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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 189 270
Rank change year-on-year -83 +81 +9
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 172 186 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 1.36% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.07% 3.17% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 136 77
10th Percentile £400 £413 £429
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £760
90th Percentile £673 £713 £780
England median daily rate £547 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.55% - -4.35%
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 8,310 5,862 6,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.56% 42.91% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,670 4,012 4,921
10th Percentile £363 £343 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 83 57
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.60 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.89 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -49.77%
75th Percentile £55.19 £48.13 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £72.50 £66.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -33.33%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -19 12 £675 +8.00% 5
West London -6 11 £625 +26.90% 7
South London -8 9 £518 - 1
East London - 2 £441 - 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 14 (8.14%) Apache Spark
2 12 (6.98%) Apache
3 4 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.74%) Confluence
4 3 (1.74%) SAS
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 169 (98.26%) AWS
2 68 (39.53%) Azure
3 66 (38.37%) Serverless
4 65 (37.79%) Amazon S3
5 54 (31.40%) AWS Lambda
6 48 (27.91%) GitHub
7 47 (27.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 44 (25.58%) GitHub Actions
9 39 (22.67%) GCP
10 36 (20.93%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (16.86%) Amazon EKS
12 28 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (12.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (10.47%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (8.72%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (7.56%) AWS CloudTrail
17 12 (6.98%) Datadog
18 10 (5.81%) AWS CodePipeline
18 10 (5.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.40%) DNS
1 11 (6.40%) Firewall
2 7 (4.07%) Network Security
2 7 (4.07%) WAN
3 4 (2.33%) HTTP
4 3 (1.74%) VPN
5 2 (1.16%) Internet
6 1 (0.58%) 4G
6 1 (0.58%) 5G
6 1 (0.58%) BGP
6 1 (0.58%) SSL
6 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.30%) Amazon Athena
1 16 (9.30%) Data Lake
2 14 (8.14%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (8.14%) DynamoDB
3 11 (6.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (5.23%) BigQuery
5 8 (4.65%) Mixpanel
5 8 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.65%) Power BI
6 7 (4.07%) OLAP
6 7 (4.07%) OLTP
7 6 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.49%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.33%) Metadata
8 4 (2.33%) Redshift Spectrum
9 3 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.74%) Data Mart
9 3 (1.74%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.74%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 49 (28.49%) Jenkins
2 36 (20.93%) GitLab
3 27 (15.70%) Git
4 12 (6.98%) JIRA
5 8 (4.65%) Snyk
6 7 (4.07%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.07%) CircleCI
6 7 (4.07%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.16%) JUnit
8 2 (1.16%) MLflow
8 2 (1.16%) Vite
9 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.58%) Maven
9 1 (0.58%) Mockito
9 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.58%) Selenium
9 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.86%) Public Sector
3 22 (12.79%) Finance
4 11 (6.40%) Banking
5 6 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.33%) Law
8 3 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.74%) Games
8 3 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.16%) Front Office
9 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.16%) Military
9 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Billing
10 1 (0.58%) Local Government
10 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (23.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (21.51%) AWS Engineer
3 36 (20.93%) Lead
4 26 (15.12%) Architect
5 23 (13.37%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (13.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 20 (11.63%) Senior
7 19 (11.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (8.72%) AWS Architect
9 14 (8.14%) Data Engineer
9 14 (8.14%) Developer
10 11 (6.40%) Lead DevOps
11 9 (5.23%) Network Engineer
11 9 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) Platform Architect
13 7 (4.07%) Principal Data Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.63%) Kafka
2 15 (8.72%) AWS CDK
3 13 (7.56%) Node.js
4 12 (6.98%) RESTful
5 11 (6.40%) REST
6 10 (5.81%) Great Expectations
6 10 (5.81%) PySpark
7 9 (5.23%) React
8 6 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.91%) ARM Templates
9 5 (2.91%) OAuth
9 5 (2.91%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.33%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.33%) boto
10 4 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (2.33%) Pandas
10 4 (2.33%) Spring
11 3 (1.74%) Jest
11 3 (1.74%) JWT
11 3 (1.74%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 62 (36.05%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.91%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.33%) Replication
6 4 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.16%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.58%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.72%) Linux
2 11 (6.40%) Windows
3 5 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (88.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 146 (84.88%) CI/CD
3 116 (67.44%) DevOps
4 57 (33.14%) Containerisation
5 44 (25.58%) Agile
6 43 (25.00%) Observability
7 30 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (16.86%) Migration
9 28 (16.28%) AI
10 25 (14.53%) Mentoring
10 25 (14.53%) Microservices
10 25 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (13.37%) Data Engineering
13 22 (12.79%) Analytics
13 22 (12.79%) Cloud Security
14 21 (12.21%) Machine Learning
14 21 (12.21%) Software Engineering
15 18 (10.47%) Data Modelling
15 18 (10.47%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 85 (49.42%) Python
2 29 (16.86%) Bash
3 25 (14.53%) SQL
4 23 (13.37%) PowerShell
5 16 (9.30%) Java
6 12 (6.98%) Bicep
7 9 (5.23%) C#
8 8 (4.65%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.07%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.91%) Go
11 3 (1.74%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.16%) Groovy
12 2 (1.16%) Ruby
12 2 (1.16%) Scala
13 1 (0.58%) C
13 1 (0.58%) C++
13 1 (0.58%) Korn
13 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 59 (34.30%) Security Cleared
2 57 (33.14%) SC Cleared
3 26 (15.12%) AWS Certification
4 13 (7.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 10 (5.81%) Degree
7 8 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.07%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.33%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.40%) GDPR
3 9 (5.23%) QA
4 6 (3.49%) NIST
5 4 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.58%) GRC
8 1 (0.58%) NCSC
8 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (36.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Squid
Systems Management
1 160 (93.02%) Terraform
2 67 (38.95%) Kubernetes
3 25 (14.53%) Grafana
3 25 (14.53%) Prometheus
4 18 (10.47%) Ansible
5 8 (4.65%) Puppet
6 5 (2.91%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.74%) Packer
8 2 (1.16%) Argo
8 2 (1.16%) Istio
8 2 (1.16%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.58%) CloudForms
9 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.58%) Nessus
9 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (8.72%) Google
2 12 (6.98%) Databricks
3 10 (5.81%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.49%) Splunk
5 5 (2.91%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.33%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.74%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.74%) Oracle
7 3 (1.74%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.74%) Sybase
7 3 (1.74%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.16%) New Relic
9 1 (0.58%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.58%) Citrix
9 1 (0.58%) Dell
9 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.58%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.58%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.58%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.58%) Virgin Media