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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 290 355
Rank change year-on-year +40 +65 -58
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 353 201 204
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 0.77% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.73% 2.06% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 149 150
10th Percentile £400 £399 £425
25th Percentile £450 £513 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £650
90th Percentile £698 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £605 £525
% change year-on-year -13.15% +15.14% -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 12,910 9,767 12,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.72% 37.48% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,918 6,537 9,154
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 142 301
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.45 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% +22.22% -10.00%

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 14 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 14 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 +31 218 £550 -10.39% 39
North of England -31 59 £500 -23.08% 32
North West -11 35 £475 -13.64% 14
South East -4 29 £488 -25.00% 17
Yorkshire -54 19 £500 -29.82% 17
Midlands -40 16 £513 +7.89% 10
South West -6 13 £575 +4.55% 13
West Midlands -38 13 £575 +21.05% 8
North East -11 5 £466 -31.85% 1
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 3
East of England - 2 £600 -
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 25 (7.08%) Apache
1 25 (7.08%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.38%) Confluence
3 16 (4.53%) nginx
4 15 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.42%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.57%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Actimize
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 338 (95.75%) AWS
2 125 (35.41%) Serverless
3 121 (34.28%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (33.99%) Amazon S3
5 102 (28.90%) GitHub
6 98 (27.76%) Amazon ECS
7 94 (26.63%) Azure
8 76 (21.53%) Amazon EKS
8 76 (21.53%) GCP
8 76 (21.53%) GitHub Actions
9 65 (18.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (18.41%) Amazon EC2
10 60 (17.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 36 (10.20%) AWS CodePipeline
12 31 (8.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 29 (8.22%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (7.37%) AWS KMS
14 26 (7.37%) Datadog
15 20 (5.67%) Route 53
16 19 (5.38%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.78%) DNS
2 22 (6.23%) Firewall
3 16 (4.53%) VPN
4 14 (3.97%) Network Security
5 9 (2.55%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.42%) DHCP
8 3 (0.85%) HTTP
8 3 (0.85%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.85%) WAN
9 2 (0.57%) BGP
9 2 (0.57%) OSPF
9 2 (0.57%) SSL
10 1 (0.28%) Internet
10 1 (0.28%) NAS
10 1 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (18.70%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (9.35%) Data Lake
4 31 (8.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 25 (7.08%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (5.95%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.82%) NoSQL
7 17 (4.82%) Power BI
8 16 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (3.97%) BigQuery
9 14 (3.97%) Mixpanel
9 14 (3.97%) SQL Server
10 13 (3.68%) MongoDB
10 13 (3.68%) OLAP
10 13 (3.68%) OLTP
11 10 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.83%) MySQL
12 8 (2.27%) Redis
12 8 (2.27%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.98%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 92 (26.06%) Jenkins
2 77 (21.81%) Git
3 74 (20.96%) GitLab
4 29 (8.22%) JIRA
5 15 (4.25%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.83%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.55%) Maven
7 9 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.27%) JUnit
8 8 (2.27%) Terragrunt
9 7 (1.98%) Gradle
9 7 (1.98%) Snyk
9 7 (1.98%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.70%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.42%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.42%) Selenium
12 4 (1.13%) Postman
12 4 (1.13%) webpack
13 3 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.85%) Vite
General
1 80 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.28%) Public Sector
3 51 (14.45%) Finance
4 19 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.38%) Banking
5 10 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.42%) Games
8 5 (1.42%) Law
9 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.57%) Legal
10 2 (0.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.28%) Advertising
11 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.28%) Aviation
11 1 (0.28%) Military
11 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (19.26%) AWS Engineer
2 63 (17.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (13.88%) Architect
4 44 (12.46%) Lead
5 41 (11.61%) Senior
6 38 (10.76%) Data Engineer
7 37 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 29 (8.22%) AWS Architect
