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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 296 355
Rank change year-on-year +40 +59 -63
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 346 198 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 0.76% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.75% 2.02% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 146 149
10th Percentile £400 £397 £425
25th Percentile £450 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £650
90th Percentile £694 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -6.67%
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 12,579 9,803 12,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.68% 37.43% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,700 6,519 9,245
10th Percentile £305 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 140 303
10th Percentile £14.44 £15.44 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £16.28
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.63 £47.47
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.09% +22.22% -6.25%

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 8 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 8 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 +38 210 £550 -10.57% 39
North of England -38 60 £500 -23.08% 26
North West -8 35 £475 -13.64% 15
South East -6 29 £488 -25.00% 17
Yorkshire -51 20 £500 -29.82% 10
Midlands -35 15 £575 +21.05% 9
South West -9 13 £575 +4.55% 14
West Midlands -35 12 £575 +21.05% 7
North East -12 5 £466 -31.85% 1
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 3
East of England - 2 £600 -
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 24 (6.94%) Apache
1 24 (6.94%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.49%) Confluence
3 16 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.62%) nginx
4 5 (1.45%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.58%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Actimize
1 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 330 (95.38%) AWS
2 122 (35.26%) Serverless
3 118 (34.10%) AWS Lambda
4 117 (33.82%) Amazon S3
5 103 (29.77%) GitHub
6 96 (27.75%) Amazon ECS
7 92 (26.59%) Azure
8 76 (21.97%) GitHub Actions
9 75 (21.68%) Amazon EKS
10 74 (21.39%) GCP
11 65 (18.79%) Amazon EC2
12 63 (18.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 59 (17.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 35 (10.12%) AWS CodePipeline
15 31 (8.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 27 (7.80%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (7.80%) Datadog
17 24 (6.94%) AWS KMS
18 20 (5.78%) AWS CloudTrail
18 20 (5.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.96%) DNS
2 21 (6.07%) Firewall
3 15 (4.34%) VPN
4 11 (3.18%) Network Security
5 9 (2.60%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.31%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.45%) DHCP
8 3 (0.87%) HTTP
8 3 (0.87%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.87%) WAN
9 2 (0.58%) BGP
9 2 (0.58%) OSPF
9 2 (0.58%) SSL
10 1 (0.29%) Internet
10 1 (0.29%) NAS
10 1 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.36%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (9.25%) Data Lake
4 31 (8.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 25 (7.23%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (6.36%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.91%) NoSQL
8 16 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (4.62%) Power BI
9 14 (4.05%) SQL Server
10 13 (3.76%) BigQuery
10 13 (3.76%) Mixpanel
11 12 (3.47%) MongoDB
11 12 (3.47%) OLAP
11 12 (3.47%) OLTP
12 10 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (2.89%) MySQL
13 8 (2.31%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.02%) Redis
15 6 (1.73%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 90 (26.01%) Jenkins
2 76 (21.97%) Git
3 70 (20.23%) GitLab
4 30 (8.67%) JIRA
5 13 (3.76%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.89%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.60%) Maven
7 9 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.31%) JUnit
8 8 (2.31%) Terragrunt
9 7 (2.02%) Gradle
9 7 (2.02%) Snyk
9 7 (2.02%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.73%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.45%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.45%) Selenium
12 4 (1.16%) Postman
12 4 (1.16%) webpack
13 3 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 75 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.34%) Public Sector
3 51 (14.74%) Finance
4 19 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.20%) Banking
6 8 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.45%) Games
7 5 (1.45%) Law
8 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.58%) Legal
9 2 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.29%) Advertising
10 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.29%) Aviation
10 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.29%) Military
10 1 (0.29%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (19.94%) AWS Engineer
2 64 (18.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (13.29%) Architect
4 40 (11.56%) Lead
4 40 (11.56%) Senior
5 37 (10.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 37 (10.69%) Data Engineer
