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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 288 407
Rank change year-on-year -87 +119 -59
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 275 250 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.90% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 2.36% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 188 76
10th Percentile £400 £392 £384
25th Percentile £441 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -1.18% -7.61%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £656
90th Percentile £675 £683 £769
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.61 - -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.90% - -
75th Percentile £69.82 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.90% - -

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 15,857 10,575 11,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.37% 38.12% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,574 7,170 7,575
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £532
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 246 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.38 £15.98
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £69.75 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
% change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% -3.61%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -73 156 £550 -8.33% 157
North of England -66 48 £605 +47.92% 65
North West -41 33 £600 +50.00% 36
South West -30 20 £475 -20.00% 17
Midlands -34 20 £488 -15.22% 27
South East -51 19 £568 +29.83% 20
West Midlands -40 15 £488 -15.22% 15
Yorkshire -52 11 £650 +33.33% 20
East Midlands -11 5 £466 -33.50% 12
North East -38 4 £500 +20.12% 9
East of England -25 2 £463 +85.00% 2
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 10 (3.64%) Confluence
2 9 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.82%) Apache
4 4 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.73%) nginx
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.73%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.36%) Traefik
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 271 (98.55%) AWS
2 111 (40.36%) Serverless
3 101 (36.73%) Azure
4 94 (34.18%) AWS Lambda
5 89 (32.36%) Amazon S3
6 87 (31.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 79 (28.73%) GCP
8 63 (22.91%) Amazon EKS
8 63 (22.91%) GitHub
9 58 (21.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 56 (20.36%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (19.27%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (16.36%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (9.45%) AWS Step Functions
15 22 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (8.00%) AWS KMS
16 20 (7.27%) Datadog
17 18 (6.55%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (5.45%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.73%) Firewall
2 22 (8.00%) DNS
3 11 (4.00%) Network Security
3 11 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.27%) WAN
5 8 (2.91%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.55%) DHCP
7 5 (1.82%) SSL
8 4 (1.45%) HTTP
8 4 (1.45%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.45%) VPN
9 3 (1.09%) CTI
10 2 (0.73%) BGP
10 2 (0.73%) Internet
11 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.36%) MPLS
11 1 (0.36%) OSPF
11 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.73%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (9.09%) DynamoDB
3 20 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (6.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (6.18%) MySQL
5 15 (5.45%) SQL Server
6 14 (5.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (4.36%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (3.64%) Data Lake
9 9 (3.27%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.91%) Redis
11 6 (2.18%) Metadata
12 4 (1.45%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.09%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.09%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.73%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.73%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 67 (24.36%) Jenkins
2 57 (20.73%) GitLab
3 38 (13.82%) Git
4 22 (8.00%) JIRA
5 10 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.55%) JUnit
6 7 (2.55%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.18%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.82%) Snyk
9 4 (1.45%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.45%) Maven
9 4 (1.45%) Spinnaker
10 3 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.09%) Mockito
11 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.73%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.73%) Flyway
11 2 (0.73%) MLflow
11 2 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 85 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.27%) Finance
3 39 (14.18%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.36%) Banking
6 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.82%) Law
7 5 (1.82%) Military
8 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.36%) Automotive
10 1 (0.36%) Front Office
10 1 (0.36%) Games
10 1 (0.36%) German Language
10 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
10 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (18.55%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (17.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (14.55%) Architect
3 40 (14.55%) Senior
4 37 (13.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (11.64%) AWS DevOps
6 27 (9.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 26 (9.45%) Security Engineer
8 24 (8.73%) Data Engineer
9 22 (8.00%) Lead
10 21 (7.64%) Developer
11 18 (6.55%) AWS Architect
12 13 (4.73%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 13 (4.73%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.36%) DBA
13 12 (4.36%) Platform Architect
13 12 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.64%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (91.27%) Terraform
2 31 (11.27%) AWS CDK
3 22 (8.00%) REST
4 17 (6.18%) Kafka
5 13 (4.73%) Node.js
6 12 (4.36%) React
6 12 (4.36%) RESTful
7 11 (4.00%) PySpark
8 10 (3.64%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.27%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.91%) Pandas
10 8 (2.91%) Spring
11 7 (2.55%) Pulumi
11 7 (2.55%) pytest
12 6 (2.18%) FastAPI
12 6 (2.18%) Great Expectations
12 6 (2.18%) OAuth
13 5 (1.82%) Web Services
14 4 (1.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 89 (32.36%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.55%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 15 (5.45%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 12 (4.36%) Replication
6 9 (3.27%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.18%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.82%) Clustering
10 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.09%) Autonomous Agent
12 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.09%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.45%) Linux
2 27 (9.82%) Windows
3 18 (6.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.91%) Unix
5 6 (2.18%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.45%) AIX
7 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (86.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 210 (76.36%) CI/CD
3 167 (60.73%) DevOps
4 89 (32.36%) Agile
5 87 (31.64%) Containerisation
6 75 (27.27%) Observability
7 66 (24.00%) Cloud Security
8 59 (21.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (17.45%) Platform Engineering
9 48 (17.45%) Test Automation
10 43 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (15.27%) Microservices
11 42 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (14.91%) AI
13 38 (13.82%) Infrastructure Automation
14 36 (13.09%) Root Cause Analysis
15 33 (12.00%) High Availability
16 32 (11.64%) Scrum
16 32 (11.64%) Secrets Management
17 31 (11.27%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 140 (50.91%) Python
2 61 (22.18%) Bash
3 50 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 46 (16.73%) SQL
5 41 (14.91%) Java
6 31 (11.27%) Bicep
7 18 (6.55%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.36%) TypeScript
9 11 (4.00%) Go
10 5 (1.82%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.09%) C
11 3 (1.09%) Groovy
11 3 (1.09%) Scala
11 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.73%) R
13 1 (0.36%) C#
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Korn
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 98 (35.64%) Security Cleared
2 87 (31.64%) SC Cleared
3 55 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 31 (11.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.27%) Degree
6 15 (5.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.09%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.36%) CISSP
9 8 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (2.18%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.18%) SAFe Agilist
11 5 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.09%) CISM
13 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.36%) QA
3 11 (4.00%) NIST
4 10 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.91%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.18%) NCSC
7 5 (1.82%) GDPR
8 4 (1.45%) SLA
9 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.09%) WCAG
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 100 (36.36%) Docker
2 7 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Corosync
3 2 (0.73%) Squid
Systems Management
1 118 (42.91%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.45%) Grafana
3 31 (11.27%) Prometheus
4 30 (10.91%) Ansible
5 16 (5.82%) Progress Chef
6 15 (5.45%) Puppet
7 8 (2.91%) Argo
8 6 (2.18%) Istio
9 5 (1.82%) Packer
10 3 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.09%) linkerd
10 3 (1.09%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.73%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.73%) Podman
12 1 (0.36%) Control-M
12 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.18%) Google
3 17 (6.18%) Red Hat
4 15 (5.45%) Splunk
5 11 (4.00%) Databricks
6 10 (3.64%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.91%) Infoblox
7 8 (2.91%) Oracle
8 7 (2.55%) VMware
9 5 (1.82%) Cisco
9 5 (1.82%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.45%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.45%) Teradata
10 4 (1.45%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.09%) Informatica
11 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.09%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.09%) SAP
12 2 (0.73%) IBM