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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 269 376
Rank change year-on-year -88 +107 -44
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 286 263 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.96% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.57% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 196 104
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £634 £678
90th Percentile £669 £684 £779
UK median daily rate £525 £534 £508
% change year-on-year -1.69% +5.12% -3.24%
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 15,839 10,232 11,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.09% 37.34% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,573 6,915 8,251
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 267 270
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £45.57
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.87 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.05% +24.15% -36.71%

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 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 25 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 -76 172 £550 -8.33% 61
North of England -75 32 £620 +52.15% 32
Midlands -37 24 £479 -10.88% 8
South West -19 21 £450 -25.04% 18
West Midlands -41 20 £482 +7.17% 7
North West -44 20 £605 +51.25% 13
South East -58 19 £549 -2.88% 14
Yorkshire -56 9 £663 +32.50% 7
East of England -20 6 £450 -5.26% 3
East Midlands -11 4 £466 -33.50% 1
North East -41 3 £500 +20.12% 12
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 (5.94%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.24%) Apache
3 13 (4.55%) Confluence
4 6 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.40%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.05%) SAS
7 2 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 280 (97.90%) AWS
2 119 (41.61%) Azure
3 111 (38.81%) Serverless
4 101 (35.31%) Amazon S3
5 93 (32.52%) AWS Lambda
6 80 (27.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 80 (27.97%) GCP
7 66 (23.08%) GitHub
8 62 (21.68%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (21.33%) Amazon EKS
10 57 (19.93%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (17.83%) Amazon EC2
12 49 (17.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (10.14%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (8.74%) AWS Step Functions
16 20 (6.99%) AWS CodePipeline
17 19 (6.64%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (5.24%) AWS KMS
18 15 (5.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.79%) Firewall
2 27 (9.44%) DNS
3 12 (4.20%) Network Security
4 11 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.15%) WAN
6 8 (2.80%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.45%) DHCP
7 7 (2.45%) VPN
8 4 (1.40%) HTTP
8 4 (1.40%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.40%) SSL
9 3 (1.05%) CTI
10 2 (0.70%) BGP
10 2 (0.70%) Internet
11 1 (0.35%) 4G
11 1 (0.35%) LAN
11 1 (0.35%) MPLS
11 1 (0.35%) OSPF
11 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.79%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.39%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.64%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (6.64%) Data Lake
4 18 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.50%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.15%) BigQuery
8 8 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.80%) Mixpanel
8 8 (2.80%) Power BI
9 7 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.45%) MySQL
9 7 (2.45%) OLAP
9 7 (2.45%) OLTP
9 7 (2.45%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.75%) Metadata
12 4 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.40%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 72 (25.17%) Jenkins
2 55 (19.23%) GitLab
3 43 (15.03%) Git
4 24 (8.39%) JIRA
5 18 (6.29%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.15%) Snyk
6 9 (3.15%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.80%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.75%) JUnit
8 5 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.40%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.05%) Mockito
11 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.70%) Maven
11 2 (0.70%) MLflow
11 2 (0.70%) Selenium
11 2 (0.70%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.70%) Vite
12 1 (0.35%) Postman
General
1 72 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.69%) Public Sector
3 41 (14.34%) Finance
4 17 (5.94%) Banking
5 13 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.40%) Law
9 3 (1.05%) Games
9 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.70%) Front Office
10 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Military
10 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (19.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (18.88%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (16.78%) Architect
4 40 (13.99%) Lead
5 35 (12.24%) Senior
6 34 (11.89%) AWS DevOps
7 32 (11.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 29 (10.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 25 (8.74%) Developer
10 23 (8.04%) Data Engineer
11 18 (6.29%) AWS Architect
12 17 (5.94%) Security Engineer
13 14 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.20%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
15 10 (3.50%) Network Engineer
15 10 (3.50%) Principal Engineer
16 9 (3.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.19%) AWS CDK
2 31 (10.84%) Kafka
3 22 (7.69%) Node.js
4 20 (6.99%) REST
5 18 (6.29%) RESTful
6 16 (5.59%) React
7 15 (5.24%) PySpark
8 13 (4.55%) Great Expectations
9 10 (3.50%) OAuth
10 9 (3.15%) ARM Templates
10 9 (3.15%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.80%) Spring
12 7 (2.45%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.45%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (2.45%) Pandas
13 6 (2.10%) AngularJS
14 4 (1.40%) boto
14 4 (1.40%) Vue
15 3 (1.05%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 99 (34.62%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 11 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.50%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.45%) Replication
9 6 (2.10%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.10%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.05%) IVR
12 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.64%) Linux
2 28 (9.79%) Windows
3 14 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.40%) AIX
5 4 (1.40%) Unix
6 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (87.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 220 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 183 (63.99%) DevOps
4 98 (34.27%) Containerisation
5 90 (31.47%) Agile
6 70 (24.48%) Observability
7 52 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (16.43%) Platform Engineering
9 44 (15.38%) Microservices
10 43 (15.03%) Cloud Security
11 41 (14.34%) AI
11 41 (14.34%) DevSecOps
12 39 (13.64%) Migration
13 37 (12.94%) Analytics
14 36 (12.59%) Scrum
14 36 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (12.24%) High Availability
15 35 (12.24%) Test Automation
16 32 (11.19%) Infrastructure Automation
16 32 (11.19%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 149 (52.10%) Python
2 60 (20.98%) Bash
3 48 (16.78%) PowerShell
4 43 (15.03%) SQL
5 32 (11.19%) Java
6 31 (10.84%) Bicep
7 16 (5.59%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.20%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.15%) C#
10 8 (2.80%) Go
11 5 (1.75%) Ruby
11 5 (1.75%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.40%) Groovy
13 3 (1.05%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.05%) Scala
14 2 (0.70%) C
14 2 (0.70%) R
15 1 (0.35%) C++
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 86 (30.07%) SC Cleared
3 41 (14.34%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 18 (6.29%) Degree
5 14 (4.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 13 (4.55%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.15%) SAFe Agilist
8 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.40%) CISSP
9 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.70%) PMP
10 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.59%) GDPR
3 13 (4.55%) QA
4 12 (4.20%) NIST
4 12 (4.20%) PCI DSS
5 9 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) WCAG
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 108 (37.76%) Docker
2 5 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.05%) Squid
4 2 (0.70%) Corosync
4 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 266 (93.01%) Terraform
2 114 (39.86%) Kubernetes
3 41 (14.34%) Grafana
4 40 (13.99%) Prometheus
5 31 (10.84%) Ansible
6 13 (4.55%) Puppet
7 11 (3.85%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.15%) Argo
8 9 (3.15%) Istio
9 6 (2.10%) linkerd
10 4 (1.40%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.40%) Packer
11 3 (1.05%) Pacemaker
11 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.35%) Kibana
13 1 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 28 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.74%) Google
3 15 (5.24%) Splunk
4 14 (4.90%) Red Hat
5 13 (4.55%) Databricks
6 8 (2.80%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.10%) Oracle
7 6 (2.10%) VMware
8 5 (1.75%) Cisco
8 5 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.75%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.40%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.05%) SAP
10 3 (1.05%) Sybase
10 3 (1.05%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.05%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.70%) New Relic
11 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow