AWS CloudFormation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 237 216 249
Rank change year-on-year -21 +33 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 107 289 483
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 1.17% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 2.97% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 234 343
10th Percentile £415 £437 £450
25th Percentile £456 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.51% +8.57%
75th Percentile £598 £650 £688
90th Percentile £684 £688 £810
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £589
% change year-on-year -7.27% -6.58% +17.75%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,717 18,221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.48% 39.48% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 7,207 13,616
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

AWS CloudFormation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS CloudFormation trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation.

AWS CloudFormation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

AWS CloudFormation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS CloudFormation.

AWS CloudFormation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (6.54%) Confluence
2 5 (4.67%) nginx
3 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 105 (98.13%) AWS
2 60 (56.07%) Serverless
3 54 (50.47%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (45.79%) Amazon S3
5 31 (28.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (25.23%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (18.69%) Azure
8 18 (16.82%) OpenShift
9 15 (14.02%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (8.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (8.41%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (8.41%) GitHub
10 9 (8.41%) Route 53
11 8 (7.48%) AWS Fargate
11 8 (7.48%) SaaS
11 8 (7.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (6.54%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (6.54%) GCP
13 6 (5.61%) AWS CloudTrail
13 6 (5.61%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) FTP
2 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.93%) Network Security
2 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (28.04%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (20.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (15.89%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (11.21%) DynamoDB
4 12 (11.21%) MongoDB
5 9 (8.41%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (7.48%) MySQL
7 6 (5.61%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.67%) InfluxDB
8 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.74%) Informix
9 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.80%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.93%) GIS
11 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (13.08%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.28%) Git
3 10 (9.35%) GitLab
4 9 (8.41%) JIRA
5 6 (5.61%) CircleCI
6 5 (4.67%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.74%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.80%) Selenium
9 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.87%) Snyk
10 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.93%) Maven
10 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.93%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.63%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.48%) Finance
4 3 (2.80%) Marketing
5 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Banking
6 1 (0.93%) Games
6 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (29.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (25.23%) Developer
3 26 (24.30%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (21.50%) Senior
5 15 (14.02%) AWS DevOps
5 15 (14.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 14 (13.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) Architect
7 8 (7.48%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Automation Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Security Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (31.78%) AWS CDK
2 16 (14.95%) Node.js
3 12 (11.21%) React
4 11 (10.28%) ADO
5 8 (7.48%) RESTful
6 6 (5.61%) CSS
6 6 (5.61%) HTML
6 6 (5.61%) OAuth
7 5 (4.67%) JSON
7 5 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (4.67%) REST
7 5 (4.67%) YAML
8 4 (3.74%) SpaCy
8 4 (3.74%) Spring
8 4 (3.74%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.80%) Kafka
9 3 (2.80%) OAuth2
9 3 (2.80%) PyTorch
9 3 (2.80%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.02%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (9.35%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.67%) Replication
4 3 (2.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) IoT
5 2 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (28.97%) Linux
2 15 (14.02%) Ubuntu
3 11 (10.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (8.41%) Windows
5 4 (3.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.87%) Unix
7 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.93%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (57.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 49 (45.79%) DevOps
3 44 (41.12%) Agile
4 42 (39.25%) CI/CD
5 21 (19.63%) Kanban
6 20 (18.69%) Scrum
7 18 (16.82%) Containerisation
8 15 (14.02%) ETL
9 14 (13.08%) Artificial Intelligence
9 14 (13.08%) Roadmaps
10 13 (12.15%) Mentoring
11 12 (11.21%) Code Quality
11 12 (11.21%) Community of Practice
11 12 (11.21%) Microservices
11 12 (11.21%) Migration
11 12 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.28%) Code Coverage
12 11 (10.28%) Software Delivery
12 11 (10.28%) User Experience
13 10 (9.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (39.25%) Python
2 34 (31.78%) TypeScript
3 17 (15.89%) Bash
4 16 (14.95%) Java
4 16 (14.95%) SQL
5 15 (14.02%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.54%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.74%) Groovy
8 3 (2.80%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.87%) Go
9 2 (1.87%) PHP
9 2 (1.87%) Ruby
10 1 (0.93%) Bicep
10 1 (0.93%) C#
10 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.48%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.67%) Degree
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) CISSP
6 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.02%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.74%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.87%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) NIST
3 2 (1.87%) SLA
4 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 36 (33.64%) Docker
2 11 (10.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (45.79%) Terraform
2 37 (34.58%) Kubernetes
3 26 (24.30%) Grafana
4 22 (20.56%) Ansible
5 8 (7.48%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.54%) Kibana
6 7 (6.54%) Puppet
7 6 (5.61%) Packer
8 4 (3.74%) Consul
9 3 (2.80%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.80%) Salt
10 2 (1.87%) Nagios
10 2 (1.87%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.93%) CASB
11 1 (0.93%) Graylog
11 1 (0.93%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.93%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (8.41%) Oracle
2 6 (5.61%) Red Hat
2 6 (5.61%) Salesforce
2 6 (5.61%) Splunk
3 4 (3.74%) Google
3 4 (3.74%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.80%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.80%) Databricks
4 3 (2.80%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.87%) Commvault
5 2 (1.87%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.87%) Qualys
5 2 (1.87%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.87%) VMware
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.93%) New Relic
6 1 (0.93%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) Sitecore