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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 278 382
Rank change year-on-year -53 +104 -63
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 293 231 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.93% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 2.46% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 169 120
10th Percentile £400 £400 £424
25th Percentile £447 £475 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £675
90th Percentile £669 £690 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -7.27%
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 15,140 9,392 12,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.72% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,258 6,385 8,650
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 232 339
10th Percentile £16.60 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £17.24 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.33 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.55% +17.79% -33.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.05 £71.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% +29.55% -37.14%

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 20 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 20 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 -42 201 £573 -4.58% 34
North of England -78 22 £600 +46.07% 21
Midlands -47 19 £463 -15.91% 2
South West -18 18 £450 -25.00% 13
West Midlands -51 15 £477 -4.60% 1
North West -42 14 £581 +45.25% 13
South East -53 14 £505 -10.62% 21
Yorkshire -61 8 £663 +32.50% 7
East of England -34 6 £450 -10.00%
East Midlands -14 4 £442 -36.82% 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 20 (6.83%) Apache Spark
2 18 (6.14%) Apache
3 14 (4.78%) Confluence
4 6 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.02%) SAS
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 286 (97.61%) AWS
2 111 (37.88%) Serverless
3 109 (37.20%) Amazon S3
4 100 (34.13%) Azure
5 96 (32.76%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (27.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 82 (27.99%) GitHub
7 70 (23.89%) Amazon ECS
8 69 (23.55%) GitHub Actions
9 68 (23.21%) GCP
10 66 (22.53%) Amazon EKS
11 49 (16.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 48 (16.38%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (10.58%) AWS CodePipeline
14 29 (9.90%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (6.14%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (5.80%) Route 53
18 14 (4.78%) AWS CloudTrail
19 13 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.87%) DNS
2 21 (7.17%) Firewall
3 14 (4.78%) Network Security
4 11 (3.75%) WAN
5 9 (3.07%) VPN
6 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.37%) BGP
7 4 (1.37%) HTTP
7 4 (1.37%) SSL
8 3 (1.02%) OSPF
8 3 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.68%) DHCP
9 2 (0.68%) DNSSEC
9 2 (0.68%) Internet
10 1 (0.34%) 4G
10 1 (0.34%) CTI
10 1 (0.34%) LAN
10 1 (0.34%) MPLS
10 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.24%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.17%) Amazon Athena
2 21 (7.17%) Data Lake
3 20 (6.83%) DynamoDB
3 20 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (4.10%) BigQuery
5 12 (4.10%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.75%) Mixpanel
6 11 (3.75%) Power BI
7 10 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.41%) OLAP
7 10 (3.41%) OLTP
8 8 (2.73%) Redis
8 8 (2.73%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.39%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.39%) MySQL
10 6 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.71%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.71%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 73 (24.91%) Jenkins
2 57 (19.45%) GitLab
3 41 (13.99%) Git
4 25 (8.53%) JIRA
5 17 (5.80%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.07%) Snyk
7 7 (2.39%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.39%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.02%) JUnit
8 3 (1.02%) Vite
9 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.68%) MLflow
9 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.68%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) git-flow
10 1 (0.34%) Mockito
10 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 77 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.99%) Finance
3 40 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.78%) Banking
5 13 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.37%) Law
9 3 (1.02%) Games
9 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.68%) Front Office
10 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Marketing
10 2 (0.68%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 58 (19.80%) AWS Engineer
1 58 (19.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (15.36%) Architect
3 39 (13.31%) Lead
4 38 (12.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (12.29%) Senior
6 35 (11.95%) AWS DevOps
7 30 (10.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 28 (9.56%) Data Engineer
9 23 (7.85%) Developer
10 21 (7.17%) AWS Architect
11 17 (5.80%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.78%) Security Engineer
13 12 (4.10%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (3.75%) Lead DevOps
15 10 (3.41%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (3.41%) Network Engineer
15 10 (3.41%) Principal Data Engineer
15 10 (3.41%) Software Engineer
16 9 (3.07%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.97%) Kafka
2 35 (11.95%) AWS CDK
3 23 (7.85%) Node.js
4 22 (7.51%) RESTful
5 19 (6.48%) OAuth
6 17 (5.80%) PySpark
6 17 (5.80%) React
7 16 (5.46%) Great Expectations
7 16 (5.46%) REST
8 13 (4.44%) OAuth2
9 12 (4.10%) Spring
9 12 (4.10%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.41%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (3.07%) OpenID
12 7 (2.39%) boto
12 7 (2.39%) Pandas
13 6 (2.05%) .NET
13 6 (2.05%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.05%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 106 (36.18%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.19%) Product Ownership
3 21 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.39%) Replication
6 7 (2.39%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.71%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.71%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.37%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.02%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.92%) Linux
2 19 (6.48%) Windows
3 10 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.68%) Unix
6 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (82.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 239 (81.57%) CI/CD
3 183 (62.46%) DevOps
4 98 (33.45%) Containerisation
5 84 (28.67%) Agile
6 75 (25.60%) Observability
7 57 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (16.38%) Microservices
9 45 (15.36%) AI
10 44 (15.02%) DevSecOps
11 42 (14.33%) High Availability
12 41 (13.99%) Analytics
13 39 (13.31%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (12.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (11.95%) Infrastructure Automation
16 34 (11.60%) Cloud Security
16 34 (11.60%) Data Engineering
16 34 (11.60%) Event-Driven
16 34 (11.60%) Incident Response
17 33 (11.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 134 (45.73%) Python
2 52 (17.75%) SQL
3 38 (12.97%) Bash
3 38 (12.97%) Java
4 30 (10.24%) PowerShell
5 20 (6.83%) Bicep
6 15 (5.12%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.10%) C#
8 11 (3.75%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.39%) Go
10 5 (1.71%) Ruby
11 3 (1.02%) Groovy
11 3 (1.02%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) C
12 2 (0.68%) Scala
13 1 (0.34%) Perl
13 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) R
13 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 90 (30.72%) Security Cleared
2 77 (26.28%) SC Cleared
3 40 (13.65%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.80%) Degree
5 16 (5.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.07%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.07%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (2.73%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.39%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.37%) IBM Certification
13 3 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.02%) CCSP
13 3 (1.02%) CISSP
13 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.22%) GDPR
2 23 (7.85%) NIST
3 22 (7.51%) Data Quality
3 22 (7.51%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (5.46%) QA
5 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.37%) GRC
6 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.68%) NCSC
8 1 (0.34%) HL7
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 110 (37.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.02%) Squid
3 2 (0.68%) Corosync
3 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 269 (91.81%) Terraform
2 109 (37.20%) Kubernetes
3 37 (12.63%) Ansible
3 37 (12.63%) Prometheus
4 32 (10.92%) Grafana
5 11 (3.75%) Puppet
6 8 (2.73%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.39%) Argo
7 7 (2.39%) Istio
7 7 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.05%) linkerd
8 6 (2.05%) Packer
9 4 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.02%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.68%) Consul
11 2 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.68%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.34%) Kibana
12 1 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 24 (8.19%) Google
2 19 (6.48%) Databricks
3 18 (6.14%) Microsoft
4 16 (5.46%) Splunk
5 10 (3.41%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.05%) AVEVA
6 6 (2.05%) Oracle
7 5 (1.71%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.71%) IBM
7 5 (1.71%) New Relic
7 5 (1.71%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.71%) SAP
8 4 (1.37%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.37%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.37%) Sybase
9 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.02%) Trend Micro
9 3 (1.02%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.68%) Globalscape
10 2 (0.68%) OpenAI