AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 46 33
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 -
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 8 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 3.31% 1.92% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.55% 4.95% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £606 £327 -
25th Percentile £626 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £358 £400
Median % change year-on-year +79.05% -10.50% -
75th Percentile £661 - -
90th Percentile £697 £364 -
Cheshire median daily rate £631 £358 £400
% change year-on-year +76.12% -10.50% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 106 101 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 43.80% 38.70% 39.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 99 57
10th Percentile £365 £313 £327
25th Percentile £435 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £402 £455
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% -11.65% -17.27%
75th Percentile £630 £480 £533
90th Percentile £691 £501 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £492 £418 £450
% change year-on-year +17.84% -7.22% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.50 £12.82 £17.72
% change year-on-year +36.51% -27.65% -21.35%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Knutsford

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing AWS CloudFormation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (12.50%) LangChain
2 1 (12.50%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) Change Management
2 6 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Cryptography
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (25.00%) GitOps
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (25.00%) Key Management
5 2 (25.00%) Log Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) RBAC
5 2 (25.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Bash
1 8 (100.00%) Bicep
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) CISSP
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Argo
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Istio
2 2 (25.00%) linkerd
2 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk