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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 364 343
Rank change year-on-year +93 -21 -63
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 285 149 247
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.48% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.47% 1.33% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 92 178
10th Percentile £395 £377 £425
25th Percentile £450 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.05% -8.29%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £655
90th Percentile £675 £788 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £530
% change year-on-year +0.38% -1.32% -6.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +42.86%

All Cloud 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 11,555 11,164 14,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.85% 35.71% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,838 7,414 10,287
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £528
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +1.33% -4.09%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 143 290
10th Percentile £14.80 £19.41 £14.49
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +35.87%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 +65 161 £550 -11.11% 246
North of England +3 61 £463 -2.53% 106
Yorkshire -7 30 £500 -9.09% 27
North West -13 28 £416 -12.37% 76
South West +16 15 £530 +8.72% 18
South East +11 14 £425 -34.62% 207
Midlands -9 14 £575 +27.78% 17
West Midlands -17 14 £575 +15.00% 10
East of England - 5 £450 - 14
North East -7 3 £466 -24.53% 3
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 27 (9.47%) Confluence
2 25 (8.77%) nginx
3 13 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.51%) Apache Spark
5 9 (3.16%) Apache
6 5 (1.75%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) JBoss
8 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 267 (93.68%) AWS
2 106 (37.19%) Serverless
3 101 (35.44%) AWS Lambda
4 85 (29.82%) Amazon S3
5 84 (29.47%) GitHub
6 77 (27.02%) Azure
7 67 (23.51%) Amazon ECS
8 66 (23.16%) Amazon EC2
9 63 (22.11%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (18.95%) GCP
11 49 (17.19%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (16.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (9.82%) Datadog
15 27 (9.47%) AWS Fargate
16 22 (7.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 22 (7.72%) AWS CloudTrail
17 21 (7.37%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (6.32%) Entra ID
19 17 (5.96%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.67%) DNS
2 15 (5.26%) Firewall
3 14 (4.91%) VPN
4 9 (3.16%) Network Security
5 6 (2.11%) SSL
6 5 (1.75%) DHCP
7 4 (1.40%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.35%) HTTP
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.35%) NAS
8 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.35%) SAN
8 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (9.82%) DynamoDB
4 22 (7.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (5.61%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 13 (4.56%) Data Lake
7 13 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (4.56%) MongoDB
7 13 (4.56%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.16%) MySQL
9 7 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.11%) Couchbase
10 6 (2.11%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.75%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.75%) DB2
12 4 (1.40%) Power BI
12 4 (1.40%) Redshift Spectrum
13 3 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 95 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 73 (25.61%) Git
3 63 (22.11%) GitLab
4 37 (12.98%) JIRA
5 14 (4.91%) Artifactory
5 14 (4.91%) JUnit
6 13 (4.56%) SonarQube
6 13 (4.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (4.21%) Bitbucket
8 11 (3.86%) Maven
9 6 (2.11%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.11%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.11%) Gradle
9 6 (2.11%) Selenium
9 6 (2.11%) Snyk
10 4 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.40%) Postman
10 4 (1.40%) Terragrunt
10 4 (1.40%) webpack
General
1 66 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.44%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.18%) Finance
4 17 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.61%) Banking
6 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.75%) Games
7 4 (1.40%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.70%) Aviation
8 2 (0.70%) Law
8 2 (0.70%) Military
8 2 (0.70%) Police
9 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.35%) Legal
9 1 (0.35%) Marketing
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (23.86%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (20.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (13.33%) Senior
4 32 (11.23%) Developer
4 32 (11.23%) Lead
