) NCSC
6 2 (1.85%) NIST
7 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (40.74%) Docker
2 9 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (38.89%) Terraform
2 41 (37.96%) Grafana
3 38 (35.19%) Kubernetes
4 35 (32.41%) Ansible
5 10 (9.26%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.33%) Kibana
7 7 (6.48%) HP Fortify
7 7 (6.48%) Nagios
8 6 (5.56%) Graylog
8 6 (5.56%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.70%) Puppet
10 2 (1.85%) Consul
10 2 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.85%) Graphite
10 2 (1.85%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.85%) Istio
10 2 (1.85%) linkerd
10 2 (1.85%) Packer
10 2 (1.85%) Podman
10 2 (1.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) Splunk
2 14 (12.96%) Oracle
3 9 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.70%) Commvault
5 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.85%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.85%) Google
6 2 (1.85%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.85%) Sage
6 2 (1.85%) VMware
7 1 (0.93%) Veracode