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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 67 65
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.33% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 0.46% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £423 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £700 £400
Median % change year-on-year -33.50% +75.00% -42.86%
75th Percentile £485 - -
90th Percentile £491 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

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 362 219 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.50% 28.63% 25.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 162 125
10th Percentile £213 £279 £180
25th Percentile £391 £364 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £445
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% -1.24% -1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £588
90th Percentile £656 £551 £642
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 10 6
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.96 £15.08
25th Percentile £14.69 £16.89 £17.01
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.95 £21.66
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% -3.30% +8.30%
75th Percentile £19.03 £21.39 £27.50
90th Percentile £25.75 £21.55 £39.70
England median hourly rate £35.11 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.04% +4.00% -22.86%

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 19 August 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 - 4 £466 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) Snowflake
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (50.00%) dbt
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Big Data
3 1 (25.00%) Flink
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes