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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 253 378
Rank change year-on-year -111 +125 -49
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 289 269 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.97% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.62% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 206 94
10th Percentile £400 £400 £402
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £684
90th Percentile £674 £688 £779
UK median daily rate £539 £530 £508
% change year-on-year +1.65% +4.33% -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 15,975 10,267 11,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.18% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,666 6,947 7,935
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 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 271 219
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.31 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £83.54 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%

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 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 18 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 -83 167 £550 -8.33% 29
North of England -76 39 £617 +50.09% 23
North West -34 26 £605 +51.25% 10
Midlands -40 22 £481 -17.25% 3
South West -30 21 £488 -18.75% 19
South East -63 20 £570 +0.88% 11
West Midlands -37 18 £488 -15.22% 3
Yorkshire -56 9 £663 +39.47% 5
East of England -25 6 £450 -5.26% 3
East Midlands -15 4 £466 -33.50%
North East -37 4 £500 +20.12% 8
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 12 (4.15%) Apache Spark
1 12 (4.15%) Confluence
2 9 (3.11%) Apache
3 5 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.04%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 284 (98.27%) AWS
2 120 (41.52%) Azure
3 110 (38.06%) Serverless
4 92 (31.83%) AWS Lambda
5 91 (31.49%) Amazon S3
6 90 (31.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 78 (26.99%) GCP
8 69 (23.88%) GitHub
9 66 (22.84%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (20.42%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (19.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 54 (18.69%) Amazon ECS
13 49 (16.96%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (8.65%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (8.30%) AWS Step Functions
17 20 (6.92%) AWS CloudTrail
17 20 (6.92%) AWS KMS
18 19 (6.57%) Datadog
19 15 (5.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.69%) DNS
2 26 (9.00%) Firewall
3 11 (3.81%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.46%) Network Security
5 9 (3.11%) WAN
6 8 (2.77%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.42%) DHCP
8 6 (2.08%) VPN
9 5 (1.73%) SSL
10 4 (1.38%) HTTP
10 4 (1.38%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.04%) CTI
12 2 (0.69%) BGP
12 2 (0.69%) Internet
13 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.35%) LAN
13 1 (0.35%) MPLS
13 1 (0.35%) OSPF
13 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.15%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.30%) DynamoDB
3 23 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.23%) MySQL
4 18 (6.23%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (4.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (4.50%) MongoDB
7 12 (4.15%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.81%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.77%) Redis
10 6 (2.08%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.73%) Metadata
11 5 (1.73%) Power BI
12 4 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.38%) Big Data
12 4 (1.38%) Mixpanel
12 4 (1.38%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 73 (25.26%) Jenkins
2 60 (20.76%) GitLab
3 42 (14.53%) Git
4 23 (7.96%) JIRA
5 15 (5.19%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.11%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.77%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.77%) Snyk
8 6 (2.08%) JUnit
8 6 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.38%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.38%) Mockito
10 3 (1.04%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.04%) Maven
10 3 (1.04%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.69%) MLflow
11 2 (0.69%) Selenium
12 1 (0.35%) Gradle
12 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 72 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.57%) Public Sector
3 43 (14.88%) Finance
4 16 (5.54%) Banking
5 11 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.38%) Law
9 3 (1.04%) Games
9 3 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.04%) 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 (0.35%) Aviation
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (19.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (18.34%) AWS Engineer
3 44 (15.22%) Architect
4 42 (14.53%) Senior
5 40 (13.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (12.80%) AWS DevOps
7 36 (12.46%) Lead
8 31 (10.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (8.30%) Developer
10 22 (7.61%) Security Engineer
11 20 (6.92%) Data Engineer
12 17 (5.88%) AWS Architect
13 15 (5.19%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (4.15%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 12 (4.15%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
16 10 (3.46%) DBA
16 10 (3.46%) Network Engineer
17 9 (3.11%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.69%) AWS CDK
2 23 (7.96%) Kafka
3 20 (6.92%) REST
4 17 (5.88%) Node.js
5 16 (5.54%) RESTful
6 12 (4.15%) PySpark
6 12 (4.15%) React
7 11 (3.81%) Spring Boot
8 10 (3.46%) ARM Templates
8 10 (3.46%) Spring
9 9 (3.11%) Great Expectations
10 8 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.42%) Pandas
12 6 (2.08%) 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 (1.04%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 98 (33.91%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.57%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.54%) Replication
4 16 (5.54%) Security Posture
5 15 (5.19%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 11 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.08%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.73%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.04%) Clustering
12 3 (1.04%) IVR
12 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.53%) Linux
2 28 (9.69%) Windows
3 17 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.73%) Unix
4 5 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.38%) AIX
6 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (88.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 225 (77.85%) CI/CD
3 183 (63.32%) DevOps
4 97 (33.56%) Containerisation
5 91 (31.49%) Agile
6 69 (23.88%) Observability
7 53 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (17.99%) Cloud Security
9 49 (16.96%) Microservices
10 43 (14.88%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (14.19%) Test Automation
12 40 (13.84%) AI
12 40 (13.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (13.49%) DevSecOps
13 39 (13.49%) High Availability
14 38 (13.15%) Infrastructure Automation
14 38 (13.15%) Migration
14 38 (13.15%) Scrum
15 33 (11.42%) Root Cause Analysis
16 32 (11.07%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 147 (50.87%) Python
2 68 (23.53%) Bash
3 61 (21.11%) PowerShell
4 49 (16.96%) SQL
5 39 (13.49%) Java
6 35 (12.11%) Bicep
7 19 (6.57%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.46%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.42%) Go
10 6 (2.08%) C#
11 4 (1.38%) Groovy
11 4 (1.38%) Ruby
12 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.04%) R
12 3 (1.04%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.04%) Scala
12 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.69%) C
14 1 (0.35%) C++
14 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 106 (36.68%) Security Cleared
2 93 (32.18%) SC Cleared
3 52 (17.99%) AWS Certification
4 29 (10.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (6.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 18 (6.23%) Degree
6 15 (5.19%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (3.11%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (2.42%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.08%) CISSP
10 5 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.96%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.19%) QA
3 12 (4.15%) GDPR
4 10 (3.46%) NIST
5 9 (3.11%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.38%) SLA
9 3 (1.04%) NCSC
9 3 (1.04%) WCAG
10 1 (0.35%) GRC
10 1 (0.35%) HL7
10 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 112 (38.75%) Docker
2 7 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) Squid
4 2 (0.69%) Corosync
4 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 269 (93.08%) Terraform
2 123 (42.56%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.53%) Grafana
4 37 (12.80%) Prometheus
5 35 (12.11%) Ansible
6 13 (4.50%) Progress Chef
6 13 (4.50%) Puppet
7 9 (3.11%) Argo
8 7 (2.42%) Istio
9 4 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (1.38%) linkerd
9 4 (1.38%) Packer
10 3 (1.04%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.69%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.35%) Kibana
12 1 (0.35%) Podman
12 1 (0.35%) systemd
Vendors
1 31 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.00%) Google
3 17 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 15 (5.19%) Splunk
5 11 (3.81%) Databricks
6 9 (3.11%) Oracle
7 8 (2.77%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.77%) Infoblox
8 6 (2.08%) VMware
9 5 (1.73%) Cisco
9 5 (1.73%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.73%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.38%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.04%) Informatica
11 3 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.04%) SAP
11 3 (1.04%) Sybase
11 3 (1.04%) Teradata
11 3 (1.04%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.04%) Zscaler