AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the South East

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 193 190
Rank change year-on-year +44 -3 +28
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 5 14 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.16% 0.25% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 1.06% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 21
10th Percentile £527 £483 £425
25th Percentile £529 £494 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £609 £528 £638
90th Percentile £616 £534 £675
England median daily rate £569 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +3.41% -4.35% -4.17%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 971 1,322 1,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.09% 23.30% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 895 1,206
10th Percentile £250 £275 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £660 £675 £714
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 57 51
10th Percentile £15.10 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.55 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £59.95 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +52.81%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the South East

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the South East

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. 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
Hampshire +33 3 £580 - 20
Thames Valley +23 1 - - 41
Berkshire +19 1 - - 28
Surrey - 1 £550 - 9
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Akamai
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (20.00%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (40.00%) Vue
2 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) BCP
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell KACE
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) New Relic
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Ubiquiti
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