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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 266 380
Rank change year-on-year -96 +114 -42
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 284 270 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.98% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 2.63% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 206 96
10th Percentile £400 £400 £403
25th Percentile £450 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £678
90th Percentile £673 £688 £778
UK median daily rate £526 £528 £504
% change year-on-year -0.28% +4.66% -4.00%
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 16,045 10,267 11,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.19% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,703 6,965 7,967
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £421 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 267 241
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £83.64 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.17
% change year-on-year +26.67% +14.34% -30.96%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -89 167 £550 -8.33% 112
North of England -77 37 £617 +50.09% 41
North West -33 24 £605 +51.25% 20
Midlands -36 22 £481 -16.35% 10
South East -50 20 £570 +0.88% 16
South West -35 19 £488 -18.75% 36
West Midlands -41 19 £482 -5.90% 9
Yorkshire -51 9 £663 +39.47% 10
East of England -18 6 £450 -5.26% 3
North East -41 4 £500 +20.12% 11
East Midlands -8 3 £481 -31.29% 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 13 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.23%) Confluence
3 11 (3.87%) Apache
4 6 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.06%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 279 (98.24%) AWS
2 121 (42.61%) Azure
3 111 (39.08%) Serverless
4 94 (33.10%) Amazon S3
5 92 (32.39%) AWS Lambda
6 84 (29.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 79 (27.82%) GCP
8 70 (24.65%) GitHub
9 67 (23.59%) GitHub Actions
10 58 (20.42%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (19.01%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (17.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 50 (17.61%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (8.80%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (8.45%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (6.34%) AWS CloudTrail
17 18 (6.34%) Datadog
18 17 (5.99%) AWS CodePipeline
19 16 (5.63%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.86%) DNS
2 26 (9.15%) Firewall
3 11 (3.87%) Network Security
3 11 (3.87%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.17%) WAN
5 8 (2.82%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.46%) DHCP
6 7 (2.46%) VPN
7 5 (1.76%) SSL
8 4 (1.41%) HTTP
8 4 (1.41%) NetScaler
9 3 (1.06%) CTI
10 2 (0.70%) BGP
10 2 (0.70%) Internet
11 1 (0.35%) 4G
11 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.35%) LAN
11 1 (0.35%) MPLS
11 1 (0.35%) OSPF
11 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.21%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.45%) DynamoDB
3 17 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (4.93%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.87%) MySQL
6 11 (3.87%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.52%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.17%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.11%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.76%) Metadata
11 5 (1.76%) Mixpanel
11 5 (1.76%) OLAP
11 5 (1.76%) OLTP
11 5 (1.76%) Power BI
12 4 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (27.46%) Jenkins
2 64 (22.54%) GitLab
3 43 (15.14%) Git
4 23 (8.10%) JIRA
5 18 (6.34%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.17%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.82%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.82%) Snyk
8 6 (2.11%) JUnit
8 6 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.41%) Mockito
10 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.06%) Maven
10 3 (1.06%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.70%) MLflow
11 2 (0.70%) Selenium
12 1 (0.35%) Gradle
12 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 73 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.08%) Finance
2 40 (14.08%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.63%) Banking
4 12 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.41%) Law
9 3 (1.06%) Games
9 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.70%) Front Office
10 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Military
10 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Aviation
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (19.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (17.96%) AWS Engineer
3 46 (16.20%) Architect
4 39 (13.73%) Lead
5 36 (12.68%) Senior
6 35 (12.32%) AWS DevOps
6 35 (12.32%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (10.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.45%) Developer
9 20 (7.04%) Data Engineer
10 19 (6.69%) Security Engineer
11 17 (5.99%) AWS Architect
12 15 (5.28%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 10 (3.52%) Network Engineer
15 9 (3.17%) Infrastructure Architect
15 9 (3.17%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.92%) AWS CDK
2 25 (8.80%) Kafka
3 19 (6.69%) REST
4 18 (6.34%) Node.js
5 17 (5.99%) RESTful
6 15 (5.28%) React
7 13 (4.58%) PySpark
8 10 (3.52%) Great Expectations
8 10 (3.52%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.17%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.17%) Spring
10 8 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.46%) Pandas
12 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.11%) OAuth
13 5 (1.76%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (1.41%) boto
14 4 (1.41%) Vue
15 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
15 3 (1.06%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 94 (33.10%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.93%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.58%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 11 (3.87%) Replication
8 10 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.46%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.76%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.76%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.06%) IVR
13 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.70%) Clustering
14 2 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.44%) Linux
2 26 (9.15%) Windows
3 15 (5.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.76%) Unix
4 5 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.41%) AIX
6 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (88.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 220 (77.46%) CI/CD
3 183 (64.44%) DevOps
4 97 (34.15%) Containerisation
5 92 (32.39%) Agile
6 70 (24.65%) Observability
7 52 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (17.61%) Cloud Security
9 45 (15.85%) Microservices
9 45 (15.85%) Platform Engineering
10 40 (14.08%) DevSecOps
11 39 (13.73%) AI
11 39 (13.73%) Test Automation
12 38 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (13.03%) Scrum
14 36 (12.68%) High Availability
15 34 (11.97%) Infrastructure Automation
15 34 (11.97%) Migration
16 32 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (10.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 146 (51.41%) Python
2 65 (22.89%) Bash
3 55 (19.37%) PowerShell
4 43 (15.14%) SQL
5 35 (12.32%) Java
6 32 (11.27%) Bicep
7 17 (5.99%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.52%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.46%) Go
10 6 (2.11%) C#
10 6 (2.11%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.41%) Groovy
11 4 (1.41%) Ruby
12 3 (1.06%) R
12 3 (1.06%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.06%) Scala
13 2 (0.70%) C
14 1 (0.35%) C++
14 1 (0.35%) Perl
14 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (35.92%) Security Cleared
2 89 (31.34%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.55%) AWS Certification
4 24 (8.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (6.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 18 (6.34%) Degree
6 13 (4.58%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (3.17%) SAFe Agilist
8 8 (2.82%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.76%) CISSP
11 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.39%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.28%) QA
3 13 (4.58%) GDPR
4 11 (3.87%) NIST
5 9 (3.17%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.06%) WCAG
9 2 (0.70%) NCSC
9 2 (0.70%) SLA
10 1 (0.35%) GRC
10 1 (0.35%) HL7
10 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 113 (39.79%) Docker
2 6 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.06%) Squid
4 2 (0.70%) Corosync
4 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 265 (93.31%) Terraform
2 121 (42.61%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.79%) Grafana
4 38 (13.38%) Prometheus
5 35 (12.32%) Ansible
6 13 (4.58%) Puppet
7 11 (3.87%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.17%) Argo
9 7 (2.46%) Istio
10 4 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.41%) linkerd
10 4 (1.41%) Packer
11 3 (1.06%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.35%) Kibana
13 1 (0.35%) Podman
13 1 (0.35%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.15%) Google
3 15 (5.28%) Red Hat
4 14 (4.93%) Splunk
5 10 (3.52%) Databricks
6 8 (2.82%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.82%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.11%) Oracle
7 6 (2.11%) VMware
8 5 (1.76%) Cisco
8 5 (1.76%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.76%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.41%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.06%) SAP
10 3 (1.06%) Sybase
10 3 (1.06%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.06%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.70%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.70%) Teradata