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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 263 394
Rank change year-on-year -94 +131 -72
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 281 266 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.97% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 2.59% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 198 98
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £466 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £689
90th Percentile £669 £688 £780
UK median daily rate £525 £546 £503
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.55% -4.19%
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 15,795 10,260 11,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.39% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,541 6,939 8,158
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 270 261
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.27 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 July 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 July 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 -83 166 £550 -8.33% 60
North of England -69 34 £620 +52.15% 38
Midlands -37 22 £481 -10.51% 8
North West -37 22 £605 +51.25% 19
South East -54 22 £517 -8.45% 14
South West -25 19 £450 -25.04% 22
West Midlands -40 19 £482 +7.17% 8
Yorkshire -48 9 £663 +32.50% 7
East of England -22 6 £450 -5.26% 3
East Midlands -10 3 £481 -31.29%
North East -40 3 £500 +20.12% 12
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 14 (4.98%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.63%) Confluence
3 12 (4.27%) Apache
4 5 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.07%) SAS
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 275 (97.86%) AWS
2 120 (42.70%) Azure
3 109 (38.79%) Serverless
4 96 (34.16%) Amazon S3
5 91 (32.38%) AWS Lambda
6 80 (28.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 79 (28.11%) GCP
8 68 (24.20%) GitHub
9 65 (23.13%) GitHub Actions
10 61 (21.71%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (19.22%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (17.44%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (16.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 33 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (9.25%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (8.90%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (6.76%) AWS CloudTrail
17 19 (6.76%) AWS CodePipeline
18 18 (6.41%) Datadog
19 14 (4.98%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.96%) Firewall
2 27 (9.61%) DNS
3 11 (3.91%) Network Security
3 11 (3.91%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.20%) WAN
5 8 (2.85%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.49%) DHCP
6 7 (2.49%) VPN
7 4 (1.42%) HTTP
7 4 (1.42%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.42%) SSL
8 3 (1.07%) CTI
9 2 (0.71%) BGP
9 2 (0.71%) Internet
10 1 (0.36%) 4G
10 1 (0.36%) 5G
10 1 (0.36%) MPLS
10 1 (0.36%) OSPF
10 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.25%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.54%) DynamoDB
3 17 (6.05%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (6.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (6.05%) Data Lake
4 13 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.56%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.49%) BigQuery
6 7 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.49%) MySQL
6 7 (2.49%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.14%) Mixpanel
7 6 (2.14%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.14%) OLAP
7 6 (2.14%) OLTP
7 6 (2.14%) Power BI
8 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.42%) Metadata
8 4 (1.42%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 74 (26.33%) Jenkins
2 58 (20.64%) GitLab
3 41 (14.59%) Git
4 24 (8.54%) JIRA
5 18 (6.41%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.20%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.85%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.85%) Snyk
8 5 (1.78%) JUnit
8 5 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.42%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.07%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.07%) Mockito
11 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.71%) Maven
11 2 (0.71%) MLflow
11 2 (0.71%) Selenium
11 2 (0.71%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 70 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.30%) Finance
3 41 (14.59%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.05%) Banking
5 12 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.42%) Law
9 3 (1.07%) Games
9 3 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Military
10 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Billing
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (19.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (17.44%) AWS Engineer
3 46 (16.37%) Architect
4 42 (14.95%) Lead
5 35 (12.46%) Senior
6 33 (11.74%) AWS DevOps
6 33 (11.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (9.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.54%) Developer
9 21 (7.47%) Data Engineer
10 18 (6.41%) Security Engineer
11 17 (6.05%) AWS Architect
12 15 (5.34%) Lead DevOps
13 13 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.56%) Network Engineer
16 9 (3.20%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 9 (3.20%) Infrastructure Architect
16 9 (3.20%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.03%) AWS CDK
2 28 (9.96%) Kafka
3 20 (7.12%) Node.js
3 20 (7.12%) REST
4 17 (6.05%) RESTful
5 15 (5.34%) PySpark
5 15 (5.34%) React
6 11 (3.91%) Great Expectations
7 9 (3.20%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.20%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.85%) OAuth
8 8 (2.85%) Spring
9 7 (2.49%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (2.49%) Pandas
10 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.14%) OAuth2
11 4 (1.42%) boto
11 4 (1.42%) Vue
12 3 (1.07%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 95 (33.81%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.12%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 12 (4.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 12 (4.27%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.56%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.49%) Replication
9 6 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.78%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.42%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.07%) IVR
12 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.07%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.23%) Linux
2 28 (9.96%) Windows
3 14 (4.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.42%) AIX
5 4 (1.42%) Unix
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (87.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 215 (76.51%) CI/CD
3 180 (64.06%) DevOps
4 99 (35.23%) Containerisation
5 94 (33.45%) Agile
6 71 (25.27%) Observability
7 52 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (16.73%) Cloud Security
9 46 (16.37%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (15.30%) Microservices
11 39 (13.88%) DevSecOps
12 38 (13.52%) AI
12 38 (13.52%) Scrum
13 37 (13.17%) Migration
14 35 (12.46%) High Availability
14 35 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (12.10%) Analytics
15 34 (12.10%) Test Automation
16 32 (11.39%) Event-Driven
16 32 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 144 (51.25%) Python
2 61 (21.71%) Bash
3 49 (17.44%) PowerShell
4 40 (14.23%) SQL
5 32 (11.39%) Bicep
5 32 (11.39%) Java
6 15 (5.34%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.27%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.49%) C#
8 7 (2.49%) Go
9 5 (1.78%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.42%) Groovy
10 4 (1.42%) Ruby
11 3 (1.07%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.07%) Scala
12 2 (0.71%) C
12 2 (0.71%) R
13 1 (0.36%) Korn
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (35.23%) Security Cleared
2 85 (30.25%) SC Cleared
3 43 (15.30%) AWS Certification
4 20 (7.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (6.76%) Degree
6 17 (6.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (4.63%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.20%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.20%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.42%) CISSP
11 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.07%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.71%) PMP
12 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.34%) QA
3 12 (4.27%) GDPR
4 11 (3.91%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.56%) NIST
6 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.78%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.71%) WCAG
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) HL7
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.36%) NCSC
9 1 (0.36%) SLA
9 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 108 (38.43%) Docker
2 5 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.07%) Squid
4 2 (0.71%) Corosync
4 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 261 (92.88%) Terraform
2 116 (41.28%) Kubernetes
3 44 (15.66%) Grafana
4 39 (13.88%) Prometheus
5 33 (11.74%) Ansible
6 13 (4.63%) Puppet
7 11 (3.91%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.20%) Argo
8 9 (3.20%) Istio
9 6 (2.14%) linkerd
10 4 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.42%) Packer
11 3 (1.07%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.71%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.36%) Kibana
13 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.90%) Google
3 16 (5.69%) Splunk
4 14 (4.98%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.91%) Databricks
6 8 (2.85%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.85%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.14%) Oracle
7 6 (2.14%) VMware
8 5 (1.78%) Cisco
8 5 (1.78%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.42%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.07%) SAP
10 3 (1.07%) Sybase
10 3 (1.07%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.07%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow