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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 306 339
Rank change year-on-year +59 +33 -59
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 343 195 216
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 0.73% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 1.97% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 145 151
10th Percentile £400 £386 £425
25th Percentile £457 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £608 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +8.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £626 £738 £669
90th Percentile £692 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% -4.35%
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 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 12,283 9,875 12,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.94% 36.80% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,535 6,574 8,993
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 140 267
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.46 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +22.57% +0.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.18 £48.92
90th Percentile £76.40 £68.75 £68.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +4.33%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +47 205 £550 -15.38% 47
North of England -33 66 £500 -20.48% 37
North West -13 36 £488 +2.63% 12
South East -14 26 £530 -18.46% 48
Yorkshire -42 25 £500 -29.82% 22
Midlands -38 14 £575 +24.32% 20
South West -4 12 £563 +2.27% 27
West Midlands -34 12 £575 +15.00% 12
North East -10 5 £466 -31.85% 3
East Midlands -21 2 £442 +10.56% 8
East of England - 2 £600 - 18
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 20 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.54%) Apache
3 18 (5.25%) Confluence
4 16 (4.66%) nginx
5 15 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.75%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 329 (95.92%) AWS
2 125 (36.44%) Serverless
3 121 (35.28%) AWS Lambda
4 115 (33.53%) Amazon S3
5 106 (30.90%) GitHub
6 97 (28.28%) Amazon ECS
7 93 (27.11%) Azure
8 81 (23.62%) GitHub Actions
9 71 (20.70%) Amazon EKS
10 70 (20.41%) GCP
11 65 (18.95%) Amazon EC2
12 60 (17.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 57 (16.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 33 (9.62%) AWS CodePipeline
15 31 (9.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 30 (8.75%) Datadog
17 23 (6.71%) AWS KMS
18 22 (6.41%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
19 20 (5.83%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.33%) DNS
2 20 (5.83%) Firewall
3 15 (4.37%) VPN
4 10 (2.92%) Network Security
5 9 (2.62%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.46%) DHCP
8 3 (0.87%) HTTP
8 3 (0.87%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.87%) WAN
9 2 (0.58%) BGP
9 2 (0.58%) OSPF
9 2 (0.58%) SSL
10 1 (0.29%) Internet
10 1 (0.29%) NAS
10 1 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.53%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (7.87%) Amazon Redshift
3 27 (7.87%) Data Lake
4 23 (6.71%) DynamoDB
5 21 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (5.25%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (4.08%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.79%) Power BI
10 12 (3.50%) MongoDB
11 10 (2.92%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.92%) Mixpanel
11 10 (2.92%) MySQL
11 10 (2.92%) OLAP
11 10 (2.92%) OLTP
12 8 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (2.04%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.75%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (1.75%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 96 (27.99%) Jenkins
2 76 (22.16%) Git
3 75 (21.87%) GitLab
4 29 (8.45%) JIRA
5 14 (4.08%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.21%) CircleCI
7 10 (2.92%) Maven
7 10 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (2.62%) JUnit
8 9 (2.62%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.33%) Gradle
9 8 (2.33%) Snyk
9 8 (2.33%) Terragrunt
10 7 (2.04%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.75%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.75%) Selenium
12 5 (1.46%) Postman
12 5 (1.46%) webpack
13 3 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
General
1 76 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.78%) Public Sector
3 50 (14.58%) Finance
4 18 (5.25%) Banking
5 16 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.75%) Law
8 5 (1.46%) Games
9 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.58%) Legal
10 2 (0.58%) Marketing
10 2 (0.58%) Police
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.29%) Aviation
11 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.29%) Military
11 1 (0.29%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (20.12%) AWS Engineer
1 69 (20.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (13.41%) Architect
3 39 (11.37%) Senior
4 36 (10.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 36 (10.50%) Lead
5 33 (9.62%) Data Engineer
6 31 (9.04%) AWS DevOps
7 28 (8.16%) Developer
