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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 260 284
Rank change year-on-year +48 +24 -41
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 183 117 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 0.74% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 1.82% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 78 102
10th Percentile £413 £375 £413
25th Percentile £469 £520 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £670
90th Percentile £716 £791 £738
England median daily rate £525 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £79.50 - £50.00

All Cloud 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 6,274 6,432 7,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.38% 40.90% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,247 4,377 5,594
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 34 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.56
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -9.68% +40.91%
75th Percentile £41.94 £55.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.33 £85.62
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +7 13 £545 +2.83% 60
South London - 9 £530 - 6
West London - 5 £603 - 4
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 26 (14.21%) Confluence
2 25 (13.66%) nginx
3 13 (7.10%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.92%) Apache Spark
5 8 (4.37%) Apache
6 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 167 (91.26%) AWS
2 60 (32.79%) Amazon S3
2 60 (32.79%) Serverless
3 57 (31.15%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (26.23%) Amazon ECS
4 48 (26.23%) GitHub
5 40 (21.86%) Azure
6 39 (21.31%) Amazon EC2
6 39 (21.31%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (18.03%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (12.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (11.48%) GCP
10 17 (9.29%) Amazon Kinesis
10 17 (9.29%) AWS Fargate
10 17 (9.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (8.20%) Datadog
12 14 (7.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 13 (7.10%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (7.10%) Snowflake
14 11 (6.01%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.46%) VPN
2 9 (4.92%) Network Security
3 6 (3.28%) DNS
3 6 (3.28%) Firewall
4 4 (2.19%) SSL
5 3 (1.64%) DHCP
6 2 (1.09%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.55%) HTTP
7 1 (0.55%) Internet
7 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.39%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (9.84%) DynamoDB
4 17 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (7.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (6.56%) Data Lake
7 9 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (4.92%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.83%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.28%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.73%) DB2
10 5 (2.73%) Power BI
10 5 (2.73%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.73%) Redshift Spectrum
11 4 (2.19%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.64%) MySQL
12 3 (1.64%) Tableau
13 2 (1.09%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 56 (30.60%) Git
2 42 (22.95%) Jenkins
3 29 (15.85%) JIRA
4 21 (11.48%) GitLab
5 10 (5.46%) JUnit
6 8 (4.37%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.73%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.73%) Maven
8 4 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.64%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.55%) Mocha
10 1 (0.55%) Snyk
10 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 40 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.30%) Public Sector
3 21 (11.48%) Finance
4 16 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.73%) Banking
6 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Aviation
8 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.55%) Games
8 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Military
8 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (22.95%) AWS Engineer
2 27 (14.75%) Senior
3 26 (14.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (12.02%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (10.38%) Developer
6 17 (9.29%) Lead
7 16 (8.74%) Architect
8 15 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (7.65%) Data Engineer
10 13 (7.10%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (7.10%) Site Engineer
11 12 (6.56%) AWS Developer
11 12 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.01%) Security Engineer
12 11 (6.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (6.01%) Technical Leader
13 9 (4.92%) Consultant
14 8 (4.37%) Software Engineer
15 7 (3.83%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.84%) Kafka
2 14 (7.65%) Spring
3 13 (7.10%) AWS CDK
4 11 (6.01%) Node.js
5 9 (4.92%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.37%) RESTful
7 7 (3.83%) React
8 6 (3.28%) Jest
9 5 (2.73%) ARM Templates
9 5 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.19%) JSON
11 3 (1.64%) GraphQL
11 3 (1.64%) LangGraph
11 3 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (1.64%) REST
11 3 (1.64%) Spark Streaming
11 3 (1.64%) YAML
12 2 (1.09%) Keycloak
12 2 (1.09%) Next.js
12 2 (1.09%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.19%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.64%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.09%) NHS
5 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.55%) IoT
6 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (25.14%) Linux
2 7 (3.83%) Windows
3 4 (2.19%) Unix
4 2 (1.09%) VMS
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (65.03%) CI/CD
2 116 (63.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 91 (49.73%) DevOps
4 68 (37.16%) Agile
5 60 (32.79%) Containerisation
6 28 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (14.75%) Observability
8 22 (12.02%) Microservices
9 19 (10.38%) Configuration Management
9 19 (10.38%) DevSecOps
9 19 (10.38%) ETL
9 19 (10.38%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (10.38%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (9.84%) Migration
10 18 (9.84%) Software Engineering
11 17 (9.29%) Analytics
11 17 (9.29%) Cloud Security
11 17 (9.29%) Data Modelling
11 17 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (9.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (45.36%) Python
2 30 (16.39%) SQL
3 21 (11.48%) Bash
3 21 (11.48%) Java
4 19 (10.38%) PowerShell
5 17 (9.29%) Go
6 14 (7.65%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.10%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.83%) Ruby
9 6 (3.28%) C#
9 6 (3.28%) Groovy
10 5 (2.73%) Scala
11 4 (2.19%) C++
12 3 (1.64%) PromQL
13 2 (1.09%) Bicep
13 2 (1.09%) CodeQL
13 2 (1.09%) Perl
13 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (36.61%) Security Cleared
2 56 (30.60%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.75%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.28%) Degree
6 4 (2.19%) CISSP
7 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.09%) CCSP
8 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.55%) CISM
9 1 (0.55%) MCP
9 1 (0.55%) OSCP
9 1 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.93%) GDPR
2 11 (6.01%) QA
3 10 (5.46%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.83%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.28%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.73%) NIST
7 2 (1.09%) NCSC
8 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.55%) GRC
System Software
1 88 (48.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.55%) HDFS
3 1 (0.55%) iptables
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 157 (85.79%) Terraform
2 75 (40.98%) Kubernetes
3 28 (15.30%) Ansible
4 24 (13.11%) Packer
5 23 (12.57%) Consul
6 21 (11.48%) Grafana
7 17 (9.29%) Puppet
8 9 (4.92%) Prometheus
9 7 (3.83%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.09%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.09%) Istio
10 2 (1.09%) Nessus
10 2 (1.09%) SELinux
11 1 (0.55%) Argo
11 1 (0.55%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.55%) linkerd
Vendors
1 10 (5.46%) ServiceNow
2 8 (4.37%) CA Agile Central
2 8 (4.37%) Databricks
2 8 (4.37%) Google
2 8 (4.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.28%) Splunk
4 5 (2.73%) PagerDuty
4 5 (2.73%) Sybase
5 3 (1.64%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.64%) IBM
6 2 (1.09%) Cisco
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle
6 2 (1.09%) Pega
6 2 (1.09%) Qualys
6 2 (1.09%) Teradata
7 1 (0.55%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.55%) Informatica
7 1 (0.55%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.55%) SaltStack