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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 260 404
Rank change year-on-year -119 +144 -66
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 277 265 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.95% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 2.53% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 200 73
10th Percentile £400 £400 £378
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% +0.48% -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £676 £773
UK median daily rate £534 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.67% +5.00% -5.66%
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 15,915 10,455 11,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.65% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,616 7,071 7,707
10th Percentile £320 £306 £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 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 252 177
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.35
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.32 £67.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £31.00
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.23% -11.43%

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 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 16 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 -96 154 £550 -8.33% 257
North of England -75 44 £613 +49.24% 78
North West -33 29 £605 +51.25% 42
South West -35 22 £475 -20.00% 25
Midlands -33 21 £484 -15.78% 38
South East -60 20 £549 +21.94% 46
West Midlands -45 16 £488 -15.22% 19
Yorkshire -57 11 £650 +33.33% 23
East of England -24 6 £450 - 11
East Midlands -6 5 £466 -33.50% 19
North East -37 4 £500 +20.12% 13
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 (3.97%) Confluence
2 9 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.81%) Apache
3 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.72%) nginx
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.72%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.72%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) Traefik
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 274 (98.92%) AWS
2 114 (41.16%) Serverless
3 105 (37.91%) Azure
4 96 (34.66%) AWS Lambda
5 89 (32.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 89 (32.13%) Amazon S3
6 72 (25.99%) GCP
7 62 (22.38%) GitHub
8 61 (22.02%) Amazon EKS
9 60 (21.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 57 (20.58%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (19.13%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (16.25%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (9.75%) AWS Step Functions
15 22 (7.94%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (7.94%) AWS KMS
15 22 (7.94%) Datadog
16 20 (7.22%) AWS CloudTrail
17 15 (5.42%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.39%) Firewall
2 25 (9.03%) DNS
3 12 (4.33%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.61%) Network Security
5 9 (3.25%) WAN
6 8 (2.89%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.53%) DHCP
8 6 (2.17%) SSL
9 5 (1.81%) VPN
10 4 (1.44%) HTTP
10 4 (1.44%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.08%) CTI
12 2 (0.72%) BGP
12 2 (0.72%) Internet
13 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.36%) LAN
13 1 (0.36%) MPLS
13 1 (0.36%) OSPF
13 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.36%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (9.03%) DynamoDB
3 23 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (6.86%) MySQL
5 16 (5.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (5.05%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (3.97%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.97%) NoSQL
9 10 (3.61%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.89%) Redis
11 6 (2.17%) Metadata
12 4 (1.44%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.08%) Data Vault
13 3 (1.08%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.08%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 67 (24.19%) Jenkins
2 58 (20.94%) GitLab
3 41 (14.80%) Git
4 22 (7.94%) JIRA
5 11 (3.97%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.89%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.53%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.17%) Snyk
8 6 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.44%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.44%) JUnit
9 4 (1.44%) Maven
9 4 (1.44%) Spinnaker
10 3 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.08%) Mockito
11 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.72%) Flyway
11 2 (0.72%) MLflow
11 2 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 81 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.88%) Public Sector
3 42 (15.16%) Finance
4 14 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.97%) Banking
6 7 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.81%) Law
7 5 (1.81%) Military
8 3 (1.08%) Games
8 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.36%) Automotive
10 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.36%) Front Office
10 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
10 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (18.41%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (17.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (14.80%) Architect
3 41 (14.80%) Senior
4 38 (13.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (11.55%) AWS DevOps
6 27 (9.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 26 (9.39%) Lead
8 25 (9.03%) Data Engineer
9 23 (8.30%) Developer
9 23 (8.30%) Security Engineer
10 18 (6.50%) AWS Architect
11 13 (4.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 13 (4.69%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (4.33%) DBA
13 11 (3.97%) Platform Architect
14 10 (3.61%) Network Engineer
14 10 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (91.34%) Terraform
2 31 (11.19%) AWS CDK
3 19 (6.86%) REST
4 18 (6.50%) Kafka
5 16 (5.78%) Node.js
6 13 (4.69%) PySpark
6 13 (4.69%) RESTful
7 12 (4.33%) React
8 10 (3.61%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.25%) Pandas
9 9 (3.25%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.89%) Spring
11 6 (2.17%) Great Expectations
11 6 (2.17%) OAuth
11 6 (2.17%) Pulumi
12 5 (1.81%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.44%) Azure Blueprints
13 4 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (1.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 92 (33.21%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.50%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.42%) Enterprise Cloud
5 12 (4.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 12 (4.33%) Replication
6 8 (2.89%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.53%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.81%) Clustering
9 5 (1.81%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
11 3 (1.08%) IVR
11 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.61%) Linux
2 26 (9.39%) Windows
3 19 (6.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.89%) Unix
5 5 (1.81%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.44%) AIX
7 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (87.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 211 (76.17%) CI/CD
3 168 (60.65%) DevOps
4 92 (33.21%) Containerisation
5 91 (32.85%) Agile
6 75 (27.08%) Observability
7 57 (20.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (20.22%) Cloud Security
9 46 (16.61%) Microservices
10 45 (16.25%) Platform Engineering
10 45 (16.25%) Test Automation
11 40 (14.44%) AI
12 39 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (13.36%) High Availability
14 37 (13.36%) Infrastructure Automation
15 36 (13.00%) Root Cause Analysis
15 36 (13.00%) Scrum
16 33 (11.91%) DevSecOps
16 33 (11.91%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 142 (51.26%) Python
2 64 (23.10%) Bash
3 53 (19.13%) PowerShell
4 48 (17.33%) SQL
5 40 (14.44%) Java
6 32 (11.55%) Bicep
7 19 (6.86%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.33%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.89%) Go
10 5 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.44%) Groovy
11 4 (1.44%) Ruby
12 3 (1.08%) Scala
12 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.72%) C
13 2 (0.72%) R
14 1 (0.36%) C#
14 1 (0.36%) C++
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
14 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 103 (37.18%) Security Cleared
2 90 (32.49%) SC Cleared
3 50 (18.05%) AWS Certification
4 29 (10.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (6.86%) Degree
6 16 (5.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.05%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.53%) CISSP
8 7 (2.53%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (2.17%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.36%) PMP
13 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.66%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.69%) QA
3 10 (3.61%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.89%) NIST
6 7 (2.53%) GDPR
7 6 (2.17%) NCSC
8 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.44%) SLA
9 3 (1.08%) WCAG
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 104 (37.55%) Docker
2 8 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) Squid
4 2 (0.72%) Corosync
5 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 120 (43.32%) Kubernetes
2 41 (14.80%) Grafana
3 35 (12.64%) Prometheus
4 33 (11.91%) Ansible
5 17 (6.14%) Progress Chef
6 15 (5.42%) Puppet
7 9 (3.25%) Argo
8 6 (2.17%) Istio
9 5 (1.81%) Packer
10 3 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.08%) linkerd
10 3 (1.08%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.72%) Podman
12 1 (0.36%) Control-M
12 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.30%) Google
3 18 (6.50%) Red Hat
4 15 (5.42%) Splunk
5 11 (3.97%) Oracle
6 9 (3.25%) Databricks
6 9 (3.25%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.89%) Infoblox
8 7 (2.53%) VMware
9 5 (1.81%) Cisco
9 5 (1.81%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.81%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.44%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.44%) Teradata
10 4 (1.44%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.08%) Informatica
11 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.08%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.08%) SAP
11 3 (1.08%) Trend Micro