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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 104 114
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 +31
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 16 10 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.69% 0.60% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.38% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 7
10th Percentile £381 £545 £400
25th Percentile £527 £594 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £675 £645
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +4.65% +6.39%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £708
90th Percentile £842 £755 £730
Central London median daily rate £635 £650 £645
% change year-on-year -2.31% +0.78% +14.67%

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 901 723 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.69% 43.11% 40.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 456 612
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -9.58%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £657
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £20.35 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £63.54 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.53 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £44.47 £29.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +52.98% +29.20% -72.73%

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 23 May 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) Serverless
3 8 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (43.75%) Amazon S3
5 6 (37.50%) GitHub
5 6 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (25.00%) Azure
7 3 (18.75%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (18.75%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (18.75%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (18.75%) GCP
7 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
8 2 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
1 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 2 (12.50%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (6.25%) CockroachDB
2 1 (6.25%) Data Hub
2 1 (6.25%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 2 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.25%) JUnit
4 1 (6.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Front Office
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Platform Architect
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) boto
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) Flask
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) LangGraph
3 1 (6.25%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Equities
2 3 (18.75%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 13 (81.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (56.25%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 6 (37.50%) Observability
5 5 (31.25%) AI
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Analytics
6 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 4 (25.00%) Generative AI
6 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
7 3 (18.75%) LLM
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Attribution
7 3 (18.75%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (12.50%) Data Management
8 2 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Bicep
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.25%) PMP
3 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (87.50%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Argo
4 1 (6.25%) Karpenter
4 1 (6.25%) Kibana
4 1 (6.25%) Opsgenie
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) OpenAI
1 2 (12.50%) SimCorp
1 2 (12.50%) Vermilion
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Sybase