AWS CloudFormation Contracts in the City of London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 110 151
Rank change year-on-year -2 +41 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 12 15 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.66% 0.70% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.70% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 13
10th Percentile £368 £400 £426
25th Percentile £556 £446 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £645 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +20.00% -8.51%
75th Percentile £697 £708 £675
90th Percentile £748 £740 £685
Central London median daily rate £625 £645 £550
% change year-on-year -3.10% +17.27% -8.33%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £50.00

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 770 882 1,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.49% 41.29% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 617 922
10th Percentile £363 £363 £282
25th Percentile £463 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £14.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £24.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -63.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the City of London

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in the City of London

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 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the City of London

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 3 (25.00%) Serverless
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (8.33%) Datadog
4 1 (8.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
1 3 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) High Availability
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (33.33%) Observability
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Agile
7 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
7 2 (16.67%) Project Management
7 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
3 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Go
4 2 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) Bicep
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (25.00%) Ansible
4 3 (25.00%) Grafana
4 3 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (25.00%) Puppet
5 1 (8.33%) Argo
5 1 (8.33%) Consul
5 1 (8.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce