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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 278 395
Rank change year-on-year -84 +117 -60
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 273 263 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.95% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 2.51% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 199 74
10th Percentile £400 £400 £379
25th Percentile £450 £460 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -7.56%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £676 £771
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.61 - -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.90% - -
75th Percentile £69.82 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.90% - -

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 15,929 10,493 11,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.50% 37.73% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 7,098 7,761
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 247 174
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.34 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -84 153 £550 -8.33% 183
North of England -62 45 £609 +48.27% 60
North West -37 30 £605 +51.25% 32
South West -26 20 £475 -20.00% 16
Midlands -38 20 £488 -15.22% 25
South East -54 19 £568 +29.83% 40
West Midlands -40 15 £488 -15.22% 13
Yorkshire -49 11 £650 +33.33% 17
East of England -31 6 £450 - 6
East Midlands -11 5 £466 -33.50% 12
North East -44 4 £500 +20.12% 11
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 10 (3.66%) Confluence
2 9 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.83%) Apache
3 5 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) nginx
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.73%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.37%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
5 1 (0.37%) Traefik
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 270 (98.90%) AWS
2 113 (41.39%) Serverless
3 103 (37.73%) Azure
4 95 (34.80%) AWS Lambda
5 89 (32.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 88 (32.23%) Amazon S3
7 72 (26.37%) GCP
8 61 (22.34%) Amazon EKS
8 61 (22.34%) GitHub
9 59 (21.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 56 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
11 52 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (16.12%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (13.19%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (9.89%) AWS Step Functions
15 23 (8.42%) Datadog
16 22 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
16 22 (8.06%) AWS KMS
17 20 (7.33%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (5.49%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.52%) Firewall
2 24 (8.79%) DNS
3 12 (4.40%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.66%) Network Security
5 9 (3.30%) WAN
6 8 (2.93%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.56%) DHCP
8 6 (2.20%) SSL
9 4 (1.47%) HTTP
9 4 (1.47%) NetScaler
9 4 (1.47%) VPN
10 3 (1.10%) CTI
11 2 (0.73%) BGP
11 2 (0.73%) Internet
12 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.37%) LAN
12 1 (0.37%) MPLS
12 1 (0.37%) OSPF
12 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.55%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (9.16%) DynamoDB
3 22 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (6.96%) MySQL
5 16 (5.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (5.13%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.03%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (4.03%) NoSQL
9 10 (3.66%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.66%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.93%) Redis
11 6 (2.20%) Metadata
12 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.10%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.10%) Data Vault
13 3 (1.10%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.10%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.73%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 66 (24.18%) Jenkins
2 57 (20.88%) GitLab
3 41 (15.02%) Git
4 21 (7.69%) JIRA
5 10 (3.66%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.93%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.56%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.20%) Snyk
8 6 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.47%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.47%) JUnit
9 4 (1.47%) Maven
9 4 (1.47%) Spinnaker
10 3 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.10%) Mockito
11 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.73%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.73%) Flyway
11 2 (0.73%) MLflow
11 2 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 80 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.02%) Public Sector
3 40 (14.65%) Finance
4 14 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.03%) Banking
6 7 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.83%) Law
7 5 (1.83%) Military
8 3 (1.10%) Games
8 3 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.37%) Automotive
10 1 (0.37%) Front Office
10 1 (0.37%) German Language
10 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.37%) Local Government
10 1 (0.37%) Publishing
10 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (18.68%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (17.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (15.02%) Architect
