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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 384 339
Rank change year-on-year +104 -45 -49
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 255 146 266
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 0.46% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 1.30% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 92 198
10th Percentile £400 £394 £425
25th Percentile £442 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £554
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -1.85% -7.67%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £787 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £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 10,930 11,274 14,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.69% 35.32% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,377 7,503 10,716
10th Percentile £304 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 158 297
10th Percentile £14.99 £16.21 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%
75th Percentile £43.18 £68.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.03 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.29% +43.64%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +59 142 £563 -2.17% 58
North of England 0 55 £449 -5.58% 42
Yorkshire -6 27 £500 -9.09% 6
North West -5 24 £406 -14.47% 33
South West +28 15 £530 +8.72% 10
South East +15 12 £438 -32.69% 42
Midlands -6 9 £575 +27.78% 11
West Midlands -8 9 £575 +15.00% 11
East of England - 7 £350 - 4
North East +1 4 £416 -32.59% 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 18 (7.06%) Confluence
2 16 (6.27%) nginx
3 6 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.35%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) JBoss
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 237 (92.94%) AWS
2 92 (36.08%) Serverless
3 86 (33.73%) AWS Lambda
4 82 (32.16%) GitHub
5 75 (29.41%) Azure
6 68 (26.67%) Amazon S3
7 59 (23.14%) GitHub Actions
8 58 (22.75%) Amazon ECS
9 57 (22.35%) Amazon EC2
10 53 (20.78%) GCP
11 45 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (15.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (15.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (10.20%) Datadog
15 25 (9.80%) AWS Fargate
16 21 (8.24%) AWS CloudTrail
17 20 (7.84%) Entra ID
18 19 (7.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
19 18 (7.06%) Amazon SQS
20 16 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.02%) DNS
2 19 (7.45%) Firewall
3 16 (6.27%) VPN
4 10 (3.92%) Network Security
5 6 (2.35%) SSL
6 5 (1.96%) DHCP
6 5 (1.96%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.78%) HTTP
7 2 (0.78%) Internet
8 1 (0.39%) NAS
8 1 (0.39%) SAN
8 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.39%) SMS
8 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (21.57%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (10.59%) DynamoDB
4 15 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (5.10%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (3.53%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.14%) MySQL
10 6 (2.35%) Couchbase
10 6 (2.35%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.18%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (0.78%) DB2
12 2 (0.78%) Redis
12 2 (0.78%) Redshift Spectrum
12 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 96 (37.65%) Jenkins
2 62 (24.31%) GitLab
3 57 (22.35%) Git
4 26 (10.20%) JIRA
5 16 (6.27%) Artifactory
6 14 (5.49%) SonarQube
7 11 (4.31%) JUnit
7 11 (4.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (3.92%) Maven
9 9 (3.53%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (2.75%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.35%) CircleCI
11 6 (2.35%) Cypress.io
11 6 (2.35%) Gradle
11 6 (2.35%) Selenium
11 6 (2.35%) Snyk
12 4 (1.57%) Postman
12 4 (1.57%) Terragrunt
12 4 (1.57%) webpack
General
1 52 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.55%) Public Sector
3 23 (9.02%) Finance
4 15 (5.88%) Banking
5 10 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.96%) Games
7 4 (1.57%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.18%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Aviation
9 2 (0.78%) Military
9 2 (0.78%) Police
10 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Law
10 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (21.96%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (18.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (13.73%) Senior
4 31 (12.16%) Lead
4 31 (12.16%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (10.98%) Developer
6 23 (9.02%) Architect
6 23 (9.02%) AWS DevOps
7 22 (8.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (7.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 16 (6.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.88%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.71%) Consultant
12 11 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (4.31%) Security Engineer
12 11 (4.31%) Technical Leader
13 10 (3.92%) AWS Developer
14 9 (3.53%) AWS Architect
14 9 (3.53%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.37%) AWS CDK
2 27 (10.59%) Kafka
3 25 (9.80%) Node.js
4 21 (8.24%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (7.45%) React
6 13 (5.10%) JSON
7 11 (4.31%) RESTful
7 11 (4.31%) Spring
8 9 (3.53%) Keycloak
9 8 (3.14%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.14%) ARM Templates
9 8 (3.14%) OAuth
9 8 (3.14%) OpenID
10 7 (2.75%) cloud-init
10 7 (2.75%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.75%) REST
10 7 (2.75%) SAML
11 6 (2.35%) Jest
11 6 (2.35%) YAML
12 5 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.04%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.31%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.92%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.75%) PKI
4 7 (2.75%) Replication
5 6 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.35%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.96%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.96%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.57%) NHS
8 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.35%) Linux
2 20 (7.84%) Unix
3 11 (4.31%) Windows
4 8 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.75%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (71.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 171 (67.06%) CI/CD
3 160 (62.75%) DevOps
4 100 (39.22%) Containerisation
5 69 (27.06%) Agile
6 43 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (14.90%) Observability
8 36 (14.12%) Migration
9 35 (13.73%) DevSecOps
10 34 (13.33%) Configuration Management
10 34 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
11 30 (11.76%) Mentoring
12 29 (11.37%) Microservices
13 28 (10.98%) Test Automation
14 25 (9.80%) High Availability
14 25 (9.80%) Software Engineering
15 24 (9.41%) Infrastructure Automation
16 23 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (8.24%) Full-Stack Development
18 20 (7.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 128 (50.20%) Python
2 48 (18.82%) Bash
3 37 (14.51%) Go
4 34 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 30 (11.76%) Java
6 28 (10.98%) JavaScript
7 26 (10.20%) Shell Script
8 25 (9.80%) TypeScript
9 22 (8.63%) SQL
10 10 (3.92%) Groovy
11 6 (2.35%) C++
11 6 (2.35%) Ruby
12 5 (1.96%) Perl
13 4 (1.57%) Bicep
13 4 (1.57%) C#
14 3 (1.18%) CodeQL
14 3 (1.18%) PromQL
15 2 (0.78%) C
15 2 (0.78%) Scala
16 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 65 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 37 (14.51%) AWS Certification
4 19 (7.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (4.71%) Degree
6 11 (4.31%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.39%) CISM
11 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.39%) OCP
11 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.39%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.24%) GDPR
2 16 (6.27%) QA
3 12 (4.71%) PCI DSS
4 11 (4.31%) NCSC
4 11 (4.31%) NIST
5 9 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.14%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.57%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.57%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 108 (42.35%) Docker
2 16 (6.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.39%) iptables
Systems Management
1 225 (88.24%) Terraform
2 122 (47.84%) Kubernetes
3 67 (26.27%) Ansible
4 39 (15.29%) Grafana
5 33 (12.94%) Prometheus
6 31 (12.16%) Puppet
7 24 (9.41%) Packer
8 22 (8.63%) Progress Chef
9 14 (5.49%) Consul
10 11 (4.31%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (2.75%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (2.75%) Podman
12 4 (1.57%) HP Fortify
12 4 (1.57%) Nessus
12 4 (1.57%) Salt
13 3 (1.18%) Argo
14 2 (0.78%) Istio
14 2 (0.78%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.78%) SELinux
15 1 (0.39%) Bitnami
Vendors
1 19 (7.45%) Splunk
2 13 (5.10%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.10%) ServiceNow
3 11 (4.31%) IBM
4 7 (2.75%) Alibaba
4 7 (2.75%) Okta
5 6 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (2.35%) Confluent
5 6 (2.35%) Google
6 4 (1.57%) CloudEndure
6 4 (1.57%) Qualys
7 3 (1.18%) Databricks
7 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.18%) Oracle
7 3 (1.18%) VMware
8 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.78%) Cisco
8 2 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.78%) Sybase
8 2 (0.78%) Teradata