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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 320 350
Rank change year-on-year +65 +30 -64
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 328 206 228
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 0.67% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.75% 1.86% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 144 161
10th Percentile £400 £396 £425
25th Percentile £450 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £621 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.69% +10.44% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £675
90th Percentile £678 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £546
% change year-on-year -10.26% +7.09% -2.89%
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 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 11,931 11,085 13,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.30% 36.26% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,163 7,389 9,709
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 148 267
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.32
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.83 £56.31 £54.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% +15.38% +17.33%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 +35 184 £530 -18.46% 38
North of England -13 70 £482 -22.88% 48
Yorkshire -16 33 £500 -23.08% 24
North West -10 32 £450 -5.26% 17
South East +12 27 £530 -18.46% 42
South West +2 12 £569 +8.33% 26
West Midlands -18 12 £575 +15.00% 13
Midlands -19 12 £575 +27.78% 25
North East -6 5 £466 -31.85% 7
East of England - 5 £450 - 10
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 (7.62%) Confluence
2 22 (6.71%) nginx
3 17 (5.18%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (5.18%) Apache Spark
4 16 (4.88%) Apache
5 5 (1.52%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 311 (94.82%) AWS
2 117 (35.67%) Serverless
3 113 (34.45%) AWS Lambda
4 105 (32.01%) Amazon S3
5 88 (26.83%) GitHub
6 86 (26.22%) Amazon ECS
7 84 (25.61%) Azure
8 69 (21.04%) Amazon EC2
9 68 (20.73%) GitHub Actions
10 61 (18.60%) Amazon EKS
11 52 (15.85%) GCP
12 48 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (14.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 30 (9.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 30 (9.15%) Datadog
15 24 (7.32%) AWS Fargate
15 24 (7.32%) Entra ID
16 23 (7.01%) AWS CodePipeline
16 23 (7.01%) AWS KMS
17 22 (6.71%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.23%) DNS
2 16 (4.88%) Firewall
3 13 (3.96%) VPN
4 9 (2.74%) DHCP
5 8 (2.44%) Network Security
6 7 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.22%) SSL
8 2 (0.61%) HTTP
8 2 (0.61%) Internet
8 2 (0.61%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.30%) NAS
9 1 (0.30%) SAN
9 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (20.43%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (7.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (7.32%) DynamoDB
5 21 (6.40%) Data Lake
6 20 (6.10%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (4.57%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.66%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.35%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.05%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.44%) Power BI
12 7 (2.13%) MySQL
13 6 (1.83%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (1.83%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.83%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.52%) Mixpanel
14 5 (1.52%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 94 (28.66%) Jenkins
2 78 (23.78%) Git
3 68 (20.73%) GitLab
4 35 (10.67%) JIRA
5 14 (4.27%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.35%) JUnit
6 11 (3.35%) Maven
6 11 (3.35%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.44%) Artifactory
9 7 (2.13%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.13%) Gradle
10 5 (1.52%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.52%) Selenium
10 5 (1.52%) Snyk
11 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.22%) Postman
11 4 (1.22%) Terragrunt
11 4 (1.22%) webpack
12 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
General
1 77 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 67 (20.43%) Public Sector
3 42 (12.80%) Finance
4 19 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.49%) Banking
6 5 (1.52%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.52%) Games
7 3 (0.91%) Law
8 2 (0.61%) Legal
8 2 (0.61%) Police
8 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Aviation
9 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 76 (23.17%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (17.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (14.02%) Senior
4 40 (12.20%) Lead
5 35 (10.67%) Architect
6 31 (9.45%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (9.15%) Developer
8 29 (8.84%) AWS DevOps
9 27 (8.23%) Cloud Engineer
9 27 (8.23%) Data Engineer
10 24 (7.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 20 (6.10%) Site Engineer
12 19 (5.79%) AWS Architect
12 19 (5.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 18 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (4.27%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.27%) Security Engineer
14 14 (4.27%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.66%) Lead DevOps
16 11 (3.35%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (13.11%) Kafka
2 31 (9.45%) AWS CDK
3 29 (8.84%) Node.js
4 22 (6.71%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (6.10%) RESTful
6 18 (5.49%) Spring
7 16 (4.88%) JSON
7 16 (4.88%) React
7 16 (4.88%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.96%) REST
9 10 (3.05%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.74%) ARM Templates
10 9 (2.74%) Keycloak
11 8 (2.44%) OAuth
11 8 (2.44%) OpenID
12 7 (2.13%) cloud-init
12 7 (2.13%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.13%) SAML
12 7 (2.13%) YAML
13 6 (1.83%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 68 (20.73%) Cloud Native
2 13 (3.96%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.35%) PKI
4 9 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (2.13%) Replication
7 6 (1.83%) NHS
7 6 (1.83%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.52%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.22%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.91%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.91%) SCADA
10 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.61%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 88 (26.83%) Linux
2 17 (5.18%) Unix
3 13 (3.96%) Windows
4 7 (2.13%) CentOS
4 7 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.91%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (73.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 231 (70.43%) CI/CD
3 196 (59.76%) DevOps
4 118 (35.98%) Containerisation
5 90 (27.44%) Agile
6 56 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (16.46%) Observability
8 44 (13.41%) Microservices
9 43 (13.11%) Migration
9 43 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
10 39 (11.89%) Technical Leadership
11 37 (11.28%) DevSecOps
12 36 (10.98%) Infrastructure Automation
13 35 (10.67%) Configuration Management
13 35 (10.67%) Mentoring
13 35 (10.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 35 (10.67%) Software Engineering
14 31 (9.45%) Test Automation
15 30 (9.15%) High Availability
16 29 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 161 (49.09%) Python
2 59 (17.99%) Bash
3 45 (13.72%) SQL
4 36 (10.98%) Java
5 32 (9.76%) Go
6 29 (8.84%) PowerShell
7 25 (7.62%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.10%) Ruby
9 19 (5.79%) JavaScript
10 16 (4.88%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.13%) C#
11 7 (2.13%) Perl
12 5 (1.52%) Scala
13 4 (1.22%) Bicep
14 3 (0.91%) C
14 3 (0.91%) C++
14 3 (0.91%) Groovy
14 3 (0.91%) PromQL
15 1 (0.30%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 112 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 92 (28.05%) SC Cleared
3 59 (17.99%) AWS Certification
4 26 (7.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.27%) Degree
5 14 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.52%) CISSP
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.61%) CCSP
11 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.30%) OCP
12 1 (0.30%) OSCP
12 1 (0.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.76%) GDPR
2 20 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (5.49%) NCSC
4 16 (4.88%) QA
5 14 (4.27%) Data Quality
5 14 (4.27%) NIST
6 9 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (2.13%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.91%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.30%) GRC
11 1 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 133 (40.55%) Docker
2 15 (4.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.52%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.30%) HDFS
5 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 296 (90.24%) Terraform
2 142 (43.29%) Kubernetes
3 71 (21.65%) Ansible
4 50 (15.24%) Grafana
5 39 (11.89%) Prometheus
6 30 (9.15%) Packer
7 28 (8.54%) Puppet
8 19 (5.79%) Consul
9 18 (5.49%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (1.52%) Podman
13 2 (0.61%) Argo
13 2 (0.61%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.61%) Istio
13 2 (0.61%) Salt
13 2 (0.61%) SELinux
14 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.30%) Bitnami
14 1 (0.30%) Nessus
Vendors
1 22 (6.71%) Splunk
2 20 (6.10%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.57%) Databricks
4 13 (3.96%) Google
5 12 (3.66%) IBM
6 10 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.74%) CloudEndure
8 8 (2.44%) PagerDuty
9 7 (2.13%) Alibaba
9 7 (2.13%) Confluent
9 7 (2.13%) Okta
10 6 (1.83%) Citrix
10 6 (1.83%) VMware
11 5 (1.52%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (1.52%) Oracle
11 5 (1.52%) Sybase
12 3 (0.91%) Cisco
12 3 (0.91%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.91%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.91%) Ping Identity