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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 268 379
Rank change year-on-year -80 +111 -44
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 285 262 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.96% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 2.58% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 191 104
10th Percentile £400 £400 £414
25th Percentile £450 £460 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £629 £675
90th Percentile £670 £681 £779
UK median daily rate £525 £534 £508
% change year-on-year -1.69% +5.12% -3.24%
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 15,640 10,152 12,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.94% 37.35% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,858 8,574
10th Percentile £325 £311 £312
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 321
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.98% +24.15% -36.71%

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 16 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 16 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 -61 184 £550 -8.33% 34
North of England -89 23 £620 +51.59% 26
Midlands -48 21 £477 +6.00% 8
South West -17 20 £450 -25.00% 12
South East -48 19 £549 -2.88% 16
West Midlands -46 18 £477 +6.00% 6
North West -49 15 £603 +50.63% 12
Yorkshire -59 8 £663 +32.50% 5
East of England -23 6 £450 -5.26% 1
East Midlands -9 3 £447 -36.14% 2
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 18 (6.32%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.61%) Apache
3 15 (5.26%) Confluence
4 6 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.40%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.05%) SAS
7 2 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.70%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 279 (97.89%) AWS
2 111 (38.95%) Azure
3 105 (36.84%) Serverless
4 103 (36.14%) Amazon S3
5 87 (30.53%) AWS Lambda
6 80 (28.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 75 (26.32%) GCP
8 68 (23.86%) GitHub
9 64 (22.46%) GitHub Actions
10 60 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
11 59 (20.70%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (17.89%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (16.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (9.12%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (9.12%) AWS CodePipeline
16 22 (7.72%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (6.67%) Route 53
18 16 (5.61%) AWS CloudTrail
19 15 (5.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.18%) DNS
1 29 (10.18%) Firewall
2 14 (4.91%) Network Security
3 11 (3.86%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.86%) WAN
4 9 (3.16%) VPN
5 8 (2.81%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.46%) DHCP
7 4 (1.40%) BGP
7 4 (1.40%) HTTP
7 4 (1.40%) SSL
8 3 (1.05%) CTI
8 3 (1.05%) NetScaler
8 3 (1.05%) OSPF
8 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.70%) Internet
9 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.35%) 5G
10 1 (0.35%) MPLS
10 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.37%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 18 (6.32%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.51%) BigQuery
8 9 (3.16%) Mixpanel
8 9 (3.16%) Power BI
9 8 (2.81%) OLAP
9 8 (2.81%) OLTP
10 7 (2.46%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.46%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.46%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.75%) Metadata
12 5 (1.75%) Redshift Spectrum
13 4 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 57 (20.00%) GitLab
3 38 (13.33%) Git
4 26 (9.12%) JIRA
5 17 (5.96%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.81%) Snyk
6 8 (2.81%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.46%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.05%) Vite
9 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.70%) JUnit
9 2 (0.70%) MLflow
9 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.70%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.35%) git-flow
10 1 (0.35%) Maven
10 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 71 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.68%) Public Sector
3 38 (13.33%) Finance
4 15 (5.26%) Banking
5 14 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.40%) Law
10 3 (1.05%) Games
10 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
11 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Military
11 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Advertising
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 58 (20.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (19.30%) AWS Engineer
3 49 (17.19%) Architect
4 42 (14.74%) Lead
5 35 (12.28%) AWS DevOps
5 35 (12.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (12.28%) Senior
6 30 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 24 (8.42%) Developer
8 23 (8.07%) Data Engineer
9 18 (6.32%) AWS Architect
10 13 (4.56%) Security Engineer
11 12 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
11 12 (4.21%) Lead DevOps
11 12 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (3.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Network Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.63%) AWS CDK
2 27 (9.47%) Kafka
3 22 (7.72%) Node.js
4 16 (5.61%) PySpark
5 15 (5.26%) REST
5 15 (5.26%) RESTful
6 14 (4.91%) Great Expectations
6 14 (4.91%) React
7 12 (4.21%) OAuth
8 8 (2.81%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.81%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.46%) Pandas
10 6 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (1.75%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.75%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.40%) boto
12 4 (1.40%) JWT
12 4 (1.40%) OpenID
12 4 (1.40%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 97 (34.04%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (3.51%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.46%) Replication
7 7 (2.46%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.11%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.05%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.05%) IVR
11 3 (1.05%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.70%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.28%) Linux
2 26 (9.12%) Windows
3 11 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.05%) AIX
5 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (85.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 221 (77.54%) CI/CD
3 182 (63.86%) DevOps
4 98 (34.39%) Containerisation
5 83 (29.12%) Agile
6 67 (23.51%) Observability
7 54 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
9 41 (14.39%) AI
10 40 (14.04%) Microservices
11 38 (13.33%) DevSecOps
11 38 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (12.98%) Analytics
13 36 (12.63%) Cloud Security
13 36 (12.63%) High Availability
14 35 (12.28%) Migration
15 34 (11.93%) Mentoring
16 33 (11.58%) Scrum
17 32 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (11.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 143 (50.18%) Python
2 53 (18.60%) Bash
3 44 (15.44%) PowerShell
4 40 (14.04%) SQL
5 28 (9.82%) Java
6 25 (8.77%) Bicep
7 16 (5.61%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.86%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.51%) C#
10 9 (3.16%) Go
11 5 (1.75%) Ruby
12 4 (1.40%) Groovy
13 3 (1.05%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.05%) Scala
13 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.70%) C
15 1 (0.35%) Korn
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 100 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 87 (30.53%) SC Cleared
3 42 (14.74%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (5.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 15 (5.26%) Degree
7 11 (3.86%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.16%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (2.81%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.70%) PMP
12 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.37%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.67%) GDPR
3 14 (4.91%) NIST
3 14 (4.91%) PCI DSS
4 11 (3.86%) QA
5 10 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.05%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 107 (37.54%) Docker
2 4 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.05%) Squid
4 2 (0.70%) Corosync
4 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 267 (93.68%) Terraform
2 105 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 39 (13.68%) Prometheus
4 36 (12.63%) Grafana
5 32 (11.23%) Ansible
6 13 (4.56%) Puppet
7 9 (3.16%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.46%) Argo
8 7 (2.46%) Istio
9 6 (2.11%) linkerd
9 6 (2.11%) Packer
10 4 (1.40%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.05%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.70%) Consul
12 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.35%) Kibana
13 1 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 27 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.12%) Google
3 16 (5.61%) Databricks
4 15 (5.26%) Splunk
5 11 (3.86%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.81%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.11%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.11%) Oracle
8 5 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.75%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.75%) SAP
8 5 (1.75%) VMware
9 4 (1.40%) Cisco
9 4 (1.40%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.05%) New Relic
10 3 (1.05%) Sybase
10 3 (1.05%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.05%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.70%) Solace