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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 261 377
Rank change year-on-year -93 +116 -34
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 288 269 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.97% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.62% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 205 97
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £675
90th Percentile £671 £688 £777
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £508
% change year-on-year +1.90% +3.35% -4.82%
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 15,927 10,265 11,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.15% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 6,963 7,943
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £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 £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 268 232
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.08 £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 £83.72 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.76 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.08% +11.76% -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 11 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 11 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 -91 168 £550 -8.33% 112
North of England -71 39 £609 +48.27% 48
North West -24 26 £605 +51.25% 24
Midlands -41 22 £481 -16.35% 12
South West -26 20 £525 -12.50% 44
South East -61 20 £570 +0.88% 16
West Midlands -45 18 £488 -4.88% 11
Yorkshire -57 9 £663 +39.47% 11
East of England -22 6 £450 -5.26% 3
East Midlands -7 4 £466 -33.50% 1
North East -40 4 £500 +20.12% 13
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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 12 (4.17%) Confluence
2 10 (3.47%) Apache
3 6 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.04%) 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
1 283 (98.26%) AWS
2 120 (41.67%) Azure
3 112 (38.89%) Serverless
4 93 (32.29%) Amazon S3
4 93 (32.29%) AWS Lambda
5 88 (30.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 79 (27.43%) GCP
7 71 (24.65%) GitHub
8 68 (23.61%) GitHub Actions
9 60 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (19.44%) Amazon ECS
11 55 (19.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 51 (17.71%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
15 23 (7.99%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (6.60%) AWS CloudTrail
16 19 (6.60%) AWS KMS
17 18 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
17 18 (6.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.72%) DNS
2 26 (9.03%) Firewall
3 11 (3.82%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.47%) Network Security
5 9 (3.13%) WAN
6 8 (2.78%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.43%) DHCP
8 6 (2.08%) VPN
9 5 (1.74%) SSL
10 4 (1.39%) HTTP
10 4 (1.39%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.04%) CTI
12 2 (0.69%) BGP
12 2 (0.69%) Internet
13 1 (0.35%) 4G
13 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.35%) LAN
13 1 (0.35%) MPLS
13 1 (0.35%) OSPF
13 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.46%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (4.86%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (4.86%) MySQL
5 13 (4.51%) Data Lake
5 13 (4.51%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (3.82%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.82%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.08%) Redis
9 5 (1.74%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.74%) Metadata
10 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.39%) Big Data
10 4 (1.39%) Mixpanel
10 4 (1.39%) OLTP
10 4 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 78 (27.08%) Jenkins
2 65 (22.57%) GitLab
3 42 (14.58%) Git
4 23 (7.99%) JIRA
5 18 (6.25%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.13%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.78%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.78%) Snyk
8 6 (2.08%) JUnit
8 6 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.39%) Mockito
10 3 (1.04%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.04%) Maven
10 3 (1.04%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.69%) MLflow
11 2 (0.69%) Selenium
12 1 (0.35%) Gradle
12 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 75 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.28%) Public Sector
3 41 (14.24%) Finance
4 16 (5.56%) Banking
5 12 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.39%) Law
9 3 (1.04%) Games
9 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.69%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.69%) Front Office
10 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Military
10 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Aviation
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (19.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (18.40%) AWS Engineer
3 44 (15.28%) Architect
4 40 (13.89%) Senior
5 38 (13.19%) Lead
6 37 (12.85%) AWS DevOps
6 37 (12.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (10.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.33%) Developer
9 21 (7.29%) Security Engineer
10 20 (6.94%) Data Engineer
11 16 (5.56%) AWS Architect
12 15 (5.21%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.82%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 10 (3.47%) Network Engineer
16 9 (3.13%) Scrum Master
17 8 (2.78%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.76%) AWS CDK
2 24 (8.33%) Kafka
3 19 (6.60%) REST
4 17 (5.90%) Node.js
5 16 (5.56%) RESTful
6 14 (4.86%) React
7 13 (4.51%) PySpark
8 10 (3.47%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.13%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.13%) Great Expectations
9 9 (3.13%) Spring
10 8 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.43%) Pandas
12 6 (2.08%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.39%) boto
13 4 (1.39%) OAuth
13 4 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (1.39%) Vue
14 3 (1.04%) Jest
14 3 (1.04%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 96 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.94%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 14 (4.86%) Enterprise Cloud
5 14 (4.86%) Replication
6 12 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 10 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.43%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.74%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.74%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.04%) IVR
12 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.69%) Clustering
13 2 (0.69%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.58%) Linux
2 27 (9.38%) Windows
3 16 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.74%) Unix
4 5 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.39%) AIX
6 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (88.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 224 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 184 (63.89%) DevOps
4 98 (34.03%) Containerisation
5 93 (32.29%) Agile
6 70 (24.31%) Observability
7 53 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (17.71%) Cloud Security
9 46 (15.97%) Platform Engineering
10 44 (15.28%) Microservices
11 41 (14.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (13.89%) Test Automation
13 39 (13.54%) DevSecOps
14 38 (13.19%) AI
14 38 (13.19%) High Availability
15 37 (12.85%) Scrum
16 36 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
17 35 (12.15%) Migration
18 31 (10.76%) Incident Response
18 31 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 147 (51.04%) Python
2 67 (23.26%) Bash
3 58 (20.14%) PowerShell
4 46 (15.97%) SQL
5 37 (12.85%) Java
6 34 (11.81%) Bicep
7 17 (5.90%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.47%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.43%) Go
10 6 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.74%) C#
12 4 (1.39%) Groovy
12 4 (1.39%) Ruby
13 3 (1.04%) R
13 3 (1.04%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.04%) Scala
14 2 (0.69%) C
15 1 (0.35%) C++
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 107 (37.15%) Security Cleared
2 94 (32.64%) SC Cleared
3 50 (17.36%) AWS Certification
4 26 (9.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 18 (6.25%) Degree
6 14 (4.86%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (3.13%) SAFe Agilist
8 8 (2.78%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.74%) CISSP
11 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.99%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.21%) QA
3 12 (4.17%) GDPR
4 10 (3.47%) NIST
5 9 (3.13%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.04%) NCSC
8 3 (1.04%) SLA
8 3 (1.04%) WCAG
9 1 (0.35%) GRC
9 1 (0.35%) HL7
9 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 114 (39.58%) Docker
2 6 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) Squid
4 2 (0.69%) Corosync
4 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 268 (93.06%) Terraform
2 124 (43.06%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.58%) Grafana
4 37 (12.85%) Prometheus
5 35 (12.15%) Ansible
6 13 (4.51%) Puppet
7 12 (4.17%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.13%) Argo
9 7 (2.43%) Istio
10 4 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.39%) linkerd
10 4 (1.39%) Packer
11 3 (1.04%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.69%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.35%) Kibana
13 1 (0.35%) Podman
13 1 (0.35%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.68%) Google
3 16 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 15 (5.21%) Splunk
5 9 (3.13%) Databricks
6 8 (2.78%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.78%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.08%) Oracle
7 6 (2.08%) VMware
8 5 (1.74%) Cisco
8 5 (1.74%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.04%) SAP
10 3 (1.04%) Sybase
10 3 (1.04%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.04%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.69%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.69%) Informatica