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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 355 334
Rank change year-on-year +81 -21 -49
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 303 165 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.53% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.59% 1.47% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 106 174
10th Percentile £400 £384 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £616 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £650
90th Percentile £671 £788 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £542 £525
% change year-on-year -3.14% +3.24% -4.98%
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 11,703 11,195 13,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.71% 35.85% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,967 7,454 10,191
10th Percentile £304 £313 £298
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 145 283
10th Percentile £15.28 £18.82 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +45.45%
75th Percentile £45.12 £61.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.95 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.15
% change year-on-year -25.45% +4.93% +46.14%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +79 176 £530 -18.46% 165
North of England -13 64 £470 -19.57% 78
Yorkshire -19 32 £500 -23.08% 20
North West -9 28 £420 -11.58% 53
South East +8 15 £438 -32.69% 37
South West +10 14 £510 +4.62% 14
Midlands -16 14 £575 +27.78% 8
West Midlands -17 14 £575 +15.00% 5
East of England - 5 £450 - 8
North East -9 4 £466 -31.85% 5
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 31 (10.23%) Confluence
2 29 (9.57%) nginx
3 14 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.63%) Apache Spark
5 10 (3.30%) Apache
6 5 (1.65%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) JBoss
8 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 286 (94.39%) AWS
2 107 (35.31%) Serverless
3 102 (33.66%) AWS Lambda
4 92 (30.36%) Amazon S3
5 85 (28.05%) GitHub
6 78 (25.74%) Azure
7 72 (23.76%) Amazon ECS
8 71 (23.43%) Amazon EC2
9 64 (21.12%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (18.15%) Amazon EKS
11 53 (17.49%) GCP
12 50 (16.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (13.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (9.57%) Datadog
15 27 (8.91%) AWS Fargate
16 25 (8.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 21 (6.93%) Amazon SQS
17 21 (6.93%) AWS CloudTrail
18 18 (5.94%) Amazon Kinesis
18 18 (5.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.27%) DNS
2 15 (4.95%) Firewall
2 15 (4.95%) VPN
3 10 (3.30%) Network Security
4 6 (1.98%) SSL
5 5 (1.65%) DHCP
6 4 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.33%) HTTP
7 1 (0.33%) Internet
7 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.33%) NAS
7 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.33%) SAN
7 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (22.11%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (9.24%) DynamoDB
4 24 (7.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (5.61%) NoSQL
6 16 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (4.95%) Data Lake
8 13 (4.29%) MongoDB
8 13 (4.29%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.97%) MySQL
10 7 (2.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (2.31%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.98%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (1.98%) Couchbase
11 6 (1.98%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.65%) DB2
12 5 (1.65%) Power BI
12 5 (1.65%) Redshift Spectrum
13 3 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 95 (31.35%) Jenkins
2 80 (26.40%) Git
3 64 (21.12%) GitLab
4 42 (13.86%) JIRA
5 14 (4.62%) Artifactory
5 14 (4.62%) JUnit
6 12 (3.96%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (3.63%) Maven
7 11 (3.63%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.98%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.98%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.98%) Gradle
9 5 (1.65%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.65%) Selenium
9 5 (1.65%) Snyk
10 4 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.32%) Postman
10 4 (1.32%) Terragrunt
10 4 (1.32%) webpack
General
1 69 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.50%) Public Sector
3 35 (11.55%) Finance
4 17 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.28%) Banking
6 5 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.65%) Games
7 4 (1.32%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.99%) Law
9 2 (0.66%) Aviation
9 2 (0.66%) Legal
9 2 (0.66%) Military
9 2 (0.66%) Police
10 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Marketing
10 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (24.75%) AWS Engineer
2 60 (19.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (13.53%) Senior
4 33 (10.89%) Developer
4 33 (10.89%) Lead
5 31 (10.23%) AWS DevOps
6 30 (9.90%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (8.91%) Architect
