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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 210 264
Rank change year-on-year +17 +54 -26
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 237 146 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 1.13% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.30% 2.69% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 115 104
10th Percentile £400 £400 £431
25th Percentile £463 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +0.75% -
75th Percentile £638 £769 £688
90th Percentile £700 £795 £760
England median daily rate £530 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -12.54% +10.18% -8.33%

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 7,176 5,422 6,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.87% 41.90% 37.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,922 3,749 4,975
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £767
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 43 79
10th Percentile £18.13 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.66 £23.99 £20.88
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% +10.79% -23.94%
75th Percentile £51.81 £55.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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
Central London +6 21 £598 +7.17% 13
West London - 21 £603 - 3
South London 0 15 £525 -23.36% 2
East London - 1 £449 - 1
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 27 (11.39%) Apache Spark
2 25 (10.55%) Apache
3 13 (5.49%) Confluence
3 13 (5.49%) nginx
4 12 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.11%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.84%) SAS
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 228 (96.20%) AWS
2 97 (40.93%) Amazon S3
3 85 (35.86%) Serverless
4 79 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (31.22%) Amazon ECS
6 68 (28.69%) GitHub
7 66 (27.85%) Azure
8 53 (22.36%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (21.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 51 (21.52%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (18.57%) GCP
11 41 (17.30%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (15.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (13.08%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (11.81%) AWS CodePipeline
15 20 (8.44%) Power Platform
15 20 (8.44%) Route 53
16 19 (8.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 17 (7.17%) Collibra
18 16 (6.75%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.44%) DNS
2 8 (3.38%) Network Security
2 8 (3.38%) VPN
3 6 (2.53%) Firewall
4 3 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.84%) BGP
5 2 (0.84%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.84%) OSPF
5 2 (0.84%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.84%) WAN
6 1 (0.42%) 4G
6 1 (0.42%) 5G
6 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.92%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (13.08%) Data Lake
3 30 (12.66%) Amazon Athena
4 27 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (8.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (8.44%) Power BI
7 17 (7.17%) BigQuery
7 17 (7.17%) DynamoDB
7 17 (7.17%) Mixpanel
8 16 (6.75%) OLAP
8 16 (6.75%) OLTP
9 15 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (6.33%) SQL Server
10 11 (4.64%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.38%) Redshift Spectrum
12 7 (2.95%) MySQL
12 7 (2.95%) Redis
13 6 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.53%) MongoDB
13 6 (2.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 49 (20.68%) Git
2 47 (19.83%) Jenkins
3 41 (17.30%) GitLab
4 16 (6.75%) JIRA
5 9 (3.80%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.53%) JUnit
7 5 (2.11%) Snyk
8 4 (1.69%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.27%) Vite
10 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.42%) MLflow
10 1 (0.42%) Mocha
10 1 (0.42%) Mockito
10 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 37 (15.61%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.92%) Finance
4 16 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.22%) Banking
6 9 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.84%) Marketing
10 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Aviation
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (18.99%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (18.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (14.77%) Architect
4 31 (13.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (13.08%) Lead
5 28 (11.81%) Data Engineer
6 25 (10.55%) Senior
7 21 (8.86%) AWS DevOps
8 20 (8.44%) Security Engineer
9 19 (8.02%) AWS Architect
9 19 (8.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 18 (7.59%) Developer
11 16 (6.75%) Software Engineer
12 15 (6.33%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (5.91%) Principal Data Engineer
13 14 (5.91%) Site Engineer
14 13 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 9 (3.80%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (3.38%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (20.68%) Kafka
2 26 (10.97%) RESTful
3 19 (8.02%) Spring
4 18 (7.59%) Node.js
4 18 (7.59%) Spring Boot
5 17 (7.17%) Great Expectations
6 15 (6.33%) AWS CDK
7 13 (5.49%) React
8 11 (4.64%) REST
9 10 (4.22%) OAuth
10 9 (3.80%) .NET
10 9 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (3.80%) PySpark
11 8 (3.38%) boto
11 8 (3.38%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.53%) LangGraph
13 5 (2.11%) OAuth2
13 5 (2.11%) Vue
14 4 (1.69%) gRPC
14 4 (1.69%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 76 (32.07%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.53%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.69%) Replication
7 3 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.27%) Equities
7 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) SCADA
9 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.42%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.14%) Linux
2 12 (5.06%) Windows
3 6 (2.53%) Unix
4 3 (1.27%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (81.01%) CI/CD
2 176 (74.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 132 (55.70%) DevOps
4 69 (29.11%) Containerisation
5 63 (26.58%) Agile
6 61 (25.74%) Observability
7 44 (18.57%) Analytics
8 42 (17.72%) AI
9 41 (17.30%) Microservices
10 39 (16.46%) Data Modelling
10 39 (16.46%) ETL
11 38 (16.03%) Data Engineering
12 31 (13.08%) Machine Learning
13 29 (12.24%) Software Engineering
14 28 (11.81%) Data Governance
15 27 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (10.97%) Event-Driven
16 26 (10.97%) Migration
17 25 (10.55%) Cloud Security
17 25 (10.55%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 121 (51.05%) Python
2 55 (23.21%) SQL
3 44 (18.57%) Java
4 24 (10.13%) Bash
5 20 (8.44%) C#
6 15 (6.33%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.06%) Ruby
8 11 (4.64%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.80%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.53%) Bicep
11 5 (2.11%) Go
12 4 (1.69%) Scala
13 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.84%) Perl
14 2 (0.84%) SAS Macro
15 1 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 71 (29.96%) Security Cleared
2 65 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 43 (18.14%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.06%) Degree
5 8 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.53%) CISSP
8 5 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.69%) CCSP
9 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.27%) OSCP
10 3 (1.27%) SANS
11 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.35%) GDPR
2 25 (10.55%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.75%) NIST
3 16 (6.75%) QA
4 12 (5.06%) PCI DSS
5 9 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.69%) NCSC
7 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.42%) GRC
9 1 (0.42%) MiFID
System Software
1 101 (42.62%) Docker
2 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 206 (86.92%) Terraform
2 85 (35.86%) Kubernetes
3 27 (11.39%) Ansible
4 18 (7.59%) Grafana
5 17 (7.17%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.06%) Packer
7 11 (4.64%) Consul
8 10 (4.22%) Puppet
9 7 (2.95%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.11%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.69%) Kibana
12 2 (0.84%) Argo
12 2 (0.84%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.42%) Nessus
Vendors
1 27 (11.39%) Databricks
2 25 (10.55%) Google
3 20 (8.44%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.22%) Splunk
5 6 (2.53%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.53%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.53%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.11%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.11%) New Relic
6 5 (2.11%) Oracle
6 5 (2.11%) Sybase
7 4 (1.69%) Qualys
7 4 (1.69%) Tenable
8 3 (1.27%) Citrix
8 3 (1.27%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.84%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.84%) IBM
9 2 (0.84%) SAP
9 2 (0.84%) Solace