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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 280 399
Rank change year-on-year -95 +119 -50
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 290 254 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.90% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.33% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 190 83
10th Percentile £400 £400 £394
25th Percentile £440 £440 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £696 £682 £779
UK median daily rate £531 £525 £511
% change year-on-year +1.14% +2.84% -5.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £62.32 - -
25th Percentile £63.93 - -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.90% - -
75th Percentile £72.41 - -
90th Percentile £73.96 - -
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.90% - -

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 16,172 10,900 11,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.54% 38.64% 35.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,776 7,365 7,541
10th Percentile £321 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 267 160
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.60 £68.75
90th Percentile £79.30 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +7.99%

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 16 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in England over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in England

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 16 October 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 -64 170 £538 -4.36% 29
North of England -69 48 £603 +38.99% 18
North West -33 35 £600 +47.69% 8
South East -48 22 £570 +30.29% 9
Midlands -38 19 £484 -15.78% 1
South West -32 18 £475 -10.38% 6
West Midlands -41 13 £488 -15.22% 1
Yorkshire -49 9 £638 +27.50% 6
East Midlands - 6 £450 -
North East -38 4 £500 +20.12% 4
East of England -33 1 £400 +14.29%
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 11 (3.79%) Confluence
2 8 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.07%) Apache
4 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.03%) nginx
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.69%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.34%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.34%) Traefik
7 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 283 (97.59%) AWS
2 122 (42.07%) Serverless
3 102 (35.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 102 (35.17%) AWS Lambda
4 98 (33.79%) Azure
5 87 (30.00%) Amazon S3
6 81 (27.93%) GCP
7 75 (25.86%) Amazon EKS
8 71 (24.48%) GitHub
9 69 (23.79%) Amazon ECS
10 68 (23.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 58 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (17.93%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (9.66%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (8.28%) AWS KMS
16 23 (7.93%) AWS Step Functions
17 22 (7.59%) Datadog
18 21 (7.24%) AWS CloudTrail
19 18 (6.21%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.31%) Firewall
2 25 (8.62%) DNS
3 15 (5.17%) Network Security
4 13 (4.48%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.79%) WAN
6 8 (2.76%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.41%) DHCP
8 6 (2.07%) VPN
9 5 (1.72%) SSL
10 4 (1.38%) BGP
10 4 (1.38%) HTTP
10 4 (1.38%) Internet
10 4 (1.38%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.03%) CTI
11 3 (1.03%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.34%) LAN
13 1 (0.34%) MPLS
13 1 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (15.52%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (8.28%) DynamoDB
4 21 (7.24%) Amazon Aurora
5 19 (6.55%) SQL Server
6 18 (6.21%) MySQL
7 17 (5.86%) MongoDB
8 16 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.79%) NoSQL
10 10 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (3.45%) Data Lake
10 10 (3.45%) Redis
11 7 (2.41%) Metadata
12 5 (1.72%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.72%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database 12c
14 2 (0.69%) Power BI
14 2 (0.69%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 69 (23.79%) Jenkins
2 56 (19.31%) GitLab
3 36 (12.41%) Git
4 25 (8.62%) JIRA
5 10 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.41%) JUnit
7 6 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.72%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.72%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.38%) Maven
9 4 (1.38%) Spinnaker
10 3 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.03%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.03%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.03%) Mockito
10 3 (1.03%) Selenium
10 3 (1.03%) Snyk
11 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.69%) MLflow
General
1 91 (31.38%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.59%) Finance
3 40 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.48%) Banking
6 7 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.72%) Law
9 4 (1.38%) Military
10 3 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.69%) Retail
12 1 (0.34%) Automotive
12 1 (0.34%) German Language
12 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Local Government
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Publishing
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (18.97%) AWS Engineer
