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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 253 349
Rank change year-on-year -5 +96 -46
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 378 241 201
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.99% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.65% 2.63% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 189 147
10th Percentile £400 £400 £429
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - -

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 14,246 9,160 12,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.32% 37.62% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,841 6,446 8,640
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £714 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 185 320
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £15.88
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -22.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £33.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.30 £59.96
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -26.96%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +8 253 £550 -8.33% 47
North of England -57 48 £550 -17.91% 33
North West -18 26 £575 +35.29% 16
South East -34 25 £530 -8.62% 13
Yorkshire -48 19 £500 -31.03% 8
Midlands -52 17 £450 - 4
South West -18 14 £563 - 13
West Midlands -54 14 £463 +2.78% 3
East of England -32 6 £525 +5.00% 5
North East -16 3 £575 -23.33% 9
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 1
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 35 (9.26%) Apache Spark
2 32 (8.47%) Apache
3 21 (5.56%) Confluence
4 15 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.97%) nginx
5 5 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.79%) SAS
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Actimize
1 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 366 (96.83%) AWS
2 138 (36.51%) Amazon S3
3 131 (34.66%) Serverless
4 122 (32.28%) Azure
5 121 (32.01%) AWS Lambda
6 105 (27.78%) GitHub
7 97 (25.66%) Amazon ECS
8 85 (22.49%) GitHub Actions
9 80 (21.16%) GCP
10 78 (20.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 72 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
12 65 (17.20%) Amazon EC2
13 59 (15.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 44 (11.64%) AWS CodePipeline
15 37 (9.79%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 27 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
17 23 (6.08%) Route 53
18 21 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 21 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.26%) DNS
2 22 (5.82%) Firewall
3 15 (3.97%) Network Security
3 15 (3.97%) VPN
4 10 (2.65%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.12%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (1.32%) DHCP
7 3 (0.79%) HTTP
7 3 (0.79%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.79%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.79%) WAN
8 2 (0.53%) BGP
8 2 (0.53%) OSPF
9 1 (0.26%) 4G
9 1 (0.26%) 5G
9 1 (0.26%) Internet
9 1 (0.26%) NAS
9 1 (0.26%) SAN
9 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (13.76%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (9.52%) Data Lake
3 35 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (8.99%) Amazon Athena
5 28 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (5.82%) DynamoDB
7 21 (5.56%) Power BI
8 18 (4.76%) BigQuery
8 18 (4.76%) Mixpanel
9 17 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (4.50%) OLAP
9 17 (4.50%) OLTP
10 16 (4.23%) SQL Server
11 15 (3.97%) NoSQL
12 10 (2.65%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (2.12%) Redis
14 8 (2.12%) Redshift Spectrum
15 7 (1.85%) MySQL
15 7 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 83 (21.96%) Jenkins
2 81 (21.43%) Git
3 69 (18.25%) GitLab
4 31 (8.20%) JIRA
5 17 (4.50%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.38%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.12%) Snyk
8 7 (1.85%) JUnit
9 5 (1.32%) Maven
9 5 (1.32%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.06%) Gradle
10 4 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.06%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.79%) Selenium
11 3 (0.79%) Vite
12 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.26%) git-flow
13 1 (0.26%) Postman
13 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 93 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 58 (15.34%) Finance
4 21 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.56%) Banking
5 9 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.32%) Law
9 4 (1.06%) Games
10 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.53%) Front Office
11 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Legal
11 2 (0.53%) Marketing
11 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
12 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (15.87%) AWS Engineer
3 57 (15.08%) Architect
4 52 (13.76%) Lead
5 47 (12.43%) Senior
6 38 (10.05%) Data Engineer
7 37 (9.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (8.99%) Developer
9 29 (7.67%) AWS Architect
9 29 (7.67%) AWS DevOps
10 25 (6.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 23 (6.08%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (5.82%) Site Engineer
