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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 263 378
Rank change year-on-year -63 +115 -58
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 288 226 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.91% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 2.42% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 165 119
10th Percentile £400 £400 £423
25th Percentile £445 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £633 £675
90th Percentile £669 £695 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -7.27%
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 15,046 9,350 12,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.69% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,190 6,358 8,621
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 234 338
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%
75th Percentile £69.60 £38.50 £43.44
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%

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 June 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 18 June 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 -18 200 £573 -4.58% 27
North of England -74 21 £600 +46.07% 22
Midlands -43 19 £463 -15.91% 1
South West -14 18 £450 -25.00% 12
West Midlands -43 15 £477 -4.60% 1
North West -35 13 £581 +45.25% 15
South East -50 11 £485 -14.25% 18
Yorkshire -63 8 £663 +32.50% 6
East of England -28 6 £450 -10.00%
East Midlands -19 4 £442 -36.82%
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 20 (6.94%) Apache Spark
2 18 (6.25%) Apache
3 14 (4.86%) Confluence
4 6 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.04%) SAS
7 2 (0.69%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.69%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 281 (97.57%) AWS
2 109 (37.85%) Serverless
3 107 (37.15%) Amazon S3
4 98 (34.03%) Azure
5 94 (32.64%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (28.47%) GitHub
7 81 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 69 (23.96%) Amazon ECS
8 69 (23.96%) GitHub Actions
9 65 (22.57%) Amazon EKS
9 65 (22.57%) GCP
10 47 (16.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 46 (15.97%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (10.76%) AWS CodePipeline
13 29 (10.07%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (5.90%) AWS Step Functions
16 15 (5.21%) Route 53
17 13 (4.51%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (4.51%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.99%) DNS
2 17 (5.90%) Firewall
3 14 (4.86%) Network Security
4 10 (3.47%) WAN
5 8 (2.78%) VPN
6 4 (1.39%) BGP
6 4 (1.39%) HTTP
6 4 (1.39%) SSL
7 3 (1.04%) OSPF
7 3 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.04%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.69%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) 4G
9 1 (0.35%) 5G
9 1 (0.35%) CTI
9 1 (0.35%) LAN
9 1 (0.35%) MPLS
9 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.07%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.29%) Amazon Athena
2 21 (7.29%) Data Lake
3 20 (6.94%) DynamoDB
3 20 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (4.17%) BigQuery
5 12 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.82%) Mixpanel
6 11 (3.82%) Power BI
7 10 (3.47%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.47%) OLAP
7 10 (3.47%) OLTP
8 8 (2.78%) Redis
8 8 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.43%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.43%) MySQL
10 5 (1.74%) Metadata
10 5 (1.74%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 72 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 57 (19.79%) GitLab
3 41 (14.24%) Git
4 24 (8.33%) JIRA
5 17 (5.90%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.13%) Snyk
7 7 (2.43%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.43%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.04%) JUnit
8 3 (1.04%) Vite
9 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.69%) MLflow
9 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.69%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.35%) git-flow
10 1 (0.35%) Mockito
10 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 75 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.89%) Finance
3 39 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.86%) Banking
5 11 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.39%) Law
10 3 (1.04%) Games
10 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.69%) Front Office
11 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Marketing
11 2 (0.69%) Military
11 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 58 (20.14%) AWS Engineer
1 58 (20.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (14.58%) Architect
3 39 (13.54%) Lead
4 36 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (12.15%) AWS DevOps
5 35 (12.15%) Senior
6 30 (10.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 29 (10.07%) Data Engineer
8 23 (7.99%) Developer
9 20 (6.94%) AWS Architect
10 17 (5.90%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (4.51%) Security Engineer
12 12 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (3.82%) Lead DevOps
14 10 (3.47%) Lead Data Engineer
14 10 (3.47%) Principal Data Engineer
14 10 (3.47%) Software Engineer
15 9 (3.13%) Network Engineer
15 9 (3.13%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.19%) Kafka
2 35 (12.15%) AWS CDK
3 23 (7.99%) Node.js
4 22 (7.64%) RESTful
5 19 (6.60%) OAuth
6 17 (5.90%) PySpark
6 17 (5.90%) React
7 16 (5.56%) Great Expectations
7 16 (5.56%) REST
8 13 (4.51%) OAuth2
9 12 (4.17%) Spring
9 12 (4.17%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (3.13%) OpenID
12 7 (2.43%) boto
12 7 (2.43%) Pandas
13 6 (2.08%) .NET
13 6 (2.08%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 106 (36.81%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 21 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.51%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.43%) Replication
5 7 (2.43%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.74%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.74%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.39%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.39%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.39%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.04%) Equities
9 3 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.42%) Linux
2 16 (5.56%) Windows
3 9 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.69%) Unix
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (82.99%) CI/CD
2 238 (82.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 181 (62.85%) DevOps
4 98 (34.03%) Containerisation
5 81 (28.13%) Agile
6 75 (26.04%) Observability
7 55 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (16.67%) Microservices
9 44 (15.28%) AI
9 44 (15.28%) DevSecOps
10 41 (14.24%) Analytics
11 40 (13.89%) High Availability
12 39 (13.54%) Platform Engineering
13 35 (12.15%) Data Engineering
13 35 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (11.81%) Event-Driven
14 34 (11.81%) Infrastructure Automation
15 33 (11.46%) Cloud Security
15 33 (11.46%) Mentoring
16 32 (11.11%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 131 (45.49%) Python
2 52 (18.06%) SQL
3 39 (13.54%) Java
4 35 (12.15%) Bash
5 27 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.60%) Bicep
7 15 (5.21%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.17%) C#
9 11 (3.82%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.43%) Go
11 5 (1.74%) Ruby
12 3 (1.04%) Groovy
12 3 (1.04%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.04%) Scala
12 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.69%) C
14 1 (0.35%) Perl
14 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.35%) R
14 1 (0.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 88 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 76 (26.39%) SC Cleared
3 41 (14.24%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (5.56%) Degree
5 15 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (3.47%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.13%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.43%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.74%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.39%) IBM Certification
12 3 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.04%) CCSP
12 3 (1.04%) CISSP
12 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.38%) GDPR
2 23 (7.99%) NIST
3 22 (7.64%) Data Quality
3 22 (7.64%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (5.56%) QA
5 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.39%) GRC
6 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.69%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 110 (38.19%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.04%) Squid
3 2 (0.69%) Corosync
3 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 264 (91.67%) Terraform
2 108 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 37 (12.85%) Prometheus
4 36 (12.50%) Ansible
5 32 (11.11%) Grafana
6 10 (3.47%) Puppet
7 8 (2.78%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.43%) Argo
8 7 (2.43%) Istio
8 7 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.08%) linkerd
10 5 (1.74%) Packer
11 4 (1.39%) 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%) Kibana
14 1 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 22 (7.64%) Google
2 20 (6.94%) Databricks
3 17 (5.90%) Microsoft
4 16 (5.56%) Splunk
5 9 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.08%) AVEVA
6 6 (2.08%) IBM
6 6 (2.08%) Oracle
7 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.74%) New Relic
7 5 (1.74%) SAP
8 4 (1.39%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.39%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.39%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.39%) Sybase
9 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.04%) Trend Micro
9 3 (1.04%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.69%) Globalscape
10 2 (0.69%) OpenAI