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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 122 143
Rank change year-on-year +4 +21 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 11 11 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.55% 0.45% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.15% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 15
10th Percentile £553 £452 £411
25th Percentile £579 £519 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £645 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £706 £708 £681
90th Percentile £748 £730 £715
London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 859 955 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.01% 39.04% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 689 1,022
10th Percentile £370 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +7 10 £675 +4.65% 9
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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (18.18%) Route 53
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (9.09%) Datadog
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) BGP
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
2 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (36.36%) High Availability
5 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
5 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
6 2 (18.18%) Observability
6 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) Static Application Security Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Bicep
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) JNCIP
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
3 4 (36.36%) Progress Chef
3 4 (36.36%) Puppet
4 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
5 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
6 1 (9.09%) Argo
6 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
1 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce