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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 269 362
Rank change year-on-year -24 +93 -38
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 315 211 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.87% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 2.34% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 163 124
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £697 £748 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £510
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.75% -7.27%
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 14,385 9,028 11,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.18% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,853 6,245 8,435
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 467 203 327
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.90 £17.96 £15.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £37.63 £35.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +34.55% +28.69% -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 20 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 20 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 +6 210 £575 -4.17% 35
North of England -56 32 £600 +42.86% 32
South West -26 19 £543 -1.36% 13
Midlands -53 19 £463 -7.50% 7
North West -37 18 £600 +50.00% 14
South East -51 18 £505 -12.17% 8
West Midlands -43 15 £475 +5.56% 2
Yorkshire -51 13 £563 -10.00% 14
East of England -28 6 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands -26 4 £442 -36.82% 5
North East -24 1 £750 +80.18% 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 28 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 26 (8.25%) Apache
3 12 (3.81%) Confluence
4 6 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.95%) SAS
7 2 (0.63%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.63%) nginx
8 1 (0.32%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
1 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 306 (97.14%) AWS
2 113 (35.87%) Azure
3 111 (35.24%) Amazon S3
3 111 (35.24%) Serverless
4 99 (31.43%) AWS Lambda
5 97 (30.79%) GitHub
6 80 (25.40%) Amazon ECS
6 80 (25.40%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (24.76%) GCP
8 73 (23.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (20.63%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (17.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 50 (15.87%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (13.02%) AWS CodePipeline
13 32 (10.16%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (6.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 18 (5.71%) AWS KMS
16 18 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 16 (5.08%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.48%) DNS
2 16 (5.08%) Firewall
3 12 (3.81%) Network Security
4 9 (2.86%) VPN
5 7 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
6 6 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.90%) WAN
7 3 (0.95%) BGP
7 3 (0.95%) HTTP
7 3 (0.95%) OSPF
7 3 (0.95%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.63%) 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 (9.84%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (8.57%) Data Lake
3 26 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (6.03%) DynamoDB
5 16 (5.08%) BigQuery
5 16 (5.08%) Mixpanel
5 16 (5.08%) Power BI
6 15 (4.76%) OLAP
6 15 (4.76%) OLTP
7 12 (3.81%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.17%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.17%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.54%) Redis
11 7 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.90%) Metadata
12 6 (1.90%) MySQL
13 5 (1.59%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 78 (24.76%) Jenkins
2 68 (21.59%) GitLab
3 55 (17.46%) Git
4 20 (6.35%) JIRA
5 18 (5.71%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.17%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.17%) Snyk
7 7 (2.22%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.27%) JUnit
8 4 (1.27%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.95%) Maven
9 3 (0.95%) MLflow
9 3 (0.95%) Selenium
9 3 (0.95%) Vite
10 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.63%) Gradle
10 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.32%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 77 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 50 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 49 (15.56%) Finance
4 18 (5.71%) Banking
5 12 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.95%) Games
9 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.95%) Law
10 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Front Office
10 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Marketing
10 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (17.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (16.51%) Architect
2 52 (16.51%) Lead
3 51 (16.19%) AWS Engineer
4 35 (11.11%) Senior
5 33 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (10.16%) Data Engineer
7 27 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
8 26 (8.25%) Cloud Architect
9 25 (7.94%) Developer
10 22 (6.98%) AWS Architect
10 22 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.08%) Security Engineer
12 15 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
12 15 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (4.44%) Site Engineer
14 13 (4.13%) Principal Data Engineer
14 13 (4.13%) Software Engineer
15 10 (3.17%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (3.17%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (16.19%) Kafka
2 31 (9.84%) AWS CDK
3 26 (8.25%) Node.js
3 26 (8.25%) RESTful
4 21 (6.67%) Great Expectations
5 18 (5.71%) OAuth
5 18 (5.71%) PySpark
6 16 (5.08%) React
6 16 (5.08%) Spring
6 16 (5.08%) Spring Boot
7 14 (4.44%) REST
8 12 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (3.81%) OAuth2
9 10 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (2.86%) .NET
10 9 (2.86%) boto
10 9 (2.86%) OpenID
11 8 (2.54%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.54%) Pandas
12 6 (1.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 107 (33.97%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.22%) Replication
6 7 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.90%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.59%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.27%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.95%) Equities
11 2 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.92%) Linux
2 15 (4.76%) Windows
3 5 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.59%) Unix
4 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.32%) VMS
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (83.49%) CI/CD
2 252 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 195 (61.90%) DevOps
4 107 (33.97%) Containerisation
5 86 (27.30%) Observability
6 82 (26.03%) Agile
7 54 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (15.56%) AI
8 49 (15.56%) DevSecOps
9 48 (15.24%) Microservices
10 47 (14.92%) Analytics
11 41 (13.02%) High Availability
12 39 (12.38%) Data Engineering
13 38 (12.06%) Migration
13 38 (12.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 37 (11.75%) Event-Driven
14 37 (11.75%) Platform Engineering
14 37 (11.75%) Technical Leadership
15 36 (11.43%) Data Modelling
16 35 (11.11%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 149 (47.30%) Python
2 61 (19.37%) SQL
3 52 (16.51%) Java
4 41 (13.02%) Bash
5 28 (8.89%) PowerShell
6 20 (6.35%) Bicep
7 19 (6.03%) C#
8 17 (5.40%) JavaScript
9 16 (5.08%) Ruby
10 14 (4.44%) TypeScript
11 10 (3.17%) Go
12 6 (1.90%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.95%) Groovy
13 3 (0.95%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.95%) Scala
14 2 (0.63%) C
15 1 (0.32%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.32%) R
15 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 99 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 85 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.24%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.40%) Degree
6 16 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.17%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.17%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (2.54%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (2.54%) SAFe Agilist
10 5 (1.59%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.27%) CISSP
11 4 (1.27%) IBM Certification
12 3 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.95%) CCSP
12 3 (0.95%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.48%) GDPR
2 26 (8.25%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.25%) NIST
3 20 (6.35%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (4.76%) QA
6 9 (2.86%) NCSC
7 6 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.59%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.27%) GRC
9 4 (1.27%) SLA
10 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.95%) 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
1 119 (37.78%) Docker
2 6 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.63%) Corosync
4 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.63%) Squid
4 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 287 (91.11%) Terraform
2 124 (39.37%) Kubernetes
3 48 (15.24%) Ansible
4 38 (12.06%) Prometheus
5 37 (11.75%) Grafana
6 12 (3.81%) Puppet
7 10 (3.17%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.90%) Argo
10 5 (1.59%) Istio
10 5 (1.59%) linkerd
11 4 (1.27%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.27%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.27%) Kibana
12 3 (0.95%) Pacemaker
12 3 (0.95%) Packer
13 2 (0.63%) Consul
13 2 (0.63%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.32%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 26 (8.25%) Google
2 25 (7.94%) Databricks
3 22 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.67%) Splunk
5 10 (3.17%) Oracle
6 8 (2.54%) Citrix
7 6 (1.90%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.90%) CloudEndure
7 6 (1.90%) IBM
7 6 (1.90%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.59%) New Relic
8 5 (1.59%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.59%) SAP
9 4 (1.27%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.27%) Qualys
9 4 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.27%) Tenable
10 2 (0.63%) Globalscape
10 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.63%) Zscaler