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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 116 151
Rank change year-on-year +7 +35 -16
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 10 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.50% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.29% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 14
10th Percentile £545 £452 £448
25th Percentile £594 £519 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £645 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -0.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £713 £708 £684
90th Percentile £755 £730 £718
Central London median daily rate £650 £645 £650
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +8.33%

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 758 853 1,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.17% 38.83% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 606 942
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £713
90th Percentile £743 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

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 1 May 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (10.00%) Datadog
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (10.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) High Availability
5 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) Observability
6 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
7 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Bicep
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) JNCIP
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
3 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (30.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (30.00%) Puppet
4 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (10.00%) Argo
5 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco
1 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce