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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 279 365
Rank change year-on-year -48 +86 -39
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 295 211 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.86% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.28% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 157 121
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £449 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £636 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £693 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £556 £510
% change year-on-year -5.62% +9.07% -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 14,777 9,235 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.74% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,038 6,295 8,585
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 225 331
10th Percentile £15.97 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% +16.50% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -30 206 £575 -4.17% 24
North of England -66 25 £581 +40.85% 25
Midlands -52 19 £463 -15.91% 5
South West -16 15 £450 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -44 15 £477 -4.60% 2
North West -36 14 £581 +45.25% 14
Yorkshire -47 11 £625 +21.95% 10
South East -63 11 £485 -14.25% 10
East of England -23 6 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands -24 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 22 (7.46%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.78%) Apache
3 13 (4.41%) Confluence
4 5 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.02%) SAS
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 287 (97.29%) AWS
2 108 (36.61%) Azure
3 107 (36.27%) Amazon S3
4 105 (35.59%) Serverless
5 92 (31.19%) AWS Lambda
6 85 (28.81%) GitHub
7 80 (27.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 75 (25.42%) GCP
9 72 (24.41%) GitHub Actions
10 69 (23.39%) Amazon ECS
11 68 (23.05%) Amazon EKS
12 49 (16.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 48 (16.27%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (10.85%) AWS CodePipeline
15 31 (10.51%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (5.42%) Route 53
18 15 (5.08%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (5.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 13 (4.41%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.81%) DNS
2 19 (6.44%) Firewall
3 14 (4.75%) Network Security
4 9 (3.05%) VPN
5 8 (2.71%) WAN
6 6 (2.03%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.36%) SSL
8 3 (1.02%) BGP
8 3 (1.02%) HTTP
8 3 (1.02%) OSPF
8 3 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.68%) Internet
10 1 (0.34%) 4G
10 1 (0.34%) 5G
10 1 (0.34%) CTI
10 1 (0.34%) LAN
10 1 (0.34%) MPLS
10 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.51%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.14%) Amazon Athena
3 23 (7.80%) Data Lake
4 22 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (6.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (6.10%) DynamoDB
7 13 (4.41%) BigQuery
7 13 (4.41%) Mixpanel
7 13 (4.41%) Power BI
8 12 (4.07%) NoSQL
8 12 (4.07%) OLAP
8 12 (4.07%) OLTP
9 10 (3.39%) MongoDB
9 10 (3.39%) SQL Server
10 9 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.71%) Redis
12 7 (2.37%) MySQL
13 6 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.69%) Metadata
14 5 (1.69%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 73 (24.75%) Jenkins
2 61 (20.68%) GitLab
3 43 (14.58%) Git
4 23 (7.80%) JIRA
5 16 (5.42%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.39%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.39%) Snyk
7 7 (2.37%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.02%) JUnit
8 3 (1.02%) Vite
9 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.68%) MLflow
9 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) git-flow
10 1 (0.34%) Mockito
10 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
10 1 (0.34%) Terragrunt
General
1 78 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.24%) Finance
3 39 (13.22%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.10%) Banking
5 10 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.37%) Law
8 6 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Games
10 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.68%) Front Office
11 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Marketing
11 2 (0.68%) Military
11 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Local Government
12 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (19.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (19.32%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (14.58%) Architect
4 42 (14.24%) Lead
5 37 (12.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (11.53%) AWS DevOps
6 34 (11.53%) Senior
7 29 (9.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 29 (9.83%) Data Engineer
8 24 (8.14%) Developer
9 19 (6.44%) AWS Architect
10 17 (5.76%) Cloud Architect
11 15 (5.08%) Security Engineer
12 13 (4.41%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (3.73%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (3.73%) Principal Data Engineer
14 10 (3.39%) Lead Data Engineer
14 10 (3.39%) Software Engineer
15 9 (3.05%) Network Engineer
15 9 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.92%) Kafka
2 35 (11.86%) AWS CDK
3 23 (7.80%) Node.js
3 23 (7.80%) RESTful
4 18 (6.10%) Great Expectations
4 18 (6.10%) OAuth
5 17 (5.76%) PySpark
6 16 (5.42%) React
7 15 (5.08%) REST
8 12 (4.07%) OAuth2
8 12 (4.07%) Spring
8 12 (4.07%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (3.05%) .NET
10 9 (3.05%) OpenID
11 7 (2.37%) boto
11 7 (2.37%) Pandas
12 6 (2.03%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 107 (36.27%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.14%) Product Ownership
3 21 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.75%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.37%) Replication
6 7 (2.37%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (2.03%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.69%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.36%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.36%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.02%) Equities
11 2 (0.68%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.19%) Linux
2 18 (6.10%) Windows
3 8 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.69%) Unix
5 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (84.07%) CI/CD
2 245 (83.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 191 (64.75%) DevOps
4 99 (33.56%) Containerisation
5 81 (27.46%) Agile
6 80 (27.12%) Observability
7 55 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (16.61%) DevSecOps
9 47 (15.93%) Microservices
10 45 (15.25%) AI
11 42 (14.24%) Analytics
12 39 (13.22%) High Availability
13 38 (12.88%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (12.20%) Data Engineering
14 36 (12.20%) Incident Response
14 36 (12.20%) Mentoring
15 34 (11.53%) Event-Driven
15 34 (11.53%) Infrastructure Automation
16 33 (11.19%) Cloud Security
16 33 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (45.08%) Python
2 56 (18.98%) SQL
3 47 (15.93%) Java
4 38 (12.88%) Bash
5 31 (10.51%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.44%) Bicep
7 16 (5.42%) C#
7 16 (5.42%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.73%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.05%) Go
10 6 (2.03%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.69%) Ruby
12 3 (1.02%) Groovy
12 3 (1.02%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.02%) Scala
13 2 (0.68%) C
14 1 (0.34%) Perl
14 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.34%) R
14 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 88 (29.83%) Security Cleared
2 75 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 43 (14.58%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (5.42%) Degree
5 15 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (3.39%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.05%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.37%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.37%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.36%) CISSP
11 4 (1.36%) IBM Certification
12 3 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.02%) CCSP
12 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.83%) GDPR
2 25 (8.47%) NIST
3 23 (7.80%) Data Quality
4 21 (7.12%) PCI DSS
5 16 (5.42%) QA
6 15 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.36%) GRC
7 4 (1.36%) SLA
8 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.68%) NCSC
10 1 (0.34%) HL7
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 114 (38.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.02%) Squid
3 2 (0.68%) Corosync
3 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 271 (91.86%) Terraform
2 112 (37.97%) Kubernetes
3 41 (13.90%) Ansible
4 37 (12.54%) Prometheus
5 34 (11.53%) Grafana
6 9 (3.05%) Puppet
7 8 (2.71%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.37%) Argo
8 7 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.03%) Istio
10 5 (1.69%) linkerd
11 4 (1.36%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.36%) Packer
12 3 (1.02%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.68%) Consul
13 2 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.68%) Karpenter
14 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
14 1 (0.34%) Kibana
14 1 (0.34%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 25 (8.47%) Google
2 21 (7.12%) Databricks
3 19 (6.44%) Splunk
4 16 (5.42%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.73%) Oracle
6 8 (2.71%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.03%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.03%) IBM
8 5 (1.69%) New Relic
8 5 (1.69%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.69%) SAP
8 5 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.36%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.36%) Qualys
9 4 (1.36%) Sybase
9 4 (1.36%) Tenable
10 3 (1.02%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.02%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.02%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.02%) Zscaler