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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 257 378
Rank change year-on-year -29 +121 -60
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 345 237 171
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.97% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.40% 2.61% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 185 124
10th Percentile £400 £400 £427
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £688 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -12.50% +17.07% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +127.14% - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +127.14% - -

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 14,371 9,067 11,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.29% 37.20% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,865 6,335 8,560
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 197 320
10th Percentile £15.87 £15.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.29 £41.97 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £61.64
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.36% +30.95% -40.00%

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 7 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 7 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 -6 228 £550 -8.33% 34
North of England -46 41 £581 +16.20% 37
South East -28 23 £530 -8.23% 13
North West -29 22 £581 +45.25% 19
Midlands -63 18 £463 -7.50% 10
South West -18 17 £550 -2.22% 13
Yorkshire -47 17 £500 -31.03% 13
West Midlands -52 14 £475 +5.56% 1
East of England -33 5 £488 -2.50% 2
East Midlands -28 4 £442 -36.82% 9
North East -18 2 £663 +57.74% 5
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 30 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 28 (8.12%) Apache
3 14 (4.06%) Confluence
4 8 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.74%) nginx
6 5 (1.45%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.87%) SAS
8 2 (0.58%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Actimize
1 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 334 (96.81%) AWS
2 124 (35.94%) Azure
3 120 (34.78%) Amazon S3
4 116 (33.62%) Serverless
5 106 (30.72%) AWS Lambda
6 101 (29.28%) GitHub
7 92 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
8 82 (23.77%) GitHub Actions
9 81 (23.48%) GCP
10 73 (21.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 71 (20.58%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (15.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 53 (15.36%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (12.17%) AWS CodePipeline
15 32 (9.28%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
17 22 (6.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 19 (5.51%) AWS KMS
18 19 (5.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 19 (5.51%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.57%) DNS
2 17 (4.93%) Firewall
3 15 (4.35%) Network Security
4 10 (2.90%) VPN
5 9 (2.61%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.03%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.16%) DHCP
8 3 (0.87%) HTTP
9 2 (0.58%) BGP
9 2 (0.58%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.58%) OSPF
9 2 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.58%) WAN
10 1 (0.29%) 4G
10 1 (0.29%) 5G
10 1 (0.29%) Internet
10 1 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.30%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (8.99%) Data Lake
4 27 (7.83%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (5.51%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.93%) Power BI
8 16 (4.64%) BigQuery
8 16 (4.64%) Mixpanel
8 16 (4.64%) SQL Server
9 15 (4.35%) OLAP
9 15 (4.35%) OLTP
10 14 (4.06%) NoSQL
11 12 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (2.90%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (2.32%) Redis
15 6 (1.74%) Big Data
15 6 (1.74%) MySQL
15 6 (1.74%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 77 (22.32%) Jenkins
2 69 (20.00%) GitLab
3 66 (19.13%) Git
4 21 (6.09%) JIRA
5 17 (4.93%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.19%) CircleCI
7 10 (2.90%) Snyk
8 7 (2.03%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.16%) JUnit
9 4 (1.16%) Maven
9 4 (1.16%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.87%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.87%) Gradle
10 3 (0.87%) MLflow
10 3 (0.87%) Selenium
10 3 (0.87%) Vite
11 2 (0.58%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.29%) git-flow
12 1 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 83 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 55 (15.94%) Finance
4 19 (5.51%) Banking
5 13 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.45%) Law
9 3 (0.87%) Games
9 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.58%) Front Office
10 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.58%) Marketing
10 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Billing
11 1 (0.29%) Legal
11 1 (0.29%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (15.94%) Architect
1 55 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (15.07%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (15.07%) Lead
3 47 (13.62%) Senior
4 34 (9.86%) Data Engineer
5 33 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (8.70%) Developer
7 26 (7.54%) AWS DevOps
8 25 (7.25%) Cloud Architect
9 24 (6.96%) AWS Architect
10 22 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 19 (5.51%) Site Engineer
12 18 (5.22%) Security Engineer
12 18 (5.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 16 (4.64%) Software Engineer
14 15 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
15 13 (3.77%) Principal Data Engineer
16 11 (3.19%) Lead DevOps
16 11 (3.19%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (15.94%) Kafka
2 33 (9.57%) RESTful
3 31 (8.99%) Node.js
4 29 (8.41%) AWS CDK
5 21 (6.09%) Great Expectations
5 21 (6.09%) Spring
6 20 (5.80%) Spring Boot
7 19 (5.51%) REST
8 18 (5.22%) OAuth
8 18 (5.22%) PySpark
8 18 (5.22%) React
9 14 (4.06%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (3.48%) OAuth2
11 10 (2.90%) .NET
11 10 (2.90%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (2.61%) boto
12 9 (2.61%) OpenID
13 8 (2.32%) Pandas
13 8 (2.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 111 (32.17%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.06%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.03%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.03%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.74%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.74%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.74%) Replication
7 5 (1.45%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.16%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.16%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.16%) NHS
8 4 (1.16%) PKI
8 4 (1.16%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.87%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 58 (16.81%) Linux
2 18 (5.22%) Windows
3 5 (1.45%) Unix
4 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.58%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (84.35%) CI/CD
2 275 (79.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 203 (58.84%) DevOps
4 122 (35.36%) Containerisation
5 101 (29.28%) Agile
6 89 (25.80%) Observability
7 57 (16.52%) DevSecOps
8 56 (16.23%) Microservices
9 55 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (15.36%) Analytics
11 52 (15.07%) AI
12 45 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 42 (12.17%) Data Engineering
13 42 (12.17%) Migration
14 41 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
15 40 (11.59%) Event-Driven
15 40 (11.59%) High Availability
15 40 (11.59%) Infrastructure Automation
15 40 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
16 39 (11.30%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 171 (49.57%) Python
2 67 (19.42%) SQL
3 59 (17.10%) Java
4 50 (14.49%) Bash
5 31 (8.99%) PowerShell
6 22 (6.38%) Bicep
7 21 (6.09%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.51%) C#
8 19 (5.51%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.64%) Ruby
10 10 (2.90%) Go
11 6 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.16%) Scala
13 3 (0.87%) SAS Macro
14 2 (0.58%) C
14 2 (0.58%) Groovy
15 1 (0.29%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.29%) R
15 1 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 111 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 93 (26.96%) SC Cleared
3 57 (16.52%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 22 (6.38%) Degree
5 20 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (2.90%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.74%) CISSP
10 6 (1.74%) SAFe Agilist
11 5 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.45%) CCSP
11 5 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.16%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.30%) GDPR
2 27 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.83%) NIST
3 23 (6.67%) PCI DSS
4 20 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (5.51%) QA
6 9 (2.61%) NCSC
7 7 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.45%) GRC
9 4 (1.16%) SLA
10 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.29%) HL7
11 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.29%) MiFID
11 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 144 (41.74%) Docker
2 6 (1.74%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.58%) Corosync
5 2 (0.58%) HDFS
6 1 (0.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 313 (90.72%) Terraform
2 139 (40.29%) Kubernetes
3 59 (17.10%) Ansible
4 43 (12.46%) Grafana
5 40 (11.59%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.93%) Puppet
7 11 (3.19%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.74%) Consul
9 6 (1.74%) Packer
10 5 (1.45%) Argo
11 4 (1.16%) Istio
11 4 (1.16%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.16%) Kibana
11 4 (1.16%) linkerd
12 3 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.58%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.58%) Pacemaker
14 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 30 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.12%) Databricks
3 27 (7.83%) Google
4 22 (6.38%) Splunk
5 10 (2.90%) Oracle
6 9 (2.61%) PagerDuty
7 7 (2.03%) Citrix
7 7 (2.03%) IBM
8 6 (1.74%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.74%) CloudEndure
8 6 (1.74%) Rapid7
8 6 (1.74%) VMware
9 5 (1.45%) New Relic
10 4 (1.16%) Qualys
10 4 (1.16%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.16%) SAP
10 4 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.16%) Tenable
11 3 (0.87%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.58%) Confluent