AWS CloudFormation Contracts in England

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 381 345
Rank change year-on-year +121 -36 -36
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 247 166 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.93% 0.45% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.47% 1.37% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 109 277
10th Percentile £400 £416 £429
25th Percentile £475 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £688 £776 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +8.27% -3.24% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £50.00

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 9,983 12,155 17,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.64% 32.61% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,731 8,674 12,778
10th Percentile £313 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 329 301
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.15 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.06 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +54.48%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £27.63 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.59% -37.14% +59.09%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in England

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in England

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in England

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in England

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 July 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 +96 176 £600 +2.13% 415
North of England +14 26 £409 -18.20% 94
Yorkshire +11 12 £455 +1.00% 30
North West +4 12 £400 -23.81% 58
Midlands +15 9 £550 +22.22% 41
South West +42 8 £600 +12.94% 51
West Midlands +14 8 £500 +42.86% 28
East of England +31 7 £500 -25.93% 29
South East +26 5 £565 +13.00% 66
North East - 2 £416 - 6
East Midlands +3 1 £700 +55.56% 13
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (9.72%) Confluence
2 19 (7.69%) nginx
3 10 (4.05%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.64%) Apache
5 6 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (2.02%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.21%) IIS
8 2 (0.81%) JBoss
9 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 237 (95.95%) AWS
2 116 (46.96%) Serverless
3 104 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
4 88 (35.63%) Amazon S3
5 69 (27.94%) GitHub
6 63 (25.51%) Azure
7 61 (24.70%) Amazon EC2
8 55 (22.27%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (18.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (17.41%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (16.19%) GCP
12 39 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
13 35 (14.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (12.96%) Amazon SQS
15 27 (10.93%) SaaS
16 18 (7.29%) AWS CodePipeline
16 18 (7.29%) AWS Fargate
17 16 (6.48%) PaaS
18 14 (5.67%) AWS CloudTrail
18 14 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.36%) DNS
2 27 (10.93%) Firewall
3 25 (10.12%) VPN
4 13 (5.26%) HTTP
4 13 (5.26%) Network Security
4 13 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.24%) Internet
6 7 (2.83%) DHCP
7 4 (1.62%) SSL
8 2 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.81%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.81%) WAN
8 2 (0.81%) Wireless
9 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.40%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (25.51%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (13.77%) DynamoDB
3 23 (9.31%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.48%) Relational Database
5 13 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (5.26%) Data Lake
6 11 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (4.05%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.64%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.83%) MySQL
10 6 (2.43%) Big Data
11 5 (2.02%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.62%) Power BI
13 3 (1.21%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.21%) DB2
13 3 (1.21%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 79 (31.98%) Jenkins
2 51 (20.65%) Git
3 33 (13.36%) GitLab
4 30 (12.15%) JIRA
5 13 (5.26%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.64%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.64%) git-flow
7 7 (2.83%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.83%) JUnit
8 6 (2.43%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (2.02%) Maven
9 5 (2.02%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.62%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.62%) Gradle
10 4 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.81%) Selenium
12 1 (0.40%) Appium
12 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 66 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.00%) Public Sector
3 28 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.10%) Finance
5 13 (5.26%) Banking
6 7 (2.83%) Marketing
7 4 (1.62%) Military
8 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.81%) Retail
8 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.40%) Aviation
9 1 (0.40%) Back Office
