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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 319 342
Rank change year-on-year +53 +23 -73
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 316 199 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.68% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.66% 1.85% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 145 155
10th Percentile £400 £386 £425
25th Percentile £450 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £618 £558
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +10.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £669
90th Percentile £675 £788 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% -6.52%
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 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 11,874 10,731 13,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.19% 36.59% 34.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,152 7,170 9,641
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 138 251
10th Percentile £14.95 £17.31 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -14.99% +33.12% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £54.69 £53.50
90th Percentile £75.33 £69.71 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 +47 174 £530 -18.46% 50
North of England -13 64 £491 -23.28% 38
North West -9 32 £450 -5.26% 16
South East +19 27 £530 -18.46% 40
Yorkshire -34 27 £500 -28.57% 19
West Midlands -24 14 £575 +24.32% 21
Midlands -27 14 £575 +35.29% 33
South West 0 13 £575 +6.98% 32
North East -8 5 £466 -31.85% 3
East of England - 5 £450 - 14
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 20 (6.33%) Confluence
2 17 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.38%) nginx
3 16 (5.06%) Apache
4 15 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.90%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 300 (94.94%) AWS
2 117 (37.03%) Serverless
3 113 (35.76%) AWS Lambda
4 104 (32.91%) Amazon S3
5 93 (29.43%) GitHub
6 91 (28.80%) Amazon ECS
7 82 (25.95%) Azure
8 72 (22.78%) GitHub Actions
9 67 (21.20%) Amazon EC2
10 61 (19.30%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (16.14%) GCP
12 50 (15.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 49 (15.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 31 (9.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 31 (9.81%) Datadog
15 25 (7.91%) AWS CodePipeline
16 24 (7.59%) AWS Fargate
16 24 (7.59%) AWS KMS
17 23 (7.28%) AWS CloudTrail
18 20 (6.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.86%) DNS
2 15 (4.75%) Firewall
3 13 (4.11%) VPN
4 9 (2.85%) Network Security
5 7 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.90%) DHCP
7 5 (1.58%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.95%) HTTP
8 3 (0.95%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.63%) Internet
9 2 (0.63%) SSL
10 1 (0.32%) NAS
10 1 (0.32%) SAN
10 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (21.52%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (11.08%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (8.23%) DynamoDB
4 25 (7.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (7.28%) Data Lake
6 21 (6.65%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (4.75%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.80%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.48%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.16%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.85%) Power BI
13 8 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (2.22%) MySQL
15 6 (1.90%) Amazon QuickSight
15 6 (1.90%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.90%) Mixpanel
15 6 (1.90%) OLAP
15 6 (1.90%) OLTP
15 6 (1.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 95 (30.06%) Jenkins
2 74 (23.42%) GitLab
3 73 (23.10%) Git
4 30 (9.49%) JIRA
5 16 (5.06%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.80%) JUnit
6 12 (3.80%) Maven
6 12 (3.80%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.53%) Artifactory
8 8 (2.53%) CircleCI
8 8 (2.53%) Gradle
9 7 (2.22%) Snyk
9 7 (2.22%) Terragrunt
10 6 (1.90%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.90%) Selenium
11 5 (1.58%) Postman
11 5 (1.58%) webpack
12 3 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.95%) Cucumber
General
1 70 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 63 (19.94%) Public Sector
3 43 (13.61%) Finance
4 18 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.38%) Banking
6 6 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.58%) Games
8 3 (0.95%) Law
9 2 (0.63%) Legal
9 2 (0.63%) Police
9 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Aviation
10 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (21.84%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (19.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (13.92%) Senior
4 37 (11.71%) Architect
4 37 (11.71%) Lead
5 29 (9.18%) AWS DevOps
5 29 (9.18%) Developer
5 29 (9.18%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (8.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (7.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 24 (7.59%) Data Engineer
8 22 (6.96%) AWS Architect
9 20 (6.33%) Site Engineer
10 18 (5.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 17 (5.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.75%) Security Engineer
13 14 (4.43%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (4.43%) Software Engineer
14 13 (4.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.80%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.56%) Kafka
2 31 (9.81%) AWS CDK
3 29 (9.18%) Node.js
4 26 (8.23%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (6.33%) RESTful
6 18 (5.70%) Spring
7 16 (5.06%) React
7 16 (5.06%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.43%) REST
9 12 (3.80%) JSON
10 10 (3.16%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.85%) ARM Templates
11 9 (2.85%) Keycloak
12 8 (2.53%) YAML
13 7 (2.22%) cloud-init
14 6 (1.90%) Django
14 6 (1.90%) FastAPI
14 6 (1.90%) Flask
14 6 (1.90%) Great Expectations
14 6 (1.90%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (19.30%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.48%) PKI
3 9 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (2.85%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.22%) Replication
6 6 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.90%) NHS
6 6 (1.90%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.27%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.95%) SCADA
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.63%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 83 (26.27%) Linux
2 17 (5.38%) Unix
3 13 (4.11%) Windows
4 7 (2.22%) CentOS
4 7 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.95%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 230 (72.78%) CI/CD
3 187 (59.18%) DevOps
4 119 (37.66%) Containerisation
5 80 (25.32%) Agile
6 59 (18.67%) Observability
7 54 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (14.56%) Microservices
9 43 (13.61%) Migration
10 42 (13.29%) Platform Engineering
11 38 (12.03%) DevSecOps
12 37 (11.71%) Software Engineering
13 36 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
13 36 (11.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 35 (11.08%) Technical Leadership
15 34 (10.76%) Configuration Management
16 32 (10.13%) Cloud Security
17 31 (9.81%) Test Automation
18 30 (9.49%) Mentoring
19 27 (8.54%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 159 (50.32%) Python
2 59 (18.67%) Bash
3 43 (13.61%) SQL
4 36 (11.39%) Java
5 31 (9.81%) Go
6 29 (9.18%) PowerShell
7 25 (7.91%) TypeScript
8 21 (6.65%) Ruby
9 18 (5.70%) JavaScript
10 16 (5.06%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.22%) C#
11 7 (2.22%) Perl
12 4 (1.27%) Bicep
12 4 (1.27%) Scala
13 3 (0.95%) C
13 3 (0.95%) PromQL
14 2 (0.63%) C++
14 2 (0.63%) Groovy
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
15 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 107 (33.86%) Security Cleared
2 87 (27.53%) SC Cleared
3 60 (18.99%) AWS Certification
4 27 (8.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (4.75%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.43%) Degree
7 11 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.58%) CISSP
11 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.63%) CCSP
13 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.32%) OCP
14 1 (0.32%) OSCP
14 1 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.13%) GDPR
2 20 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (5.70%) NCSC
4 16 (5.06%) QA
5 15 (4.75%) NIST
6 12 (3.80%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.85%) PCI DSS
8 7 (2.22%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.27%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.95%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.32%) GRC
11 1 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 130 (41.14%) Docker
2 10 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.58%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 284 (89.87%) Terraform
2 133 (42.09%) Kubernetes
3 76 (24.05%) Ansible
4 51 (16.14%) Grafana
5 40 (12.66%) Prometheus
6 27 (8.54%) Puppet
7 25 (7.91%) Packer
8 18 (5.70%) Progress Chef
9 14 (4.43%) Consul
10 7 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (1.90%) Podman
12 3 (0.95%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.95%) Kibana
12 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.63%) Argo
13 2 (0.63%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.63%) Istio
13 2 (0.63%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.63%) Salt
14 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 23 (7.28%) Splunk
2 22 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.06%) Databricks
4 14 (4.43%) Google
5 12 (3.80%) IBM
6 10 (3.16%) CloudEndure
6 10 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.53%) PagerDuty
8 7 (2.22%) Citrix
8 7 (2.22%) Confluent
8 7 (2.22%) Okta
9 6 (1.90%) VMware
10 5 (1.58%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (1.58%) Oracle
10 5 (1.58%) Sybase
11 4 (1.27%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.95%) Cisco
12 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.95%) Ping Identity
13 2 (0.63%) Alibaba