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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 295 355
Rank change year-on-year +34 +60 -64
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 362 200 200
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.78% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.72% 2.07% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 152 144
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £511 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £738 £650
90th Percentile £689 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - -

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 13,318 9,669 12,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.48% 37.65% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,188 6,547 8,966
10th Percentile £309 £313 £275
25th Percentile £408 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 150 322
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.42
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +28.41% -14.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.30 £45.57
90th Percentile £79.90 £73.93 £65.63
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £27.35 £21.46
% change year-on-year +45.34% +27.45% -14.16%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +44 229 £550 -9.47% 45
North of England -33 59 £500 -23.08% 24
North West -12 35 £519 -5.63% 15
South East -17 27 £500 -23.08% 12
Yorkshire -59 19 £500 -29.82% 5
Midlands -45 14 £450 -5.26% 7
South West -19 12 £563 +2.27% 13
West Midlands -42 11 £575 +21.05% 5
North East -11 5 £466 -31.85% 4
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 2
East of England - 2 £600 - 1
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 30 (8.29%) Apache Spark
2 28 (7.73%) Apache
3 19 (5.25%) Confluence
4 16 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (4.14%) nginx
6 5 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.55%) SAS
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Actimize
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 349 (96.41%) AWS
2 129 (35.64%) Serverless
3 127 (35.08%) Amazon S3
4 123 (33.98%) AWS Lambda
5 101 (27.90%) Azure
6 100 (27.62%) Amazon ECS
6 100 (27.62%) GitHub
7 78 (21.55%) Amazon EKS
8 77 (21.27%) GCP
8 77 (21.27%) GitHub Actions
9 73 (20.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (19.61%) Amazon EC2
11 61 (16.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 41 (11.33%) AWS CodePipeline
13 32 (8.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 31 (8.56%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (7.18%) AWS KMS
16 23 (6.35%) Route 53
17 21 (5.80%) Datadog
18 20 (5.52%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.39%) DNS
2 22 (6.08%) Firewall
3 15 (4.14%) Network Security
4 14 (3.87%) VPN
5 9 (2.49%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.21%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.38%) DHCP
8 3 (0.83%) HTTP
8 3 (0.83%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.83%) WAN
9 2 (0.55%) BGP
9 2 (0.55%) OSPF
10 1 (0.28%) 4G
10 1 (0.28%) 5G
10 1 (0.28%) Internet
10 1 (0.28%) NAS
10 1 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (17.40%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (9.67%) Data Lake
4 31 (8.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (8.29%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (6.08%) DynamoDB
7 18 (4.97%) Power BI
7 18 (4.97%) SQL Server
8 17 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (4.14%) BigQuery
9 15 (4.14%) Mixpanel
9 15 (4.14%) NoSQL
10 14 (3.87%) OLAP
10 14 (3.87%) OLTP
11 11 (3.04%) MongoDB
12 10 (2.76%) MySQL
13 8 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (2.21%) Redis
13 8 (2.21%) Redshift Spectrum
13 8 (2.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (24.31%) Jenkins
2 78 (21.55%) Git
3 73 (20.17%) GitLab
4 29 (8.01%) JIRA
5 18 (4.97%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.76%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.21%) JUnit
7 8 (2.21%) Maven
7 8 (2.21%) Snyk
7 8 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.93%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.93%) Terragrunt
9 6 (1.66%) Gradle
10 4 (1.10%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.10%) Selenium
11 3 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.83%) Postman
11 3 (0.83%) Vite
11 3 (0.83%) webpack
12 1 (0.28%) MLflow
General
1 82 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 65 (17.96%) Public Sector
3 53 (14.64%) Finance
4 21 (5.80%) Banking
5 20 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.38%) Law
10 3 (0.83%) Games
10 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Marketing
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Advertising
12 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.28%) Billing
12 1 (0.28%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (19.06%) AWS Engineer
2 66 (18.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (15.19%) Architect
4 46 (12.71%) Lead
5 43 (11.88%) Senior
6 37 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (10.22%) Data Engineer
7 31 (8.56%) AWS DevOps
8 29 (8.01%) AWS Architect
9 28 (7.73%) Developer
10 26 (7.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 23 (6.35%) Cloud Architect
