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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 260 383
Rank change year-on-year -99 +123 -40
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 285 271 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.97% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.62% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 206 97
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £450 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £675
90th Percentile £670 £688 £777
UK median daily rate £535 £528 £508
% change year-on-year +1.42% +3.84% -4.15%
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 15,922 10,336 11,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.14% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,615 7,014 7,944
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 269 232
10th Percentile £15.96 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.67% +11.23% -29.03%

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 10 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 10 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 -92 169 £550 -8.33% 122
North of England -59 37 £617 +50.09% 41
North West -30 24 £605 +51.25% 19
Midlands -36 21 £484 -15.78% 12
South East -59 20 £570 +0.88% 18
South West -33 19 £488 -18.75% 36
West Midlands -40 18 £488 -4.88% 11
Yorkshire -53 9 £663 +39.47% 10
East of England -19 6 £450 -5.26% 3
North East -40 4 £500 +20.12% 12
East Midlands -6 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 12 (4.21%) Apache Spark
1 12 (4.21%) Confluence
2 10 (3.51%) Apache
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.05%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 280 (98.25%) AWS
2 118 (41.40%) Azure
3 111 (38.95%) Serverless
4 93 (32.63%) Amazon S3
5 92 (32.28%) AWS Lambda
6 87 (30.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 77 (27.02%) GCP
8 70 (24.56%) GitHub
9 67 (23.51%) GitHub Actions
10 58 (20.35%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (18.95%) Amazon ECS
11 54 (18.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 50 (17.54%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (8.42%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (8.42%) AWS Step Functions
15 19 (6.67%) AWS KMS
16 18 (6.32%) AWS CloudTrail
16 18 (6.32%) Datadog
17 17 (5.96%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.82%) DNS
2 26 (9.12%) Firewall
3 11 (3.86%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.16%) Network Security
4 9 (3.16%) WAN
5 8 (2.81%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.46%) DHCP
7 6 (2.11%) VPN
8 5 (1.75%) SSL
9 4 (1.40%) HTTP
9 4 (1.40%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.05%) CTI
11 2 (0.70%) BGP
11 2 (0.70%) Internet
12 1 (0.35%) 4G
12 1 (0.35%) 5G
12 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.23%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.42%) DynamoDB
3 20 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (4.91%) MySQL
5 13 (4.56%) Data Lake
5 13 (4.56%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.21%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.86%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.46%) Redis
10 5 (1.75%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.75%) Metadata
11 4 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.40%) Big Data
11 4 (1.40%) Mixpanel
11 4 (1.40%) OLAP
11 4 (1.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 78 (27.37%) Jenkins
2 64 (22.46%) GitLab
3 43 (15.09%) Git
4 23 (8.07%) JIRA
5 18 (6.32%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.16%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.81%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.81%) Snyk
8 6 (2.11%) JUnit
8 6 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.40%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.40%) Mockito
10 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.05%) Maven
10 3 (1.05%) 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 75 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 40 (14.04%) Finance
4 16 (5.61%) Banking
5 12 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.40%) Law
9 3 (1.05%) Games
9 3 (1.05%) 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 (19.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (17.89%) AWS Engineer
3 44 (15.44%) Architect
4 39 (13.68%) Senior
5 38 (13.33%) Lead
6 35 (12.28%) AWS DevOps
6 35 (12.28%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (10.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.42%) Developer
9 19 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 19 (6.67%) Security Engineer
10 16 (5.61%) AWS Architect
11 15 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Network Engineer
14 9 (3.16%) Scrum Master
15 8 (2.81%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.88%) AWS CDK
2 24 (8.42%) Kafka
3 19 (6.67%) REST
4 18 (6.32%) Node.js
5 17 (5.96%) RESTful
6 15 (5.26%) React
7 13 (4.56%) PySpark
8 10 (3.51%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.16%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.16%) Great Expectations
9 9 (3.16%) Spring
10 8 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.46%) Pandas
12 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.11%) OAuth
13 5 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (1.40%) boto
14 4 (1.40%) Vue
15 3 (1.05%) Flask
15 3 (1.05%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 93 (32.63%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.91%) Replication
4 14 (4.91%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 10 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.75%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.05%) IVR
12 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.70%) Clustering
13 2 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.39%) Linux
2 26 (9.12%) Windows
3 15 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.75%) Unix
4 5 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.40%) AIX
6 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (88.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 221 (77.54%) CI/CD
3 182 (63.86%) DevOps
4 97 (34.04%) Containerisation
5 92 (32.28%) Agile
6 68 (23.86%) Observability
7 52 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (17.19%) Cloud Security
9 46 (16.14%) Microservices
10 45 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (14.04%) Test Automation
13 39 (13.68%) DevSecOps
14 38 (13.33%) AI
14 38 (13.33%) High Availability
15 37 (12.98%) Scrum
16 34 (11.93%) Migration
17 33 (11.58%) Infrastructure Automation
18 32 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
19 30 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 146 (51.23%) Python
2 65 (22.81%) Bash
3 56 (19.65%) PowerShell
4 45 (15.79%) SQL
5 36 (12.63%) Java
6 32 (11.23%) Bicep
7 18 (6.32%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.46%) Go
10 6 (2.11%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.75%) C#
12 4 (1.40%) Groovy
12 4 (1.40%) Ruby
13 3 (1.05%) R
13 3 (1.05%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.05%) Scala
14 2 (0.70%) C
15 1 (0.35%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.35%) Korn
15 1 (0.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 105 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 92 (32.28%) SC Cleared
3 48 (16.84%) AWS Certification
4 26 (9.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (6.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 18 (6.32%) Degree
6 12 (4.21%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (3.16%) SAFe Agilist
8 8 (2.81%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.40%) CISSP
12 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.35%) CEH
13 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.07%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.26%) QA
3 12 (4.21%) GDPR
4 10 (3.51%) NIST
5 9 (3.16%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.05%) SLA
8 3 (1.05%) WCAG
9 2 (0.70%) NCSC
10 1 (0.35%) GRC
10 1 (0.35%) HL7
10 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 113 (39.65%) Docker
2 6 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.05%) Squid
4 2 (0.70%) Corosync
4 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 266 (93.33%) Terraform
2 121 (42.46%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.74%) Grafana
4 38 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 35 (12.28%) Ansible
6 13 (4.56%) Puppet
7 11 (3.86%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.16%) Argo
9 7 (2.46%) Istio
10 4 (1.40%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.40%) linkerd
10 4 (1.40%) Packer
11 3 (1.05%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.35%) Control-M
13 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.35%) Kibana
13 1 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 30 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.77%) Google
3 15 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 14 (4.91%) Splunk
5 9 (3.16%) Databricks
6 8 (2.81%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.81%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.11%) Oracle
7 6 (2.11%) VMware
8 5 (1.75%) Cisco
8 5 (1.75%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.40%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.05%) SAP
10 3 (1.05%) Sybase
10 3 (1.05%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.05%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.70%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.70%) CheckPoint