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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 274 402
Rank change year-on-year -100 +128 -65
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 279 256 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.92% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 2.38% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 192 80
10th Percentile £400 £400 £399
25th Percentile £440 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £675
90th Percentile £700 £687 £781
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £512
% change year-on-year +2.14% +2.59% -4.12%
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 16,067 10,775 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.60% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,693 7,284 7,497
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 260 159
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.99 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -63 163 £547 -4.87% 175
North of England -65 46 £603 +43.45% 65
North West -40 33 £600 +50.00% 32
South East -57 21 £572 +30.74% 25
South West -28 18 £475 -13.64% 11
Midlands -35 18 £488 -15.22% 23
West Midlands -45 13 £488 -15.22% 12
Yorkshire -50 9 £638 +27.50% 21
East Midlands -7 5 £466 -33.50% 11
North East -41 4 £500 +20.12% 12
East of England -29 1 £400 +60.00% 6
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 11 (3.94%) Confluence
2 9 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.51%) Apache
4 5 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.08%) nginx
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.72%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.72%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.36%) Traefik
7 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 274 (98.21%) AWS
2 115 (41.22%) Serverless
3 98 (35.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 97 (34.77%) Azure
5 95 (34.05%) AWS Lambda
6 87 (31.18%) Amazon S3
7 80 (28.67%) GCP
8 73 (26.16%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (24.73%) GitHub
10 68 (24.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 62 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
12 59 (21.15%) GitHub Actions
13 51 (18.28%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (11.83%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (8.60%) AWS KMS
16 23 (8.24%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (7.89%) AWS Step Functions
18 21 (7.53%) AWS CloudTrail
19 20 (7.17%) Datadog
20 15 (5.38%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.68%) Firewall
2 25 (8.96%) DNS
3 15 (5.38%) Network Security
4 13 (4.66%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.94%) WAN
6 8 (2.87%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.51%) DHCP
8 6 (2.15%) VPN
9 5 (1.79%) SSL
10 4 (1.43%) BGP
10 4 (1.43%) HTTP
10 4 (1.43%) Internet
10 4 (1.43%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.08%) CTI
11 3 (1.08%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.36%) LAN
13 1 (0.36%) MPLS
13 1 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.05%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (7.53%) DynamoDB
4 19 (6.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 18 (6.45%) MySQL
5 18 (6.45%) SQL Server
6 17 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (5.73%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (3.58%) Data Lake
11 9 (3.23%) Redis
12 8 (2.87%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.51%) Metadata
14 5 (1.79%) Delta Lake
14 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
15 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
16 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database 12c
16 2 (0.72%) Power BI
16 2 (0.72%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 70 (25.09%) Jenkins
2 56 (20.07%) GitLab
3 35 (12.54%) Git
4 25 (8.96%) JIRA
5 10 (3.58%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.51%) JUnit
7 6 (2.15%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.43%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.43%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.43%) Maven
8 4 (1.43%) Snyk
8 4 (1.43%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.08%) Mockito
9 3 (1.08%) Selenium
10 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.72%) Flyway
10 2 (0.72%) MLflow
General
1 88 (31.54%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.85%) Finance
3 39 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.94%) Banking
6 7 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.79%) Law
9 4 (1.43%) Military
10 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Automotive
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) German Language
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Publishing
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (19.00%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (17.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (15.41%) Architect
4 42 (15.05%) Senior
5 39 (13.98%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (12.19%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (10.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 25 (8.96%) Security Engineer
9 22 (7.89%) Data Engineer
10 21 (7.53%) AWS Architect
11 19 (6.81%) Developer
11 19 (6.81%) Lead
12 16 (5.73%) DBA
13 13 (4.66%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 12 (4.30%) Administrator
14 12 (4.30%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (4.30%) Network Engineer
14 12 (4.30%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.94%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (92.47%) Terraform
2 36 (12.90%) AWS CDK
3 25 (8.96%) REST
4 19 (6.81%) Kafka
5 11 (3.94%) pytest
5 11 (3.94%) React
6 10 (3.58%) FastAPI
6 10 (3.58%) RESTful
6 10 (3.58%) Spring Boot
7 9 (3.23%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (3.23%) Spring
8 8 (2.87%) Node.js
8 8 (2.87%) PySpark
9 7 (2.51%) Pulumi
10 5 (1.79%) Flask
10 5 (1.79%) OAuth
10 5 (1.79%) Pandas
10 5 (1.79%) Web Services
11 4 (1.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 90 (32.26%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.09%) Security Posture
4 14 (5.02%) Replication
5 13 (4.66%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.30%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.58%) AI Agents
7 10 (3.58%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.15%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.79%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.28%) Linux
2 29 (10.39%) Windows
3 16 (5.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.87%) Unix
5 6 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.43%) AIX
7 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (87.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 218 (78.14%) CI/CD
3 170 (60.93%) DevOps
4 97 (34.77%) Agile
5 89 (31.90%) Containerisation
6 78 (27.96%) Observability
7 73 (26.16%) Cloud Security
8 67 (24.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (19.35%) Test Automation
10 52 (18.64%) Platform Engineering
11 47 (16.85%) AI
11 47 (16.85%) Microservices
12 46 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (16.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 42 (15.05%) Infrastructure Automation
14 37 (13.26%) Root Cause Analysis
15 35 (12.54%) High Availability
15 35 (12.54%) Migration
16 34 (12.19%) Data Modelling
17 33 (11.83%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 143 (51.25%) Python
2 66 (23.66%) Bash
3 53 (19.00%) PowerShell
4 49 (17.56%) SQL
5 42 (15.05%) Java
6 29 (10.39%) Bicep
7 17 (6.09%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.66%) Go
9 11 (3.94%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.79%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.08%) C
11 3 (1.08%) Groovy
11 3 (1.08%) Scala
11 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.72%) C#
12 2 (0.72%) R
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Korn
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 103 (36.92%) Security Cleared
2 94 (33.69%) SC Cleared
3 63 (22.58%) AWS Certification
4 32 (11.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.17%) Degree
6 16 (5.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.02%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.30%) CISSP
9 7 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.51%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (2.15%) SAFe Agilist
11 5 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.08%) CISM
13 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.96%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.38%) QA
3 11 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.23%) NIST
5 8 (2.87%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.15%) GDPR
6 6 (2.15%) NCSC
7 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.08%) SLA
7 3 (1.08%) WCAG
8 1 (0.36%) GLBA
8 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 110 (39.43%) Docker
2 8 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.72%) Squid
Systems Management
1 128 (45.88%) Kubernetes
2 38 (13.62%) Grafana
3 32 (11.47%) Prometheus
4 29 (10.39%) Ansible
5 18 (6.45%) Progress Chef
6 16 (5.73%) Puppet
7 8 (2.87%) Argo
8 6 (2.15%) Istio
9 5 (1.79%) Packer
10 3 (1.08%) linkerd
11 2 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.72%) Podman
12 1 (0.36%) Control-M
12 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.36%) QRadar
12 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (11.47%) Google
2 30 (10.75%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.73%) Databricks
3 16 (5.73%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.02%) Splunk
5 10 (3.58%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.58%) Oracle
6 8 (2.87%) Infoblox
7 7 (2.51%) VMware
8 5 (1.79%) Cisco
8 5 (1.79%) Teradata
9 4 (1.43%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.43%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.08%) Informatica
10 3 (1.08%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.72%) Brio
11 2 (0.72%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.72%) Sybase