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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 281 371
Rank change year-on-year -25 +90 -38
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 314 209 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.88% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 2.35% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 165 121
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.74% -7.18%
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 14,551 8,905 11,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.37% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,936 6,160 8,458
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -0.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £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 487 194 323
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.90 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.13 £36.56
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.88 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.12% +30.46% -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 23 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 23 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 -10 211 £575 -4.17% 44
North of England -65 30 £591 +39.76% 34
South West -23 19 £543 -3.56% 14
Midlands -61 19 £463 -7.50% 7
South East -56 17 £505 -12.17% 10
North West -37 16 £581 +45.25% 15
West Midlands -56 15 £475 +5.56% 2
Yorkshire -52 13 £563 +7.14% 15
East of England -30 6 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands -27 4 £442 -36.82% 5
North East -27 1 £750 +80.18% 4
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 27 (8.60%) Apache Spark
2 25 (7.96%) Apache
3 12 (3.82%) Confluence
4 6 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.96%) SAS
7 2 (0.64%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.64%) nginx
8 1 (0.32%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
1 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 305 (97.13%) AWS
2 114 (36.31%) Azure
3 111 (35.35%) Amazon S3
4 110 (35.03%) Serverless
5 99 (31.53%) AWS Lambda
6 98 (31.21%) GitHub
7 81 (25.80%) GitHub Actions
8 80 (25.48%) Amazon ECS
9 79 (25.16%) GCP
10 75 (23.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 67 (21.34%) Amazon EKS
12 55 (17.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (15.61%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (13.06%) AWS CodePipeline
15 32 (10.19%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (6.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 18 (5.73%) AWS KMS
18 18 (5.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 16 (5.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.51%) DNS
2 16 (5.10%) Firewall
3 12 (3.82%) Network Security
4 9 (2.87%) VPN
5 7 (2.23%) Reverse Proxy
5 7 (2.23%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.91%) WAN
7 3 (0.96%) BGP
7 3 (0.96%) HTTP
7 3 (0.96%) OSPF
7 3 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.96%) SSL
8 1 (0.32%) 4G
8 1 (0.32%) 5G
8 1 (0.32%) Internet
8 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.32%) LAN
8 1 (0.32%) MPLS
8 1 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.87%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (8.60%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (8.60%) Data Lake
3 26 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (6.05%) DynamoDB
5 16 (5.10%) BigQuery
5 16 (5.10%) Mixpanel
5 16 (5.10%) Power BI
6 15 (4.78%) OLAP
6 15 (4.78%) OLTP
7 12 (3.82%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.50%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.18%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.55%) Redis
12 7 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.91%) Metadata
13 6 (1.91%) MySQL
14 5 (1.59%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 79 (25.16%) Jenkins
2 68 (21.66%) GitLab
3 53 (16.88%) Git
4 20 (6.37%) JIRA
5 17 (5.41%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.18%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.18%) Snyk
7 7 (2.23%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.27%) JUnit
8 4 (1.27%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.96%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.96%) MLflow
9 3 (0.96%) Selenium
9 3 (0.96%) Vite
10 2 (0.64%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.64%) Maven
10 2 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.32%) git-flow
11 1 (0.32%) Gradle
11 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 78 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 50 (15.92%) Finance
3 49 (15.61%) Public Sector
4 18 (5.73%) Banking
5 12 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.27%) Law
9 3 (0.96%) Games
10 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.64%) Front Office
10 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.64%) Marketing
10 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.32%) Billing
11 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (17.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (16.56%) Architect
2 52 (16.56%) Lead
3 51 (16.24%) AWS Engineer
4 35 (11.15%) Senior
5 34 (10.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (10.19%) Data Engineer
