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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 290 356
Rank change year-on-year +42 +66 -51
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 355 199 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.77% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.73% 2.05% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 146 147
10th Percentile £400 £397 £425
25th Percentile £450 £502 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £650
90th Percentile £693 £788 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -6.67%
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 13,018 9,725 12,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.42% 37.62% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,985 6,546 9,062
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 148 309
10th Percentile £14.95 £15.38 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.14 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £27.63 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.49% +28.51% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.55 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +47 222 £550 -9.47% 50
North of England -36 58 £500 -23.08% 29
North West -7 34 £500 -9.09% 13
South East -7 29 £488 -25.00% 15
Yorkshire -57 19 £500 -29.82% 13
Midlands -39 15 £450 -5.26% 10
South West -16 12 £563 +2.27% 10
West Midlands -52 12 £575 +21.05% 9
North East -18 5 £466 -31.85% 3
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 1
East of England - 2 £600 -
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 29 (8.17%) Apache Spark
2 28 (7.89%) Apache
3 19 (5.35%) Confluence
4 16 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (4.23%) nginx
6 4 (1.13%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.28%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Actimize
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 343 (96.62%) AWS
2 130 (36.62%) Serverless
3 124 (34.93%) Amazon S3
3 124 (34.93%) AWS Lambda
4 100 (28.17%) Amazon ECS
5 99 (27.89%) GitHub
6 97 (27.32%) Azure
7 78 (21.97%) GCP
8 76 (21.41%) Amazon EKS
8 76 (21.41%) GitHub Actions
9 67 (18.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 67 (18.87%) Amazon EC2
10 61 (17.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 39 (10.99%) AWS CodePipeline
12 32 (9.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 31 (8.73%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (7.32%) AWS KMS
15 23 (6.48%) Datadog
16 20 (5.63%) AWS CloudTrail
16 20 (5.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.45%) DNS
2 22 (6.20%) Firewall
3 16 (4.51%) VPN
4 14 (3.94%) Network Security
5 9 (2.54%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.41%) DHCP
8 3 (0.85%) HTTP
8 3 (0.85%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.85%) WAN
9 2 (0.56%) BGP
9 2 (0.56%) OSPF
9 2 (0.56%) SSL
10 1 (0.28%) 4G
10 1 (0.28%) 5G
10 1 (0.28%) Internet
10 1 (0.28%) NAS
10 1 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (18.31%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (9.86%) Data Lake
4 33 (9.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 29 (8.17%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (5.63%) DynamoDB
7 18 (5.07%) Power BI
8 17 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (4.79%) NoSQL
9 15 (4.23%) BigQuery
9 15 (4.23%) Mixpanel
10 14 (3.94%) OLAP
10 14 (3.94%) OLTP
10 14 (3.94%) SQL Server
11 11 (3.10%) MongoDB
12 10 (2.82%) MySQL
13 8 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (2.25%) Redis
13 8 (2.25%) Redshift Spectrum
13 8 (2.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 89 (25.07%) Jenkins
2 78 (21.97%) Git
3 72 (20.28%) GitLab
4 29 (8.17%) JIRA
5 17 (4.79%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.82%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.54%) JUnit
7 9 (2.54%) Maven
7 9 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.25%) Snyk
9 7 (1.97%) Gradle
9 7 (1.97%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.97%) Terragrunt
10 5 (1.41%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.41%) Selenium
11 4 (1.13%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.13%) Postman
11 4 (1.13%) webpack
12 3 (0.85%) Vite
13 1 (0.28%) MLflow
General
1 82 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.46%) Public Sector
3 52 (14.65%) Finance
4 20 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.35%) Banking
6 10 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.41%) Law
10 4 (1.13%) Games
11 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Marketing
12 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Advertising
13 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.28%) Billing
13 1 (0.28%) Military
13 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (18.87%) AWS Engineer
2 61 (17.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (13.80%) Architect
4 45 (12.68%) Lead
5 41 (11.55%) Senior
6 38 (10.70%) Data Engineer
7 37 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
8 29 (8.17%) AWS Architect
8 29 (8.17%) Developer
9 28 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
10 23 (6.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 21 (5.92%) Cloud Architect
