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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 299 346
Rank change year-on-year +47 +47 -60
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 324 194 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.72% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.68% 1.95% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 146 153
10th Percentile £400 £380 £425
25th Percentile £458 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £614 £568
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +8.15% -5.42%
75th Percentile £629 £738 £675
90th Percentile £693 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £545
% change year-on-year -10.26% +7.34% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - -

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 12,082 9,927 12,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.04% 36.82% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,365 6,613 8,879
10th Percentile £302 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 136 236
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -0.57%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.81 £50.40
90th Percentile £76.96 £68.75 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +1.82% +19.57% +2.22%

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 15 January 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 15 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
London +37 190 £556 -14.42% 48
North of England -15 65 £500 -20.95% 28
North West -9 34 £475 -2.56% 7
South East +2 26 £530 -18.46% 40
Yorkshire -37 26 £500 -28.57% 19
South West -11 12 £563 +2.27% 14
West Midlands -24 12 £575 +15.00% 9
Midlands -28 12 £575 +24.32% 12
North East -8 5 £466 -31.85% 2
East of England - 2 £600 - 14
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 19 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.56%) Apache
3 16 (4.94%) Confluence
4 15 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (4.32%) nginx
6 6 (1.85%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 310 (95.68%) AWS
2 122 (37.65%) Serverless
3 118 (36.42%) AWS Lambda
4 107 (33.02%) Amazon S3
5 103 (31.79%) GitHub
6 91 (28.09%) Amazon ECS
7 87 (26.85%) Azure
8 79 (24.38%) GitHub Actions
9 67 (20.68%) Amazon EKS
10 64 (19.75%) Amazon EC2
11 62 (19.14%) GCP
12 54 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (16.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 30 (9.26%) Datadog
15 29 (8.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 28 (8.64%) AWS CodePipeline
17 25 (7.72%) AWS KMS
18 21 (6.48%) Amazon SQS
19 20 (6.17%) AWS CloudTrail
19 20 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.57%) DNS
2 18 (5.56%) Firewall
3 13 (4.01%) VPN
4 10 (3.09%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.85%) Network Security
6 5 (1.54%) DHCP
6 5 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.23%) HTTP
8 3 (0.93%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.62%) Internet
9 2 (0.62%) SSL
10 1 (0.31%) NAS
10 1 (0.31%) SAN
10 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (20.06%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (8.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 25 (7.72%) Data Lake
5 23 (7.10%) DynamoDB
6 20 (6.17%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (5.56%) NoSQL
8 15 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (4.01%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.70%) Power BI
11 11 (3.40%) MongoDB
12 10 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (3.09%) MySQL
13 9 (2.78%) BigQuery
13 9 (2.78%) Mixpanel
13 9 (2.78%) OLAP
13 9 (2.78%) OLTP
14 7 (2.16%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
15 6 (1.85%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 92 (28.40%) Jenkins
2 72 (22.22%) Git
2 72 (22.22%) GitLab
3 27 (8.33%) JIRA
4 14 (4.32%) Bitbucket
5 11 (3.40%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.09%) Maven
6 10 (3.09%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (2.78%) JUnit
8 8 (2.47%) Gradle
8 8 (2.47%) Snyk
8 8 (2.47%) Terragrunt
9 7 (2.16%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.85%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.85%) Selenium
11 5 (1.54%) Postman
11 5 (1.54%) webpack
12 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
General
1 69 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 50 (15.43%) Finance
4 18 (5.56%) Banking
5 14 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.85%) Law
8 5 (1.54%) Games
8 5 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Legal
10 2 (0.62%) Marketing
10 2 (0.62%) Police
11 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.31%) Aviation
11 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.31%) Military
11 1 (0.31%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (20.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (20.06%) AWS Engineer
3 41 (12.65%) Architect
4 39 (12.04%) Senior
5 34 (10.49%) Lead
6 30 (9.26%) AWS DevOps
6 30 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (9.26%) Data Engineer
7 27 (8.33%) Developer
8 25 (7.72%) AWS Architect
8 25 (7.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.56%) Security Engineer
