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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 310 331
Rank change year-on-year +51 +21 -51
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 317 194 226
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.69% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.64% 1.88% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 144 158
10th Percentile £400 £380 £425
25th Percentile £450 £498 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £614 £571
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +7.44% -4.79%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £675
90th Percentile £689 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
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 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 12,014 10,339 12,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.09% 36.61% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,287 6,922 9,243
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 136 244
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.88 £14.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £17.74
Median hourly rate £27.21 £28.75 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +18.29% +6.53%
75th Percentile £56.50 £49.06 £53.56
90th Percentile £77.02 £68.75 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -1.05% +6.55% +14.71%

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 29 December 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 29 December 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 +38 172 £550 -15.38% 104
North of England -18 68 £500 -20.00% 74
North West -6 35 £468 -1.58% 26
South East +13 28 £530 -18.46% 69
Yorkshire -33 28 £500 -28.57% 44
West Midlands -16 14 £575 +24.32% 27
Midlands -31 14 £575 +35.29% 47
South West +3 13 £575 +6.98% 30
North East -4 5 £466 -31.85% 4
East of England - 3 £525 - 37
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 18 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.36%) Apache
2 17 (5.36%) Confluence
3 15 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (4.42%) nginx
5 6 (1.89%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 302 (95.27%) AWS
2 116 (36.59%) Serverless
3 111 (35.02%) AWS Lambda
4 105 (33.12%) Amazon S3
5 96 (30.28%) GitHub
6 89 (28.08%) Azure
7 86 (27.13%) Amazon ECS
8 74 (23.34%) GitHub Actions
9 67 (21.14%) Amazon EC2
10 62 (19.56%) Amazon EKS
11 61 (19.24%) GCP
12 51 (16.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (15.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (9.78%) Datadog
15 30 (9.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 27 (8.52%) AWS KMS
17 25 (7.89%) AWS CodePipeline
18 22 (6.94%) AWS CloudTrail
18 22 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
19 20 (6.31%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.15%) DNS
2 18 (5.68%) Firewall
3 13 (4.10%) VPN
4 10 (3.15%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.21%) Network Security
6 6 (1.89%) DHCP
7 5 (1.58%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.95%) HTTP
8 3 (0.95%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.63%) Internet
9 2 (0.63%) SSL
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 67 (21.14%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (7.89%) Data Lake
4 24 (7.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (7.26%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (6.62%) DynamoDB
7 16 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (4.73%) NoSQL
9 14 (4.42%) MongoDB
10 12 (3.79%) SQL Server
11 11 (3.47%) Power BI
12 8 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.52%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.52%) Mixpanel
12 8 (2.52%) OLAP
12 8 (2.52%) OLTP
12 8 (2.52%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.21%) MySQL
14 6 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (1.89%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 94 (29.65%) Jenkins
2 74 (23.34%) GitLab
3 69 (21.77%) Git
4 28 (8.83%) JIRA
5 16 (5.05%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.47%) CircleCI
6 11 (3.47%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.15%) Maven
7 10 (3.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.52%) Gradle
8 8 (2.52%) JUnit
8 8 (2.52%) Terragrunt
9 7 (2.21%) Artifactory
9 7 (2.21%) Snyk
10 6 (1.89%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.89%) Selenium
11 5 (1.58%) Postman
11 5 (1.58%) webpack
12 3 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.32%) Mocha
General
1 70 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 62 (19.56%) Public Sector
3 48 (15.14%) Finance
4 20 (6.31%) Banking
5 12 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (1.89%) Law
7 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.58%) Games
8 2 (0.63%) Legal
8 2 (0.63%) Police
8 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Aviation
9 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Military
9 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (22.08%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (19.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (12.93%) Senior
4 40 (12.62%) Architect
5 33 (10.41%) Lead
6 29 (9.15%) AWS DevOps
6 29 (9.15%) Developer
7 28 (8.83%) Platform Engineer
8 27 (8.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 26 (8.20%) Data Engineer
