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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 332 355
Rank change year-on-year +76 +23 -79
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 314 194 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.62% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.65% 1.72% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 130 168
10th Percentile £400 £399 £425
25th Percentile £450 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £621 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +12.90% -8.29%
75th Percentile £625 £747 £666
90th Percentile £675 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £538
% change year-on-year -10.26% +8.84% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - -

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 11,844 11,252 13,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.51% 36.05% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,062 7,474 9,888
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 156 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% +24.53% +17.78%
75th Percentile £50.88 £58.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +21.13%

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 27 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 27 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 +43 181 £530 -18.46% 57
North of England -7 67 £475 -23.08% 20
Yorkshire -24 32 £500 -23.08% 4
North West -9 30 £447 -5.89% 12
South East +8 22 £463 -28.85% 24
Midlands -15 12 £575 +27.78% 9
West Midlands -17 12 £575 +15.00% 4
South West +7 11 £550 +12.82% 14
North East -5 5 £466 -31.85% 4
East of England - 5 £450 - 1
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 26 (8.28%) Confluence
2 23 (7.32%) nginx
3 15 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (4.14%) Apache Spark
5 12 (3.82%) Apache
6 5 (1.59%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.32%) CMS
8 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 298 (94.90%) AWS
2 115 (36.62%) Serverless
3 111 (35.35%) AWS Lambda
4 103 (32.80%) Amazon S3
5 86 (27.39%) GitHub
6 83 (26.43%) Azure
7 82 (26.11%) Amazon ECS
8 70 (22.29%) Amazon EC2
9 68 (21.66%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (18.79%) Amazon EKS
11 52 (16.56%) GCP
12 50 (15.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (12.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (9.24%) Datadog
15 27 (8.60%) AWS Fargate
16 24 (7.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 21 (6.69%) AWS CodePipeline
18 20 (6.37%) Amazon SQS
19 18 (5.73%) Amazon Kinesis
19 18 (5.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.64%) DNS
2 16 (5.10%) Firewall
3 13 (4.14%) VPN
4 9 (2.87%) DHCP
5 8 (2.55%) Network Security
6 6 (1.91%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.27%) SSL
8 3 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.64%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.32%) HTTP
10 1 (0.32%) Internet
10 1 (0.32%) NAS
10 1 (0.32%) SAN
10 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (21.66%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.60%) DynamoDB
4 25 (7.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (5.73%) Data Lake
5 18 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (4.78%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.82%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.82%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.87%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.55%) MySQL
11 7 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.91%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.91%) Couchbase
12 6 (1.91%) Power BI
12 6 (1.91%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.59%) DB2
13 5 (1.59%) Redshift Spectrum
14 3 (0.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 93 (29.62%) Jenkins
2 78 (24.84%) Git
3 67 (21.34%) GitLab
4 36 (11.46%) JIRA
5 14 (4.46%) Bitbucket
5 14 (4.46%) JUnit
5 14 (4.46%) Maven
6 11 (3.50%) Artifactory
6 11 (3.50%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (2.23%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.23%) Gradle
9 6 (1.91%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.59%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.59%) Selenium
10 5 (1.59%) Snyk
11 4 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.27%) Postman
11 4 (1.27%) Terragrunt
11 4 (1.27%) webpack
General
1 73 (23.25%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.47%) Public Sector
3 35 (11.15%) Finance
4 18 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.73%) Banking
5 5 (1.59%) Aerospace
5 5 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (1.59%) Games
6 3 (0.96%) Law
7 2 (0.64%) Aviation
7 2 (0.64%) Legal
7 2 (0.64%) Police
7 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (22.93%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (18.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (14.33%) Senior
