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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 51 64
Rank change year-on-year -27 +13 +24
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.11% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.70% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £454
25th Percentile - - £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £588
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -31.91% -16.07%
75th Percentile - - £672
90th Percentile - - £711
England median daily rate £550 £608 £563
% change year-on-year -9.47% +8.00% -6.25%

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 277 142 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.82% 26.01% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 81 220
10th Percentile £194 £188 £206
25th Percentile £339 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £511 £534 £534
90th Percentile £620 £600 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 15
10th Percentile £12.95 £18.27 £10.76
25th Percentile £13.39 £26.30 £12.38
Median hourly rate £16.50 £39.68 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.42% +156.00% -
75th Percentile £24.03 £47.34 £21.25
90th Percentile £38.94 £51.94 £26.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.41 £23.22
% change year-on-year +5.60% +22.38% +0.61%

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 20 January 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 -21 1 £438 +9.38%
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 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk