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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 262 374
Rank change year-on-year -33 +112 -53
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 312 212 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.88% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 2.37% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 164 123
10th Percentile £400 £400 £426
25th Percentile £450 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £646 £646 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £511
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.52% -7.09%
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 14,456 8,952 11,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.33% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,880 6,189 8,457
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 198 324
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.88
Median hourly rate £41.78 £26.45 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +57.96% +23.77% -34.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £38.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.63 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.60 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.37% +33.83% -38.94%

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 May 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 May 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 +1 210 £575 -4.17% 40
North of England -65 30 £591 +39.76% 30
South West -17 19 £543 -3.56% 14
Midlands -56 19 £463 +2.78% 6
South East -44 17 £505 -12.17% 9
North West -42 16 £581 +45.25% 14
West Midlands -47 15 £475 +5.56% 2
Yorkshire -47 13 £563 +7.14% 13
East of England -27 6 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands -21 4 £442 -36.82% 4
North East -29 1 £750 +80.18% 3
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 27 (8.65%) Apache Spark
2 25 (8.01%) Apache
3 12 (3.85%) Confluence
4 6 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.60%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.96%) SAS
7 2 (0.64%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.64%) nginx
8 1 (0.32%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
1 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 303 (97.12%) AWS
2 113 (36.22%) Azure
3 111 (35.58%) Amazon S3
4 110 (35.26%) Serverless
5 99 (31.73%) AWS Lambda
6 97 (31.09%) GitHub
7 80 (25.64%) Amazon ECS
7 80 (25.64%) GitHub Actions
8 78 (25.00%) GCP
9 74 (23.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 66 (21.15%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (17.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 49 (15.71%) Amazon EC2
13 41 (13.14%) AWS CodePipeline
14 32 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (6.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 18 (5.77%) AWS KMS
17 18 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 16 (5.13%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.26%) DNS
2 16 (5.13%) Firewall
3 12 (3.85%) Network Security
4 9 (2.88%) VPN
5 7 (2.24%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.92%) WAN
7 3 (0.96%) BGP
7 3 (0.96%) HTTP
7 3 (0.96%) OSPF
7 3 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.64%) SSL
9 1 (0.32%) 4G
9 1 (0.32%) 5G
9 1 (0.32%) Internet
9 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.32%) LAN
9 1 (0.32%) MPLS
9 1 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.94%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (8.65%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (8.65%) Data Lake
3 26 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (6.09%) DynamoDB
5 16 (5.13%) BigQuery
5 16 (5.13%) Mixpanel
5 16 (5.13%) Power BI
6 15 (4.81%) OLAP
6 15 (4.81%) OLTP
7 12 (3.85%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.21%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.21%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.56%) Redis
11 7 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.92%) Metadata
12 6 (1.92%) MySQL
13 5 (1.60%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 78 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 68 (21.79%) GitLab
3 53 (16.99%) Git
4 20 (6.41%) JIRA
5 17 (5.45%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.21%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.21%) Snyk
7 7 (2.24%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.28%) JUnit
8 4 (1.28%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.96%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.96%) MLflow
9 3 (0.96%) Selenium
9 3 (0.96%) Vite
10 2 (0.64%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.64%) Maven
10 2 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.32%) Gradle
11 1 (0.32%) Postman
11 1 (0.32%) Spinnaker
General
1 77 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.71%) Finance
2 49 (15.71%) Public Sector
3 17 (5.45%) Banking
4 12 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (0.96%) Games
7 3 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (0.96%) Law
8 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.64%) Front Office
8 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.64%) Marketing
8 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.32%) Billing
9 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (16.67%) Architect
2 52 (16.67%) Lead
3 51 (16.35%) AWS Engineer
4 35 (11.22%) Senior
5 33 (10.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (10.26%) Data Engineer
7 27 (8.65%) AWS DevOps
8 26 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
9 23 (7.37%) Developer
10 22 (7.05%) AWS Architect
10 22 (7.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.13%) Security Engineer
12 15 (4.81%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 13 (4.17%) Principal Data Engineer
14 13 (4.17%) Site Engineer
14 13 (4.17%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.53%) Lead DevOps
16 10 (3.21%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (16.35%) Kafka
2 31 (9.94%) AWS CDK
3 26 (8.33%) Node.js
4 25 (8.01%) RESTful
5 21 (6.73%) Great Expectations
6 18 (5.77%) OAuth
6 18 (5.77%) PySpark
7 16 (5.13%) React
8 15 (4.81%) Spring
8 15 (4.81%) Spring Boot
9 14 (4.49%) REST
10 12 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (3.85%) OAuth2
11 10 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (2.88%) .NET
12 9 (2.88%) boto
12 9 (2.88%) OpenID
13 8 (2.56%) Pandas
14 7 (2.24%) AngularJS
15 6 (1.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 107 (34.29%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.24%) Replication
6 7 (2.24%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.92%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.60%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.28%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.28%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.96%) Equities
11 2 (0.64%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (14.10%) Linux
2 15 (4.81%) Windows
3 5 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 251 (80.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 193 (61.86%) DevOps
4 104 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 85 (27.24%) Observability
6 81 (25.96%) Agile
7 54 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (15.71%) AI
8 49 (15.71%) DevSecOps
9 47 (15.06%) Analytics
9 47 (15.06%) Microservices
10 41 (13.14%) High Availability
11 39 (12.50%) Data Engineering
12 38 (12.18%) Migration
13 37 (11.86%) Event-Driven
13 37 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (11.54%) Data Modelling
15 35 (11.22%) Incident Response
15 35 (11.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 34 (10.90%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 146 (46.79%) Python
2 60 (19.23%) SQL
3 51 (16.35%) Java
4 41 (13.14%) Bash
5 28 (8.97%) PowerShell
6 20 (6.41%) Bicep
7 19 (6.09%) C#
8 17 (5.45%) JavaScript
9 14 (4.49%) TypeScript
10 13 (4.17%) Ruby
11 10 (3.21%) Go
12 6 (1.92%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.96%) Groovy
13 3 (0.96%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.96%) Scala
14 2 (0.64%) C
15 1 (0.32%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.32%) R
15 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 96 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 82 (26.28%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.45%) Degree
6 16 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (3.21%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (2.56%) SAFe Agilist
9 5 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.28%) CISSP
10 4 (1.28%) IBM Certification
11 3 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.96%) CCSP
11 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.58%) GDPR
2 26 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.33%) NIST
3 20 (6.41%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (4.81%) QA
6 9 (2.88%) NCSC
7 6 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.60%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.28%) GRC
9 4 (1.28%) SLA
10 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.32%) HL7
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.32%) MiFID
11 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 118 (37.82%) Docker
2 6 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.64%) Corosync
4 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.64%) Squid
4 2 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 284 (91.03%) Terraform
2 122 (39.10%) Kubernetes
3 47 (15.06%) Ansible
4 38 (12.18%) Prometheus
5 37 (11.86%) Grafana
6 12 (3.85%) Puppet
7 10 (3.21%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.92%) Argo
10 5 (1.60%) Istio
10 5 (1.60%) linkerd
11 4 (1.28%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.28%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.28%) Kibana
12 3 (0.96%) Pacemaker
12 3 (0.96%) Packer
13 2 (0.64%) Consul
13 2 (0.64%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.32%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 26 (8.33%) Google
2 25 (8.01%) Databricks
3 22 (7.05%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.73%) Splunk
5 10 (3.21%) Oracle
6 8 (2.56%) Citrix
7 6 (1.92%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.92%) CloudEndure
7 6 (1.92%) IBM
7 6 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.60%) New Relic
8 5 (1.60%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.60%) SAP
9 4 (1.28%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.28%) Qualys
9 4 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.28%) Tenable
10 2 (0.64%) Globalscape
10 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.64%) Zscaler