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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 123 141
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 +18
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 10 10 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.53% 0.43% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.08% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 10
10th Percentile £272 £407 £429
25th Percentile £469 £451 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -12.96%
75th Percentile £609 £669 £576
90th Percentile £653 £731 £695
London median daily rate £550 £625 £551
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.53% -11.92%
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 - - £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 773 923 1,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.77% 39.55% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 602 836
10th Percentile £341 £394 £337
25th Percentile £429 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 10
10th Percentile £19.85 £29.40 £16.53
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £52.16 £49.38 £46.06
90th Percentile £63.81 £75.25 £54.63
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.38
% change year-on-year -25.71% -8.79% +31.20%

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 5 November 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 November 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 0 10 £550 +3.77% 63
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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Dagster
5 1 (10.00%) dbt
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (10.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
1 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Go
3 2 (20.00%) PromQL
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (30.00%) Grafana
3 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (20.00%) Ansible
5 1 (10.00%) Consul
5 1 (10.00%) Istio
5 1 (10.00%) Packer
5 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Tenable