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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 270 370
Rank change year-on-year -20 +100 -53
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 326 217 174
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 0.90% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% 2.42% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 171 127
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £482 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.20% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +127.14% - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +127.14% - -

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 14,284 8,966 11,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.16% 37.17% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,786 6,222 8,419
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £501 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 194 323
10th Percentile £15.57 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.40 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%
75th Percentile £67.67 £37.50 £34.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.13 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +36.65% +28.69% -38.94%

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 14 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 14 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 -4 217 £575 -4.17% 34
North of England -54 34 £600 +44.14% 30
South East -42 22 £530 -8.23% 8
North West -31 19 £591 +47.63% 13
South West -19 18 £543 -5.65% 11
Midlands -48 18 £463 -7.50% 9
Yorkshire -46 14 £563 -10.00% 12
West Midlands -47 14 £463 +2.78% 2
East of England -34 5 £488 -2.50% 1
East Midlands -27 4 £442 -36.82% 7
North East -18 1 £750 +80.18% 5
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 29 (8.90%) Apache Spark
2 27 (8.28%) Apache
3 11 (3.37%) Confluence
4 7 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.92%) SAS
7 2 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.61%) nginx
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Actimize
1 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 316 (96.93%) AWS
2 119 (36.50%) Azure
3 117 (35.89%) Serverless
4 116 (35.58%) Amazon S3
5 105 (32.21%) AWS Lambda
6 100 (30.67%) GitHub
7 86 (26.38%) Amazon ECS
8 82 (25.15%) GitHub Actions
9 80 (24.54%) GCP
10 72 (22.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 66 (20.25%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (15.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 50 (15.34%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (12.27%) AWS CodePipeline
15 32 (9.82%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (5.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (5.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 17 (5.21%) AWS KMS
18 17 (5.21%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 34 (10.43%) DNS
2 17 (5.21%) Firewall
3 13 (3.99%) Network Security
4 10 (3.07%) VPN
5 9 (2.76%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.15%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.23%) DHCP
8 3 (0.92%) HTTP
8 3 (0.92%) WAN
9 2 (0.61%) BGP
9 2 (0.61%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.61%) OSPF
9 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.31%) 4G
10 1 (0.31%) 5G
10 1 (0.31%) Internet
10 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.82%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (8.90%) Data Lake
3 28 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (8.28%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (6.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (5.83%) DynamoDB
7 16 (4.91%) BigQuery
7 16 (4.91%) Mixpanel
7 16 (4.91%) Power BI
8 15 (4.60%) OLAP
8 15 (4.60%) OLTP
9 12 (3.68%) NoSQL
10 11 (3.37%) SQL Server
11 10 (3.07%) MongoDB
12 9 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (2.45%) Redis
14 6 (1.84%) Big Data
14 6 (1.84%) Metadata
14 6 (1.84%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 78 (23.93%) Jenkins
2 69 (21.17%) GitLab
3 58 (17.79%) Git
4 18 (5.52%) Bitbucket
5 17 (5.21%) JIRA
6 11 (3.37%) CircleCI
7 10 (3.07%) Snyk
8 7 (2.15%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.23%) JUnit
9 4 (1.23%) Maven
9 4 (1.23%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.92%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.92%) Gradle
10 3 (0.92%) MLflow
10 3 (0.92%) Selenium
10 3 (0.92%) Vite
11 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.31%) git-flow
12 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 80 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.56%) Public Sector
3 49 (15.03%) Finance
4 19 (5.83%) Banking
5 12 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.92%) Games
9 3 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.92%) Law
10 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.61%) Front Office
10 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Marketing
10 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Advertising
11 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.31%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (16.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (16.56%) Architect
3 52 (15.95%) Lead
4 48 (14.72%) AWS Engineer
5 41 (12.58%) Senior
6 32 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (9.82%) Data Engineer
