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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 292 375
Rank change year-on-year -27 +83 -55
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 302 203 169
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.84% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 2.23% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 153 120
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -7.27%
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 14,682 9,122 11,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.10% 37.63% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,999 6,249 8,504
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £509 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.34% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 217 324
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% +16.99% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £39.13
90th Percentile £81.15 £68.00 £69.85
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.76 £21.46
% change year-on-year +29.36% +29.36% -43.15%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -13 206 £575 -4.17% 58
North of England -63 28 £581 +39.58% 29
Midlands -42 20 £463 -7.50% 5
South West -20 16 £488 -15.22% 15
North West -40 16 £581 +45.25% 15
West Midlands -47 16 £477 +6.00% 2
South East -53 13 £503 -11.06% 11
Yorkshire -51 12 £563 +7.14% 12
East of England -31 6 £450 -10.00% 2
East Midlands -24 4 £442 -36.82% 3
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 23 (7.62%) Apache Spark
2 21 (6.95%) Apache
3 12 (3.97%) Confluence
4 4 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.99%) SAS
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.66%) nginx
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 293 (97.02%) AWS
2 109 (36.09%) Azure
3 108 (35.76%) Amazon S3
4 107 (35.43%) Serverless
5 96 (31.79%) AWS Lambda
6 92 (30.46%) GitHub
7 80 (26.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 78 (25.83%) GCP
9 76 (25.17%) Amazon ECS
9 76 (25.17%) GitHub Actions
10 71 (23.51%) Amazon EKS
11 53 (17.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 52 (17.22%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (11.92%) AWS CodePipeline
14 30 (9.93%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (5.63%) Route 53
17 16 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 14 (4.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 14 (4.64%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.26%) DNS
2 17 (5.63%) Firewall
3 12 (3.97%) Network Security
4 9 (2.98%) VPN
5 7 (2.32%) WAN
6 6 (1.99%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.66%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.32%) SSL
9 3 (0.99%) BGP
9 3 (0.99%) OSPF
9 3 (0.99%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.66%) HTTP
11 1 (0.33%) 4G
11 1 (0.33%) 5G
11 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.33%) LAN
11 1 (0.33%) MPLS
11 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.60%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (7.95%) Amazon Athena
2 24 (7.95%) Data Lake
3 23 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (5.96%) DynamoDB
5 14 (4.64%) BigQuery
5 14 (4.64%) Mixpanel
5 14 (4.64%) Power BI
6 13 (4.30%) OLAP
6 13 (4.30%) OLTP
7 12 (3.97%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.64%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.31%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.65%) Redis
11 6 (1.99%) MySQL
12 5 (1.66%) Big Data
12 5 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.66%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 76 (25.17%) Jenkins
2 64 (21.19%) GitLab
3 49 (16.23%) Git
4 20 (6.62%) JIRA
5 18 (5.96%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.31%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.31%) Snyk
7 7 (2.32%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.32%) JUnit
8 4 (1.32%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.99%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.99%) Vite
10 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.66%) MLflow
10 2 (0.66%) Selenium
11 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.33%) Maven
11 1 (0.33%) Postman
11 1 (0.33%) Spinnaker
General
1 79 (26.16%) Social Skills
2 45 (14.90%) Finance
3 42 (13.91%) Public Sector
4 18 (5.96%) Banking
5 10 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.66%) Law
9 3 (0.99%) Games
10 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.66%) Front Office
10 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.33%) Billing
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (18.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (18.21%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (15.89%) Lead
4 46 (15.23%) Architect
5 36 (11.92%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (10.26%) Senior
7 29 (9.60%) AWS DevOps
8 28 (9.27%) Data Engineer
9 24 (7.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 22 (7.28%) Developer
11 21 (6.95%) AWS Architect
11 21 (6.95%) Cloud Architect
12 16 (5.30%) Security Engineer
