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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 252 351
Rank change year-on-year -16 +99 -55
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 373 238 204
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 0.98% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.67% 2.59% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 184 150
10th Percentile £400 £400 £431
25th Percentile £455 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £727 £675
90th Percentile £693 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.52% -2.18%
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 13,949 9,173 12,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.54% 37.84% 32.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 6,471 8,724
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 £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 180 328
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.64 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.13% +26.19% -18.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.23 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.14 £75.05 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 April 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 April 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 -2 245 £556 -7.29% 47
North of England -48 49 £519 -23.10% 33
North West -26 27 £550 +29.41% 16
South East -36 26 £530 -13.82% 13
Yorkshire -49 19 £500 -31.03% 8
Midlands -58 17 £450 - 4
West Midlands -48 14 £463 +2.78% 3
South West -15 13 £575 +4.55% 13
East of England -26 5 £525 +5.00% 5
North East -11 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 (9.38%) Apache Spark
2 32 (8.58%) Apache
3 22 (5.90%) Confluence
4 15 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (4.02%) nginx
5 5 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.80%) SAS
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Actimize
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 359 (96.25%) AWS
2 134 (35.92%) Amazon S3
3 127 (34.05%) Serverless
4 118 (31.64%) AWS Lambda
5 115 (30.83%) Azure
6 111 (29.76%) GitHub
7 99 (26.54%) Amazon ECS
8 91 (24.40%) GitHub Actions
9 78 (20.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 78 (20.91%) GCP
10 74 (19.84%) Amazon EKS
11 69 (18.50%) Amazon EC2
12 64 (17.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 45 (12.06%) AWS CodePipeline
14 35 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
15 30 (8.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 25 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
17 23 (6.17%) AWS KMS
17 23 (6.17%) Route 53
18 21 (5.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.65%) DNS
2 23 (6.17%) Firewall
3 16 (4.29%) VPN
4 14 (3.75%) Network Security
5 10 (2.68%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.34%) DHCP
8 3 (0.80%) HTTP
8 3 (0.80%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.80%) WAN
9 2 (0.54%) BGP
9 2 (0.54%) 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 52 (13.94%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (10.19%) Data Lake
3 36 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (9.12%) Amazon Athena
5 27 (7.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (5.63%) Power BI
7 18 (4.83%) BigQuery
7 18 (4.83%) DynamoDB
7 18 (4.83%) Mixpanel
8 17 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (4.56%) OLAP
8 17 (4.56%) OLTP
9 16 (4.29%) SQL Server
10 14 (3.75%) NoSQL
11 11 (2.95%) MongoDB
12 9 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (2.14%) Redis
13 8 (2.14%) Redshift Spectrum
13 8 (2.14%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 89 (23.86%) Jenkins
2 80 (21.45%) Git
3 73 (19.57%) GitLab
4 31 (8.31%) JIRA
5 18 (4.83%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.41%) CircleCI
6 9 (2.41%) Snyk
7 8 (2.14%) JUnit
8 6 (1.61%) Maven
8 6 (1.61%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.34%) Gradle
9 5 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.34%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.80%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.80%) Selenium
10 3 (0.80%) Vite
11 2 (0.54%) Postman
11 2 (0.54%) webpack
12 1 (0.27%) MLflow
General
1 86 (23.06%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.77%) Public Sector
3 55 (14.75%) Finance
4 22 (5.90%) Banking
5 21 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.34%) Games
9 5 (1.34%) Law
10 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Marketing
11 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Billing
12 1 (0.27%) Front Office
12 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (17.69%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (16.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 56 (15.01%) Architect
4 53 (14.21%) Lead
5 46 (12.33%) Senior
6 37 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (9.65%) Data Engineer
8 32 (8.58%) AWS DevOps
9 31 (8.31%) Developer
10 29 (7.77%) AWS Architect
11 26 (6.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 23 (6.17%) Cloud Architect
13 22 (5.90%) Site Engineer
14 21 (5.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 20 (5.36%) Security Engineer
