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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 288 356
Rank change year-on-year +43 +68 -60
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 359 196 201
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 0.77% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.74% 2.05% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 146 145
10th Percentile £400 £397 £425
25th Percentile £450 £502 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £650
90th Percentile £690 £788 £733
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%
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 13,125 9,545 12,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.52% 37.60% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,072 6,450 8,996
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £408 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 147 318
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.36 £14.21
25th Percentile £19.98 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £27.50 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year +40.15% +28.03% -14.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.28 £74.45 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.91% -14.00%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +37 226 £550 -9.47% 48
North of England -39 58 £500 -23.08% 25
North West -10 34 £500 -9.09% 12
South East -11 29 £488 -25.00% 14
Yorkshire -52 19 £500 -29.82% 8
Midlands -46 15 £450 -5.26% 10
South West -12 12 £563 +2.27% 9
West Midlands -47 12 £575 +21.05% 8
North East -12 5 £466 -31.85% 5
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 2
East of England - 2 £600 -
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 29 (8.08%) Apache Spark
2 28 (7.80%) Apache
3 19 (5.29%) Confluence
4 16 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (4.18%) nginx
6 4 (1.11%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Actimize
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 347 (96.66%) AWS
2 131 (36.49%) Serverless
3 126 (35.10%) Amazon S3
4 125 (34.82%) AWS Lambda
5 101 (28.13%) Amazon ECS
6 99 (27.58%) Azure
6 99 (27.58%) GitHub
7 77 (21.45%) GCP
8 76 (21.17%) Amazon EKS
8 76 (21.17%) GitHub Actions
9 72 (20.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 70 (19.50%) Amazon EC2
11 61 (16.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 41 (11.42%) AWS CodePipeline
13 32 (8.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 31 (8.64%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (7.24%) AWS KMS
16 23 (6.41%) Datadog
17 22 (6.13%) Route 53
18 20 (5.57%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.19%) DNS
2 22 (6.13%) Firewall
3 15 (4.18%) VPN
4 14 (3.90%) Network Security
5 9 (2.51%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.23%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.39%) DHCP
8 3 (0.84%) HTTP
8 3 (0.84%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.84%) WAN
9 2 (0.56%) BGP
9 2 (0.56%) OSPF
10 1 (0.28%) 4G
10 1 (0.28%) 5G
10 1 (0.28%) Internet
10 1 (0.28%) NAS
10 1 (0.28%) SAN
10 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (18.11%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (9.75%) Data Lake
4 33 (9.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 29 (8.08%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (6.13%) DynamoDB
7 18 (5.01%) Power BI
8 17 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (4.74%) NoSQL
8 17 (4.74%) SQL Server
9 15 (4.18%) BigQuery
9 15 (4.18%) Mixpanel
10 14 (3.90%) OLAP
10 14 (3.90%) OLTP
11 11 (3.06%) MongoDB
12 10 (2.79%) MySQL
13 8 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (2.23%) Redis
13 8 (2.23%) Redshift Spectrum
13 8 (2.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 89 (24.79%) Jenkins
2 78 (21.73%) Git
3 72 (20.06%) GitLab
4 29 (8.08%) JIRA
5 19 (5.29%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.79%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.51%) JUnit
7 9 (2.51%) Maven
7 9 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.23%) Snyk
9 7 (1.95%) Gradle
9 7 (1.95%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.95%) Terragrunt
10 5 (1.39%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.39%) Selenium
11 4 (1.11%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.11%) Postman
11 4 (1.11%) webpack
12 3 (0.84%) Vite
13 1 (0.28%) MLflow
General
1 82 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.55%) Public Sector
3 52 (14.48%) Finance
4 20 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.29%) Banking
6 10 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.39%) Law
10 4 (1.11%) Games
11 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Marketing
12 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Advertising
13 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.28%) Billing
13 1 (0.28%) Military
13 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (19.22%) AWS Engineer
2 63 (17.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 52 (14.48%) Architect
4 45 (12.53%) Lead
5 41 (11.42%) Senior
6 38 (10.58%) Data Engineer
7 37 (10.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (8.36%) AWS DevOps
9 29 (8.08%) AWS Architect
10 28 (7.80%) Developer
11 25 (6.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 21 (5.85%) Cloud Architect
12 21 (5.85%) Security Engineer