4 34 (10.83%) Developer
5 31 (9.87%) Lead
6 29 (9.24%) Architect
6 29 (9.24%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (8.92%) AWS DevOps
8 26 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (7.96%) Data Engineer
10 24 (7.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.78%) AWS Architect
13 14 (4.46%) AWS Developer
13 14 (4.46%) Site Engineer
14 13 (4.14%) Security Engineer
14 13 (4.14%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (3.50%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.42%) Kafka
2 31 (9.87%) AWS CDK
3 30 (9.55%) Node.js
4 21 (6.69%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (6.37%) RESTful
5 20 (6.37%) Spring
6 17 (5.41%) React
7 16 (5.10%) JSON
8 15 (4.78%) Spring Boot
9 13 (4.14%) REST
10 11 (3.50%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.87%) ARM Templates
11 9 (2.87%) Keycloak
12 8 (2.55%) Jest
12 8 (2.55%) OAuth
12 8 (2.55%) OpenID
13 7 (2.23%) cloud-init
13 7 (2.23%) OAuth2
13 7 (2.23%) SAML
13 7 (2.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.38%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.14%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.50%) PKI
4 9 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.55%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (2.23%) Replication
7 6 (1.91%) NHS
8 5 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.59%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.96%) SCADA
10 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (25.80%) Linux
2 17 (5.41%) Unix
3 13 (4.14%) Windows
4 7 (2.23%) CentOS
4 7 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.96%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (73.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 223 (71.02%) CI/CD
3 190 (60.51%) DevOps
4 116 (36.94%) Containerisation
5 94 (29.94%) Agile
6 55 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (15.29%) Observability
8 43 (13.69%) Microservices
9 40 (12.74%) Platform Engineering
10 38 (12.10%) Migration
11 37 (11.78%) DevSecOps
11 37 (11.78%) Infrastructure Automation
12 36 (11.46%) Mentoring
12 36 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
13 34 (10.83%) Configuration Management
13 34 (10.83%) Test Automation
14 33 (10.51%) Software Engineering
15 29 (9.24%) Cloud Security
16 28 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (8.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 154 (49.04%) Python
2 55 (17.52%) Bash
3 41 (13.06%) SQL
4 38 (12.10%) Java
5 35 (11.15%) PowerShell
6 34 (10.83%) Go
7 28 (8.92%) TypeScript
8 23 (7.32%) JavaScript
9 16 (5.10%) Ruby
9 16 (5.10%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.23%) C#
10 7 (2.23%) Perl
11 6 (1.91%) Groovy
12 5 (1.59%) C++
12 5 (1.59%) Scala
13 4 (1.27%) Bicep
14 3 (0.96%) C
14 3 (0.96%) PromQL
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
15 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 104 (33.12%) Security Cleared
2 84 (26.75%) SC Cleared
3 53 (16.88%) AWS Certification
4 20 (6.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.14%) Degree
7 11 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.59%) CISSP
10 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.64%) CCSP
12 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.32%) OCP
13 1 (0.32%) OSCP
13 1 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.24%) GDPR
2 19 (6.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (5.73%) QA
4 14 (4.46%) NIST
5 12 (3.82%) Data Quality
5 12 (3.82%) NCSC
6 9 (2.87%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.23%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.32%) GRC
9 1 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 137 (43.63%) Docker
2 15 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.32%) HDFS
6 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 280 (89.17%) Terraform
2 138 (43.95%) Kubernetes
3 71 (22.61%) Ansible
4 47 (14.97%) Grafana
5 37 (11.78%) Prometheus
6 31 (9.87%) Packer
7 28 (8.92%) Puppet
8 20 (6.37%) Consul
9 17 (5.41%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (2.23%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (1.59%) Podman
13 2 (0.64%) Argo
13 2 (0.64%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.64%) Istio
13 2 (0.64%) Salt
13 2 (0.64%) SELinux
14 1 (0.32%) Bitnami
14 1 (0.32%) linkerd
14 1 (0.32%) Nessus
Vendors
1 21 (6.69%) Splunk
2 19 (6.05%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.82%) Databricks
3 12 (3.82%) IBM
3 12 (3.82%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.50%) Google
5 8 (2.55%) CA Agile Central
6 7 (2.23%) Alibaba
6 7 (2.23%) Confluent
6 7 (2.23%) Okta
6 7 (2.23%) PagerDuty
7 6 (1.91%) VMware
8 5 (1.59%) Oracle
8 5 (1.59%) Sybase
9 4 (1.27%) CloudEndure
10 3 (0.96%) Cisco
10 3 (0.96%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.96%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.64%) Teradata