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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 259 384
Rank change year-on-year -99 +125 -50
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 284 269 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.97% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 2.62% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 202 98
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £684
90th Percentile £670 £687 £777
UK median daily rate £525 £534 £500
% change year-on-year -1.69% +6.80% -4.76%
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 15,958 10,279 11,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.24% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,654 6,968 8,061
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 267 246
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.10
Median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%

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 1 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 1 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 -83 166 £550 -8.33% 86
North of England -64 37 £617 +51.85% 45
North West -39 24 £605 +57.55% 23
Midlands -38 22 £481 -10.51% 8
South East -50 22 £549 -2.88% 10
South West -29 19 £450 -25.04% 31
West Midlands -50 19 £482 +7.17% 8
Yorkshire -47 9 £663 +47.22% 9
East of England -19 6 £450 -5.26% 4
North East -37 4 £500 +20.12% 13
East Midlands -13 3 £481 -31.29%
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 14 (4.93%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.58%) Apache
2 13 (4.58%) Confluence
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.06%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 277 (97.54%) AWS
2 123 (43.31%) Azure
3 111 (39.08%) Serverless
4 97 (34.15%) Amazon S3
5 93 (32.75%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (28.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 80 (28.17%) GCP
8 71 (25.00%) GitHub
9 67 (23.59%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (20.77%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (19.01%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (17.61%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (16.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 36 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (9.15%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (8.80%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (6.34%) AWS CloudTrail
17 18 (6.34%) AWS CodePipeline
17 18 (6.34%) Datadog
18 14 (4.93%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.86%) DNS
2 27 (9.51%) 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 25 (8.80%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.45%) DynamoDB
3 17 (5.99%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (5.99%) Data Lake
4 14 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.87%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.82%) MySQL
7 7 (2.46%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.46%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.11%) Mixpanel
8 6 (2.11%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.11%) OLAP
8 6 (2.11%) OLTP
8 6 (2.11%) Power BI
9 5 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.76%) Metadata
10 4 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.41%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 76 (26.76%) Jenkins
2 61 (21.48%) GitLab
3 43 (15.14%) Git
4 24 (8.45%) 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
11 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.70%) MLflow
11 2 (0.70%) Selenium
11 2 (0.70%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.35%) Postman
12 1 (0.35%) Vite
General
1 68 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.79%) Finance
3 38 (13.38%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.99%) Banking
5 12 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Law
10 3 (1.06%) Games
10 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
11 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Military
11 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (20.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (17.61%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (15.85%) Architect
4 42 (14.79%) Lead
5 36 (12.68%) Senior
6 35 (12.32%) AWS DevOps
7 34 (11.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 29 (10.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (8.45%) Developer
10 22 (7.75%) Data Engineer
11 19 (6.69%) Security Engineer
12 16 (5.63%) AWS Architect
13 15 (5.28%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 10 (3.52%) Network Engineer
16 9 (3.17%) Infrastructure Architect
16 9 (3.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.56%) AWS CDK
2 29 (10.21%) Kafka
3 21 (7.39%) REST
4 20 (7.04%) Node.js
5 18 (6.34%) RESTful
6 16 (5.63%) React
7 15 (5.28%) PySpark
8 11 (3.87%) Great Expectations
9 10 (3.52%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.17%) ARM Templates
10 9 (3.17%) Spring
11 8 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (2.46%) OAuth
12 7 (2.46%) Pandas
13 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (1.76%) OAuth2
15 4 (1.41%) boto
15 4 (1.41%) Vue
16 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 95 (33.45%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.58%) Enterprise Cloud
4 13 (4.58%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 8 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.46%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.46%) Replication
8 6 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.06%) IVR
11 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.70%) Clustering
12 2 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.44%) Linux
2 27 (9.51%) 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
1 249 (87.68%) Infrastructure as Code
2 219 (77.11%) CI/CD
3 183 (64.44%) DevOps
4 97 (34.15%) Agile
4 97 (34.15%) Containerisation
5 72 (25.35%) Observability
6 54 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (17.61%) Cloud Security
8 46 (16.20%) Platform Engineering
9 44 (15.49%) Microservices
10 40 (14.08%) DevSecOps
11 38 (13.38%) AI
11 38 (13.38%) Scrum
12 36 (12.68%) Test Automation
13 35 (12.32%) Analytics
13 35 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (11.97%) High Availability
14 34 (11.97%) Infrastructure Automation
14 34 (11.97%) Migration
15 33 (11.62%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 147 (51.76%) Python
2 64 (22.54%) Bash
3 52 (18.31%) PowerShell
4 42 (14.79%) SQL
5 33 (11.62%) Bicep
5 33 (11.62%) Java
6 15 (5.28%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.23%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.46%) C#
8 7 (2.46%) Go
9 6 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.41%) Groovy
10 4 (1.41%) Ruby
11 3 (1.06%) R
11 3 (1.06%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.06%) Scala
12 2 (0.70%) C
13 1 (0.35%) C++
13 1 (0.35%) Perl
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (34.86%) Security Cleared
2 86 (30.28%) SC Cleared
3 43 (15.14%) AWS Certification
4 20 (7.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (6.69%) Degree
6 17 (5.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (4.58%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.17%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.17%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.76%) CISSP
11 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.06%) PMI 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%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.39%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.28%) QA
3 12 (4.23%) GDPR
4 11 (3.87%) NIST
5 10 (3.52%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.06%) WCAG
9 2 (0.70%) NCSC
10 1 (0.35%) GRC
10 1 (0.35%) HL7
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.35%) SLA
10 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 111 (39.08%) 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
1 264 (92.96%) Terraform
2 119 (41.90%) Kubernetes
3 45 (15.85%) Grafana
4 40 (14.08%) Prometheus
5 35 (12.32%) Ansible
6 13 (4.58%) Puppet
7 11 (3.87%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.17%) Argo
9 8 (2.82%) Istio
10 5 (1.76%) linkerd
11 4 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.41%) Packer
12 3 (1.06%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
14 1 (0.35%) Kibana
14 1 (0.35%) Podman
14 1 (0.35%) systemd
Vendors
1 29 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.15%) Google
3 15 (5.28%) Red Hat
3 15 (5.28%) Splunk
4 11 (3.87%) Databricks
5 8 (2.82%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.82%) Infoblox
6 6 (2.11%) Oracle
6 6 (2.11%) VMware
7 5 (1.76%) Cisco
7 5 (1.76%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.76%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.41%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.06%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.06%) SAP
9 3 (1.06%) Sybase
9 3 (1.06%) Trend Micro
9 3 (1.06%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.70%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.70%) Informatica