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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 260 375
Rank change year-on-year -90 +115 -33
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 290 268 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.97% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.60% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 205 95
10th Percentile £400 £400 £403
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £681
90th Percentile £674 £688 £778
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £508
% change year-on-year +2.86% +3.35% -3.24%
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 16,031 10,291 11,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.18% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,694 6,965 7,949
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 274 231
10th Percentile £15.79 £15.02 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.22 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% +8.28% -25.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £83.54 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +25.00% +15.80% -26.73%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -81 168 £550 -8.33% 171
North of England -62 39 £609 +48.27% 59
North West -36 26 £605 +51.25% 27
Midlands -34 22 £481 -17.25% 21
South West -39 21 £488 -18.75% 43
South East -55 20 £570 +0.88% 23
West Midlands -36 18 £488 -15.22% 13
Yorkshire -55 9 £663 +39.47% 16
East of England -21 6 £450 -5.26% 5
East Midlands -12 4 £466 -33.50% 8
North East -41 4 £500 +20.12% 16
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 13 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.14%) Confluence
3 10 (3.45%) Apache
4 6 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.03%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 285 (98.28%) AWS
2 121 (41.72%) Azure
3 112 (38.62%) Serverless
4 93 (32.07%) Amazon S3
4 93 (32.07%) AWS Lambda
5 90 (31.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 79 (27.24%) GCP
7 70 (24.14%) GitHub
8 67 (23.10%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (20.34%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (19.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 53 (18.28%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (12.41%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (8.62%) AWS Step Functions
15 24 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (6.55%) AWS CloudTrail
16 19 (6.55%) AWS KMS
16 19 (6.55%) Datadog
17 16 (5.52%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.66%) DNS
2 25 (8.62%) Firewall
3 11 (3.79%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.10%) Network Security
4 9 (3.10%) WAN
5 8 (2.76%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.41%) DHCP
7 6 (2.07%) VPN
8 5 (1.72%) SSL
9 4 (1.38%) HTTP
9 4 (1.38%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.03%) CTI
11 2 (0.69%) BGP
11 2 (0.69%) Internet
12 1 (0.34%) 4G
12 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.34%) LAN
12 1 (0.34%) MPLS
12 1 (0.34%) OSPF
12 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.10%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.28%) DynamoDB
3 23 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.21%) MySQL
5 17 (5.86%) SQL Server
6 16 (5.52%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (4.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (4.48%) Data Lake
9 13 (4.48%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.79%) NoSQL
11 9 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.76%) Redis
13 6 (2.07%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.07%) Metadata
14 5 (1.72%) Power BI
15 4 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.38%) Big Data
15 4 (1.38%) OLAP
15 4 (1.38%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 74 (25.52%) Jenkins
2 61 (21.03%) GitLab
3 43 (14.83%) Git
4 23 (7.93%) JIRA
5 16 (5.52%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.10%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.76%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.76%) Snyk
8 6 (2.07%) JUnit
8 6 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.38%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.38%) Mockito
10 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.03%) Maven
10 3 (1.03%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.69%) MLflow
11 2 (0.69%) Selenium
12 1 (0.34%) git-flow
12 1 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 74 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 42 (14.48%) Finance
4 16 (5.52%) Banking
5 12 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.38%) Law
9 3 (1.03%) Games
9 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.69%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.69%) Front Office
10 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Military
11 1 (0.34%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Local Government
11 1 (0.34%) Retail
11 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (19.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (18.28%) AWS Engineer
3 44 (15.17%) Architect
4 41 (14.14%) Senior
5 38 (13.10%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (12.76%) AWS DevOps
7 36 (12.41%) Lead
8 31 (10.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (8.28%) Developer
10 21 (7.24%) Data Engineer
10 21 (7.24%) Security Engineer
11 17 (5.86%) AWS Architect
12 15 (5.17%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.14%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.79%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 10 (3.45%) DBA
15 10 (3.45%) Network Engineer
16 9 (3.10%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 24 (8.28%) Kafka
3 20 (6.90%) REST
4 17 (5.86%) Node.js
5 16 (5.52%) RESTful
6 12 (4.14%) PySpark
6 12 (4.14%) React
7 11 (3.79%) Spring Boot
8 10 (3.45%) Spring
9 9 (3.10%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.10%) Great Expectations
10 8 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.41%) Pandas
12 6 (2.07%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.38%) boto
13 4 (1.38%) LangChain
13 4 (1.38%) OAuth
13 4 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (1.38%) Vue
14 3 (1.03%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 96 (33.10%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.52%) Replication
4 16 (5.52%) Security Posture
5 15 (5.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 11 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.07%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.03%) Clustering
11 3 (1.03%) IVR
11 3 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.69%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.14%) Linux
2 27 (9.31%) Windows
3 16 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.72%) Unix
4 5 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.38%) AIX
6 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (87.93%) Infrastructure as Code
2 226 (77.93%) CI/CD
3 184 (63.45%) DevOps
4 96 (33.10%) Containerisation
5 91 (31.38%) Agile
6 69 (23.79%) Observability
7 54 (18.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (17.93%) Cloud Security
9 47 (16.21%) Microservices
10 45 (15.52%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (13.79%) AI
12 40 (13.79%) Test Automation
13 39 (13.45%) DevSecOps
13 39 (13.45%) High Availability
14 38 (13.10%) Migration
15 37 (12.76%) Infrastructure Automation
15 37 (12.76%) Scrum
16 32 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (11.03%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 147 (50.69%) Python
2 67 (23.10%) Bash
3 59 (20.34%) PowerShell
4 50 (17.24%) SQL
5 37 (12.76%) Java
6 34 (11.72%) Bicep
7 18 (6.21%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.41%) Go
10 5 (1.72%) C#
11 4 (1.38%) Groovy
11 4 (1.38%) Ruby
11 4 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.03%) R
12 3 (1.03%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.03%) Scala
13 2 (0.69%) C
14 1 (0.34%) C++
14 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 107 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 94 (32.41%) SC Cleared
3 51 (17.59%) AWS Certification
4 29 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (6.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 17 (5.86%) Degree
7 14 (4.83%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.10%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.41%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.72%) CISSP
11 5 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.17%) QA
3 12 (4.14%) GDPR
4 10 (3.45%) NIST
5 9 (3.10%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.07%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.03%) NCSC
8 3 (1.03%) SLA
8 3 (1.03%) WCAG
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) HL7
9 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 111 (38.28%) Docker
2 6 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.03%) Squid
4 2 (0.69%) Corosync
4 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 270 (93.10%) Terraform
2 123 (42.41%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.48%) Grafana
4 37 (12.76%) Prometheus
5 35 (12.07%) Ansible
6 13 (4.48%) Puppet
7 12 (4.14%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.10%) Argo
9 7 (2.41%) Istio
10 4 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.38%) linkerd
10 4 (1.38%) Packer
11 3 (1.03%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.69%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.34%) Kibana
13 1 (0.34%) Podman
13 1 (0.34%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.62%) Google
3 16 (5.52%) Red Hat
4 15 (5.17%) Splunk
5 11 (3.79%) Databricks
6 9 (3.10%) Oracle
7 8 (2.76%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.76%) Infoblox
8 6 (2.07%) VMware
9 5 (1.72%) Cisco
9 5 (1.72%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.38%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.03%) Informatica
11 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.03%) SAP
11 3 (1.03%) Sybase
11 3 (1.03%) Teradata
11 3 (1.03%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.03%) Zscaler