AWS CloudFormation Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 211 282
Rank change year-on-year -3 +71 -19
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 209 141 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.16% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.67% 2.70% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 104 87
10th Percentile £402 £434 £450
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £646 £650 £699
90th Percentile £698 £731 £780
England median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,820 5,219 6,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.33% 42.89% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,409 3,554 5,027
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 59 67
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.06 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.94 £45.63 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +55.88% +19.33% -38.94%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in London

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS CloudFormation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in London

AWS CloudFormation
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS CloudFormation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London - 20 £603 - 2
Central London -8 18 £635 -2.31% 7
South London -8 6 £500 -27.01%
East London - 2 £441 -
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 21 (10.05%) Apache Spark
2 19 (9.09%) Apache
3 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.44%) Confluence
4 3 (1.44%) SAS
5 2 (0.96%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 205 (98.09%) AWS
2 85 (40.67%) Amazon S3
3 74 (35.41%) Serverless
4 68 (32.54%) AWS Lambda
4 68 (32.54%) Azure
5 66 (31.58%) GitHub
6 59 (28.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 58 (27.75%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (25.84%) GitHub Actions
9 46 (22.01%) Amazon EKS
10 42 (20.10%) GCP
11 34 (16.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 33 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (12.92%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (12.44%) AWS CodePipeline
15 17 (8.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 15 (7.18%) Collibra
16 15 (7.18%) Power Platform
17 14 (6.70%) Route 53
18 13 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.53%) DNS
2 7 (3.35%) Firewall
3 6 (2.87%) Network Security
4 5 (2.39%) WAN
5 4 (1.91%) VPN
6 2 (0.96%) BGP
6 2 (0.96%) OSPF
6 2 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.48%) 4G
7 1 (0.48%) 5G
7 1 (0.48%) HTTP
7 1 (0.48%) SSL
7 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.96%) Amazon Athena
2 24 (11.48%) Data Lake
3 21 (10.05%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (7.18%) BigQuery
4 15 (7.18%) DynamoDB
4 15 (7.18%) Mixpanel
4 15 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.18%) Power BI
5 14 (6.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (6.70%) OLAP
5 14 (6.70%) OLTP
6 10 (4.78%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.83%) NoSQL
8 7 (3.35%) Redis
9 6 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.87%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.39%) Redshift Spectrum
11 4 (1.91%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.91%) Metadata
11 4 (1.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 48 (22.97%) Jenkins
2 41 (19.62%) GitLab
3 33 (15.79%) Git
4 9 (4.31%) Snyk
5 8 (3.83%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.87%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.87%) JIRA
7 5 (2.39%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.91%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.44%) JUnit
9 3 (1.44%) Vite
10 2 (0.96%) MLflow
11 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.48%) Mockito
11 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.48%) Selenium
11 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (21.53%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.88%) Finance
2 29 (13.88%) Public Sector
3 12 (5.74%) Banking
4 8 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.44%) Games
9 2 (0.96%) Front Office
9 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.96%) Law
9 2 (0.96%) Marketing
9 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.48%) Billing
10 1 (0.48%) Local Government
10 1 (0.48%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (21.05%) Lead
2 42 (20.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (19.14%) AWS Engineer
4 35 (16.75%) Architect
5 29 (13.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (11.00%) Data Engineer
7 21 (10.05%) AWS DevOps
8 20 (9.57%) AWS Architect
8 20 (9.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 19 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
10 18 (8.61%) Senior
11 14 (6.70%) Developer
12 13 (6.22%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (6.22%) Security Engineer
13 12 (5.74%) Principal Data Engineer
14 11 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
14 11 (5.26%) Software Engineer
15 10 (4.78%) Lead Data Engineer
16 7 (3.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 6 (2.87%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.18%) Kafka
2 20 (9.57%) RESTful
3 17 (8.13%) AWS CDK
3 17 (8.13%) Great Expectations
4 16 (7.66%) Node.js
5 12 (5.74%) PySpark
5 12 (5.74%) React
6 11 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (5.26%) OAuth
6 11 (5.26%) Spring
6 11 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.78%) REST
8 9 (4.31%) .NET
9 8 (3.83%) boto
10 7 (3.35%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.87%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.39%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.91%) Hibernate
13 4 (1.91%) JPA
13 4 (1.91%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 78 (37.32%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.91%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.91%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.91%) Replication
7 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.44%) Equities
7 3 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.96%) SCADA
8 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.48%) CMDB
9 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.44%) Linux
2 12 (5.74%) Windows
3 3 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.96%) Unix
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (87.56%) CI/CD
2 171 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 130 (62.20%) DevOps
4 60 (28.71%) Containerisation
5 59 (28.23%) Observability
6 43 (20.57%) Agile
7 37 (17.70%) AI
8 34 (16.27%) Analytics
9 33 (15.79%) Data Engineering
10 32 (15.31%) Microservices
11 30 (14.35%) Data Modelling
11 30 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (13.88%) ETL
13 28 (13.40%) High Availability
14 27 (12.92%) Migration
14 27 (12.92%) Technical Leadership
15 26 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (11.96%) Cloud Security
16 25 (11.96%) Machine Learning
17 24 (11.48%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 94 (44.98%) Python
2 41 (19.62%) SQL
3 35 (16.75%) Java
4 23 (11.00%) Bash
5 21 (10.05%) PowerShell
6 18 (8.61%) C#
7 9 (4.31%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.83%) Bicep
9 6 (2.87%) Ruby
9 6 (2.87%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.91%) Go
11 3 (1.44%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.96%) Scala
13 1 (0.48%) C
13 1 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 61 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 58 (27.75%) SC Cleared
3 33 (15.79%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (6.70%) Degree
5 13 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.44%) CISSP
10 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.96%) CCSP
10 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.96%) OSCP
10 2 (0.96%) SANS
10 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.48%) GDPR
2 20 (9.57%) Data Quality
3 17 (8.13%) NIST
4 13 (6.22%) QA
5 9 (4.31%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.91%) NCSC
8 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.48%) GRC
10 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (35.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 189 (90.43%) Terraform
2 78 (37.32%) Kubernetes
3 25 (11.96%) Prometheus
4 23 (11.00%) Ansible
5 19 (9.09%) Grafana
6 6 (2.87%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.39%) Puppet
8 4 (1.91%) Karpenter
8 4 (1.91%) Kibana
9 3 (1.44%) Packer
9 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.96%) Consul
10 2 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.96%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.48%) Argo
11 1 (0.48%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.48%) Nessus
Vendors
1 22 (10.53%) Databricks
2 21 (10.05%) Google
3 11 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.83%) Splunk
5 6 (2.87%) New Relic
6 5 (2.39%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.39%) Oracle
6 5 (2.39%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.91%) Citrix
7 4 (1.91%) Qualys
7 4 (1.91%) Sybase
7 4 (1.91%) Tenable
8 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.96%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.96%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.96%) SAP
9 2 (0.96%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.96%) Solace
9 2 (0.96%) Vermilion
9 2 (0.96%) Zscaler