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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 267 386
Rank change year-on-year -82 +119 -61
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 284 263 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.96% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.58% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 194 104
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £678
90th Percentile £671 £686 £779
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £507
% change year-on-year -0.47% +4.04% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 15,680 10,198 11,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.36% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,494 6,890 8,381
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 266 286
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.66 £48.11
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.04% +25.00% -37.14%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -76 171 £550 -8.33% 61
North of England -72 31 £623 +52.76% 33
Midlands -39 24 £479 +6.44% 10
South West -24 21 £450 -25.04% 18
North West -39 20 £605 +51.25% 16
West Midlands -43 20 £482 +7.17% 7
South East -49 19 £549 -2.88% 12
Yorkshire -54 9 £663 +32.50% 9
East of England -22 6 £450 -5.26%
East Midlands -9 4 £466 -33.50% 3
North East -36 2 £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 17 (5.99%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.28%) Apache
3 13 (4.58%) Confluence
4 6 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.06%) SAS
7 2 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 278 (97.89%) AWS
2 115 (40.49%) Azure
3 110 (38.73%) Serverless
4 100 (35.21%) Amazon S3
5 92 (32.39%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (27.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 78 (27.46%) GCP
8 67 (23.59%) GitHub
9 62 (21.83%) GitHub Actions
10 60 (21.13%) Amazon EKS
11 58 (20.42%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (17.61%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (16.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (10.21%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (8.80%) AWS Step Functions
16 20 (7.04%) AWS CodePipeline
17 17 (5.99%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (5.28%) Datadog
19 14 (4.93%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.86%) Firewall
2 27 (9.51%) DNS
3 12 (4.23%) Network Security
4 11 (3.87%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.17%) WAN
6 8 (2.82%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.46%) DHCP
7 7 (2.46%) VPN
8 4 (1.41%) HTTP
8 4 (1.41%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.41%) SSL
9 3 (1.06%) CTI
10 2 (0.70%) BGP
10 2 (0.70%) Internet
11 1 (0.35%) 4G
11 1 (0.35%) LAN
11 1 (0.35%) MPLS
11 1 (0.35%) OSPF
11 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.15%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.45%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.69%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (6.69%) Data Lake
4 18 (6.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.17%) BigQuery
6 9 (3.17%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.82%) Mixpanel
7 8 (2.82%) Power BI
8 7 (2.46%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.46%) MySQL
8 7 (2.46%) OLAP
8 7 (2.46%) OLTP
8 7 (2.46%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.76%) Metadata
11 4 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.41%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 72 (25.35%) Jenkins
2 56 (19.72%) GitLab
3 42 (14.79%) Git
4 24 (8.45%) JIRA
5 18 (6.34%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.17%) Snyk
6 9 (3.17%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.82%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.76%) JUnit
8 5 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.06%) Mockito
11 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.70%) Maven
11 2 (0.70%) MLflow
11 2 (0.70%) Selenium
11 2 (0.70%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.70%) Vite
12 1 (0.35%) Postman
General
1 70 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.44%) Finance
2 41 (14.44%) Public Sector
3 17 (5.99%) Banking
4 13 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.41%) Law
8 3 (1.06%) Games
8 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.70%) Front Office
9 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.70%) Military
9 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Billing
10 1 (0.35%) Local Government
10 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (20.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (19.01%) AWS Engineer
3 46 (16.20%) Architect
4 40 (14.08%) Lead
5 35 (12.32%) Senior
6 34 (11.97%) AWS DevOps
7 33 (11.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 29 (10.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (8.45%) Developer
10 23 (8.10%) Data Engineer
11 18 (6.34%) Security Engineer
12 16 (5.63%) AWS Architect
13 13 (4.58%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.23%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
15 10 (3.52%) Network Engineer
15 10 (3.52%) Principal Engineer
16 9 (3.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.27%) AWS CDK
2 31 (10.92%) Kafka
3 21 (7.39%) Node.js
4 19 (6.69%) REST
5 17 (5.99%) RESTful
6 15 (5.28%) PySpark
6 15 (5.28%) React
7 13 (4.58%) Great Expectations
8 10 (3.52%) OAuth
9 9 (3.17%) ARM Templates
10 8 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.82%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.46%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.46%) Pandas
11 7 (2.46%) Spring
12 6 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (1.76%) AngularJS
14 4 (1.41%) boto
15 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
15 3 (1.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 98 (34.51%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.39%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 11 (3.87%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (3.87%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.46%) Replication
9 6 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.06%) IVR
12 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.08%) Linux
2 28 (9.86%) Windows
3 14 (4.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.41%) AIX
5 4 (1.41%) Unix
6 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (87.68%) Infrastructure as Code
2 219 (77.11%) CI/CD
3 182 (64.08%) DevOps
4 97 (34.15%) Containerisation
5 89 (31.34%) Agile
6 68 (23.94%) Observability
7 51 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (16.55%) Platform Engineering
9 44 (15.49%) Cloud Security
9 44 (15.49%) Microservices
10 42 (14.79%) AI
11 40 (14.08%) DevSecOps
12 37 (13.03%) Analytics
12 37 (13.03%) Migration
13 35 (12.32%) High Availability
13 35 (12.32%) Scrum
13 35 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (12.32%) Test Automation
14 32 (11.27%) Infrastructure Automation
14 32 (11.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 148 (52.11%) Python
2 58 (20.42%) Bash
3 48 (16.90%) PowerShell
4 43 (15.14%) SQL
5 32 (11.27%) Java
6 30 (10.56%) Bicep
7 15 (5.28%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.87%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.17%) C#
10 8 (2.82%) Go
11 5 (1.76%) Ruby
11 5 (1.76%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.41%) Groovy
13 3 (1.06%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.06%) Scala
14 2 (0.70%) C
14 2 (0.70%) R
15 1 (0.35%) C++
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (33.80%) Security Cleared
2 83 (29.23%) SC Cleared
3 39 (13.73%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.34%) Degree
5 16 (5.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (4.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (4.58%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.17%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.17%) SAFe Agilist
9 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.41%) CISSP
10 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.70%) PMP
11 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.75%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.99%) GDPR
3 13 (4.58%) NIST
3 13 (4.58%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.23%) QA
5 9 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) WCAG
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 108 (38.03%) Docker
2 5 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.06%) Squid
4 2 (0.70%) Corosync
4 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 264 (92.96%) Terraform
2 112 (39.44%) Kubernetes
3 39 (13.73%) Grafana
4 38 (13.38%) Prometheus
5 31 (10.92%) Ansible
6 13 (4.58%) Puppet
7 11 (3.87%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.46%) Argo
8 7 (2.46%) Istio
9 6 (2.11%) linkerd
10 4 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.41%) Packer
11 3 (1.06%) Pacemaker
11 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.35%) Kibana
13 1 (0.35%) Nessus
13 1 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 28 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.80%) Google
3 15 (5.28%) Splunk
4 14 (4.93%) Red Hat
5 13 (4.58%) Databricks
6 8 (2.82%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.11%) Oracle
7 6 (2.11%) VMware
8 5 (1.76%) Cisco
8 5 (1.76%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.76%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.41%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.06%) SAP
10 3 (1.06%) Sybase
10 3 (1.06%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.06%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.70%) New Relic
11 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow