AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Reading

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 88 78
Rank change year-on-year +22 -10 +23
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 9 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.27% 0.18% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.04% 0.52% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £486 - £550
25th Percentile £539 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +32.98%
75th Percentile £602 - £700
90th Percentile £604 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £463 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -28.85% +6.12% +6.99%
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 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 296 388 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 41.93% 35.63% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 243 253
10th Percentile £273 £385 £425
25th Percentile £413 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £650
90th Percentile £659 £671 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -10.55% -2.65% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 1
10th Percentile - £23.50 -
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.94 £16.84
Median hourly rate £81.00 £35.75 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year +126.57% +106.17% -67.28%
75th Percentile £95.00 £59.17 £17.84
90th Percentile £100.00 £67.21 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £42.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -4.86% -32.54% +186.36%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Reading

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Reading over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in Reading

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudTrail
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Control Tower
2 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DHCP
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
1 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Aerospace
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
1 4 (44.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) DevSecOps
2 4 (44.44%) FinOps
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) RBAC
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Runbook
2 4 (44.44%) SIEM
2 4 (44.44%) Threat Detection
2 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
1 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 8 (88.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (44.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
1 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Citrix
1 4 (44.44%) CloudEndure
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) IBM