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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 116 119
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +24
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 12 12 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.50% 0.64% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.54% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £536 £368 £400
25th Percentile £550 £556 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £645
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +0.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £725 £697 £708
90th Percentile £779 £748 £740
Central London median daily rate £675 £625 £645
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.10% +20.00%

All Cloud Computing 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 950 780 885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.40% 41.91% 41.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 507 618
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £462 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £674
90th Percentile £750 £758 £756
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 5
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 £18.45
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 £50.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £75.60
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%

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 22 July 2026.

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 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) Serverless
3 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (41.67%) GitHub
4 5 (41.67%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (33.33%) Azure
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (25.00%) GCP
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (8.33%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (16.67%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Db2
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) JUnit
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Front Office
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Platform Architect
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Flask
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) boto
2 1 (8.33%) Django
2 1 (8.33%) Express.js
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) Jest
2 1 (8.33%) JWT
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) NestJS
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (8.33%) Equities
2 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
6 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
7 3 (25.00%) Agile
7 3 (25.00%) AI
7 3 (25.00%) Analytics
7 3 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
7 3 (25.00%) LLM
7 3 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (16.67%) API Development
8 2 (16.67%) Data Management
8 2 (16.67%) Migration
8 2 (16.67%) Scrum
8 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Bicep
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (8.33%) PMP
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
1 2 (16.67%) OpenAI
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Sybase