AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 243 333
Rank change year-on-year +14 +90 -49
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 489 320 295
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.03% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.22% 2.76% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 254 231
10th Percentile £368 £408 £415
25th Percentile £413 £480 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.76%
75th Percentile £614 £745 £625
90th Percentile £669 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £484
% change year-on-year -7.40% +3.31% -6.92%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,209 11,581 14,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.02% 37.40% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,431 7,758 10,618
10th Percentile £309 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 172 324
10th Percentile £14.60 £16.78 £14.04
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.43 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.27% +21.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.94 £50.58
90th Percentile £78.75 £73.25 £72.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.22 £24.18 £20.77
% change year-on-year +58.04% +16.42% +3.85%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS CloudFormation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 13 February 2026. 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
England +32 353 £530 -12.76% 111
London +46 218 £550 -9.84% 48
UK excluding London +6 172 £463 -7.40% 80
Work from Home -32 138 £555 -11.20% 69
North of England -31 59 £500 -23.08% 33
Scotland +14 51 £400 -14.89% 3
North West -13 35 £475 -13.64% 17
South East -17 29 £488 -25.00% 18
Yorkshire -59 19 £500 -29.82% 15
Midlands -43 16 £513 +7.89% 9
South West -6 13 £575 +4.55% 13
West Midlands -39 13 £575 +21.05% 8
North East -11 5 £466 -31.85% 1
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 2
Wales -3 2 £475 -20.83% 3
East of England - 2 £600 -

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 37 (7.57%) Apache Spark
2 36 (7.36%) Apache
3 20 (4.09%) Confluence
4 17 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (3.48%) nginx
5 5 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Actimize
2 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 473 (96.73%) AWS
2 208 (42.54%) Serverless
3 194 (39.67%) AWS Lambda
4 180 (36.81%) Amazon S3
5 147 (30.06%) Amazon ECS
6 142 (29.04%) GitHub
7 121 (24.74%) Azure
8 116 (23.72%) Amazon EC2
8 116 (23.72%) Amazon EKS
9 112 (22.90%) GitHub Actions
10 109 (22.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 96 (19.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 88 (18.00%) GCP
13 49 (10.02%) AWS CodePipeline
14 37 (7.57%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (7.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 34 (6.95%) AWS KMS
17 32 (6.54%) AWS CloudTrail
18 30 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
19 28 (5.73%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.75%) DNS
1 33 (6.75%) Firewall
2 22 (4.50%) VPN
3 16 (3.27%) Network Security
4 9 (1.84%) Reverse Proxy
4 9 (1.84%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.02%) DHCP
5 5 (1.02%) SSL
6 3 (0.61%) HTTP
6 3 (0.61%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.61%) WAN
7 2 (0.41%) BGP
7 2 (0.41%) OSPF
8 1 (0.20%) Internet
8 1 (0.20%) NAS
8 1 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (20.25%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (11.04%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (10.22%) Amazon Athena
4 42 (8.59%) DynamoDB
5 40 (8.18%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (7.36%) Data Lake
7 20 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (4.09%) NoSQL
8 19 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (3.48%) OLAP
9 17 (3.48%) OLTP
9 17 (3.48%) Power BI
10 16 (3.27%) MongoDB
10 16 (3.27%) SQL Server
11 14 (2.86%) BigQuery
11 14 (2.86%) Mixpanel
11 14 (2.86%) MySQL
12 12 (2.45%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.04%) Delta Lake
14 9 (1.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 141 (28.83%) Jenkins
2 115 (23.52%) GitLab
3 106 (21.68%) Git
4 38 (7.77%) JIRA
5 24 (4.91%) Bitbucket
6 17 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (2.04%) CircleCI
7 10 (2.04%) MLflow
8 9 (1.84%) Maven
9 8 (1.64%) JUnit
9 8 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.64%) Terragrunt
10 7 (1.43%) Gradle
10 7 (1.43%) Snyk
11 6 (1.23%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.23%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.02%) Selenium
13 4 (0.82%) Postman
13 4 (0.82%) webpack
14 3 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 106 (21.68%) Public Sector
2 96 (19.63%) Social Skills
3 73 (14.93%) Finance
4 30 (6.13%) Banking
5 25 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.43%) Legal
9 5 (1.02%) Games
9 5 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.02%) Law
10 3 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.41%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.41%) Marketing
11 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.20%) Military
12 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 119 (24.34%) AWS Engineer
2 108 (22.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 69 (14.11%) Architect
4 60 (12.27%) Senior
5 55 (11.25%) AWS DevOps
6 52 (10.63%) Lead
7 50 (10.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 47 (9.61%) Developer
9 46 (9.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 46 (9.41%) Data Engineer
10 41 (8.38%) AWS Architect
11 30 (6.13%) Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 24 (4.91%) Site Engineer
14 23 (4.70%) Security Engineer
15 22 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (3.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 19 (3.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 19 (3.89%) Software Engineer
17 17 (3.48%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (15.34%) Kafka
2 50 (10.22%) Node.js
3 45 (9.20%) AWS CDK
4 39 (7.98%) Elastic Stack
5 32 (6.54%) RESTful
6 31 (6.34%) Spring
6 31 (6.34%) Spring Boot
7 29 (5.93%) OAuth
8 24 (4.91%) React
9 22 (4.50%) OAuth2
9 22 (4.50%) REST
10 21 (4.29%) PySpark
11 14 (2.86%) Great Expectations
12 13 (2.66%) OpenID
13 11 (2.25%) JSON
13 11 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (2.04%) .NET
14 10 (2.04%) NestJS
15 9 (1.84%) AngularJS
15 9 (1.84%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 120 (24.54%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.86%) NHS
5 11 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.04%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.84%) PKI
8 8 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.43%) Replication
10 6 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.23%) IVR
11 5 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.02%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.02%) SCADA
11 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.82%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.61%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 115 (23.52%) Linux
2 21 (4.29%) Unix
3 20 (4.09%) Windows
4 4 (0.82%) CentOS
4 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (77.30%) CI/CD
2 377 (77.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 288 (58.90%) DevOps
4 173 (35.38%) Containerisation
5 120 (24.54%) Observability
6 119 (24.34%) Agile
7 82 (16.77%) Microservices
8 69 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (14.11%) Migration
9 63 (12.88%) Analytics
9 63 (12.88%) Infrastructure Automation
10 62 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (12.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 58 (11.86%) AI
13 57 (11.66%) Incident Response
14 56 (11.45%) Platform Engineering
15 52 (10.63%) Data Engineering
15 52 (10.63%) Data Pipeline
15 52 (10.63%) Mentoring
15 52 (10.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 257 (52.56%) Python
2 77 (15.75%) Bash
3 75 (15.34%) Java
4 70 (14.31%) SQL
5 43 (8.79%) PowerShell
6 31 (6.34%) Go
7 29 (5.93%) Ruby
8 27 (5.52%) JavaScript
9 24 (4.91%) Shell Script
9 24 (4.91%) TypeScript
10 19 (3.89%) C#
11 12 (2.45%) Bicep
11 12 (2.45%) Perl
12 5 (1.02%) Scala
13 3 (0.61%) C
14 1 (0.20%) C++
14 1 (0.20%) Groovy
14 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 145 (29.65%) Security Cleared
2 121 (24.74%) SC Cleared
3 91 (18.61%) AWS Certification
4 34 (6.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (4.09%) Degree
7 18 (3.68%) DV Cleared
8 17 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.45%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.64%) CISSP
11 7 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.02%) CCSP
12 5 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.02%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.82%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.86%) GDPR
2 34 (6.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 28 (5.73%) NIST
4 26 (5.32%) PCI DSS
5 24 (4.91%) QA
6 17 (3.48%) NCSC
7 10 (2.04%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.84%) HIPAA
9 8 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.43%) SLA
11 6 (1.23%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.82%) GRC
13 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.61%) PMO
14 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 207 (42.33%) Docker
2 8 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
3 7 (1.43%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.02%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 416 (85.07%) Terraform
2 206 (42.13%) Kubernetes
3 82 (16.77%) Ansible
4 76 (15.54%) Grafana
5 65 (13.29%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.29%) Puppet
7 20 (4.09%) Packer
8 18 (3.68%) Progress Chef
9 13 (2.66%) Consul
10 6 (1.23%) Argo
10 6 (1.23%) Karpenter
10 6 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.02%) Podman
12 4 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.82%) Kibana
13 2 (0.41%) Istio
13 2 (0.41%) linkerd
13 2 (0.41%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.20%) Nessus
Vendors
1 40 (8.18%) Databricks
2 33 (6.75%) Google
2 33 (6.75%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.75%) Splunk
3 16 (3.27%) Oracle
4 13 (2.66%) IBM
5 12 (2.45%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.25%) Cisco
7 10 (2.04%) CloudEndure
8 8 (1.64%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.43%) Citrix
9 7 (1.43%) Confluent
10 6 (1.23%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.23%) Rapid7
10 6 (1.23%) VMware
11 5 (1.02%) Avaya
11 5 (1.02%) Genesys
11 5 (1.02%) New Relic
11 5 (1.02%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.82%) Sybase