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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 282 398
Rank change year-on-year -95 +116 -59
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 280 250 126
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.89% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 2.33% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 187 73
10th Percentile £400 £391 £379
25th Percentile £440 £449 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £626 £628 £650
90th Percentile £681 £684 £762
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% -6.32%
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 16,031 10,713 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.23% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,669 7,252 7,558
10th Percentile £321 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 253 165
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.30 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -64 161 £550 -4.35% 212
North of England -74 48 £605 +46.67% 88
North West -38 33 £600 +50.00% 47
South East -51 21 £572 +30.74% 39
South West -31 20 £475 -19.15% 29
Midlands -42 18 £488 -15.22% 46
West Midlands -37 13 £488 -15.22% 24
Yorkshire -49 11 £644 +32.05% 25
East Midlands -13 5 £466 -33.50% 22
North East -45 4 £500 +20.12% 16
East of England -28 2 £463 +85.00% 12
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 10 (3.57%) Confluence
2 9 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.50%) Apache
4 5 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.07%) nginx
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.71%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.71%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.36%) Traefik
7 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 276 (98.57%) AWS
2 115 (41.07%) Serverless
3 101 (36.07%) Azure
4 96 (34.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 96 (34.29%) AWS Lambda
5 89 (31.79%) Amazon S3
6 81 (28.93%) GCP
7 68 (24.29%) Amazon EKS
8 66 (23.57%) GitHub
9 65 (23.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 58 (20.71%) Amazon ECS
11 57 (20.36%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (8.57%) AWS KMS
15 23 (8.21%) AWS Step Functions
16 21 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
17 20 (7.14%) Datadog
18 14 (5.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.29%) Firewall
2 24 (8.57%) DNS
3 14 (5.00%) Network Security
4 12 (4.29%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.57%) WAN
6 8 (2.86%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.50%) DHCP
8 5 (1.79%) SSL
8 5 (1.79%) VPN
9 4 (1.43%) HTTP
9 4 (1.43%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.07%) BGP
10 3 (1.07%) CTI
10 3 (1.07%) Internet
11 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.36%) MPLS
12 1 (0.36%) OSPF
12 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (8.21%) DynamoDB
2 23 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (6.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (6.43%) MySQL
4 16 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 14 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (3.93%) Data Lake
8 9 (3.21%) Redis
9 8 (2.86%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.14%) Metadata
11 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.07%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.07%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.07%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.71%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 67 (23.93%) Jenkins
2 57 (20.36%) GitLab
3 36 (12.86%) Git
4 23 (8.21%) JIRA
5 10 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.50%) JUnit
7 6 (2.14%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.79%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.43%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.43%) Maven
9 4 (1.43%) Snyk
9 4 (1.43%) Spinnaker
10 3 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.07%) Mockito
10 3 (1.07%) Selenium
11 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.71%) Flyway
11 2 (0.71%) MLflow
General
1 87 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.43%) Finance
3 41 (14.64%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.29%) Banking
6 7 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.79%) Law
8 5 (1.79%) Military
9 3 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) German Language
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (18.21%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (14.29%) Architect
4 39 (13.93%) Senior
5 38 (13.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (11.43%) AWS DevOps
7 27 (9.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 26 (9.29%) Security Engineer
9 23 (8.21%) Data Engineer
10 22 (7.86%) Lead
11 20 (7.14%) Developer
12 18 (6.43%) AWS Architect
13 15 (5.36%) DBA
14 13 (4.64%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 13 (4.64%) Lead DevOps
15 12 (4.29%) Administrator
15 12 (4.29%) Platform Architect
15 12 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.93%) Network Engineer
17 10 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (92.50%) Terraform
2 35 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 23 (8.21%) REST
4 19 (6.79%) Kafka
5 12 (4.29%) React
6 11 (3.93%) RESTful
7 10 (3.57%) Node.js
8 9 (3.21%) ARM Templates
8 9 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.21%) PySpark
8 9 (3.21%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.86%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.86%) pytest
9 8 (2.86%) Spring
10 7 (2.50%) Pulumi
11 6 (2.14%) Pandas
12 5 (1.79%) Flask
12 5 (1.79%) OAuth
12 5 (1.79%) Web Services
13 4 (1.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 91 (32.50%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.43%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.36%) Replication
5 14 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.29%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.21%) AI Agents
7 9 (3.21%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.14%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.79%) Clustering
10 5 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.07%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 50 (17.86%) Linux
2 28 (10.00%) Windows
3 18 (6.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.86%) Unix
5 6 (2.14%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.43%) AIX
7 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (87.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 218 (77.86%) CI/CD
3 171 (61.07%) DevOps
4 93 (33.21%) Agile
5 90 (32.14%) Containerisation
6 77 (27.50%) Observability
7 69 (24.64%) Cloud Security
8 62 (22.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (18.21%) Platform Engineering
10 50 (17.86%) Test Automation
11 46 (16.43%) AI
12 45 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 44 (15.71%) Microservices
14 43 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (14.64%) Infrastructure Automation
16 38 (13.57%) Root Cause Analysis
17 35 (12.50%) High Availability
18 34 (12.14%) Data Modelling
19 33 (11.79%) Secrets Management
20 32 (11.43%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 142 (50.71%) Python
2 64 (22.86%) Bash
3 51 (18.21%) PowerShell
4 48 (17.14%) SQL
5 43 (15.36%) Java
6 31 (11.07%) Bicep
7 18 (6.43%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.29%) Go
8 12 (4.29%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.79%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.07%) C
10 3 (1.07%) Groovy
10 3 (1.07%) Scala
10 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.71%) C#
11 2 (0.71%) R
12 1 (0.36%) C++
12 1 (0.36%) Korn
12 1 (0.36%) Perl
12 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 104 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 93 (33.21%) SC Cleared
3 59 (21.07%) AWS Certification
4 32 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.14%) Degree
6 15 (5.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.00%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.29%) CISSP
9 8 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.50%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (2.14%) SAFe Agilist
12 5 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (1.07%) CISM
14 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.00%) QA
3 12 (4.29%) NIST
4 10 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.21%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.14%) NCSC
7 5 (1.79%) GDPR
8 4 (1.43%) SLA
9 3 (1.07%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.07%) WCAG
10 1 (0.36%) GLBA
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 103 (36.79%) Docker
2 8 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) Corosync
3 2 (0.71%) Squid
Systems Management
1 124 (44.29%) Kubernetes
2 38 (13.57%) Grafana
3 32 (11.43%) Prometheus
4 31 (11.07%) Ansible
5 17 (6.07%) Progress Chef
6 15 (5.36%) Puppet
7 8 (2.86%) Argo
8 6 (2.14%) Istio
9 5 (1.79%) Packer
10 3 (1.07%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.07%) linkerd
10 3 (1.07%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.71%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.71%) Podman
12 1 (0.36%) Control-M
12 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (10.71%) Google
2 29 (10.36%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.43%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.00%) Splunk
5 13 (4.64%) Databricks
6 10 (3.57%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.86%) Infoblox
7 8 (2.86%) Oracle
8 7 (2.50%) VMware
9 5 (1.79%) Cisco
10 4 (1.43%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.43%) Teradata
10 4 (1.43%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.07%) Informatica
11 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.07%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.07%) SAP
12 2 (0.71%) Sybase