AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 103 117
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +11
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 17 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.16% 0.13% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 0.41% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £410 - £513
25th Percentile £412 - £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% +6.12% +6.99%
75th Percentile £600 - £700
90th Percentile £602 - -
South East median daily rate £530 £650 £571
% change year-on-year -18.46% +13.79% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 586 482 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.97% 31.30% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 301 379
10th Percentile £270 £367 £323
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £570 £565
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +0.88% +4.44%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £488 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -5.34% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £14.75 £20.00 £18.95
25th Percentile £16.48 £27.38 £42.76
Median hourly rate £40.44 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% -32.54% +186.36%
75th Percentile £90.50 £64.73 £79.78
90th Percentile £98.50 - £90.25
South East median hourly rate £19.50 £28.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -32.17% +6.48% +35.00%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Berkshire

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in Berkshire

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Reading +19 9 £594 -8.65% 1
Bracknell - 7 £423 -
Windsor - 1 - -
AWS CloudFormation
South East

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (41.18%) Serverless
3 6 (35.29%) OCI
4 5 (29.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (23.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (23.53%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (23.53%) AWS Control Tower
5 4 (23.53%) AWS KMS
5 4 (23.53%) Azure
5 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
6 3 (17.65%) GitHub
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) DHCP
1 4 (23.53%) DNS
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
1 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (35.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (35.29%) Couchbase
2 6 (35.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Data Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Replication
2 4 (23.53%) PKI
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Unix
3 4 (23.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (58.82%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (41.18%) High Availability
5 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
5 6 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (35.29%) Security Patching
6 5 (29.41%) Migration
7 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
7 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) ITIL
7 4 (23.53%) Network Segmentation
7 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (23.53%) RBAC
7 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
7 4 (23.53%) Runbook
7 4 (23.53%) SIEM
7 4 (23.53%) Threat Detection
7 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Shell Script
3 4 (23.53%) Bash
3 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) AWS Certification
2 8 (47.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
4 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
5 3 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (23.53%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
2 4 (23.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Ansible
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) IBM
2 6 (35.29%) Confluent
3 4 (23.53%) Citrix
3 4 (23.53%) CloudEndure
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) VMware