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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 267 386
Rank change year-on-year -104 +119 -54
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 279 266 144
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.96% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 2.58% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 202 86
10th Percentile £400 £400 £394
25th Percentile £450 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +1.15% -5.43%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £675 £687 £775
UK median daily rate £528 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.62% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.61 - -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.90% - -
75th Percentile £69.82 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 15,878 10,301 11,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.35% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,601 6,975 7,846
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 268 196
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.49 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -87 158 £550 -8.33% 169
North of England -65 42 £609 +49.45% 62
North West -43 28 £605 +55.13% 32
Midlands -42 23 £481 -16.35% 28
South West -28 21 £488 -17.89% 29
South East -50 20 £570 +3.64% 24
West Midlands -41 18 £488 -15.22% 16
Yorkshire -47 10 £656 +38.16% 18
East of England -24 6 £450 -5.26% 7
East Midlands -10 5 £466 -33.50% 12
North East -43 4 £500 +20.12% 12
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 14 (5.02%) Confluence
2 7 (2.51%) Apache
2 7 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.36%) nginx
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
3 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 275 (98.57%) AWS
2 114 (40.86%) Serverless
3 111 (39.78%) Azure
4 95 (34.05%) AWS Lambda
5 90 (32.26%) Amazon S3
6 86 (30.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 73 (26.16%) GCP
8 67 (24.01%) GitHub
9 62 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
10 57 (20.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 56 (20.07%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (18.28%) Amazon ECS
13 45 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (9.68%) AWS Step Functions
16 25 (8.96%) Amazon SQS
17 21 (7.53%) AWS KMS
18 20 (7.17%) Datadog
19 19 (6.81%) AWS CloudTrail
20 14 (5.02%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.32%) Firewall
2 24 (8.60%) DNS
3 11 (3.94%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.23%) Network Security
4 9 (3.23%) WAN
5 8 (2.87%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.51%) DHCP
7 6 (2.15%) SSL
7 6 (2.15%) VPN
8 4 (1.43%) HTTP
8 4 (1.43%) NetScaler
9 3 (1.08%) CTI
10 2 (0.72%) BGP
10 2 (0.72%) Internet
11 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.36%) LAN
11 1 (0.36%) MPLS
11 1 (0.36%) OSPF
11 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.26%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (9.32%) DynamoDB
3 23 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.81%) MySQL
5 16 (5.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (5.02%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.30%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.94%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.94%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.87%) Redis
11 7 (2.51%) Metadata
12 5 (1.79%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.08%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (1.08%) Power BI
14 3 (1.08%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 69 (24.73%) Jenkins
2 56 (20.07%) GitLab
3 42 (15.05%) Git
4 25 (8.96%) JIRA
5 13 (4.66%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.87%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.51%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.15%) Snyk
9 5 (1.79%) JUnit
10 4 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.43%) Maven
10 4 (1.43%) Mockito
11 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.08%) Spinnaker
12 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.72%) MLflow
12 2 (0.72%) Selenium
13 1 (0.36%) Gradle
General
1 82 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.05%) Finance
2 42 (15.05%) Public Sector
3 13 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.30%) Banking
5 7 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.43%) Law
8 3 (1.08%) Games
8 3 (1.08%) Military
8 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.72%) Front Office
9 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Aviation
10 1 (0.36%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
10 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (17.92%) AWS Engineer
1 50 (17.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (13.98%) Architect
2 39 (13.98%) Senior
3 38 (13.62%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (11.83%) AWS DevOps
5 30 (10.75%) Lead
6 27 (9.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 24 (8.60%) Data Engineer
8 23 (8.24%) Developer
8 23 (8.24%) Security Engineer
9 18 (6.45%) AWS Architect
10 14 (5.02%) Lead DevOps
11 12 (4.30%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 10 (3.58%) DBA
12 10 (3.58%) Network Engineer
13 9 (3.23%) Administrator
13 9 (3.23%) Scrum Master
13 9 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (92.83%) Terraform
2 29 (10.39%) AWS CDK
3 21 (7.53%) REST
4 19 (6.81%) Kafka
5 18 (6.45%) Node.js
6 15 (5.38%) RESTful
7 13 (4.66%) React
8 12 (4.30%) PySpark
9 11 (3.94%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.58%) ARM Templates
10 10 (3.58%) Spring
11 8 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.87%) Great Expectations
11 8 (2.87%) Pandas
12 6 (2.15%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.15%) OAuth
13 5 (1.79%) Vue
14 4 (1.43%) Jest
14 4 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (1.43%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 96 (34.41%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.17%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.73%) Security Posture
5 15 (5.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.30%) Replication
7 10 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.87%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.79%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
12 3 (1.08%) Clustering
12 3 (1.08%) IVR
12 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.05%) Linux
2 25 (8.96%) Windows
3 17 (6.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.79%) Unix
4 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.43%) AIX
6 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 215 (77.06%) CI/CD
3 175 (62.72%) DevOps
4 95 (34.05%) Agile
5 93 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 72 (25.81%) Observability
7 55 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (19.00%) Cloud Security
9 48 (17.20%) Microservices
10 45 (16.13%) Test Automation
11 44 (15.77%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (14.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (13.98%) AI
14 38 (13.62%) High Availability
14 38 (13.62%) Scrum
15 36 (12.90%) DevSecOps
15 36 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
15 36 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
16 35 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
17 34 (12.19%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 140 (50.18%) Python
2 63 (22.58%) Bash
3 54 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 49 (17.56%) SQL
5 40 (14.34%) Java
6 30 (10.75%) Bicep
7 19 (6.81%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.94%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.51%) Go
10 4 (1.43%) Groovy
10 4 (1.43%) Ruby
11 3 (1.08%) C#
11 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.72%) R
12 2 (0.72%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) C
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Korn
13 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 102 (36.56%) Security Cleared
2 90 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.85%) AWS Certification
4 29 (10.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (6.81%) Degree
6 15 (5.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (4.66%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.23%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.15%) CISSP
10 6 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.38%) QA
3 10 (3.58%) NIST
3 10 (3.58%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.23%) GDPR
5 8 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.43%) SLA
8 3 (1.08%) NCSC
8 3 (1.08%) WCAG
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) HL7
9 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 109 (39.07%) Docker
2 7 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) Squid
4 2 (0.72%) Corosync
4 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (41.94%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.26%) Grafana
3 34 (12.19%) Ansible
4 32 (11.47%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.02%) Progress Chef
6 13 (4.66%) Puppet
7 7 (2.51%) Argo
8 5 (1.79%) Istio
9 4 (1.43%) Packer
10 3 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.08%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.72%) linkerd
11 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.36%) Kibana
12 1 (0.36%) Podman
12 1 (0.36%) QRadar
12 1 (0.36%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.60%) Google
3 17 (6.09%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.02%) Splunk
5 10 (3.58%) Databricks
6 8 (2.87%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.87%) Infoblox
6 8 (2.87%) Oracle
7 6 (2.15%) VMware
8 5 (1.79%) Cisco
8 5 (1.79%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.43%) Teradata
9 4 (1.43%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.08%) Informatica
10 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.08%) SAP
10 3 (1.08%) Trend Micro
11 2 (0.72%) Sybase