11 21 (5.92%) Security Engineer
12 20 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (5.63%) Site Engineer
13 19 (5.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (5.07%) Software Engineer
15 13 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
16 12 (3.38%) Principal Data Engineer
17 11 (3.10%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.59%) Kafka
2 29 (8.17%) RESTful
3 28 (7.89%) AWS CDK
3 28 (7.89%) Node.js
4 23 (6.48%) Elastic Stack
4 23 (6.48%) Spring
5 22 (6.20%) Spring Boot
6 19 (5.35%) React
6 19 (5.35%) REST
7 17 (4.79%) OAuth
8 15 (4.23%) Great Expectations
9 12 (3.38%) OAuth2
10 10 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (2.54%) JSON
11 9 (2.54%) OpenID
11 9 (2.54%) PySpark
12 8 (2.25%) .NET
12 8 (2.25%) AngularJS
13 7 (1.97%) Flask
13 7 (1.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 95 (26.76%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.82%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.97%) NHS
6 7 (1.97%) PKI
6 7 (1.97%) Replication
7 6 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.41%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.41%) SCADA
8 5 (1.41%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.13%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (23.66%) Linux
2 19 (5.35%) Windows
3 18 (5.07%) Unix
4 3 (0.85%) CentOS
4 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.85%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (81.41%) CI/CD
2 277 (78.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 206 (58.03%) DevOps
4 112 (31.55%) Containerisation
5 95 (26.76%) Agile
6 85 (23.94%) Observability
7 55 (15.49%) Microservices
8 49 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (13.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 48 (13.52%) AI
10 47 (13.24%) Analytics
10 47 (13.24%) Migration
11 46 (12.96%) Technical Leadership
12 44 (12.39%) DevSecOps
13 43 (12.11%) Platform Engineering
13 43 (12.11%) Software Engineering
14 42 (11.83%) Infrastructure Automation
15 41 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (11.55%) Data Engineering
15 41 (11.55%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 182 (51.27%) Python
2 63 (17.75%) SQL
3 56 (15.77%) Java
4 54 (15.21%) Bash
5 27 (7.61%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.92%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.63%) Ruby
8 18 (5.07%) C#
8 18 (5.07%) Go
8 18 (5.07%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.23%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.38%) Bicep
11 5 (1.41%) Perl
11 5 (1.41%) Scala
12 2 (0.56%) C
13 1 (0.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.28%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 106 (29.86%) Security Cleared
2 89 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 72 (20.28%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (4.79%) Degree
6 15 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.94%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.10%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.25%) CISSP
10 7 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.41%) CCSP
12 5 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.41%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.13%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.85%) SANS
14 3 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.96%) GDPR
2 28 (7.89%) NIST
3 27 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (6.48%) Data Quality
5 19 (5.35%) QA
6 18 (5.07%) PCI DSS
7 14 (3.94%) NCSC
8 8 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.69%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.41%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.13%) GRC
11 4 (1.13%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.85%) SLA
13 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 149 (41.97%) Docker
2 6 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.41%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 317 (89.30%) Terraform
2 142 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 68 (19.15%) Ansible
4 43 (12.11%) Grafana
5 37 (10.42%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.92%) Puppet
7 18 (5.07%) Packer
8 15 (4.23%) Progress Chef
9 13 (3.66%) Consul
10 6 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.41%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.13%) Argo
12 4 (1.13%) Kibana
12 4 (1.13%) Podman
13 3 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.56%) Istio
14 2 (0.56%) linkerd
14 2 (0.56%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 30 (8.45%) Google
2 29 (8.17%) Databricks
2 29 (8.17%) Microsoft
3 26 (7.32%) Splunk
4 13 (3.66%) IBM
5 11 (3.10%) Oracle
6 10 (2.82%) CloudEndure
7 9 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.25%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.97%) Citrix
9 7 (1.97%) Confluent
10 6 (1.69%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.69%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.41%) New Relic
11 5 (1.41%) Sybase
11 5 (1.41%) VMware
12 4 (1.13%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.13%) Qualys
12 4 (1.13%) Tenable
13 3 (0.85%) Ping Identity