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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 188 265
Rank change year-on-year -101 +77 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 167 184 109
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.35% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 3.14% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 138 68
10th Percentile £400 £421 £415
25th Percentile £449 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £760
90th Percentile £674 £708 £780
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.90% - -

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 8,400 5,851 6,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.81% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,727 4,025 4,789
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 87 52
10th Percentile £19.15 £22.80 £20.65
25th Percentile £24.38 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -48.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £45.25 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.70 £69.30 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.17
% change year-on-year +36.54% +7.59% -26.77%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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
South London -2 12 £535 - 3
Central London -19 12 £675 +3.85% 9
West London -10 9 £625 +26.90% 6
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 11 (6.59%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.39%) Apache
3 5 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.80%) Confluence
5 3 (1.80%) SAS
6 1 (0.60%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 164 (98.20%) AWS
2 65 (38.92%) Azure
3 64 (38.32%) Serverless
4 59 (35.33%) Amazon S3
5 52 (31.14%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (29.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 47 (28.14%) GitHub
8 44 (26.35%) GitHub Actions
9 35 (20.96%) GCP
10 33 (19.76%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (16.77%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (15.57%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (14.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 19 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (8.38%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (7.78%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (7.78%) AWS KMS
17 12 (7.19%) AWS CloudTrail
17 12 (7.19%) Datadog
18 8 (4.79%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.19%) DNS
2 11 (6.59%) Firewall
3 7 (4.19%) Network Security
3 7 (4.19%) WAN
4 4 (2.40%) HTTP
5 3 (1.80%) VPN
6 2 (1.20%) Internet
6 2 (1.20%) SSL
7 1 (0.60%) 4G
7 1 (0.60%) 5G
7 1 (0.60%) BGP
7 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.58%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (7.78%) DynamoDB
3 12 (7.19%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (6.59%) Data Lake
4 11 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.39%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.79%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.59%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.99%) Mixpanel
8 5 (2.99%) MySQL
8 5 (2.99%) OLAP
8 5 (2.99%) OLTP
8 5 (2.99%) Power BI
9 4 (2.40%) Metadata
9 4 (2.40%) Redis
10 3 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.80%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 50 (29.94%) Jenkins
2 38 (22.75%) GitLab
3 27 (16.17%) Git
4 12 (7.19%) JIRA
5 7 (4.19%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.19%) CircleCI
5 7 (4.19%) Snyk
5 7 (4.19%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.80%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.20%) JUnit
7 2 (1.20%) Maven
7 2 (1.20%) MLflow
7 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.60%) Mockito
8 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.60%) Selenium
8 1 (0.60%) Vite
General
1 36 (21.56%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.17%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.57%) Finance
4 11 (6.59%) Banking
5 6 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.40%) Law
8 3 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.80%) Games
8 3 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.20%) Front Office
9 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.20%) Military
9 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Local Government
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Publishing
10 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (24.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (20.36%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (19.16%) Lead
4 24 (14.37%) Architect
4 24 (14.37%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (13.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 20 (11.98%) Senior
7 18 (10.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (7.78%) AWS Architect
8 13 (7.78%) Developer
9 12 (7.19%) Data Engineer
10 11 (6.59%) Lead DevOps
11 9 (5.39%) Network Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (4.19%) Platform Architect
12 7 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (4.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.59%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 5 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.58%) Kafka
2 13 (7.78%) AWS CDK
3 11 (6.59%) Node.js
4 10 (5.99%) REST
4 10 (5.99%) RESTful
5 8 (4.79%) PySpark
5 8 (4.79%) React
6 7 (4.19%) Great Expectations
7 6 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.99%) ARM Templates
8 5 (2.99%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.40%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.40%) boto
9 4 (2.40%) OAuth
9 4 (2.40%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (2.40%) Pandas
9 4 (2.40%) Spring
10 3 (1.80%) Jest
10 3 (1.80%) OAuth2
11 2 (1.20%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 58 (34.73%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.79%) Replication
4 7 (4.19%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.99%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.80%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.80%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.60%) Equities
10 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.58%) Linux
2 11 (6.59%) Windows
3 6 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (1.20%) Unix
7 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (89.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 143 (85.63%) CI/CD
3 112 (67.07%) DevOps
4 56 (33.53%) Containerisation
5 43 (25.75%) Agile
6 40 (23.95%) Observability
7 33 (19.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (14.97%) AI
8 25 (14.97%) Microservices
8 25 (14.97%) Migration
9 24 (14.37%) Platform Engineering
10 23 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (13.17%) Mentoring
12 20 (11.98%) Cloud Security
13 19 (11.38%) Data Engineering
13 19 (11.38%) High Availability
13 19 (11.38%) Test Automation
14 18 (10.78%) Data Modelling
14 18 (10.78%) Software Engineering
15 17 (10.18%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 81 (48.50%) Python
2 30 (17.96%) Bash
3 26 (15.57%) PowerShell
4 25 (14.97%) SQL
5 18 (10.78%) Java
6 12 (7.19%) Bicep
7 9 (5.39%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.59%) C#
8 6 (3.59%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.40%) Go
9 4 (2.40%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.80%) SAS Macro
11 2 (1.20%) Groovy
11 2 (1.20%) R
11 2 (1.20%) Scala
12 1 (0.60%) C
12 1 (0.60%) C++
12 1 (0.60%) Korn
12 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 60 (35.93%) Security Cleared
2 58 (34.73%) SC Cleared
3 28 (16.77%) AWS Certification
4 15 (8.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (5.39%) Degree
7 7 (4.19%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.38%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.79%) GDPR
2 8 (4.79%) QA
3 5 (2.99%) NIST
4 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.20%) SLA
6 1 (0.60%) GRC
6 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 64 (38.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 156 (93.41%) Terraform
2 69 (41.32%) Kubernetes
3 26 (15.57%) Grafana
3 26 (15.57%) Prometheus
4 18 (10.78%) Ansible
5 8 (4.79%) Puppet
6 5 (2.99%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.80%) Packer
8 2 (1.20%) Argo
8 2 (1.20%) Istio
8 2 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.60%) CloudForms
9 1 (0.60%) Control-M
9 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (7.19%) Google
2 10 (5.99%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.39%) Databricks
4 6 (3.59%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.99%) Splunk
6 4 (2.40%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.80%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.80%) Oracle
7 3 (1.80%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.80%) Sybase
7 3 (1.80%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.20%) New Relic
8 2 (1.20%) Teradata
9 1 (0.60%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.60%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.60%) Informatica
9 1 (0.60%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.60%) Sonatype