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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 119 115
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +30
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 20 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.84% 0.55% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 1.29% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 11
10th Percentile £411 £476 £475
25th Percentile £463 £498 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +2.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £665 £653 £684
90th Percentile £777 £708 £725
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 972 853 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.03% 42.95% 38.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 556 687
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +2.23% -6.43%
75th Percentile £650 £665 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile £21.29 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.56 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £54.05 £41.88 £36.25
90th Percentile £73.47 £100.00 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -1 18 £569 -5.21% 11
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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (45.00%) Serverless
3 7 (35.00%) GitHub
4 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (25.00%) Azure
5 5 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (20.00%) GCP
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (15.00%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (15.00%) AWS KMS
7 3 (15.00%) SaaS
7 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Network Security
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.00%) CockroachDB
3 1 (5.00%) Data Hub
3 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) DB2
3 1 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Pinecone
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) JUnit
4 1 (5.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) boto
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (10.00%) Node.js
2 2 (10.00%) RESTful
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) Flask
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (5.00%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.00%) Equities
2 3 (15.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (45.00%) DevOps
4 7 (35.00%) Observability
5 5 (25.00%) AI
5 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 4 (20.00%) Agile
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (15.00%) Data Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (15.00%) Generative AI
7 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
7 3 (15.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Attribution
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (15.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Bicep
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CCSP
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) OSCP
3 1 (5.00%) SANS
3 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) GDPR
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (10.00%) NCSC
4 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.00%) GRC
4 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) Grafana
3 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.00%) Argo
4 1 (5.00%) Karpenter
4 1 (5.00%) Kibana
4 1 (5.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) SimCorp
1 2 (10.00%) Vermilion
2 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Citrix
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) Sybase