8 29 (8.22%) AWS DevOps
9 28 (7.93%) Developer
10 24 (6.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 21 (5.95%) Cloud Architect
11 21 (5.95%) Security Engineer
12 20 (5.67%) Site Engineer
13 19 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (5.10%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.40%) Principal Engineer
16 11 (3.12%) Lead DevOps
16 11 (3.12%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.70%) Kafka
2 28 (7.93%) Node.js
2 28 (7.93%) RESTful
3 27 (7.65%) AWS CDK
4 24 (6.80%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (6.23%) Spring
6 21 (5.95%) React
6 21 (5.95%) Spring Boot
7 18 (5.10%) REST
8 17 (4.82%) OAuth
9 14 (3.97%) Great Expectations
10 12 (3.40%) OAuth2
11 10 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (2.55%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.55%) JSON
12 9 (2.55%) OpenID
13 8 (2.27%) .NET
13 8 (2.27%) Vue
14 7 (1.98%) ARM Templates
14 7 (1.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 90 (25.50%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (4.25%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.83%) Private Cloud
4 9 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.27%) PKI
6 7 (1.98%) NHS
6 7 (1.98%) Replication
7 6 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.42%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.42%) SCADA
8 5 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.13%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (24.36%) Linux
2 19 (5.38%) Unix
2 19 (5.38%) Windows
3 4 (1.13%) CentOS
3 4 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.85%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (79.60%) CI/CD
2 275 (77.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 205 (58.07%) DevOps
4 113 (32.01%) Containerisation
5 91 (25.78%) Agile
6 85 (24.08%) Observability
7 56 (15.86%) Microservices
8 50 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (14.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 45 (12.75%) AI
9 45 (12.75%) DevSecOps
9 45 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
10 44 (12.46%) Analytics
11 43 (12.18%) Infrastructure Automation
11 43 (12.18%) Migration
12 41 (11.61%) Incident Response
12 41 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
13 40 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (11.33%) Software Engineering
14 38 (10.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 181 (51.27%) Python
2 61 (17.28%) SQL
3 57 (16.15%) Bash
4 54 (15.30%) Java
5 30 (8.50%) PowerShell
6 23 (6.52%) Go
7 22 (6.23%) JavaScript
8 20 (5.67%) Ruby
9 18 (5.10%) TypeScript
10 16 (4.53%) C#
11 15 (4.25%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.83%) Bicep
13 5 (1.42%) Perl
14 4 (1.13%) Scala
15 3 (0.85%) C
16 1 (0.28%) C++
16 1 (0.28%) Groovy
16 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 109 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 91 (25.78%) SC Cleared
3 70 (19.83%) AWS Certification
4 23 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (4.82%) Degree
6 16 (4.53%) DV Cleared
7 15 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.12%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.27%) CISSP
10 7 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.42%) CCSP
12 5 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.42%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (1.13%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.46%) GDPR
2 27 (7.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (7.37%) NIST
4 20 (5.67%) Data Quality
5 19 (5.38%) QA
6 18 (5.10%) PCI DSS
7 15 (4.25%) NCSC
8 8 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.70%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.42%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.13%) GRC
11 4 (1.13%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.85%) SLA
13 2 (0.57%) 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 (41.93%) Docker
2 7 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.42%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 315 (89.24%) Terraform
2 145 (41.08%) Kubernetes
3 72 (20.40%) Ansible
4 45 (12.75%) Grafana
5 39 (11.05%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.95%) Puppet
7 19 (5.38%) Packer
8 15 (4.25%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.68%) Consul
10 6 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.42%) Karpenter
11 5 (1.42%) Podman
12 4 (1.13%) Argo
12 4 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.13%) Kibana
13 2 (0.57%) Istio
13 2 (0.57%) linkerd
13 2 (0.57%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 29 (8.22%) Google
2 28 (7.93%) Databricks
2 28 (7.93%) Splunk
3 27 (7.65%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.68%) IBM
5 10 (2.83%) CloudEndure
5 10 (2.83%) Oracle
6 8 (2.27%) PagerDuty
6 8 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.98%) Citrix
7 7 (1.98%) Confluent
8 6 (1.70%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.70%) Rapid7
8 6 (1.70%) VMware
9 5 (1.42%) New Relic
10 4 (1.13%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.13%) Okta
10 4 (1.13%) Sybase
11 3 (0.85%) Cisco
11 3 (0.85%) Tenable