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

 6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 286 402
Rank change year-on-year -96 +116 -51
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 272 247 129
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.88% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 2.31% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 183 77
10th Percentile £400 £400 £386
25th Percentile £440 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £650
90th Percentile £689 £680 £768
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% -5.66%
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 15,857 10,675 11,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.39% 38.22% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,546 7,222 7,541
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £644
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 568 255 165
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.35 £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% +6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%

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 5 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 5 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 -78 154 £550 -3.30% 189
North of England -70 47 £605 +45.35% 70
North West -31 33 £600 +50.00% 39
South East -48 21 £572 +30.74% 30
South West -31 20 £475 -19.15% 18
Midlands -35 18 £488 -15.22% 26
West Midlands -45 13 £488 -15.22% 16
Yorkshire -47 10 £638 +30.77% 18
East Midlands -6 5 £466 -33.50% 10
North East -38 4 £500 +20.12% 13
East of England -27 2 £463 +85.00% 7
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 (3.68%) Confluence
2 9 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.57%) Apache
4 5 (1.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.10%) nginx
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.74%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.74%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.37%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.37%) Traefik
7 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 268 (98.53%) AWS
2 111 (40.81%) Serverless
3 96 (35.29%) Azure
4 94 (34.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 92 (33.82%) AWS Lambda
6 85 (31.25%) Amazon S3
7 79 (29.04%) GCP
8 68 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
9 65 (23.90%) GitHub
9 65 (23.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 56 (20.59%) Amazon ECS
10 56 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (8.82%) AWS KMS
14 22 (8.09%) AWS Step Functions
15 21 (7.72%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (7.35%) AWS CloudTrail
16 20 (7.35%) Datadog
17 14 (5.15%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.56%) Firewall
2 24 (8.82%) DNS
3 14 (5.15%) Network Security
4 12 (4.41%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.68%) WAN
6 8 (2.94%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.57%) DHCP
8 5 (1.84%) SSL
8 5 (1.84%) VPN
9 4 (1.47%) HTTP
9 4 (1.47%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.10%) BGP
10 3 (1.10%) CTI
10 3 (1.10%) Internet
11 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.74%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.37%) MPLS
12 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.97%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (7.72%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.62%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (6.62%) MySQL
5 17 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (5.88%) SQL Server
7 14 (5.15%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (3.68%) Data Lake
11 9 (3.31%) Redis
12 8 (2.94%) NoSQL
13 5 (1.84%) Metadata
13 5 (1.84%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.10%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.10%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.10%) SAP HANA
15 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database 10g
15 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 66 (24.26%) Jenkins
2 56 (20.59%) GitLab
3 34 (12.50%) Git
4 23 (8.46%) JIRA
5 10 (3.68%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.57%) JUnit
7 6 (2.21%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.47%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.47%) Maven
8 4 (1.47%) Snyk
8 4 (1.47%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.10%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.10%) Mockito
10 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.74%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.74%) Flyway
10 2 (0.74%) MLflow
General
1 85 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.54%) Finance
3 38 (13.97%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.04%) Banking
6 7 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.84%) Law
9 4 (1.47%) Military
10 3 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.37%) Automotive
12 1 (0.37%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) German Language
12 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Local Government
12 1 (0.37%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.37%) Publishing
12 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (14.34%) Architect
3 39 (14.34%) Senior
4 37 (13.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
6 27 (9.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 26 (9.56%) Security Engineer
8 23 (8.46%) Data Engineer
9 19 (6.99%) Lead
10 18 (6.62%) AWS Architect
10 18 (6.62%) Developer
11 15 (5.51%) DBA
12 13 (4.78%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 12 (4.41%) Administrator
13 12 (4.41%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.04%) Network Engineer
14 11 (4.04%) Platform Architect
15 10 (3.68%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (92.65%) Terraform
2 34 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 23 (8.46%) REST
4 19 (6.99%) Kafka
5 11 (4.04%) React
6 10 (3.68%) RESTful
7 9 (3.31%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (3.31%) PySpark
8 8 (2.94%) FastAPI
8 8 (2.94%) Node.js
8 8 (2.94%) pytest
8 8 (2.94%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.57%) Pulumi
9 7 (2.57%) Spring
10 6 (2.21%) Pandas
11 5 (1.84%) Flask
11 5 (1.84%) OAuth
11 5 (1.84%) Web Services
12 4 (1.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (32.35%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.62%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.51%) Replication
5 13 (4.78%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.41%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.31%) AI Agents
7 9 (3.31%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.57%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.21%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.21%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.84%) Clustering
10 5 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.47%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.10%) Autonomous Agent
12 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 50 (18.38%) Linux
2 28 (10.29%) Windows
3 18 (6.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.94%) Unix
5 6 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.47%) AIX
7 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.37%) CentOS
8 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (88.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 211 (77.57%) CI/CD
3 165 (60.66%) DevOps
4 91 (33.46%) Agile
5 86 (31.62%) Containerisation
6 74 (27.21%) Observability
7 69 (25.37%) Cloud Security
8 60 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (18.38%) Platform Engineering
9 50 (18.38%) Test Automation
10 43 (15.81%) AI
10 43 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (15.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (15.44%) Microservices
12 40 (14.71%) Infrastructure Automation
13 38 (13.97%) Root Cause Analysis
14 35 (12.87%) High Availability
15 33 (12.13%) Data Modelling
15 33 (12.13%) Secrets Management
16 31 (11.40%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 140 (51.47%) Python
2 64 (23.53%) Bash
3 51 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 47 (17.28%) SQL
5 40 (14.71%) Java
6 30 (11.03%) Bicep
7 17 (6.25%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.41%) Go
9 11 (4.04%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.84%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.10%) C
11 3 (1.10%) Groovy
11 3 (1.10%) Scala
11 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.74%) C#
12 2 (0.74%) R
13 1 (0.37%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) Korn
13 1 (0.37%) Perl
13 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 102 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 92 (33.82%) SC Cleared
3 58 (21.32%) AWS Certification
4 31 (11.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (6.99%) Degree
6 15 (5.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.15%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.41%) CISSP
9 7 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.57%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (2.21%) SAFe Agilist
11 5 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.10%) CISM
13 3 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.15%) QA
3 11 (4.04%) NIST
4 10 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.94%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.21%) NCSC
7 5 (1.84%) GDPR
8 4 (1.47%) SLA
9 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.10%) WCAG
10 1 (0.37%) GLBA
10 1 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 102 (37.50%) Docker
2 8 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.74%) Corosync
3 2 (0.74%) Squid
Systems Management
1 122 (44.85%) Kubernetes
2 38 (13.97%) Grafana
3 32 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 30 (11.03%) Ansible
5 17 (6.25%) Progress Chef
6 15 (5.51%) Puppet
7 8 (2.94%) Argo
8 6 (2.21%) Istio
9 5 (1.84%) Packer
10 3 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.10%) linkerd
10 3 (1.10%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.74%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.74%) Podman
12 1 (0.37%) Control-M
12 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (11.03%) Google
2 29 (10.66%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.62%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.15%) Splunk
5 12 (4.41%) Databricks
6 10 (3.68%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.94%) Infoblox
7 8 (2.94%) Oracle
8 7 (2.57%) VMware
9 5 (1.84%) Cisco
10 4 (1.47%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.47%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.47%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.47%) Teradata
10 4 (1.47%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.10%) Informatica
11 3 (1.10%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.10%) SAP
12 2 (0.74%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.74%) Sybase
349 AWS CloudFormation jobs in England