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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 266 387
Rank change year-on-year -73 +121 -50
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 281 265 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.97% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.60% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 194 104
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £678
90th Percentile £671 £686 £779
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £507
% change year-on-year -0.47% +4.04% -3.43%
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 15,661 10,188 11,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.38% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,470 6,885 8,378
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 268 287
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £47.47
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.49% +25.00% -37.14%

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 21 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 21 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 -71 172 £550 -8.33% 46
North of England -74 28 £625 +53.37% 23
Midlands -33 23 £477 +6.00% 9
South West -25 21 £450 -25.04% 12
West Midlands -42 19 £477 +6.00% 7
South East -58 19 £549 -2.88% 13
North West -41 18 £605 +51.25% 10
Yorkshire -59 9 £663 +32.50% 6
East of England -24 6 £450 -5.26%
East Midlands -9 4 £464 -33.71% 2
North East -43 1 - - 7
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 17 (6.05%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.34%) Apache
3 13 (4.63%) Confluence
4 6 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.07%) SAS
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Synapse
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
2 115 (40.93%) Azure
3 106 (37.72%) Serverless
4 100 (35.59%) Amazon S3
5 88 (31.32%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (27.76%) GCP
7 76 (27.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 66 (23.49%) GitHub
9 62 (22.06%) GitHub Actions
10 57 (20.28%) Amazon ECS
10 57 (20.28%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (17.79%) Amazon EC2
12 46 (16.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 29 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (9.25%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (8.54%) AWS Step Functions
16 21 (7.47%) AWS CodePipeline
17 17 (6.05%) AWS CloudTrail
18 14 (4.98%) Datadog
18 14 (4.98%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.96%) Firewall
2 27 (9.61%) DNS
3 13 (4.63%) Network Security
4 11 (3.91%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.20%) WAN
6 8 (2.85%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.49%) DHCP
7 7 (2.49%) VPN
8 4 (1.42%) HTTP
8 4 (1.42%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.42%) SSL
9 3 (1.07%) CTI
10 2 (0.71%) BGP
10 2 (0.71%) Internet
10 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.36%) 4G
11 1 (0.36%) LAN
11 1 (0.36%) MPLS
11 1 (0.36%) OSPF
11 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.25%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (7.83%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.76%) Data Lake
4 18 (6.41%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (6.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.20%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.85%) Mixpanel
7 8 (2.85%) Power BI
8 7 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.49%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.49%) OLAP
8 7 (2.49%) OLTP
8 7 (2.49%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.14%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.78%) Metadata
10 5 (1.78%) Redshift Spectrum
11 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 71 (25.27%) Jenkins
2 55 (19.57%) GitLab
3 37 (13.17%) Git
4 24 (8.54%) JIRA
5 17 (6.05%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.85%) Snyk
6 8 (2.85%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.49%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.71%) JUnit
9 2 (0.71%) MLflow
9 2 (0.71%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.71%) Vite
10 1 (0.36%) git-flow
10 1 (0.36%) Mockito
10 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 70 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.59%) Finance
3 39 (13.88%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.69%) Banking
5 14 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.42%) Law
10 3 (1.07%) Games
10 3 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.71%) Front Office
11 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Military
11 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Billing
12 1 (0.36%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (18.15%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (17.08%) Architect
4 41 (14.59%) 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 23 (8.19%) Data Engineer
8 23 (8.19%) Developer
9 18 (6.41%) Security Engineer
10 16 (5.69%) AWS Architect
11 13 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.27%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.56%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (3.56%) Network Engineer
13 10 (3.56%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (3.20%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.39%) AWS CDK
2 27 (9.61%) Kafka
3 21 (7.47%) Node.js
4 16 (5.69%) PySpark
5 15 (5.34%) REST
6 14 (4.98%) React
6 14 (4.98%) RESTful
7 13 (4.63%) Great Expectations
8 11 (3.91%) OAuth
9 9 (3.20%) ARM Templates
10 8 (2.85%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.49%) Pandas
12 6 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (1.78%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.78%) Spring Boot
14 4 (1.42%) boto
14 4 (1.42%) OpenID
14 4 (1.42%) Spring
15 3 (1.07%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 98 (34.88%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 20 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 11 (3.91%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (3.91%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.56%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.49%) Replication
9 6 (2.14%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.07%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.07%) IVR
12 3 (1.07%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 38 (13.52%) 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
6 3 (1.07%) Unix
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (87.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 216 (76.87%) CI/CD
3 179 (63.70%) DevOps
4 97 (34.52%) Containerisation
5 86 (30.60%) Agile
6 65 (23.13%) Observability
7 51 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (16.01%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (14.95%) AI
10 41 (14.59%) Cloud Security
11 40 (14.23%) DevSecOps
11 40 (14.23%) Microservices
12 38 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (13.17%) Analytics
14 36 (12.81%) Scrum
15 35 (12.46%) High Availability
15 35 (12.46%) Migration
16 31 (11.03%) Infrastructure Automation
16 31 (11.03%) Machine Learning
16 31 (11.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 148 (52.67%) Python
2 58 (20.64%) Bash
3 48 (17.08%) PowerShell
4 41 (14.59%) SQL
5 31 (11.03%) Bicep
6 29 (10.32%) Java
7 15 (5.34%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.91%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.20%) C#
10 8 (2.85%) Go
11 5 (1.78%) Ruby
12 4 (1.42%) Groovy
12 4 (1.42%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.07%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.07%) Scala
14 2 (0.71%) C
14 2 (0.71%) R
15 1 (0.36%) C++
15 1 (0.36%) Perl
15 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (34.16%) Security Cleared
2 84 (29.89%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.23%) AWS Certification
4 17 (6.05%) Degree
5 16 (5.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (4.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (4.63%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.20%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (2.85%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.42%) CISSP
11 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.07%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.71%) PMP
12 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.47%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.41%) GDPR
3 14 (4.98%) NIST
3 14 (4.98%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.27%) QA
5 10 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.42%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.07%) GRC
8 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
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
9 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (37.37%) 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
1 262 (93.24%) Terraform
2 110 (39.15%) Kubernetes
3 37 (13.17%) Grafana
4 36 (12.81%) Prometheus
5 30 (10.68%) Ansible
6 12 (4.27%) Puppet
7 10 (3.56%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.49%) Argo
8 7 (2.49%) Istio
9 6 (2.14%) linkerd
10 4 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.42%) Packer
10 4 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.07%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.71%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.36%) Kibana
13 1 (0.36%) Nessus
Vendors
1 29 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.54%) Google
3 15 (5.34%) Splunk
4 14 (4.98%) Red Hat
5 13 (4.63%) Databricks
6 8 (2.85%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.14%) Oracle
7 6 (2.14%) VMware
8 5 (1.78%) Cisco
8 5 (1.78%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.78%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.42%) Palo Alto
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%) New Relic
11 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow