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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 259 379
Rank change year-on-year -81 +120 -47
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 289 261 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.96% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 2.57% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 190 105
10th Percentile £400 £400 £414
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £675
90th Percentile £669 £682 £778
UK median daily rate £525 £534 £508
% change year-on-year -1.69% +5.12% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 15,626 10,136 12,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.36% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,489 6,852 8,592
10th Percentile £325 £311 £311
25th Percentile £419 £409 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 266 324
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.84 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%

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 July 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 July 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 -53 187 £550 -8.33% 37
Midlands -42 22 £470 +4.39% 13
North of England -80 22 £623 +51.55% 35
South West -21 20 £450 -25.00% 15
South East -52 19 £549 -2.88% 23
West Midlands -54 18 £477 +6.00% 7
North West -43 14 £600 +50.00% 15
Yorkshire -60 8 £663 +32.50% 10
East of England -23 6 £450 -5.26% 7
East Midlands -9 4 £442 -36.82% 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 18 (6.23%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.54%) Apache
3 14 (4.84%) Confluence
4 6 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.04%) SAS
7 2 (0.69%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.69%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 283 (97.92%) AWS
2 111 (38.41%) Azure
3 105 (36.33%) Serverless
4 104 (35.99%) Amazon S3
5 87 (30.10%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (28.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 77 (26.64%) GCP
8 70 (24.22%) GitHub
9 65 (22.49%) GitHub Actions
10 61 (21.11%) Amazon ECS
11 60 (20.76%) Amazon EKS
12 50 (17.30%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (16.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (9.00%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (9.00%) AWS CodePipeline
16 22 (7.61%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (6.57%) Route 53
18 16 (5.54%) AWS CloudTrail
19 15 (5.19%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.03%) DNS
1 29 (10.03%) Firewall
2 15 (5.19%) Network Security
3 11 (3.81%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.81%) WAN
4 9 (3.11%) VPN
5 8 (2.77%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.42%) DHCP
7 4 (1.38%) BGP
7 4 (1.38%) HTTP
7 4 (1.38%) SSL
8 3 (1.04%) CTI
8 3 (1.04%) NetScaler
8 3 (1.04%) OSPF
8 3 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.04%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.69%) Internet
10 1 (0.35%) 5G
10 1 (0.35%) MPLS
10 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.34%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.27%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.57%) Data Lake
4 18 (6.23%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.46%) BigQuery
8 9 (3.11%) Mixpanel
8 9 (3.11%) Power BI
9 8 (2.77%) OLAP
9 8 (2.77%) OLTP
9 8 (2.77%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.42%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.42%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.73%) Metadata
12 5 (1.73%) Redshift Spectrum
13 4 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 77 (26.64%) Jenkins
2 58 (20.07%) GitLab
3 39 (13.49%) Git
4 25 (8.65%) JIRA
5 17 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.77%) Snyk
6 8 (2.77%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.42%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.04%) Vite
9 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.69%) JUnit
9 2 (0.69%) MLflow
9 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.69%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.35%) git-flow
10 1 (0.35%) Maven
10 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 73 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.84%) Public Sector
3 38 (13.15%) Finance
4 15 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.19%) Banking
5 9 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.38%) Law
8 4 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.04%) Games
9 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.69%) Front Office
10 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Military
10 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Advertising
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (20.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (19.38%) AWS Engineer
3 50 (17.30%) Architect
4 42 (14.53%) Lead
5 35 (12.11%) AWS DevOps
5 35 (12.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (12.11%) Senior
6 30 (10.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 24 (8.30%) Data Engineer
7 24 (8.30%) Developer
8 18 (6.23%) AWS Architect
9 13 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
9 13 (4.50%) Security Engineer
10 12 (4.15%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.46%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (3.46%) Network Engineer
12 10 (3.46%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.11%) AWS CDK
2 28 (9.69%) Kafka
3 21 (7.27%) Node.js
4 17 (5.88%) PySpark
5 15 (5.19%) RESTful
6 14 (4.84%) Great Expectations
6 14 (4.84%) REST
7 13 (4.50%) OAuth
7 13 (4.50%) React
8 9 (3.11%) ARM Templates
8 9 (3.11%) OAuth2
9 8 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.77%) Pandas
10 6 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.08%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.73%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.73%) OpenID
11 5 (1.73%) Spring
12 4 (1.38%) .NET
12 4 (1.38%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 98 (33.91%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.30%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (3.46%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.42%) Replication
9 6 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.08%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.04%) IVR
12 3 (1.04%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.69%) Fixed Income
13 2 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.80%) Linux
2 26 (9.00%) Windows
3 11 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.04%) AIX
5 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.69%) Unix
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (85.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 226 (78.20%) CI/CD
3 185 (64.01%) DevOps
4 102 (35.29%) Containerisation
5 84 (29.07%) Agile
6 68 (23.53%) Observability
7 57 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (14.88%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (14.53%) Microservices
10 41 (14.19%) AI
10 41 (14.19%) DevSecOps
11 39 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (13.15%) High Availability
13 37 (12.80%) Analytics
13 37 (12.80%) Migration
14 36 (12.46%) Cloud Security
15 34 (11.76%) Scrum
16 33 (11.42%) Incident Response
16 33 (11.42%) Mentoring
16 33 (11.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 145 (50.17%) Python
2 54 (18.69%) Bash
3 45 (15.57%) PowerShell
4 42 (14.53%) SQL
5 30 (10.38%) Java
6 25 (8.65%) Bicep
7 16 (5.54%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.81%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.46%) C#
10 9 (3.11%) Go
11 5 (1.73%) Ruby
12 4 (1.38%) Groovy
13 3 (1.04%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.04%) Scala
13 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.69%) C
15 1 (0.35%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (34.95%) Security Cleared
2 88 (30.45%) SC Cleared
3 42 (14.53%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (5.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 15 (5.19%) Degree
7 12 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.81%) Azure Certification
9 9 (3.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (3.11%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (2.77%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.69%) PMP
13 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.27%) Data Quality
1 21 (7.27%) GDPR
2 16 (5.54%) NIST
2 16 (5.54%) PCI DSS
3 12 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.15%) QA
4 4 (1.38%) GRC
5 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.04%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.69%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 110 (38.06%) Docker
2 4 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) Squid
4 2 (0.69%) Corosync
4 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 270 (93.43%) Terraform
2 109 (37.72%) Kubernetes
3 40 (13.84%) Prometheus
4 37 (12.80%) Grafana
5 33 (11.42%) Ansible
6 13 (4.50%) Puppet
7 10 (3.46%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.42%) Argo
8 7 (2.42%) Istio
9 6 (2.08%) linkerd
9 6 (2.08%) Packer
10 5 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (1.04%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.69%) Consul
13 2 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.69%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
14 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 29 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.34%) Google
3 17 (5.88%) Splunk
4 16 (5.54%) Databricks
5 11 (3.81%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.77%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.08%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.08%) Oracle
8 5 (1.73%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.73%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.73%) SAP
8 5 (1.73%) VMware
9 4 (1.38%) Cisco
9 4 (1.38%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.04%) New Relic
10 3 (1.04%) Sybase
10 3 (1.04%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.04%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.69%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.69%) ServiceNow