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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 115 120
Rank change year-on-year -24 +5 +32
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 11 14 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.43% 0.70% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.75% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile £534 £456 £415
25th Percentile £544 £539 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £645
Median % change year-on-year - +0.78% +29.00%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £690
90th Percentile - £733 £734
London median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,026 801 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.49% 40.17% 40.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 724 533 653
10th Percentile £363 £342 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.65%
75th Percentile £653 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £751
London median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 £59.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.00 £29.54 £28.50
% change year-on-year +18.50% +3.63% -43.00%

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 28 August 2026.

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 28 August 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
City of London -20 11 £650 -3.70% 2
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 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Serverless
3 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
4 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (45.45%) GitHub
4 5 (45.45%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
5 3 (27.27%) GCP
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) dbt
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
3 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
3 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (18.18%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (18.18%) Metadata
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Front Office
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Platform Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) Django
3 1 (9.09%) Express.js
3 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
3 1 (9.09%) Flask
3 1 (9.09%) Jest
3 1 (9.09%) JWT
3 1 (9.09%) NestJS
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 1 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Equities
2 1 (9.09%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (63.64%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
4 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
5 4 (36.36%) Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) AI
6 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
6 3 (27.27%) LLM
6 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Bicep
4 2 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
1 1 (9.09%) PMP
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) OpenAI