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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 270 390
Rank change year-on-year -94 +120 -60
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 280 267 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.97% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 2.59% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 199 98
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £469 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £689
90th Percentile £670 £688 £780
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £503
% change year-on-year -2.78% +7.36% -4.19%
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 15,772 10,323 11,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.40% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,539 6,986 8,162
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 261
10th Percentile £16.68 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.34 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -75 168 £550 -8.33% 58
North of England -72 32 £620 +52.15% 34
Midlands -37 23 £481 -10.51% 8
South West -29 20 £450 -25.00% 16
West Midlands -38 20 £482 +7.17% 8
North West -40 20 £605 +51.25% 15
South East -60 19 £549 -2.88% 14
Yorkshire -54 9 £663 +32.50% 7
East of England -21 6 £450 -5.26% 3
East Midlands -10 3 £481 -31.29%
North East -39 3 £500 +20.12% 12
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 15 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.64%) Apache
2 13 (4.64%) Confluence
3 6 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.07%) SAS
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 274 (97.86%) AWS
2 116 (41.43%) Azure
3 110 (39.29%) Serverless
4 98 (35.00%) Amazon S3
5 92 (32.86%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (28.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 76 (27.14%) GCP
8 65 (23.21%) GitHub
9 62 (22.14%) GitHub Actions
10 60 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (18.21%) Amazon EC2
13 49 (17.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 30 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (9.29%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (8.93%) AWS Step Functions
17 20 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
18 19 (6.79%) AWS CloudTrail
19 15 (5.36%) Datadog
20 14 (5.00%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.00%) Firewall
2 27 (9.64%) DNS
3 11 (3.93%) Network Security
3 11 (3.93%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.21%) WAN
5 8 (2.86%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.50%) DHCP
6 7 (2.50%) VPN
7 4 (1.43%) HTTP
7 4 (1.43%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.43%) SSL
8 3 (1.07%) CTI
9 2 (0.71%) BGP
9 2 (0.71%) Internet
10 1 (0.36%) 4G
10 1 (0.36%) 5G
10 1 (0.36%) MPLS
10 1 (0.36%) OSPF
10 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.57%) DynamoDB
3 18 (6.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (6.07%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (6.07%) Data Lake
5 13 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.57%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.50%) BigQuery
8 7 (2.50%) MySQL
8 7 (2.50%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.14%) Mixpanel
9 6 (2.14%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.14%) OLAP
9 6 (2.14%) OLTP
9 6 (2.14%) Power BI
10 4 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.43%) Metadata
10 4 (1.43%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 72 (25.71%) Jenkins
2 55 (19.64%) GitLab
3 42 (15.00%) Git
4 24 (8.57%) JIRA
5 18 (6.43%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.21%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.86%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.86%) Snyk
8 5 (1.79%) JUnit
8 5 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.07%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.07%) Mockito
11 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.71%) Maven
11 2 (0.71%) MLflow
11 2 (0.71%) Selenium
11 2 (0.71%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.36%) Postman
12 1 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 72 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.64%) Finance
2 41 (14.64%) Public Sector
3 17 (6.07%) Banking
4 13 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.43%) Law
8 3 (1.07%) Games
8 3 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.71%) Front Office
9 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.71%) Military
9 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Billing
10 1 (0.36%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (18.57%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (16.79%) Architect
4 39 (13.93%) Lead
5 35 (12.50%) Senior
6 33 (11.79%) AWS DevOps
7 32 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (8.57%) Developer
10 22 (7.86%) Data Engineer
11 18 (6.43%) AWS Architect
12 16 (5.71%) Security Engineer
13 13 (4.64%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.29%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
15 10 (3.57%) Network Engineer
16 9 (3.21%) Infrastructure Architect
16 9 (3.21%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.07%) AWS CDK
2 29 (10.36%) Kafka
3 20 (7.14%) Node.js
3 20 (7.14%) REST
4 17 (6.07%) RESTful
5 15 (5.36%) PySpark
5 15 (5.36%) React
6 11 (3.93%) Great Expectations
7 9 (3.21%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.21%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.86%) OAuth
8 8 (2.86%) Spring
9 7 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (2.50%) Pandas
10 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.14%) OAuth2
11 4 (1.43%) boto
11 4 (1.43%) Vue
12 3 (1.07%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 96 (34.29%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 11 (3.93%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (3.93%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.50%) Replication
9 6 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.43%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.07%) IVR
12 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.07%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.93%) Linux
2 28 (10.00%) Windows
3 14 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.43%) AIX
5 4 (1.43%) Unix
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 214 (76.43%) CI/CD
3 178 (63.57%) DevOps
4 97 (34.64%) Containerisation
5 90 (32.14%) Agile
6 68 (24.29%) Observability
7 50 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (16.43%) Platform Engineering
9 43 (15.36%) Microservices
10 42 (15.00%) Cloud Security
11 39 (13.93%) AI
11 39 (13.93%) DevSecOps
11 39 (13.93%) Migration
12 36 (12.86%) Scrum
13 35 (12.50%) Analytics
13 35 (12.50%) High Availability
13 35 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (12.14%) Test Automation
15 32 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
15 32 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 145 (51.79%) Python
2 60 (21.43%) Bash
3 48 (17.14%) PowerShell
4 41 (14.64%) SQL
5 32 (11.43%) Java
6 30 (10.71%) Bicep
7 15 (5.36%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.29%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.50%) C#
9 7 (2.50%) Go
10 5 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.43%) Groovy
11 4 (1.43%) Ruby
12 3 (1.07%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.07%) Scala
13 2 (0.71%) C
13 2 (0.71%) R
14 1 (0.36%) C++
14 1 (0.36%) Korn
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 98 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 85 (30.36%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 17 (6.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 17 (6.07%) Degree
5 14 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 13 (4.64%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.21%) SAFe Agilist
8 8 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.43%) CISSP
10 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.07%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.71%) PMP
11 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.64%) GDPR
3 12 (4.29%) QA
4 11 (3.93%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.57%) NIST
6 7 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.71%) WCAG
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) HL7
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.36%) NCSC
9 1 (0.36%) SLA
9 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 106 (37.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.07%) Squid
4 2 (0.71%) Corosync
4 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 260 (92.86%) Terraform
2 111 (39.64%) Kubernetes
3 41 (14.64%) Grafana
4 40 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 30 (10.71%) Ansible
6 13 (4.64%) Puppet
7 11 (3.93%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.21%) Argo
8 9 (3.21%) Istio
9 6 (2.14%) linkerd
10 4 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.43%) Packer
11 3 (1.07%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.71%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.36%) Kibana
13 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.21%) Google
3 14 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.64%) Splunk
5 11 (3.93%) Databricks
6 8 (2.86%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.14%) Oracle
7 6 (2.14%) VMware
8 5 (1.79%) Cisco
8 5 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.79%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.07%) SAP
10 3 (1.07%) Sybase
10 3 (1.07%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.07%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.71%) New Relic
11 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow