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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 197 274
Rank change year-on-year -42 +77 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 201 164 124
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.31% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.51% 3.06% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 118 87
10th Percentile £400 £460 £431
25th Percentile £450 £505 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - -
75th Percentile £638 £647 £713
90th Percentile £684 £708 £780
England median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -8.33%
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 8,002 5,367 6,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.92% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,496 3,644 5,122
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 67 70
10th Percentile £21.55 £22.80 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £32.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% +20.82% -49.55%
75th Percentile £56.19 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.65 £70.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +68.55% +17.79% -33.85%

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 June 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 June 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 -14 15 £650 +4.00% 3
West London -15 13 £625 +26.90% 7
South London -1 6 £500 -
East London - 2 £441 -
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 17 (8.46%) Apache Spark
2 15 (7.46%) Apache
3 5 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.99%) Confluence
4 4 (1.99%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.49%) SAS
6 2 (1.00%) nginx
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 198 (98.51%) AWS
2 82 (40.80%) Amazon S3
3 77 (38.31%) Serverless
4 67 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 63 (31.34%) GitHub
6 60 (29.85%) Azure
7 57 (28.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 55 (27.36%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (25.37%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (20.90%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (16.42%) GCP
12 30 (14.93%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (14.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (12.44%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (10.45%) AWS CodePipeline
16 13 (6.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (6.47%) Route 53
17 11 (5.47%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (5.47%) AWS Step Functions
17 11 (5.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.96%) DNS
2 12 (5.97%) Firewall
3 9 (4.48%) Network Security
3 9 (4.48%) WAN
4 5 (2.49%) VPN
5 4 (1.99%) HTTP
6 3 (1.49%) BGP
7 2 (1.00%) Internet
7 2 (1.00%) OSPF
7 2 (1.00%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.50%) 4G
8 1 (0.50%) 5G
8 1 (0.50%) SSL
8 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.45%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (9.95%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (9.95%) Data Lake
3 16 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (7.46%) DynamoDB
5 12 (5.97%) BigQuery
6 11 (5.47%) Mixpanel
6 11 (5.47%) Power BI
7 10 (4.98%) OLAP
7 10 (4.98%) OLTP
8 8 (3.98%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.98%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (3.48%) Redis
10 6 (2.99%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.49%) Redshift Spectrum
12 4 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.99%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.99%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (24.88%) Jenkins
2 38 (18.91%) GitLab
3 31 (15.42%) Git
4 13 (6.47%) JIRA
5 9 (4.48%) Snyk
6 7 (3.48%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.48%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.99%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.49%) JUnit
8 3 (1.49%) Vite
9 2 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.00%) MLflow
10 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.50%) Mockito
10 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.93%) Finance
2 28 (13.93%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.47%) Banking
4 8 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.99%) Law
7 3 (1.49%) Games
7 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.00%) Front Office
8 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.00%) Marketing
8 2 (1.00%) Military
8 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Billing
9 1 (0.50%) Local Government
9 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (21.89%) AWS Engineer
1 44 (21.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (18.41%) Lead
3 31 (15.42%) Architect
3 31 (15.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (12.44%) AWS DevOps
4 25 (12.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 21 (10.45%) Data Engineer
5 21 (10.45%) Senior
6 19 (9.45%) AWS Architect
7 14 (6.97%) Cloud Architect
7 14 (6.97%) Developer
8 11 (5.47%) Principal Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Lead Data Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Lead DevOps
9 10 (4.98%) Principal Data Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Security Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.48%) Network Engineer
11 7 (3.48%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.92%) Kafka
2 19 (9.45%) AWS CDK
2 19 (9.45%) RESTful
3 16 (7.96%) Node.js
4 13 (6.47%) Great Expectations
4 13 (6.47%) React
4 13 (6.47%) REST
5 12 (5.97%) OAuth
5 12 (5.97%) PySpark
6 11 (5.47%) Spring
6 11 (5.47%) Spring Boot
7 8 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (3.48%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.48%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.99%) .NET
9 6 (2.99%) boto
10 5 (2.49%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.99%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.99%) JPA
11 4 (1.99%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 77 (38.31%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.98%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.49%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.99%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.99%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.99%) Replication
7 3 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.49%) Equities
7 3 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.49%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.00%) SCADA
8 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.95%) Linux
2 14 (6.97%) Windows
3 5 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.00%) Unix
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (86.07%) CI/CD
2 169 (84.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 126 (62.69%) DevOps
4 63 (31.34%) Containerisation
5 49 (24.38%) Observability
6 47 (23.38%) Agile
7 35 (17.41%) AI
8 34 (16.92%) Microservices
9 31 (15.42%) Analytics
9 31 (15.42%) Data Engineering
9 31 (15.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (13.93%) High Availability
11 26 (12.94%) Data Modelling
12 25 (12.44%) Cloud Security
13 24 (11.94%) ETL
13 24 (11.94%) Event-Driven
13 24 (11.94%) Infrastructure Automation
13 24 (11.94%) Machine Learning
13 24 (11.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 88 (43.78%) Python
2 38 (18.91%) SQL
3 29 (14.43%) Java
4 21 (10.45%) Bash
5 19 (9.45%) PowerShell
6 12 (5.97%) C#
7 9 (4.48%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.98%) Bicep
9 7 (3.48%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.99%) Go
11 3 (1.49%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.00%) Ruby
13 1 (0.50%) C
13 1 (0.50%) Groovy
13 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 57 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.43%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (6.97%) Degree
5 13 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.00%) CCSP
9 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.00%) CISSP
9 2 (1.00%) OSCP
9 2 (1.00%) SANS
9 2 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.95%) GDPR
2 18 (8.96%) Data Quality
3 15 (7.46%) NIST
4 13 (6.47%) QA
5 11 (5.47%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.50%) NCSC
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (36.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 182 (90.55%) Terraform
2 74 (36.82%) Kubernetes
3 24 (11.94%) Prometheus
4 21 (10.45%) Ansible
5 18 (8.96%) Grafana
6 7 (3.48%) Puppet
7 6 (2.99%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.49%) Packer
9 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.00%) Consul
10 2 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.50%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.50%) Nessus
Vendors
1 17 (8.46%) Databricks
2 16 (7.96%) Google
3 8 (3.98%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.99%) Splunk
5 5 (2.49%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.49%) New Relic
5 5 (2.49%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.99%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.99%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.99%) Sybase
7 3 (1.49%) Oracle
7 3 (1.49%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.49%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.00%) Globalscape
8 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.00%) Qualys
8 2 (1.00%) SAP
8 2 (1.00%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.00%) Solace
8 2 (1.00%) Vermilion