16 19 (5.09%) Software Engineer
17 17 (4.56%) Principal Engineer
18 15 (4.02%) Principal Data Engineer
19 13 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
20 12 (3.22%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (16.62%) Kafka
2 32 (8.58%) RESTful
3 30 (8.04%) Node.js
4 29 (7.77%) AWS CDK
5 25 (6.70%) Spring
6 24 (6.43%) Spring Boot
7 21 (5.63%) REST
8 18 (4.83%) Great Expectations
8 18 (4.83%) OAuth
8 18 (4.83%) React
9 17 (4.56%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (3.49%) OAuth2
11 12 (3.22%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (3.22%) PySpark
12 9 (2.41%) .NET
12 9 (2.41%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.41%) ARM Templates
12 9 (2.41%) boto
12 9 (2.41%) OpenID
13 8 (2.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 108 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.56%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.88%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.61%) NHS
7 6 (1.61%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.34%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.34%) PKI
8 5 (1.34%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.34%) SCADA
9 4 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.07%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.07%) Replication
10 3 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 73 (19.57%) Linux
2 22 (5.90%) Windows
3 9 (2.41%) Unix
4 3 (0.80%) VMS
5 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (82.04%) CI/CD
2 292 (78.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 220 (58.98%) DevOps
4 123 (32.98%) Containerisation
5 107 (28.69%) Agile
6 92 (24.66%) Observability
7 58 (15.55%) Microservices
8 56 (15.01%) Analytics
9 51 (13.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 50 (13.40%) AI
10 50 (13.40%) Migration
10 50 (13.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 49 (13.14%) DevSecOps
12 46 (12.33%) Data Engineering
12 46 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
13 45 (12.06%) ETL
13 45 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (11.80%) Data Modelling
15 43 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (11.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 183 (49.06%) Python
2 73 (19.57%) SQL
3 57 (15.28%) Java
4 56 (15.01%) Bash
5 36 (9.65%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.63%) C#
6 21 (5.63%) Ruby
7 19 (5.09%) JavaScript
8 18 (4.83%) Bicep
8 18 (4.83%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.49%) Go
10 7 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.34%) Scala
12 3 (0.80%) C
12 3 (0.80%) SAS Macro
13 2 (0.54%) Groovy
13 2 (0.54%) Perl
14 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.27%) R
14 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 117 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 99 (26.54%) SC Cleared
3 70 (18.77%) AWS Certification
4 25 (6.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (4.83%) Degree
6 17 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (3.75%) Azure Certification
9 13 (3.49%) DV Cleared
10 11 (2.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.88%) CISSP
11 7 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.34%) CCSP
12 5 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.34%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.07%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (13.67%) GDPR
2 29 (7.77%) NIST
3 28 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (7.24%) Data Quality
5 20 (5.36%) PCI DSS
5 20 (5.36%) QA
6 11 (2.95%) NCSC
7 8 (2.14%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.34%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.07%) GRC
10 3 (0.80%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.80%) SLA
11 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.27%) MiFID
12 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 163 (43.70%) Docker
2 7 (1.88%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.54%) HDFS
5 2 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 337 (90.35%) Terraform
2 150 (40.21%) Kubernetes
3 65 (17.43%) Ansible
4 50 (13.40%) Grafana
5 46 (12.33%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.83%) Puppet
7 15 (4.02%) Packer
8 13 (3.49%) Consul
9 12 (3.22%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.88%) Argo
10 7 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.34%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.07%) Istio
12 4 (1.07%) Kibana
12 4 (1.07%) linkerd
13 2 (0.54%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.54%) Podman
14 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 34 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.58%) Databricks
3 31 (8.31%) Google
4 26 (6.97%) Splunk
5 11 (2.95%) Oracle
6 10 (2.68%) CloudEndure
7 9 (2.41%) PagerDuty
8 8 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.88%) Citrix
9 7 (1.88%) IBM
9 7 (1.88%) VMware
10 6 (1.61%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.61%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.34%) New Relic
11 5 (1.34%) Sybase
12 4 (1.07%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.07%) Qualys
12 4 (1.07%) Tenable
13 3 (0.80%) Ping Identity
14 2 (0.54%) Confluent