4 39 (14.29%) Senior
5 38 (13.92%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (11.72%) AWS DevOps
7 27 (9.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 26 (9.52%) Lead
9 24 (8.79%) Data Engineer
10 23 (8.42%) Security Engineer
11 21 (7.69%) Developer
12 18 (6.59%) AWS Architect
13 13 (4.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 13 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (4.40%) DBA
14 12 (4.40%) Platform Architect
15 10 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
15 10 (3.66%) Network Engineer
15 10 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (3.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (90.84%) Terraform
2 30 (10.99%) AWS CDK
3 19 (6.96%) REST
4 18 (6.59%) Kafka
5 15 (5.49%) Node.js
6 12 (4.40%) PySpark
6 12 (4.40%) React
6 12 (4.40%) RESTful
7 10 (3.66%) ARM Templates
8 9 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.30%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.93%) Pandas
9 8 (2.93%) Spring
10 7 (2.56%) Pulumi
11 6 (2.20%) Great Expectations
11 6 (2.20%) OAuth
12 4 (1.47%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.47%) Azure Blueprints
12 4 (1.47%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 89 (32.60%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.59%) Security Posture
4 16 (5.86%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.49%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.40%) Replication
7 9 (3.30%) AI Agents
8 8 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.20%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.83%) Clustering
12 4 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.47%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.10%) Autonomous Agent
13 3 (1.10%) IVR
13 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 45 (16.48%) Linux
2 26 (9.52%) Windows
3 18 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.93%) Unix
5 5 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.47%) AIX
7 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.37%) CentOS
8 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (87.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 209 (76.56%) CI/CD
3 165 (60.44%) DevOps
4 89 (32.60%) Containerisation
5 88 (32.23%) Agile
6 75 (27.47%) Observability
7 56 (20.51%) Cloud Security
8 55 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (16.48%) Microservices
10 44 (16.12%) Test Automation
11 43 (15.75%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (15.02%) AI
13 39 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (13.19%) High Availability
15 36 (13.19%) Root Cause Analysis
16 35 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
17 34 (12.45%) Scrum
18 32 (11.72%) Data Modelling
18 32 (11.72%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 139 (50.92%) Python
2 63 (23.08%) Bash
3 52 (19.05%) PowerShell
4 48 (17.58%) SQL
5 40 (14.65%) Java
6 32 (11.72%) Bicep
7 19 (6.96%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.93%) Go
10 5 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.47%) Groovy
11 4 (1.47%) Ruby
12 3 (1.10%) C
12 3 (1.10%) Scala
12 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.73%) R
14 1 (0.37%) C#
14 1 (0.37%) C++
14 1 (0.37%) Perl
14 1 (0.37%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 99 (36.26%) Security Cleared
2 87 (31.87%) SC Cleared
3 50 (18.32%) AWS Certification
4 29 (10.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (6.59%) Degree
6 16 (5.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.13%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.56%) CISSP
9 6 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (2.20%) SAFe Agilist
10 5 (1.83%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.37%) PMP
14 1 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.79%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.76%) QA
3 10 (3.66%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.93%) NIST
6 7 (2.56%) GDPR
7 6 (2.20%) NCSC
8 4 (1.47%) SLA
9 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.10%) WCAG
10 1 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 101 (37.00%) Docker
2 8 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.10%) Squid
4 2 (0.73%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 119 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 41 (15.02%) Grafana
3 35 (12.82%) Prometheus
4 32 (11.72%) Ansible
5 17 (6.23%) Progress Chef
6 15 (5.49%) Puppet
7 8 (2.93%) Argo
8 6 (2.20%) Istio
9 5 (1.83%) Packer
10 3 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.10%) linkerd
10 3 (1.10%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.73%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.73%) Podman
12 1 (0.37%) Control-M
12 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.42%) Google
3 17 (6.23%) Red Hat
4 15 (5.49%) Splunk
5 11 (4.03%) Oracle
6 10 (3.66%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.30%) Databricks
8 8 (2.93%) Infoblox
9 7 (2.56%) VMware
10 5 (1.83%) Cisco
10 5 (1.83%) PagerDuty
10 5 (1.83%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.47%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.47%) SaltStack
11 4 (1.47%) Teradata
11 4 (1.47%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.10%) Informatica
12 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.10%) SAP
12 3 (1.10%) Trend Micro