5 31 (10.88%) Platform Engineer
6 29 (10.18%) AWS DevOps
7 25 (8.77%) Architect
7 25 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (8.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 21 (7.37%) Data Engineer
10 18 (6.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.91%) AWS Developer
12 12 (4.21%) AWS Architect
12 12 (4.21%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.21%) Security Engineer
12 12 (4.21%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.86%) Consultant
13 11 (3.86%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.23%) Kafka
2 31 (10.88%) AWS CDK
3 27 (9.47%) Node.js
4 21 (7.37%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (6.67%) React
6 16 (5.61%) RESTful
7 15 (5.26%) Spring
8 14 (4.91%) JSON
9 10 (3.51%) ARM Templates
9 10 (3.51%) REST
10 9 (3.16%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.16%) Keycloak
10 9 (3.16%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.81%) OAuth
11 8 (2.81%) OpenID
12 7 (2.46%) cloud-init
12 7 (2.46%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.46%) SAML
13 6 (2.11%) NestJS
13 6 (2.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.25%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.56%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.16%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.46%) PKI
4 7 (2.46%) Replication
5 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.75%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.40%) NHS
7 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) SCADA
8 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 67 (23.51%) Linux
2 17 (5.96%) Unix
3 11 (3.86%) Windows
4 8 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.46%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (69.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 186 (65.26%) CI/CD
3 180 (63.16%) DevOps
4 99 (34.74%) Containerisation
5 85 (29.82%) Agile
6 51 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (16.49%) Observability
8 35 (12.28%) Microservices
8 35 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
9 34 (11.93%) Infrastructure Automation
9 34 (11.93%) Migration
10 33 (11.58%) DevSecOps
11 31 (10.88%) Mentoring
12 30 (10.53%) Configuration Management
13 28 (9.82%) Software Engineering
14 27 (9.47%) Cloud Security
14 27 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (9.47%) Test Automation
15 24 (8.42%) High Availability
16 22 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 136 (47.72%) Python
2 48 (16.84%) Bash
3 35 (12.28%) Go
3 35 (12.28%) PowerShell
3 35 (12.28%) SQL
4 32 (11.23%) Java
5 26 (9.12%) TypeScript
6 25 (8.77%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.37%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.86%) Ruby
9 9 (3.16%) Groovy
10 7 (2.46%) Perl
11 6 (2.11%) C#
11 6 (2.11%) C++
12 4 (1.40%) Scala
13 3 (1.05%) C
13 3 (1.05%) CodeQL
13 3 (1.05%) PromQL
14 2 (0.70%) Bicep
15 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 93 (32.63%) Security Cleared
2 77 (27.02%) SC Cleared
3 45 (15.79%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.16%) Degree
7 6 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.05%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) CISM
10 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.35%) MCP
10 1 (0.35%) OCP
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.47%) GDPR
2 18 (6.32%) QA
3 15 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.26%) NIST
4 11 (3.86%) NCSC
5 9 (3.16%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.81%) HIPAA
6 8 (2.81%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.75%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 120 (42.11%) Docker
2 13 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) iptables
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 250 (87.72%) Terraform
2 132 (46.32%) Kubernetes
3 67 (23.51%) Ansible
4 40 (14.04%) Grafana
5 36 (12.63%) Prometheus
6 32 (11.23%) Packer
7 24 (8.42%) Puppet
8 21 (7.37%) Consul
9 16 (5.61%) Progress Chef
10 9 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (2.46%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (2.46%) Podman
12 3 (1.05%) HP Fortify
12 3 (1.05%) Nessus
13 2 (0.70%) Argo
13 2 (0.70%) Istio
13 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.70%) Salt
13 2 (0.70%) SELinux
14 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 20 (7.02%) Splunk
2 12 (4.21%) ServiceNow
3 11 (3.86%) IBM
3 11 (3.86%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.16%) Google
5 8 (2.81%) CA Agile Central
5 8 (2.81%) Databricks
6 7 (2.46%) Alibaba
6 7 (2.46%) Okta
7 6 (2.11%) Confluent
8 5 (1.75%) Oracle
8 5 (1.75%) Sybase
9 4 (1.40%) CloudEndure
10 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.05%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.05%) Qualys
11 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.70%) Cisco
11 2 (0.70%) Pega
11 2 (0.70%) VMware