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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 118 143
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +17
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 12 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.68% 0.43% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.08% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 10
10th Percentile £412 £395 £424
25th Percentile £525 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £644 £555
90th Percentile £740 £715 £582
Central London median daily rate £675 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +35.00% - -16.67%
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 708 837 1,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.25% 40.45% 41.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 553 865
10th Percentile £337 £397 £325
25th Percentile £433 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £753 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile £23.84 - £14.63
25th Percentile £26.23 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +30.12% -38.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £86.43 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%

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
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 16 September 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 5 (41.67%) GitHub
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
1 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Specialist
1 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) DevOps Specialist
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 2 (16.67%) Lead
1 2 (16.67%) Senior
1 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
3 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (50.00%) High Availability
5 5 (41.67%) Observability
6 4 (33.33%) Microservices
6 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
7 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
8 2 (16.67%) Log Aggregation
8 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Go
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) PromQL
4 1 (8.33%) Bicep
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (41.67%) Prometheus
4 4 (33.33%) Grafana
5 3 (25.00%) Ansible
5 3 (25.00%) Puppet
6 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (8.33%) Argo
7 1 (8.33%) Consul
7 1 (8.33%) Istio
7 1 (8.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) Tenable