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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 298 329
Rank change year-on-year +36 +31 -49
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 312 193 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 0.71% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.61% 1.94% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 143 157
10th Percentile £400 £380 £425
25th Percentile £450 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.01% +6.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £627 £750 £675
90th Percentile £691 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - -

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 11,944 9,927 12,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.06% 36.65% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,265 6,625 8,967
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 134 233
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.41 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -0.07%
75th Percentile £56.00 £46.18 £51.58
90th Percentile £78.45 £67.63 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +40 172 £556 -14.42% 54
North of England -21 65 £500 -20.95% 55
North West -16 34 £475 -2.56% 21
South East +1 27 £515 -20.77% 81
Yorkshire -36 26 £500 -28.57% 27
South West -2 13 £575 +4.55% 34
West Midlands -23 13 £575 +24.32% 15
Midlands -29 13 £575 +35.29% 37
North East -9 5 £466 -31.85% 7
East of England - 3 £525 - 44
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 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.45%) Apache
2 17 (5.45%) Confluence
3 14 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.49%) nginx
4 6 (1.92%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 299 (95.83%) AWS
2 115 (36.86%) Serverless
3 111 (35.58%) AWS Lambda
4 105 (33.65%) Amazon S3
5 99 (31.73%) GitHub
6 85 (27.24%) Amazon ECS
7 84 (26.92%) Azure
8 76 (24.36%) GitHub Actions
9 63 (20.19%) Amazon EC2
10 62 (19.87%) Amazon EKS
11 59 (18.91%) GCP
12 52 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (15.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (9.29%) Datadog
15 28 (8.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 25 (8.01%) AWS KMS
17 24 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
18 20 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
19 19 (6.09%) Amazon SQS
19 19 (6.09%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.94%) DNS
2 18 (5.77%) Firewall
3 13 (4.17%) VPN
4 10 (3.21%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.92%) Network Security
6 5 (1.60%) DHCP
6 5 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.96%) HTTP
7 3 (0.96%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.64%) Internet
8 2 (0.64%) SSL
9 1 (0.32%) NAS
9 1 (0.32%) SAN
9 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (21.47%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 24 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 22 (7.05%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (6.73%) DynamoDB
6 16 (5.13%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.85%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.53%) Power BI
10 10 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (3.21%) MySQL
11 8 (2.56%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.56%) Mixpanel
11 8 (2.56%) OLAP
11 8 (2.56%) OLTP
11 8 (2.56%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.92%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 91 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 73 (23.40%) GitLab
3 69 (22.12%) Git
4 28 (8.97%) JIRA
5 16 (5.13%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.53%) CircleCI
6 11 (3.53%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.21%) Maven
7 10 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.56%) Gradle
8 8 (2.56%) JUnit
8 8 (2.56%) Terragrunt
9 7 (2.24%) Artifactory
9 7 (2.24%) Snyk
10 6 (1.92%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.92%) Selenium
11 5 (1.60%) Postman
11 5 (1.60%) webpack
12 3 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
General
1 69 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.91%) Public Sector
3 47 (15.06%) Finance
4 18 (5.77%) Banking
5 12 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (1.92%) Law
7 5 (1.60%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.60%) Games
8 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.64%) Legal
8 2 (0.64%) Police
9 1 (0.32%) Aviation
9 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.32%) Marketing
9 1 (0.32%) Military
9 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (21.15%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (19.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (12.82%) Architect
4 38 (12.18%) Senior
5 33 (10.58%) Lead
6 28 (8.97%) AWS DevOps
6 28 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (8.65%) Data Engineer
7 27 (8.65%) Developer
7 27 (8.65%) Platform Engineer
8 24 (7.69%) AWS Architect
9 23 (7.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.45%) Site Engineer
11 16 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (4.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (4.49%) Security Engineer
