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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 297 357
Rank change year-on-year +44 +60 -55
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 345 195 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 0.74% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.74% 1.99% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 144 148
10th Percentile £400 £396 £425
25th Percentile £450 £508 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £610 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.11% +10.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £652
90th Percentile £694 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £535
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.15% -6.39%
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 12,602 9,804 12,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.72% 37.31% 33.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,724 6,501 9,106
10th Percentile £304 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 144 302
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.36
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £58.75 £46.51 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.75 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%

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 5 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 5 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 +35 209 £550 -15.38% 47
North of England -33 60 £500 -23.08% 21
North West -7 35 £475 -13.64% 10
South East -7 28 £488 -25.00% 15
Yorkshire -51 20 £500 -29.82% 11
Midlands -44 15 £575 +21.05% 11
South West -6 14 £563 +2.27% 14
West Midlands -32 12 £575 +21.05% 8
North East -10 5 £466 -31.85%
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 3
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 24 (6.96%) Apache
1 24 (6.96%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.51%) Confluence
3 16 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.64%) nginx
4 5 (1.45%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.58%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Actimize
1 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 330 (95.65%) AWS
2 123 (35.65%) Serverless
3 119 (34.49%) AWS Lambda
4 118 (34.20%) Amazon S3
5 103 (29.86%) GitHub
6 96 (27.83%) Amazon ECS
7 93 (26.96%) Azure
8 77 (22.32%) GitHub Actions
9 75 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
10 74 (21.45%) GCP
11 66 (19.13%) Amazon EC2
12 63 (18.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 59 (17.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 35 (10.14%) AWS CodePipeline
15 31 (8.99%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 27 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (7.83%) Datadog
17 24 (6.96%) AWS KMS
18 20 (5.80%) AWS CloudTrail
18 20 (5.80%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.99%) DNS
2 21 (6.09%) Firewall
3 15 (4.35%) VPN
4 11 (3.19%) Network Security
5 9 (2.61%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.45%) DHCP
8 3 (0.87%) HTTP
8 3 (0.87%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.87%) WAN
9 2 (0.58%) BGP
9 2 (0.58%) OSPF
9 2 (0.58%) SSL
10 1 (0.29%) Internet
10 1 (0.29%) NAS
10 1 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (19.71%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (10.72%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (9.28%) Data Lake
4 31 (8.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 25 (7.25%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (6.38%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.93%) NoSQL
8 16 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (4.64%) Power BI
9 14 (4.06%) SQL Server
10 13 (3.77%) BigQuery
10 13 (3.77%) Mixpanel
11 12 (3.48%) MongoDB
11 12 (3.48%) OLAP
11 12 (3.48%) OLTP
12 10 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (2.90%) MySQL
13 7 (2.03%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.74%) Couchbase
14 6 (1.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 90 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 76 (22.03%) Git
3 70 (20.29%) GitLab
4 30 (8.70%) JIRA
5 13 (3.77%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.90%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.61%) Maven
7 9 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.32%) JUnit
8 8 (2.32%) Terragrunt
9 7 (2.03%) Gradle
9 7 (2.03%) Snyk
9 7 (2.03%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.74%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.45%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.45%) Selenium
12 4 (1.16%) Postman
12 4 (1.16%) webpack
13 3 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 75 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 50 (14.49%) Finance
4 19 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.22%) Banking
6 8 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.45%) Games
7 5 (1.45%) Law
8 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.58%) Legal
9 2 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.29%) Advertising
10 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.29%) Aviation
10 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.29%) Military
10 1 (0.29%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (20.29%) AWS Engineer
2 64 (18.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (13.33%) Architect
4 40 (11.59%) Lead
5 38 (11.01%) Senior