2 46 (15.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (15.17%) Architect
3 44 (15.17%) Senior
4 41 (14.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (11.38%) AWS DevOps
6 27 (9.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 25 (8.62%) Security Engineer
8 22 (7.59%) Data Engineer
8 22 (7.59%) Developer
9 21 (7.24%) AWS Architect
9 21 (7.24%) Lead
10 17 (5.86%) DBA
11 13 (4.48%) Administrator
11 13 (4.48%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 13 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.14%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (4.14%) Network Engineer
12 12 (4.14%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (91.38%) Terraform
2 39 (13.45%) AWS CDK
3 28 (9.66%) REST
4 21 (7.24%) Kafka
5 16 (5.52%) Spring Boot
6 15 (5.17%) Spring
7 13 (4.48%) React
8 12 (4.14%) RESTful
9 11 (3.79%) pytest
10 10 (3.45%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.45%) Node.js
11 9 (3.10%) ARM Templates
11 9 (3.10%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (2.76%) PySpark
13 7 (2.41%) Pulumi
13 7 (2.41%) Web Services
14 6 (2.07%) OAuth
15 5 (1.72%) GraphQL
15 5 (1.72%) Pandas
15 5 (1.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 92 (31.72%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.86%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.17%) Replication
5 13 (4.48%) AI Agents
5 13 (4.48%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.14%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.79%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.07%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.07%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.38%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 51 (17.59%) Linux
2 29 (10.00%) Windows
3 16 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.76%) Unix
5 6 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.38%) AIX
7 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.34%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (86.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 226 (77.93%) CI/CD
3 172 (59.31%) DevOps
4 99 (34.14%) Agile
5 91 (31.38%) Containerisation
6 83 (28.62%) Observability
7 74 (25.52%) Cloud Security
8 68 (23.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (19.31%) Test Automation
10 54 (18.62%) Platform Engineering
11 52 (17.93%) AI
12 51 (17.59%) Microservices
13 48 (16.55%) Stakeholder Management
14 46 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
15 43 (14.83%) Infrastructure Automation
16 38 (13.10%) Root Cause Analysis
16 38 (13.10%) Software Engineering
17 37 (12.76%) Data Modelling
18 36 (12.41%) Migration
19 35 (12.07%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 145 (50.00%) Python
2 66 (22.76%) Bash
3 53 (18.28%) PowerShell
4 51 (17.59%) Java
4 51 (17.59%) SQL
5 29 (10.00%) Bicep
6 19 (6.55%) JavaScript
7 15 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.48%) Go
9 5 (1.72%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.03%) C
10 3 (1.03%) C#
10 3 (1.03%) Groovy
10 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.69%) R
11 2 (0.69%) Scala
12 1 (0.34%) C++
12 1 (0.34%) Korn
12 1 (0.34%) Perl
12 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 102 (35.17%) Security Cleared
2 93 (32.07%) SC Cleared
3 65 (22.41%) AWS Certification
4 32 (11.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (6.90%) Degree
6 16 (5.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.83%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.14%) CISSP
9 7 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.41%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (2.07%) SAFe Agilist
11 5 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.03%) CISM
13 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.52%) QA
3 11 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.10%) NIST
5 8 (2.76%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.07%) GDPR
6 6 (2.07%) NCSC
7 4 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.03%) SLA
8 3 (1.03%) WCAG
9 1 (0.34%) GLBA
9 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 115 (39.66%) Docker
2 8 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) Squid
Systems Management
1 132 (45.52%) Kubernetes
2 40 (13.79%) Grafana
3 34 (11.72%) Prometheus
4 28 (9.66%) Ansible
5 18 (6.21%) Progress Chef
6 16 (5.52%) Puppet
7 8 (2.76%) Argo
8 6 (2.07%) Istio
9 5 (1.72%) Packer
10 3 (1.03%) linkerd
11 2 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.69%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.69%) Podman
12 1 (0.34%) Control-M
12 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.34%) QRadar
12 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (11.38%) Google
2 30 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.52%) Databricks
3 16 (5.52%) Red Hat
4 15 (5.17%) Splunk
5 10 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.45%) Oracle
6 8 (2.76%) Infoblox
7 7 (2.41%) VMware
8 5 (1.72%) Cisco
8 5 (1.72%) Teradata
9 4 (1.38%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.38%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.38%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.38%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.03%) Informatica
10 3 (1.03%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.69%) Brio
11 2 (0.69%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.69%) Sybase