AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 118 130
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +24
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 15 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.81% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 0.63% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 9
10th Percentile £423 £453 £483
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £530 £551
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -3.72% -4.26%
75th Percentile £653 £608 £588
90th Percentile £684 £663 £690
Central London median daily rate £569 £530 £551
% change year-on-year +7.31% -3.72% -12.76%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 763 800 1,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.40% 38.93% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 512 729
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £26.41 - -
25th Percentile £32.13 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £85.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.18% +347.37% -7.32%
75th Percentile £41.89 £92.50 £43.38
90th Percentile £44.72 - £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% +84.21% -7.32%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS CloudFormation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the City of London

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (46.67%) Serverless
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (40.00%) GitHub
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (26.67%) Azure
5 4 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (20.00%) GCP
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (13.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (13.33%) AWS KMS
7 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
8 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (6.67%) Data Hub
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Manager
4 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) boto
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) DevOps
4 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
5 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
6 4 (26.67%) Observability
7 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 3 (20.00%) Microservices
7 3 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
8 2 (13.33%) Agile
8 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
8 2 (13.33%) High Availability
8 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (13.33%) Security Architecture
8 2 (13.33%) SIEM
8 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
8 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Ruby
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) CCSP
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) OSCP
3 1 (6.67%) SANS
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (13.33%) NCSC
4 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (6.67%) GRC
4 1 (6.67%) NIST
4 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) Argo
5 1 (6.67%) Istio
5 1 (6.67%) Karpenter
5 1 (6.67%) Kibana
5 1 (6.67%) Opsgenie
5 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.67%) Rapid7
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Tenable