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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 282 374
Rank change year-on-year -35 +92 -46
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 305 199 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.83% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 2.22% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 153 120
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £698 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -7.27%
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 14,697 8,969 11,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.14% 37.48% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,011 6,159 8,493
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £747
UK median daily rate £508 £508 £525
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 207 324
10th Percentile £15.67 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £17.96 £15.96
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.63 £38.28
90th Percentile £81.15 £68.00 £68.23
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -5 208 £575 -4.17% 18
North of England -63 28 £581 +39.58% 22
Midlands -47 20 £463 -7.50% 5
South West -24 16 £488 -15.22% 9
North West -29 16 £581 +45.25% 10
West Midlands -52 16 £477 +6.00% 2
South East -42 14 £505 -12.17% 7
Yorkshire -46 12 £563 +7.14% 10
East of England -27 6 £450 -10.00%
East Midlands -23 4 £442 -36.82% 3
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 24 (7.87%) Apache Spark
2 22 (7.21%) Apache
3 12 (3.93%) Confluence
4 4 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.98%) SAS
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.66%) nginx
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 296 (97.05%) AWS
2 110 (36.07%) Azure
3 107 (35.08%) Amazon S3
4 105 (34.43%) Serverless
5 94 (30.82%) AWS Lambda
6 91 (29.84%) GitHub
7 79 (25.90%) GCP
8 77 (25.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 75 (24.59%) GitHub Actions
10 74 (24.26%) Amazon ECS
11 68 (22.30%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (18.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 50 (16.39%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (11.80%) AWS CodePipeline
15 31 (10.16%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (6.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (6.23%) AWS KMS
18 18 (5.90%) AWS CloudTrail
19 17 (5.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.16%) DNS
2 17 (5.57%) Firewall
3 12 (3.93%) Network Security
4 9 (2.95%) VPN
5 7 (2.30%) WAN
6 6 (1.97%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.31%) SSL
9 3 (0.98%) BGP
9 3 (0.98%) OSPF
9 3 (0.98%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.66%) HTTP
11 1 (0.33%) 4G
11 1 (0.33%) 5G
11 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.33%) LAN
11 1 (0.33%) MPLS
11 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.84%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (8.20%) Amazon Athena
2 25 (8.20%) Data Lake
3 23 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (5.90%) DynamoDB
5 15 (4.92%) BigQuery
5 15 (4.92%) Mixpanel
5 15 (4.92%) Power BI
6 14 (4.59%) OLAP
6 14 (4.59%) OLTP
7 12 (3.93%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.28%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.28%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.62%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.62%) Redis
10 6 (1.97%) MySQL
11 5 (1.64%) Big Data
11 5 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.64%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 75 (24.59%) Jenkins
2 64 (20.98%) GitLab
3 49 (16.07%) Git
4 20 (6.56%) JIRA
5 18 (5.90%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.28%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.28%) Snyk
7 7 (2.30%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.31%) JUnit
8 4 (1.31%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.98%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.98%) Vite
10 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.66%) MLflow
10 2 (0.66%) Selenium
11 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.33%) Maven
11 1 (0.33%) Postman
11 1 (0.33%) Spinnaker
General
1 76 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.07%) Finance
3 46 (15.08%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.57%) Banking
5 10 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.31%) Law
9 3 (0.98%) Games
10 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.66%) Front Office
10 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.33%) Billing
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (18.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (18.03%) AWS Engineer
3 52 (17.05%) Lead
4 51 (16.72%) Architect
5 36 (11.80%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (10.16%) Senior
7 29 (9.51%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (9.51%) Data Engineer
8 26 (8.52%) Cloud Architect
9 24 (7.87%) AWS Architect
9 24 (7.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 22 (7.21%) Developer
11 16 (5.25%) Security Engineer
