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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 271 388
Rank change year-on-year -101 +117 -49
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 279 264 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.95% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 2.53% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 198 82
10th Percentile £400 £400 £388
25th Percentile £450 £459 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £531
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -0.71% -7.61%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £683 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% -5.66%
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 16,025 10,431 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.61% 37.53% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,701 7,044 7,727
10th Percentile £322 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £729 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 259 186
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.92 £18.87 £19.96
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.14 £60.95
90th Percentile £83.13 £71.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -86 155 £550 -8.33% 169
North of England -67 43 £613 +50.99% 49
North West -41 29 £605 +53.16% 24
South West -30 23 £500 -15.79% 18
Midlands -42 23 £481 -16.35% 28
South East -58 19 £572 +27.11% 30
West Midlands -35 18 £488 -15.22% 17
Yorkshire -56 10 £656 +38.16% 17
East of England -30 6 £450 - 8
East Midlands -13 5 £466 -33.50% 11
North East -44 4 £500 +20.12% 8
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 14 (5.02%) Confluence
2 8 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.15%) Apache
3 6 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.72%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.72%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 276 (98.92%) AWS
2 115 (41.22%) Serverless
3 109 (39.07%) Azure
4 97 (34.77%) AWS Lambda
5 91 (32.62%) Amazon S3
6 86 (30.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 72 (25.81%) GCP
8 66 (23.66%) GitHub
9 61 (21.86%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (21.15%) Amazon EKS
11 57 (20.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 53 (19.00%) Amazon ECS
13 46 (16.49%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (9.68%) AWS Step Functions
16 24 (8.60%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (7.89%) AWS KMS
18 20 (7.17%) AWS CloudTrail
18 20 (7.17%) Datadog
19 14 (5.02%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.68%) Firewall
2 23 (8.24%) DNS
3 11 (3.94%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.58%) Network Security
5 9 (3.23%) WAN
6 8 (2.87%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.51%) DHCP
8 6 (2.15%) SSL
9 5 (1.79%) VPN
10 4 (1.43%) HTTP
10 4 (1.43%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.08%) CTI
12 2 (0.72%) BGP
12 2 (0.72%) Internet
13 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.36%) MPLS
13 1 (0.36%) OSPF
13 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.62%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (9.32%) DynamoDB
3 24 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.81%) MySQL
5 17 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (5.73%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (5.02%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.30%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.94%) MongoDB
10 10 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (3.58%) Data Lake
10 10 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.87%) Redis
12 7 (2.51%) Metadata
13 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.08%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.08%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (1.08%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 67 (24.01%) Jenkins
2 56 (20.07%) GitLab
3 44 (15.77%) Git
4 25 (8.96%) JIRA
5 13 (4.66%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.87%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.51%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.15%) Snyk
9 5 (1.79%) JUnit
10 4 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.43%) Maven
10 4 (1.43%) Mockito
10 4 (1.43%) Spinnaker
11 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.72%) Flyway
12 2 (0.72%) MLflow
12 2 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 83 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.41%) Public Sector
3 42 (15.05%) Finance
4 15 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.30%) Banking
6 7 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.43%) Law
9 3 (1.08%) Games
9 3 (1.08%) Military
9 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.72%) Front Office
10 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Aviation
11 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (17.56%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (17.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (14.34%) Senior
4 39 (13.98%) Cloud Engineer
5 37 (13.26%) Architect
6 32 (11.47%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (10.39%) Lead
8 26 (9.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 25 (8.96%) Developer
10 24 (8.60%) Data Engineer
11 23 (8.24%) Security Engineer
12 17 (6.09%) AWS Architect
13 14 (5.02%) Lead DevOps
14 13 (4.66%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 12 (4.30%) DBA
16 10 (3.58%) Network Engineer
16 10 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
17 9 (3.23%) Scrum Master
17 9 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 9 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (91.40%) Terraform
2 32 (11.47%) AWS CDK
3 21 (7.53%) REST
4 19 (6.81%) Kafka
5 18 (6.45%) Node.js
6 15 (5.38%) RESTful
7 13 (4.66%) PySpark
7 13 (4.66%) React
8 11 (3.94%) ARM Templates
8 11 (3.94%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.58%) Spring
10 9 (3.23%) Pandas
11 8 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (2.51%) Great Expectations
13 6 (2.15%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.15%) OAuth
14 5 (1.79%) Vue
15 4 (1.43%) Jest
15 4 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
15 4 (1.43%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 96 (34.41%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.17%) Product Ownership
4 18 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 15 (5.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.30%) Replication
7 9 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.87%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.51%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (2.15%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.79%) Clustering
11 5 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
13 3 (1.08%) IVR
13 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.49%) Linux
2 27 (9.68%) Windows
3 18 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.51%) Unix
5 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.43%) AIX
7 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (87.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 212 (75.99%) CI/CD
3 174 (62.37%) DevOps
4 96 (34.41%) Agile
5 93 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 72 (25.81%) Observability
7 58 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (19.35%) Cloud Security
9 48 (17.20%) Microservices
10 45 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
10 45 (16.13%) Test Automation
11 40 (14.34%) AI
11 40 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (13.98%) Scrum
13 38 (13.62%) High Availability
13 38 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (13.26%) Infrastructure Automation
15 36 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
16 35 (12.54%) DevSecOps
17 33 (11.83%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 144 (51.61%) Python
2 65 (23.30%) Bash
3 55 (19.71%) PowerShell
4 50 (17.92%) SQL
5 42 (15.05%) Java
6 31 (11.11%) Bicep
7 20 (7.17%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.30%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.51%) Go
10 5 (1.79%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.43%) Groovy
11 4 (1.43%) Ruby
12 3 (1.08%) Scala
12 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.72%) C#
13 2 (0.72%) R
14 1 (0.36%) C
14 1 (0.36%) C++
14 1 (0.36%) Korn
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 105 (37.63%) Security Cleared
2 93 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.85%) AWS Certification
4 28 (10.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.17%) Degree
6 15 (5.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.02%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.23%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.51%) CISSP
10 6 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.36%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.60%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.02%) QA
3 10 (3.58%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.23%) NIST
5 8 (2.87%) GDPR
5 8 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.43%) SLA
8 3 (1.08%) NCSC
8 3 (1.08%) WCAG
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) HL7
9 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 109 (39.07%) Docker
2 8 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) Squid
4 2 (0.72%) Corosync
5 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (41.94%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.26%) Grafana
3 33 (11.83%) Ansible
4 31 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 15 (5.38%) Progress Chef
6 13 (4.66%) Puppet
7 8 (2.87%) Argo
8 5 (1.79%) Istio
9 4 (1.43%) Packer
10 3 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.08%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.72%) linkerd
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.36%) Control-M
12 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 26 (9.32%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.60%) Google
3 18 (6.45%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.02%) Splunk
5 11 (3.94%) Oracle
6 10 (3.58%) Databricks
7 8 (2.87%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.87%) Infoblox
8 5 (1.79%) Cisco
8 5 (1.79%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.79%) VMware
9 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.43%) Teradata
9 4 (1.43%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.08%) Informatica
10 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.08%) SAP
10 3 (1.08%) Trend Micro
11 2 (0.72%) CheckPoint