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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 336 346
Rank change year-on-year +66 +10 -63
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 302 173 244
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.56% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.60% 1.57% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 113 175
10th Percentile £400 £394 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £750 £653
90th Percentile £669 £788 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% -5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +42.86%

All Cloud 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 11,634 11,007 13,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.62% 35.87% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,925 7,315 10,197
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 140 278
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +30.05%
75th Percentile £45.60 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.05 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £31.00
% change year-on-year -24.41% +7.32% +40.91%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 +65 177 £530 -18.46% 166
North of England -7 63 £474 -23.24% 79
Yorkshire -20 31 £500 -23.08% 19
North West -10 28 £420 -11.58% 55
South East +11 16 £438 -32.69% 30
West Midlands -15 14 £575 +15.00% 5
Midlands -21 14 £575 +27.78% 9
South West +8 11 £550 +12.82% 16
East of England - 5 £450 - 9
North East -5 4 £466 -31.85% 5
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 31 (10.26%) Confluence
2 29 (9.60%) nginx
3 15 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.64%) Apache Spark
5 10 (3.31%) Apache
6 5 (1.66%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 284 (94.04%) AWS
2 107 (35.43%) Serverless
3 103 (34.11%) AWS Lambda
4 95 (31.46%) Amazon S3
5 82 (27.15%) GitHub
6 80 (26.49%) Azure
7 73 (24.17%) Amazon ECS
8 68 (22.52%) Amazon EC2
9 62 (20.53%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (17.88%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (17.88%) GCP
11 48 (15.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (12.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (9.93%) Datadog
14 27 (8.94%) AWS Fargate
15 24 (7.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 20 (6.62%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (6.62%) AWS CloudTrail
17 18 (5.96%) Entra ID
18 17 (5.63%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.96%) DNS
2 14 (4.64%) Firewall
2 14 (4.64%) VPN
3 9 (2.98%) Network Security
4 5 (1.66%) DHCP
4 5 (1.66%) SSL
5 3 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.33%) HTTP
6 1 (0.33%) Internet
6 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.33%) NAS
6 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.33%) SAN
6 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (21.52%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.94%) DynamoDB
4 25 (8.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (5.96%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (5.30%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (5.30%) Data Lake
6 16 (5.30%) NoSQL
7 13 (4.30%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.97%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.98%) MySQL
10 7 (2.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (2.32%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.99%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (1.99%) Couchbase
11 6 (1.99%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.66%) DB2
12 5 (1.66%) Power BI
12 5 (1.66%) Redshift Spectrum
13 3 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 92 (30.46%) Jenkins
2 79 (26.16%) Git
3 63 (20.86%) GitLab
4 41 (13.58%) JIRA
5 14 (4.64%) JUnit
6 13 (4.30%) Bitbucket
7 12 (3.97%) Artifactory
7 12 (3.97%) Maven
8 11 (3.64%) SonarQube
8 11 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (2.32%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.99%) Gradle
11 5 (1.66%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.66%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.66%) Selenium
11 5 (1.66%) Snyk
12 4 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.32%) Postman
12 4 (1.32%) Terragrunt
12 4 (1.32%) webpack
General
1 71 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.56%) Public Sector
3 34 (11.26%) Finance
4 17 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.63%) Banking
5 5 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (1.66%) Games
6 4 (1.32%) Aerospace
7 3 (0.99%) Law
8 2 (0.66%) Aviation
8 2 (0.66%) Legal
8 2 (0.66%) Police
8 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Marketing
9 1 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 74 (24.50%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (19.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (12.58%) Senior
4 32 (10.60%) Lead
5 30 (9.93%) AWS DevOps
5 30 (9.93%) Developer
5 30 (9.93%) Platform Engineer