11 17 (5.25%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (5.25%) Site Engineer
12 16 (4.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (4.63%) Software Engineer
14 13 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.40%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.28%) Kafka
2 28 (8.64%) AWS CDK
2 28 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (8.33%) Node.js
4 25 (7.72%) RESTful
5 21 (6.48%) Spring
6 20 (6.17%) Spring Boot
7 19 (5.86%) React
8 17 (5.25%) REST
9 10 (3.09%) JSON
10 9 (2.78%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.78%) Great Expectations
11 8 (2.47%) ARM Templates
11 8 (2.47%) Vue
11 8 (2.47%) YAML
12 7 (2.16%) Django
12 7 (2.16%) FastAPI
12 7 (2.16%) Flask
12 7 (2.16%) OAuth
12 7 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 72 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.78%) PKI
4 9 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 7 (2.16%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.16%) NHS
5 7 (2.16%) Replication
6 6 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.23%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.93%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.93%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.93%) SCADA
10 2 (0.62%) Equities
10 2 (0.62%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 85 (26.23%) Linux
2 19 (5.86%) Unix
3 17 (5.25%) Windows
4 5 (1.54%) CentOS
4 5 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.93%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (78.70%) CI/CD
2 249 (76.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 192 (59.26%) DevOps
4 109 (33.64%) Containerisation
5 79 (24.38%) Agile
6 74 (22.84%) Observability
7 51 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (14.81%) Microservices
9 45 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 43 (13.27%) Infrastructure Automation
11 42 (12.96%) DevSecOps
12 40 (12.35%) Platform Engineering
13 37 (11.42%) Migration
13 37 (11.42%) Software Engineering
14 35 (10.80%) AI
14 35 (10.80%) Incident Response
14 35 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
15 34 (10.49%) Cloud Security
15 34 (10.49%) Configuration Management
16 33 (10.19%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 168 (51.85%) Python
2 59 (18.21%) Bash
3 52 (16.05%) Java
4 50 (15.43%) SQL
5 30 (9.26%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.72%) Go
7 20 (6.17%) Ruby
7 20 (6.17%) TypeScript
8 19 (5.86%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.63%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.40%) C#
11 6 (1.85%) Perl
12 5 (1.54%) Bicep
13 4 (1.23%) Scala
14 3 (0.93%) C
15 1 (0.31%) C++
15 1 (0.31%) Groovy
15 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.31%) PHP
15 1 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 100 (30.86%) Security Cleared
2 81 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 59 (18.21%) AWS Certification
4 21 (6.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (4.94%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.70%) Degree
7 9 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.16%) CISSP
9 5 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.54%) MCP
10 4 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.23%) CCSP
10 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.93%) OSCP
11 3 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.80%) GDPR
2 23 (7.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (6.48%) NIST
4 18 (5.56%) QA
5 15 (4.63%) NCSC
6 14 (4.32%) Data Quality
7 12 (3.70%) PCI DSS
8 8 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.54%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.54%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.93%) SLA
10 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.31%) GRC
12 1 (0.31%) MiFID
System Software
1 135 (41.67%) Docker
2 7 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.54%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.62%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 288 (88.89%) Terraform
2 135 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 80 (24.69%) Ansible
4 49 (15.12%) Grafana
5 36 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.41%) Puppet
7 19 (5.86%) Packer
8 17 (5.25%) Progress Chef
9 11 (3.40%) Consul
10 6 (1.85%) Podman
11 5 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (1.54%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.23%) Kibana
13 3 (0.93%) Argo
13 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.62%) Istio
14 2 (0.62%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.31%) Bitnami
15 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.31%) linkerd
Vendors
1 23 (7.10%) Splunk
2 22 (6.79%) Google
2 22 (6.79%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.48%) Databricks
4 12 (3.70%) IBM
5 10 (3.09%) CloudEndure
5 10 (3.09%) Oracle
6 8 (2.47%) PagerDuty
6 8 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.16%) Citrix
7 7 (2.16%) Confluent
8 6 (1.85%) VMware
9 5 (1.54%) Okta
10 4 (1.23%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.23%) New Relic
10 4 (1.23%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.23%) Sybase
10 4 (1.23%) Tenable
11 3 (0.93%) Cisco
11 3 (0.93%) Qualys