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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 262 383
Rank change year-on-year -91 +121 -46
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 282 266 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.97% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 2.59% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 198 98
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £689
90th Percentile £670 £688 £780
UK median daily rate £525 £546 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.20% -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 15,836 10,274 11,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.35% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,572 6,952 8,104
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 268 254
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.10
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.48 £49.69
90th Percentile £84.50 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%

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 30 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 30 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 -89 164 £561 -6.46% 64
North of England -63 36 £620 +52.71% 36
North West -38 24 £605 +57.55% 17
South East -52 23 £530 -6.28% 13
Midlands -44 22 £481 -10.51% 8
South West -26 19 £450 -25.04% 22
West Midlands -52 19 £482 +7.17% 8
Yorkshire -54 9 £663 +32.50% 7
East of England -17 6 £450 -5.26% 3
East Midlands -9 3 £481 -31.29%
North East -44 3 £500 +20.12% 12
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 (4.96%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.61%) Confluence
3 12 (4.26%) Apache
4 5 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.06%) SAS
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
8 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
1 276 (97.87%) AWS
2 122 (43.26%) Azure
3 110 (39.01%) Serverless
4 96 (34.04%) Amazon S3
5 92 (32.62%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (28.72%) GCP
7 80 (28.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 68 (24.11%) GitHub
9 65 (23.05%) GitHub Actions
10 61 (21.63%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (19.15%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (17.38%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 34 (12.06%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (9.22%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (8.87%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (6.38%) AWS CodePipeline
17 18 (6.38%) Datadog
18 17 (6.03%) AWS CloudTrail
19 13 (4.61%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.93%) Firewall
2 27 (9.57%) DNS
3 11 (3.90%) Network Security
3 11 (3.90%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.19%) WAN
5 8 (2.84%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.48%) DHCP
6 7 (2.48%) VPN
7 4 (1.42%) HTTP
7 4 (1.42%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.42%) SSL
8 3 (1.06%) CTI
9 2 (0.71%) BGP
9 2 (0.71%) Internet
10 1 (0.35%) 4G
10 1 (0.35%) 5G
10 1 (0.35%) LAN
10 1 (0.35%) MPLS
10 1 (0.35%) OSPF
10 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.87%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.51%) DynamoDB
3 17 (6.03%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (6.03%) Data Lake
4 14 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.90%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.84%) MySQL
7 7 (2.48%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.48%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.13%) Mixpanel
8 6 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.13%) OLAP
8 6 (2.13%) OLTP
8 6 (2.13%) Power BI
9 5 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.42%) Metadata
10 4 (1.42%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 74 (26.24%) Jenkins
2 59 (20.92%) GitLab
3 42 (14.89%) Git
4 24 (8.51%) JIRA
5 18 (6.38%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.19%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.84%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.84%) Snyk
8 6 (2.13%) JUnit
9 5 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.42%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.42%) Mockito
11 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.71%) Maven
12 2 (0.71%) MLflow
12 2 (0.71%) Selenium
12 2 (0.71%) Spinnaker
13 1 (0.35%) Postman
13 1 (0.35%) Vite
General
1 69 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.25%) Finance
3 39 (13.83%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.03%) Banking
5 12 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.42%) Law
9 3 (1.06%) Games
9 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Military
10 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.35%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (19.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (17.73%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (15.96%) Architect
4 42 (14.89%) Lead
5 35 (12.41%) Senior
6 34 (12.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (11.70%) AWS DevOps
8 28 (9.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (8.51%) Developer
10 21 (7.45%) Data Engineer
11 19 (6.74%) Security Engineer
12 16 (5.67%) AWS Architect
13 15 (5.32%) Lead DevOps
14 13 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
15 12 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 10 (3.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 10 (3.55%) Network Engineer
17 9 (3.19%) Infrastructure Architect
17 9 (3.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.99%) AWS CDK
2 29 (10.28%) Kafka
3 21 (7.45%) REST
4 20 (7.09%) Node.js
5 18 (6.38%) RESTful
6 15 (5.32%) PySpark
6 15 (5.32%) React
7 11 (3.90%) Great Expectations
8 10 (3.55%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.19%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.19%) Spring
10 8 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.84%) OAuth
11 7 (2.48%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (2.48%) Pandas
12 6 (2.13%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.13%) OAuth2
13 4 (1.42%) boto
13 4 (1.42%) Vue
14 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 96 (34.04%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.09%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.61%) Enterprise Cloud
4 13 (4.61%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 9 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.48%) Replication
9 6 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.77%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.42%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.06%) IVR
12 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.71%) Clustering
13 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.18%) Linux
2 28 (9.93%) Windows
3 14 (4.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.42%) AIX
5 4 (1.42%) Unix
6 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (87.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 217 (76.95%) CI/CD
3 180 (63.83%) DevOps
4 98 (34.75%) Containerisation
5 95 (33.69%) Agile
6 72 (25.53%) Observability
7 52 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (17.73%) Cloud Security
9 47 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
10 44 (15.60%) Microservices
11 40 (14.18%) DevSecOps
12 38 (13.48%) AI
12 38 (13.48%) Scrum
13 36 (12.77%) Migration
13 36 (12.77%) Test Automation
14 35 (12.41%) High Availability
14 35 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (12.06%) Analytics
16 33 (11.70%) Infrastructure Automation
17 32 (11.35%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 146 (51.77%) Python
2 63 (22.34%) Bash
3 51 (18.09%) PowerShell
4 41 (14.54%) SQL
5 34 (12.06%) Bicep
6 33 (11.70%) Java
7 15 (5.32%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.26%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.48%) C#
9 7 (2.48%) Go
10 5 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.42%) Groovy
11 4 (1.42%) Ruby
12 3 (1.06%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.06%) Scala
13 2 (0.71%) C
13 2 (0.71%) R
14 1 (0.35%) C++
14 1 (0.35%) Perl
14 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (35.11%) Security Cleared
2 85 (30.14%) SC Cleared
3 43 (15.25%) AWS Certification
4 20 (7.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (6.74%) Degree
6 17 (6.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (4.61%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.19%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.77%) CISSP
11 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.06%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.09%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.32%) QA
3 12 (4.26%) GDPR
4 11 (3.90%) NIST
4 11 (3.90%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.71%) NCSC
7 2 (0.71%) WCAG
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 109 (38.65%) Docker
2 5 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.06%) Squid
4 2 (0.71%) Corosync
4 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 262 (92.91%) Terraform
2 119 (42.20%) Kubernetes
3 44 (15.60%) Grafana
4 39 (13.83%) Prometheus
5 34 (12.06%) Ansible
6 13 (4.61%) Puppet
7 11 (3.90%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.19%) Argo
8 9 (3.19%) Istio
9 6 (2.13%) linkerd
10 4 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.42%) Packer
11 3 (1.06%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.71%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.35%) Kibana
13 1 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.22%) Google
3 16 (5.67%) Splunk
4 14 (4.96%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.90%) Databricks
6 8 (2.84%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.84%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.13%) Oracle
7 6 (2.13%) VMware
8 5 (1.77%) Cisco
8 5 (1.77%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.42%) 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 (0.71%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow