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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 285 395
Rank change year-on-year -86 +110 -42
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 277 247 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.88% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 2.31% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 183 77
10th Percentile £400 £400 £386
25th Percentile £440 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £650
90th Percentile £696 £680 £768
UK median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.43% +5.00% -6.32%
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 16,054 10,705 11,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.49% 38.30% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,690 7,236 7,464
10th Percentile £321 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.86%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £640
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 255 161
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +6.06%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -70 158 £550 -4.35% 192
North of England -68 47 £605 +45.35% 67
North West -26 33 £600 +50.00% 40
South East -55 21 £572 +30.74% 31
South West -36 20 £475 -19.15% 20
Midlands -39 18 £488 -15.22% 26
West Midlands -46 13 £488 -15.22% 16
Yorkshire -47 10 £638 +30.77% 16
East Midlands -13 5 £466 -33.50% 10
North East -39 4 £500 +20.12% 11
East of England -28 2 £463 +85.00% 9
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 (3.61%) Confluence
2 9 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.53%) Apache
4 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.08%) nginx
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.72%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.72%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.36%) Traefik
7 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 273 (98.56%) AWS
2 113 (40.79%) Serverless
3 99 (35.74%) Azure
4 96 (34.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 94 (33.94%) AWS Lambda
6 87 (31.41%) Amazon S3
7 81 (29.24%) GCP
8 71 (25.63%) Amazon EKS
9 68 (24.55%) GitHub
10 67 (24.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 59 (21.30%) Amazon ECS
11 59 (21.30%) GitHub Actions
12 50 (18.05%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (8.66%) AWS KMS
15 22 (7.94%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (7.94%) AWS Step Functions
16 21 (7.58%) AWS CloudTrail
17 20 (7.22%) Datadog
18 15 (5.42%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.39%) Firewall
2 24 (8.66%) DNS
3 14 (5.05%) Network Security
4 12 (4.33%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.61%) WAN
6 8 (2.89%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.53%) DHCP
8 5 (1.81%) SSL
8 5 (1.81%) VPN
9 4 (1.44%) HTTP
9 4 (1.44%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.08%) BGP
10 3 (1.08%) CTI
10 3 (1.08%) Internet
11 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.36%) MPLS
12 1 (0.36%) OSPF
12 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.44%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (7.58%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (6.50%) MySQL
5 17 (6.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (6.14%) SQL Server
6 14 (5.05%) MongoDB
7 12 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (3.61%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.25%) Redis
11 8 (2.89%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.17%) Metadata
13 5 (1.81%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.44%) Delta Lake
15 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
15 3 (1.08%) SAP HANA
16 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database 10g
16 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 69 (24.91%) Jenkins
2 58 (20.94%) GitLab
3 35 (12.64%) Git
4 23 (8.30%) JIRA
5 10 (3.61%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.53%) JUnit
7 6 (2.17%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.44%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.44%) Maven
8 4 (1.44%) Snyk
8 4 (1.44%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.08%) Mockito
9 3 (1.08%) Selenium
10 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.72%) Flyway
10 2 (0.72%) MLflow
General
1 85 (30.69%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.61%) Finance
3 38 (13.72%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.97%) Banking
6 7 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.81%) Law
9 4 (1.44%) Military
10 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Automotive
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Publishing
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (19.49%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (18.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (15.16%) Senior
4 40 (14.44%) Architect
5 38 (13.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (12.64%) AWS DevOps
7 30 (10.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 26 (9.39%) Security Engineer
9 23 (8.30%) Data Engineer
10 19 (6.86%) AWS Architect
10 19 (6.86%) Lead
11 18 (6.50%) Developer
12 15 (5.42%) DBA
13 13 (4.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 12 (4.33%) Administrator
14 12 (4.33%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.33%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.97%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (92.78%) Terraform
2 34 (12.27%) AWS CDK
3 24 (8.66%) REST
4 19 (6.86%) Kafka
5 11 (3.97%) React
6 10 (3.61%) RESTful
7 9 (3.25%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (3.25%) PySpark
7 9 (3.25%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.89%) FastAPI
8 8 (2.89%) Node.js
8 8 (2.89%) pytest
8 8 (2.89%) Spring
9 7 (2.53%) Pulumi
10 6 (2.17%) Pandas
11 5 (1.81%) Flask
11 5 (1.81%) OAuth
11 5 (1.81%) Web Services
12 4 (1.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 89 (32.13%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.50%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.42%) Replication
5 13 (4.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.33%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.25%) AI Agents
7 9 (3.25%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.53%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (2.17%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.17%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.81%) Clustering
11 5 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.44%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (19.13%) Linux
2 29 (10.47%) Windows
3 18 (6.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.89%) Unix
5 6 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.44%) AIX
7 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (87.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 216 (77.98%) CI/CD
3 169 (61.01%) DevOps
4 93 (33.57%) Agile
5 89 (32.13%) Containerisation
6 77 (27.80%) Observability
7 71 (25.63%) Cloud Security
8 64 (23.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (19.13%) Test Automation
10 52 (18.77%) Platform Engineering
11 46 (16.61%) Microservices
12 45 (16.25%) AI
13 44 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (15.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 40 (14.44%) Infrastructure Automation
15 39 (14.08%) Root Cause Analysis
16 36 (13.00%) High Availability
17 34 (12.27%) Secrets Management
18 33 (11.91%) Data Modelling
19 32 (11.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 142 (51.26%) Python
2 66 (23.83%) Bash
3 53 (19.13%) PowerShell
4 48 (17.33%) SQL
5 42 (15.16%) Java
6 30 (10.83%) Bicep
7 17 (6.14%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.33%) Go
9 11 (3.97%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.08%) C
11 3 (1.08%) Groovy
11 3 (1.08%) Scala
11 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.72%) C#
12 2 (0.72%) R
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 103 (37.18%) Security Cleared
2 93 (33.57%) SC Cleared
3 61 (22.02%) AWS Certification
4 32 (11.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.22%) Degree
6 16 (5.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.05%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.33%) CISSP
9 7 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.53%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (2.17%) SAFe Agilist
11 5 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.08%) CISM
13 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.03%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.42%) QA
3 11 (3.97%) NIST
4 10 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.89%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.17%) NCSC
7 5 (1.81%) GDPR
8 4 (1.44%) SLA
9 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.08%) WCAG
10 1 (0.36%) GLBA
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 106 (38.27%) Docker
2 8 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.72%) Corosync
3 2 (0.72%) Squid
Systems Management
1 126 (45.49%) Kubernetes
2 38 (13.72%) Grafana
3 32 (11.55%) Prometheus
4 31 (11.19%) Ansible
5 18 (6.50%) Progress Chef
6 16 (5.78%) Puppet
7 8 (2.89%) Argo
8 6 (2.17%) Istio
9 5 (1.81%) Packer
10 3 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.08%) linkerd
10 3 (1.08%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.72%) Podman
12 1 (0.36%) Control-M
12 1 (0.36%) Kibana
12 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (11.19%) Google
2 30 (10.83%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.50%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.05%) Splunk
5 13 (4.69%) Databricks
6 10 (3.61%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.25%) Oracle
8 8 (2.89%) Infoblox
9 7 (2.53%) VMware
10 5 (1.81%) Cisco
11 4 (1.44%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.44%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.44%) Teradata
11 4 (1.44%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.08%) Informatica
12 3 (1.08%) SaltStack
12 3 (1.08%) SAP
13 2 (0.72%) CheckPoint
13 2 (0.72%) Sybase