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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 335 349
Rank change year-on-year +63 +14 -60
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 307 190 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.60% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.62% 1.69% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 126 174
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £750 £655
90th Percentile £669 £788 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £84.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +42.86%

All Cloud 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 11,711 11,263 13,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.52% 35.84% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 7,484 10,089
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 151 278
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% +26.84% +18.89%
75th Percentile £49.13 £59.78 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% +12.27% +25.00%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +64 178 £528 -18.85% 46
North of England -8 65 £475 -23.08% 23
Yorkshire -17 31 £500 -23.08% 5
North West -9 30 £447 -5.89% 15
South East +13 21 £450 -30.77% 28
West Midlands -8 12 £575 +15.00% 2
Midlands -20 12 £575 +27.78% 6
South West +5 10 £530 +8.72% 13
East of England - 5 £450 - 2
North East -4 4 £466 -31.85% 3
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 28 (9.12%) Confluence
2 25 (8.14%) nginx
3 15 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (3.91%) Apache Spark
5 11 (3.58%) Apache
6 5 (1.63%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 289 (94.14%) AWS
2 108 (35.18%) Serverless
3 104 (33.88%) AWS Lambda
4 97 (31.60%) Amazon S3
5 82 (26.71%) Azure
6 80 (26.06%) GitHub
7 74 (24.10%) Amazon ECS
8 68 (22.15%) Amazon EC2
9 63 (20.52%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (18.24%) Amazon EKS
11 52 (16.94%) GCP
12 47 (15.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (12.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (9.45%) Datadog
15 26 (8.47%) AWS Fargate
16 24 (7.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (5.86%) Entra ID
19 17 (5.54%) Amazon Kinesis
19 17 (5.54%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.17%) DNS
2 16 (5.21%) Firewall
3 13 (4.23%) VPN
4 9 (2.93%) DHCP
4 9 (2.93%) Network Security
5 6 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.30%) SSL
7 2 (0.65%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.33%) HTTP
8 1 (0.33%) Internet
8 1 (0.33%) NAS
8 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.33%) SAN
8 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (21.50%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (11.40%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (8.47%) DynamoDB
4 25 (8.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (5.54%) Data Lake
7 16 (5.21%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (4.89%) NoSQL
9 13 (4.23%) Relational Database
10 12 (3.91%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.93%) MySQL
12 8 (2.61%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.95%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (1.95%) Couchbase
14 6 (1.95%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.63%) DB2
15 5 (1.63%) Power BI
15 5 (1.63%) Redshift Spectrum
16 3 (0.98%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 90 (29.32%) Jenkins
2 76 (24.76%) Git
3 65 (21.17%) GitLab
4 38 (12.38%) JIRA
5 14 (4.56%) Bitbucket
5 14 (4.56%) JUnit
6 13 (4.23%) Maven
7 11 (3.58%) Artifactory
7 11 (3.58%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (2.28%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.28%) Gradle
10 5 (1.63%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.63%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.63%) Selenium
10 5 (1.63%) Snyk
11 4 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.30%) Postman
11 4 (1.30%) Terragrunt
11 4 (1.30%) webpack
General
1 72 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.26%) Public Sector
3 34 (11.07%) Finance
4 17 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.54%) Banking
5 5 (1.63%) Aerospace
5 5 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (1.63%) Games
6 3 (0.98%) Law
7 2 (0.65%) Aviation
7 2 (0.65%) Legal
7 2 (0.65%) Police
7 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (23.45%) AWS Engineer
2 57 (18.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (14.01%) Senior
4 34 (11.07%) Developer
5 30 (9.77%) Lead
5 30 (9.77%) Platform Engineer
6 28 (9.12%) AWS DevOps
7 27 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (8.47%) Architect
9 24 (7.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 23 (7.49%) Data Engineer