6 30 (8.67%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (8.38%) AWS Architect
7 29 (8.38%) Developer
8 25 (7.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 21 (6.07%) Cloud Architect
9 21 (6.07%) Security Engineer
10 20 (5.78%) Site Engineer
11 19 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (4.91%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.18%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (3.18%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (2.89%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (18.79%) Kafka
2 28 (8.09%) Node.js
3 27 (7.80%) RESTful
4 26 (7.51%) AWS CDK
5 24 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
6 22 (6.36%) Spring
7 21 (6.07%) Spring Boot
8 18 (5.20%) React
8 18 (5.20%) REST
9 15 (4.34%) OAuth
10 13 (3.76%) Great Expectations
11 11 (3.18%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.60%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.60%) JSON
12 9 (2.60%) OpenID
12 9 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
13 8 (2.31%) .NET
13 8 (2.31%) Vue
14 7 (2.02%) Django
14 7 (2.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (25.43%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.89%) Private Cloud
5 8 (2.31%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.31%) PKI
5 8 (2.31%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.02%) NHS
6 7 (2.02%) Replication
7 6 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.45%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.45%) SCADA
8 5 (1.45%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.16%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.58%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 86 (24.86%) Linux
2 19 (5.49%) Unix
2 19 (5.49%) Windows
3 4 (1.16%) CentOS
3 4 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (78.90%) CI/CD
2 267 (77.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 201 (58.09%) DevOps
4 114 (32.95%) Containerisation
5 86 (24.86%) Agile
6 79 (22.83%) Observability
7 54 (15.61%) Microservices
8 50 (14.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 49 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (13.01%) DevSecOps
11 44 (12.72%) Infrastructure Automation
11 44 (12.72%) Technical Leadership
12 43 (12.43%) AI
12 43 (12.43%) Analytics
12 43 (12.43%) Migration
13 39 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (11.27%) Incident Response
13 39 (11.27%) Platform Engineering
13 39 (11.27%) Software Engineering
14 36 (10.40%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 175 (50.58%) Python
2 59 (17.05%) SQL
3 57 (16.47%) Bash
4 53 (15.32%) Java
5 30 (8.67%) PowerShell
6 22 (6.36%) Go
7 21 (6.07%) JavaScript
8 20 (5.78%) Ruby
9 18 (5.20%) TypeScript
10 15 (4.34%) C#
11 13 (3.76%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.89%) Bicep
13 5 (1.45%) Perl
14 4 (1.16%) Scala
15 3 (0.87%) C
16 1 (0.29%) C++
16 1 (0.29%) Groovy
16 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.29%) PHP
16 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 106 (30.64%) Security Cleared
2 89 (25.72%) SC Cleared
3 67 (19.36%) AWS Certification
4 23 (6.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (4.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (4.34%) Degree
5 15 (4.34%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.89%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.02%) CISSP
8 7 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.16%) CCSP
11 4 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.16%) IBM Certification
12 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.72%) GDPR
2 27 (7.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (7.23%) NIST
4 19 (5.49%) Data Quality
4 19 (5.49%) QA
5 18 (5.20%) PCI DSS
6 15 (4.34%) NCSC
7 8 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.73%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.45%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.16%) GRC
11 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.87%) SLA
12 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 144 (41.62%) Docker
2 7 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 308 (89.02%) Terraform
2 142 (41.04%) Kubernetes
3 74 (21.39%) Ansible
4 44 (12.72%) Grafana
5 38 (10.98%) Prometheus
6 21 (6.07%) Puppet
7 19 (5.49%) Packer
8 16 (4.62%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.76%) Consul
10 6 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.45%) Karpenter
11 5 (1.45%) Podman
12 4 (1.16%) Argo
12 4 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.16%) Kibana
13 2 (0.58%) Istio
13 2 (0.58%) linkerd
13 2 (0.58%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.29%) Bitnami
14 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 29 (8.38%) Google
2 28 (8.09%) Splunk
3 27 (7.80%) Databricks
3 27 (7.80%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.76%) IBM
5 10 (2.89%) CloudEndure
5 10 (2.89%) Oracle
6 8 (2.31%) PagerDuty
6 8 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.02%) Citrix
7 7 (2.02%) Confluent
8 6 (1.73%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.73%) Rapid7
8 6 (1.73%) VMware
9 5 (1.45%) New Relic
10 4 (1.16%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.16%) Okta
10 4 (1.16%) Sybase
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco
11 3 (0.87%) Tenable