AWS CloudFormation Contracts in Central London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 122 152
Rank change year-on-year +7 +30 -13
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 13 15 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.65% 0.63% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.52% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile £412 £400 £427
25th Percentile £575 £446 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £645 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +17.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £675
90th Percentile £740 £740 £696
London median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.00 - £50.00

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 845 985 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.04% 41.49% 41.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 696 1,017
10th Percentile £363 £363 £275
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £653 £695
90th Percentile £750 £757 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 11
10th Percentile £24.30 £12.75 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.45 £14.88 £30.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%
75th Percentile £56.75 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.25 £38.63 -
London median hourly rate £30.75 £26.49 £56.25
% change year-on-year +16.10% -52.92% +30.36%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in Central London

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Central London.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in Central London

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Central London over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +5 12 £650 +0.78% 32
West End of London - 1 £580 - 2
Camden - 1 £580 -
AWS CloudFormation
London

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Route 53
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (7.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Lead
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
1 3 (23.08%) Site Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (38.46%) High Availability
5 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Observability
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Microservices
6 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Agile
7 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
7 2 (15.38%) Project Management
7 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Go
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) Bicep
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Terraform
2 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (30.77%) Ansible
3 4 (30.77%) Progress Chef
3 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
3 4 (30.77%) Puppet
4 3 (23.08%) Grafana
5 1 (7.69%) Argo
5 1 (7.69%) Consul
5 1 (7.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce