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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 255 361
Rank change year-on-year -15 +106 -51
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 370 236 184
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.97% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.61% 2.57% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 183 132
10th Percentile £400 £400 £431
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £681
90th Percentile £688 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +127.14% - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +127.14% - -

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 14,161 9,178 11,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.99% 37.55% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,773 6,433 8,595
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 £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -4.12% -0.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 188 321
10th Percentile £16.03 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.17 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.23 £26.81 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +68.69% +29.09% -24.47%
75th Percentile £68.75 £43.10 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.15 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.88 £21.00
% change year-on-year +53.10% +32.76% -30.29%

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 17 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 17 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 +2 255 £550 -8.33% 37
North of England -57 41 £550 -10.20% 31
South East -38 25 £530 -8.23% 11
North West -25 22 £581 +40.85% 15
Midlands -62 17 £450 -10.00% 4
Yorkshire -50 16 £500 -31.03% 9
West Midlands -50 14 £463 +2.78% 3
South West -22 12 £634 +12.67% 14
East of England -26 5 £488 -2.50% 7
North East -17 3 £575 -23.33% 7
East Midlands -30 3 £438 -37.50% 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 36 (9.73%) Apache Spark
2 33 (8.92%) Apache
3 20 (5.41%) Confluence
4 16 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (4.05%) nginx
6 5 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.81%) SAS
8 2 (0.54%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Actimize
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 359 (97.03%) AWS
2 135 (36.49%) Amazon S3
3 128 (34.59%) Serverless
4 121 (32.70%) Azure
5 118 (31.89%) AWS Lambda
6 103 (27.84%) GitHub
7 96 (25.95%) Amazon ECS
8 83 (22.43%) GitHub Actions
9 78 (21.08%) GCP
10 75 (20.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 71 (19.19%) Amazon EKS
12 60 (16.22%) Amazon EC2
13 55 (14.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 42 (11.35%) AWS CodePipeline
15 37 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
17 25 (6.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 22 (5.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 22 (5.95%) Route 53
19 21 (5.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.19%) DNS
2 19 (5.14%) Firewall
3 15 (4.05%) Network Security
4 13 (3.51%) VPN
5 9 (2.43%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.16%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.08%) DHCP
8 3 (0.81%) HTTP
8 3 (0.81%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.54%) BGP
9 2 (0.54%) OSPF
9 2 (0.54%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.54%) WAN
10 1 (0.27%) 4G
10 1 (0.27%) 5G
10 1 (0.27%) Internet
10 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (12.97%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 35 (9.46%) Amazon Athena
3 35 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 22 (5.95%) DynamoDB
6 21 (5.68%) Power BI
7 18 (4.86%) BigQuery
7 18 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (4.86%) Mixpanel
8 17 (4.59%) OLAP
8 17 (4.59%) OLTP
9 16 (4.32%) SQL Server
10 15 (4.05%) NoSQL
11 10 (2.70%) MongoDB
12 9 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (2.16%) Redis
13 8 (2.16%) Redshift Spectrum
13 8 (2.16%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 80 (21.62%) Git
2 79 (21.35%) Jenkins
3 67 (18.11%) GitLab
4 30 (8.11%) JIRA
5 17 (4.59%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.70%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.43%) Snyk
8 7 (1.89%) JUnit
9 6 (1.62%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.35%) Maven
11 4 (1.08%) Gradle
11 4 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.08%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.81%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.81%) Selenium
12 3 (0.81%) Vite
13 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.27%) Mocha
14 1 (0.27%) Mockito
General
1 90 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 71 (19.19%) Public Sector
3 56 (15.14%) Finance
4 19 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.14%) Banking
5 9 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.35%) Law
9 3 (0.81%) Games
9 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.54%) Front Office
10 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.54%) Legal
10 2 (0.54%) Marketing
10 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Advertising
11 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (17.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 62 (16.76%) AWS Engineer
3 56 (15.14%) Architect
4 49 (13.24%) Lead
5 47 (12.70%) Senior
6 39 (10.54%) Data Engineer
7 37 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (9.19%) Developer
9 30 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
10 27 (7.30%) AWS Architect
10 27 (7.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 23 (6.22%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (5.95%) Site Engineer
13 21 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (4.86%) Software Engineer
15 17 (4.59%) Principal Engineer
16 16 (4.32%) Security Engineer
17 15 (4.05%) Principal Data Engineer
18 11 (2.97%) AWS Developer
18 11 (2.97%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (16.22%) Kafka
2 34 (9.19%) Node.js
2 34 (9.19%) RESTful
3 29 (7.84%) AWS CDK
4 26 (7.03%) Spring
5 25 (6.76%) Spring Boot
6 21 (5.68%) Great Expectations
7 19 (5.14%) REST
8 18 (4.86%) React
9 17 (4.59%) OAuth
10 15 (4.05%) PySpark
11 14 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (3.24%) OAuth2
13 11 (2.97%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (2.70%) .NET
14 10 (2.70%) AngularJS
15 9 (2.43%) ARM Templates
15 9 (2.43%) boto
16 8 (2.16%) OpenID
16 8 (2.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 116 (31.35%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.89%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.62%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.62%) Replication
8 5 (1.35%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.35%) SCADA
9 4 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.08%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.08%) NHS
9 4 (1.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 70 (18.92%) Linux
2 18 (4.86%) Windows
3 5 (1.35%) Unix
4 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.81%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (81.08%) CI/CD
2 284 (76.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 216 (58.38%) DevOps
4 123 (33.24%) Containerisation
5 111 (30.00%) Agile
6 91 (24.59%) Observability
7 62 (16.76%) Microservices
8 56 (15.14%) Analytics
9 54 (14.59%) AI
10 51 (13.78%) DevSecOps
10 51 (13.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 48 (12.97%) Infrastructure Automation
12 47 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (12.70%) Data Engineering
13 46 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
14 45 (12.16%) Data Modelling
14 45 (12.16%) ETL
15 42 (11.35%) High Availability
15 42 (11.35%) Migration
15 42 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 179 (48.38%) Python
2 77 (20.81%) SQL
3 62 (16.76%) Java
4 49 (13.24%) Bash
5 32 (8.65%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.68%) C#
6 21 (5.68%) Ruby
7 20 (5.41%) Bicep
7 20 (5.41%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.14%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.43%) Go
10 6 (1.62%) Scala
10 6 (1.62%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.81%) C
11 3 (0.81%) SAS Macro
12 2 (0.54%) Groovy
12 2 (0.54%) Perl
13 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.27%) R
13 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 122 (32.97%) Security Cleared
2 103 (27.84%) SC Cleared
3 69 (18.65%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (5.68%) Degree
6 20 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (3.78%) Azure Certification
9 11 (2.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.97%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.62%) CISSP
12 5 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.35%) CCSP
12 5 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.35%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.08%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.81%) OSCP
14 3 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.97%) GDPR
2 30 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.11%) NIST
3 26 (7.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (5.68%) PCI DSS
5 20 (5.41%) QA
6 9 (2.43%) NCSC
7 8 (2.16%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.35%) GRC
9 4 (1.08%) SLA
9 4 (1.08%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.81%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.27%) HL7
12 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.27%) MiFID
12 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 155 (41.89%) Docker
2 6 (1.62%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.54%) Corosync
4 2 (0.54%) HDFS
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 331 (89.46%) Terraform
2 149 (40.27%) Kubernetes
3 62 (16.76%) Ansible
4 45 (12.16%) Grafana
5 42 (11.35%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.59%) Puppet
7 14 (3.78%) Packer
8 13 (3.51%) Consul
9 11 (2.97%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.35%) Argo
12 4 (1.08%) Istio
12 4 (1.08%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.08%) Kibana
12 4 (1.08%) linkerd
13 3 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (0.54%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.54%) Pacemaker
15 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 31 (8.38%) Databricks
1 31 (8.38%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.11%) Google
3 23 (6.22%) Splunk
4 11 (2.97%) Oracle
5 9 (2.43%) PagerDuty
6 7 (1.89%) Citrix
6 7 (1.89%) IBM
7 6 (1.62%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.62%) CloudEndure
7 6 (1.62%) Rapid7
7 6 (1.62%) VMware
8 5 (1.35%) New Relic
8 5 (1.35%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.35%) Sybase
9 4 (1.08%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.08%) Qualys
9 4 (1.08%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.08%) SAP
9 4 (1.08%) Tenable