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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 107 123
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 +32
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 17 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.90% 0.32% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 0.80% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 9
10th Percentile £411 £453 £493
25th Percentile £463 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £530 £568
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -6.61% -12.69%
75th Percentile £653 £608 £678
90th Percentile £684 £663 £728
Central London median daily rate £575 £530 £568
% change year-on-year +8.49% -6.61% -12.69%

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 772 750 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.85% 40.61% 38.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 476 663
10th Percentile £339 £400 £363
25th Percentile £418 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 12
10th Percentile £26.66 - £13.18
25th Percentile £34.19 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 - £20.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.79%
75th Percentile £46.11 - £40.69
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% -5.68%

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 4 February 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 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (47.06%) Serverless
3 6 (35.29%) Amazon S3
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (29.41%) GitHub
5 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (23.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (17.65%) Azure
6 3 (17.65%) GCP
6 3 (17.65%) SaaS
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (11.76%) AWS KMS
7 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
8 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.88%) CockroachDB
2 1 (5.88%) Data Hub
2 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Pinecone
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Architect
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AWS CDK
1 2 (11.76%) boto
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) LangGraph
2 1 (5.88%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Equities
3 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income
3 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) NHS
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Cloud Security
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Observability
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) AI
4 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
5 3 (17.65%) Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
5 3 (17.65%) Microservices
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Zero Trust
6 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.76%) Security Architecture
6 2 (11.76%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Ruby
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) CCSP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) OSCP
3 1 (5.88%) SANS
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) GDPR
2 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (17.65%) PCI DSS
4 2 (11.76%) NCSC
5 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (5.88%) GRC
5 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Argo
4 1 (5.88%) Karpenter
4 1 (5.88%) Kibana
4 1 (5.88%) Opsgenie
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) SimCorp
2 2 (11.76%) Vermilion
3 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.88%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk