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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 271 350
Rank change year-on-year +17 +79 -40
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 374 216 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.88% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.72% 2.34% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 162 156
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £523 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £675
90th Percentile £691 £788 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.52% -2.18%
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 13,733 9,237 12,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.97% 37.79% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,472 6,447 8,758
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 169 330
10th Percentile £15.54 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +25.09% -16.10%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £40.75
90th Percentile £79.85 £75.10 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +42.31% +21.67% -17.26%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +28 242 £550 -8.33% 48
North of England -45 55 £500 -25.93% 36
North West -11 32 £510 -7.36% 11
South East -40 27 £518 -15.85% 20
Yorkshire -57 18 £500 -29.82% 16
Midlands -51 16 £450 -5.26% 5
South West -16 14 £588 +6.82% 16
West Midlands -54 13 £463 -2.63% 3
North East -11 5 £466 -37.87% 9
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 2
East of England -20 1 £600 -22.58% 11
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 34 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 32 (8.56%) Apache
3 22 (5.88%) Confluence
4 15 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (4.01%) nginx
5 5 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.53%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Actimize
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 360 (96.26%) AWS
2 133 (35.56%) Amazon S3
3 129 (34.49%) Serverless
4 121 (32.35%) AWS Lambda
5 113 (30.21%) Azure
6 110 (29.41%) GitHub
7 102 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
8 88 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
9 81 (21.66%) GCP
10 79 (21.12%) Amazon EKS
11 75 (20.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 72 (19.25%) Amazon EC2
13 64 (17.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 45 (12.03%) AWS CodePipeline
15 33 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
16 31 (8.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 24 (6.42%) AWS KMS
18 23 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
18 23 (6.15%) Route 53
19 21 (5.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.36%) DNS
2 23 (6.15%) Firewall
3 16 (4.28%) VPN
4 14 (3.74%) Network Security
5 9 (2.41%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.34%) DHCP
8 3 (0.80%) HTTP
8 3 (0.80%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.80%) WAN
9 2 (0.53%) BGP
9 2 (0.53%) OSPF
10 1 (0.27%) 4G
10 1 (0.27%) 5G
10 1 (0.27%) Internet
10 1 (0.27%) NAS
10 1 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (15.24%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (10.16%) Data Lake
3 36 (9.63%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
5 27 (7.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (5.61%) Power BI
7 20 (5.35%) DynamoDB
8 18 (4.81%) BigQuery
8 18 (4.81%) Mixpanel
9 17 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (4.55%) OLAP
9 17 (4.55%) OLTP
9 17 (4.55%) SQL Server
10 14 (3.74%) NoSQL
11 13 (3.48%) MongoDB
12 8 (2.14%) Redis
12 8 (2.14%) Redshift Spectrum
12 8 (2.14%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.87%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 91 (24.33%) Jenkins
2 77 (20.59%) Git
3 76 (20.32%) GitLab
4 32 (8.56%) JIRA
5 20 (5.35%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.41%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.14%) JUnit
8 7 (1.87%) Snyk
8 7 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.60%) Maven
9 6 (1.60%) Terragrunt
10 5 (1.34%) Gradle
11 4 (1.07%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.80%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.80%) Selenium
12 3 (0.80%) Vite
13 2 (0.53%) Postman
13 2 (0.53%) webpack
14 1 (0.27%) git-flow
General
1 86 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.72%) Public Sector
3 56 (14.97%) Finance
4 22 (5.88%) Banking
5 21 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.34%) Law
10 3 (0.80%) Games
10 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.53%) Legal
11 2 (0.53%) Marketing
11 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Billing
12 1 (0.27%) Front Office
12 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (17.91%) AWS Engineer
2 64 (17.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 56 (14.97%) Architect
4 50 (13.37%) Lead
5 44 (11.76%) Senior
6 38 (10.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (10.16%) Data Engineer
7 32 (8.56%) Developer
8 31 (8.29%) AWS DevOps
9 29 (7.75%) AWS Architect
10 25 (6.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 23 (6.15%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (5.88%) Security Engineer
13 20 (5.35%) Site Engineer
