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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 282 369
Rank change year-on-year -32 +87 -58
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 307 205 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.86% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 2.30% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 161 120
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £694 £738 £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 14,525 8,907 11,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.42% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,909 6,144 8,467
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £746
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.17% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 199 322
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.03 £68.75 £66.88
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £27.76 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.52% +29.90% -40.64%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -7 209 £575 -4.17% 38
North of England -65 29 £591 +39.76% 23
Midlands -52 19 £463 -7.50% 6
South West -22 17 £525 -6.67% 13
North West -35 16 £581 +45.25% 11
South East -52 15 £505 -12.17% 11
West Midlands -54 15 £475 +5.56% 2
Yorkshire -48 12 £563 +7.14% 10
East of England -35 6 £450 -10.00%
East Midlands -26 4 £442 -36.82% 4
North East -23 1 £750 +80.18% 2
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 (8.79%) Apache Spark
2 25 (8.14%) Apache
3 12 (3.91%) Confluence
4 6 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.98%) SAS
7 2 (0.65%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.65%) nginx
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 298 (97.07%) AWS
2 112 (36.48%) Azure
3 107 (34.85%) Amazon S3
4 103 (33.55%) Serverless
5 92 (29.97%) AWS Lambda
6 91 (29.64%) GitHub
7 80 (26.06%) GCP
8 75 (24.43%) GitHub Actions
9 74 (24.10%) Amazon ECS
10 73 (23.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 66 (21.50%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (17.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 48 (15.64%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (12.05%) AWS CodePipeline
15 32 (10.42%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (6.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 18 (5.86%) AWS KMS
18 18 (5.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 16 (5.21%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.10%) DNS
2 16 (5.21%) Firewall
3 12 (3.91%) Network Security
4 9 (2.93%) VPN
5 7 (2.28%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.95%) WAN
7 5 (1.63%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.98%) BGP
8 3 (0.98%) HTTP
8 3 (0.98%) OSPF
8 3 (0.98%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.98%) SSL
9 1 (0.33%) 4G
9 1 (0.33%) 5G
9 1 (0.33%) Internet
9 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.33%) LAN
9 1 (0.33%) MPLS
9 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.77%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (8.79%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (8.79%) Data Lake
3 25 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (5.86%) DynamoDB
6 16 (5.21%) BigQuery
6 16 (5.21%) Mixpanel
6 16 (5.21%) Power BI
7 15 (4.89%) OLAP
7 15 (4.89%) OLTP
8 12 (3.91%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.58%) SQL Server
10 10 (3.26%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.61%) Redis
13 7 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.95%) MySQL
15 5 (1.63%) Big Data
15 5 (1.63%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 75 (24.43%) Jenkins
2 65 (21.17%) GitLab
3 49 (15.96%) Git
4 20 (6.51%) JIRA
5 17 (5.54%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.26%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.26%) Snyk
7 6 (1.95%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.30%) JUnit
8 4 (1.30%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.98%) MLflow
9 3 (0.98%) Vite
10 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.65%) Selenium
10 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.33%) git-flow
11 1 (0.33%) Gradle
11 1 (0.33%) Mockito
11 1 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 77 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.96%) Finance
3 46 (14.98%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.54%) Banking
5 11 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.30%) Law
9 3 (0.98%) Games
10 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.65%) Front Office
10 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Marketing
10 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.33%) Billing
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (18.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (17.26%) AWS Engineer
3 52 (16.94%) Lead
4 49 (15.96%) Architect
5 35 (11.40%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (10.75%) Senior
7 31 (10.10%) Data Engineer
8 28 (9.12%) AWS DevOps
9 26 (8.47%) Cloud Architect
10 23 (7.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 22 (7.17%) AWS Architect
11 22 (7.17%) Developer
