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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 112 113
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +33
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 18 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.79% 0.56% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 1.32% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 7
10th Percentile £410 £545 £452
25th Percentile £463 £594 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £645
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +4.65% -0.77%
75th Percentile £678 £713 £708
90th Percentile £816 £755 £730
Central London median daily rate £625 £650 £645
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.78% -0.77%

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 903 760 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.81% 42.72% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 489 609
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £670
90th Percentile £750 £740 £750
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £20.51 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £33.75 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £40.78 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £59.72 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.35 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -66.67%

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 25 April 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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (50.00%) Serverless
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
4 6 (33.33%) GitHub
5 5 (27.78%) Azure
5 5 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (22.22%) GCP
6 4 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (16.67%) SaaS
7 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
8 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.11%) Data Mining
2 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (11.11%) Metadata
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.56%) CockroachDB
3 1 (5.56%) Data Hub
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) DB2
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.56%) JUnit
4 1 (5.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Front Office
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Platform Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) boto
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) RESTful
2 2 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) Flask
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) LangGraph
3 1 (5.56%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (5.56%) Node.js
3 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Equities
2 3 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 15 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (44.44%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) AI
4 6 (33.33%) Observability
5 5 (27.78%) Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
5 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
6 4 (22.22%) Agile
6 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Generative AI
6 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning
7 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 3 (16.67%) LLM
7 3 (16.67%) Performance Attribution
7 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Bicep
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CCSP
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) OSCP
3 1 (5.56%) SANS
3 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) NCSC
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (88.89%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Argo
4 1 (5.56%) Karpenter
4 1 (5.56%) Kibana
4 1 (5.56%) Opsgenie
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
1 2 (11.11%) Google
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) OpenAI
1 2 (11.11%) SimCorp
1 2 (11.11%) Vermilion
2 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Sybase