13 13 (4.30%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (4.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (3.97%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (3.97%) Site Engineer
15 11 (3.64%) Principal Data Engineer
16 10 (3.31%) Lead Data Engineer
16 10 (3.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.23%) Kafka
2 32 (10.60%) AWS CDK
3 23 (7.62%) Node.js
3 23 (7.62%) RESTful
4 19 (6.29%) Great Expectations
5 18 (5.96%) OAuth
6 17 (5.63%) PySpark
7 16 (5.30%) React
8 14 (4.64%) REST
9 13 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (3.97%) OAuth2
10 12 (3.97%) Spring
10 12 (3.97%) Spring Boot
11 10 (3.31%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (2.98%) .NET
12 9 (2.98%) boto
12 9 (2.98%) OpenID
13 7 (2.32%) Pandas
14 6 (1.99%) AngularJS
14 6 (1.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 106 (35.10%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 21 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.32%) Replication
6 7 (2.32%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.99%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.99%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.66%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.66%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.32%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.99%) Equities
11 2 (0.66%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (14.57%) Linux
2 18 (5.96%) Windows
3 8 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.66%) Unix
5 3 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (85.10%) CI/CD
2 248 (82.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 191 (63.25%) DevOps
4 100 (33.11%) Containerisation
5 85 (28.15%) Observability
6 80 (26.49%) Agile
7 54 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (15.89%) DevSecOps
9 46 (15.23%) Microservices
10 43 (14.24%) Analytics
11 42 (13.91%) AI
12 39 (12.91%) High Availability
13 37 (12.25%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (11.92%) Mentoring
15 35 (11.59%) Data Engineering
15 35 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 34 (11.26%) Event-Driven
16 34 (11.26%) Infrastructure Automation
17 33 (10.93%) Cloud Security
17 33 (10.93%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 141 (46.69%) Python
2 56 (18.54%) SQL
3 47 (15.56%) Java
4 44 (14.57%) Bash
5 32 (10.60%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.29%) Bicep
7 17 (5.63%) C#
8 15 (4.97%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.64%) Ruby
9 11 (3.64%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.98%) Go
11 6 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.99%) Groovy
12 3 (0.99%) SAS Macro
12 3 (0.99%) Scala
13 2 (0.66%) C
14 1 (0.33%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.33%) Perl
14 1 (0.33%) R
14 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 89 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 76 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 43 (14.24%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.63%) Degree
5 16 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.31%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (2.65%) SAFe Agilist
10 7 (2.32%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.66%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.32%) CISSP
12 4 (1.32%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.99%) CCSP
13 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.93%) GDPR
2 25 (8.28%) NIST
3 23 (7.62%) Data Quality
4 20 (6.62%) PCI DSS
5 16 (5.30%) QA
6 14 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.66%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.32%) GRC
8 4 (1.32%) NCSC
8 4 (1.32%) SLA
9 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.33%) HL7
11 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 117 (38.74%) Docker
2 3 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.99%) Squid
3 2 (0.66%) Corosync
3 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 276 (91.39%) Terraform
2 119 (39.40%) Kubernetes
3 47 (15.56%) Ansible
4 38 (12.58%) Prometheus
5 36 (11.92%) Grafana
6 12 (3.97%) Puppet
7 9 (2.98%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.32%) Argo
8 7 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.99%) Istio
10 5 (1.66%) linkerd
11 4 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.32%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.32%) Kibana
11 4 (1.32%) Packer
12 3 (0.99%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.66%) Consul
13 2 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.66%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 26 (8.61%) Google
2 22 (7.28%) Databricks
3 21 (6.95%) Splunk
4 20 (6.62%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.31%) Oracle
6 8 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.99%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.99%) IBM
7 6 (1.99%) New Relic
8 5 (1.66%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.66%) SAP
9 4 (1.32%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.32%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.32%) Qualys
9 4 (1.32%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.32%) Sybase
9 4 (1.32%) Tenable
10 3 (0.99%) Citrix
10 3 (0.99%) Trend Micro
11 2 (0.66%) Salesforce