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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 286 351
Rank change year-on-year +32 +65 -54
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 353 202 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 0.78% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.74% 2.07% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 150 148
10th Percentile £400 £399 £425
25th Percentile £450 £508 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £650
90th Percentile £698 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.76%
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 12,882 9,767 12,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.74% 37.48% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 6,533 9,091
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 141 301
10th Percentile £14.49 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £59.48 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +31.27% +21.89% -10.00%

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 February 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 February 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 +46 218 £550 -9.84% 48
North of England -31 59 £500 -23.08% 33
North West -13 35 £475 -13.64% 17
South East -17 29 £488 -25.00% 18
Yorkshire -59 19 £500 -29.82% 15
Midlands -43 16 £513 +7.89% 9
South West -6 13 £575 +4.55% 13
West Midlands -39 13 £575 +21.05% 8
North East -11 5 £466 -31.85% 1
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 2
East of England - 2 £600 -
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 25 (7.08%) Apache
1 25 (7.08%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.38%) Confluence
3 16 (4.53%) nginx
4 15 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.42%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.57%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Actimize
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 337 (95.47%) AWS
2 124 (35.13%) Serverless
3 120 (33.99%) Amazon S3
3 120 (33.99%) AWS Lambda
4 104 (29.46%) GitHub
5 99 (28.05%) Amazon ECS
6 94 (26.63%) Azure
7 78 (22.10%) GitHub Actions
8 76 (21.53%) Amazon EKS
9 75 (21.25%) GCP
10 66 (18.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 66 (18.70%) Amazon EC2
11 60 (17.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 37 (10.48%) AWS CodePipeline
13 31 (8.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 29 (8.22%) Amazon SQS
15 27 (7.65%) Datadog
16 26 (7.37%) AWS KMS
17 20 (5.67%) AWS CloudTrail
17 20 (5.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.78%) DNS
2 21 (5.95%) Firewall
3 16 (4.53%) VPN
4 13 (3.68%) Network Security
5 9 (2.55%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.42%) DHCP
8 3 (0.85%) HTTP
8 3 (0.85%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.85%) WAN
9 2 (0.57%) BGP
9 2 (0.57%) OSPF
9 2 (0.57%) SSL
10 1 (0.28%) Internet
10 1 (0.28%) NAS
10 1 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (18.70%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (9.07%) Data Lake
4 30 (8.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 25 (7.08%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (5.95%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.82%) NoSQL
7 17 (4.82%) Power BI
8 15 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (3.97%) BigQuery
9 14 (3.97%) Mixpanel
9 14 (3.97%) SQL Server
10 13 (3.68%) MongoDB
10 13 (3.68%) OLAP
10 13 (3.68%) OLTP
11 10 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.83%) MySQL
12 8 (2.27%) Redis
12 8 (2.27%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.70%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 94 (26.63%) Jenkins
2 77 (21.81%) Git
3 75 (21.25%) GitLab
4 29 (8.22%) JIRA
5 15 (4.25%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.83%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.55%) Maven
7 9 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.27%) JUnit
8 8 (2.27%) Terragrunt
9 7 (1.98%) Gradle
9 7 (1.98%) Snyk
9 7 (1.98%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.70%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.42%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.42%) Selenium
12 4 (1.13%) Postman
12 4 (1.13%) webpack
13 3 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.85%) Vite
General
1 79 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.00%) Public Sector
3 51 (14.45%) Finance
4 19 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.38%) Banking
5 10 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.42%) Games
7 5 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.42%) Law
8 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.57%) Legal
9 2 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.28%) Advertising
10 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.28%) Aviation
10 1 (0.28%) Military
10 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (19.55%) AWS Engineer
2 64 (18.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 48 (13.60%) Architect
4 43 (12.18%) Lead
5 41 (11.61%) Senior
6 38 (10.76%) Data Engineer
7 37 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (8.50%) AWS DevOps
9 29 (8.22%) AWS Architect
10 28 (7.93%) Developer
11 25 (7.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 21 (5.95%) Cloud Architect
12 21 (5.95%) Security Engineer
13 20 (5.67%) Site Engineer
14 19 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
14 19 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (5.10%) Software Engineer
16 12 (3.40%) Principal Engineer
17 11 (3.12%) Lead DevOps
17 11 (3.12%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.70%) Kafka
2 28 (7.93%) AWS CDK
2 28 (7.93%) Node.js
2 28 (7.93%) RESTful
3 24 (6.80%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (6.23%) Spring
5 21 (5.95%) React
5 21 (5.95%) Spring Boot
6 18 (5.10%) REST
7 17 (4.82%) OAuth
8 14 (3.97%) Great Expectations
9 12 (3.40%) OAuth2
10 10 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (2.55%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.55%) JSON
11 9 (2.55%) OpenID
12 8 (2.27%) .NET
12 8 (2.27%) Vue
13 7 (1.98%) ARM Templates
13 7 (1.98%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 90 (25.50%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (4.25%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.83%) Private Cloud
4 8 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.27%) PKI
4 8 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.98%) NHS
5 7 (1.98%) Replication
6 6 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.42%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.42%) SCADA
7 5 (1.42%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.13%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.57%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 87 (24.65%) Linux
2 19 (5.38%) Unix
2 19 (5.38%) Windows
3 4 (1.13%) CentOS
3 4 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.85%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (79.60%) CI/CD
2 274 (77.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 205 (58.07%) DevOps
4 115 (32.58%) Containerisation
5 90 (25.50%) Agile
6 84 (23.80%) Observability
7 56 (15.86%) Microservices
8 50 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (14.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 46 (13.03%) DevSecOps
10 45 (12.75%) AI
11 44 (12.46%) Infrastructure Automation
11 44 (12.46%) Technical Leadership
12 43 (12.18%) Analytics
12 43 (12.18%) Migration
13 41 (11.61%) Incident Response
13 41 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
14 40 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (11.33%) Software Engineering
15 37 (10.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 180 (50.99%) Python
2 60 (17.00%) SQL
3 57 (16.15%) Bash
4 54 (15.30%) Java
5 30 (8.50%) PowerShell
6 23 (6.52%) Go
7 22 (6.23%) JavaScript
8 20 (5.67%) Ruby
9 18 (5.10%) TypeScript
10 16 (4.53%) C#
11 15 (4.25%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.83%) Bicep
13 5 (1.42%) Perl
14 4 (1.13%) Scala
15 3 (0.85%) C
16 1 (0.28%) C++
16 1 (0.28%) Groovy
16 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 109 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 92 (26.06%) SC Cleared
3 69 (19.55%) AWS Certification
4 23 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (4.82%) Degree
6 15 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.25%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.12%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.27%) CISSP
9 7 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.42%) CCSP
11 5 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (1.13%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.85%) SANS
13 3 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.46%) GDPR
2 27 (7.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (7.37%) NIST
4 20 (5.67%) Data Quality
5 19 (5.38%) QA
6 18 (5.10%) PCI DSS
7 15 (4.25%) NCSC
8 8 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.70%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.42%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.13%) GRC
11 4 (1.13%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.85%) SLA
13 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 149 (42.21%) Docker
2 7 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.42%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 315 (89.24%) Terraform
2 145 (41.08%) Kubernetes
3 73 (20.68%) Ansible
4 45 (12.75%) Grafana
5 39 (11.05%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.95%) Puppet
7 19 (5.38%) Packer
8 16 (4.53%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.68%) Consul
10 6 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.42%) Karpenter
11 5 (1.42%) Podman
12 4 (1.13%) Argo
12 4 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.13%) Kibana
13 2 (0.57%) Istio
13 2 (0.57%) linkerd
13 2 (0.57%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 29 (8.22%) Google
2 28 (7.93%) Databricks
2 28 (7.93%) Splunk
3 27 (7.65%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.68%) IBM
5 10 (2.83%) CloudEndure
5 10 (2.83%) Oracle
6 8 (2.27%) PagerDuty
6 8 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.98%) Citrix
7 7 (1.98%) Confluent
8 6 (1.70%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.70%) Rapid7
8 6 (1.70%) VMware
9 5 (1.42%) New Relic
10 4 (1.13%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.13%) Okta
10 4 (1.13%) Sybase
11 3 (0.85%) Cisco
11 3 (0.85%) Tenable