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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 270 389
Rank change year-on-year -95 +119 -49
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 284 261 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.94% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 2.50% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 196 83
10th Percentile £400 £400 £378
25th Percentile £450 £456 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £678 £775
UK median daily rate £534 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.67% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.61 - -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.90% - -
75th Percentile £69.82 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.90% - -

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 16,045 10,434 11,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.58% 37.50% 34.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,714 7,046 7,784
10th Percentile £320 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 259 186
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £19.96
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%
75th Percentile £69.96 £45.14 £60.95
90th Percentile £82.43 £71.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -14.29%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -78 159 £550 -8.33% 89
North of England -66 43 £613 +50.99% 40
North West -27 29 £605 +53.16% 16
South West -35 23 £500 -15.79% 14
Midlands -36 23 £481 -16.35% 18
South East -50 20 £570 +26.67% 25
West Midlands -39 18 £488 -15.22% 11
Yorkshire -50 10 £656 +38.16% 15
East of England -34 6 £450 - 11
East Midlands -9 5 £466 -33.50% 7
North East -44 4 £500 +20.12% 9
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 14 (4.93%) Confluence
2 8 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.11%) Apache
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.70%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.35%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 280 (98.59%) AWS
2 116 (40.85%) Serverless
3 112 (39.44%) Azure
4 98 (34.51%) AWS Lambda
5 92 (32.39%) Amazon S3
6 89 (31.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 74 (26.06%) GCP
8 68 (23.94%) GitHub
9 63 (22.18%) GitHub Actions
10 62 (21.83%) Amazon EKS
11 59 (20.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 53 (18.66%) Amazon ECS
13 47 (16.55%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (9.51%) AWS Step Functions
16 24 (8.45%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (7.75%) AWS KMS
17 22 (7.75%) Datadog
18 20 (7.04%) AWS CloudTrail
19 14 (4.93%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.51%) Firewall
2 24 (8.45%) DNS
3 11 (3.87%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.52%) Network Security
5 9 (3.17%) WAN
6 8 (2.82%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.46%) DHCP
8 6 (2.11%) SSL
9 5 (1.76%) VPN
10 4 (1.41%) HTTP
10 4 (1.41%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.06%) CTI
12 2 (0.70%) BGP
12 2 (0.70%) Internet
13 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.35%) LAN
13 1 (0.35%) MPLS
13 1 (0.35%) OSPF
13 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.38%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (9.15%) DynamoDB
3 24 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.69%) MySQL
5 17 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (5.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (4.93%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.23%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.87%) MongoDB
10 10 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (3.52%) Data Lake
10 10 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.82%) Redis
12 7 (2.46%) Metadata
13 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.41%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.06%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (1.06%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 70 (24.65%) Jenkins
2 59 (20.77%) GitLab
3 44 (15.49%) Git
4 25 (8.80%) JIRA
5 13 (4.58%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.82%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.46%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.11%) Snyk
9 5 (1.76%) JUnit
10 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.41%) Maven
10 4 (1.41%) Mockito
10 4 (1.41%) Spinnaker
11 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.70%) Flyway
12 2 (0.70%) MLflow
12 2 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 84 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.49%) Public Sector
3 43 (15.14%) Finance
4 15 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.23%) Banking
6 7 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.41%) Law
8 4 (1.41%) Military
9 3 (1.06%) Games
9 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.70%) Front Office
10 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Automotive
11 1 (0.35%) German Language
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (17.25%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (16.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (14.08%) Architect
3 40 (14.08%) Senior
4 39 (13.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (11.27%) AWS DevOps
6 29 (10.21%) Lead
