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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 260 381
Rank change year-on-year -67 +121 -57
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 297 232 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.93% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% 2.46% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 170 118
10th Percentile £400 £400 £422
25th Percentile £449 £475 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +3.41% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £669 £689 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 15,187 9,412 12,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.68% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,287 6,395 8,605
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 235 338
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.12 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.03 £69.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -41 202 £550 -8.33% 37
North of England -78 21 £610 +48.51% 23
Midlands -39 20 £470 -14.59% 2
South West -22 18 £450 -25.00% 12
South East -47 18 £549 -2.88% 19
West Midlands -48 16 £477 -4.60% 2
North West -39 14 £581 +45.25% 14
Yorkshire -56 7 £663 +32.50% 7
East of England -28 6 £450 -10.00%
East Midlands -14 4 £442 -36.82%
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 19 (6.40%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.72%) Apache
3 14 (4.71%) Confluence
4 6 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.01%) SAS
7 2 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.67%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 290 (97.64%) AWS
2 109 (36.70%) Serverless
3 108 (36.36%) Amazon S3
4 106 (35.69%) Azure
5 94 (31.65%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (27.95%) GitHub
7 82 (27.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 71 (23.91%) GCP
8 71 (23.91%) GitHub Actions
9 69 (23.23%) Amazon ECS
10 66 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (16.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 49 (16.50%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (10.44%) AWS CodePipeline
14 28 (9.43%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (7.41%) Route 53
16 18 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (4.71%) AWS CloudTrail
18 13 (4.38%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.44%) DNS
2 26 (8.75%) Firewall
3 14 (4.71%) Network Security
4 11 (3.70%) WAN
5 10 (3.37%) TCP/IP
6 9 (3.03%) VPN
7 7 (2.36%) DNSSEC
8 6 (2.02%) DHCP
9 4 (1.35%) BGP
9 4 (1.35%) HTTP
9 4 (1.35%) SSL
10 3 (1.01%) OSPF
10 3 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (1.01%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.67%) Internet
12 1 (0.34%) 4G
12 1 (0.34%) CTI
12 1 (0.34%) MPLS
12 1 (0.34%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.44%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (6.73%) Data Lake
2 20 (6.73%) DynamoDB
2 20 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.70%) BigQuery
6 10 (3.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.37%) Mixpanel
6 10 (3.37%) Power BI
7 9 (3.03%) OLAP
7 9 (3.03%) OLTP
8 8 (2.69%) Redis
8 8 (2.69%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.36%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.36%) MySQL
10 6 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.68%) Metadata
11 5 (1.68%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 75 (25.25%) Jenkins
2 58 (19.53%) GitLab
3 40 (13.47%) Git
4 25 (8.42%) JIRA
5 17 (5.72%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.03%) Snyk
7 7 (2.36%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.36%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.01%) JUnit
8 3 (1.01%) Vite
9 2 (0.67%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.67%) MLflow
9 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.67%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) git-flow
10 1 (0.34%) Mockito
10 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 80 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.80%) Finance
3 40 (13.47%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.71%) Banking
6 10 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.35%) Law
10 3 (1.01%) Games
10 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.67%) Front Office
11 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Military
11 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 59 (19.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (19.19%) AWS Engineer
3 51 (17.17%) Architect
4 40 (13.47%) Lead
5 38 (12.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (11.78%) AWS DevOps
6 35 (11.78%) Senior
7 30 (10.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 27 (9.09%) Data Engineer
9 22 (7.41%) AWS Architect
10 21 (7.07%) Developer
11 17 (5.72%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.71%) Security Engineer
13 11 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (3.37%) Lead Data Engineer
14 10 (3.37%) Network Engineer
15 9 (3.03%) Principal Data Engineer
15 9 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
15 9 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.46%) Kafka
2 35 (11.78%) AWS CDK
3 22 (7.41%) Node.js
3 22 (7.41%) RESTful
4 19 (6.40%) OAuth
5 17 (5.72%) PySpark
6 16 (5.39%) React
6 16 (5.39%) REST
7 15 (5.05%) Great Expectations
8 13 (4.38%) OAuth2
9 12 (4.04%) Spring
9 12 (4.04%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (3.03%) OpenID
12 7 (2.36%) Pandas
13 6 (2.02%) .NET
13 6 (2.02%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.02%) ARM Templates
13 6 (2.02%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 105 (35.35%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.08%) Product Ownership
3 22 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.04%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 8 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.36%) Replication
7 7 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.68%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.68%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.35%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.35%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.01%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.78%) Linux
2 23 (7.74%) Windows
3 10 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.01%) Unix
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.34%) AIX
5 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (83.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 238 (80.13%) CI/CD
3 185 (62.29%) DevOps
4 100 (33.67%) Containerisation
5 84 (28.28%) Agile
6 75 (25.25%) Observability
7 58 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (16.16%) Microservices
9 45 (15.15%) High Availability
10 44 (14.81%) DevSecOps
11 43 (14.48%) AI
12 40 (13.47%) Analytics
12 40 (13.47%) Platform Engineering
13 37 (12.46%) Incident Response
13 37 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (11.78%) Infrastructure Automation
15 34 (11.45%) Cloud Security
15 34 (11.45%) Event-Driven
15 34 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (11.11%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (45.79%) Python
2 51 (17.17%) SQL
3 43 (14.48%) Bash
4 39 (13.13%) Java
5 35 (11.78%) PowerShell
6 21 (7.07%) Bicep
7 14 (4.71%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.70%) C#
8 11 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.69%) Go
10 5 (1.68%) Ruby
11 3 (1.01%) Groovy
11 3 (1.01%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.67%) C
12 2 (0.67%) Scala
13 1 (0.34%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.34%) Perl
13 1 (0.34%) R
13 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 96 (32.32%) Security Cleared
2 83 (27.95%) SC Cleared
3 40 (13.47%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.72%) Degree
5 16 (5.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.03%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (2.69%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.68%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.35%) IBM Certification
13 3 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.01%) CISSP
13 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.75%) GDPR
2 23 (7.74%) NIST
3 22 (7.41%) PCI DSS
4 21 (7.07%) Data Quality
5 16 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (5.39%) QA
6 4 (1.35%) GRC
7 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.01%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.67%) NCSC
9 1 (0.34%) HL7
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.34%) SLA
9 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 111 (37.37%) Docker
2 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.01%) Squid
3 2 (0.67%) Corosync
3 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 273 (91.92%) Terraform
2 110 (37.04%) Kubernetes
3 38 (12.79%) Prometheus
4 37 (12.46%) Ansible
5 33 (11.11%) Grafana
6 11 (3.70%) Puppet
7 8 (2.69%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.36%) Argo
8 7 (2.36%) Istio
8 7 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.02%) linkerd
9 6 (2.02%) Packer
10 4 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.01%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.67%) Consul
12 2 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.67%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.34%) Kibana
13 1 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 27 (9.09%) Google
2 23 (7.74%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.06%) Databricks
4 17 (5.72%) Splunk
5 10 (3.37%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.36%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.02%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.02%) Oracle
8 5 (1.68%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.68%) IBM
8 5 (1.68%) New Relic
8 5 (1.68%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.68%) SAP
9 4 (1.35%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.35%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.35%) Sybase
10 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.01%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.01%) VMware
10 3 (1.01%) Zscaler