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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 330 349
Rank change year-on-year +69 +19 -66
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 311 176 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.57% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.65% 1.59% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 116 174
10th Percentile £400 £394 £425
25th Percentile £450 £481 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £621 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +12.95% -8.33%
75th Percentile £621 £750 £655
90th Percentile £669 £788 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £84.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +42.86%

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 11,745 11,070 13,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.65% 35.90% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,996 7,359 10,084
10th Percentile £303 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 140 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% +10.00% +36.36%

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 19 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 19 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 +56 181 £530 -18.46% 154
North of England -8 64 £474 -23.24% 60
Yorkshire -23 32 £500 -23.08% 20
North West -13 28 £420 -11.58% 35
South East +17 20 £450 -30.77% 26
West Midlands -13 14 £575 +15.00% 5
Midlands -22 14 £575 +27.78% 9
South West +12 11 £550 +12.82% 14
East of England - 5 £450 - 9
North East -5 4 £466 -31.85% 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 31 (9.97%) Confluence
2 29 (9.32%) nginx
3 15 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.54%) Apache Spark
5 10 (3.22%) Apache
6 5 (1.61%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.32%) CMS
8 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 293 (94.21%) AWS
2 109 (35.05%) Serverless
3 106 (34.08%) AWS Lambda
4 98 (31.51%) Amazon S3
5 84 (27.01%) Azure
5 84 (27.01%) GitHub
6 77 (24.76%) Amazon ECS
7 70 (22.51%) Amazon EC2
8 65 (20.90%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (18.33%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (17.36%) GCP
11 49 (15.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (12.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (9.97%) Datadog
14 27 (8.68%) AWS Fargate
15 25 (8.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 20 (6.43%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (6.43%) AWS CloudTrail
17 18 (5.79%) AWS KMS
18 17 (5.47%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.07%) DNS
2 17 (5.47%) Firewall
3 14 (4.50%) VPN
4 10 (3.22%) Network Security
5 9 (2.89%) DHCP
6 7 (2.25%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.61%) SSL
8 2 (0.64%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.32%) HTTP
9 1 (0.32%) Internet
9 1 (0.32%) NAS
9 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.32%) SAN
9 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (21.54%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (11.58%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.68%) DynamoDB
4 25 (8.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (5.47%) Data Lake
7 16 (5.14%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (5.14%) NoSQL
8 13 (4.18%) MongoDB
8 13 (4.18%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.89%) MySQL
10 8 (2.57%) SQL Server
11 7 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.93%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.93%) Couchbase
12 6 (1.93%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.61%) DB2
13 5 (1.61%) Power BI
13 5 (1.61%) Redshift Spectrum
14 3 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (29.90%) Jenkins
2 80 (25.72%) Git
3 64 (20.58%) GitLab
4 41 (13.18%) JIRA
5 14 (4.50%) JUnit
6 13 (4.18%) Bitbucket
7 12 (3.86%) Artifactory
7 12 (3.86%) Maven
8 11 (3.54%) SonarQube
8 11 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (2.25%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.93%) Gradle
11 5 (1.61%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.61%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.61%) Selenium
11 5 (1.61%) Snyk
12 4 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.29%) Postman
12 4 (1.29%) Terragrunt
12 4 (1.29%) webpack
General
1 72 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.72%) Public Sector
3 35 (11.25%) Finance
4 17 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.47%) Banking
5 5 (1.61%) Aerospace
5 5 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (1.61%) 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 74 (23.79%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (18.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (13.83%) Senior
4 33 (10.61%) Lead
5 31 (9.97%) Developer
6 30 (9.65%) AWS DevOps
6 30 (9.65%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (8.68%) Architect