11 17 (5.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.89%) AWS Architect
13 14 (4.56%) AWS Developer
14 13 (4.23%) Security Engineer
14 13 (4.23%) Site Engineer
15 12 (3.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.58%) Consultant
16 11 (3.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (3.58%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.73%) Kafka
2 30 (9.77%) AWS CDK
3 28 (9.12%) Node.js
4 20 (6.51%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (6.51%) RESTful
5 18 (5.86%) React
5 18 (5.86%) Spring
6 15 (4.89%) JSON
7 13 (4.23%) REST
7 13 (4.23%) Spring Boot
8 11 (3.58%) AngularJS
9 9 (2.93%) ARM Templates
9 9 (2.93%) Keycloak
10 8 (2.61%) OAuth
10 8 (2.61%) OpenID
11 7 (2.28%) cloud-init
11 7 (2.28%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.28%) SAML
11 7 (2.28%) Vue
11 7 (2.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (19.22%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.23%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.58%) PKI
4 8 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.28%) Replication
6 6 (1.95%) NHS
7 5 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.63%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.63%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.30%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.98%) SCADA
9 3 (0.98%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (25.41%) Linux
2 17 (5.54%) Unix
3 13 (4.23%) Windows
4 7 (2.28%) CentOS
4 7 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.98%) VMS
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (72.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 215 (70.03%) CI/CD
3 186 (60.59%) DevOps
4 114 (37.13%) Containerisation
5 94 (30.62%) Agile
6 54 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (14.98%) Observability
8 40 (13.03%) Microservices
9 39 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
10 38 (12.38%) DevSecOps
10 38 (12.38%) Migration
11 35 (11.40%) Infrastructure Automation
12 34 (11.07%) Mentoring
13 33 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (10.75%) Test Automation
14 32 (10.42%) Configuration Management
15 29 (9.45%) Cloud Security
16 28 (9.12%) Software Engineering
17 27 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 26 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 147 (47.88%) Python
2 53 (17.26%) Bash
3 39 (12.70%) SQL
4 35 (11.40%) Java
4 35 (11.40%) PowerShell
5 33 (10.75%) Go
6 26 (8.47%) TypeScript
7 23 (7.49%) JavaScript
8 16 (5.21%) Shell Script
9 14 (4.56%) Ruby
10 7 (2.28%) Perl
11 6 (1.95%) C#
12 5 (1.63%) C++
12 5 (1.63%) Groovy
12 5 (1.63%) Scala
13 3 (0.98%) Bicep
13 3 (0.98%) PromQL
14 2 (0.65%) C
15 1 (0.33%) PHP
15 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 103 (33.55%) Security Cleared
2 84 (27.36%) SC Cleared
3 52 (16.94%) AWS Certification
4 20 (6.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (4.23%) Degree
6 11 (3.58%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.63%) CISSP
10 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.65%) CCSP
12 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.33%) CISM
13 1 (0.33%) OCP
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.45%) GDPR
2 18 (5.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (5.86%) QA
3 13 (4.23%) NIST
4 12 (3.91%) NCSC
5 10 (3.26%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.26%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.61%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 136 (44.30%) Docker
2 15 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) HDFS
5 1 (0.33%) iptables
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 273 (88.93%) Terraform
2 137 (44.63%) Kubernetes
3 69 (22.48%) Ansible
4 44 (14.33%) Grafana
5 35 (11.40%) Prometheus
6 33 (10.75%) Packer
7 26 (8.47%) Puppet
8 22 (7.17%) Consul
9 16 (5.21%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (2.28%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (1.63%) Podman
13 2 (0.65%) Argo
13 2 (0.65%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.65%) Istio
13 2 (0.65%) Nessus
13 2 (0.65%) Salt
13 2 (0.65%) SELinux
14 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.33%) Bitnami
Vendors
1 20 (6.51%) Splunk
2 17 (5.54%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.91%) IBM
3 12 (3.91%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.58%) Databricks
5 10 (3.26%) Google
6 8 (2.61%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (2.28%) Alibaba
7 7 (2.28%) Confluent
7 7 (2.28%) Okta
8 6 (1.95%) PagerDuty
8 6 (1.95%) VMware
9 5 (1.63%) Oracle
9 5 (1.63%) Sybase
10 4 (1.30%) CloudEndure
11 3 (0.98%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.98%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.65%) Cisco
12 2 (0.65%) Teradata