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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 277 350
Rank change year-on-year +13 +73 -41
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 365 214 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 0.86% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.67% 2.28% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 162 153
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £606 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% +10.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £634 £738 £675
90th Percentile £693 £788 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.52% -2.18%
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 13,669 9,403 12,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.06% 37.78% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,402 6,522 8,821
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £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 406 166 326
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.19 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £26.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.23% +23.81% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.66 £42.06
90th Percentile £79.75 £75.88 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 +32 237 £550 -9.02% 43
North of England -37 55 £500 -23.08% 34
North West -8 32 £510 -2.95% 11
South East -35 26 £530 -18.46% 25
Yorkshire -54 18 £500 -29.82% 12
Midlands -46 14 £450 -5.26% 14
South West -22 13 £575 +4.55% 23
West Midlands -56 11 £575 +21.05% 7
North East -9 5 £466 -37.87% 11
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 7
East of England -26 1 £600 -22.58% 13
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 33 (9.04%) Apache Spark
2 31 (8.49%) Apache
3 18 (4.93%) Confluence
4 16 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (4.11%) nginx
6 5 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.55%) SAS
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Actimize
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 351 (96.16%) AWS
2 129 (35.34%) Amazon S3
3 125 (34.25%) Serverless
4 118 (32.33%) AWS Lambda
5 109 (29.86%) Azure
6 106 (29.04%) GitHub
7 99 (27.12%) Amazon ECS
8 84 (23.01%) GitHub Actions
9 80 (21.92%) GCP
10 77 (21.10%) Amazon EKS
11 71 (19.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 70 (19.18%) Amazon EC2
13 61 (16.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 41 (11.23%) AWS CodePipeline
15 32 (8.77%) Amazon SQS
16 31 (8.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 24 (6.58%) AWS KMS
18 23 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
18 23 (6.30%) Route 53
19 21 (5.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.32%) DNS
2 23 (6.30%) Firewall
3 15 (4.11%) VPN
4 14 (3.84%) Network Security
5 9 (2.47%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.19%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.37%) DHCP
8 3 (0.82%) HTTP
8 3 (0.82%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.82%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.82%) WAN
9 2 (0.55%) BGP
9 2 (0.55%) OSPF
10 1 (0.27%) 4G
10 1 (0.27%) 5G
10 1 (0.27%) Internet
10 1 (0.27%) NAS
10 1 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (15.89%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (10.14%) Data Lake
3 36 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (9.04%) Amazon Athena
5 28 (7.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (5.75%) DynamoDB
7 20 (5.48%) Power BI
8 18 (4.93%) SQL Server
9 17 (4.66%) BigQuery
9 17 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (4.66%) Mixpanel
10 16 (4.38%) OLAP
10 16 (4.38%) OLTP
11 13 (3.56%) MongoDB
11 13 (3.56%) NoSQL
12 8 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.19%) MySQL
12 8 (2.19%) Redis
12 8 (2.19%) Redshift Spectrum
12 8 (2.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (24.11%) Jenkins
2 77 (21.10%) Git
3 73 (20.00%) GitLab
4 28 (7.67%) JIRA
5 18 (4.93%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.74%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.47%) JUnit
8 8 (2.19%) Snyk
8 8 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.92%) Maven
10 6 (1.64%) Gradle
10 6 (1.64%) Terragrunt
11 5 (1.37%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.10%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.10%) Selenium
13 3 (0.82%) Postman
13 3 (0.82%) Vite
13 3 (0.82%) webpack
14 1 (0.27%) MLflow
General
1 83 (22.74%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.08%) Public Sector
3 55 (15.07%) Finance
4 22 (6.03%) Banking
5 21 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.37%) Law
10 3 (0.82%) Games
10 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Marketing
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.27%) Billing
12 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Military
12 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (18.36%) AWS Engineer
2 64 (17.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 56 (15.34%) Architect
4 50 (13.70%) Lead
5 42 (11.51%) Senior
6 38 (10.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (9.86%) Data Engineer
8 30 (8.22%) AWS Architect
8 30 (8.22%) AWS DevOps
8 30 (8.22%) Developer
9 25 (6.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 23 (6.30%) Cloud Architect
11 22 (6.03%) Security Engineer
