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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 266 382
Rank change year-on-year -86 +116 -32
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 280 270 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.98% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 2.63% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 205 92
10th Percentile £400 £400 £401
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £775
UK median daily rate £531 £533 £508
% change year-on-year -0.40% +4.95% -3.24%
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 15,872 10,285 11,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.72% 37.27% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,606 6,960 7,889
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 275 197
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.70% -6.07% -15.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.86
% change year-on-year +21.39% +0.50% -20.40%

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 27 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 27 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 -87 157 £550 -8.33% 176
North of England -66 41 £609 +48.90% 59
North West -34 26 £605 +53.16% 30
Midlands -41 23 £481 -16.35% 24
South West -32 21 £488 -17.89% 37
South East -45 20 £570 +3.64% 25
West Midlands -41 18 £488 -15.22% 13
Yorkshire -59 11 £656 +38.16% 16
East of England -24 6 £450 -5.26% 7
East Midlands -11 5 £466 -33.50% 11
North East -39 4 £500 +20.12% 13
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 14 (5.00%) Confluence
2 8 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.50%) Apache
4 6 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 275 (98.21%) AWS
2 111 (39.64%) Azure
2 111 (39.64%) Serverless
3 92 (32.86%) AWS Lambda
4 89 (31.79%) Amazon S3
5 85 (30.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 75 (26.79%) GCP
7 67 (23.93%) GitHub
8 62 (22.14%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (20.36%) Amazon EKS
9 57 (20.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 51 (18.21%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (16.07%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (8.57%) AWS Step Functions
14 21 (7.50%) AWS KMS
15 20 (7.14%) Datadog
16 19 (6.79%) AWS CloudTrail
17 12 (4.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.29%) Firewall
2 24 (8.57%) DNS
3 11 (3.93%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.57%) Network Security
5 9 (3.21%) WAN
6 8 (2.86%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.50%) DHCP
8 6 (2.14%) SSL
8 6 (2.14%) VPN
9 4 (1.43%) HTTP
9 4 (1.43%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.07%) CTI
11 2 (0.71%) BGP
11 2 (0.71%) Internet
12 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.36%) LAN
12 1 (0.36%) MPLS
12 1 (0.36%) OSPF
12 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.21%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.57%) DynamoDB
3 23 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.43%) MySQL
5 15 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 13 (4.64%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.29%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (3.93%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.21%) NoSQL
11 8 (2.86%) Redis
12 6 (2.14%) BigQuery
12 6 (2.14%) Metadata
13 4 (1.43%) Power BI
13 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.07%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (1.07%) Mixpanel
14 3 (1.07%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 69 (24.64%) Jenkins
2 57 (20.36%) GitLab
3 40 (14.29%) Git
4 25 (8.93%) JIRA
5 13 (4.64%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.86%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.50%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.14%) Snyk
9 5 (1.79%) JUnit
10 4 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.43%) Maven
10 4 (1.43%) Mockito
11 3 (1.07%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.07%) Spinnaker
12 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.71%) MLflow
12 2 (0.71%) Selenium
13 1 (0.36%) Gradle
General
1 79 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.36%) Public Sector
3 42 (15.00%) Finance
4 13 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.29%) Banking
6 7 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.43%) Law
9 3 (1.07%) Games
9 3 (1.07%) Military
9 3 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Aviation
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (18.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (18.21%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (14.29%) Architect
4 39 (13.93%) Senior
5 38 (13.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
7 32 (11.43%) Lead
8 29 (10.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 23 (8.21%) Data Engineer
9 23 (8.21%) Developer
9 23 (8.21%) Security Engineer
10 18 (6.43%) AWS Architect
11 15 (5.36%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (4.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 10 (3.57%) DBA
13 10 (3.57%) Network Engineer
13 10 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.21%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (93.21%) Terraform
2 27 (9.64%) AWS CDK
3 20 (7.14%) Kafka
3 20 (7.14%) REST
4 17 (6.07%) Node.js
5 14 (5.00%) RESTful
6 12 (4.29%) React
7 11 (3.93%) PySpark
7 11 (3.93%) Spring Boot
8 10 (3.57%) ARM Templates
8 10 (3.57%) Spring
9 9 (3.21%) Great Expectations
10 8 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.86%) Pandas
11 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.79%) OAuth
13 4 (1.43%) Jest
13 4 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (1.43%) Pulumi
13 4 (1.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 96 (34.29%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.71%) Security Posture
5 15 (5.36%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.29%) Replication
7 10 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.50%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.14%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.79%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.07%) Autonomous Agent
12 3 (1.07%) Clustering
12 3 (1.07%) IVR
12 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.07%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.00%) Linux
2 25 (8.93%) Windows
3 17 (6.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.79%) Unix
4 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.43%) AIX
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (89.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 216 (77.14%) CI/CD
3 178 (63.57%) DevOps
4 93 (33.21%) Containerisation
5 92 (32.86%) Agile
6 73 (26.07%) Observability
7 54 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (18.93%) Cloud Security
9 48 (17.14%) Microservices
10 46 (16.43%) Platform Engineering
11 44 (15.71%) Test Automation
12 40 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (13.93%) AI
13 39 (13.93%) High Availability
14 37 (13.21%) Infrastructure Automation
14 37 (13.21%) Scrum
15 36 (12.86%) DevSecOps
16 35 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
17 33 (11.79%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 140 (50.00%) Python
2 65 (23.21%) Bash
3 54 (19.29%) PowerShell
4 47 (16.79%) SQL
5 38 (13.57%) Java
6 31 (11.07%) Bicep
7 19 (6.79%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.50%) Go
10 4 (1.43%) C#
10 4 (1.43%) Groovy
10 4 (1.43%) Ruby
11 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.07%) R
11 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.71%) C
12 2 (0.71%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Korn
13 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 102 (36.43%) Security Cleared
2 90 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.79%) AWS Certification
4 29 (10.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (6.79%) Degree
6 15 (5.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (4.64%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.21%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.50%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.14%) CISSP
10 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.36%) QA
3 10 (3.57%) GDPR
3 10 (3.57%) NIST
3 10 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.43%) SLA
7 3 (1.07%) NCSC
7 3 (1.07%) WCAG
8 1 (0.36%) GRC
8 1 (0.36%) HL7
8 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 109 (38.93%) Docker
2 7 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.07%) Squid
4 2 (0.71%) Corosync
4 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 119 (42.50%) Kubernetes
2 39 (13.93%) Grafana
3 34 (12.14%) Ansible
3 34 (12.14%) Prometheus
4 14 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 13 (4.64%) Puppet
6 7 (2.50%) Argo
7 5 (1.79%) Istio
8 4 (1.43%) Packer
9 3 (1.07%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.07%) Pacemaker
10 2 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.71%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.71%) linkerd
10 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.36%) Kibana
11 1 (0.36%) Podman
11 1 (0.36%) QRadar
11 1 (0.36%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (8.93%) Google
1 25 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.07%) Red Hat
3 14 (5.00%) Splunk
4 10 (3.57%) Databricks
5 8 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.86%) Infoblox
5 8 (2.86%) Oracle
6 6 (2.14%) VMware
7 5 (1.79%) Cisco
7 5 (1.79%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.43%) Teradata
8 4 (1.43%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.07%) Informatica
9 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.07%) SAP
9 3 (1.07%) Trend Micro
10 2 (0.71%) Sybase