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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 253 381
Rank change year-on-year -116 +128 -48
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 279 274 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.99% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 2.67% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 207 97
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £450 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £675
90th Percentile £671 £688 £777
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £500
% change year-on-year -3.31% +8.60% -4.76%
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 15,920 10,273 11,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.21% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,616 6,977 8,026
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £421 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 266 238
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.02 £18.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.56
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £24.15
% change year-on-year +29.56% +13.46% -31.00%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -78 162 £550 -8.33% 120
North of England -57 37 £617 +50.09% 48
North West -39 24 £605 +51.25% 24
Midlands -43 22 £481 -16.35% 12
South East -55 21 £570 +0.88% 18
West Midlands -46 19 £482 -5.90% 12
South West -37 18 £450 -25.00% 41
Yorkshire -57 9 £663 +39.47% 12
East of England -17 6 £450 -5.26% 2
North East -37 4 £500 +20.12% 12
East Midlands -7 3 £481 -31.29%
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 13 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.30%) Confluence
3 11 (3.94%) Apache
4 6 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.43%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.08%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 273 (97.85%) AWS
2 121 (43.37%) Azure
3 110 (39.43%) Serverless
4 94 (33.69%) Amazon S3
5 92 (32.97%) AWS Lambda
6 80 (28.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 79 (28.32%) GCP
8 71 (25.45%) GitHub
9 67 (24.01%) GitHub Actions
10 58 (20.79%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (19.35%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (17.92%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (16.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 36 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (8.96%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (8.60%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (6.45%) AWS CloudTrail
17 18 (6.45%) Datadog
18 17 (6.09%) AWS CodePipeline
19 14 (5.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.04%) DNS
2 26 (9.32%) Firewall
3 11 (3.94%) Network Security
3 11 (3.94%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.23%) WAN
5 8 (2.87%) DNSSEC
6 7 (2.51%) DHCP
6 7 (2.51%) VPN
7 5 (1.79%) SSL
8 4 (1.43%) HTTP
8 4 (1.43%) NetScaler
9 3 (1.08%) CTI
10 2 (0.72%) BGP
10 2 (0.72%) Internet
11 1 (0.36%) 4G
11 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.36%) LAN
11 1 (0.36%) MPLS
11 1 (0.36%) OSPF
11 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.96%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.60%) DynamoDB
3 15 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (5.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (5.02%) Data Lake
4 14 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.94%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.87%) MySQL
7 7 (2.51%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.15%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.15%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.79%) Metadata
9 5 (1.79%) Mixpanel
9 5 (1.79%) OLAP
9 5 (1.79%) OLTP
9 5 (1.79%) Power BI
10 4 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 77 (27.60%) Jenkins
2 63 (22.58%) GitLab
3 43 (15.41%) Git
4 23 (8.24%) JIRA
5 18 (6.45%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.87%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.87%) Snyk
8 6 (2.15%) JUnit
8 6 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.43%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.43%) Mockito
10 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.08%) Maven
10 3 (1.08%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.72%) MLflow
11 2 (0.72%) Selenium
12 1 (0.36%) Gradle
12 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 69 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.70%) Finance
3 37 (13.26%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.73%) Banking
5 12 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.43%) Law
10 3 (1.08%) Games
10 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.72%) Front Office
11 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Military
11 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (20.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (18.28%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (16.13%) Architect
4 39 (13.98%) Lead
5 37 (13.26%) Senior
6 35 (12.54%) AWS DevOps
6 35 (12.54%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (10.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.60%) Developer
9 20 (7.17%) Data Engineer
10 19 (6.81%) Security Engineer
11 16 (5.73%) AWS Architect
12 15 (5.38%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.30%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.58%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 10 (3.58%) Network Engineer
15 9 (3.23%) Infrastructure Architect
15 9 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 26 (9.32%) Kafka
3 21 (7.53%) REST
4 19 (6.81%) Node.js
5 18 (6.45%) RESTful
6 16 (5.73%) React
7 13 (4.66%) PySpark
8 10 (3.58%) Great Expectations
8 10 (3.58%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.23%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.23%) Spring
10 8 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.51%) OAuth
11 7 (2.51%) Pandas
12 6 (2.15%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (1.43%) boto
14 4 (1.43%) OAuth2
14 4 (1.43%) Vue
15 3 (1.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 93 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.17%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.02%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.66%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 9 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.51%) Replication
9 6 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.15%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.43%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.08%) IVR
12 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.72%) Clustering
13 2 (0.72%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.70%) Linux
2 26 (9.32%) Windows
3 15 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.79%) Unix
4 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.43%) AIX
6 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (87.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 214 (76.70%) CI/CD
3 180 (64.52%) DevOps
4 96 (34.41%) Containerisation
5 93 (33.33%) Agile
6 69 (24.73%) Observability
7 52 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (18.28%) Cloud Security
9 45 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
10 44 (15.77%) Microservices
11 41 (14.70%) DevSecOps
12 38 (13.62%) AI
13 37 (13.26%) Scrum
13 37 (13.26%) Test Automation
14 35 (12.54%) Infrastructure Automation
15 34 (12.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (11.83%) High Availability
16 33 (11.83%) Migration
17 32 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
18 31 (11.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 145 (51.97%) Python
2 65 (23.30%) Bash
3 53 (19.00%) PowerShell
4 39 (13.98%) SQL
5 33 (11.83%) Java
6 32 (11.47%) Bicep
7 15 (5.38%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.30%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.51%) Go
10 6 (2.15%) C#
10 6 (2.15%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.43%) Groovy
11 4 (1.43%) Ruby
12 3 (1.08%) R
12 3 (1.08%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.08%) Scala
13 2 (0.72%) C
14 1 (0.36%) C++
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
14 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (34.77%) Security Cleared
2 84 (30.11%) SC Cleared
3 43 (15.41%) AWS Certification
4 20 (7.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (6.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 18 (6.45%) Degree
6 13 (4.66%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.23%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.79%) CISSP
10 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.81%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.38%) QA
3 13 (4.66%) GDPR
4 11 (3.94%) NIST
5 9 (3.23%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.15%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.08%) WCAG
9 2 (0.72%) NCSC
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HL7
10 1 (0.36%) SLA
10 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 112 (40.14%) Docker
2 6 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) Squid
4 2 (0.72%) Corosync
4 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 260 (93.19%) Terraform
2 118 (42.29%) Kubernetes
3 43 (15.41%) Grafana
4 39 (13.98%) Prometheus
5 35 (12.54%) Ansible
6 13 (4.66%) Puppet
7 11 (3.94%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.58%) Argo
9 7 (2.51%) Istio
10 4 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.43%) linkerd
10 4 (1.43%) Packer
11 3 (1.08%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.36%) Kibana
13 1 (0.36%) Podman
13 1 (0.36%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.32%) Google
3 15 (5.38%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.02%) Splunk
5 10 (3.58%) Databricks
6 8 (2.87%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.87%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.15%) Oracle
7 6 (2.15%) VMware
8 5 (1.79%) Cisco
8 5 (1.79%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.08%) SAP
10 3 (1.08%) Sybase
10 3 (1.08%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.08%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.72%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.72%) Teradata