7 27 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (8.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 23 (7.59%) Data Engineer
10 17 (5.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.95%) AWS Developer
12 14 (4.62%) AWS Architect
13 13 (4.29%) Security Engineer
13 13 (4.29%) Site Engineer
14 12 (3.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.96%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.96%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.88%) Kafka
2 32 (10.56%) AWS CDK
3 28 (9.24%) Node.js
4 22 (7.26%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (6.27%) React
6 16 (5.28%) RESTful
7 15 (4.95%) Spring
8 14 (4.62%) JSON
9 11 (3.63%) ARM Templates
9 11 (3.63%) REST
10 9 (2.97%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.97%) Keycloak
10 9 (2.97%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.64%) OAuth
11 8 (2.64%) OpenID
12 7 (2.31%) cloud-init
12 7 (2.31%) NestJS
12 7 (2.31%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.31%) SAML
12 7 (2.31%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.15%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.29%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.64%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.31%) PKI
4 7 (2.31%) Replication
5 6 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.98%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.65%) NHS
6 5 (1.65%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.99%) SCADA
8 3 (0.99%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.99%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.66%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 75 (24.75%) Linux
2 17 (5.61%) Unix
3 10 (3.30%) Windows
4 8 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.31%) CentOS
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (70.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 200 (66.01%) CI/CD
3 182 (60.07%) DevOps
4 104 (34.32%) Containerisation
5 99 (32.67%) Agile
6 52 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (15.84%) Observability
8 36 (11.88%) Configuration Management
8 36 (11.88%) Infrastructure Automation
8 36 (11.88%) Microservices
8 36 (11.88%) Migration
9 33 (10.89%) DevSecOps
9 33 (10.89%) Platform Engineering
9 33 (10.89%) Software Engineering
10 32 (10.56%) Mentoring
11 31 (10.23%) Cloud Security
12 28 (9.24%) Technical Leadership
12 28 (9.24%) Test Automation
13 26 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (7.92%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 145 (47.85%) Python
2 52 (17.16%) Bash
3 39 (12.87%) SQL
4 35 (11.55%) Go
4 35 (11.55%) PowerShell
5 32 (10.56%) Java
6 26 (8.58%) JavaScript
6 26 (8.58%) TypeScript
7 20 (6.60%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.63%) Ruby
9 8 (2.64%) Groovy
10 7 (2.31%) Perl
11 6 (1.98%) C#
11 6 (1.98%) C++
12 5 (1.65%) Scala
13 3 (0.99%) C
13 3 (0.99%) PromQL
14 2 (0.66%) Bicep
14 2 (0.66%) CodeQL
15 1 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 100 (33.00%) Security Cleared
2 83 (27.39%) SC Cleared
3 50 (16.50%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (3.96%) Degree
5 12 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.32%) CISSP
11 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.33%) CCSP
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.33%) CISM
12 1 (0.33%) MCP
12 1 (0.33%) OCP
12 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.57%) GDPR
2 18 (5.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.28%) QA
4 14 (4.62%) NIST
5 11 (3.63%) NCSC
6 10 (3.30%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.97%) PCI DSS
8 8 (2.64%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.65%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 132 (43.56%) Docker
2 13 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.33%) iptables
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 267 (88.12%) Terraform
2 136 (44.88%) Kubernetes
3 71 (23.43%) Ansible
4 46 (15.18%) Grafana
5 37 (12.21%) Prometheus
6 36 (11.88%) Packer
7 29 (9.57%) Puppet
8 25 (8.25%) Consul
9 15 (4.95%) Progress Chef
10 9 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (2.31%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (2.31%) Podman
12 2 (0.66%) Argo
12 2 (0.66%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.66%) Istio
12 2 (0.66%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.66%) Nessus
12 2 (0.66%) Salt
12 2 (0.66%) SELinux
13 1 (0.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (6.93%) Splunk
2 13 (4.29%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.96%) IBM
3 12 (3.96%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.30%) Databricks
5 9 (2.97%) Google
6 8 (2.64%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (2.31%) Alibaba
7 7 (2.31%) Confluent
7 7 (2.31%) Okta
8 5 (1.65%) Oracle
8 5 (1.65%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.65%) Sybase
9 4 (1.32%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.32%) Ping Identity
10 3 (0.99%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.66%) Cisco
11 2 (0.66%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.66%) Teradata
11 2 (0.66%) VMware