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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 115 120
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +26
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 18 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.73% 0.58% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 1.33% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 7
10th Percentile £410 £553 £400
25th Percentile £539 £579 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £650 £645
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +0.78% +14.67%
75th Percentile £678 £697 £708
90th Percentile £816 £748 £730
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -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 958 826 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.68% 43.27% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 531 693
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £453 £452 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 7
10th Percentile £20.35 £23.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £44.47 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.34% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.54 £43.75 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.53 £89.75 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £26.00
% change year-on-year +17.52% +16.18% -40.91%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -9 16 £635 -5.93% 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) Serverless
3 9 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
4 7 (38.89%) GitHub
4 7 (38.89%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (27.78%) Azure
6 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (16.67%) GCP
7 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.11%) Data Mining
2 2 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (11.11%) Metadata
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.56%) CockroachDB
3 1 (5.56%) Data Hub
3 1 (5.56%) DB2
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.56%) JUnit
4 1 (5.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Front Office
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Platform Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) boto
2 2 (11.11%) Node.js
2 2 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) Flask
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) LangGraph
3 1 (5.56%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.56%) Spring
3 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Equities
2 3 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 13 (72.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (55.56%) DevOps
4 7 (38.89%) Observability
5 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 5 (27.78%) AI
6 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
7 4 (22.22%) Agile
7 4 (22.22%) Analytics
7 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) Generative AI
7 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning
7 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
8 3 (16.67%) Asset Management
8 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (16.67%) LLM
8 3 (16.67%) Performance Attribution
8 3 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (11.11%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Bicep
2 3 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.56%) PMP
4 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (88.89%) Terraform
2 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
3 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Argo
4 1 (5.56%) Karpenter
4 1 (5.56%) Kibana
4 1 (5.56%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) OpenAI
1 2 (11.11%) SimCorp
1 2 (11.11%) Vermilion
2 1 (5.56%) Citrix
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Sybase