AWS CloudFormation Contracts in Wales

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 58 71
Rank change year-on-year +22 +13 -22
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.64% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.65% 1.27% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £592 £288 £465
25th Percentile £622 £306 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £338 £500
Median % change year-on-year +90.96% -32.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £683 £369 £534
90th Percentile £690 £388 £543
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -7.27% -6.14% +17.20%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 129 158 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 35.25% 25.94% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 130 179
10th Percentile £143 £162 £225
25th Percentile £313 £256 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £531 £600 £575
90th Percentile £571 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 16
10th Percentile £12.94 £12.54 -
25th Percentile £13.98 £12.59 £11.15
Median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +4.46% -35.72%
75th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £17.43
90th Percentile £18.53 £16.43 £22.88
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in Wales

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Wales.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in Wales

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 16 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
South Wales +20 6 £645 +90.96%
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) AppScan
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) DBA
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) MySQL DBA
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Change Control
3 4 (66.67%) Project Management
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) Application Security
5 2 (33.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) OWASP
5 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (16.67%) Information Security
6 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) PHP
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SANS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Nagios
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Graylog
2 5 (83.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (16.67%) HP Fortify
4 1 (16.67%) Nessus
4 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
4 1 (16.67%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Checkmarx
3 1 (16.67%) Veracode