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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 298 362
Rank change year-on-year +40 +64 -65
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 361 196 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.77% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.73% 2.04% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 146 143
10th Percentile £400 £397 £425
25th Percentile £450 £502 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £650
90th Percentile £689 £788 £735
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.98%
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 13,242 9,623 12,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.55% 37.62% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,147 6,507 8,922
10th Percentile £307 £313 £275
25th Percentile £407 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £602 £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 368 148 318
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.38 £14.21
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year +43.64% +28.03% -14.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.98 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.65% +27.91% -14.00%

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 February 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 February 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 +35 229 £550 -9.47% 44
North of England -34 57 £500 -23.08% 24
North West -16 33 £500 -9.09% 14
South East -16 29 £488 -25.00% 13
Yorkshire -56 19 £500 -29.82% 5
Midlands -46 15 £450 -5.26% 11
South West -18 12 £563 +2.27% 9
West Midlands -45 12 £575 +21.05% 8
North East -13 5 £466 -31.85% 5
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 3
East of England - 2 £600 - 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 30 (8.31%) Apache Spark
2 28 (7.76%) Apache
3 19 (5.26%) Confluence
4 16 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (4.16%) nginx
6 5 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.11%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.55%) SAS
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Actimize
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 349 (96.68%) AWS
2 131 (36.29%) Serverless
3 127 (35.18%) Amazon S3
4 125 (34.63%) AWS Lambda
5 101 (27.98%) Amazon ECS
6 100 (27.70%) Azure
7 98 (27.15%) GitHub
8 77 (21.33%) GCP
9 76 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
10 75 (20.78%) GitHub Actions
11 73 (20.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 71 (19.67%) Amazon EC2
13 61 (16.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 41 (11.36%) AWS CodePipeline
15 32 (8.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 31 (8.59%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (7.20%) AWS KMS
18 23 (6.37%) Route 53
19 22 (6.09%) Datadog
20 20 (5.54%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.42%) DNS
2 22 (6.09%) Firewall
3 15 (4.16%) VPN
4 14 (3.88%) Network Security
5 9 (2.49%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.39%) DHCP
8 3 (0.83%) HTTP
8 3 (0.83%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.83%) WAN
9 2 (0.55%) BGP
9 2 (0.55%) OSPF
10 1 (0.28%) 4G
10 1 (0.28%) 5G
10 1 (0.28%) Internet
10 1 (0.28%) NAS
10 1 (0.28%) SAN
10 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (18.01%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (9.97%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (9.70%) Data Lake
4 33 (9.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (8.31%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (6.09%) DynamoDB
7 18 (4.99%) Power BI
7 18 (4.99%) SQL Server
8 17 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (4.71%) NoSQL
9 15 (4.16%) BigQuery
9 15 (4.16%) Mixpanel
10 14 (3.88%) OLAP
10 14 (3.88%) OLTP
11 11 (3.05%) MongoDB
12 10 (2.77%) MySQL
13 8 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (2.22%) Redis
13 8 (2.22%) Redshift Spectrum
13 8 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (24.38%) Jenkins
2 79 (21.88%) Git
3 71 (19.67%) GitLab
4 29 (8.03%) JIRA
5 19 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.77%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.49%) JUnit
7 9 (2.49%) Maven
7 9 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.22%) Snyk
9 7 (1.94%) Gradle
9 7 (1.94%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.94%) Terragrunt
10 5 (1.39%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.39%) Selenium
11 4 (1.11%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.11%) Postman
11 4 (1.11%) webpack
12 3 (0.83%) Vite
13 1 (0.28%) MLflow
General
1 82 (22.71%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.45%) Public Sector
3 53 (14.68%) Finance
4 20 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.26%) Banking
6 10 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.39%) Law
10 3 (0.83%) Games
10 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Marketing
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Advertising
12 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.28%) Billing
12 1 (0.28%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (19.11%) AWS Engineer
2 63 (17.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 54 (14.96%) Architect
4 46 (12.74%) Lead
5 41 (11.36%) Senior
6 38 (10.53%) Data Engineer
