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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 279 366
Rank change year-on-year -9 +87 -39
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 327 215 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 0.88% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% 2.36% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 168 124
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +5.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £699 £741 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £510
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.75% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +127.14% - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +127.14% - -

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 14,368 9,103 11,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.06% 37.20% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 6,306 8,436
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 201 327
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.89 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £41.78 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +63.84% +19.33% -37.15%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.43 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.35% +28.33% -38.94%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +9 218 £575 -4.17% 37
North of England -66 33 £600 +42.86% 32
South East -46 22 £518 -10.39% 7
South West -12 19 £543 -1.36% 13
Midlands -50 19 £463 -7.50% 8
North West -35 18 £600 +50.00% 14
West Midlands -47 15 £475 +5.56% 3
Yorkshire -52 14 £563 -10.00% 13
East of England -29 5 £488 -2.50% 1
East Midlands -24 4 £442 -36.82% 5
North East -21 1 £750 +80.18% 5
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 28 (8.56%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.95%) Apache
3 12 (3.67%) Confluence
4 6 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.92%) SAS
7 2 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.61%) nginx
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Actimize
1 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 318 (97.25%) AWS
2 119 (36.39%) Azure
3 114 (34.86%) Amazon S3
3 114 (34.86%) Serverless
4 102 (31.19%) AWS Lambda
5 101 (30.89%) GitHub
6 84 (25.69%) Amazon ECS
6 84 (25.69%) GitHub Actions
7 79 (24.16%) GCP
8 74 (22.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 69 (21.10%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (17.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 51 (15.60%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (12.54%) AWS CodePipeline
13 32 (9.79%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (6.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 18 (5.50%) AWS KMS
16 18 (5.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 17 (5.20%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.01%) DNS
2 19 (5.81%) Firewall
3 13 (3.98%) Network Security
4 10 (3.06%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.06%) VPN
5 7 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (1.53%) WAN
7 4 (1.22%) DHCP
8 3 (0.92%) BGP
8 3 (0.92%) HTTP
8 3 (0.92%) OSPF
8 3 (0.92%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.61%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.31%) 4G
10 1 (0.31%) 5G
10 1 (0.31%) Internet
10 1 (0.31%) LAN
10 1 (0.31%) MPLS
10 1 (0.31%) SSL
10 1 (0.31%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.09%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (8.56%) Data Lake
2 28 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.26%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (5.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (5.81%) DynamoDB
5 16 (4.89%) BigQuery
5 16 (4.89%) Mixpanel
5 16 (4.89%) Power BI
6 15 (4.59%) OLAP
6 15 (4.59%) OLTP
7 12 (3.67%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.36%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.06%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.45%) Redis
12 7 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.83%) Big Data
13 6 (1.83%) Metadata
13 6 (1.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 80 (24.46%) Jenkins
2 71 (21.71%) GitLab
3 56 (17.13%) Git
4 19 (5.81%) JIRA
5 18 (5.50%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.06%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.06%) Snyk
7 7 (2.14%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.22%) JUnit
8 4 (1.22%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.92%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.92%) Maven
9 3 (0.92%) MLflow
9 3 (0.92%) Selenium
9 3 (0.92%) Vite
10 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.61%) Gradle
10 2 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.31%) Postman
11 1 (0.31%) Spinnaker
General
1 78 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.21%) Public Sector
3 50 (15.29%) Finance
4 18 (5.50%) Banking
5 12 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.92%) Games
9 3 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.92%) Law
10 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.61%) Front Office
10 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Marketing
10 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.31%) Advertising
11 1 (0.31%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (17.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (16.21%) Architect
2 53 (16.21%) Lead
3 50 (15.29%) AWS Engineer
4 40 (12.23%) Senior
5 32 (9.79%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (9.79%) Data Engineer
