AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 41 69
Rank change year-on-year -29 +28 +18
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 13 14 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.64% 3.24% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 7.07% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 1
10th Percentile - £536 -
25th Percentile - £669 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +45.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £563 £741 -
90th Percentile £619 £750 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £725 £500
% change year-on-year -31.03% +45.00% +17.65%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 338 198 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 42.68% 45.83% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 128 193
10th Percentile £313 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £600
90th Percentile £620 £725 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 1
10th Percentile - £29.90 -
25th Percentile - £31.69 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £65.71 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.31% +5.98% -7.46%
75th Percentile £74.00 £99.42 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £37.06 £15.00
% change year-on-year -61.54% +147.03% -72.22%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Leeds

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in Leeds

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) Amazon S3
2 10 (76.92%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (76.92%) Serverless
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (23.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (15.38%) Datadog
7 2 (15.38%) GitHub
7 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (7.69%) Apigee
8 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
8 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (7.69%) Azure
8 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
4 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) Maven
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Python Developer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Django
1 4 (30.77%) FastAPI
1 4 (30.77%) Flask
2 3 (23.08%) AWS CDK
2 3 (23.08%) Vue
3 2 (15.38%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) CSS3
4 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) HTML5
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) Next.js
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) pytest
4 1 (7.69%) React
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) NHS
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
1 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (69.23%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Data Security
4 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Migration
4 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 3 (23.08%) API Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Front End Development
5 3 (23.08%) Key Management
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Service Design
5 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Bash
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) C
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) CloudEndure
1 2 (15.38%) Databricks
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow