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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 260 380
Rank change year-on-year -9 +120 -70
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 368 234 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 0.96% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.57% 2.58% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 184 120
10th Percentile £400 £400 £431
25th Percentile £456 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £699
90th Percentile £692 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +127.14% - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +127.14% - -

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 14,314 9,067 11,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.50% 37.27% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,862 6,351 8,548
10th Percentile £318 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £740 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 194 323
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.11 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £45.25 £25.98 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +74.21% +25.06% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.75 £41.85 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.38 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.78 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.70% +30.60% -40.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +14 248 £550 -8.33% 26
North of England -62 44 £578 +12.78% 24
South East -33 24 £530 -8.23% 10
North West -30 22 £581 +45.25% 13
Yorkshire -51 19 £500 -31.03% 8
Midlands -59 17 £463 -7.50% 3
South West -19 16 £575 +2.22% 7
West Midlands -52 13 £463 +2.78%
East of England -36 5 £488 -2.50% 3
East Midlands -25 4 £442 -36.82% 3
North East -17 3 £575 -1.71% 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 33 (8.97%) Apache Spark
2 29 (7.88%) Apache
3 23 (6.25%) Confluence
4 15 (4.08%) nginx
5 10 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.82%) SAS
8 2 (0.54%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Actimize
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 357 (97.01%) AWS
2 125 (33.97%) Amazon S3
2 125 (33.97%) Serverless
3 124 (33.70%) Azure
4 115 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
5 105 (28.53%) GitHub
6 97 (26.36%) Amazon ECS
7 85 (23.10%) GitHub Actions
8 82 (22.28%) GCP
9 75 (20.38%) Amazon EKS
10 74 (20.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 58 (15.76%) Amazon EC2
12 57 (15.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 43 (11.68%) AWS CodePipeline
14 32 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
15 27 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
16 25 (6.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 22 (5.98%) Route 53
18 20 (5.43%) AWS KMS
19 19 (5.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.24%) DNS
2 19 (5.16%) Firewall
3 15 (4.08%) Network Security
4 13 (3.53%) VPN
5 9 (2.45%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.09%) DHCP
8 3 (0.82%) HTTP
8 3 (0.82%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.54%) BGP
9 2 (0.54%) OSPF
9 2 (0.54%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.54%) WAN
10 1 (0.27%) 4G
10 1 (0.27%) 5G
10 1 (0.27%) Internet
10 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (11.41%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (9.24%) Data Lake
2 34 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (7.34%) Amazon Athena
4 24 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (5.16%) DynamoDB
5 19 (5.16%) Power BI
6 16 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 16 (4.35%) Mixpanel
6 16 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 15 (4.08%) OLAP
7 15 (4.08%) OLTP
8 14 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (3.80%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.72%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.17%) Redis
11 8 (2.17%) Redshift Spectrum
12 7 (1.90%) Big Data
13 6 (1.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 82 (22.28%) Jenkins
2 80 (21.74%) Git
3 71 (19.29%) GitLab
4 32 (8.70%) JIRA
5 20 (5.43%) Bitbucket
6 11 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 10 (2.72%) Snyk
8 7 (1.90%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.36%) Maven
10 4 (1.09%) Gradle
10 4 (1.09%) JUnit
10 4 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.09%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.82%) MLflow
11 3 (0.82%) Selenium
11 3 (0.82%) Vite
12 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.27%) Mocha
13 1 (0.27%) Mockito
General
1 93 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 69 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 59 (16.03%) Finance
4 21 (5.71%) Banking
5 15 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.36%) Law
10 3 (0.82%) Games
10 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.54%) Front Office
11 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Marketing
11 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Billing
12 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (16.85%) AWS Engineer
1 62 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (14.67%) Architect
3 51 (13.86%) Lead
4 47 (12.77%) Senior
5 37 (10.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (9.78%) Data Engineer
7 32 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
7 32 (8.70%) Developer
8 27 (7.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 25 (6.79%) Cloud Architect
10 24 (6.52%) AWS Architect
11 22 (5.98%) Site Engineer
12 21 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (4.89%) Security Engineer
14 16 (4.35%) Software Engineer
15 15 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
16 13 (3.53%) Principal Data Engineer
17 11 (2.99%) Python Developer
17 11 (2.99%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.49%) Kafka
2 36 (9.78%) RESTful
3 34 (9.24%) Node.js
4 29 (7.88%) AWS CDK
5 23 (6.25%) Spring
6 22 (5.98%) Spring Boot
7 21 (5.71%) Great Expectations
8 19 (5.16%) React
8 19 (5.16%) REST
9 18 (4.89%) OAuth
9 18 (4.89%) PySpark
10 15 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (3.26%) OAuth2
12 11 (2.99%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (2.72%) .NET
14 9 (2.45%) boto
14 9 (2.45%) OpenID
14 9 (2.45%) Vue
15 8 (2.17%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 116 (31.52%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.90%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.63%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.63%) Replication
7 5 (1.36%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.09%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.09%) NHS
8 4 (1.09%) PKI
9 3 (0.82%) Equities
9 3 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (19.57%) Linux
2 18 (4.89%) Windows
3 5 (1.36%) Unix
4 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.82%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (81.79%) CI/CD
2 283 (76.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 218 (59.24%) DevOps
4 126 (34.24%) Containerisation
5 112 (30.43%) Agile
6 90 (24.46%) Observability
7 60 (16.30%) Microservices
8 57 (15.49%) DevSecOps
9 55 (14.95%) Analytics
10 54 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (14.13%) AI
12 49 (13.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 44 (11.96%) Migration
13 44 (11.96%) Technical Leadership
14 43 (11.68%) Data Engineering
14 43 (11.68%) Infrastructure Automation
15 41 (11.14%) Data Modelling
15 41 (11.14%) Platform Engineering
15 41 (11.14%) Software Engineering
16 40 (10.87%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 179 (48.64%) Python
2 70 (19.02%) SQL
3 62 (16.85%) Java
4 50 (13.59%) Bash
5 33 (8.97%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.71%) Bicep
6 21 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.71%) Ruby
7 19 (5.16%) C#
7 19 (5.16%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.72%) Go
9 6 (1.63%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.09%) Scala
11 3 (0.82%) C
11 3 (0.82%) SAS Macro
12 2 (0.54%) Groovy
12 2 (0.54%) Perl
13 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.27%) R
13 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 123 (33.42%) Security Cleared
2 105 (28.53%) SC Cleared
3 65 (17.66%) AWS Certification
4 22 (5.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (5.71%) Degree
6 20 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (3.26%) Azure Certification
9 11 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.99%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (1.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.63%) CISSP
11 6 (1.63%) SAFe Agilist
12 5 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.36%) CCSP
12 5 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.36%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.09%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.68%) GDPR
2 29 (7.88%) Data Quality
3 28 (7.61%) NIST
4 23 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 22 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (5.43%) QA
7 9 (2.45%) NCSC
8 8 (2.17%) Accessibility
8 8 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.36%) GRC
10 4 (1.09%) SLA
10 4 (1.09%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.27%) HL7
13 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.27%) MiFID
13 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 157 (42.66%) Docker
2 6 (1.63%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.54%) Corosync
4 2 (0.54%) HDFS
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 331 (89.95%) Terraform
2 152 (41.30%) Kubernetes
3 63 (17.12%) Ansible
4 43 (11.68%) Grafana
5 40 (10.87%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.62%) Puppet
7 14 (3.80%) Packer
8 13 (3.53%) Consul
9 11 (2.99%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.36%) Argo
12 4 (1.09%) Istio
12 4 (1.09%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.09%) Kibana
12 4 (1.09%) linkerd
13 3 (0.82%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (0.54%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.54%) Pacemaker
15 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 30 (8.15%) Databricks
2 29 (7.88%) Microsoft
3 28 (7.61%) Google
4 23 (6.25%) Splunk
5 11 (2.99%) Oracle
6 9 (2.45%) PagerDuty
7 7 (1.90%) Citrix
7 7 (1.90%) IBM
8 6 (1.63%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.63%) CloudEndure
8 6 (1.63%) Rapid7
8 6 (1.63%) VMware
9 5 (1.36%) New Relic
10 4 (1.09%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.09%) Qualys
10 4 (1.09%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.09%) SAP
10 4 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.09%) Tenable
11 3 (0.82%) Ping Identity