10 24 (7.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 23 (7.26%) AWS Architect
12 17 (5.36%) Site Engineer
13 16 (5.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (4.73%) Cloud Architect
14 15 (4.73%) Security Engineer
14 15 (4.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (4.73%) Software Engineer
15 13 (4.10%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.47%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (15.14%) Kafka
2 31 (9.78%) AWS CDK
3 30 (9.46%) Node.js
4 27 (8.52%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (6.31%) RESTful
6 18 (5.68%) React
7 14 (4.42%) REST
7 14 (4.42%) Spring
8 13 (4.10%) Spring Boot
9 11 (3.47%) AngularJS
10 10 (3.15%) JSON
11 9 (2.84%) ARM Templates
12 8 (2.52%) Great Expectations
12 8 (2.52%) Keycloak
12 8 (2.52%) YAML
13 7 (2.21%) Django
13 7 (2.21%) FastAPI
13 7 (2.21%) Flask
13 7 (2.21%) Vue
14 6 (1.89%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 62 (19.56%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.15%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.15%) PKI
3 9 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.52%) Private Cloud
5 7 (2.21%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.21%) NHS
5 7 (2.21%) Replication
6 5 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.58%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.26%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.95%) SCADA
9 2 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.63%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 83 (26.18%) Linux
2 19 (5.99%) Unix
3 16 (5.05%) Windows
4 6 (1.89%) CentOS
4 6 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.95%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (77.60%) Infrastructure as Code
2 240 (75.71%) CI/CD
3 191 (60.25%) DevOps
4 111 (35.02%) Containerisation
5 73 (23.03%) Agile
6 65 (20.50%) Observability
7 51 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (13.88%) Migration
9 42 (13.25%) Microservices
10 41 (12.93%) Infrastructure Automation
10 41 (12.93%) Platform Engineering
11 40 (12.62%) DevSecOps
12 39 (12.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 38 (11.99%) Software Engineering
14 34 (10.73%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (10.41%) Cloud Security
15 33 (10.41%) Configuration Management
16 32 (10.09%) Mentoring
17 31 (9.78%) Incident Response
18 30 (9.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 162 (51.10%) Python
2 57 (17.98%) Bash
3 43 (13.56%) SQL
4 39 (12.30%) Java
5 31 (9.78%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.15%) Go
7 24 (7.57%) TypeScript
8 21 (6.62%) Ruby
9 20 (6.31%) JavaScript
10 17 (5.36%) Shell Script
11 10 (3.15%) C#
12 7 (2.21%) Perl
13 4 (1.26%) Bicep
13 4 (1.26%) Scala
14 3 (0.95%) C
15 1 (0.32%) C++
15 1 (0.32%) Groovy
15 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
15 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 101 (31.86%) Security Cleared
2 81 (25.55%) SC Cleared
3 62 (19.56%) AWS Certification
4 27 (8.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (4.73%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.42%) Degree
7 12 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.52%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.89%) CISSP
11 4 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.95%) MCP
12 3 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.63%) CCSP
13 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.63%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.09%) GDPR
2 20 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (5.36%) NCSC
4 15 (4.73%) NIST
4 15 (4.73%) QA
5 13 (4.10%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.89%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.89%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.58%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.95%) SLA
9 3 (0.95%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.32%) GRC
10 1 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 126 (39.75%) Docker
2 8 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.58%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.26%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 286 (90.22%) Terraform
2 126 (39.75%) Kubernetes
3 79 (24.92%) Ansible
4 52 (16.40%) Grafana
5 37 (11.67%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.57%) Puppet
7 21 (6.62%) Packer
8 16 (5.05%) Progress Chef
9 11 (3.47%) Consul
10 6 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (1.89%) Podman
11 5 (1.58%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.26%) Kibana
13 3 (0.95%) Argo
14 2 (0.63%) Istio
14 2 (0.63%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.32%) Bitnami
15 1 (0.32%) linkerd
Vendors
1 24 (7.57%) Splunk
2 23 (7.26%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.99%) Databricks
3 19 (5.99%) Google
4 15 (4.73%) IBM
5 10 (3.15%) CloudEndure
5 10 (3.15%) Oracle
6 8 (2.52%) PagerDuty
6 8 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.21%) Citrix
7 7 (2.21%) Confluent
8 6 (1.89%) Okta
8 6 (1.89%) VMware
9 4 (1.26%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.95%) Cisco
10 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.95%) Ping Identity
10 3 (0.95%) Sybase
10 3 (0.95%) Tenable
11 2 (0.63%) CA Agile Central