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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 269 381
Rank change year-on-year -104 +112 -50
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 279 272 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.98% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 2.63% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 209 93
10th Percentile £400 £400 £401
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £675
90th Percentile £679 £690 £779
UK median daily rate £538 £533 £509
% change year-on-year +0.82% +4.74% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.61 - -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.90% - -
75th Percentile £69.82 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.90% - -

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 15,887 10,359 11,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.78% 37.34% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,010 7,887
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 275 200
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.24
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -3.65% -18.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -92 158 £550 -8.33% 27
North of England -63 39 £617 +50.73% 24
North West -33 26 £605 +53.16% 9
Midlands -33 23 £481 -17.25% 5
South West -32 21 £488 -17.89% 21
South East -54 20 £570 +0.88% 11
West Midlands -37 18 £488 -15.22% 4
Yorkshire -49 9 £663 +39.47% 7
East of England -26 6 £450 -5.26% 2
East Midlands -8 5 £466 -33.50% 1
North East -37 4 £500 +20.12% 8
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 13 (4.66%) Confluence
2 9 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.51%) Apache
4 6 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.72%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 274 (98.21%) AWS
2 114 (40.86%) Azure
3 106 (37.99%) Serverless
4 89 (31.90%) AWS Lambda
5 86 (30.82%) Amazon S3
6 83 (29.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 77 (27.60%) GCP
8 68 (24.37%) GitHub
9 65 (23.30%) GitHub Actions
10 58 (20.79%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (19.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 51 (18.28%) Amazon ECS
13 45 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (13.26%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (8.24%) AWS Step Functions
16 22 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (7.17%) AWS KMS
17 20 (7.17%) Datadog
18 19 (6.81%) AWS CloudTrail
19 13 (4.66%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.32%) Firewall
2 25 (8.96%) DNS
3 11 (3.94%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.58%) Network Security
5 9 (3.23%) WAN
6 8 (2.87%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.51%) DHCP
8 6 (2.15%) SSL
8 6 (2.15%) VPN
9 4 (1.43%) HTTP
9 4 (1.43%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.08%) CTI
11 2 (0.72%) BGP
11 2 (0.72%) Internet
12 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.36%) LAN
12 1 (0.36%) MPLS
12 1 (0.36%) OSPF
12 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.26%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (7.53%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.45%) MySQL
5 15 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (5.38%) SQL Server
6 13 (4.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (4.66%) MongoDB
7 12 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (3.94%) Data Lake
9 9 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.23%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.87%) Redis
11 6 (2.15%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.79%) Metadata
13 4 (1.43%) Power BI
13 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.08%) Big Data
14 3 (1.08%) Mixpanel
14 3 (1.08%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 71 (25.45%) Jenkins
2 60 (21.51%) GitLab
3 39 (13.98%) Git
4 24 (8.60%) JIRA
5 13 (4.66%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.87%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.51%) Snyk
9 6 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.79%) JUnit
11 4 (1.43%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.43%) Mockito
12 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.08%) Maven
12 3 (1.08%) Spinnaker
13 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.72%) MLflow
13 2 (0.72%) Selenium
14 1 (0.36%) Gradle
General
1 74 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.41%) Public Sector
3 42 (15.05%) Finance
4 15 (5.38%) Banking
5 12 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.43%) Law
9 3 (1.08%) Games
9 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.72%) Front Office
10 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.72%) Military
11 1 (0.36%) Aviation
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (19.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (18.28%) AWS Engineer
3 41 (14.70%) Architect
3 41 (14.70%) Senior
4 38 (13.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (12.54%) AWS DevOps
6 33 (11.83%) Lead
7 29 (10.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (8.24%) Developer
9 22 (7.89%) Security Engineer
10 21 (7.53%) Data Engineer
11 17 (6.09%) AWS Architect
12 15 (5.38%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.30%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 12 (4.30%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.58%) DBA
14 10 (3.58%) Network Engineer
14 10 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (3.23%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (93.55%) Terraform
2 27 (9.68%) AWS CDK
3 20 (7.17%) Kafka
3 20 (7.17%) REST
4 16 (5.73%) Node.js
5 15 (5.38%) RESTful
6 12 (4.30%) React
7 11 (3.94%) PySpark
7 11 (3.94%) Spring Boot
8 10 (3.58%) ARM Templates
8 10 (3.58%) Spring
9 9 (3.23%) Great Expectations
10 8 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.87%) Pandas
11 6 (2.15%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.43%) OAuth
12 4 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (1.43%) Pulumi
12 4 (1.43%) Vue
13 3 (1.08%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 94 (33.69%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.81%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.73%) Security Posture
5 15 (5.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 13 (4.66%) Replication
7 12 (4.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 10 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.51%) AI Agents
10 6 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
12 3 (1.08%) Clustering
12 3 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.08%) IVR
12 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.05%) Linux
2 25 (8.96%) Windows
3 17 (6.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.79%) Unix
4 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.43%) AIX
6 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (89.61%) Infrastructure as Code
2 217 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 178 (63.80%) DevOps
4 94 (33.69%) Containerisation
5 91 (32.62%) Agile
6 69 (24.73%) Observability
7 55 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (18.64%) Cloud Security
9 48 (17.20%) Microservices
10 43 (15.41%) Platform Engineering
11 42 (15.05%) Test Automation
12 40 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (13.98%) High Availability
14 38 (13.62%) AI
14 38 (13.62%) DevSecOps
14 38 (13.62%) Infrastructure Automation
15 37 (13.26%) Scrum
16 34 (12.19%) Root Cause Analysis
17 32 (11.47%) Migration
17 32 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 141 (50.54%) Python
2 67 (24.01%) Bash
3 57 (20.43%) PowerShell
4 46 (16.49%) SQL
5 37 (13.26%) Java
6 33 (11.83%) Bicep
7 19 (6.81%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.51%) Go
10 4 (1.43%) C#
10 4 (1.43%) Groovy
10 4 (1.43%) Ruby
11 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.08%) R
11 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.72%) C
12 2 (0.72%) SAS Macro
12 2 (0.72%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Korn
Qualifications
1 102 (36.56%) Security Cleared
2 90 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 48 (17.20%) AWS Certification
4 28 (10.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (6.81%) Degree
6 16 (5.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 15 (5.38%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.23%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.51%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.15%) CISSP
10 6 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.24%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.38%) QA
3 10 (3.58%) GDPR
4 9 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.87%) NIST
6 7 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.15%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.43%) SLA
9 3 (1.08%) NCSC
9 3 (1.08%) WCAG
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HL7
10 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 110 (39.43%) Docker
2 7 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) Squid
4 2 (0.72%) Corosync
4 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 120 (43.01%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.05%) Grafana
3 37 (13.26%) Prometheus
4 34 (12.19%) Ansible
5 13 (4.66%) Progress Chef
5 13 (4.66%) Puppet
6 9 (3.23%) Argo
7 7 (2.51%) Istio
8 4 (1.43%) linkerd
8 4 (1.43%) Packer
9 3 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.08%) Pacemaker
10 2 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.36%) Kibana
11 1 (0.36%) Podman
11 1 (0.36%) QRadar
11 1 (0.36%) systemd
Vendors
1 27 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.96%) Google
3 17 (6.09%) Red Hat
4 15 (5.38%) Splunk
5 10 (3.58%) Databricks
6 8 (2.87%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.87%) Infoblox
6 8 (2.87%) Oracle
7 6 (2.15%) VMware
8 5 (1.79%) Cisco
8 5 (1.79%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.43%) Teradata
10 3 (1.08%) Informatica
10 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.08%) SAP
10 3 (1.08%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.08%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.72%) Sybase