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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 118 136
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 +28
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 13 10 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.67% 0.43% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 1.09% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 11
10th Percentile £377 £407 £431
25th Percentile £463 £451 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -10.93%
75th Percentile £584 £669 £582
90th Percentile £636 £731 £678
London median daily rate £530 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -18.46% +18.18% -12.00%
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 805 921 1,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.20% 39.29% 40.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 601 832
10th Percentile £342 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 10
10th Percentile £18.65 £29.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £49.83 £49.38 £46.06
90th Percentile £62.04 £75.25 £54.63
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -25.71% -9.68% +49.93%

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 19 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 19 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 -3 13 £545 +2.83% 56
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 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub
3 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (30.77%) Serverless
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
5 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
5 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) IaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.69%) PaaS
6 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Security Architect
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Site Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
1 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 4 (30.77%) High Availability
4 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Observability
5 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
6 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
6 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Go
3 2 (15.38%) PromQL
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 2 (15.38%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) OSCP
2 1 (7.69%) SANS
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) GDPR
1 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
3 2 (15.38%) NCSC
4 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (7.69%) GRC
4 1 (7.69%) NIST
4 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
3 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
5 1 (7.69%) Consul
5 1 (7.69%) Istio
5 1 (7.69%) Packer
5 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Rapid7
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Tenable