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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 113 118
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +34
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 20 9 14
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.90% 0.44% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 1.05% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 11
10th Percentile £411 £463 £513
25th Percentile £463 £489 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £558 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -3.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £657 £614 £684
90th Percentile £752 £663 £725
London median daily rate £550 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -9.02% +5.13% -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 922 855 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.63% 42.14% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 564 703
10th Percentile £339 £363 £343
25th Percentile £440 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £653
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.30 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%
75th Percentile £49.83 £41.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £104.25 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £26.24
% change year-on-year +21.26% +10.79% -25.03%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +6 18 £569 +6.31% 15
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 6 (30.00%) GitHub
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (25.00%) Azure
4 5 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (20.00%) GCP
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (15.00%) AWS KMS
6 3 (15.00%) SaaS
7 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Network Security
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.00%) CockroachDB
2 1 (5.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) AWS CDK
1 3 (15.00%) boto
2 2 (10.00%) RESTful
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
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%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Equities
3 2 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps
4 7 (35.00%) Observability
5 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (20.00%) Agile
6 4 (20.00%) AI
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (15.00%) Analytics
7 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
7 3 (15.00%) Microservices
7 3 (15.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (15.00%) Zero Trust
8 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
8 2 (10.00%) Generative AI
8 2 (10.00%) Objectives and Key Results
8 2 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 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 2 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) OSCP
4 1 (5.00%) SANS
4 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 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) 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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.00%) SimCorp
2 2 (10.00%) Vermilion
3 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) Sybase