AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in Central London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 122 136
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +20
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 18 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.90% 0.21% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 0.54% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 9
10th Percentile £428 £453 £483
25th Percentile £478 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £530 £551
Median % change year-on-year +7.31% -3.72% -12.76%
75th Percentile £649 £608 £588
90th Percentile £682 £663 £690
London median daily rate £550 £650 £563
% change year-on-year -15.38% +15.56% -10.00%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 820 924 1,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.90% 39.50% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 602 808
10th Percentile £328 £388 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £750 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 10
10th Percentile £19.07 - £17.00
25th Percentile £24.31 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.04% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £41.80 - £34.44
90th Percentile £46.94 £69.50 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.51% -16.00% +20.97%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Central London

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Central London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in Central London

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 21 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
City of London +10 17 £563 +6.13% 8
AWS CloudFormation
London

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) GitHub
3 7 (38.89%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (38.89%) Serverless
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 6 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (27.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (22.22%) Azure
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (16.67%) AWS KMS
7 3 (16.67%) GCP
8 2 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
9 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.56%) Data Hub
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Architect
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Manager
5 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) boto
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
1 13 (72.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
4 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 6 (33.33%) Observability
5 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
6 4 (22.22%) High Availability
6 4 (22.22%) Migration
6 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 3 (16.67%) Microservices
7 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Zero Trust
8 2 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
8 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
8 2 (11.11%) GitOps
8 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Bash
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Go
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) PromQL
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Ruby
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) CISSP
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) CCSP
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) OSCP
3 1 (5.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) NCSC
2 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (83.33%) Terraform
2 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
4 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 3 (16.67%) Ansible
6 1 (5.56%) Argo
6 1 (5.56%) Istio
6 1 (5.56%) Karpenter
6 1 (5.56%) Kibana
6 1 (5.56%) Opsgenie
6 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.56%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Tenable