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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 238 258
Rank change year-on-year +37 +20 -26
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 190 122 133
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.32% 0.87% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.98% 2.11% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 96 97
10th Percentile £405 £378 £413
25th Percentile £463 £530 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £675
90th Percentile £720 £818 £750
England median daily rate £550 £614 £568
% change year-on-year -10.39% +8.15% -5.42%

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 6,372 5,788 6,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.35% 41.22% 37.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,371 3,882 4,933
10th Percentile £343 £350 £326
25th Percentile £425 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 46 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.76 £17.40
25th Percentile £23.37 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.40 £30.80 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -12.01% +35.42%
75th Percentile £54.31 £47.72 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.71 £64.38 £68.80
England median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -0.57%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +10 20 £569 +7.31% 11
West London - 14 £603 - 3
South London +7 11 £528 -22.99% 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 15 (7.89%) Apache Spark
2 14 (7.37%) Apache
3 12 (6.32%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (6.32%) Confluence
4 11 (5.79%) nginx
5 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 180 (94.74%) AWS
2 73 (38.42%) Amazon S3
3 71 (37.37%) Serverless
4 68 (35.79%) AWS Lambda
5 63 (33.16%) Amazon ECS
6 59 (31.05%) GitHub
7 47 (24.74%) Amazon EKS
8 46 (24.21%) GitHub Actions
9 45 (23.68%) Azure
10 33 (17.37%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (16.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (16.32%) GCP
13 27 (14.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (8.95%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (8.42%) Amazon Kinesis
16 15 (7.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 15 (7.89%) AWS CodePipeline
16 15 (7.89%) Datadog
17 13 (6.84%) AWS KMS
18 12 (6.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.89%) DNS
2 8 (4.21%) VPN
3 5 (2.63%) Network Security
4 4 (2.11%) Firewall
5 3 (1.58%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.05%) HTTP
6 2 (1.05%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.05%) SSL
7 1 (0.53%) Internet
7 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.32%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (12.11%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 17 (8.95%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (8.95%) DynamoDB
5 15 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (6.32%) NoSQL
7 12 (6.32%) Power BI
8 10 (5.26%) SQL Server
9 9 (4.74%) BigQuery
9 9 (4.74%) Mixpanel
9 9 (4.74%) OLAP
9 9 (4.74%) OLTP
10 8 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (3.68%) MySQL
12 6 (3.16%) Relational Database
13 5 (2.63%) Data Hub
13 5 (2.63%) DocumentDB
13 5 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (20.53%) Git
2 37 (19.47%) Jenkins
3 32 (16.84%) GitLab
4 15 (7.89%) JIRA
5 4 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.11%) JUnit
5 4 (2.11%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.58%) Snyk
7 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.53%) MLflow
8 1 (0.53%) Mocha
8 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (22.63%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.79%) Finance
2 30 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.68%) Banking
5 5 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Marketing
8 1 (0.53%) Aviation
8 1 (0.53%) Games
8 1 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (18.95%) AWS Engineer
1 36 (18.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (13.68%) Architect
3 24 (12.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (12.11%) Senior
5 19 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 16 (8.42%) AWS DevOps
6 16 (8.42%) Security Engineer
7 15 (7.89%) AWS Architect
8 14 (7.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 14 (7.37%) Developer
9 13 (6.84%) Lead
9 13 (6.84%) Site Engineer
9 13 (6.84%) Software Engineer
10 12 (6.32%) Cloud Architect
10 12 (6.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (4.74%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Java Engineer
13 7 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.68%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.95%) Kafka
2 18 (9.47%) RESTful
3 16 (8.42%) Spring
4 15 (7.89%) Node.js
4 15 (7.89%) Spring Boot
5 13 (6.84%) AWS CDK
6 11 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (5.26%) React
8 9 (4.74%) Great Expectations
9 8 (4.21%) REST
10 7 (3.68%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (3.16%) .NET
11 6 (3.16%) LangGraph
11 6 (3.16%) OAuth
12 5 (2.63%) boto
13 4 (2.11%) gRPC
13 4 (2.11%) HTML
13 4 (2.11%) OAuth2
13 4 (2.11%) Spring Cloud
13 4 (2.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 56 (29.47%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.58%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.58%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.05%) Equities
6 2 (1.05%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.05%) NHS
6 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) IoT
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (21.58%) Linux
2 9 (4.74%) Windows
3 5 (2.63%) Unix
4 3 (1.58%) VMS
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (77.37%) CI/CD
2 140 (73.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 103 (54.21%) DevOps
4 60 (31.58%) Containerisation
5 49 (25.79%) Observability
6 45 (23.68%) Agile
7 31 (16.32%) Microservices
8 30 (15.79%) AI
9 27 (14.21%) Analytics
10 26 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (13.16%) Data Modelling
11 25 (13.16%) ETL
11 25 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 24 (12.63%) Software Engineering
13 23 (12.11%) Data Engineering
14 22 (11.58%) Cloud Security
15 21 (11.05%) DevSecOps
16 20 (10.53%) Data Governance
17 19 (10.00%) Machine Learning
18 18 (9.47%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 92 (48.42%) Python
2 37 (19.47%) SQL
3 33 (17.37%) Java
4 21 (11.05%) Bash
5 12 (6.32%) Ruby
5 12 (6.32%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.79%) C#
6 11 (5.79%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.68%) Go
9 4 (2.11%) Bicep
9 4 (2.11%) Scala
10 2 (1.05%) Perl
11 1 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 58 (30.53%) Security Cleared
2 50 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 31 (16.32%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.68%) CISSP
5 7 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.68%) Degree
6 4 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.11%) CCSP
6 4 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.11%) MCP
7 3 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (1.58%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.58%) OSCP
7 3 (1.58%) SANS
8 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.68%) GDPR
2 14 (7.37%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.37%) QA
3 12 (6.32%) NIST
4 11 (5.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (5.79%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.63%) NCSC
6 3 (1.58%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.53%) GRC
8 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 81 (42.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 160 (84.21%) Terraform
2 75 (39.47%) Kubernetes
3 30 (15.79%) Ansible
4 22 (11.58%) Grafana
5 12 (6.32%) Puppet
6 10 (5.26%) Packer
6 10 (5.26%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.74%) Consul
8 8 (4.21%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.63%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.11%) Kibana
11 2 (1.05%) Argo
11 2 (1.05%) Istio
11 2 (1.05%) Opsgenie
11 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.53%) linkerd
Vendors
1 17 (8.95%) Databricks
1 17 (8.95%) Google
2 14 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.68%) Splunk
4 6 (3.16%) PagerDuty
5 5 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.11%) New Relic
6 4 (2.11%) Oracle
6 4 (2.11%) Rapid7
6 4 (2.11%) Sybase
6 4 (2.11%) Tenable
7 3 (1.58%) Cisco
7 3 (1.58%) Citrix
7 3 (1.58%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.58%) IBM
7 3 (1.58%) Qualys
8 2 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.05%) CloudEndure
8 2 (1.05%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.05%) Vermilion