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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 286 398
Rank change year-on-year -90 +112 -56
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 286 255 132
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.91% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 2.34% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 191 81
10th Percentile £400 £400 £394
25th Percentile £440 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £699 £688 £780
UK median daily rate £534 £525 £511
% change year-on-year +1.67% +2.74% -4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £67.45 - -
25th Percentile £68.71 - -
Median hourly rate £71.61 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +104.59% - -
75th Percentile £73.71 - -
90th Percentile £74.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.61 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +104.59% - -

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 16,178 10,882 11,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.54% 38.66% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,769 7,357 7,545
10th Percentile £322 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 264 160
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.07 £16.27
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.18 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 15 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 15 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 -59 168 £538 -6.43% 174
North of England -76 47 £603 +38.99% 68
North West -38 34 £600 +47.69% 35
South East -58 21 £572 +30.74% 22
Midlands -38 19 £484 -15.78% 23
South West -34 18 £475 -10.38% 14
West Midlands -39 13 £488 -15.22% 12
Yorkshire -56 9 £638 +27.50% 21
East Midlands -6 6 £450 -35.71% 11
North East -36 4 £500 +20.12% 12
East of England -33 1 £400 +14.29% 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 11 (3.85%) Confluence
2 8 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.10%) Apache
4 4 (1.40%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.05%) nginx
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.70%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.35%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.35%) Traefik
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 279 (97.55%) AWS
2 119 (41.61%) Serverless
3 102 (35.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 99 (34.62%) AWS Lambda
5 98 (34.27%) Azure
6 87 (30.42%) Amazon S3
7 81 (28.32%) GCP
8 74 (25.87%) Amazon EKS
9 71 (24.83%) GitHub
10 68 (23.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 66 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
12 58 (20.28%) GitHub Actions
13 52 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (8.39%) AWS KMS
17 22 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
17 22 (7.69%) Datadog
18 21 (7.34%) AWS CloudTrail
19 17 (5.94%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.44%) Firewall
2 25 (8.74%) DNS
3 15 (5.24%) Network Security
4 13 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.85%) WAN
6 8 (2.80%) DNSSEC
7 7 (2.45%) DHCP
8 6 (2.10%) VPN
9 5 (1.75%) SSL
10 4 (1.40%) BGP
10 4 (1.40%) HTTP
10 4 (1.40%) Internet
10 4 (1.40%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.05%) CTI
11 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.35%) MPLS
13 1 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.03%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (7.69%) DynamoDB
4 19 (6.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 19 (6.64%) SQL Server
5 18 (6.29%) MySQL
6 17 (5.94%) MongoDB
7 16 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (3.50%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.50%) NoSQL
9 10 (3.50%) Redis
10 7 (2.45%) Metadata
11 5 (1.75%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.75%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.05%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.70%) Big Data
13 2 (0.70%) Power BI
13 2 (0.70%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 69 (24.13%) Jenkins
2 56 (19.58%) GitLab
3 35 (12.24%) Git
4 25 (8.74%) JIRA
5 10 (3.50%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.45%) JUnit
7 6 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.75%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.40%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.40%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.40%) Maven
9 4 (1.40%) Spinnaker
10 3 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.05%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.05%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.05%) Mockito
10 3 (1.05%) Selenium
10 3 (1.05%) Snyk
11 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.70%) Flyway
General
1 91 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.48%) Finance
3 40 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.55%) Banking
6 7 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.75%) Law
9 4 (1.40%) Military
10 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.70%) Retail
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) German Language
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (19.23%) AWS Engineer
