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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 299 348
Rank change year-on-year +45 +49 -60
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 341 196 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 0.74% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.78% 1.99% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 145 153
10th Percentile £400 £386 £425
25th Percentile £450 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £608 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +8.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £627 £738 £663
90th Percentile £694 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% -4.35%
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 12,285 9,844 12,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.91% 36.92% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,551 6,529 9,214
10th Percentile £304 £313 £271
25th Percentile £406 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 137 285
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.55 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +1.86%
75th Percentile £58.00 £45.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.40 £68.75 £66.84
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.86
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.64% +7.71%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +44 204 £556 -14.42% 47
North of England -28 66 £500 -21.88% 28
North West -11 36 £488 - 10
South East -2 26 £530 -18.46% 41
Yorkshire -38 25 £500 -29.82% 16
Midlands -34 14 £575 +27.78% 11
South West -7 12 £563 +2.27% 21
West Midlands -36 12 £575 +21.05% 8
North East -10 5 £466 -31.85% 2
East Midlands -25 2 £442 +10.56% 3
East of England - 2 £600 - 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 20 (5.87%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.57%) Apache
3 18 (5.28%) Confluence
4 16 (4.69%) nginx
5 15 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.76%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 327 (95.89%) AWS
2 126 (36.95%) Serverless
3 122 (35.78%) AWS Lambda
4 116 (34.02%) Amazon S3
5 106 (31.09%) GitHub
6 98 (28.74%) Amazon ECS
7 91 (26.69%) Azure
8 81 (23.75%) GitHub Actions
9 72 (21.11%) Amazon EKS
10 71 (20.82%) GCP
11 66 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
12 61 (17.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 56 (16.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 33 (9.68%) AWS CodePipeline
15 31 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 30 (8.80%) Datadog
17 23 (6.74%) AWS KMS
18 22 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
19 20 (5.87%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.09%) DNS
2 20 (5.87%) Firewall
3 15 (4.40%) VPN
4 10 (2.93%) Network Security
5 9 (2.64%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.05%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.47%) DHCP
8 3 (0.88%) HTTP
8 3 (0.88%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.88%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.88%) WAN
9 2 (0.59%) BGP
9 2 (0.59%) OSPF
9 2 (0.59%) SSL
10 1 (0.29%) Internet
10 1 (0.29%) NAS
10 1 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.65%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (7.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 27 (7.92%) Data Lake
4 23 (6.74%) DynamoDB
5 21 (6.16%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (5.28%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (4.11%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.81%) Power BI
10 11 (3.23%) MongoDB
11 10 (2.93%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.93%) Mixpanel
11 10 (2.93%) MySQL
11 10 (2.93%) OLAP
11 10 (2.93%) OLTP
12 8 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (2.05%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.76%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (1.76%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 96 (28.15%) Jenkins
2 77 (22.58%) Git
3 75 (21.99%) GitLab
4 29 (8.50%) JIRA
5 14 (4.11%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.23%) CircleCI
7 10 (2.93%) Maven
7 10 (2.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (2.64%) JUnit
8 9 (2.64%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.35%) Gradle
9 8 (2.35%) Snyk
9 8 (2.35%) Terragrunt
10 7 (2.05%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.76%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.76%) Selenium
12 5 (1.47%) Postman
12 5 (1.47%) webpack
13 3 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
General
1 76 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.60%) Public Sector
3 50 (14.66%) Finance
4 18 (5.28%) Banking
5 17 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.76%) Law
8 5 (1.47%) Games
9 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.59%) Legal
10 2 (0.59%) Marketing
10 2 (0.59%) Police
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.29%) Aviation
11 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.29%) Military
11 1 (0.29%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (20.23%) AWS Engineer
2 68 (19.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (13.49%) Architect
4 38 (11.14%) Senior
5 36 (10.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (10.56%) Lead
6 33 (9.68%) Data Engineer
7 31 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
8 28 (8.21%) Developer
9 27 (7.92%) AWS Architect
10 26 (7.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.87%) Cloud Architect
11 20 (5.87%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (5.87%) Security Engineer
12 19 (5.57%) Site Engineer
13 18 (5.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (4.40%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
16 10 (2.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 10 (2.93%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.72%) Kafka
2 29 (8.50%) AWS CDK
3 27 (7.92%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (7.92%) Node.js
3 27 (7.92%) RESTful
4 22 (6.45%) Spring
5 21 (6.16%) Spring Boot
6 18 (5.28%) React
7 17 (4.99%) REST
8 10 (2.93%) Great Expectations
8 10 (2.93%) JSON
8 10 (2.93%) OAuth
9 9 (2.64%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.35%) .NET
10 8 (2.35%) ARM Templates
10 8 (2.35%) Vue
10 8 (2.35%) YAML
11 7 (2.05%) FastAPI
11 7 (2.05%) LangGraph
11 7 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 82 (24.05%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.93%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.64%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.35%) PKI
7 7 (2.05%) NHS
7 7 (2.05%) Replication
7 7 (2.05%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.76%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.47%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.47%) SCADA
10 4 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.17%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.59%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.59%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 88 (25.81%) Linux
2 19 (5.57%) Unix
3 18 (5.28%) Windows
4 4 (1.17%) CentOS
4 4 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.88%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (79.47%) CI/CD
2 261 (76.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 202 (59.24%) DevOps
4 115 (33.72%) Containerisation
5 85 (24.93%) Agile
6 77 (22.58%) Observability
7 51 (14.96%) Microservices
7 51 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (14.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 47 (13.78%) DevSecOps
10 45 (13.20%) Infrastructure Automation
11 40 (11.73%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (11.44%) AI
12 39 (11.44%) Incident Response
12 39 (11.44%) Software Engineering
13 38 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (11.14%) Migration
14 37 (10.85%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (10.56%) Analytics
15 36 (10.56%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 176 (51.61%) Python
2 60 (17.60%) Bash
3 57 (16.72%) Java
4 54 (15.84%) SQL
5 31 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 24 (7.04%) Go
7 20 (5.87%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.57%) Ruby
8 19 (5.57%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.11%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.52%) C#
11 7 (2.05%) Bicep
12 6 (1.76%) Perl
13 4 (1.17%) Scala
14 3 (0.88%) C
15 1 (0.29%) C++
15 1 (0.29%) Groovy
15 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 103 (30.21%) Security Cleared
2 84 (24.63%) SC Cleared
3 66 (19.35%) AWS Certification
4 23 (6.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (4.69%) DV Cleared
6 15 (4.40%) Degree
7 13 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.93%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.05%) CISSP
10 7 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.47%) MCP
13 4 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (1.17%) CCSP
13 4 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.17%) IBM Certification
13 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.44%) GDPR
2 26 (7.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (7.04%) NIST
4 19 (5.57%) QA
5 16 (4.69%) PCI DSS
6 15 (4.40%) Data Quality
6 15 (4.40%) NCSC
7 8 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.47%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.47%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.47%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.88%) GRC
9 3 (0.88%) SLA
10 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 147 (43.11%) Docker
2 7 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.59%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 304 (89.15%) Terraform
2 143 (41.94%) Kubernetes
3 81 (23.75%) Ansible
4 46 (13.49%) Grafana
5 38 (11.14%) Prometheus
6 23 (6.74%) Puppet
7 20 (5.87%) Packer
8 17 (4.99%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.81%) Consul
10 6 (1.76%) Podman
11 5 (1.47%) Karpenter
11 5 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.17%) Kibana
13 3 (0.88%) Argo
14 2 (0.59%) Istio
14 2 (0.59%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.29%) Bitnami
15 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.29%) linkerd
Vendors
1 27 (7.92%) Google
2 26 (7.62%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.33%) Splunk
4 24 (7.04%) Databricks
5 13 (3.81%) IBM
6 10 (2.93%) CloudEndure
6 10 (2.93%) Oracle
7 8 (2.35%) PagerDuty
7 8 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.05%) Citrix
8 7 (2.05%) Confluent
9 6 (1.76%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.76%) VMware
10 5 (1.47%) AVEVA
10 5 (1.47%) New Relic
11 4 (1.17%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.17%) Okta
11 4 (1.17%) Sybase
11 4 (1.17%) Tenable
12 3 (0.88%) Ping Identity