7 28 (8.59%) Developer
8 26 (7.98%) AWS DevOps
8 26 (7.98%) Cloud Architect
9 23 (7.06%) AWS Architect
10 21 (6.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.21%) Security Engineer
12 15 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
12 15 (4.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (4.29%) Site Engineer
13 14 (4.29%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.99%) Principal Data Engineer
15 11 (3.37%) Lead DevOps
16 10 (3.07%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.95%) Kafka
2 30 (9.20%) RESTful
3 29 (8.90%) AWS CDK
4 28 (8.59%) Node.js
5 21 (6.44%) Great Expectations
5 21 (6.44%) Spring
6 20 (6.13%) Spring Boot
7 18 (5.52%) OAuth
7 18 (5.52%) PySpark
7 18 (5.52%) React
8 16 (4.91%) REST
9 13 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (3.68%) OAuth2
11 10 (3.07%) .NET
11 10 (3.07%) AngularJS
11 10 (3.07%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (2.76%) boto
12 9 (2.76%) OpenID
13 8 (2.45%) Pandas
14 7 (2.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 111 (34.05%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.15%) Replication
6 7 (2.15%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.84%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.84%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.53%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.23%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.23%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.23%) PKI
9 4 (1.23%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.64%) Linux
2 18 (5.52%) Windows
3 5 (1.53%) Unix
4 4 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (84.66%) CI/CD
2 260 (79.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 201 (61.66%) DevOps
4 115 (35.28%) Containerisation
5 86 (26.38%) Observability
6 85 (26.07%) Agile
7 55 (16.87%) DevSecOps
8 54 (16.56%) Microservices
9 53 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (15.64%) AI
11 49 (15.03%) Analytics
12 42 (12.88%) High Availability
13 41 (12.58%) Data Engineering
13 41 (12.58%) Platform Engineering
14 40 (12.27%) Event-Driven
14 40 (12.27%) Migration
14 40 (12.27%) Technical Leadership
15 39 (11.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 37 (11.35%) Data Modelling
16 37 (11.35%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 158 (48.47%) Python
2 63 (19.33%) SQL
3 58 (17.79%) Java
4 43 (13.19%) Bash
5 31 (9.51%) PowerShell
6 22 (6.75%) Bicep
7 20 (6.13%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.83%) C#
9 17 (5.21%) TypeScript
10 16 (4.91%) Ruby
11 10 (3.07%) Go
12 6 (1.84%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.92%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.92%) Scala
14 2 (0.61%) C
14 2 (0.61%) Groovy
15 1 (0.31%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.31%) R
15 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 104 (31.90%) Security Cleared
2 87 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 51 (15.64%) AWS Certification
4 21 (6.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (5.83%) Degree
6 17 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (3.37%) Azure Certification
9 10 (3.07%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (2.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (2.15%) SAFe Agilist
13 5 (1.53%) CISSP
13 5 (1.53%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.23%) CCSP
14 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (1.23%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.74%) GDPR
2 27 (8.28%) NIST
3 26 (7.98%) Data Quality
4 22 (6.75%) PCI DSS
5 19 (5.83%) QA
6 18 (5.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (2.76%) NCSC
8 6 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.53%) GRC
10 4 (1.23%) SLA
11 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.92%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.31%) HL7
12 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.31%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.31%) MiFID
12 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 130 (39.88%) Docker
2 6 (1.84%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.61%) Corosync
5 2 (0.61%) HDFS
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 296 (90.80%) Terraform
2 132 (40.49%) Kubernetes
3 52 (15.95%) Ansible
4 36 (11.04%) Grafana
4 36 (11.04%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.68%) Puppet
6 11 (3.37%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.53%) Argo
9 4 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (1.23%) Istio
9 4 (1.23%) Karpenter
9 4 (1.23%) Kibana
9 4 (1.23%) linkerd
10 3 (0.92%) Pacemaker
11 2 (0.61%) Consul
11 2 (0.61%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.61%) Packer
12 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.31%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (8.28%) Google
1 27 (8.28%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.98%) Databricks
3 21 (6.44%) Splunk
4 10 (3.07%) Oracle
5 7 (2.15%) Citrix
6 6 (1.84%) AVEVA
6 6 (1.84%) CloudEndure
6 6 (1.84%) IBM
6 6 (1.84%) Rapid7
6 6 (1.84%) VMware
7 5 (1.53%) New Relic
7 5 (1.53%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.53%) SAP
8 4 (1.23%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.23%) Qualys
8 4 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.23%) Tenable
9 2 (0.61%) Globalscape
9 2 (0.61%) OpenAI