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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 114 135
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +23
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 11 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 0.47% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.20% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 10
10th Percentile £307 £401 £429
25th Percentile £497 £439 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £644 £578 £573
90th Percentile £688 £689 £586
Central London median daily rate £563 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -11.89%
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 701 830 1,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.48% 39.37% 40.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 532 774
10th Percentile £341 £400 £350
25th Percentile £428 £467 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £680
90th Percentile £750 £762 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £16.53
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £46.06
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £54.63
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 2 November 2025.

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%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
2 4 (36.36%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Dagster
5 1 (9.09%) dbt
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) Prefect
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Senior
1 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 5 (45.45%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Go
3 2 (18.18%) PromQL
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) CISSP
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Grafana
3 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Puppet
5 1 (9.09%) Consul
5 1 (9.09%) Istio
5 1 (9.09%) Packer
5 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Tenable