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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 251 341
Rank change year-on-year -11 +90 -27
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 380 241 201
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 0.99% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.69% 2.62% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 188 147
10th Percentile £400 £400 £429
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £675
90th Percentile £692 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.63% -2.27%
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 14,109 9,216 12,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.54% 37.82% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,721 6,497 8,664
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 181 317
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +26.37% -20.08%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.50 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -24.85%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 +7 252 £550 -8.33% 47
North of England -51 50 £550 -17.91% 33
North West -30 27 £575 +35.29% 16
South East -33 25 £530 -8.62% 13
Yorkshire -50 20 £500 -31.03% 8
Midlands -57 18 £450 - 4
West Midlands -45 15 £463 +2.78% 3
South West -16 12 £634 +15.23% 13
East of England -30 5 £525 +5.00% 5
North East -12 3 £575 -23.33% 9
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 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 35 (9.21%) Apache Spark
2 32 (8.42%) Apache
3 22 (5.79%) Confluence
4 15 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.95%) nginx
5 5 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.79%) SAS
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Actimize
1 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 367 (96.58%) AWS
2 140 (36.84%) Amazon S3
3 134 (35.26%) Serverless
4 125 (32.89%) AWS Lambda
5 121 (31.84%) Azure
6 109 (28.68%) GitHub
7 100 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
8 89 (23.42%) GitHub Actions
9 80 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 80 (21.05%) GCP
10 74 (19.47%) Amazon EKS
11 69 (18.16%) Amazon EC2
12 63 (16.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 45 (11.84%) AWS CodePipeline
14 37 (9.74%) Amazon SQS
15 28 (7.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 27 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
17 23 (6.05%) Route 53
18 21 (5.53%) AWS KMS
18 21 (5.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.47%) DNS
2 23 (6.05%) Firewall
3 16 (4.21%) VPN
4 14 (3.68%) Network Security
5 10 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.11%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.32%) DHCP
8 3 (0.79%) HTTP
8 3 (0.79%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.79%) WAN
9 2 (0.53%) BGP
9 2 (0.53%) OSPF
10 1 (0.26%) 4G
10 1 (0.26%) 5G
10 1 (0.26%) Internet
10 1 (0.26%) NAS
10 1 (0.26%) SAN
10 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (14.47%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (10.26%) Data Lake
3 35 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (8.95%) Amazon Athena
5 28 (7.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (5.79%) DynamoDB
7 21 (5.53%) Power BI
8 18 (4.74%) BigQuery
8 18 (4.74%) Mixpanel
9 17 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (4.47%) OLAP
9 17 (4.47%) OLTP
10 16 (4.21%) SQL Server
11 15 (3.95%) NoSQL
12 11 (2.89%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (2.11%) Redis
14 8 (2.11%) Redshift Spectrum
15 7 (1.84%) MySQL
15 7 (1.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (23.16%) Jenkins
2 83 (21.84%) Git
3 72 (18.95%) GitLab
4 31 (8.16%) JIRA
5 18 (4.74%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.63%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.37%) Snyk
8 8 (2.11%) JUnit
9 6 (1.58%) Maven
9 6 (1.58%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.32%) Gradle
10 5 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.32%) Terragrunt
11 4 (1.05%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.05%) Selenium
12 3 (0.79%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.79%) Vite
13 2 (0.53%) Postman
13 2 (0.53%) webpack
14 1 (0.26%) git-flow
General
1 91 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 73 (19.21%) Public Sector
3 57 (15.00%) Finance
4 23 (6.05%) Banking
5 21 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.32%) Games
8 5 (1.32%) Law
9 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.53%) Front Office
10 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.53%) Legal
10 2 (0.53%) Marketing
10 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Billing
11 1 (0.26%) Military
11 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (16.84%) AWS Engineer
2 63 (16.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 58 (15.26%) Architect
4 55 (14.47%) Lead
5 47 (12.37%) Senior
6 38 (10.00%) Data Engineer
7 37 (9.74%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (8.95%) Developer
9 31 (8.16%) AWS DevOps
10 30 (7.89%) AWS Architect
11 26 (6.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 23 (6.05%) Cloud Architect
13 22 (5.79%) Site Engineer
14 21 (5.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 19 (5.00%) Software Engineer
16 17 (4.47%) Principal Engineer
17 16 (4.21%) Security Engineer
18 15 (3.95%) Principal Data Engineer
19 13 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
20 11 (2.89%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (16.32%) Kafka
2 34 (8.95%) Node.js
2 34 (8.95%) RESTful
3 30 (7.89%) AWS CDK
4 26 (6.84%) Spring
5 25 (6.58%) Spring Boot
6 20 (5.26%) Great Expectations
6 20 (5.26%) REST
7 19 (5.00%) React
8 17 (4.47%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (4.47%) OAuth
9 14 (3.68%) PySpark
10 12 (3.16%) OAuth2
10 12 (3.16%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (2.63%) .NET
11 10 (2.63%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.37%) ARM Templates
12 9 (2.37%) boto
13 8 (2.11%) OpenID
13 8 (2.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 113 (29.74%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.47%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.84%) Private Cloud
7 7 (1.84%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.58%) NHS
9 5 (1.32%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.32%) PKI
9 5 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.32%) SCADA
10 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.05%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.05%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 73 (19.21%) Linux
2 20 (5.26%) Windows
3 7 (1.84%) Unix
4 3 (0.79%) VMS
5 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (81.84%) CI/CD
2 294 (77.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 226 (59.47%) DevOps
4 126 (33.16%) Containerisation
5 112 (29.47%) Agile
6 95 (25.00%) Observability
7 62 (16.32%) Microservices
8 58 (15.26%) Analytics
9 52 (13.68%) AI
9 52 (13.68%) DevSecOps
10 51 (13.42%) Infrastructure Automation
10 51 (13.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 49 (12.89%) Migration
12 47 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (12.37%) Data Engineering
12 47 (12.37%) Technical Leadership
13 45 (11.84%) Data Modelling
13 45 (11.84%) ETL
14 43 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (11.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 186 (48.95%) Python
2 76 (20.00%) SQL
3 61 (16.05%) Java
4 56 (14.74%) Bash
5 36 (9.47%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.53%) C#
6 21 (5.53%) Ruby
7 20 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.00%) Bicep
8 19 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.42%) Go
10 7 (1.84%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.32%) Scala
12 3 (0.79%) C
12 3 (0.79%) SAS Macro
13 2 (0.53%) Groovy
13 2 (0.53%) Perl
14 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.26%) R
14 1 (0.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 119 (31.32%) Security Cleared
2 100 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 71 (18.68%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (5.26%) Degree
6 19 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (3.68%) Azure Certification
9 12 (3.16%) DV Cleared
10 11 (2.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (1.58%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (1.58%) CISSP
13 5 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.32%) CCSP
13 5 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.05%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.79%) OSCP
15 3 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (13.16%) GDPR
2 29 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.63%) NIST
3 27 (7.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (5.53%) PCI DSS
5 20 (5.26%) QA
6 11 (2.89%) NCSC
7 8 (2.11%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.32%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.05%) GRC
10 3 (0.79%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.79%) SLA
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.26%) HL7
12 1 (0.26%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.26%) MiFID
12 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 161 (42.37%) Docker
2 7 (1.84%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.53%) HDFS
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.26%) Squid
Systems Management
1 341 (89.74%) Terraform
2 153 (40.26%) Kubernetes
3 66 (17.37%) Ansible
4 49 (12.89%) Grafana
5 45 (11.84%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.74%) Puppet
7 15 (3.95%) Packer
8 13 (3.42%) Consul
9 12 (3.16%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.58%) Argo
12 5 (1.32%) Karpenter
13 4 (1.05%) Istio
13 4 (1.05%) Kibana
13 4 (1.05%) linkerd
14 2 (0.53%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.53%) Podman
15 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 33 (8.68%) Databricks
2 32 (8.42%) Microsoft
3 31 (8.16%) Google
4 26 (6.84%) Splunk
5 11 (2.89%) Oracle
6 10 (2.63%) CloudEndure
7 9 (2.37%) PagerDuty
8 7 (1.84%) Citrix
8 7 (1.84%) IBM
8 7 (1.84%) VMware
9 6 (1.58%) AVEVA
9 6 (1.58%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.58%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.32%) New Relic
10 5 (1.32%) Sybase
11 4 (1.05%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.05%) Qualys
11 4 (1.05%) Tenable
12 3 (0.79%) Ping Identity
13 2 (0.53%) Confluent