14 13 (4.17%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.53%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (16.03%) Kafka
2 27 (8.65%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (8.65%) Node.js
3 26 (8.33%) AWS CDK
4 21 (6.73%) RESTful
5 20 (6.41%) React
6 17 (5.45%) Spring
7 16 (5.13%) Spring Boot
8 15 (4.81%) REST
9 10 (3.21%) JSON
10 9 (2.88%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.56%) ARM Templates
11 8 (2.56%) Great Expectations
11 8 (2.56%) Keycloak
11 8 (2.56%) Vue
11 8 (2.56%) YAML
12 7 (2.24%) Django
12 7 (2.24%) FastAPI
12 7 (2.24%) Flask
13 6 (1.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 62 (19.87%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.21%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.21%) PKI
3 9 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (2.88%) Private Cloud
4 7 (2.24%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.24%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.24%) NHS
4 7 (2.24%) Replication
5 6 (1.92%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.28%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (0.96%) e-Learning
8 3 (0.96%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.96%) SCADA
9 2 (0.64%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 81 (25.96%) Linux
2 19 (6.09%) Unix
3 15 (4.81%) Windows
4 6 (1.92%) CentOS
4 6 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.96%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (77.88%) Infrastructure as Code
2 238 (76.28%) CI/CD
3 187 (59.94%) DevOps
4 104 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 74 (23.72%) Agile
6 68 (21.79%) Observability
7 53 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (13.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 42 (13.46%) Migration
10 41 (13.14%) Microservices
11 40 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
12 39 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
13 38 (12.18%) DevSecOps
14 36 (11.54%) Software Engineering
15 33 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (10.26%) Incident Response
17 31 (9.94%) Cloud Security
17 31 (9.94%) Configuration Management
17 31 (9.94%) Mentoring
18 30 (9.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 159 (50.96%) Python
2 57 (18.27%) Bash
3 44 (14.10%) SQL
4 42 (13.46%) Java
5 30 (9.62%) PowerShell
6 26 (8.33%) Go
7 21 (6.73%) Ruby
7 21 (6.73%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.41%) JavaScript
9 16 (5.13%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.21%) C#
11 6 (1.92%) Perl
12 4 (1.28%) Bicep
12 4 (1.28%) Scala
13 3 (0.96%) C
14 1 (0.32%) C++
14 1 (0.32%) Groovy
14 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.32%) PHP
14 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 96 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 78 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 62 (19.87%) AWS Certification
4 26 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (4.81%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.17%) Degree
7 12 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.88%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.92%) CISSP
11 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.28%) MCP
12 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.96%) IBM Certification
12 3 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.64%) CCSP
13 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.26%) GDPR
2 23 (7.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (5.77%) NIST
4 17 (5.45%) NCSC
5 15 (4.81%) QA
6 13 (4.17%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.88%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.60%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.60%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.96%) SLA
9 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.32%) GRC
10 1 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 122 (39.10%) Docker
2 7 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.64%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 281 (90.06%) Terraform
2 123 (39.42%) Kubernetes
3 77 (24.68%) Ansible
4 51 (16.35%) Grafana
5 36 (11.54%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.69%) Puppet
7 20 (6.41%) Packer
8 15 (4.81%) Progress Chef
9 11 (3.53%) Consul
10 6 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (1.92%) Podman
11 5 (1.60%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.28%) Kibana
13 3 (0.96%) Argo
13 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.64%) Istio
14 2 (0.64%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.32%) Bitnami
15 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.32%) linkerd
Vendors
1 24 (7.69%) Splunk
2 22 (7.05%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.09%) Databricks
3 19 (6.09%) Google
4 16 (5.13%) IBM
5 10 (3.21%) CloudEndure
5 10 (3.21%) Oracle
6 8 (2.56%) PagerDuty
6 8 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.24%) Citrix
7 7 (2.24%) Confluent
8 6 (1.92%) Okta
8 6 (1.92%) VMware
9 4 (1.28%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.96%) Cisco
10 3 (0.96%) Ping Identity
10 3 (0.96%) Sybase
10 3 (0.96%) Tenable
11 2 (0.64%) Qualys
11 2 (0.64%) Red Hat