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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 251 355
Rank change year-on-year -11 +104 -41
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 374 240 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.98% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.66% 2.61% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 187 137
10th Percentile £400 £400 £431
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £678
90th Percentile £688 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%
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 14,074 9,178 11,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.01% 37.64% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 6,447 8,518
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 187 318
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -24.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.49 £32.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.20 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -30.91%

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 April 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 April 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 0 254 £550 -8.33% 49
North of England -59 44 £550 -14.06% 35
South East -35 25 £530 -8.62% 14
North West -23 23 £581 +36.71% 18
Yorkshire -56 18 £500 -31.03% 10
Midlands -55 17 £450 - 3
West Midlands -53 14 £463 +2.78% 1
South West -21 13 £575 +2.22% 12
East of England -26 6 £525 +5.00% 8
North East -17 3 £575 -23.33% 7
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 2
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 36 (9.63%) Apache Spark
2 33 (8.82%) Apache
3 21 (5.61%) Confluence
4 16 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (4.01%) nginx
6 5 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.80%) SAS
8 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Actimize
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 362 (96.79%) AWS
2 137 (36.63%) Amazon S3
3 130 (34.76%) Serverless
4 121 (32.35%) Azure
5 120 (32.09%) AWS Lambda
6 104 (27.81%) GitHub
7 97 (25.94%) Amazon ECS
8 84 (22.46%) GitHub Actions
9 80 (21.39%) GCP
10 78 (20.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 72 (19.25%) Amazon EKS
12 64 (17.11%) Amazon EC2
13 59 (15.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 44 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
15 37 (9.89%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (7.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 27 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
17 23 (6.15%) Route 53
18 21 (5.61%) AWS KMS
18 21 (5.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.09%) DNS
2 22 (5.88%) Firewall
3 15 (4.01%) Network Security
4 14 (3.74%) VPN
5 9 (2.41%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.07%) DHCP
8 3 (0.80%) HTTP
8 3 (0.80%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.53%) BGP
9 2 (0.53%) OSPF
9 2 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.53%) WAN
10 1 (0.27%) 4G
10 1 (0.27%) 5G
10 1 (0.27%) Internet
10 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (9.63%) Data Lake
3 35 (9.36%) Amazon Athena
3 35 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (7.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 22 (5.88%) DynamoDB
6 21 (5.61%) Power BI
7 18 (4.81%) BigQuery
7 18 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (4.81%) Mixpanel
8 17 (4.55%) OLAP
8 17 (4.55%) OLTP
9 16 (4.28%) SQL Server
10 15 (4.01%) NoSQL
11 10 (2.67%) MongoDB
12 9 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (2.14%) Redis
13 8 (2.14%) Redshift Spectrum
13 8 (2.14%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.87%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 83 (22.19%) Jenkins
2 82 (21.93%) Git
3 69 (18.45%) GitLab
4 31 (8.29%) JIRA
5 17 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.41%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.14%) Snyk
8 7 (1.87%) JUnit
9 5 (1.34%) Maven
9 5 (1.34%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.07%) Gradle
10 4 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.07%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.80%) Selenium
11 3 (0.80%) Vite
12 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.27%) Mocha
13 1 (0.27%) Mockito
General
1 91 (24.33%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.72%) Public Sector
3 57 (15.24%) Finance
4 21 (5.61%) Banking
5 20 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.34%) Law
10 4 (1.07%) Games
11 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.53%) Front Office
12 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.53%) Legal
12 2 (0.53%) Marketing
12 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.27%) Billing
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (17.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (16.04%) AWS Engineer
3 56 (14.97%) Architect
4 49 (13.10%) Lead
5 47 (12.57%) Senior
6 39 (10.43%) Data Engineer
7 37 (9.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (9.09%) Developer
9 29 (7.75%) AWS DevOps
10 28 (7.49%) AWS Architect
11 25 (6.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 23 (6.15%) Cloud Architect
13 22 (5.88%) Site Engineer
14 21 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (4.81%) Software Engineer
