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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 268 371
Rank change year-on-year -85 +103 -40
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 287 265 156
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.96% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 2.58% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 202 96
10th Percentile £400 £400 £403
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £678
90th Percentile £671 £688 £778
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £508
% change year-on-year +2.38% +3.35% -4.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.61 - -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.90% - -
75th Percentile £69.82 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.90% - -

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 15,926 10,278 11,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.18% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 6,965 7,955
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 273 230
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.01 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -90 166 £550 -8.33% 175
North of England -58 39 £609 +48.27% 56
North West -30 26 £605 +51.25% 25
Midlands -40 22 £481 -16.35% 21
South West -27 21 £488 -18.75% 41
South East -50 20 £570 +0.88% 25
West Midlands -33 18 £488 -4.88% 12
Yorkshire -52 9 £663 +39.47% 15
East of England -22 6 £450 -5.26% 4
East Midlands -13 4 £466 -33.50% 9
North East -40 4 £500 +20.12% 16
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 12 (4.18%) Apache Spark
1 12 (4.18%) Confluence
2 10 (3.48%) Apache
3 6 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.05%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 282 (98.26%) AWS
2 121 (42.16%) Azure
3 112 (39.02%) Serverless
4 93 (32.40%) Amazon S3
4 93 (32.40%) AWS Lambda
5 88 (30.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 79 (27.53%) GCP
7 70 (24.39%) GitHub
8 67 (23.34%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (20.56%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (19.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 53 (18.47%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (17.42%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (12.54%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (8.71%) AWS Step Functions
15 23 (8.01%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (6.62%) AWS CloudTrail
16 19 (6.62%) Datadog
17 18 (6.27%) AWS KMS
18 16 (5.57%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.76%) DNS
2 26 (9.06%) Firewall
3 11 (3.83%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.48%) Network Security
5 9 (3.14%) WAN
6 8 (2.79%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.44%) DHCP
8 6 (2.09%) VPN
9 5 (1.74%) SSL
10 4 (1.39%) HTTP
10 4 (1.39%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.05%) CTI
12 2 (0.70%) BGP
12 2 (0.70%) Internet
13 1 (0.35%) 4G
13 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.35%) LAN
13 1 (0.35%) MPLS
13 1 (0.35%) OSPF
13 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.54%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.36%) DynamoDB
3 21 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.57%) MySQL
5 15 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (4.88%) Data Lake
6 14 (4.88%) SQL Server
7 13 (4.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (4.18%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.83%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.44%) Redis
12 5 (1.74%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.74%) Metadata
13 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.39%) Big Data
13 4 (1.39%) Mixpanel
13 4 (1.39%) OLAP
13 4 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 74 (25.78%) Jenkins
2 61 (21.25%) GitLab
3 42 (14.63%) Git
4 23 (8.01%) JIRA
5 16 (5.57%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.14%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.79%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.79%) Snyk
8 6 (2.09%) JUnit
8 6 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.39%) Mockito
10 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.05%) Maven
10 3 (1.05%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.70%) MLflow
11 2 (0.70%) Selenium
12 1 (0.35%) Gradle
12 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 74 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.33%) Public Sector
3 41 (14.29%) Finance
4 16 (5.57%) Banking
5 12 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.39%) Law
9 3 (1.05%) Games
9 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.70%) Front Office
10 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Military
11 1 (0.35%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (19.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (18.47%) AWS Engineer
3 44 (15.33%) Architect
4 40 (13.94%) Senior
5 37 (12.89%) AWS DevOps
5 37 (12.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (12.54%) Lead
7 31 (10.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.36%) Developer
9 21 (7.32%) Data Engineer
9 21 (7.32%) Security Engineer
10 17 (5.92%) AWS Architect
11 15 (5.23%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.83%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 10 (3.48%) Network Engineer
15 9 (3.14%) Scrum Master
16 8 (2.79%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.10%) AWS CDK
2 23 (8.01%) Kafka
3 19 (6.62%) REST
4 17 (5.92%) Node.js
5 16 (5.57%) RESTful
6 13 (4.53%) PySpark
7 12 (4.18%) React
8 10 (3.48%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.14%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.14%) Great Expectations
9 9 (3.14%) Spring
10 8 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.44%) Pandas
12 6 (2.09%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.39%) boto
13 4 (1.39%) LangChain
13 4 (1.39%) OAuth
13 4 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (1.39%) Vue
14 3 (1.05%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 95 (33.10%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.57%) Security Posture
5 15 (5.23%) Replication
6 14 (4.88%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (4.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 11 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.09%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.09%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.74%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.05%) IVR
12 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.70%) Clustering
13 2 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.29%) Linux
2 27 (9.41%) Windows
3 16 (5.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.74%) Unix
4 5 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.39%) AIX
6 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (87.80%) Infrastructure as Code
2 223 (77.70%) CI/CD
3 184 (64.11%) DevOps
4 96 (33.45%) Containerisation
5 90 (31.36%) Agile
6 69 (24.04%) Observability
7 52 (18.12%) Cloud Security
7 52 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (15.68%) Microservices
9 44 (15.33%) Platform Engineering
10 41 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (13.59%) AI
11 39 (13.59%) DevSecOps
11 39 (13.59%) High Availability
12 38 (13.24%) Test Automation
13 37 (12.89%) Scrum
14 36 (12.54%) Infrastructure Automation
14 36 (12.54%) Migration
15 31 (10.80%) Event-Driven
15 31 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 146 (50.87%) Python
2 67 (23.34%) Bash
3 58 (20.21%) PowerShell
4 48 (16.72%) SQL
5 35 (12.20%) Java
6 34 (11.85%) Bicep
7 17 (5.92%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.48%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.44%) Go
10 5 (1.74%) C#
11 4 (1.39%) Groovy
11 4 (1.39%) Ruby
11 4 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.05%) R
12 3 (1.05%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.05%) Scala
13 2 (0.70%) C
13 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.35%) C++
14 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 106 (36.93%) Security Cleared
2 92 (32.06%) SC Cleared
3 51 (17.77%) AWS Certification
4 28 (9.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (6.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 16 (5.57%) Degree
7 14 (4.88%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.14%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (2.79%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.74%) CISSP
10 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.01%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.23%) QA
3 12 (4.18%) GDPR
4 10 (3.48%) NIST
5 9 (3.14%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.09%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.05%) NCSC
8 3 (1.05%) SLA
8 3 (1.05%) WCAG
9 1 (0.35%) GRC
9 1 (0.35%) HL7
9 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 111 (38.68%) Docker
2 6 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.05%) Squid
4 2 (0.70%) Corosync
4 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 267 (93.03%) Terraform
2 123 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.63%) Grafana
4 37 (12.89%) Prometheus
5 35 (12.20%) Ansible
6 13 (4.53%) Puppet
7 12 (4.18%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.14%) Argo
9 7 (2.44%) Istio
10 4 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.39%) linkerd
10 4 (1.39%) Packer
11 3 (1.05%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.35%) Kibana
13 1 (0.35%) Podman
13 1 (0.35%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.71%) Google
3 16 (5.57%) Red Hat
4 15 (5.23%) Splunk
5 9 (3.14%) Databricks
6 8 (2.79%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.79%) Infoblox
7 7 (2.44%) Oracle
8 6 (2.09%) VMware
9 5 (1.74%) Cisco
9 5 (1.74%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.74%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.39%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.05%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.05%) SAP
11 3 (1.05%) Sybase
11 3 (1.05%) Teradata
11 3 (1.05%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.05%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.70%) Informatica