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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 251 348
Rank change year-on-year -12 +97 -48
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 377 232 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 0.96% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.71% 2.52% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 176 152
10th Percentile £400 £400 £431
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 £735 £676
90th Percentile £692 £788 £767
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.58% -2.23%
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 13,934 9,197 12,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.70% 37.92% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,588 6,487 8,717
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 184 327
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.19 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.05% +29.46% -17.58%
75th Percentile £67.19 £43.10 £38.13
90th Percentile £80.60 £74.63 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -20.69%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +19 247 £550 -8.33% 47
North of England -43 51 £500 -28.57% 33
North West -18 30 £535 +6.91% 16
South East -36 27 £518 -15.85% 13
Yorkshire -51 18 £500 -31.03% 8
Midlands -64 16 £450 -5.26% 4
South West -15 13 £575 +4.55% 13
West Midlands -49 13 £463 -2.63% 3
East of England -28 5 £525 +5.00% 5
North East -9 3 £575 -23.33% 9
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 1
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 35 (9.28%) Apache Spark
2 32 (8.49%) Apache
3 22 (5.84%) Confluence
4 15 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.98%) nginx
5 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.80%) SAS
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Actimize
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 363 (96.29%) AWS
2 134 (35.54%) Amazon S3
3 129 (34.22%) Serverless
4 119 (31.56%) AWS Lambda
5 116 (30.77%) Azure
6 111 (29.44%) GitHub
7 100 (26.53%) Amazon ECS
8 91 (24.14%) GitHub Actions
9 81 (21.49%) GCP
10 78 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 75 (19.89%) Amazon EKS
12 70 (18.57%) Amazon EC2
13 64 (16.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 45 (11.94%) AWS CodePipeline
15 34 (9.02%) Amazon SQS
16 30 (7.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 24 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
18 23 (6.10%) AWS KMS
18 23 (6.10%) Route 53
19 22 (5.84%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.55%) DNS
2 23 (6.10%) Firewall
3 16 (4.24%) VPN
4 14 (3.71%) Network Security
5 10 (2.65%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.12%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.33%) DHCP
8 3 (0.80%) HTTP
8 3 (0.80%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.80%) WAN
9 2 (0.53%) BGP
9 2 (0.53%) OSPF
10 1 (0.27%) 4G
10 1 (0.27%) 5G
10 1 (0.27%) Internet
10 1 (0.27%) NAS
10 1 (0.27%) SAN
10 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (14.32%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (10.08%) Data Lake
3 37 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (9.02%) Amazon Athena
5 28 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (5.57%) Power BI
7 18 (4.77%) BigQuery
7 18 (4.77%) DynamoDB
7 18 (4.77%) Mixpanel
8 17 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (4.51%) OLAP
8 17 (4.51%) OLTP
9 16 (4.24%) NoSQL
9 16 (4.24%) SQL Server
10 11 (2.92%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.12%) MySQL
12 8 (2.12%) Redis
12 8 (2.12%) Redshift Spectrum
12 8 (2.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 89 (23.61%) Jenkins
2 79 (20.95%) Git
3 74 (19.63%) GitLab
4 31 (8.22%) JIRA
5 18 (4.77%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.65%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.12%) JUnit
7 8 (2.12%) Snyk
8 6 (1.59%) Maven
9 5 (1.33%) Gradle
9 5 (1.33%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.33%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.80%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.80%) Selenium
10 3 (0.80%) Vite
11 2 (0.53%) Postman
11 2 (0.53%) webpack
12 1 (0.27%) MLflow
General
1 86 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.57%) Public Sector
3 56 (14.85%) Finance
4 21 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.57%) Banking
5 10 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.33%) Games
8 5 (1.33%) Law
9 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.53%) Legal
10 2 (0.53%) Marketing
10 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Billing
11 1 (0.27%) Front Office
11 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.27%) Military
11 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (17.51%) AWS Engineer
2 63 (16.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 57 (15.12%) Architect
4 53 (14.06%) Lead
5 45 (11.94%) Senior
6 38 (10.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (9.81%) Data Engineer
8 32 (8.49%) Developer
9 31 (8.22%) AWS DevOps
10 29 (7.69%) AWS Architect
11 25 (6.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 23 (6.10%) Cloud Architect
13 22 (5.84%) Security Engineer
13 22 (5.84%) Site Engineer
14 21 (5.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 19 (5.04%) Software Engineer
16 17 (4.51%) Principal Engineer
17 15 (3.98%) Principal Data Engineer
18 13 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
18 13 (3.45%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (16.71%) Kafka
2 33 (8.75%) RESTful
3 30 (7.96%) AWS CDK
4 29 (7.69%) Node.js
5 25 (6.63%) Spring
6 24 (6.37%) Spring Boot
7 21 (5.57%) REST
8 19 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (5.04%) React
9 18 (4.77%) Great Expectations
10 17 (4.51%) OAuth
11 12 (3.18%) OAuth2
11 12 (3.18%) PySpark
12 11 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (2.65%) AngularJS
14 9 (2.39%) .NET
14 9 (2.39%) boto
14 9 (2.39%) OpenID
14 9 (2.39%) Vue
15 8 (2.12%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 109 (28.91%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.12%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.86%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.59%) NHS
6 6 (1.59%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.33%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.33%) PKI
7 5 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.33%) Replication
7 5 (1.33%) SCADA
8 4 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.06%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 74 (19.63%) Linux
2 23 (6.10%) Windows
3 11 (2.92%) Unix
4 3 (0.80%) VMS
5 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (81.43%) CI/CD
2 296 (78.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 221 (58.62%) DevOps
4 123 (32.63%) Containerisation
5 110 (29.18%) Agile
6 91 (24.14%) Observability
7 59 (15.65%) Microservices
8 56 (14.85%) Analytics
9 51 (13.53%) Migration
10 50 (13.26%) AI
10 50 (13.26%) DevSecOps
10 50 (13.26%) Infrastructure Automation
10 50 (13.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 47 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (12.47%) Technical Leadership
12 46 (12.20%) Data Engineering
13 45 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (11.94%) ETL
14 44 (11.67%) Data Modelling
15 43 (11.41%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 186 (49.34%) Python
2 73 (19.36%) SQL
3 58 (15.38%) Bash
4 57 (15.12%) Java
5 38 (10.08%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.57%) C#
6 21 (5.57%) Ruby
7 20 (5.31%) JavaScript
8 18 (4.77%) Bicep
8 18 (4.77%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.45%) Go
10 7 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.33%) Scala
12 3 (0.80%) C
12 3 (0.80%) SAS Macro
13 2 (0.53%) Groovy
13 2 (0.53%) Perl
14 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.27%) R
14 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 118 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 100 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 71 (18.83%) AWS Certification
4 25 (6.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (4.77%) Degree
6 17 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (3.71%) Azure Certification
9 13 (3.45%) DV Cleared
10 11 (2.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.86%) CISSP
11 7 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.33%) CCSP
12 5 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.33%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.06%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.80%) OSCP
14 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (13.53%) GDPR
2 29 (7.69%) NIST
3 28 (7.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (7.16%) Data Quality
5 22 (5.84%) QA
6 20 (5.31%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.92%) NCSC
8 8 (2.12%) Accessibility
8 8 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.33%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.06%) GRC
11 3 (0.80%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.80%) SLA
12 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.27%) HL7
13 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.27%) MiFID
13 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 163 (43.24%) Docker
2 7 (1.86%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.53%) HDFS
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 342 (90.72%) Terraform
2 148 (39.26%) Kubernetes
3 67 (17.77%) Ansible
4 50 (13.26%) Grafana
5 46 (12.20%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.77%) Puppet
7 15 (3.98%) Packer
8 13 (3.45%) Consul
9 12 (3.18%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.86%) Argo
10 7 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.33%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.06%) Istio
12 4 (1.06%) Kibana
12 4 (1.06%) linkerd
13 2 (0.53%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.53%) Podman
14 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 35 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.49%) Databricks
3 31 (8.22%) Google
4 25 (6.63%) Splunk
5 11 (2.92%) Oracle
6 10 (2.65%) CloudEndure
7 9 (2.39%) PagerDuty
7 9 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.86%) Citrix
8 7 (1.86%) IBM
8 7 (1.86%) VMware
9 6 (1.59%) AVEVA
9 6 (1.59%) Rapid7
10 5 (1.33%) New Relic
10 5 (1.33%) Sybase
11 4 (1.06%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.06%) Qualys
11 4 (1.06%) Tenable
12 3 (0.80%) Confluent
12 3 (0.80%) Ping Identity