AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 83 107
Rank change year-on-year -22 +24 +15
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.052% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.37% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £738 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £775 £675
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +14.81% +29.81%
75th Percentile - £813 £713
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £530 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -12.32% +9.91% -8.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 402 268 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.97% 26.88% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 162 193
10th Percentile £203 £203 £185
25th Percentile £361 £320 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £563
90th Percentile £688 £675 £652
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 53
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.95 £14.48
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.46 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +19.22% +2.86%
75th Percentile £41.56 £30.00 £21.46
90th Percentile £60.00 £71.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £37.54 £26.81 £21.37
% change year-on-year +40.01% +25.47% -14.52%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in the East of England

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £600 - 1
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Sumo Logic
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CloudEndure