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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 296 325
Rank change year-on-year +30 +29 -40
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 307 190 227
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 0.71% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.60% 1.94% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 142 162
10th Percentile £400 £380 £425
25th Percentile £458 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £614 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +6.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £747 £675
90th Percentile £700 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £528 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -9.83% +6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - -

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 11,786 9,808 12,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.00% 36.72% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,146 6,531 9,054
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 130 239
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £45.89 £50.79
90th Percentile £78.45 £64.78 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.43 £23.11
% change year-on-year +0.27% +18.68% +2.70%

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 January 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 January 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 +35 173 £575 -11.54% 53
North of England -22 65 £500 -20.95% 30
North West -16 34 £475 -2.56% 12
South East +2 26 £530 -18.46% 46
Yorkshire -29 26 £500 -28.57% 16
South West -9 12 £563 +2.27% 15
West Midlands -24 12 £575 +24.32% 9
Midlands -35 12 £575 +35.29% 13
North East -5 5 £466 -31.85% 2
East of England - 2 £600 - 14
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 18 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.54%) Apache
2 17 (5.54%) Confluence
3 15 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (4.56%) nginx
5 6 (1.95%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 294 (95.77%) AWS
2 116 (37.79%) Serverless
3 112 (36.48%) AWS Lambda
4 102 (33.22%) Amazon S3
5 98 (31.92%) GitHub
6 84 (27.36%) Azure
7 82 (26.71%) Amazon ECS
8 79 (25.73%) GitHub Actions
9 64 (20.85%) Amazon EC2
9 64 (20.85%) Amazon EKS
10 58 (18.89%) GCP
11 52 (16.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 50 (16.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (9.45%) Datadog
14 28 (9.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 25 (8.14%) AWS KMS
16 24 (7.82%) AWS CodePipeline
17 19 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (6.19%) AWS CloudTrail
17 19 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.10%) DNS
2 18 (5.86%) Firewall
3 13 (4.23%) VPN
4 10 (3.26%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.95%) Network Security
6 5 (1.63%) DHCP
6 5 (1.63%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.98%) HTTP
7 3 (0.98%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.65%) Internet
8 2 (0.65%) SSL
9 1 (0.33%) NAS
9 1 (0.33%) SAN
9 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (20.85%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (7.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 24 (7.82%) Data Lake
4 21 (6.84%) DynamoDB
5 18 (5.86%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (5.54%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (3.91%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.58%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.58%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.58%) Power BI
10 10 (3.26%) MySQL
11 8 (2.61%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.61%) Mixpanel
11 8 (2.61%) OLAP
11 8 (2.61%) OLTP
12 7 (2.28%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.95%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 91 (29.64%) Jenkins
2 69 (22.48%) GitLab
3 68 (22.15%) Git
4 28 (9.12%) JIRA
5 15 (4.89%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.58%) CircleCI
7 10 (3.26%) Maven
7 10 (3.26%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.61%) Gradle
8 8 (2.61%) JUnit
8 8 (2.61%) Terragrunt
9 7 (2.28%) Artifactory
9 7 (2.28%) Snyk
10 6 (1.95%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.95%) Selenium
11 5 (1.63%) Postman
11 5 (1.63%) webpack
12 3 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
General
1 65 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.89%) Public Sector
3 47 (15.31%) Finance
4 18 (5.86%) Banking
5 12 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.95%) Law
8 5 (1.63%) Games
9 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.65%) Legal
9 2 (0.65%) Police
10 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.33%) Aviation
10 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.33%) Marketing
10 1 (0.33%) Military
10 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (20.20%) AWS Engineer
2 61 (19.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (13.36%) Architect
4 37 (12.05%) Senior
5 32 (10.42%) Lead
6 28 (9.12%) AWS DevOps
6 28 (9.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (8.79%) Data Engineer
