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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 275 370
Rank change year-on-year -47 +95 -39
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 300 208 174
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.85% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 2.26% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 155 120
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £695 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £561 £509
% change year-on-year -6.46% +10.27% -7.45%
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 14,873 9,206 11,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.77% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,111 6,274 8,526
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 224 329
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.01 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +69.97% +16.52% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £42.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +32.14% +30.23% -44.55%

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 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 9 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 -22 208 £575 -4.17% 26
North of England -64 25 £581 +40.85% 27
Midlands -47 21 £463 -15.91% 5
West Midlands -48 17 £477 -4.60% 2
South West -20 16 £488 -15.22% 14
North West -33 14 £581 +45.25% 15
South East -51 11 £485 -14.25% 10
Yorkshire -51 11 £625 +21.95% 11
East of England -30 6 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands -25 4 £442 -36.82% 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 22 (7.33%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.67%) Apache
3 13 (4.33%) Confluence
4 5 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.00%) SAS
7 2 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.67%) nginx
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 292 (97.33%) AWS
2 111 (37.00%) Azure
3 108 (36.00%) Amazon S3
4 107 (35.67%) Serverless
5 94 (31.33%) AWS Lambda
6 90 (30.00%) GitHub
7 80 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 80 (26.67%) GCP
8 76 (25.33%) GitHub Actions
9 70 (23.33%) Amazon EKS
10 69 (23.00%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (17.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 51 (17.00%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (11.00%) AWS CodePipeline
14 29 (9.67%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (5.67%) Route 53
17 15 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
17 15 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 13 (4.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.00%) DNS
2 19 (6.33%) Firewall
3 14 (4.67%) Network Security
4 10 (3.33%) VPN
5 8 (2.67%) WAN
6 6 (2.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.33%) HTTP
7 4 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.33%) SSL
8 3 (1.00%) BGP
8 3 (1.00%) OSPF
8 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.67%) Internet
10 1 (0.33%) 4G
10 1 (0.33%) 5G
10 1 (0.33%) CTI
10 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.33%) LAN
10 1 (0.33%) MPLS
10 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.67%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
2 24 (8.00%) Data Lake
3 23 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (6.00%) DynamoDB
6 13 (4.33%) BigQuery
6 13 (4.33%) Mixpanel
6 13 (4.33%) Power BI
7 12 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 12 (4.00%) OLAP
7 12 (4.00%) OLTP
8 10 (3.33%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.33%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.67%) Redis
11 7 (2.33%) MySQL
12 6 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.67%) Big Data
13 5 (1.67%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 76 (25.33%) Jenkins
2 65 (21.67%) GitLab
3 46 (15.33%) Git
4 23 (7.67%) JIRA
5 17 (5.67%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.67%) CircleCI
6 11 (3.67%) Snyk
7 8 (2.67%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.33%) JUnit
8 4 (1.33%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.00%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.00%) Vite
10 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.67%) MLflow
10 2 (0.67%) Selenium
11 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.33%) Gradle
11 1 (0.33%) Mockito
11 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 78 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.33%) Finance
3 39 (13.00%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.00%) Banking
5 10 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.67%) Law
9 3 (1.00%) Games
9 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.67%) Front Office
10 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Marketing
10 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Billing
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (19.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (18.33%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (15.67%) Architect
4 43 (14.33%) Lead
5 37 (12.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (10.67%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (10.67%) Senior
7 29 (9.67%) Data Engineer
8 27 (9.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (8.00%) Developer
10 22 (7.33%) AWS Architect
11 21 (7.00%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (5.00%) Security Engineer
13 13 (4.33%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (3.67%) Lead DevOps
14 11 (3.67%) Principal Data Engineer
15 10 (3.33%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (3.33%) Software Engineer
16 9 (3.00%) Network Engineer
16 9 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.67%) Kafka
2 33 (11.00%) AWS CDK
3 23 (7.67%) Node.js
3 23 (7.67%) RESTful
4 18 (6.00%) Great Expectations
4 18 (6.00%) OAuth
5 17 (5.67%) PySpark
6 16 (5.33%) React
7 14 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (4.67%) REST
8 12 (4.00%) OAuth2
8 12 (4.00%) Spring
8 12 (4.00%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (3.00%) .NET
10 9 (3.00%) OpenID
11 7 (2.33%) boto
11 7 (2.33%) Pandas
12 6 (2.00%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 106 (35.33%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 21 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.33%) Replication
6 7 (2.33%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (2.00%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.67%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.33%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.00%) Equities
11 2 (0.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.00%) Linux
2 18 (6.00%) Windows
3 8 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.67%) Unix
5 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (84.00%) CI/CD
2 248 (82.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 191 (63.67%) DevOps
4 99 (33.00%) Containerisation
5 83 (27.67%) Observability
6 81 (27.00%) Agile
7 57 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (16.67%) DevSecOps
9 45 (15.00%) Microservices
10 43 (14.33%) AI
11 42 (14.00%) Analytics
12 39 (13.00%) High Availability
13 37 (12.33%) Data Engineering
14 36 (12.00%) Mentoring
15 35 (11.67%) Cloud Security
15 35 (11.67%) Incident Response
15 35 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
16 34 (11.33%) Event-Driven
16 34 (11.33%) Infrastructure Automation
17 33 (11.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 133 (44.33%) Python
2 56 (18.67%) SQL
3 47 (15.67%) Java
4 39 (13.00%) Bash
5 31 (10.33%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.33%) Bicep
7 16 (5.33%) C#
7 16 (5.33%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.67%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.00%) Go
10 6 (2.00%) Ruby
10 6 (2.00%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.00%) Groovy
11 3 (1.00%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.00%) Scala
12 2 (0.67%) C
13 1 (0.33%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.33%) Perl
13 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 89 (29.67%) Security Cleared
2 74 (24.67%) SC Cleared
3 41 (13.67%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.33%) Degree
5 15 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (3.33%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.00%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.33%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.67%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.33%) CISSP
11 4 (1.33%) IBM Certification
12 3 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.00%) CCSP
12 3 (1.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.67%) GDPR
2 25 (8.33%) NIST
3 23 (7.67%) Data Quality
4 21 (7.00%) PCI DSS
5 16 (5.33%) QA
6 15 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.33%) GRC
7 4 (1.33%) SLA
8 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.00%) NCSC
8 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) HL7
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 117 (39.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.00%) Squid
3 2 (0.67%) Corosync
3 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.33%) HDFS
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 275 (91.67%) Terraform
2 115 (38.33%) Kubernetes
3 46 (15.33%) Ansible
4 38 (12.67%) Prometheus
5 35 (11.67%) Grafana
6 10 (3.33%) Puppet
7 9 (3.00%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.33%) Argo
8 7 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.00%) Istio
10 5 (1.67%) linkerd
11 4 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.33%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.33%) Kibana
11 4 (1.33%) Packer
12 3 (1.00%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.67%) Consul
13 2 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.33%) CloudForms
14 1 (0.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 25 (8.33%) Google
2 21 (7.00%) Databricks
3 20 (6.67%) Splunk
4 17 (5.67%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.67%) Oracle
6 8 (2.67%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.00%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.00%) IBM
8 5 (1.67%) New Relic
8 5 (1.67%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.67%) SAP
8 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.33%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.33%) Qualys
9 4 (1.33%) Sybase
9 4 (1.33%) Tenable
10 3 (1.00%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.00%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.00%) Zscaler