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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 274 374
Rank change year-on-year -19 +100 -56
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 331 211 174
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.87% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.29% 2.34% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 165 126
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £675
90th Percentile £698 £738 £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 14,439 9,014 11,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.20% 37.16% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,893 6,249 8,391
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
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 £744
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 199 325
10th Percentile £15.52 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.96 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +21.43% -34.98%
75th Percentile £67.50 £38.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.67% +28.69% -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 16 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 16 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 +2 221 £575 -4.17% 50
North of England -55 34 £600 +42.86% 39
South East -53 22 £518 -10.39% 6
South West -26 19 £543 -3.56% 11
North West -30 19 £591 +47.63% 15
Midlands -55 19 £463 -7.50% 7
West Midlands -53 15 £475 +5.56% 2
Yorkshire -49 14 £563 -10.00% 19
East of England -31 5 £488 -2.50% 1
East Midlands -22 4 £442 -36.82% 5
North East -22 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 (8.46%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.85%) Apache
3 12 (3.63%) Confluence
4 6 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.91%) SAS
7 2 (0.60%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.60%) nginx
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Actimize
1 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 321 (96.98%) AWS
2 120 (36.25%) Azure
3 116 (35.05%) Amazon S3
3 116 (35.05%) Serverless
4 104 (31.42%) AWS Lambda
5 102 (30.82%) GitHub
6 87 (26.28%) Amazon ECS
7 84 (25.38%) GitHub Actions
8 80 (24.17%) GCP
9 74 (22.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 70 (21.15%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (16.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 51 (15.41%) Amazon EC2
13 41 (12.39%) AWS CodePipeline
14 32 (9.67%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (6.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 18 (5.44%) AWS KMS
17 18 (5.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 17 (5.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.88%) DNS
2 19 (5.74%) Firewall
3 13 (3.93%) Network Security
4 10 (3.02%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.02%) VPN
5 7 (2.11%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (1.51%) WAN
7 4 (1.21%) DHCP
8 3 (0.91%) BGP
8 3 (0.91%) HTTP
8 3 (0.91%) OSPF
8 3 (0.91%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.60%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.30%) 4G
10 1 (0.30%) 5G
10 1 (0.30%) Internet
10 1 (0.30%) LAN
10 1 (0.30%) MPLS
10 1 (0.30%) SSL
10 1 (0.30%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.97%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (8.46%) Data Lake
2 28 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (5.74%) DynamoDB
5 16 (4.83%) BigQuery
5 16 (4.83%) Mixpanel
5 16 (4.83%) Power BI
6 15 (4.53%) OLAP
6 15 (4.53%) OLTP
7 12 (3.63%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.32%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.02%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.42%) Redis
12 7 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.81%) Big Data
13 6 (1.81%) Metadata
13 6 (1.81%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 81 (24.47%) Jenkins
2 72 (21.75%) GitLab
3 57 (17.22%) Git
4 19 (5.74%) JIRA
5 18 (5.44%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.32%) CircleCI
7 10 (3.02%) Snyk
8 7 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.21%) JUnit
9 4 (1.21%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.91%) Maven
10 3 (0.91%) MLflow
10 3 (0.91%) Selenium
10 3 (0.91%) Vite
11 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.60%) Gradle
11 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.30%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 81 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.01%) Public Sector
3 50 (15.11%) Finance
4 18 (5.44%) Banking
5 12 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Games
9 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.91%) Law
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.60%) Front Office
10 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.60%) Marketing
10 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.30%) Billing
11 1 (0.30%) Military
11 1 (0.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (16.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (16.01%) Architect
2 53 (16.01%) Lead
3 49 (14.80%) AWS Engineer
4 41 (12.39%) Senior
5 33 (9.97%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (9.67%) Data Engineer
7 27 (8.16%) Developer
8 26 (7.85%) AWS DevOps
8 26 (7.85%) Cloud Architect
9 23 (6.95%) AWS Architect
10 21 (6.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.14%) Security Engineer
12 16 (4.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (4.53%) Principal Engineer
13 15 (4.53%) Site Engineer
14 14 (4.23%) Software Engineer
15 13 (3.93%) Principal Data Engineer
16 11 (3.32%) Lead DevOps
17 10 (3.02%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.71%) Kafka
2 31 (9.37%) AWS CDK
3 29 (8.76%) RESTful
4 28 (8.46%) Node.js
5 21 (6.34%) Great Expectations
6 20 (6.04%) Spring
7 19 (5.74%) Spring Boot
8 18 (5.44%) OAuth
8 18 (5.44%) PySpark
8 18 (5.44%) React
9 16 (4.83%) REST
10 13 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (3.63%) OAuth2
12 10 (3.02%) .NET
12 10 (3.02%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (2.72%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.72%) boto
13 9 (2.72%) OpenID
14 8 (2.42%) Pandas
15 7 (2.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 112 (33.84%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.11%) Replication
6 7 (2.11%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.81%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.81%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.51%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.21%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.21%) PKI
9 4 (1.21%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.41%) Linux
2 18 (5.44%) Windows
3 5 (1.51%) Unix
4 4 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.60%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (84.29%) CI/CD
2 265 (80.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 202 (61.03%) DevOps
4 116 (35.05%) Containerisation
5 87 (26.28%) Observability
6 86 (25.98%) Agile
7 56 (16.92%) DevSecOps
8 55 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (16.01%) Microservices
10 51 (15.41%) AI
11 48 (14.50%) Analytics
12 43 (12.99%) High Availability
12 43 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
13 40 (12.08%) Data Engineering
13 40 (12.08%) Event-Driven
13 40 (12.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 40 (12.08%) Technical Leadership
14 39 (11.78%) Migration
15 37 (11.18%) Incident Response
15 37 (11.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 159 (48.04%) Python
2 61 (18.43%) SQL
3 57 (17.22%) Java
4 45 (13.60%) Bash
5 31 (9.37%) PowerShell
6 21 (6.34%) Bicep
7 20 (6.04%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.74%) C#
9 17 (5.14%) TypeScript
10 16 (4.83%) Ruby
11 11 (3.32%) Go
12 6 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.91%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.91%) Scala
14 2 (0.60%) C
14 2 (0.60%) Groovy
15 1 (0.30%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.30%) R
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 103 (31.12%) Security Cleared
2 86 (25.98%) SC Cleared
3 53 (16.01%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (5.44%) Degree
6 17 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.02%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.02%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (2.42%) SAFe Agilist
10 5 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.51%) CISSP
10 5 (1.51%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.21%) CCSP
11 4 (1.21%) IBM Certification
12 3 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.57%) GDPR
2 27 (8.16%) NIST
3 26 (7.85%) Data Quality
4 22 (6.65%) PCI DSS
5 19 (5.74%) QA
6 18 (5.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (3.02%) NCSC
8 6 (1.81%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.51%) GRC
10 4 (1.21%) SLA
11 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.91%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.30%) HL7
12 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.30%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.30%) MiFID
12 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 131 (39.58%) Docker
2 6 (1.81%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.51%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.60%) Corosync
5 2 (0.60%) HDFS
6 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 301 (90.94%) Terraform
2 132 (39.88%) Kubernetes
3 52 (15.71%) Ansible
4 38 (11.48%) Grafana
4 38 (11.48%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.63%) Puppet
6 11 (3.32%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.81%) Argo
9 5 (1.51%) Istio
9 5 (1.51%) linkerd
10 4 (1.21%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.21%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.21%) Kibana
11 3 (0.91%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.60%) Consul
12 2 (0.60%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.60%) Packer
13 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (8.16%) Google
1 27 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.55%) Databricks
3 22 (6.65%) Splunk
4 10 (3.02%) Oracle
5 8 (2.42%) Citrix
6 6 (1.81%) AVEVA
6 6 (1.81%) CloudEndure
6 6 (1.81%) IBM
6 6 (1.81%) Rapid7
6 6 (1.81%) VMware
7 5 (1.51%) New Relic
7 5 (1.51%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.51%) SAP
8 4 (1.21%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.21%) Qualys
8 4 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.21%) Tenable
9 2 (0.60%) Globalscape
9 2 (0.60%) OpenAI