6 27 (8.26%) AWS DevOps
6 27 (8.26%) Developer
7 26 (7.95%) Cloud Architect
8 23 (7.03%) AWS Architect
9 22 (6.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.89%) Security Engineer
10 16 (4.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 15 (4.59%) Principal Engineer
11 15 (4.59%) Site Engineer
12 14 (4.28%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.98%) Principal Data Engineer
14 11 (3.36%) Lead DevOps
15 10 (3.06%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (15.60%) Kafka
2 31 (9.48%) AWS CDK
3 28 (8.56%) Node.js
4 27 (8.26%) RESTful
5 21 (6.42%) Great Expectations
6 18 (5.50%) OAuth
6 18 (5.50%) PySpark
7 17 (5.20%) React
8 16 (4.89%) Spring
8 16 (4.89%) Spring Boot
9 14 (4.28%) REST
10 13 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (3.67%) OAuth2
12 10 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (2.75%) .NET
13 9 (2.75%) boto
13 9 (2.75%) OpenID
14 8 (2.45%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.45%) Pandas
15 7 (2.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 110 (33.64%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.34%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.28%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.14%) Replication
6 7 (2.14%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.83%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.53%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.22%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.22%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.22%) PKI
10 3 (0.92%) NHS
10 3 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.60%) Linux
2 18 (5.50%) Windows
3 5 (1.53%) Unix
4 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (84.10%) CI/CD
2 263 (80.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 199 (60.86%) DevOps
4 114 (34.86%) Containerisation
5 86 (26.30%) Observability
6 83 (25.38%) Agile
7 56 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (16.51%) DevSecOps
9 49 (14.98%) AI
9 49 (14.98%) Microservices
10 47 (14.37%) Analytics
11 43 (13.15%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (12.54%) High Availability
13 40 (12.23%) Data Engineering
13 40 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
14 39 (11.93%) Migration
14 39 (11.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (11.31%) Event-Driven
16 36 (11.01%) Data Modelling
16 36 (11.01%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 157 (48.01%) Python
2 61 (18.65%) SQL
3 53 (16.21%) Java
4 45 (13.76%) Bash
5 31 (9.48%) PowerShell
6 21 (6.42%) Bicep
7 20 (6.12%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.81%) C#
9 17 (5.20%) TypeScript
10 16 (4.89%) Ruby
11 11 (3.36%) Go
12 6 (1.83%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.92%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.92%) Scala
14 2 (0.61%) C
14 2 (0.61%) Groovy
15 1 (0.31%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.31%) R
15 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 104 (31.80%) Security Cleared
2 87 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 53 (16.21%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (5.50%) Degree
6 17 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.06%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.06%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (2.45%) SAFe Agilist
10 5 (1.53%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.22%) CISSP
11 4 (1.22%) IBM Certification
12 3 (0.92%) CCSP
12 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.40%) GDPR
2 26 (7.95%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.95%) NIST
3 21 (6.42%) PCI DSS
4 17 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (4.89%) QA
6 9 (2.75%) NCSC
7 6 (1.83%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.22%) GRC
8 4 (1.22%) SLA
9 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.92%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.31%) HL7
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.31%) MiFID
10 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 128 (39.14%) Docker
2 6 (1.83%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.61%) Corosync
5 2 (0.61%) HDFS
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 299 (91.44%) Terraform
2 129 (39.45%) Kubernetes
3 52 (15.90%) Ansible
4 38 (11.62%) Grafana
4 38 (11.62%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.67%) Puppet
6 11 (3.36%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.83%) Argo
9 5 (1.53%) Istio
9 5 (1.53%) linkerd
10 4 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.22%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.22%) Kibana
11 3 (0.92%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.61%) Consul
12 2 (0.61%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.61%) Packer
13 1 (0.31%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.31%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 27 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.95%) Google
3 25 (7.65%) Databricks
4 21 (6.42%) Splunk
5 10 (3.06%) Oracle
6 8 (2.45%) Citrix
7 6 (1.83%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.83%) CloudEndure
7 6 (1.83%) IBM
7 6 (1.83%) VMware
8 5 (1.53%) New Relic
8 5 (1.53%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.53%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.53%) SAP
9 4 (1.22%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.22%) Qualys
9 4 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.22%) Tenable
10 2 (0.61%) Globalscape
10 2 (0.61%) OpenAI