12 21 (5.80%) Security Engineer
13 20 (5.52%) Site Engineer
14 19 (5.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (4.97%) Platform Engineer
16 17 (4.70%) Software Engineer
17 13 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
18 12 (3.31%) Principal Data Engineer
18 12 (3.31%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (17.68%) Kafka
2 30 (8.29%) RESTful
3 28 (7.73%) AWS CDK
4 27 (7.46%) Node.js
5 23 (6.35%) Spring
6 22 (6.08%) Spring Boot
7 21 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (4.97%) React
8 18 (4.97%) REST
9 17 (4.70%) OAuth
10 15 (4.14%) Great Expectations
11 12 (3.31%) OAuth2
12 10 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (2.76%) PySpark
13 9 (2.49%) boto
13 9 (2.49%) OpenID
14 8 (2.21%) .NET
14 8 (2.21%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.21%) Flask
14 8 (2.21%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 96 (26.52%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.42%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.49%) Private Cloud
5 9 (2.49%) Replication
6 8 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.93%) NHS
7 7 (1.93%) PKI
8 5 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.38%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.38%) SCADA
8 5 (1.38%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.10%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (22.10%) Linux
2 22 (6.08%) Windows
3 16 (4.42%) Unix
4 3 (0.83%) CentOS
4 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.83%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (80.94%) CI/CD
2 278 (76.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 210 (58.01%) DevOps
4 114 (31.49%) Containerisation
5 96 (26.52%) Agile
6 84 (23.20%) Observability
7 57 (15.75%) Microservices
8 50 (13.81%) Migration
9 49 (13.54%) Analytics
10 48 (13.26%) AI
10 48 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (13.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 46 (12.71%) DevSecOps
11 46 (12.71%) Technical Leadership
12 44 (12.15%) Infrastructure Automation
13 42 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (11.60%) Data Engineering
14 41 (11.33%) Incident Response
14 41 (11.33%) Platform Engineering
14 41 (11.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 186 (51.38%) Python
2 66 (18.23%) SQL
3 55 (15.19%) Bash
3 55 (15.19%) Java
4 33 (9.12%) PowerShell
5 20 (5.52%) Ruby
6 18 (4.97%) C#
6 18 (4.97%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.70%) Go
7 17 (4.70%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.14%) Bicep
9 13 (3.59%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.38%) Perl
10 5 (1.38%) Scala
11 2 (0.55%) C
11 2 (0.55%) SAS Macro
12 1 (0.28%) Groovy
12 1 (0.28%) R
12 1 (0.28%) Rust
12 1 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 110 (30.39%) Security Cleared
2 93 (25.69%) SC Cleared
3 75 (20.72%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (4.70%) Degree
6 15 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.59%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.21%) CISSP
10 7 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.38%) CCSP
11 5 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.38%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.10%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.83%) SANS
13 3 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.71%) GDPR
2 28 (7.73%) NIST
3 27 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (6.35%) Data Quality
5 19 (5.25%) QA
6 18 (4.97%) PCI DSS
7 14 (3.87%) NCSC
8 8 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.66%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.66%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.10%) GRC
10 4 (1.10%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.83%) SLA
12 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 150 (41.44%) Docker
2 6 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.38%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 324 (89.50%) Terraform
2 143 (39.50%) Kubernetes
3 68 (18.78%) Ansible
4 44 (12.15%) Grafana
5 38 (10.50%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.52%) Puppet
7 18 (4.97%) Packer
8 14 (3.87%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.59%) Consul
10 6 (1.66%) Argo
10 6 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.38%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.10%) Istio
12 4 (1.10%) Kibana
12 4 (1.10%) linkerd
13 3 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.83%) Podman
14 2 (0.55%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 34 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.01%) Databricks
3 28 (7.73%) Google
4 27 (7.46%) Splunk
5 11 (3.04%) Oracle
6 10 (2.76%) CloudEndure
6 10 (2.76%) IBM
7 9 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.21%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.93%) Citrix
10 6 (1.66%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.66%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.38%) Confluent
11 5 (1.38%) New Relic
11 5 (1.38%) Sybase
11 5 (1.38%) VMware
12 4 (1.10%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.10%) Qualys
12 4 (1.10%) Tenable
13 3 (0.83%) Ping Identity