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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 271 384
Rank change year-on-year -96 +113 -50
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 277 264 144
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.96% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 2.58% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 200 86
10th Percentile £400 £400 £394
25th Percentile £450 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +1.15% -5.43%
75th Percentile £626 £634 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £775
UK median daily rate £531 £528 £500
% change year-on-year +0.66% +5.50% -4.76%
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 15,844 10,233 11,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.37% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,600 6,926 7,845
10th Percentile £325 £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 £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 265 196
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.62 £69.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -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 2 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 2 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 -91 155 £550 -8.33% 179
North of England -73 43 £613 +50.43% 60
North West -36 29 £605 +55.13% 32
Midlands -43 23 £481 -16.35% 32
South West -31 21 £488 -17.89% 28
South East -55 20 £570 +3.64% 27
West Midlands -39 18 £488 -15.22% 16
Yorkshire -50 10 £656 +38.16% 18
East of England -25 6 £450 -5.26% 7
East Midlands -11 5 £466 -33.50% 16
North East -43 4 £500 +20.12% 10
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 (5.05%) Confluence
2 7 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.17%) Apache
3 6 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.36%) nginx
4 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 274 (98.92%) AWS
2 114 (41.16%) Serverless
3 110 (39.71%) Azure
4 95 (34.30%) AWS Lambda
5 90 (32.49%) Amazon S3
6 87 (31.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 74 (26.71%) GCP
8 66 (23.83%) GitHub
9 61 (22.02%) GitHub Actions
10 57 (20.58%) Amazon EKS
10 57 (20.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 52 (18.77%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (16.25%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (9.75%) AWS Step Functions
15 25 (9.03%) Amazon SQS
16 22 (7.94%) AWS KMS
17 20 (7.22%) AWS CloudTrail
17 20 (7.22%) Datadog
18 14 (5.05%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.75%) Firewall
2 24 (8.66%) DNS
3 11 (3.97%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.61%) Network Security
5 9 (3.25%) WAN
6 8 (2.89%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.53%) DHCP
8 6 (2.17%) SSL
8 6 (2.17%) VPN
9 4 (1.44%) HTTP
9 4 (1.44%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.08%) CTI
11 2 (0.72%) BGP
11 2 (0.72%) Internet
12 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.36%) LAN
12 1 (0.36%) MPLS
12 1 (0.36%) OSPF
12 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.36%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (9.39%) DynamoDB
3 23 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.86%) MySQL
5 16 (5.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (5.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (5.05%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.33%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (3.97%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.97%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.89%) Redis
11 7 (2.53%) Metadata
12 5 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.44%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.08%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (1.08%) Power BI
14 3 (1.08%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 68 (24.55%) Jenkins
2 56 (20.22%) GitLab
3 42 (15.16%) Git
4 25 (9.03%) JIRA
5 13 (4.69%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.89%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.53%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.17%) Snyk
9 5 (1.81%) JUnit
10 4 (1.44%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.44%) Maven
10 4 (1.44%) Mockito
11 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.08%) Spinnaker
12 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.72%) MLflow
12 2 (0.72%) Selenium
13 1 (0.36%) Gradle
General
1 82 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.52%) Finance
3 41 (14.80%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.33%) Banking
6 7 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.44%) 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%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.72%) Front Office
10 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Aviation
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (18.05%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (17.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (14.08%) Cloud Engineer
3 39 (14.08%) Senior
4 38 (13.72%) Architect
5 33 (11.91%) AWS DevOps
6 30 (10.83%) Lead
7 27 (9.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.66%) Data Engineer
8 24 (8.66%) Security Engineer
9 23 (8.30%) Developer
10 17 (6.14%) AWS Architect
11 14 (5.05%) Lead DevOps
12 13 (4.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 10 (3.61%) DBA
13 10 (3.61%) Network Engineer
14 9 (3.25%) Administrator
14 9 (3.25%) Scrum Master
14 9 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
14 9 (3.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (92.78%) Terraform
2 29 (10.47%) AWS CDK
3 21 (7.58%) REST
4 19 (6.86%) Kafka
5 18 (6.50%) Node.js
6 15 (5.42%) RESTful
7 13 (4.69%) React
8 12 (4.33%) PySpark
9 11 (3.97%) ARM Templates
9 11 (3.97%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.61%) Spring
11 8 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.89%) Great Expectations
11 8 (2.89%) Pandas
12 6 (2.17%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.17%) OAuth
13 5 (1.81%) Vue
14 4 (1.44%) Azure Blueprints
14 4 (1.44%) Jest
14 4 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 97 (35.02%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.22%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.14%) Security Posture
5 15 (5.42%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.33%) Replication
7 9 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.89%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.53%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.44%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
12 3 (1.08%) Clustering
12 3 (1.08%) IVR
12 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.52%) Linux
2 26 (9.39%) Windows
3 18 (6.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.81%) Unix
4 5 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.44%) AIX
6 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (88.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 214 (77.26%) CI/CD
3 174 (62.82%) DevOps
4 95 (34.30%) Agile
5 92 (33.21%) Containerisation
6 71 (25.63%) Observability
7 55 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (19.49%) Cloud Security
9 48 (17.33%) Microservices
10 45 (16.25%) Test Automation
11 44 (15.88%) Platform Engineering
12 40 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (14.08%) AI
13 39 (14.08%) Scrum
14 38 (13.72%) High Availability
15 37 (13.36%) Infrastructure Automation
16 36 (13.00%) DevSecOps
16 36 (13.00%) Root Cause Analysis
17 35 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (12.27%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 141 (50.90%) Python
2 64 (23.10%) Bash
3 55 (19.86%) PowerShell
4 48 (17.33%) SQL
5 41 (14.80%) Java
6 31 (11.19%) Bicep
7 19 (6.86%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.97%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.53%) Go
10 4 (1.44%) Groovy
10 4 (1.44%) Ruby
11 3 (1.08%) C#
11 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.72%) R
12 2 (0.72%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) C
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Korn
13 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 102 (36.82%) Security Cleared
2 90 (32.49%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.97%) AWS Certification
4 28 (10.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.22%) Degree
6 15 (5.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.05%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.25%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.53%) CISSP
10 6 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.17%) 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%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.03%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.05%) QA
3 10 (3.61%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.25%) NIST
5 8 (2.89%) GDPR
5 8 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.44%) 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 (39.35%) Docker
2 8 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) Squid
4 2 (0.72%) Corosync
4 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (42.24%) Kubernetes
2 36 (13.00%) Grafana
3 34 (12.27%) Ansible
4 31 (11.19%) Prometheus
5 15 (5.42%) Progress Chef
6 13 (4.69%) Puppet
7 7 (2.53%) Argo
8 5 (1.81%) Istio
9 4 (1.44%) 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%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.36%) Kibana
12 1 (0.36%) Podman
12 1 (0.36%) QRadar
12 1 (0.36%) systemd
Vendors
1 26 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.03%) Google
3 18 (6.50%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.05%) Splunk
5 10 (3.61%) Databricks
6 8 (2.89%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.89%) Infoblox
6 8 (2.89%) Oracle
7 6 (2.17%) VMware
8 5 (1.81%) Cisco
8 5 (1.81%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.44%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.44%) Teradata
9 4 (1.44%) 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%) Sybase