7 26 (9.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 25 (8.80%) Developer
9 24 (8.45%) Data Engineer
10 23 (8.10%) Security Engineer
11 17 (5.99%) AWS Architect
12 14 (4.93%) Lead DevOps
13 13 (4.58%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 12 (4.23%) DBA
15 11 (3.87%) Platform Architect
16 10 (3.52%) Network Engineer
16 10 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
17 9 (3.17%) Administrator
17 9 (3.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (91.55%) Terraform
2 33 (11.62%) AWS CDK
3 21 (7.39%) REST
4 19 (6.69%) Kafka
5 18 (6.34%) Node.js
6 15 (5.28%) RESTful
7 13 (4.58%) PySpark
7 13 (4.58%) React
8 11 (3.87%) ARM Templates
8 11 (3.87%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.52%) Spring
10 9 (3.17%) Pandas
11 8 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (2.46%) Great Expectations
12 7 (2.46%) Pulumi
13 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.11%) OAuth
14 5 (1.76%) Vue
15 4 (1.41%) Azure Blueprints
15 4 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 98 (34.51%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 18 (6.34%) Security Posture
5 15 (5.28%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.23%) Replication
7 9 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.82%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.46%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (2.11%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.76%) Clustering
11 5 (1.76%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.76%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.06%) Autonomous Agent
13 3 (1.06%) IVR
13 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.20%) Linux
2 27 (9.51%) Windows
3 18 (6.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.46%) Unix
5 5 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.41%) AIX
7 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (87.68%) Infrastructure as Code
2 216 (76.06%) CI/CD
3 177 (62.32%) DevOps
4 97 (34.15%) Agile
5 95 (33.45%) Containerisation
6 75 (26.41%) Observability
7 58 (20.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (19.01%) Cloud Security
9 48 (16.90%) Microservices
9 48 (16.90%) Test Automation
10 47 (16.55%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (14.44%) AI
12 40 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (13.73%) Scrum
14 38 (13.38%) High Availability
14 38 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (13.03%) Infrastructure Automation
16 36 (12.68%) Root Cause Analysis
17 35 (12.32%) DevSecOps
18 34 (11.97%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 144 (50.70%) Python
2 65 (22.89%) Bash
3 55 (19.37%) PowerShell
4 50 (17.61%) SQL
5 43 (15.14%) Java
6 33 (11.62%) Bicep
7 20 (7.04%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.23%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.46%) Go
10 5 (1.76%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.41%) Groovy
11 4 (1.41%) Ruby
12 3 (1.06%) Scala
12 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.70%) C
13 2 (0.70%) C#
13 2 (0.70%) R
14 1 (0.35%) C++
14 1 (0.35%) Perl
14 1 (0.35%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 106 (37.32%) Security Cleared
2 94 (33.10%) SC Cleared
3 48 (16.90%) AWS Certification
4 29 (10.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.04%) Degree
6 16 (5.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.93%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.17%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.46%) CISSP
10 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.11%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.45%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.93%) QA
3 10 (3.52%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.17%) NIST
5 8 (2.82%) GDPR
5 8 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.41%) SLA
8 3 (1.06%) NCSC
8 3 (1.06%) WCAG
9 1 (0.35%) GRC
9 1 (0.35%) HL7
9 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 111 (39.08%) Docker
2 8 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.06%) Squid
4 2 (0.70%) Corosync
5 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 121 (42.61%) Kubernetes
2 39 (13.73%) Grafana
3 35 (12.32%) Ansible
4 33 (11.62%) Prometheus
5 17 (5.99%) Progress Chef
6 15 (5.28%) Puppet
7 9 (3.17%) Argo
8 5 (1.76%) Istio
9 4 (1.41%) Packer
10 3 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.06%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.70%) linkerd
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.70%) Podman
11 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.35%) Control-M
12 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.45%) Google
3 18 (6.34%) Red Hat
4 14 (4.93%) Splunk
5 11 (3.87%) Oracle
6 10 (3.52%) Databricks
6 10 (3.52%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.82%) Infoblox
8 7 (2.46%) VMware
9 5 (1.76%) Cisco
9 5 (1.76%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.76%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.41%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.41%) Teradata
10 4 (1.41%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.06%) Informatica
11 3 (1.06%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.06%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.06%) SAP
11 3 (1.06%) Trend Micro