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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 281 351
Rank change year-on-year +20 +70 -56
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 363 214 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.86% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.72% 2.26% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 163 148
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £513 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £628 £738 £660
90th Percentile £688 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £605 £538
% change year-on-year -13.15% +12.47% -2.27%
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 13,352 9,455 12,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.09% 37.96% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,192 6,547 8,877
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £410 £419 £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 £707 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 156 331
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.16% +27.68% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +44.23% +21.67% -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 9 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 9 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 +34 232 £550 -9.47% 51
North of England -29 57 £500 -23.08% 23
North West -4 33 £525 - 12
South East -26 27 £505 -22.31% 19
Yorkshire -54 19 £500 -29.82% 5
Midlands -49 14 £450 -5.26% 8
South West -21 12 £563 +2.27% 16
West Midlands -46 11 £575 +21.05% 5
North East -8 5 £466 -37.87% 6
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 3
East of England -32 1 £600 -22.58% 2
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 32 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 30 (8.26%) Apache
3 18 (4.96%) Confluence
4 16 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (4.13%) nginx
6 5 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.55%) SAS
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Actimize
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 350 (96.42%) AWS
2 128 (35.26%) Amazon S3
2 128 (35.26%) Serverless
3 121 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 103 (28.37%) Azure
5 102 (28.10%) GitHub
6 100 (27.55%) Amazon ECS
7 79 (21.76%) GitHub Actions
8 78 (21.49%) GCP
9 77 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
10 71 (19.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 70 (19.28%) Amazon EC2
12 61 (16.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 41 (11.29%) AWS CodePipeline
14 32 (8.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 30 (8.26%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (6.89%) AWS KMS
17 23 (6.34%) Route 53
18 21 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (5.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.64%) DNS
2 22 (6.06%) Firewall
3 15 (4.13%) VPN
4 14 (3.86%) Network Security
5 9 (2.48%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.20%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.38%) DHCP
8 3 (0.83%) HTTP
8 3 (0.83%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.83%) WAN
9 2 (0.55%) BGP
9 2 (0.55%) OSPF
10 1 (0.28%) 4G
10 1 (0.28%) 5G
10 1 (0.28%) Internet
10 1 (0.28%) NAS
10 1 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (16.80%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (9.92%) Data Lake
4 32 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
5 30 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (6.06%) DynamoDB
7 19 (5.23%) Power BI
8 18 (4.96%) SQL Server
9 17 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (4.41%) BigQuery
10 16 (4.41%) Mixpanel
11 15 (4.13%) OLAP
11 15 (4.13%) OLTP
12 14 (3.86%) NoSQL
13 13 (3.58%) MongoDB
14 10 (2.75%) MySQL
15 8 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (2.20%) Redis
15 8 (2.20%) Redshift Spectrum
15 8 (2.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 77 (21.21%) Git
3 74 (20.39%) GitLab
4 28 (7.71%) JIRA
5 18 (4.96%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.75%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.20%) JUnit
7 8 (2.20%) Snyk
8 7 (1.93%) Maven
8 7 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.93%) Terragrunt
9 6 (1.65%) Gradle
10 5 (1.38%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.10%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.10%) Selenium
12 3 (0.83%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.83%) Postman
12 3 (0.83%) Vite
12 3 (0.83%) webpack
13 1 (0.28%) MLflow
General
1 81 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 65 (17.91%) Public Sector
3 54 (14.88%) Finance
4 21 (5.79%) Banking
5 20 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.38%) Law
10 3 (0.83%) Games
10 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Marketing
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Advertising
12 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.28%) Billing
12 1 (0.28%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (19.28%) AWS Engineer
2 66 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (15.15%) Architect
4 48 (13.22%) Lead
5 43 (11.85%) Senior
6 37 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (10.19%) Data Engineer
7 32 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
8 30 (8.26%) AWS Architect
9 28 (7.71%) Developer
10 27 (7.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 23 (6.34%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (6.06%) Security Engineer
13 20 (5.51%) Site Engineer
14 19 (5.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 17 (4.68%) Software Engineer
16 16 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
17 14 (3.86%) Principal Engineer
18 13 (3.58%) Principal Data Engineer
19 12 (3.31%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (17.08%) Kafka
2 30 (8.26%) RESTful
3 28 (7.71%) AWS CDK
4 27 (7.44%) Node.js
5 23 (6.34%) Spring
6 22 (6.06%) Spring Boot
7 21 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (4.96%) REST
9 17 (4.68%) OAuth
9 17 (4.68%) React
10 16 (4.41%) Great Expectations
11 12 (3.31%) OAuth2
12 10 (2.75%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (2.75%) PySpark
13 9 (2.48%) boto
13 9 (2.48%) OpenID
14 8 (2.20%) .NET
14 8 (2.20%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.20%) Flask
14 8 (2.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 95 (26.17%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.20%) Private Cloud
5 8 (2.20%) Replication
6 7 (1.93%) PKI
7 5 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.38%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.38%) NHS
7 5 (1.38%) SCADA
7 5 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (21.76%) Linux
2 22 (6.06%) Windows
3 15 (4.13%) Unix
4 3 (0.83%) CentOS
4 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.83%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (81.27%) CI/CD
2 282 (77.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 210 (57.85%) DevOps
4 116 (31.96%) Containerisation
5 96 (26.45%) Agile
6 86 (23.69%) Observability
7 55 (15.15%) Microservices
8 51 (14.05%) Analytics
8 51 (14.05%) Migration
9 49 (13.50%) AI
10 48 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (12.95%) DevSecOps
11 47 (12.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 46 (12.67%) Infrastructure Automation
13 45 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
14 44 (12.12%) Data Engineering
15 42 (11.57%) Incident Response
16 41 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (11.29%) Data Modelling
16 41 (11.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 187 (51.52%) Python
2 68 (18.73%) SQL
3 57 (15.70%) Bash
4 54 (14.88%) Java
5 33 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.51%) Ruby
7 19 (5.23%) C#
8 18 (4.96%) JavaScript
8 18 (4.96%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.41%) Go
10 15 (4.13%) Bicep
11 12 (3.31%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.38%) Perl
12 5 (1.38%) Scala
13 3 (0.83%) C
14 2 (0.55%) SAS Macro
15 1 (0.28%) Groovy
15 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.28%) R
15 1 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 109 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 92 (25.34%) SC Cleared
3 75 (20.66%) AWS Certification
4 25 (6.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (4.68%) Degree
6 15 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.58%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.58%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.93%) CISSP
9 7 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.38%) CCSP
10 5 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.38%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.10%) IBM Certification
12 3 (0.83%) SANS
12 3 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.67%) GDPR
2 28 (7.71%) NIST
3 25 (6.89%) Data Quality
3 25 (6.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (5.51%) QA
5 18 (4.96%) PCI DSS
6 13 (3.58%) NCSC
7 8 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.65%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.65%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.10%) GRC
9 4 (1.10%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.83%) SLA
11 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 153 (42.15%) Docker
2 6 (1.65%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 326 (89.81%) Terraform
2 145 (39.94%) Kubernetes
3 69 (19.01%) Ansible
4 46 (12.67%) Grafana
5 40 (11.02%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.51%) Puppet
7 18 (4.96%) Packer
8 14 (3.86%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.58%) Consul
10 6 (1.65%) Argo
10 6 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.38%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.10%) Istio
12 4 (1.10%) Kibana
12 4 (1.10%) linkerd
13 3 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.83%) Podman
14 2 (0.55%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 34 (9.37%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.26%) Databricks
3 29 (7.99%) Google
4 27 (7.44%) Splunk
5 11 (3.03%) Oracle
6 10 (2.75%) CloudEndure
7 9 (2.48%) IBM
7 9 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.20%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.93%) Citrix
10 6 (1.65%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.65%) Rapid7
10 6 (1.65%) VMware
11 5 (1.38%) New Relic
11 5 (1.38%) Sybase
12 4 (1.10%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.10%) Confluent
12 4 (1.10%) Qualys
12 4 (1.10%) Tenable
13 3 (0.83%) Ping Identity