8 26 (8.47%) Developer
8 26 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
9 25 (8.14%) AWS Architect
10 23 (7.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.54%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (5.54%) Site Engineer
12 15 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (4.56%) Security Engineer
14 13 (4.23%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 10 (3.26%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (16.61%) Kafka
2 27 (8.79%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (8.47%) Node.js
4 25 (8.14%) AWS CDK
5 22 (7.17%) RESTful
6 20 (6.51%) React
7 18 (5.86%) Spring
8 17 (5.54%) Spring Boot
9 16 (5.21%) REST
10 10 (3.26%) JSON
11 9 (2.93%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.61%) Great Expectations
12 8 (2.61%) Vue
12 8 (2.61%) YAML
13 7 (2.28%) ARM Templates
13 7 (2.28%) Django
13 7 (2.28%) FastAPI
13 7 (2.28%) Keycloak
13 7 (2.28%) OAuth
13 7 (2.28%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.52%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.93%) PKI
4 9 (2.93%) Private Cloud
5 7 (2.28%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.28%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.28%) NHS
5 7 (2.28%) Replication
6 6 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.30%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.98%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.98%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.98%) SCADA
10 2 (0.65%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 81 (26.38%) Linux
2 18 (5.86%) Unix
3 15 (4.89%) Windows
4 5 (1.63%) CentOS
4 5 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.98%) VMS
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (77.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 237 (77.20%) CI/CD
3 182 (59.28%) DevOps
4 99 (32.25%) Containerisation
5 73 (23.78%) Agile
6 68 (22.15%) Observability
7 49 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (14.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 42 (13.68%) Microservices
10 40 (13.03%) Platform Engineering
11 38 (12.38%) Infrastructure Automation
11 38 (12.38%) Migration
12 37 (12.05%) DevSecOps
13 36 (11.73%) Software Engineering
14 34 (11.07%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (10.42%) Incident Response
16 31 (10.10%) Cloud Security
16 31 (10.10%) Configuration Management
17 30 (9.77%) AI
17 30 (9.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 159 (51.79%) Python
2 56 (18.24%) Bash
3 45 (14.66%) SQL
4 43 (14.01%) Java
5 30 (9.77%) PowerShell
6 25 (8.14%) Go
7 21 (6.84%) Ruby
8 20 (6.51%) TypeScript
9 19 (6.19%) JavaScript
10 16 (5.21%) Shell Script
11 10 (3.26%) C#
12 6 (1.95%) Perl
13 4 (1.30%) Bicep
13 4 (1.30%) Scala
14 3 (0.98%) C
15 1 (0.33%) C++
15 1 (0.33%) Groovy
15 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.33%) PHP
15 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 94 (30.62%) Security Cleared
2 76 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 56 (18.24%) AWS Certification
4 21 (6.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (4.89%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.93%) Degree
8 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.63%) CISSP
9 5 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.30%) MCP
11 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.98%) IBM Certification
11 3 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.65%) CCSP
12 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.42%) GDPR
2 23 (7.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (6.19%) NIST
4 16 (5.21%) QA
5 15 (4.89%) NCSC
6 13 (4.23%) Data Quality
7 10 (3.26%) PCI DSS
8 8 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.63%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.63%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.98%) SLA
10 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.33%) GRC
12 1 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 124 (40.39%) Docker
2 7 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 277 (90.23%) Terraform
2 123 (40.07%) Kubernetes
3 76 (24.76%) Ansible
4 50 (16.29%) Grafana
5 34 (11.07%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.82%) Puppet
7 19 (6.19%) Packer
8 15 (4.89%) Progress Chef
9 11 (3.58%) Consul
10 6 (1.95%) Podman
11 5 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (1.63%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.30%) Kibana
13 3 (0.98%) Argo
13 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.65%) Istio
14 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.33%) Bitnami
15 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 22 (7.17%) Microsoft
1 22 (7.17%) Splunk
2 19 (6.19%) Databricks
2 19 (6.19%) Google
3 12 (3.91%) IBM
4 10 (3.26%) CloudEndure
4 10 (3.26%) Oracle
5 8 (2.61%) PagerDuty
5 8 (2.61%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.28%) Citrix
6 7 (2.28%) Confluent
7 6 (1.95%) VMware
8 5 (1.63%) Okta
9 4 (1.30%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.98%) Cisco
10 3 (0.98%) Ping Identity
10 3 (0.98%) Sybase
10 3 (0.98%) Tenable
11 2 (0.65%) Qualys
11 2 (0.65%) Red Hat