8 27 (7.87%) AWS Architect
9 26 (7.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 22 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (5.83%) Cloud Architect
12 19 (5.54%) Security Engineer
12 19 (5.54%) Site Engineer
13 18 (5.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (4.37%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.21%) Lead DevOps
16 10 (2.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.62%) Kafka
2 29 (8.45%) AWS CDK
3 27 (7.87%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (7.87%) Node.js
3 27 (7.87%) RESTful
4 22 (6.41%) Spring
5 21 (6.12%) Spring Boot
6 18 (5.25%) React
7 17 (4.96%) REST
8 10 (2.92%) Great Expectations
8 10 (2.92%) JSON
8 10 (2.92%) OAuth
9 9 (2.62%) AngularJS
9 9 (2.62%) ARM Templates
10 8 (2.33%) Vue
10 8 (2.33%) YAML
11 7 (2.04%) .NET
11 7 (2.04%) Django
11 7 (2.04%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.04%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 82 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.21%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.62%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.62%) PKI
6 7 (2.04%) NHS
6 7 (2.04%) Replication
6 7 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.46%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.46%) SCADA
9 4 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.17%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 89 (25.95%) Linux
2 20 (5.83%) Unix
3 19 (5.54%) Windows
4 5 (1.46%) CentOS
4 5 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.87%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (79.59%) CI/CD
2 264 (76.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 203 (59.18%) DevOps
4 116 (33.82%) Containerisation
5 86 (25.07%) Agile
6 78 (22.74%) Observability
7 52 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (14.58%) Microservices
9 48 (13.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 46 (13.41%) DevSecOps
11 45 (13.12%) Infrastructure Automation
12 39 (11.37%) Incident Response
12 39 (11.37%) Migration
12 39 (11.37%) Software Engineering
12 39 (11.37%) Technical Leadership
13 38 (11.08%) AI
13 38 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (11.08%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (10.50%) Analytics
14 36 (10.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 175 (51.02%) Python
2 60 (17.49%) Bash
3 56 (16.33%) Java
4 54 (15.74%) SQL
5 31 (9.04%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.29%) Go
7 20 (5.83%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.54%) Ruby
8 19 (5.54%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.37%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.50%) C#
11 7 (2.04%) Bicep
12 6 (1.75%) Perl
13 4 (1.17%) Scala
14 3 (0.87%) C
15 1 (0.29%) C++
15 1 (0.29%) Groovy
15 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 104 (30.32%) Security Cleared
2 85 (24.78%) SC Cleared
3 66 (19.24%) AWS Certification
4 23 (6.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (4.66%) DV Cleared
6 15 (4.37%) Degree
7 13 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.92%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.04%) CISSP
11 6 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.46%) MCP
13 4 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (1.17%) CCSP
13 4 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.17%) IBM Certification
13 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.37%) GDPR
2 26 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (7.00%) NIST
4 19 (5.54%) QA
5 16 (4.66%) NCSC
6 15 (4.37%) Data Quality
6 15 (4.37%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.46%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.46%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.46%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.87%) GRC
9 3 (0.87%) SLA
10 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 145 (42.27%) Docker
2 7 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.46%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 306 (89.21%) Terraform
2 142 (41.40%) Kubernetes
3 82 (23.91%) Ansible
4 47 (13.70%) Grafana
5 39 (11.37%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.00%) Puppet
7 21 (6.12%) Packer
8 17 (4.96%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.79%) Consul
10 6 (1.75%) Podman
11 5 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (1.46%) Karpenter
11 5 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.17%) Kibana
13 3 (0.87%) Argo
14 2 (0.58%) Istio
14 2 (0.58%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.29%) Bitnami
15 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.29%) linkerd
Vendors
1 26 (7.58%) Google
1 26 (7.58%) Microsoft
1 26 (7.58%) Splunk
2 24 (7.00%) Databricks
3 13 (3.79%) IBM
4 10 (2.92%) CloudEndure
4 10 (2.92%) Oracle
5 8 (2.33%) PagerDuty
5 8 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.04%) Citrix
6 7 (2.04%) Confluent
7 6 (1.75%) VMware
8 5 (1.46%) AVEVA
8 5 (1.46%) New Relic
8 5 (1.46%) Okta
8 5 (1.46%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.17%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.17%) Sybase
9 4 (1.17%) Tenable
10 3 (0.87%) Cisco