7 37 (10.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (8.31%) AWS DevOps
9 29 (8.03%) AWS Architect
10 28 (7.76%) Developer
11 25 (6.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 22 (6.09%) Cloud Architect
13 21 (5.82%) Security Engineer
14 20 (5.54%) Site Engineer
15 19 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (4.99%) Software Engineer
17 13 (3.60%) Principal Engineer
18 12 (3.32%) Principal Data Engineer
19 11 (3.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.28%) Kafka
2 29 (8.03%) RESTful
3 28 (7.76%) AWS CDK
3 28 (7.76%) Node.js
4 23 (6.37%) Spring
5 22 (6.09%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (6.09%) Spring Boot
6 19 (5.26%) React
6 19 (5.26%) REST
7 17 (4.71%) OAuth
8 15 (4.16%) Great Expectations
9 12 (3.32%) OAuth2
10 10 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (2.77%) PySpark
11 9 (2.49%) JSON
11 9 (2.49%) OpenID
12 8 (2.22%) .NET
12 8 (2.22%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.22%) boto
13 7 (1.94%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 97 (26.87%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.05%) Replication
5 10 (2.77%) Private Cloud
5 10 (2.77%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.94%) NHS
7 7 (1.94%) PKI
8 6 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.39%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.39%) SCADA
9 5 (1.39%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.11%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (22.99%) Linux
2 22 (6.09%) Windows
3 18 (4.99%) Unix
4 3 (0.83%) CentOS
4 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.83%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (80.89%) CI/CD
2 277 (76.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 207 (57.34%) DevOps
4 111 (30.75%) Containerisation
5 96 (26.59%) Agile
6 84 (23.27%) Observability
7 57 (15.79%) Microservices
8 51 (14.13%) Migration
9 48 (13.30%) AI
9 48 (13.30%) Analytics
9 48 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (13.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 46 (12.74%) Technical Leadership
11 44 (12.19%) DevSecOps
12 43 (11.91%) Software Engineering
13 42 (11.63%) Data Engineering
13 42 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
13 42 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
14 41 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (11.36%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 184 (50.97%) Python
2 66 (18.28%) SQL
3 56 (15.51%) Java
4 53 (14.68%) Bash
5 31 (8.59%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.54%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.54%) Ruby
7 18 (4.99%) C#
7 18 (4.99%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.71%) Go
9 15 (4.16%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.32%) Bicep
11 5 (1.39%) Perl
11 5 (1.39%) Scala
12 2 (0.55%) C
12 2 (0.55%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.28%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 109 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 92 (25.48%) SC Cleared
3 74 (20.50%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (4.71%) Degree
6 15 (4.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.60%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.05%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.22%) CISSP
10 7 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.39%) CCSP
11 5 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.11%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.83%) OSCP
13 3 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.74%) GDPR
2 28 (7.76%) NIST
3 27 (7.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (6.37%) Data Quality
5 19 (5.26%) QA
6 18 (4.99%) PCI DSS
7 14 (3.88%) NCSC
8 8 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.66%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.39%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.11%) GRC
11 4 (1.11%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.83%) SLA
13 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 148 (41.00%) Docker
2 6 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.39%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 322 (89.20%) Terraform
2 141 (39.06%) Kubernetes
3 68 (18.84%) Ansible
4 42 (11.63%) Grafana
5 36 (9.97%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.82%) Puppet
7 18 (4.99%) Packer
8 15 (4.16%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.60%) Consul
10 6 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.39%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.11%) Argo
12 4 (1.11%) Kibana
12 4 (1.11%) Podman
13 3 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.55%) Istio
14 2 (0.55%) linkerd
14 2 (0.55%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 32 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.03%) Databricks
2 29 (8.03%) Google
3 26 (7.20%) Splunk
4 13 (3.60%) IBM
5 11 (3.05%) Oracle
6 10 (2.77%) CloudEndure
7 9 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.22%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.94%) Citrix
9 7 (1.94%) Confluent
10 6 (1.66%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.66%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.39%) New Relic
11 5 (1.39%) Sybase
11 5 (1.39%) VMware
12 4 (1.11%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.11%) Qualys
12 4 (1.11%) Tenable
13 3 (0.83%) Ping Identity