2 47 (16.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (15.38%) Architect
4 42 (14.69%) Senior
5 40 (13.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (11.89%) AWS DevOps
7 28 (9.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 25 (8.74%) Security Engineer
9 22 (7.69%) Data Engineer
10 21 (7.34%) AWS Architect
10 21 (7.34%) Developer
11 20 (6.99%) Lead
12 16 (5.59%) DBA
13 13 (4.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.20%) Administrator
14 12 (4.20%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (4.20%) Network Engineer
14 12 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (91.96%) Terraform
2 38 (13.29%) AWS CDK
3 26 (9.09%) REST
4 21 (7.34%) Kafka
5 13 (4.55%) Spring Boot
6 12 (4.20%) React
6 12 (4.20%) RESTful
6 12 (4.20%) Spring
7 11 (3.85%) pytest
8 10 (3.50%) FastAPI
8 10 (3.50%) Node.js
9 9 (3.15%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.80%) PySpark
11 7 (2.45%) Pulumi
12 6 (2.10%) OAuth
12 6 (2.10%) Web Services
13 5 (1.75%) Flask
13 5 (1.75%) Pandas
14 4 (1.40%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 92 (32.17%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.94%) Security Posture
4 14 (4.90%) Replication
5 13 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.20%) AI Agents
6 12 (4.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (4.20%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.85%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.10%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.10%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.75%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.40%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 51 (17.83%) Linux
2 29 (10.14%) Windows
3 16 (5.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.80%) Unix
5 6 (2.10%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.40%) AIX
7 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.35%) CentOS
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (87.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 223 (77.97%) CI/CD
3 172 (60.14%) DevOps
4 98 (34.27%) Agile
5 91 (31.82%) Containerisation
6 83 (29.02%) Observability
7 74 (25.87%) Cloud Security
8 69 (24.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (19.23%) Test Automation
10 54 (18.88%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (17.83%) AI
12 49 (17.13%) Microservices
13 48 (16.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 46 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (14.69%) Infrastructure Automation
16 37 (12.94%) Root Cause Analysis
16 37 (12.94%) Software Engineering
17 36 (12.59%) Data Modelling
17 36 (12.59%) High Availability
17 36 (12.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 145 (50.70%) Python
2 66 (23.08%) Bash
3 53 (18.53%) PowerShell
4 49 (17.13%) SQL
5 47 (16.43%) Java
6 29 (10.14%) Bicep
7 19 (6.64%) JavaScript
8 14 (4.90%) TypeScript
9 13 (4.55%) Go
10 5 (1.75%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.05%) C
11 3 (1.05%) C#
11 3 (1.05%) Groovy
11 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.70%) R
12 2 (0.70%) Scala
13 1 (0.35%) C++
13 1 (0.35%) Korn
13 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 102 (35.66%) Security Cleared
2 93 (32.52%) SC Cleared
3 65 (22.73%) AWS Certification
4 32 (11.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (6.99%) Degree
6 16 (5.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.90%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.20%) CISSP
9 7 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.45%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (2.10%) SAFe Agilist
11 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.05%) CISM
13 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.59%) QA
3 11 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.15%) NIST
5 8 (2.80%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.10%) GDPR
6 6 (2.10%) NCSC
7 4 (1.40%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.05%) SLA
8 3 (1.05%) WCAG
9 1 (0.35%) GLBA
9 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 113 (39.51%) Docker
2 8 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 130 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 40 (13.99%) Grafana
3 34 (11.89%) Prometheus
4 28 (9.79%) Ansible
5 18 (6.29%) Progress Chef
6 16 (5.59%) Puppet
7 8 (2.80%) Argo
8 6 (2.10%) Istio
9 5 (1.75%) Packer
10 3 (1.05%) linkerd
11 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.70%) Podman
12 1 (0.35%) Control-M
12 1 (0.35%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.35%) Kibana
12 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (11.54%) Google
2 30 (10.49%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.59%) Databricks
3 16 (5.59%) Red Hat
4 15 (5.24%) Splunk
5 10 (3.50%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.50%) Oracle
6 8 (2.80%) Infoblox
7 7 (2.45%) VMware
8 5 (1.75%) Cisco
8 5 (1.75%) Teradata
9 4 (1.40%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.40%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.40%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.05%) Informatica
10 3 (1.05%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.70%) Brio
11 2 (0.70%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.70%) Sybase