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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 258 396
Rank change year-on-year -92 +138 -56
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 288 262 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.96% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 2.57% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 191 105
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £460 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £629 £675
90th Percentile £670 £681 £778
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £507
% change year-on-year -0.94% +4.54% -3.43%
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 15,743 10,190 11,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.43% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,552 6,893 8,511
10th Percentile £325 £313 £312
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 268 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -37.14%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -58 183 £550 -8.33% 36
North of England -83 26 £623 +52.76% 24
Midlands -41 22 £477 +6.00% 7
South West -27 20 £450 -25.00% 11
South East -44 19 £549 -2.88% 13
West Midlands -48 19 £477 +6.00% 5
North West -48 16 £603 +50.63% 9
Yorkshire -48 9 £663 +32.50% 5
East of England -21 6 £450 -5.26%
East Midlands -10 3 £447 -36.14% 2
North East -34 1 - - 10
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 18 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.56%) Apache
3 15 (5.21%) Confluence
4 6 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.04%) SAS
7 2 (0.69%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.69%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 282 (97.92%) AWS
2 113 (39.24%) Azure
3 107 (37.15%) Serverless
4 105 (36.46%) Amazon S3
5 89 (30.90%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 76 (26.39%) GCP
8 66 (22.92%) GitHub
9 62 (21.53%) GitHub Actions
10 60 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
11 59 (20.49%) Amazon ECS
12 52 (18.06%) Amazon EC2
13 49 (17.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
17 23 (7.99%) AWS Step Functions
18 19 (6.60%) Route 53
19 16 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
20 14 (4.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.07%) DNS
1 29 (10.07%) Firewall
2 14 (4.86%) Network Security
3 11 (3.82%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.82%) WAN
4 9 (3.13%) VPN
5 8 (2.78%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.43%) DHCP
7 4 (1.39%) BGP
7 4 (1.39%) HTTP
7 4 (1.39%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.39%) SSL
8 3 (1.04%) CTI
8 3 (1.04%) OSPF
8 3 (1.04%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.69%) Internet
9 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.35%) 4G
10 1 (0.35%) LAN
10 1 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.72%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (7.64%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.60%) Data Lake
4 18 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (5.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.47%) BigQuery
8 9 (3.13%) Mixpanel
8 9 (3.13%) Power BI
9 8 (2.78%) OLAP
9 8 (2.78%) OLTP
10 7 (2.43%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.43%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.43%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.74%) Metadata
12 5 (1.74%) Redshift Spectrum
13 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 74 (25.69%) Jenkins
2 55 (19.10%) GitLab
3 39 (13.54%) Git
4 26 (9.03%) JIRA
5 17 (5.90%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.78%) Snyk
6 8 (2.78%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.43%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.04%) Vite
9 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.69%) JUnit
9 2 (0.69%) MLflow
9 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.69%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.35%) git-flow
10 1 (0.35%) Maven
10 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 72 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 39 (13.54%) Finance
4 15 (5.21%) Banking
5 14 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.39%) Law
10 3 (1.04%) Games
10 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.69%) Front Office
11 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Military
11 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
12 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (19.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (19.10%) AWS Engineer
3 50 (17.36%) Architect
4 42 (14.58%) Lead
5 36 (12.50%) Senior
6 35 (12.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (11.81%) AWS DevOps
8 29 (10.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (8.33%) Data Engineer
9 24 (8.33%) Developer
10 18 (6.25%) AWS Architect
11 14 (4.86%) Security Engineer
12 13 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.82%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (3.47%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (3.47%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.81%) AWS CDK
2 28 (9.72%) Kafka
3 22 (7.64%) Node.js
4 16 (5.56%) PySpark
5 15 (5.21%) React
5 15 (5.21%) REST
5 15 (5.21%) RESTful
6 14 (4.86%) Great Expectations
7 12 (4.17%) OAuth
8 8 (2.78%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.78%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (2.43%) Pandas
10 6 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (1.74%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.74%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.39%) boto
12 4 (1.39%) JWT
12 4 (1.39%) OpenID
12 4 (1.39%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 101 (35.07%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.43%) Replication
9 6 (2.08%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.04%) IVR
12 3 (1.04%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.69%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.50%) Linux
2 26 (9.03%) Windows
3 12 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.39%) AIX
6 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.69%) Unix
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (85.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 224 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 184 (63.89%) DevOps
4 98 (34.03%) Containerisation
5 85 (29.51%) Agile
6 68 (23.61%) Observability
7 53 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (14.58%) AI
10 41 (14.24%) Microservices
11 38 (13.19%) DevSecOps
11 38 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (12.85%) Cloud Security
13 36 (12.50%) Analytics
13 36 (12.50%) High Availability
14 35 (12.15%) Migration
15 34 (11.81%) Mentoring
15 34 (11.81%) Scrum
16 32 (11.11%) Machine Learning
16 32 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 146 (50.69%) Python
2 54 (18.75%) Bash
3 45 (15.63%) PowerShell
4 40 (13.89%) SQL
5 27 (9.38%) Java
6 26 (9.03%) Bicep
7 16 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.82%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.47%) C#
10 9 (3.13%) Go
11 5 (1.74%) Ruby
12 4 (1.39%) Groovy
13 3 (1.04%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.04%) Scala
13 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.69%) C
14 2 (0.69%) R
15 1 (0.35%) C++
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 86 (29.86%) SC Cleared
3 42 (14.58%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 16 (5.56%) Degree
6 12 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.13%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (2.78%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.04%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.69%) CISSP
12 2 (0.69%) PMP
12 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.60%) GDPR
3 14 (4.86%) NIST
3 14 (4.86%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.17%) QA
5 10 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.04%) GRC
8 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.35%) HL7
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.35%) NCSC
9 1 (0.35%) SLA
9 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 107 (37.15%) Docker
2 4 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) Squid
4 2 (0.69%) Corosync
4 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 270 (93.75%) Terraform
2 106 (36.81%) Kubernetes
3 39 (13.54%) Prometheus
4 37 (12.85%) Grafana
5 32 (11.11%) Ansible
6 12 (4.17%) Puppet
7 9 (3.13%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.43%) Argo
8 7 (2.43%) Istio
9 6 (2.08%) linkerd
9 6 (2.08%) Packer
10 4 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.04%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.69%) Consul
12 2 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.69%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (9.72%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.03%) Google
3 16 (5.56%) Databricks
4 15 (5.21%) Splunk
5 12 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.78%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.08%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.08%) Oracle
7 6 (2.08%) VMware
8 5 (1.74%) Cisco
8 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.74%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.74%) SAP
9 4 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.04%) Sybase
10 3 (1.04%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.04%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.69%) Globalscape
11 2 (0.69%) IBM
11 2 (0.69%) OpenAI