12 16 (5.21%) Security Engineer
13 15 (4.89%) Principal Engineer
14 14 (4.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 13 (4.23%) Principal Data Engineer
15 13 (4.23%) Site Engineer
16 12 (3.91%) Software Engineer
17 11 (3.58%) Lead DevOps
18 10 (3.26%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (16.29%) Kafka
2 31 (10.10%) AWS CDK
3 24 (7.82%) Node.js
3 24 (7.82%) RESTful
4 21 (6.84%) Great Expectations
5 18 (5.86%) OAuth
5 18 (5.86%) PySpark
6 16 (5.21%) React
7 14 (4.56%) REST
8 13 (4.23%) Spring
8 13 (4.23%) Spring Boot
9 12 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (3.91%) OAuth2
10 10 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (2.93%) .NET
11 9 (2.93%) boto
11 9 (2.93%) OpenID
12 7 (2.28%) Pandas
13 6 (1.95%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 105 (34.20%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.82%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.56%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.28%) Replication
6 7 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.95%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.63%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.63%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.30%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.30%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.98%) Equities
11 2 (0.65%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 42 (13.68%) Linux
2 16 (5.21%) Windows
3 6 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.63%) Unix
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (83.39%) CI/CD
2 247 (80.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 193 (62.87%) DevOps
4 101 (32.90%) Containerisation
5 83 (27.04%) Observability
6 79 (25.73%) Agile
7 54 (17.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (15.96%) DevSecOps
9 47 (15.31%) AI
9 47 (15.31%) Analytics
10 44 (14.33%) Microservices
11 39 (12.70%) Data Engineering
11 39 (12.70%) High Availability
11 39 (12.70%) Migration
12 36 (11.73%) Data Modelling
12 36 (11.73%) Platform Engineering
13 35 (11.40%) Event-Driven
13 35 (11.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 33 (10.75%) Incident Response
14 33 (10.75%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 143 (46.58%) Python
2 61 (19.87%) SQL
3 49 (15.96%) Java
4 41 (13.36%) Bash
5 28 (9.12%) PowerShell
6 20 (6.51%) Bicep
7 19 (6.19%) C#
8 16 (5.21%) JavaScript
9 12 (3.91%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.58%) Ruby
11 10 (3.26%) Go
12 6 (1.95%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.98%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.98%) Scala
14 2 (0.65%) Groovy
15 1 (0.33%) C
15 1 (0.33%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.33%) Perl
15 1 (0.33%) R
15 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 93 (30.29%) Security Cleared
2 80 (26.06%) SC Cleared
3 47 (15.31%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.54%) Degree
6 16 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (3.26%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (2.61%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (2.28%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.63%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.30%) CISSP
11 4 (1.30%) IBM Certification
12 3 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.98%) CCSP
12 3 (0.98%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.75%) GDPR
2 25 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.14%) NIST
3 20 (6.51%) PCI DSS
4 15 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (4.89%) QA
5 9 (2.93%) NCSC
6 6 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.63%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.30%) GRC
8 4 (1.30%) SLA
9 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.33%) HL7
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 116 (37.79%) Docker
2 6 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.65%) Corosync
3 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.65%) Squid
3 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 280 (91.21%) Terraform
2 118 (38.44%) Kubernetes
3 47 (15.31%) Ansible
4 38 (12.38%) Prometheus
5 37 (12.05%) Grafana
6 12 (3.91%) Puppet
7 9 (2.93%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.95%) Argo
10 5 (1.63%) Istio
10 5 (1.63%) linkerd
11 4 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.30%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.30%) Kibana
12 3 (0.98%) Pacemaker
12 3 (0.98%) Packer
13 2 (0.65%) Consul
13 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.33%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 28 (9.12%) Google
2 25 (8.14%) Databricks
3 21 (6.84%) Microsoft
4 20 (6.51%) Splunk
5 10 (3.26%) Oracle
6 8 (2.61%) Citrix
7 7 (2.28%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.95%) AVEVA
8 6 (1.95%) CloudEndure
8 6 (1.95%) IBM
9 5 (1.63%) New Relic
9 5 (1.63%) Rapid7
9 5 (1.63%) SAP
10 4 (1.30%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.30%) Qualys
10 4 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.30%) Tenable
11 3 (0.98%) Sybase
12 2 (0.65%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.65%) VMware