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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 261 378
Rank change year-on-year -93 +117 -40
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 288 262 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.96% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 2.57% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 191 105
10th Percentile £400 £400 £414
25th Percentile £450 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £635 £675
90th Percentile £669 £688 £778
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.27% -3.24%
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 15,685 10,209 12,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.41% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,533 6,894 8,591
10th Percentile £325 £311 £311
25th Percentile £418 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -2.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 269 324
10th Percentile £16.63 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £27.76 £22.30
% change year-on-year +33.50% +24.48% -36.29%

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 13 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 13 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 -54 190 £573 -4.58% 58
Midlands -38 21 £470 -6.05% 8
South West -21 20 £450 -25.00% 25
South East -62 19 £549 -2.88% 19
North of England -86 19 £623 +51.55% 32
West Midlands -57 17 £477 +6.00% 4
North West -53 12 £600 +50.00% 17
Yorkshire -59 7 £663 +32.50% 5
East of England -23 6 £450 -5.26% 1
East Midlands -11 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 18 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.56%) Apache
3 14 (4.86%) Confluence
4 5 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.04%) SAS
7 2 (0.69%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.69%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 282 (97.92%) AWS
2 107 (37.15%) Azure
3 102 (35.42%) Serverless
4 100 (34.72%) Amazon S3
5 85 (29.51%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 75 (26.04%) GitHub
8 72 (25.00%) GCP
9 66 (22.92%) Amazon ECS
10 65 (22.57%) GitHub Actions
11 63 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
12 49 (17.01%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (16.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 31 (10.76%) AWS CodePipeline
15 25 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
16 23 (7.99%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (6.60%) Route 53
18 18 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
19 14 (4.86%) AWS CloudTrail
19 14 (4.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.72%) DNS
2 27 (9.38%) Firewall
3 14 (4.86%) Network Security
4 11 (3.82%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.82%) WAN
5 9 (3.13%) VPN
6 8 (2.78%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.43%) DHCP
8 4 (1.39%) BGP
8 4 (1.39%) HTTP
8 4 (1.39%) SSL
9 3 (1.04%) CTI
9 3 (1.04%) OSPF
9 3 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.04%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.69%) Internet
10 2 (0.69%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.35%) 5G
11 1 (0.35%) MPLS
11 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (6.60%) Amazon Athena
2 19 (6.60%) Data Lake
3 18 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (5.90%) DynamoDB
5 15 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.47%) BigQuery
7 9 (3.13%) Mixpanel
7 9 (3.13%) Power BI
8 8 (2.78%) OLAP
8 8 (2.78%) OLTP
8 8 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.43%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.43%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.74%) Metadata
11 5 (1.74%) Redshift Spectrum
12 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (26.04%) Jenkins
2 57 (19.79%) GitLab
3 39 (13.54%) Git
4 25 (8.68%) JIRA
5 17 (5.90%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.13%) Snyk
7 7 (2.43%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.43%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.04%) Vite
9 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.69%) JUnit
9 2 (0.69%) MLflow
9 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.69%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.35%) git-flow
10 1 (0.35%) Mockito
10 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 76 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.24%) Public Sector
3 39 (13.54%) Finance
4 16 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.21%) Banking
6 9 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.39%) Law
11 3 (1.04%) Games
11 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.69%) Front Office
12 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.69%) Military
12 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Billing
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (21.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (20.14%) AWS Engineer
3 49 (17.01%) Architect
4 43 (14.93%) Lead
5 36 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
6 35 (12.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (12.15%) Senior
7 31 (10.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.33%) Data Engineer
9 21 (7.29%) Developer
10 18 (6.25%) AWS Architect
11 15 (5.21%) Security Engineer
12 13 (4.51%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (4.51%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.82%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (3.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.47%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (3.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 30 (10.42%) Kafka
3 22 (7.64%) Node.js
4 17 (5.90%) RESTful
5 16 (5.56%) PySpark
6 14 (4.86%) Great Expectations
6 14 (4.86%) REST
7 13 (4.51%) OAuth
7 13 (4.51%) React
8 10 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.13%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.43%) Pandas
11 6 (2.08%) .NET
11 6 (2.08%) ARM Templates
11 6 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.08%) Spring
11 6 (2.08%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.74%) OpenID
13 4 (1.39%) boto
13 4 (1.39%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 100 (34.72%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.43%) Replication
8 6 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.39%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.04%) IVR
11 3 (1.04%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 38 (13.19%) Linux
2 26 (9.03%) Windows
3 10 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.04%) Unix
5 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.69%) AIX
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (85.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 226 (78.47%) CI/CD
3 186 (64.58%) DevOps
4 105 (36.46%) Containerisation
5 80 (27.78%) Agile
6 70 (24.31%) Observability
7 59 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (15.63%) DevSecOps
9 44 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
10 42 (14.58%) Microservices
11 41 (14.24%) High Availability
12 40 (13.89%) AI
13 37 (12.85%) Analytics
13 37 (12.85%) Cloud Security
13 37 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (12.15%) Incident Response
15 33 (11.46%) Migration
16 32 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
16 32 (11.11%) Mentoring
17 30 (10.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 140 (48.61%) Python
2 50 (17.36%) Bash
3 43 (14.93%) SQL
4 40 (13.89%) PowerShell
5 34 (11.81%) Java
6 23 (7.99%) Bicep
7 14 (4.86%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.82%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.47%) C#
10 9 (3.13%) Go
11 5 (1.74%) Ruby
12 3 (1.04%) Groovy
12 3 (1.04%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.04%) Scala
12 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.69%) C
14 1 (0.35%) Korn
14 1 (0.35%) Perl
14 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (35.76%) Security Cleared
2 89 (30.90%) SC Cleared
3 39 (13.54%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 17 (5.90%) Degree
5 15 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.13%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.74%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.04%) CCSP
11 3 (1.04%) CISSP
11 3 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.99%) GDPR
2 20 (6.94%) Data Quality
3 19 (6.60%) NIST
4 18 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 12 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (3.82%) QA
7 4 (1.39%) GRC
8 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.04%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.69%) NCSC
10 1 (0.35%) HL7
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.35%) SLA
10 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 111 (38.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.04%) Squid
3 2 (0.69%) Corosync
3 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 269 (93.40%) Terraform
2 112 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 40 (13.89%) Prometheus
4 35 (12.15%) Ansible
5 34 (11.81%) Grafana
6 12 (4.17%) Puppet
7 9 (3.13%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.43%) Argo
8 7 (2.43%) Istio
9 6 (2.08%) linkerd
9 6 (2.08%) Packer
10 5 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (1.04%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.69%) Consul
13 2 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.69%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
14 1 (0.35%) Kibana
14 1 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 25 (8.68%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.33%) Google
3 18 (6.25%) Splunk
4 16 (5.56%) Databricks
5 10 (3.47%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.78%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.08%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.08%) Oracle
8 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.74%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.74%) SAP
9 4 (1.39%) New Relic
9 4 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.39%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.39%) VMware
10 3 (1.04%) Cisco
10 3 (1.04%) Sybase
10 3 (1.04%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.04%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.69%) OpenAI