7 27 (8.60%) AWS DevOps
8 26 (8.28%) Cloud Architect
9 23 (7.32%) Developer
10 22 (7.01%) AWS Architect
10 22 (7.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.10%) Security Engineer
12 15 (4.78%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 13 (4.14%) Principal Data Engineer
14 13 (4.14%) Site Engineer
14 13 (4.14%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.50%) Lead DevOps
16 10 (3.18%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (16.24%) Kafka
2 31 (9.87%) AWS CDK
3 26 (8.28%) Node.js
4 25 (7.96%) RESTful
5 21 (6.69%) Great Expectations
6 18 (5.73%) OAuth
6 18 (5.73%) PySpark
7 16 (5.10%) React
8 15 (4.78%) Spring
8 15 (4.78%) Spring Boot
9 14 (4.46%) REST
10 13 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (3.82%) OAuth2
12 10 (3.18%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (2.87%) .NET
13 9 (2.87%) boto
13 9 (2.87%) OpenID
14 8 (2.55%) Pandas
15 7 (2.23%) AngularJS
16 6 (1.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 107 (34.08%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.46%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.23%) Replication
6 7 (2.23%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.91%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.91%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.59%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.27%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.96%) Equities
11 2 (0.64%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.65%) Linux
2 16 (5.10%) Windows
3 6 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.59%) Unix
5 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (83.44%) CI/CD
2 253 (80.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 195 (62.10%) DevOps
4 104 (33.12%) Containerisation
5 85 (27.07%) Observability
6 81 (25.80%) Agile
7 54 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (15.61%) AI
8 49 (15.61%) DevSecOps
9 47 (14.97%) Analytics
9 47 (14.97%) Microservices
10 41 (13.06%) High Availability
11 39 (12.42%) Data Engineering
12 38 (12.10%) Migration
13 37 (11.78%) Event-Driven
13 37 (11.78%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (11.46%) Data Modelling
14 36 (11.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 35 (11.15%) Incident Response
15 35 (11.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 148 (47.13%) Python
2 61 (19.43%) SQL
3 51 (16.24%) Java
4 43 (13.69%) Bash
5 29 (9.24%) PowerShell
6 20 (6.37%) Bicep
7 19 (6.05%) C#
8 17 (5.41%) JavaScript
9 14 (4.46%) Ruby
9 14 (4.46%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.18%) Go
11 6 (1.91%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.96%) Groovy
12 3 (0.96%) SAS Macro
12 3 (0.96%) Scala
13 2 (0.64%) C
14 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.32%) Perl
14 1 (0.32%) R
14 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 96 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 82 (26.11%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.29%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.41%) Degree
6 16 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.18%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (2.55%) SAFe Agilist
9 5 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.27%) CISSP
10 4 (1.27%) IBM Certification
11 3 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.96%) CCSP
11 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.51%) GDPR
2 26 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.28%) NIST
3 20 (6.37%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (5.10%) QA
5 9 (2.87%) NCSC
6 6 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.59%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.27%) GRC
8 4 (1.27%) SLA
9 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) HL7
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.32%) MiFID
10 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 120 (38.22%) Docker
2 6 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.64%) Corosync
4 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.64%) Squid
4 2 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 286 (91.08%) Terraform
2 124 (39.49%) Kubernetes
3 48 (15.29%) Ansible
4 39 (12.42%) Prometheus
5 38 (12.10%) Grafana
6 13 (4.14%) Puppet
7 10 (3.18%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.91%) Argo
10 5 (1.59%) Istio
10 5 (1.59%) linkerd
11 4 (1.27%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.27%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.27%) Kibana
12 3 (0.96%) Pacemaker
12 3 (0.96%) Packer
13 2 (0.64%) Consul
13 2 (0.64%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.32%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (8.60%) Google
2 25 (7.96%) Databricks
3 22 (7.01%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.69%) Splunk
5 10 (3.18%) Oracle
6 8 (2.55%) Citrix
7 7 (2.23%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.91%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.91%) CloudEndure
8 6 (1.91%) IBM
9 5 (1.59%) New Relic
9 5 (1.59%) Rapid7
9 5 (1.59%) SAP
10 4 (1.27%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.27%) Qualys
10 4 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.27%) Tenable
11 3 (0.96%) Sybase
12 2 (0.64%) Cisco
12 2 (0.64%) Salesforce