12 20 (5.48%) Site Engineer
13 19 (5.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 17 (4.66%) Software Engineer
15 15 (4.11%) Principal Engineer
16 14 (3.84%) Principal Data Engineer
17 13 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
18 12 (3.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (16.71%) Kafka
2 32 (8.77%) RESTful
3 28 (7.67%) Node.js
4 26 (7.12%) AWS CDK
5 25 (6.85%) Spring
6 24 (6.58%) Spring Boot
7 20 (5.48%) REST
8 19 (5.21%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (4.93%) React
10 17 (4.66%) Great Expectations
10 17 (4.66%) OAuth
11 12 (3.29%) OAuth2
12 10 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (2.74%) PySpark
13 9 (2.47%) .NET
13 9 (2.47%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.47%) boto
13 9 (2.47%) OpenID
14 8 (2.19%) Flask
14 8 (2.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 101 (27.67%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.38%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.19%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.19%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.64%) NHS
6 6 (1.64%) PKI
6 6 (1.64%) Replication
7 5 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.37%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.37%) SCADA
7 5 (1.37%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 76 (20.82%) Linux
2 22 (6.03%) Windows
3 12 (3.29%) Unix
4 3 (0.82%) VMS
5 2 (0.55%) CentOS
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (81.10%) CI/CD
2 282 (77.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 214 (58.63%) DevOps
4 116 (31.78%) Containerisation
5 100 (27.40%) Agile
6 86 (23.56%) Observability
7 57 (15.62%) Microservices
8 54 (14.79%) Analytics
9 50 (13.70%) AI
10 49 (13.42%) Migration
11 47 (12.88%) Infrastructure Automation
11 47 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (12.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 46 (12.60%) DevSecOps
13 45 (12.33%) Data Engineering
13 45 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
14 43 (11.78%) Data Modelling
14 43 (11.78%) ETL
15 42 (11.51%) Incident Response
16 41 (11.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 183 (50.14%) Python
2 71 (19.45%) SQL
3 57 (15.62%) Java
4 55 (15.07%) Bash
5 34 (9.32%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.48%) C#
6 20 (5.48%) Ruby
7 19 (5.21%) JavaScript
8 17 (4.66%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.38%) Bicep
10 13 (3.56%) Go
11 8 (2.19%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.37%) Scala
13 4 (1.10%) Perl
14 3 (0.82%) C
15 2 (0.55%) SAS Macro
16 1 (0.27%) Groovy
16 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.27%) R
16 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 110 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 93 (25.48%) SC Cleared
3 74 (20.27%) AWS Certification
4 25 (6.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (4.93%) Degree
6 16 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (3.56%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.56%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.92%) CISSP
10 7 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.37%) CCSP
11 5 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.37%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.10%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.82%) OSCP
13 3 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (13.15%) GDPR
2 28 (7.67%) NIST
3 26 (7.12%) Data Quality
3 26 (7.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (5.75%) QA
5 18 (4.93%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.29%) NCSC
7 8 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.92%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.64%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.10%) GRC
10 4 (1.10%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.82%) SLA
12 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.27%) HL7
13 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.27%) MiFID
13 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 157 (43.01%) Docker
2 6 (1.64%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 328 (89.86%) Terraform
2 146 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 67 (18.36%) Ansible
4 46 (12.60%) Grafana
5 42 (11.51%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.93%) Puppet
7 16 (4.38%) Packer
8 13 (3.56%) Consul
9 12 (3.29%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.64%) Argo
12 5 (1.37%) Karpenter
13 4 (1.10%) Istio
13 4 (1.10%) Kibana
13 4 (1.10%) linkerd
14 3 (0.82%) Podman
15 2 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.55%) Opsgenie
16 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
16 1 (0.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 35 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.49%) Databricks
3 30 (8.22%) Google
4 27 (7.40%) Splunk
5 11 (3.01%) Oracle
6 10 (2.74%) CloudEndure
7 9 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.19%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.92%) Citrix
9 7 (1.92%) IBM
10 6 (1.64%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.64%) Rapid7
10 6 (1.64%) VMware
11 5 (1.37%) New Relic
11 5 (1.37%) Sybase
12 4 (1.10%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.10%) Qualys
12 4 (1.10%) Tenable
13 3 (0.82%) Ping Identity
14 2 (0.55%) Okta