13 20 (5.57%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (5.57%) Site Engineer
14 19 (5.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (5.01%) Software Engineer
16 13 (3.62%) Principal Engineer
17 12 (3.34%) Principal Data Engineer
18 11 (3.06%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.38%) Kafka
2 29 (8.08%) RESTful
3 28 (7.80%) AWS CDK
3 28 (7.80%) Node.js
4 23 (6.41%) Elastic Stack
4 23 (6.41%) Spring
5 22 (6.13%) Spring Boot
6 19 (5.29%) React
6 19 (5.29%) REST
7 17 (4.74%) OAuth
8 15 (4.18%) Great Expectations
9 12 (3.34%) OAuth2
10 10 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (2.51%) JSON
11 9 (2.51%) OpenID
11 9 (2.51%) PySpark
12 8 (2.23%) .NET
12 8 (2.23%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.23%) boto
13 7 (1.95%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 95 (26.46%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.79%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.79%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.79%) Replication
5 8 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.95%) NHS
6 7 (1.95%) PKI
7 6 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.39%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.39%) SCADA
8 5 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.11%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (23.40%) Linux
2 22 (6.13%) Windows
3 18 (5.01%) Unix
4 3 (0.84%) CentOS
4 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.84%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (81.06%) CI/CD
2 276 (76.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 207 (57.66%) DevOps
4 112 (31.20%) Containerisation
5 95 (26.46%) Agile
6 85 (23.68%) Observability
7 57 (15.88%) Microservices
8 50 (13.93%) Migration
9 49 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (13.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 48 (13.37%) AI
11 47 (13.09%) Analytics
12 46 (12.81%) Technical Leadership
13 44 (12.26%) DevSecOps
14 43 (11.98%) Platform Engineering
14 43 (11.98%) Software Engineering
15 42 (11.70%) Infrastructure Automation
16 41 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (11.42%) Data Engineering
16 41 (11.42%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 184 (51.25%) Python
2 65 (18.11%) SQL
3 56 (15.60%) Java
4 54 (15.04%) Bash
5 30 (8.36%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.57%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.57%) Ruby
7 18 (5.01%) C#
7 18 (5.01%) Go
7 18 (5.01%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.18%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.34%) Bicep
10 5 (1.39%) Perl
10 5 (1.39%) Scala
11 2 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.28%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.28%) Groovy
12 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.28%) Rust
12 1 (0.28%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 108 (30.08%) Security Cleared
2 91 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 74 (20.61%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (4.74%) Degree
6 15 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.62%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.06%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.23%) CISSP
10 7 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.39%) CCSP
11 5 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.11%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.84%) SANS
13 3 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.81%) GDPR
2 28 (7.80%) NIST
3 27 (7.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (6.41%) Data Quality
5 19 (5.29%) QA
6 18 (5.01%) PCI DSS
7 14 (3.90%) NCSC
8 8 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.67%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.39%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.11%) GRC
11 4 (1.11%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.84%) SLA
13 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 149 (41.50%) Docker
2 6 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.39%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 320 (89.14%) Terraform
2 141 (39.28%) Kubernetes
3 68 (18.94%) Ansible
4 43 (11.98%) Grafana
5 37 (10.31%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.85%) Puppet
7 18 (5.01%) Packer
8 15 (4.18%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.62%) Consul
10 6 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.39%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.11%) Argo
12 4 (1.11%) Kibana
12 4 (1.11%) Podman
13 3 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.56%) Istio
14 2 (0.56%) linkerd
14 2 (0.56%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 32 (8.91%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.08%) Databricks
2 29 (8.08%) Google
3 26 (7.24%) Splunk
4 13 (3.62%) IBM
5 11 (3.06%) Oracle
6 10 (2.79%) CloudEndure
7 9 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.23%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.95%) Citrix
9 7 (1.95%) Confluent
10 6 (1.67%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.67%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.39%) New Relic
11 5 (1.39%) Sybase
11 5 (1.39%) VMware
12 4 (1.11%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.11%) Qualys
12 4 (1.11%) Tenable
13 3 (0.84%) Ping Identity