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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 209 248
Rank change year-on-year +28 +39 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 242 147 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.47% 1.15% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.35% 2.74% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 114 107
10th Percentile £400 £400 £431
25th Percentile £463 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £638 £750 £699
90th Percentile £698 £796 £768
England median daily rate £530 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -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 7,217 5,372 6,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.75% 42.10% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,946 3,728 4,955
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £447 £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 £777 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 44 79
10th Percentile £18.18 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% -2.19% -15.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £64.40
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.19
% change year-on-year +41.51% +25.09% -16.10%

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 20 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 20 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
West London - 22 £603 - 3
Central London -4 21 £598 +7.17% 13
South London -2 15 £525 -23.36%
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 28 (11.57%) Apache Spark
2 26 (10.74%) Apache
3 14 (5.79%) Confluence
4 13 (5.37%) nginx
5 11 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (2.07%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.83%) SAS
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 233 (96.28%) AWS
2 98 (40.50%) Amazon S3
3 86 (35.54%) Serverless
4 79 (32.64%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (30.58%) Amazon ECS
6 69 (28.51%) Azure
6 69 (28.51%) GitHub
7 54 (22.31%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (21.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 51 (21.07%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (18.60%) GCP
11 41 (16.94%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (15.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 32 (13.22%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (11.98%) AWS CodePipeline
15 21 (8.68%) Power Platform
16 20 (8.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 20 (8.26%) Route 53
17 18 (7.44%) Collibra
18 15 (6.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.26%) DNS
2 8 (3.31%) Network Security
2 8 (3.31%) VPN
3 6 (2.48%) Firewall
4 3 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.83%) BGP
5 2 (0.83%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.83%) OSPF
5 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.83%) WAN
6 1 (0.41%) 4G
6 1 (0.41%) 5G
6 1 (0.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (13.22%) Data Lake
3 30 (12.40%) Amazon Athena
4 28 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (8.68%) Power BI
6 20 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (7.44%) BigQuery
7 18 (7.44%) Mixpanel
8 17 (7.02%) DynamoDB
8 17 (7.02%) OLAP
8 17 (7.02%) OLTP
9 15 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (6.20%) SQL Server
10 12 (4.96%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.31%) Redshift Spectrum
12 7 (2.89%) MongoDB
12 7 (2.89%) MySQL
12 7 (2.89%) Redis
13 6 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 50 (20.66%) Git
2 47 (19.42%) Jenkins
3 41 (16.94%) GitLab
4 17 (7.02%) JIRA
5 9 (3.72%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.48%) JUnit
7 5 (2.07%) Snyk
8 4 (1.65%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.24%) Vite
10 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.41%) MLflow
10 1 (0.41%) Mocha
10 1 (0.41%) Mockito
10 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.12%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.64%) Finance
4 16 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.13%) Banking
6 9 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.83%) Marketing
10 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Aviation
11 1 (0.41%) Billing
11 1 (0.41%) Front Office
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (18.60%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (17.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (14.05%) Architect
4 32 (13.22%) Lead
5 31 (12.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (12.40%) Data Engineer
7 26 (10.74%) Senior
8 21 (8.68%) AWS DevOps
9 20 (8.26%) Security Engineer
10 19 (7.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 19 (7.85%) Developer
11 18 (7.44%) AWS Architect
12 17 (7.02%) Software Engineer
13 16 (6.61%) Principal Engineer
14 15 (6.20%) Cloud Architect
14 15 (6.20%) Principal Data Engineer
15 14 (5.79%) Site Engineer
16 13 (5.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 10 (4.13%) Lead Data Engineer
18 8 (3.31%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.66%) Kafka
2 27 (11.16%) RESTful
3 19 (7.85%) Node.js
3 19 (7.85%) Spring
4 18 (7.44%) Great Expectations
4 18 (7.44%) Spring Boot
5 15 (6.20%) AWS CDK
6 14 (5.79%) React
7 12 (4.96%) REST
8 10 (4.13%) OAuth
8 10 (4.13%) PySpark
9 9 (3.72%) .NET
9 9 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (3.31%) boto
10 8 (3.31%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.48%) LangGraph
11 6 (2.48%) Vue
12 5 (2.07%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.07%) OAuth2
13 4 (1.65%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 78 (32.23%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.31%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.48%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.65%) Replication
7 3 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.24%) Equities
7 3 (1.24%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.24%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) SCADA
9 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.18%) Linux
2 13 (5.37%) Windows
3 6 (2.48%) Unix
4 3 (1.24%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (80.58%) CI/CD
2 181 (74.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 135 (55.79%) DevOps
4 71 (29.34%) Containerisation
5 66 (27.27%) Agile
6 62 (25.62%) Observability
7 44 (18.18%) Analytics
8 43 (17.77%) AI
9 42 (17.36%) Microservices
10 40 (16.53%) ETL
11 39 (16.12%) Data Engineering
11 39 (16.12%) Data Modelling
12 32 (13.22%) Machine Learning
13 30 (12.40%) Software Engineering
14 28 (11.57%) Data Governance
15 27 (11.16%) Event-Driven
15 27 (11.16%) Migration
15 27 (11.16%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (10.74%) High Availability
16 26 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 123 (50.83%) Python
2 56 (23.14%) SQL
3 44 (18.18%) Java
4 25 (10.33%) Bash
5 21 (8.68%) C#
6 16 (6.61%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.96%) Ruby
8 11 (4.55%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.72%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.48%) Bicep
11 5 (2.07%) Go
12 4 (1.65%) Scala
13 3 (1.24%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.83%) Perl
14 2 (0.83%) SAS Macro
15 1 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 74 (30.58%) Security Cleared
2 68 (28.10%) SC Cleared
3 42 (17.36%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.37%) Degree
5 11 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.48%) CISSP
9 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.65%) CCSP
10 4 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.24%) OSCP
11 3 (1.24%) SANS
12 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.88%) GDPR
2 26 (10.74%) Data Quality
3 17 (7.02%) NIST
4 16 (6.61%) QA
5 12 (4.96%) PCI DSS
6 9 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.65%) NCSC
8 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) MiFID
System Software
1 103 (42.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 211 (87.19%) Terraform
2 87 (35.95%) Kubernetes
3 27 (11.16%) Ansible
4 18 (7.44%) Grafana
5 17 (7.02%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.96%) Packer
7 11 (4.55%) Consul
8 10 (4.13%) Puppet
9 7 (2.89%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.07%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.65%) Kibana
12 2 (0.83%) Argo
12 2 (0.83%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.41%) Nessus
Vendors
1 28 (11.57%) Databricks
2 26 (10.74%) Google
3 20 (8.26%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.13%) Splunk
5 6 (2.48%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.48%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.07%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.07%) New Relic
6 5 (2.07%) Oracle
6 5 (2.07%) Sybase
7 4 (1.65%) Qualys
7 4 (1.65%) Tenable
8 3 (1.24%) Citrix
8 3 (1.24%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.83%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.83%) IBM
9 2 (0.83%) SAP
9 2 (0.83%) Solace