6 28 (9.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (8.94%) Architect
8 26 (8.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 23 (7.62%) Data Engineer
10 17 (5.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.64%) AWS Architect
11 14 (4.64%) Security Engineer
12 13 (4.30%) AWS Developer
12 13 (4.30%) Site Engineer
13 12 (3.97%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.64%) Consultant
14 11 (3.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (3.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.92%) Kafka
2 30 (9.93%) AWS CDK
3 27 (8.94%) Node.js
4 20 (6.62%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (5.96%) React
5 18 (5.96%) RESTful
6 17 (5.63%) Spring
7 14 (4.64%) JSON
8 13 (4.30%) REST
9 12 (3.97%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.64%) AngularJS
10 11 (3.64%) ARM Templates
11 9 (2.98%) Keycloak
12 8 (2.65%) OAuth
12 8 (2.65%) OpenID
13 7 (2.32%) cloud-init
13 7 (2.32%) OAuth2
13 7 (2.32%) SAML
13 7 (2.32%) Vue
14 6 (1.99%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (18.87%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.30%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.65%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.32%) PKI
4 7 (2.32%) Replication
5 5 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.66%) NHS
5 5 (1.66%) Private Cloud
5 5 (1.66%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.99%) SCADA
7 3 (0.99%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 74 (24.50%) Linux
2 17 (5.63%) Unix
3 10 (3.31%) Windows
4 7 (2.32%) CentOS
4 7 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.33%) VMS
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (70.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 203 (67.22%) CI/CD
3 185 (61.26%) DevOps
4 107 (35.43%) Containerisation
5 98 (32.45%) Agile
6 52 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (15.56%) Observability
8 39 (12.91%) Microservices
9 38 (12.58%) Migration
10 35 (11.59%) Infrastructure Automation
11 34 (11.26%) Configuration Management
11 34 (11.26%) DevSecOps
12 33 (10.93%) Platform Engineering
13 32 (10.60%) Mentoring
14 31 (10.26%) Test Automation
15 30 (9.93%) Cloud Security
16 29 (9.60%) Software Engineering
16 29 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
17 26 (8.61%) High Availability
18 25 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 142 (47.02%) Python
2 50 (16.56%) Bash
3 39 (12.91%) SQL
4 34 (11.26%) Go
4 34 (11.26%) Java
4 34 (11.26%) PowerShell
5 23 (7.62%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.28%) JavaScript
7 19 (6.29%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.64%) Ruby
9 7 (2.32%) Perl
10 6 (1.99%) C#
10 6 (1.99%) C++
10 6 (1.99%) Groovy
11 5 (1.66%) Scala
12 3 (0.99%) Bicep
12 3 (0.99%) C
12 3 (0.99%) PromQL
13 2 (0.66%) CodeQL
14 1 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 99 (32.78%) Security Cleared
2 82 (27.15%) SC Cleared
3 50 (16.56%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (3.97%) Degree
5 12 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.66%) CISSP
10 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.66%) CCSP
12 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.33%) MCP
13 1 (0.33%) OCP
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.60%) GDPR
2 19 (6.29%) QA
3 18 (5.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.64%) NIST
5 12 (3.97%) NCSC
6 10 (3.31%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.98%) PCI DSS
8 8 (2.65%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.32%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 133 (44.04%) Docker
2 13 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.33%) iptables
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 267 (88.41%) Terraform
2 137 (45.36%) Kubernetes
3 67 (22.19%) Ansible
4 44 (14.57%) Grafana
5 36 (11.92%) Packer
5 36 (11.92%) Prometheus
6 27 (8.94%) Puppet
7 25 (8.28%) Consul
8 15 (4.97%) Progress Chef
9 9 (2.98%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (2.32%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (1.99%) Podman
12 2 (0.66%) Argo
12 2 (0.66%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.66%) Istio
12 2 (0.66%) Nessus
12 2 (0.66%) Salt
12 2 (0.66%) SELinux
13 1 (0.33%) Bitnami
13 1 (0.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (6.95%) Splunk
2 13 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.97%) IBM
3 12 (3.97%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.64%) Databricks
5 10 (3.31%) Google
6 8 (2.65%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (2.32%) Alibaba
7 7 (2.32%) Confluent
7 7 (2.32%) Okta
8 5 (1.66%) Oracle
8 5 (1.66%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.66%) Sybase
9 4 (1.32%) CloudEndure
10 3 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.99%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.66%) Cisco
11 2 (0.66%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.66%) Teradata
11 2 (0.66%) VMware