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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 297 344
Rank change year-on-year +42 +47 -41
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 346 197 212
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 0.74% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.78% 2.00% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 146 151
10th Percentile £400 £387 £425
25th Percentile £450 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £653
90th Percentile £693 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £538
% change year-on-year -10.26% +8.84% -4.44%
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 12,448 9,860 12,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.88% 37.06% 33.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,641 6,537 9,068
10th Percentile £304 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £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 308 138 286
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% +18.39% -3.30%
75th Percentile £58.75 £45.89 £49.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £70.25 £66.66
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.43
% change year-on-year +18.18% +17.40% -0.32%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +49 206 £550 -15.38% 48
North of England -33 65 £500 -21.88% 24
North West -7 36 £488 - 9
South East -11 26 £530 -18.46% 33
Yorkshire -44 24 £500 -29.82% 14
Midlands -44 16 £575 +27.78% 10
South West -5 14 £563 +2.27% 15
West Midlands -25 13 £575 +21.05% 8
North East -12 5 £466 -31.85% 1
East Midlands -25 3 £438 +9.38% 2
East of England - 2 £600 - 6
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 (6.65%) Apache Spark
2 22 (6.36%) Apache
3 18 (5.20%) Confluence
4 16 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (4.62%) nginx
5 6 (1.73%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
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
Cloud Services
1 332 (95.95%) AWS
2 127 (36.71%) Serverless
3 123 (35.55%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (34.68%) Amazon S3
5 106 (30.64%) GitHub
6 99 (28.61%) Amazon ECS
7 94 (27.17%) Azure
8 80 (23.12%) GitHub Actions
9 75 (21.68%) GCP
10 73 (21.10%) Amazon EKS
11 67 (19.36%) Amazon EC2
12 64 (18.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 57 (16.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 34 (9.83%) AWS CodePipeline
15 30 (8.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 29 (8.38%) Datadog
17 25 (7.23%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (6.07%) AWS KMS
18 21 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (6.07%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.96%) DNS
2 20 (5.78%) 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 68 (19.65%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (8.38%) Data Lake
4 28 (8.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (6.65%) Amazon Athena
5 23 (6.65%) DynamoDB
6 18 (5.20%) NoSQL
7 16 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (4.34%) Power BI
9 14 (4.05%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.47%) BigQuery
10 12 (3.47%) Mixpanel
10 12 (3.47%) MongoDB
11 11 (3.18%) OLAP
11 11 (3.18%) OLTP
12 10 (2.89%) MySQL
13 8 (2.31%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (2.02%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.73%) Couchbase
15 6 (1.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 96 (27.75%) Jenkins
2 79 (22.83%) Git
3 74 (21.39%) GitLab
4 29 (8.38%) JIRA
5 14 (4.05%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.18%) CircleCI
7 10 (2.89%) Maven
7 10 (2.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (2.60%) JUnit
8 9 (2.60%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.31%) Gradle
9 8 (2.31%) Snyk
9 8 (2.31%) Terragrunt
10 7 (2.02%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.73%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.73%) Selenium
12 5 (1.45%) Postman
12 5 (1.45%) webpack
13 3 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 75 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.05%) Public Sector
3 49 (14.16%) Finance
4 18 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.91%) Banking
6 8 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.73%) Law
8 5 (1.45%) Games
9 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.58%) Legal
10 2 (0.58%) Marketing
10 2 (0.58%) Police
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.29%) Aviation
11 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.29%) Military
11 1 (0.29%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (20.81%) AWS Engineer
2 69 (19.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (13.29%) Architect
4 37 (10.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 37 (10.69%) Lead
4 37 (10.69%) Senior
5 35 (10.12%) Data Engineer
6 32 (9.25%) AWS DevOps
7 29 (8.38%) Developer
8 28 (8.09%) AWS Architect
9 27 (7.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 21 (6.07%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (6.07%) Security Engineer
11 19 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.49%) Site Engineer
12 18 (5.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 16 (4.62%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.18%) Lead DevOps
15 10 (2.89%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (2.89%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (17.34%) Kafka
2 29 (8.38%) Node.js
3 28 (8.09%) AWS CDK
3 28 (8.09%) RESTful
4 26 (7.51%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (6.36%) Spring
6 21 (6.07%) Spring Boot
7 19 (5.49%) React
8 17 (4.91%) REST
9 12 (3.47%) Great Expectations
9 12 (3.47%) OAuth
10 10 (2.89%) JSON
11 9 (2.60%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.31%) .NET
12 8 (2.31%) ARM Templates
12 8 (2.31%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.31%) OpenID
12 8 (2.31%) Vue
12 8 (2.31%) YAML
13 7 (2.02%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 84 (24.28%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.18%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.31%) PKI
6 8 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.02%) NHS
7 7 (2.02%) Replication
7 7 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.45%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.45%) SCADA
10 4 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.16%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.58%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 88 (25.43%) Linux
2 19 (5.49%) Unix
3 18 (5.20%) Windows
4 4 (1.16%) CentOS
4 4 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.87%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (79.19%) CI/CD
2 266 (76.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 205 (59.25%) DevOps
4 116 (33.53%) Containerisation
5 86 (24.86%) Agile
6 76 (21.97%) Observability
7 51 (14.74%) Microservices
8 50 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (13.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 47 (13.58%) DevSecOps
11 45 (13.01%) Infrastructure Automation
12 42 (12.14%) AI
12 42 (12.14%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (11.85%) Software Engineering
14 40 (11.56%) Migration
15 39 (11.27%) Analytics
16 38 (10.98%) Incident Response
17 36 (10.40%) High Availability
17 36 (10.40%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 179 (51.73%) Python
2 59 (17.05%) Bash
3 57 (16.47%) Java
3 57 (16.47%) SQL
4 31 (8.96%) PowerShell
5 24 (6.94%) Go
6 21 (6.07%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.78%) Ruby
8 19 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.05%) C#
9 14 (4.05%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.31%) Bicep
11 6 (1.73%) Perl
12 4 (1.16%) Scala
13 3 (0.87%) C
14 1 (0.29%) C++
14 1 (0.29%) Groovy
14 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.29%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 101 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 83 (23.99%) SC Cleared
3 67 (19.36%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (4.62%) Degree
5 16 (4.62%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.89%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.02%) CISSP
9 7 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.45%) MCP
12 4 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (1.16%) CCSP
12 4 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.16%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.87%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.43%) GDPR
2 27 (7.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (7.23%) NIST
4 20 (5.78%) QA
5 17 (4.91%) Data Quality
6 16 (4.62%) PCI DSS
7 15 (4.34%) NCSC
8 8 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.73%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
10 5 (1.45%) HIPAA
11 4 (1.16%) GRC
12 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.87%) SLA
13 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 148 (42.77%) 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
1 309 (89.31%) Terraform
2 143 (41.33%) Kubernetes
3 81 (23.41%) Ansible
4 43 (12.43%) Grafana
5 38 (10.98%) Prometheus
6 23 (6.65%) Puppet
7 20 (5.78%) Packer
8 17 (4.91%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.76%) Consul
10 6 (1.73%) Podman
10 6 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.45%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.16%) Kibana
13 3 (0.87%) Argo
14 2 (0.58%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.29%) Bitnami
15 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.29%) Istio
15 1 (0.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 29 (8.38%) Google
2 27 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.80%) Splunk
3 26 (7.51%) Databricks
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
10 4 (1.16%) Tenable
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco