AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.29% - 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% - 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.71%
75th Percentile £442 - £606
90th Percentile £445 - £685
England median daily rate £530 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -8.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 311 145 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.55% 28.27% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 102 166
10th Percentile £190 £189 £166
25th Percentile £331 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £540 £521 £525
90th Percentile £625 £550 £644
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 13
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.17 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate £15.49 £14.80 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -16.46% +14.26%
75th Percentile £23.70 £17.19 £27.50
90th Percentile £26.44 £20.68 £32.10
England median hourly rate £37.12 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.85% +29.17% -16.00%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing AWS CloudFormation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 March 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
Northamptonshire - 3 £438 -
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Migration Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
1 3 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 3 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 3 (100.00%) SABSA
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) GRC
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk