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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 239 262
Rank change year-on-year +49 +23 -31
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 206 125 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 0.90% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 2.17% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 97 95
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £463 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +15.56% -8.16%
75th Percentile £642 £788 £653
90th Percentile £711 £814 £745
England median daily rate £530 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -12.76% +10.45% -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 6,543 5,757 6,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.28% 41.42% 37.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,486 3,832 5,028
10th Percentile £344 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 48 74
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.85
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £30.97 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -1.69% +8.62%
75th Percentile £54.88 £54.25 £53.44
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.63 £61.75
England median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £23.23
% change year-on-year +20.31% +18.39% -3.30%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 20 £569 +7.31% 12
West London - 16 £603 - 2
South London +4 11 £528 -22.99% 2
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 18 (8.74%) Apache Spark
2 17 (8.25%) Apache
3 14 (6.80%) Confluence
4 13 (6.31%) nginx
5 12 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 196 (95.15%) AWS
2 85 (41.26%) Amazon S3
3 76 (36.89%) Serverless
4 73 (35.44%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (34.47%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (30.10%) GitHub
7 51 (24.76%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (23.30%) Azure
9 46 (22.33%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (19.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (17.96%) GCP
12 35 (16.99%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (16.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (10.68%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (9.71%) AWS CodePipeline
16 17 (8.25%) Route 53
17 16 (7.77%) Amazon Kinesis
18 15 (7.28%) Power Platform
19 14 (6.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
19 14 (6.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.77%) DNS
2 10 (4.85%) VPN
3 7 (3.40%) Network Security
4 6 (2.91%) Firewall
5 3 (1.46%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.97%) BGP
6 2 (0.97%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.97%) OSPF
6 2 (0.97%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.97%) SSL
6 2 (0.97%) WAN
7 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.02%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (12.62%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (11.17%) Data Lake
4 20 (9.71%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (8.25%) DynamoDB
6 16 (7.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (7.28%) Power BI
8 14 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (5.83%) BigQuery
9 12 (5.83%) Mixpanel
9 12 (5.83%) NoSQL
10 11 (5.34%) OLAP
10 11 (5.34%) OLTP
10 11 (5.34%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.40%) MySQL
12 6 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (2.91%) Redis
12 6 (2.91%) Relational Database
13 5 (2.43%) Data Hub
13 5 (2.43%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 45 (21.84%) Git
2 40 (19.42%) Jenkins
3 34 (16.50%) GitLab
4 17 (8.25%) JIRA
5 4 (1.94%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.94%) JUnit
5 4 (1.94%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.46%) Snyk
7 2 (0.97%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.97%) Vite
8 1 (0.49%) MLflow
8 1 (0.49%) Mocha
8 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (22.82%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.08%) Finance
3 28 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.91%) Banking
6 6 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.97%) Marketing
9 1 (0.49%) Aviation
9 1 (0.49%) Games
9 1 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (19.42%) AWS Engineer
2 38 (18.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (15.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (14.08%) Architect
5 23 (11.17%) Data Engineer
6 22 (10.68%) Senior
7 19 (9.22%) Security Engineer
8 18 (8.74%) AWS Architect
9 17 (8.25%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (7.77%) Developer
10 16 (7.77%) Lead
11 15 (7.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (7.28%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (6.80%) Site Engineer
12 14 (6.80%) Software Engineer
13 13 (6.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 10 (4.85%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (4.37%) Java Engineer
15 9 (4.37%) Principal Data Engineer
16 8 (3.88%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.90%) Kafka
2 21 (10.19%) RESTful
3 17 (8.25%) Spring
4 16 (7.77%) Node.js
4 16 (7.77%) Spring Boot
5 13 (6.31%) AWS CDK
6 12 (5.83%) Great Expectations
7 11 (5.34%) React
8 9 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (3.88%) .NET
9 8 (3.88%) OAuth
9 8 (3.88%) REST
10 7 (3.40%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.91%) LangGraph
12 5 (2.43%) boto
13 4 (1.94%) gRPC
13 4 (1.94%) OAuth2
13 4 (1.94%) PySpark
13 4 (1.94%) Spring Cloud
13 4 (1.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 65 (31.55%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.40%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.46%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.46%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.97%) Equities
6 2 (0.97%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.97%) NHS
6 2 (0.97%) SCADA
7 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.49%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.49%) IoT
7 1 (0.49%) Ray Tracing
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (21.36%) Linux
2 10 (4.85%) Windows
3 6 (2.91%) Unix
4 3 (1.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (77.67%) CI/CD
2 151 (73.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (53.88%) DevOps
4 65 (31.55%) Containerisation
5 50 (24.27%) Agile
5 50 (24.27%) Observability
6 36 (17.48%) AI
7 35 (16.99%) Microservices
8 32 (15.53%) Analytics
9 29 (14.08%) Data Modelling
10 28 (13.59%) ETL
11 27 (13.11%) Data Engineering
11 27 (13.11%) Software Engineering
12 26 (12.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 25 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (11.65%) Cloud Security
15 23 (11.17%) Data Governance
15 23 (11.17%) DevSecOps
15 23 (11.17%) Machine Learning
15 23 (11.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 102 (49.51%) Python
2 43 (20.87%) SQL
3 38 (18.45%) Java
4 22 (10.68%) Bash
5 14 (6.80%) C#
6 12 (5.83%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.83%) PowerShell
6 12 (5.83%) Ruby
7 11 (5.34%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.40%) Go
9 4 (1.94%) Bicep
9 4 (1.94%) Scala
10 2 (0.97%) Perl
11 1 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 58 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 52 (25.24%) SC Cleared
3 38 (18.45%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.85%) Degree
6 8 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.40%) CISSP
8 5 (2.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.94%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.94%) CCSP
9 4 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.94%) MCP
10 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.46%) OSCP
10 3 (1.46%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.56%) GDPR
2 17 (8.25%) Data Quality
3 16 (7.77%) QA
4 14 (6.80%) NIST
5 12 (5.83%) PCI DSS
6 11 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (2.43%) NCSC
8 3 (1.46%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.49%) GRC
10 1 (0.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 91 (44.17%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 175 (84.95%) Terraform
2 79 (38.35%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.56%) Ansible
4 16 (7.77%) Grafana
5 12 (5.83%) Packer
5 12 (5.83%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.34%) Consul
6 11 (5.34%) Puppet
7 8 (3.88%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.43%) Karpenter
9 4 (1.94%) Kibana
10 2 (0.97%) Argo
10 2 (0.97%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.49%) Istio
11 1 (0.49%) Nessus
Vendors
1 22 (10.68%) Databricks
1 22 (10.68%) Google
2 16 (7.77%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.37%) Splunk
4 6 (2.91%) PagerDuty
4 6 (2.91%) Rapid7
5 5 (2.43%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.43%) New Relic
5 5 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.94%) Oracle
6 4 (1.94%) Sybase
6 4 (1.94%) Tenable
7 3 (1.46%) Cisco
7 3 (1.46%) Citrix
7 3 (1.46%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.46%) IBM
7 3 (1.46%) Qualys
8 2 (0.97%) SAP
8 2 (0.97%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.97%) Vermilion