14 19 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (4.81%) Software Engineer
16 17 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
17 15 (4.01%) Principal Data Engineer
18 13 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
18 13 (3.48%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (16.58%) Kafka
2 33 (8.82%) RESTful
3 29 (7.75%) AWS CDK
3 29 (7.75%) Node.js
4 25 (6.68%) Spring
5 24 (6.42%) Spring Boot
6 20 (5.35%) REST
7 19 (5.08%) React
8 18 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (4.81%) Great Expectations
9 17 (4.55%) OAuth
10 12 (3.21%) OAuth2
11 11 (2.94%) PySpark
12 10 (2.67%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (2.41%) .NET
13 9 (2.41%) boto
13 9 (2.41%) OpenID
13 9 (2.41%) Vue
14 8 (2.14%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 104 (27.81%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.28%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.87%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (1.60%) NHS
6 6 (1.60%) PKI
6 6 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.34%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.34%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.34%) Replication
7 5 (1.34%) SCADA
8 4 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.07%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 77 (20.59%) Linux
2 23 (6.15%) Windows
3 12 (3.21%) Unix
4 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.80%) VMS
5 2 (0.53%) CentOS
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (80.75%) CI/CD
2 292 (78.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 220 (58.82%) DevOps
4 121 (32.35%) Containerisation
5 107 (28.61%) Agile
6 88 (23.53%) Observability
7 59 (15.78%) Microservices
8 54 (14.44%) Analytics
9 51 (13.64%) AI
10 50 (13.37%) Migration
11 49 (13.10%) DevSecOps
11 49 (13.10%) Infrastructure Automation
12 48 (12.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 47 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
14 46 (12.30%) Data Engineering
15 44 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
16 43 (11.50%) Data Modelling
16 43 (11.50%) ETL
16 43 (11.50%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 187 (50.00%) Python
2 71 (18.98%) SQL
3 58 (15.51%) Java
4 57 (15.24%) Bash
5 36 (9.63%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.61%) C#
7 20 (5.35%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.35%) Ruby
8 17 (4.55%) Bicep
8 17 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.48%) Go
10 8 (2.14%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.34%) Scala
12 4 (1.07%) Perl
13 3 (0.80%) C
14 2 (0.53%) SAS Macro
15 1 (0.27%) Groovy
15 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.27%) R
15 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 117 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 100 (26.74%) SC Cleared
3 72 (19.25%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (4.81%) Degree
6 17 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (3.48%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.48%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.87%) CISSP
10 7 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.34%) CCSP
11 5 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.34%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.07%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.80%) SANS
13 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (13.37%) GDPR
2 29 (7.75%) NIST
3 27 (7.22%) Data Quality
4 26 (6.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (5.61%) QA
6 18 (4.81%) PCI DSS
7 12 (3.21%) NCSC
8 8 (2.14%) Accessibility
8 8 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.60%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.07%) GRC
10 4 (1.07%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.80%) SLA
12 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.27%) MiFID
13 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 163 (43.58%) Docker
2 7 (1.87%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.34%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 337 (90.11%) Terraform
2 149 (39.84%) Kubernetes
3 67 (17.91%) Ansible
4 46 (12.30%) Grafana
5 42 (11.23%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.81%) Puppet
7 16 (4.28%) Packer
8 13 (3.48%) Consul
9 12 (3.21%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.87%) Argo
10 7 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.34%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.07%) Istio
12 4 (1.07%) Kibana
12 4 (1.07%) linkerd
13 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.53%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.53%) Podman
14 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 35 (9.36%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.56%) Databricks
3 31 (8.29%) Google
4 26 (6.95%) Splunk
5 10 (2.67%) CloudEndure
5 10 (2.67%) Oracle
6 9 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.14%) PagerDuty
8 7 (1.87%) Citrix
8 7 (1.87%) IBM
8 7 (1.87%) VMware
9 6 (1.60%) AVEVA
9 6 (1.60%) Rapid7
10 5 (1.34%) New Relic
10 5 (1.34%) Sybase
11 4 (1.07%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.07%) Qualys
11 4 (1.07%) Tenable
12 3 (0.80%) Ping Identity
13 2 (0.53%) Okta