AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 52 57
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 11 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.68% 1.12% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.74% 3.73% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £353 - £400
25th Percentile £361 - £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £640 £403
Median % change year-on-year -32.85% +59.01% -
75th Percentile £458 - £527
90th Percentile £491 - £601
North West median daily rate £488 £550 £544
% change year-on-year -11.36% +1.15% +6.10%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 232 134 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.42% 29.98% 36.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 87 134
10th Percentile £312 £302 £265
25th Percentile £357 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.55% +2.32% -
75th Percentile £494 £570 £525
90th Percentile £600 £638 £586
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 16
10th Percentile - £21.05 £17.26
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £19.86
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% +21.75% -8.08%
75th Percentile £25.31 £64.17 £43.75
90th Percentile £59.08 £82.50 -
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +76.53% +15.14% -58.00%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Cheshire

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Cheshire over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in Cheshire

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 3 February 2026. 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
Knutsford -22 10 £430 -32.85% 2
AWS CloudFormation
North West

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Datadog
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) GitLab
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) CircleCI
3 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) e-Learning
1 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Coaching
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Observability
5 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (18.18%) High Availability
6 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 3 (27.27%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) Perl
4 2 (18.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) IBM Certification
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 2 (18.18%) Grafana
4 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) IBM