9 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.40%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (21.05%) Senior
2 46 (18.62%) AWS Engineer
3 44 (17.81%) Architect
4 38 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (14.57%) Developer
6 31 (12.55%) AWS Architect
7 25 (10.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (9.31%) Lead
9 20 (8.10%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (6.88%) AWS Developer
10 17 (6.88%) Senior Developer
11 16 (6.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 15 (6.07%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.86%) Technical Leader
14 11 (4.45%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (4.45%) Data Engineer
14 11 (4.45%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (4.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (4.05%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.53%) AWS CDK
2 23 (9.31%) Node.js
3 16 (6.48%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (6.07%) JSON
5 14 (5.67%) React
6 13 (5.26%) Spring
7 12 (4.86%) RESTful
8 11 (4.45%) Kafka
8 11 (4.45%) OAuth
9 10 (4.05%) Jest
10 8 (3.24%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.83%) OpenID
11 7 (2.83%) SAML
11 7 (2.83%) Web Services
11 7 (2.83%) WebSockets
12 6 (2.43%) OAuth2
12 6 (2.43%) Redux
12 6 (2.43%) REST
12 6 (2.43%) Sass
13 5 (2.02%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (5.67%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.83%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.43%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.81%) Clustering
8 2 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.81%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.40%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.40%) PKI
9 1 (0.40%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 57 (23.08%) Linux
2 15 (6.07%) Windows
3 9 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.02%) Unix
4 5 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.62%) CentOS
6 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (57.49%) CI/CD
2 140 (56.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 120 (48.58%) DevOps
4 92 (37.25%) Containerisation
5 78 (31.58%) Agile
6 52 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (16.60%) High Availability
8 33 (13.36%) Mentoring
8 33 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (12.96%) Continuous Integration
9 32 (12.96%) Deployment Automation
10 30 (12.15%) Configuration Management
11 27 (10.93%) Observability
12 25 (10.12%) Migration
13 24 (9.72%) Cost Optimisation
13 24 (9.72%) ETL
13 24 (9.72%) Microservices
14 23 (9.31%) Infrastructure Automation
15 22 (8.91%) Cost Management
15 22 (8.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 105 (42.51%) Python
2 36 (14.57%) Bash
2 36 (14.57%) SQL
3 35 (14.17%) JavaScript
4 33 (13.36%) Java
5 31 (12.55%) PowerShell
6 30 (12.15%) TypeScript
7 18 (7.29%) Go
8 16 (6.48%) Shell Script
9 12 (4.86%) Bicep
10 11 (4.45%) Groovy
11 6 (2.43%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.02%) C++
13 4 (1.62%) C#
13 4 (1.62%) R
13 4 (1.62%) Scala
14 3 (1.21%) CodeQL
15 2 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.81%) Ruby
16 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 95 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 87 (35.22%) SC Cleared
3 47 (19.03%) AWS Certification
4 33 (13.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.64%) Degree
6 8 (3.24%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (2.02%) OCP
8 5 (2.02%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.62%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.40%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.07%) PCI DSS
2 14 (5.67%) GDPR
3 10 (4.05%) QA
4 8 (3.24%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.83%) HIPAA
6 6 (2.43%) NIST
7 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.21%) NCSC
8 2 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (37.25%) Docker
2 19 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.81%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) iptables
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.40%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 181 (73.28%) Terraform
2 111 (44.94%) Kubernetes
3 63 (25.51%) Ansible
4 32 (12.96%) Puppet
5 26 (10.53%) Prometheus
6 25 (10.12%) Grafana
6 25 (10.12%) Progress Chef
7 18 (7.29%) Packer
8 15 (6.07%) Consul
9 14 (5.67%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.02%) HP Fortify
10 5 (2.02%) Nessus
11 4 (1.62%) Kibana
11 4 (1.62%) Salt
12 3 (1.21%) Argo
13 2 (0.81%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.81%) Nagios
13 2 (0.81%) Podman
13 2 (0.81%) SELinux
13 2 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (6.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.64%) Red Hat
2 9 (3.64%) ServiceNow
3 7 (2.83%) Alibaba
3 7 (2.83%) Oracle
3 7 (2.83%) Splunk
4 6 (2.43%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (2.43%) Google
5 5 (2.02%) AppDynamics
5 5 (2.02%) Qualys
6 4 (1.62%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.62%) SolarWinds
6 4 (1.62%) VMware
7 3 (1.21%) Cisco
7 3 (1.21%) Databricks
7 3 (1.21%) IBM
8 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.81%) Sybase
8 2 (0.81%) Teradata
8 2 (0.81%) Ubiquiti