AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 274 371
Rank change year-on-year -55 +97 -55
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 294 223 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.90% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% 2.39% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 166 118
10th Percentile £400 £400 £422
25th Percentile £445 £475 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £636 £675
90th Percentile £669 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.84% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,992 9,332 11,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.79% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,162 6,351 8,561
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £512 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.89% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 233 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.01 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.17% +16.33% -38.21%
75th Percentile £69.10 £37.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in England

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in England

AWS CloudFormation
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS CloudFormation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
London -38 204 £573 -4.58% 63
North of England -71 23 £591 +43.76% 28
Midlands -46 19 £463 -15.91% 4
South West -17 18 £450 -25.00% 21
West Midlands -50 15 £477 -4.60% 3
North West -38 14 £581 +45.25% 18
South East -52 11 £485 -14.25% 22
Yorkshire -54 9 £663 +32.50% 8
East of England -29 6 £450 -10.00%
East Midlands -20 4 £442 -36.82% 1
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 21 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 19 (6.46%) Apache
3 13 (4.42%) Confluence
4 5 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.02%) SAS
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 286 (97.28%) AWS
2 110 (37.41%) Amazon S3
2 110 (37.41%) Serverless
3 101 (34.35%) Azure
4 94 (31.97%) AWS Lambda
5 84 (28.57%) GitHub
6 82 (27.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 71 (24.15%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (23.47%) Amazon ECS
9 68 (23.13%) Amazon EKS
9 68 (23.13%) GCP
10 49 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
10 49 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 32 (10.88%) AWS CodePipeline
12 30 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (5.78%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (5.44%) Route 53
16 14 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 13 (4.42%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.50%) DNS
2 17 (5.78%) Firewall
3 13 (4.42%) Network Security
4 9 (3.06%) WAN
5 7 (2.38%) VPN
6 4 (1.36%) HTTP
6 4 (1.36%) SSL
6 4 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.02%) BGP
7 3 (1.02%) OSPF
7 3 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.02%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.68%) Internet
9 1 (0.34%) 4G
9 1 (0.34%) 5G
9 1 (0.34%) CTI
9 1 (0.34%) LAN
9 1 (0.34%) MPLS
9 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.20%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (7.48%) Amazon Athena
2 22 (7.48%) Data Lake
3 21 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (6.80%) DynamoDB
5 18 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.08%) BigQuery
6 12 (4.08%) Mixpanel
6 12 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.08%) Power BI
7 11 (3.74%) OLAP
7 11 (3.74%) OLTP
8 10 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.72%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.72%) Redis
9 8 (2.72%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.38%) MySQL
11 6 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.70%) Metadata
12 5 (1.70%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 75 (25.51%) Jenkins
2 60 (20.41%) GitLab
3 42 (14.29%) Git
4 24 (8.16%) JIRA
5 16 (5.44%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.06%) Snyk
7 8 (2.72%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.38%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.02%) JUnit
9 3 (1.02%) Vite
10 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.68%) MLflow
10 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.68%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.34%) git-flow
11 1 (0.34%) Mockito
11 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 77 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.29%) Finance
3 39 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.44%) Banking
5 10 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.70%) Law
9 3 (1.02%) Games
9 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.68%) Front Office
10 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Marketing
10 2 (0.68%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Local Government
11 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (20.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (19.39%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (14.63%) Architect
4 39 (13.27%) Lead
5 36 (12.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (12.24%) Senior
6 35 (11.90%) AWS DevOps
7 30 (10.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 29 (9.86%) Data Engineer
9 24 (8.16%) Developer
10 21 (7.14%) AWS Architect
11 18 (6.12%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (4.42%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (4.42%) Security Engineer
13 11 (3.74%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (3.74%) Principal Data Engineer
13 11 (3.74%) Software Engineer
14 10 (3.40%) Lead Data Engineer
15 9 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
15 9 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.61%) Kafka
2 36 (12.24%) AWS CDK
3 23 (7.82%) Node.js
4 22 (7.48%) RESTful
5 19 (6.46%) OAuth
6 17 (5.78%) Great Expectations
6 17 (5.78%) PySpark
6 17 (5.78%) React
7 16 (5.44%) REST
8 13 (4.42%) OAuth2
9 12 (4.08%) Spring
9 12 (4.08%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (3.06%) OpenID
13 7 (2.38%) boto
13 7 (2.38%) Pandas
14 6 (2.04%) .NET
14 6 (2.04%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 108 (36.73%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 21 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.38%) Replication
5 7 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.04%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.70%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.70%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.36%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.36%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.02%) Equities
9 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.88%) Linux
2 17 (5.78%) Windows
3 9 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.02%) Unix
4 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (83.67%) CI/CD
2 243 (82.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 186 (63.27%) DevOps
4 101 (34.35%) Containerisation
5 82 (27.89%) Agile
6 80 (27.21%) Observability
7 55 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (16.33%) Microservices
9 46 (15.65%) AI
9 46 (15.65%) DevSecOps
10 42 (14.29%) Analytics
11 40 (13.61%) High Availability
12 38 (12.93%) Platform Engineering
13 35 (11.90%) Data Engineering
13 35 (11.90%) Incident Response
13 35 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
14 34 (11.56%) Event-Driven
14 34 (11.56%) Mentoring
14 34 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (11.22%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 134 (45.58%) Python
2 54 (18.37%) SQL
3 41 (13.95%) Java
4 36 (12.24%) Bash
5 29 (9.86%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.46%) Bicep
7 17 (5.78%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.42%) C#
9 12 (4.08%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.72%) Go
11 5 (1.70%) Ruby
12 4 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.02%) Groovy
13 3 (1.02%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.02%) Scala
14 2 (0.68%) C
15 1 (0.34%) Perl
15 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 88 (29.93%) Security Cleared
2 76 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 42 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (5.44%) Degree
5 15 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (3.40%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.06%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.38%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.70%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.36%) CISSP
11 4 (1.36%) IBM Certification
12 3 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.02%) CCSP
12 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.52%) GDPR
2 24 (8.16%) NIST
3 22 (7.48%) Data Quality
3 22 (7.48%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (5.44%) QA
5 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.36%) GRC
6 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.68%) NCSC
7 2 (0.68%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) HL7
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 114 (38.78%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.02%) Squid
3 2 (0.68%) Corosync
3 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 269 (91.50%) Terraform
2 113 (38.44%) Kubernetes
3 38 (12.93%) Ansible
3 38 (12.93%) Prometheus
4 35 (11.90%) Grafana
5 10 (3.40%) Puppet
6 8 (2.72%) Argo
6 8 (2.72%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.38%) Istio
7 7 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.04%) linkerd
9 5 (1.70%) Packer
10 4 (1.36%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.02%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.68%) Consul
12 2 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.68%) Karpenter
12 2 (0.68%) Kibana
12 2 (0.68%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
Vendors
1 24 (8.16%) Google
2 21 (7.14%) Databricks
3 18 (6.12%) Splunk
4 16 (5.44%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.06%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.38%) Oracle
7 6 (2.04%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.04%) IBM
8 5 (1.70%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.70%) New Relic
8 5 (1.70%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.70%) SAP
9 4 (1.36%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.36%) Sybase
10 3 (1.02%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.02%) Qualys
10 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.02%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.02%) Zscaler