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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 118 136
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 +15
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 11 10 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.19% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 11
10th Percentile £307 £401 £431
25th Percentile £497 £439 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £688 £578 £572
90th Percentile - £689 £576
Central London median daily rate £585 £525 £544
% change year-on-year +11.43% -3.45% -9.38%
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 695 839 1,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.03% 39.61% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 545 799
10th Percentile £335 £398 £355
25th Percentile £441 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £772 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.05% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £21.58 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.00 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 19 October 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (27.27%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Specialist
1 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) DevOps Specialist
1 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) React
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Virtual Team
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) NHS
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Log Aggregation
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Go
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) PromQL
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Grafana
3 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
3 3 (27.27%) Puppet
4 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
5 1 (9.09%) Consul
5 1 (9.09%) Istio
5 1 (9.09%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Tenable