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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 285 357
Rank change year-on-year -41 +72 -34
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 299 211 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.86% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.29% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 156 122
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £447 £475 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £694 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £563 £509
% change year-on-year -8.89% +10.51% -7.45%
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 14,936 9,233 11,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.66% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,137 6,286 8,600
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +1.59% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 225 329
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +61.02% +18.83% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £38.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £28.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year +30.02% +32.79% -39.65%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -17 207 £575 -4.17% 52
North of England -63 25 £581 +40.85% 25
Midlands -52 19 £463 -15.91% 7
South West -13 18 £450 -25.00% 23
West Midlands -50 15 £477 -4.60% 3
North West -29 14 £581 +45.25% 15
Yorkshire -44 11 £625 +21.95% 9
South East -66 11 £485 -14.25% 16
East of England -21 6 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands -19 4 £442 -36.82% 4
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 21 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 19 (6.35%) Apache
3 13 (4.35%) Confluence
4 5 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.00%) SAS
7 2 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.67%) nginx
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 291 (97.32%) AWS
2 110 (36.79%) Amazon S3
2 110 (36.79%) Serverless
3 106 (35.45%) Azure
4 95 (31.77%) AWS Lambda
5 86 (28.76%) GitHub
6 83 (27.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 73 (24.41%) GCP
7 73 (24.41%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (23.41%) Amazon ECS
9 69 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (16.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 49 (16.39%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (10.70%) AWS CodePipeline
13 30 (10.03%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (5.69%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (5.35%) Route 53
17 14 (4.68%) AWS CloudTrail
17 14 (4.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.03%) DNS
2 18 (6.02%) Firewall
3 12 (4.01%) Network Security
4 9 (3.01%) WAN
5 7 (2.34%) VPN
6 6 (2.01%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.34%) SSL
8 3 (1.00%) BGP
8 3 (1.00%) HTTP
8 3 (1.00%) OSPF
8 3 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.67%) Internet
10 1 (0.33%) 4G
10 1 (0.33%) 5G
10 1 (0.33%) CTI
10 1 (0.33%) LAN
10 1 (0.33%) MPLS
10 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.37%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
2 23 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (7.36%) Data Lake
4 20 (6.69%) DynamoDB
5 19 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.01%) BigQuery
6 12 (4.01%) Mixpanel
6 12 (4.01%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.01%) Power BI
7 11 (3.68%) OLAP
7 11 (3.68%) OLTP
8 10 (3.34%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.34%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.34%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.68%) Redis
10 7 (2.34%) MySQL
11 6 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.67%) Metadata
12 5 (1.67%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 76 (25.42%) Jenkins
2 62 (20.74%) GitLab
3 44 (14.72%) Git
4 25 (8.36%) JIRA
5 16 (5.35%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.34%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.34%) Snyk
7 7 (2.34%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.00%) JUnit
8 3 (1.00%) Vite
9 2 (0.67%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.67%) MLflow
9 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.67%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.33%) git-flow
10 1 (0.33%) Mockito
10 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 79 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.38%) Finance
3 40 (13.38%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.02%) Banking
5 10 (3.34%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.34%) Law
8 6 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.00%) Games
10 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.67%) Front Office
11 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Military
11 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (19.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (19.40%) AWS Engineer
3 44 (14.72%) Architect
4 41 (13.71%) Lead
5 36 (12.04%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (12.04%) Senior
6 35 (11.71%) AWS DevOps
7 30 (10.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 29 (9.70%) Data Engineer
9 25 (8.36%) Developer
10 20 (6.69%) AWS Architect
11 17 (5.69%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.68%) Security Engineer
13 13 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (3.68%) Lead DevOps
14 11 (3.68%) Principal Data Engineer
14 11 (3.68%) Software Engineer
15 10 (3.34%) Lead Data Engineer
16 9 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
16 9 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.38%) Kafka
2 36 (12.04%) AWS CDK
3 24 (8.03%) Node.js
4 23 (7.69%) RESTful
5 19 (6.35%) OAuth
6 17 (5.69%) Great Expectations
6 17 (5.69%) PySpark
6 17 (5.69%) React
7 16 (5.35%) REST
8 13 (4.35%) OAuth2
9 12 (4.01%) Spring
9 12 (4.01%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.68%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (3.34%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (3.01%) .NET
12 9 (3.01%) OpenID
13 7 (2.34%) boto
13 7 (2.34%) Pandas
14 6 (2.01%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.01%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 108 (36.12%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.03%) Product Ownership
3 21 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.68%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.34%) Replication
5 7 (2.34%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.01%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.67%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.67%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.34%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.34%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.00%) Equities
9 3 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.37%) Linux
2 19 (6.35%) Windows
3 9 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.67%) Unix
5 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (84.28%) CI/CD
2 248 (82.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 192 (64.21%) DevOps
4 102 (34.11%) Containerisation
5 82 (27.42%) Agile
5 82 (27.42%) Observability
6 55 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (16.39%) DevSecOps
8 48 (16.05%) Microservices
9 46 (15.38%) AI
10 42 (14.05%) Analytics
11 40 (13.38%) High Availability
12 38 (12.71%) Platform Engineering
13 37 (12.37%) Infrastructure Automation
14 36 (12.04%) Incident Response
14 36 (12.04%) Mentoring
15 35 (11.71%) Data Engineering
16 34 (11.37%) Cloud Security
16 34 (11.37%) Event-Driven
16 34 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (45.82%) Python
2 56 (18.73%) SQL
3 47 (15.72%) Java
4 39 (13.04%) Bash
5 31 (10.37%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.35%) Bicep
7 17 (5.69%) JavaScript
8 15 (5.02%) C#
9 12 (4.01%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.34%) Go
11 6 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.67%) Ruby
13 3 (1.00%) Groovy
13 3 (1.00%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.00%) Scala
14 2 (0.67%) C
15 1 (0.33%) Perl
15 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.33%) R
15 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 89 (29.77%) Security Cleared
2 76 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 43 (14.38%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (5.35%) Degree
5 15 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (3.34%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.01%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.34%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.34%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.67%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.34%) CISSP
12 4 (1.34%) IBM Certification
13 3 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.00%) CCSP
13 3 (1.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.36%) GDPR
2 25 (8.36%) NIST
3 22 (7.36%) Data Quality
4 21 (7.02%) PCI DSS
5 16 (5.35%) QA
6 15 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.34%) GRC
7 4 (1.34%) SLA
8 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.67%) NCSC
10 1 (0.33%) HL7
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 116 (38.80%) Docker
2 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.00%) Squid
3 2 (0.67%) Corosync
3 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 274 (91.64%) Terraform
2 114 (38.13%) Kubernetes
3 40 (13.38%) Ansible
4 38 (12.71%) Prometheus
5 37 (12.37%) Grafana
6 10 (3.34%) Puppet
7 8 (2.68%) Argo
7 8 (2.68%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.34%) Istio
8 7 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.01%) linkerd
10 5 (1.67%) Packer
11 4 (1.34%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (1.00%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.67%) Consul
13 2 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.67%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.67%) Kibana
13 2 (0.67%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.33%) CloudForms
Vendors
1 24 (8.03%) Google
2 21 (7.02%) Databricks
3 20 (6.69%) Splunk
4 16 (5.35%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.68%) Oracle
6 9 (3.01%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.01%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.01%) IBM
8 5 (1.67%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.67%) New Relic
8 5 (1.67%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.67%) SAP
8 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.34%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.34%) Qualys
9 4 (1.34%) Sybase
9 4 (1.34%) Tenable
10 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.00%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.00%) Zscaler