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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 221 270
Rank change year-on-year +26 +49 -36
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 218 133 126
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 0.98% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.18% 2.36% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 103 95
10th Percentile £400 £380 £425
25th Percentile £463 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £568
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +7.93% -5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £658
90th Percentile £708 £798 £745
England median daily rate £530 £610 £550
% change year-on-year -13.11% +10.91% -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 6,858 5,626 6,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.00% 41.54% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,692 3,778 5,007
10th Percentile £348 £355 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £673
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 99 51 79
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.99 £21.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.63
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -1 19 £575 +7.48% 12
West London - 18 £603 -
South London 0 15 £525 -23.36% 3
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 (9.63%) Apache
1 21 (9.63%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.42%) Confluence
3 13 (5.96%) nginx
4 12 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 209 (95.87%) AWS
2 89 (40.83%) Amazon S3
3 81 (37.16%) Serverless
4 77 (35.32%) AWS Lambda
5 73 (33.49%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (28.44%) GitHub
7 52 (23.85%) Amazon EKS
7 52 (23.85%) Azure
8 47 (21.56%) GitHub Actions
9 43 (19.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (19.27%) GCP
11 36 (16.51%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (16.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (11.93%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (11.47%) AWS CodePipeline
15 17 (7.80%) Power Platform
15 17 (7.80%) Route 53
16 16 (7.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (6.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 15 (6.88%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.34%) DNS
2 10 (4.59%) VPN
3 9 (4.13%) Network Security
4 6 (2.75%) Firewall
5 3 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.92%) BGP
6 2 (0.92%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.92%) OSPF
6 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.92%) SSL
6 2 (0.92%) WAN
7 1 (0.46%) 4G
7 1 (0.46%) 5G
7 1 (0.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.22%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (12.84%) Data Lake
3 25 (11.47%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (10.55%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (9.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (7.80%) Power BI
7 15 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (6.42%) BigQuery
8 14 (6.42%) DynamoDB
8 14 (6.42%) Mixpanel
9 13 (5.96%) OLAP
9 13 (5.96%) OLTP
10 11 (5.05%) SQL Server
11 9 (4.13%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.67%) Redshift Spectrum
13 7 (3.21%) MySQL
13 7 (3.21%) Redis
14 6 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (2.75%) Relational Database
15 5 (2.29%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 45 (20.64%) Git
2 42 (19.27%) Jenkins
3 38 (17.43%) GitLab
4 17 (7.80%) JIRA
5 7 (3.21%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.83%) JUnit
6 4 (1.83%) Terragrunt
7 3 (1.38%) Snyk
7 3 (1.38%) Vite
8 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.46%) MLflow
9 1 (0.46%) Mocha
General
1 55 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.14%) Public Sector
3 28 (12.84%) Finance
4 16 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.21%) Banking
8 6 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.92%) Marketing
9 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Aviation
10 1 (0.46%) Billing
10 1 (0.46%) Games
10 1 (0.46%) Military
10 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (17.89%) AWS Engineer
2 38 (17.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (14.22%) Architect
4 29 (13.30%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (11.47%) Data Engineer
6 24 (11.01%) Senior
7 23 (10.55%) Lead
8 19 (8.72%) Security Engineer
9 18 (8.26%) AWS Architect
10 17 (7.80%) Software Engineer
11 16 (7.34%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (7.34%) Developer
12 14 (6.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (6.42%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (6.42%) Site Engineer
13 13 (5.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (5.50%) Principal Engineer
15 11 (5.05%) Principal Data Engineer
16 9 (4.13%) Java Engineer
17 8 (3.67%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (19.72%) Kafka
2 22 (10.09%) RESTful
3 17 (7.80%) Node.js
3 17 (7.80%) Spring
4 16 (7.34%) AWS CDK
4 16 (7.34%) Spring Boot
5 14 (6.42%) Great Expectations
6 13 (5.96%) React
7 10 (4.59%) OAuth
8 9 (4.13%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (4.13%) REST
9 8 (3.67%) .NET
9 8 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (3.21%) PySpark
11 6 (2.75%) LangGraph
12 5 (2.29%) boto
12 5 (2.29%) OAuth2
13 4 (1.83%) gRPC
13 4 (1.83%) Spring Cloud
13 4 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 69 (31.65%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.21%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.75%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.83%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.92%) Equities
7 2 (0.92%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.92%) NHS
7 2 (0.92%) SCADA
8 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) IoT
8 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (19.72%) Linux
2 9 (4.13%) Windows
3 6 (2.75%) Unix
4 3 (1.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (79.82%) CI/CD
2 163 (74.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 120 (55.05%) DevOps
4 61 (27.98%) Containerisation
5 57 (26.15%) Observability
6 56 (25.69%) Agile
7 39 (17.89%) AI
8 38 (17.43%) Analytics
8 38 (17.43%) Microservices
9 34 (15.60%) Data Modelling
10 33 (15.14%) ETL
11 32 (14.68%) Data Engineering
12 29 (13.30%) Software Engineering
13 27 (12.39%) Machine Learning
14 26 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (11.93%) Technical Leadership
15 25 (11.47%) Cloud Security
15 25 (11.47%) Data Governance
15 25 (11.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (10.55%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 109 (50.00%) Python
2 46 (21.10%) SQL
3 40 (18.35%) Java
4 21 (9.63%) Bash
5 16 (7.34%) C#
6 13 (5.96%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.50%) Ruby
8 11 (5.05%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.59%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.75%) Go
11 4 (1.83%) Bicep
11 4 (1.83%) Scala
12 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.92%) Perl
14 1 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 67 (30.73%) Security Cleared
2 61 (27.98%) SC Cleared
3 39 (17.89%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.05%) Degree
5 10 (4.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.21%) CISSP
8 5 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.83%) CCSP
9 4 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.38%) OSCP
10 3 (1.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.22%) GDPR
2 21 (9.63%) Data Quality
3 15 (6.88%) QA
4 14 (6.42%) NIST
5 12 (5.50%) PCI DSS
6 11 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (2.29%) NCSC
8 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.46%) GRC
9 1 (0.46%) MiFID
System Software
1 93 (42.66%) Docker
2 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 186 (85.32%) Terraform
2 79 (36.24%) Kubernetes
3 26 (11.93%) Ansible
4 16 (7.34%) Grafana
5 12 (5.50%) Packer
5 12 (5.50%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.05%) Consul
7 10 (4.59%) Puppet
8 7 (3.21%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.29%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.83%) Kibana
11 2 (0.92%) Argo
11 2 (0.92%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.46%) Nessus
Vendors
1 24 (11.01%) Databricks
1 24 (11.01%) Google
2 16 (7.34%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.13%) Splunk
4 6 (2.75%) PagerDuty
4 6 (2.75%) Rapid7
5 5 (2.29%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.29%) New Relic
5 5 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.83%) Oracle
6 4 (1.83%) Sybase
7 3 (1.38%) Cisco
7 3 (1.38%) Citrix
7 3 (1.38%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.38%) IBM
7 3 (1.38%) Qualys
7 3 (1.38%) Tenable
8 2 (0.92%) Globalscape
8 2 (0.92%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.92%) Vermilion