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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 107 120
Rank change year-on-year -26 +13 +15
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 11 12 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.49% 0.69% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 1.70% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile £488 £412 £395
25th Percentile £527 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £725 £688 £644
90th Percentile - £740 £715
Central London median daily rate £600 £675 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +35.00% -

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 924 705 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.23% 40.31% 40.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 490 566
10th Percentile £363 £332 £380
25th Percentile £456 £434 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -1.32%
75th Percentile £660 £667 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.75 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.71 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £61.16 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £88.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%

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 20 September 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 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Serverless
3 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
4 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (45.45%) GitHub
5 4 (36.36%) Azure
5 4 (36.36%) GCP
5 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) dbt
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
3 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
3 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (18.18%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (18.18%) Metadata
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Platform Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) FastAPI
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 1 (9.09%) Django
3 1 (9.09%) Express.js
3 1 (9.09%) Flask
3 1 (9.09%) Jest
3 1 (9.09%) JWT
3 1 (9.09%) NestJS
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 1 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (9.09%) pytest
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
4 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
5 4 (36.36%) Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) AI
6 3 (27.27%) LLM
6 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (27.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bicep
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISA
2 1 (9.09%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (9.09%) GSEC
2 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Databricks
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) OpenAI