16 17 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
17 16 (4.28%) Security Engineer
18 15 (4.01%) Principal Data Engineer
19 11 (2.94%) AWS Developer
19 11 (2.94%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (16.04%) Kafka
2 34 (9.09%) Node.js
2 34 (9.09%) RESTful
3 29 (7.75%) AWS CDK
4 26 (6.95%) Spring
5 25 (6.68%) Spring Boot
6 21 (5.61%) Great Expectations
7 19 (5.08%) REST
8 18 (4.81%) React
9 17 (4.55%) OAuth
10 15 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (4.01%) PySpark
11 12 (3.21%) OAuth2
11 12 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (2.67%) .NET
12 10 (2.67%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.41%) ARM Templates
13 9 (2.41%) boto
14 8 (2.14%) OpenID
14 8 (2.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 115 (30.75%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.01%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.87%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.60%) Replication
9 5 (1.34%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.34%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.34%) SCADA
10 4 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.07%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.07%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.07%) NHS
10 4 (1.07%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 71 (18.98%) Linux
2 18 (4.81%) Windows
3 5 (1.34%) Unix
4 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.80%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (81.02%) CI/CD
2 288 (77.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 220 (58.82%) DevOps
4 124 (33.16%) Containerisation
5 112 (29.95%) Agile
6 93 (24.87%) Observability
7 62 (16.58%) Microservices
8 55 (14.71%) Analytics
9 53 (14.17%) AI
10 52 (13.90%) DevSecOps
10 52 (13.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 48 (12.83%) Infrastructure Automation
12 46 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (12.30%) Data Engineering
13 45 (12.03%) Data Modelling
13 45 (12.03%) ETL
13 45 (12.03%) Migration
13 45 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
14 43 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (11.23%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 184 (49.20%) Python
2 77 (20.59%) SQL
3 62 (16.58%) Java
4 54 (14.44%) Bash
5 35 (9.36%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.61%) C#
6 21 (5.61%) Ruby
7 20 (5.35%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.08%) Bicep
8 19 (5.08%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.67%) Go
10 6 (1.60%) Scala
10 6 (1.60%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.80%) C
11 3 (0.80%) SAS Macro
12 2 (0.53%) Groovy
12 2 (0.53%) Perl
13 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.27%) R
13 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 120 (32.09%) Security Cleared
2 101 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 70 (18.72%) AWS Certification
4 25 (6.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (5.61%) Degree
6 20 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (3.74%) Azure Certification
9 11 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.94%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.60%) CISSP
12 5 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.34%) CCSP
12 5 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.34%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.07%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.80%) OSCP
14 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.83%) GDPR
2 31 (8.29%) NIST
3 30 (8.02%) Data Quality
4 27 (7.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (5.61%) PCI DSS
6 20 (5.35%) QA
7 9 (2.41%) NCSC
8 8 (2.14%) Accessibility
8 8 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.34%) GRC
10 4 (1.07%) SLA
10 4 (1.07%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.80%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.27%) HL7
13 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.27%) MiFID
13 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 157 (41.98%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.53%) Corosync
4 2 (0.53%) HDFS
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 335 (89.57%) Terraform
2 151 (40.37%) Kubernetes
3 65 (17.38%) Ansible
4 46 (12.30%) Grafana
5 42 (11.23%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.55%) Puppet
7 14 (3.74%) Packer
8 13 (3.48%) Consul
9 11 (2.94%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.60%) Argo
12 5 (1.34%) Karpenter
13 4 (1.07%) Istio
13 4 (1.07%) Kibana
13 4 (1.07%) linkerd
14 3 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
15 2 (0.53%) Opsgenie
15 2 (0.53%) Pacemaker
16 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
16 1 (0.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 31 (8.29%) Google
1 31 (8.29%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.02%) Databricks
3 24 (6.42%) Splunk
4 11 (2.94%) Oracle
5 9 (2.41%) CloudEndure
5 9 (2.41%) PagerDuty
6 7 (1.87%) Citrix
6 7 (1.87%) IBM
7 6 (1.60%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.60%) Rapid7
7 6 (1.60%) VMware
8 5 (1.34%) New Relic
8 5 (1.34%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.34%) Sybase
9 4 (1.07%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.07%) Qualys
9 4 (1.07%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.07%) SAP
9 4 (1.07%) Tenable