12 14 (4.59%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (3.93%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (3.93%) Principal Data Engineer
14 12 (3.93%) Site Engineer
15 11 (3.61%) Software Engineer
16 10 (3.28%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.41%) Kafka
2 32 (10.49%) AWS CDK
3 23 (7.54%) Node.js
3 23 (7.54%) RESTful
4 20 (6.56%) Great Expectations
5 18 (5.90%) OAuth
6 17 (5.57%) PySpark
7 16 (5.25%) React
8 14 (4.59%) REST
9 12 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (3.93%) OAuth2
9 12 (3.93%) Spring
9 12 (3.93%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (2.95%) .NET
11 9 (2.95%) boto
11 9 (2.95%) OpenID
12 7 (2.30%) Pandas
13 6 (1.97%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 105 (34.43%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.30%) Replication
6 7 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.97%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.97%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.64%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.31%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.31%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.98%) Equities
11 2 (0.66%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.10%) Linux
2 17 (5.57%) Windows
3 7 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.64%) Unix
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (83.61%) CI/CD
2 246 (80.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 191 (62.62%) DevOps
4 98 (32.13%) Containerisation
5 84 (27.54%) Observability
6 80 (26.23%) Agile
7 54 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (15.74%) DevSecOps
9 44 (14.43%) Analytics
9 44 (14.43%) Microservices
10 43 (14.10%) AI
11 39 (12.79%) High Availability
12 37 (12.13%) Migration
12 37 (12.13%) Platform Engineering
13 36 (11.80%) Data Engineering
14 35 (11.48%) Mentoring
15 34 (11.15%) Data Modelling
15 34 (11.15%) Event-Driven
15 34 (11.15%) Infrastructure Automation
15 34 (11.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 141 (46.23%) Python
2 57 (18.69%) SQL
3 47 (15.41%) Java
4 43 (14.10%) Bash
5 31 (10.16%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.23%) Bicep
7 18 (5.90%) C#
8 15 (4.92%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.61%) Ruby
9 11 (3.61%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.95%) Go
11 6 (1.97%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.98%) Groovy
12 3 (0.98%) SAS Macro
12 3 (0.98%) Scala
13 2 (0.66%) C
14 1 (0.33%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.33%) Perl
14 1 (0.33%) R
14 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 92 (30.16%) Security Cleared
2 79 (25.90%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.74%) AWS Certification
4 20 (6.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.57%) Degree
6 16 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.28%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.62%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (2.62%) SAFe Agilist
10 7 (2.30%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.64%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.31%) CISSP
12 4 (1.31%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.98%) CCSP
13 3 (0.98%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.16%) GDPR
2 25 (8.20%) NIST
3 24 (7.87%) Data Quality
4 20 (6.56%) PCI DSS
5 15 (4.92%) QA
6 14 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (2.95%) NCSC
8 6 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.64%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.31%) GRC
10 4 (1.31%) SLA
11 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.33%) HL7
12 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 114 (37.38%) Docker
2 6 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.98%) Squid
4 2 (0.66%) Corosync
4 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 279 (91.48%) Terraform
2 118 (38.69%) Kubernetes
3 47 (15.41%) Ansible
4 37 (12.13%) Prometheus
5 35 (11.48%) Grafana
6 12 (3.93%) Puppet
7 9 (2.95%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.30%) Argo
8 7 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.97%) Istio
10 5 (1.64%) linkerd
11 4 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.31%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.31%) Kibana
11 4 (1.31%) Packer
12 3 (0.98%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.66%) Consul
13 2 (0.66%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.33%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (8.85%) Google
2 23 (7.54%) Databricks
3 21 (6.89%) Splunk
4 20 (6.56%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.28%) Oracle
6 8 (2.62%) Citrix
7 7 (2.30%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.97%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.97%) CloudEndure
8 6 (1.97%) IBM
8 6 (1.97%) New Relic
9 5 (1.64%) Rapid7
9 5 (1.64%) SAP
10 4 (1.31%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.31%) Qualys
10 4 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.31%) Tenable
11 3 (0.98%) Sybase
11 3 (0.98%) Trend Micro
12 2 (0.66%) Salesforce