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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 270 382
Rank change year-on-year -72 +112 -50
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 295 257 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.95% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 2.54% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 186 106
10th Percentile £400 £400 £414
25th Percentile £449 £466 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £675
90th Percentile £669 £688 £778
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.27% -3.24%
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 15,698 10,109 12,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.40% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,559 6,818 8,683
10th Percentile £325 £313 £310
25th Percentile £416 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 269 330
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.05% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.13 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.08
% change year-on-year +35.09% +25.75% -36.93%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -46 196 £573 -4.58% 46
Midlands -44 21 £470 -6.05% 8
South West -19 20 £450 -25.00% 18
South East -47 19 £549 -2.88% 22
North of England -91 19 £623 +51.55% 21
West Midlands -58 17 £477 +6.00% 6
North West -43 12 £600 +50.00% 11
Yorkshire -55 7 £663 +32.50% 3
East of England -34 6 £450 -5.26% 1
East Midlands -11 4 £442 -36.82% 2
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 19 (6.44%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.76%) Apache
3 14 (4.75%) Confluence
4 5 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.02%) SAS
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 288 (97.63%) AWS
2 109 (36.95%) Azure
3 106 (35.93%) Serverless
4 104 (35.25%) Amazon S3
5 89 (30.17%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (27.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 75 (25.42%) GitHub
8 74 (25.08%) GCP
9 68 (23.05%) Amazon ECS
10 65 (22.03%) GitHub Actions
11 63 (21.36%) Amazon EKS
12 50 (16.95%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (15.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 31 (10.51%) AWS CodePipeline
15 25 (8.47%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (6.44%) Route 53
17 18 (6.10%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (4.75%) AWS CloudTrail
18 14 (4.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.49%) DNS
2 27 (9.15%) Firewall
3 14 (4.75%) Network Security
4 11 (3.73%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.73%) WAN
5 9 (3.05%) VPN
6 8 (2.71%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.37%) DHCP
8 4 (1.36%) BGP
8 4 (1.36%) HTTP
8 4 (1.36%) SSL
9 3 (1.02%) CTI
9 3 (1.02%) OSPF
9 3 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.02%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.68%) Internet
10 2 (0.68%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.34%) 4G
11 1 (0.34%) 5G
11 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.49%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (6.78%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (6.78%) Data Lake
3 18 (6.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (6.10%) DynamoDB
4 16 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.73%) BigQuery
6 10 (3.39%) Mixpanel
6 10 (3.39%) Power BI
7 9 (3.05%) OLAP
7 9 (3.05%) OLTP
8 8 (2.71%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.71%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.37%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.69%) Metadata
11 5 (1.69%) Redshift Spectrum
12 4 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.36%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 75 (25.42%) Jenkins
2 57 (19.32%) GitLab
3 40 (13.56%) Git
4 25 (8.47%) JIRA
5 17 (5.76%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.05%) Snyk
7 7 (2.37%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.37%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.02%) JUnit
8 3 (1.02%) Vite
9 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.68%) MLflow
9 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.68%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) git-flow
10 1 (0.34%) Mockito
10 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 77 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.90%) Finance
2 41 (13.90%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.08%) Banking
5 9 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.36%) Law
10 3 (1.02%) Games
10 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.68%) Front Office
11 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Military
11 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Local Government
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (21.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 49 (16.61%) Architect
4 44 (14.92%) Lead
5 37 (12.54%) AWS DevOps
5 37 (12.54%) Senior
6 35 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (10.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 26 (8.81%) Data Engineer
9 22 (7.46%) Developer
10 18 (6.10%) AWS Architect
11 15 (5.08%) Security Engineer
12 13 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (4.41%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.73%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.39%) Network Engineer
15 10 (3.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.20%) AWS CDK
2 33 (11.19%) Kafka
3 22 (7.46%) Node.js
4 18 (6.10%) RESTful
5 16 (5.42%) PySpark
6 15 (5.08%) Great Expectations
7 14 (4.75%) REST
8 13 (4.41%) OAuth
8 13 (4.41%) React
9 10 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (3.05%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.71%) Spring
11 8 (2.71%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.37%) Pandas
13 6 (2.03%) .NET
13 6 (2.03%) ARM Templates
13 6 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (1.69%) boto
14 5 (1.69%) OpenID
15 4 (1.36%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 105 (35.59%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.14%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.37%) Replication
8 6 (2.03%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.02%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.02%) IVR
11 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.88%) Linux
2 26 (8.81%) Windows
3 10 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.02%) Unix
5 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.68%) AIX
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (84.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 233 (78.98%) CI/CD
3 189 (64.07%) DevOps
4 107 (36.27%) Containerisation
5 83 (28.14%) Agile
6 72 (24.41%) Observability
7 59 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (15.25%) DevSecOps
9 44 (14.92%) Microservices
9 44 (14.92%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (14.58%) AI
11 42 (14.24%) High Availability
12 40 (13.56%) Analytics
13 37 (12.54%) Cloud Security
13 37 (12.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (11.86%) Incident Response
15 33 (11.19%) Migration
16 32 (10.85%) Infrastructure Automation
16 32 (10.85%) Mentoring
17 31 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 143 (48.47%) Python
2 50 (16.95%) Bash
3 46 (15.59%) SQL
4 40 (13.56%) PowerShell
5 37 (12.54%) Java
6 23 (7.80%) Bicep
7 14 (4.75%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.73%) C#
8 11 (3.73%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.05%) Go
10 5 (1.69%) Ruby
11 3 (1.02%) Groovy
11 3 (1.02%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.02%) Scala
11 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) C
13 1 (0.34%) Korn
13 1 (0.34%) Perl
13 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 103 (34.92%) Security Cleared
2 89 (30.17%) SC Cleared
3 40 (13.56%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.76%) Degree
6 15 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.05%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.05%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (2.03%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.02%) CCSP
12 3 (1.02%) CISSP
12 3 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.47%) GDPR
2 21 (7.12%) Data Quality
3 19 (6.44%) NIST
4 18 (6.10%) PCI DSS
5 12 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (4.07%) QA
6 4 (1.36%) GRC
7 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.68%) NCSC
9 1 (0.34%) HL7
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.34%) SLA
9 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 113 (38.31%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.02%) Squid
3 2 (0.68%) Corosync
3 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 273 (92.54%) Terraform
2 114 (38.64%) Kubernetes
3 40 (13.56%) Prometheus
4 35 (11.86%) Ansible
5 34 (11.53%) Grafana
6 12 (4.07%) Puppet
7 9 (3.05%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.37%) Argo
8 7 (2.37%) Istio
9 6 (2.03%) linkerd
9 6 (2.03%) Packer
10 5 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.36%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (1.02%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.68%) Consul
13 2 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.68%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
14 1 (0.34%) Kibana
14 1 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 25 (8.47%) Google
1 25 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.10%) Databricks
2 18 (6.10%) Splunk
3 10 (3.39%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.71%) Infoblox
5 6 (2.03%) AVEVA
5 6 (2.03%) Oracle
6 5 (1.69%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.69%) PagerDuty
6 5 (1.69%) SAP
7 4 (1.36%) New Relic
7 4 (1.36%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.36%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.36%) Sybase
7 4 (1.36%) VMware
8 3 (1.02%) Cisco
8 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.02%) Trend Micro
8 3 (1.02%) Zscaler