13 21 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 19 (5.03%) Software Engineer
15 17 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
16 16 (4.23%) Security Engineer
17 15 (3.97%) Principal Data Engineer
18 11 (2.91%) AWS Developer
18 11 (2.91%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (16.14%) Kafka
2 34 (8.99%) Node.js
2 34 (8.99%) RESTful
3 30 (7.94%) AWS CDK
4 26 (6.88%) Spring
5 25 (6.61%) Spring Boot
6 20 (5.29%) Great Expectations
7 19 (5.03%) React
7 19 (5.03%) REST
8 17 (4.50%) OAuth
9 15 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (3.70%) PySpark
11 12 (3.17%) OAuth2
11 12 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (2.65%) .NET
12 10 (2.65%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.38%) ARM Templates
13 9 (2.38%) boto
14 8 (2.12%) OpenID
14 8 (2.12%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 115 (30.42%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.85%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.59%) Replication
9 5 (1.32%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.32%) SCADA
10 4 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.06%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.06%) NHS
10 4 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 72 (19.05%) Linux
2 19 (5.03%) Windows
3 5 (1.32%) Unix
4 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.79%) VMS
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (81.48%) CI/CD
2 291 (76.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 224 (59.26%) DevOps
4 123 (32.54%) Containerisation
5 112 (29.63%) Agile
6 94 (24.87%) Observability
7 62 (16.40%) Microservices
8 55 (14.55%) Analytics
9 53 (14.02%) AI
10 52 (13.76%) DevSecOps
11 51 (13.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 48 (12.70%) Infrastructure Automation
12 48 (12.70%) Migration
13 47 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 47 (12.43%) Data Engineering
13 47 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
14 45 (11.90%) Data Modelling
14 45 (11.90%) ETL
15 43 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (11.11%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 185 (48.94%) Python
2 76 (20.11%) SQL
3 62 (16.40%) Java
4 54 (14.29%) Bash
5 36 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.56%) C#
6 21 (5.56%) Ruby
7 20 (5.29%) Bicep
7 20 (5.29%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.03%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.65%) Go
10 6 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.32%) Scala
12 3 (0.79%) C
12 3 (0.79%) SAS Macro
13 2 (0.53%) Groovy
13 2 (0.53%) Perl
14 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.26%) R
14 1 (0.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 120 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 101 (26.72%) SC Cleared
3 71 (18.78%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (5.29%) Degree
6 19 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (3.70%) Azure Certification
9 11 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.91%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.59%) CISSP
12 5 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.32%) CCSP
12 5 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.06%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.79%) SANS
14 3 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.70%) GDPR
2 31 (8.20%) NIST
3 29 (7.67%) Data Quality
4 27 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (5.82%) PCI DSS
6 20 (5.29%) QA
7 10 (2.65%) NCSC
8 8 (2.12%) Accessibility
8 8 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.32%) GRC
9 5 (1.32%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.06%) SLA
11 3 (0.79%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.26%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 157 (41.53%) Docker
2 7 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.53%) Corosync
5 2 (0.53%) HDFS
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.26%) Squid
Systems Management
1 339 (89.68%) Terraform
2 151 (39.95%) Kubernetes
3 66 (17.46%) Ansible
4 46 (12.17%) Grafana
5 42 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.50%) Puppet
7 14 (3.70%) Packer
8 13 (3.44%) Consul
9 11 (2.91%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.59%) Argo
12 5 (1.32%) Karpenter
13 4 (1.06%) Istio
13 4 (1.06%) Kibana
13 4 (1.06%) linkerd
14 3 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
15 2 (0.53%) Opsgenie
15 2 (0.53%) Pacemaker
16 1 (0.26%) Nessus
16 1 (0.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 31 (8.20%) Google
1 31 (8.20%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.94%) Databricks
3 24 (6.35%) Splunk
4 11 (2.91%) Oracle
5 9 (2.38%) CloudEndure
5 9 (2.38%) PagerDuty
6 7 (1.85%) Citrix
6 7 (1.85%) IBM
6 7 (1.85%) VMware
7 6 (1.59%) AVEVA
7 6 (1.59%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.32%) New Relic
8 5 (1.32%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.32%) Sybase
9 4 (1.06%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.06%) Qualys
9 4 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.06%) SAP
9 4 (1.06%) Tenable