9 26 (8.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 23 (7.40%) Data Engineer
11 17 (5.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.82%) AWS Architect
13 14 (4.50%) Security Engineer
13 14 (4.50%) Site Engineer
14 13 (4.18%) AWS Developer
15 12 (3.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 12 (3.86%) Software Engineer
16 11 (3.54%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.58%) Kafka
2 30 (9.65%) AWS CDK
3 28 (9.00%) Node.js
4 20 (6.43%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (6.11%) React
5 19 (6.11%) RESTful
6 17 (5.47%) Spring
7 15 (4.82%) JSON
8 13 (4.18%) REST
9 12 (3.86%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.54%) AngularJS
11 10 (3.22%) ARM Templates
12 9 (2.89%) Keycloak
13 8 (2.57%) OAuth
13 8 (2.57%) OpenID
13 8 (2.57%) Vue
14 7 (2.25%) Jest
14 7 (2.25%) OAuth2
14 7 (2.25%) SAML
14 7 (2.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.18%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.54%) PKI
4 8 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.57%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.25%) Replication
6 6 (1.93%) NHS
7 5 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.61%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.29%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.96%) SCADA
9 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 79 (25.40%) Linux
2 17 (5.47%) Unix
3 14 (4.50%) Windows
4 7 (2.25%) CentOS
4 7 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.32%) VMS
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (71.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 212 (68.17%) CI/CD
3 186 (59.81%) DevOps
4 113 (36.33%) Containerisation
5 99 (31.83%) Agile
6 55 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (15.43%) Observability
8 40 (12.86%) Microservices
9 39 (12.54%) Platform Engineering
10 38 (12.22%) DevSecOps
10 38 (12.22%) Migration
11 35 (11.25%) Configuration Management
11 35 (11.25%) Infrastructure Automation
12 33 (10.61%) Mentoring
12 33 (10.61%) Test Automation
13 32 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (9.97%) Cloud Security
15 30 (9.65%) Software Engineering
16 26 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (8.36%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 149 (47.91%) Python
2 55 (17.68%) Bash
3 39 (12.54%) SQL
4 38 (12.22%) PowerShell
5 34 (10.93%) Go
5 34 (10.93%) Java
6 24 (7.72%) JavaScript
6 24 (7.72%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.11%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.54%) Ruby
9 7 (2.25%) Perl
10 6 (1.93%) C#
10 6 (1.93%) C++
10 6 (1.93%) Groovy
11 5 (1.61%) Scala
12 3 (0.96%) C
12 3 (0.96%) PromQL
13 2 (0.64%) Bicep
13 2 (0.64%) CodeQL
14 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 102 (32.80%) Security Cleared
2 84 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 55 (17.68%) AWS Certification
4 21 (6.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (4.18%) Degree
6 12 (3.86%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.61%) CISSP
10 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
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%) CISM
13 1 (0.32%) OCP
13 1 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.65%) GDPR
2 19 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.11%) QA
3 14 (4.50%) NIST
4 12 (3.86%) NCSC
5 10 (3.22%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.22%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.57%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.29%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 140 (45.02%) Docker
2 16 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
5 1 (0.32%) iptables
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 276 (88.75%) Terraform
2 141 (45.34%) Kubernetes
3 72 (23.15%) Ansible
4 45 (14.47%) Grafana
5 36 (11.58%) Packer
5 36 (11.58%) Prometheus
6 28 (9.00%) Puppet
7 25 (8.04%) Consul
8 16 (5.14%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (2.25%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (1.93%) Podman
12 2 (0.64%) Argo
12 2 (0.64%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.64%) Istio
12 2 (0.64%) Nessus
12 2 (0.64%) Salt
12 2 (0.64%) SELinux
13 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.32%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 21 (6.75%) Splunk
2 17 (5.47%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.86%) IBM
3 12 (3.86%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.54%) Databricks
5 10 (3.22%) Google
6 8 (2.57%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (2.25%) Alibaba
7 7 (2.25%) Confluent
7 7 (2.25%) Okta
8 6 (1.93%) PagerDuty
8 6 (1.93%) VMware
9 5 (1.61%) Oracle
9 5 (1.61%) Sybase
10 4 (1.29%) CloudEndure
11 3 (0.96%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.96%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.64%) Cisco
12 2 (0.64%) Teradata