6 37 (10.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (10.72%) Data Engineer
7 30 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
8 29 (8.41%) AWS Architect
8 29 (8.41%) Developer
9 25 (7.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 21 (6.09%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (6.09%) Security Engineer
11 20 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (5.80%) Site Engineer
12 19 (5.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 16 (4.64%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.19%) Lead DevOps
14 11 (3.19%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (2.90%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (18.55%) Kafka
2 27 (7.83%) AWS CDK
2 27 (7.83%) Node.js
3 26 (7.54%) RESTful
4 24 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (6.38%) Spring
6 21 (6.09%) Spring Boot
7 17 (4.93%) React
8 16 (4.64%) REST
9 14 (4.06%) OAuth
10 13 (3.77%) Great Expectations
11 10 (2.90%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.61%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.61%) JSON
12 9 (2.61%) OpenTelemetry
13 8 (2.32%) .NET
13 8 (2.32%) OpenID
13 8 (2.32%) Vue
14 7 (2.03%) Flask
14 7 (2.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (25.51%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.06%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.90%) Private Cloud
4 8 (2.32%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.32%) PKI
4 8 (2.32%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.03%) NHS
5 7 (2.03%) Replication
6 6 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.45%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.45%) SCADA
7 5 (1.45%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.16%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (24.93%) Linux
2 19 (5.51%) Unix
2 19 (5.51%) Windows
3 4 (1.16%) CentOS
3 4 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (79.13%) CI/CD
2 267 (77.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 202 (58.55%) DevOps
4 114 (33.04%) Containerisation
5 85 (24.64%) Agile
6 79 (22.90%) Observability
7 53 (15.36%) Microservices
8 50 (14.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 49 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (12.75%) DevSecOps
10 44 (12.75%) Migration
10 44 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
11 43 (12.46%) AI
11 43 (12.46%) Analytics
11 43 (12.46%) Infrastructure Automation
12 40 (11.59%) Platform Engineering
13 39 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (11.30%) Incident Response
14 38 (11.01%) Software Engineering
15 36 (10.43%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 174 (50.43%) Python
2 59 (17.10%) SQL
3 57 (16.52%) Bash
4 54 (15.65%) Java
5 30 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 22 (6.38%) Go
7 21 (6.09%) JavaScript
8 20 (5.80%) Ruby
9 16 (4.64%) TypeScript
10 15 (4.35%) C#
11 13 (3.77%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.90%) Bicep
13 5 (1.45%) Perl
14 4 (1.16%) Scala
15 3 (0.87%) C
16 1 (0.29%) C++
16 1 (0.29%) Groovy
16 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.29%) PHP
16 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 105 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 88 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 67 (19.42%) AWS Certification
4 23 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (4.35%) Degree
6 14 (4.06%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.90%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.03%) CISSP
9 7 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (1.16%) CCSP
12 4 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.16%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.87%) OSCP
13 3 (0.87%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.75%) GDPR
2 27 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (7.25%) NIST
4 19 (5.51%) Data Quality
4 19 (5.51%) QA
5 18 (5.22%) PCI DSS
6 15 (4.35%) NCSC
7 8 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.74%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.45%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.16%) GRC
11 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.87%) SLA
12 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 143 (41.45%) Docker
2 7 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 307 (88.99%) Terraform
2 142 (41.16%) Kubernetes
3 74 (21.45%) Ansible
4 43 (12.46%) Grafana
5 37 (10.72%) Prometheus
6 21 (6.09%) Puppet
7 19 (5.51%) Packer
8 16 (4.64%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.77%) Consul
10 6 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.45%) Karpenter
11 5 (1.45%) Podman
12 4 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.16%) Kibana
13 3 (0.87%) Argo
14 2 (0.58%) Istio
14 2 (0.58%) linkerd
14 2 (0.58%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.29%) Bitnami
15 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 29 (8.41%) Google
2 28 (8.12%) Splunk
3 27 (7.83%) Databricks
3 27 (7.83%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.77%) IBM
5 10 (2.90%) CloudEndure
5 10 (2.90%) Oracle
6 8 (2.32%) PagerDuty
6 8 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.03%) Citrix
7 7 (2.03%) Confluent
8 6 (1.74%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.74%) Rapid7
8 6 (1.74%) VMware
9 5 (1.45%) New Relic
10 4 (1.16%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.16%) Okta
10 4 (1.16%) Sybase
11 3 (0.87%) Ping Identity
11 3 (0.87%) Tenable