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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 202 291
Rank change year-on-year -95 +89 0
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 158 178 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.32% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 3.06% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 132 61
10th Percentile £400 £463 £413
25th Percentile £450 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £632 £650 £690
90th Percentile £675 £723 £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 £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 8,354 5,813 6,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.27% 43.17% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,712 3,981 4,762
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 91 51
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -36.84%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.42 £72.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £34.18 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.95% -12.33% -9.09%

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 30 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 30 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 -1 13 £550 - 2
Central London -20 11 £650 - 4
West London -12 7 £725 +47.21% 11
East London - 1 £432 - 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 7 (4.43%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.80%) Apache
3 5 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.16%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
4 1 (0.63%) PowerExchange
4 1 (0.63%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 155 (98.10%) AWS
2 59 (37.34%) Serverless
3 56 (35.44%) Azure
4 51 (32.28%) Amazon S3
5 47 (29.75%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (29.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 45 (28.48%) GitHub
8 41 (25.95%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (19.62%) GCP
10 30 (18.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (15.82%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (15.19%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (13.92%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (10.76%) AWS KMS
16 14 (8.86%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (8.86%) Datadog
17 13 (8.23%) Amazon SQS
18 11 (6.96%) AWS CloudTrail
19 7 (4.43%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.33%) Firewall
2 8 (5.06%) DNS
3 7 (4.43%) WAN
4 5 (3.16%) Network Security
5 4 (2.53%) HTTP
6 3 (1.90%) VPN
7 2 (1.27%) Internet
7 2 (1.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.63%) BGP
8 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.29%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.59%) MongoDB
3 12 (7.59%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.96%) DynamoDB
5 10 (6.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (6.33%) MySQL
6 8 (5.06%) Redis
7 7 (4.43%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (4.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.43%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.80%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.53%) Metadata
10 4 (2.53%) Power BI
11 3 (1.90%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.90%) Mixpanel
11 3 (1.90%) OLAP
11 3 (1.90%) OLTP
11 3 (1.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (26.58%) Jenkins
2 31 (19.62%) GitLab
3 24 (15.19%) Git
4 14 (8.86%) JIRA
5 6 (3.80%) CircleCI
5 6 (3.80%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.16%) Snyk
7 3 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.90%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.27%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.27%) Maven
8 2 (1.27%) MLflow
8 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.63%) JUnit
9 1 (0.63%) Mockito
9 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.63%) Selenium
General
1 40 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.99%) Public Sector
3 20 (12.66%) Finance
4 8 (5.06%) Banking
5 4 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (2.53%) Law
6 3 (1.90%) Games
6 3 (1.90%) Military
6 3 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.27%) Front Office
7 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Aviation
8 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.63%) Local Government
8 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (24.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (20.25%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (15.82%) Lead
4 23 (14.56%) Senior
5 22 (13.92%) AWS DevOps
6 21 (13.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (12.03%) Architect
7 19 (12.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (9.49%) AWS Architect
9 12 (7.59%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.59%) Developer
10 11 (6.96%) Lead DevOps
11 9 (5.70%) Administrator
11 9 (5.70%) DBA
11 9 (5.70%) Network Engineer
12 7 (4.43%) Platform Architect
12 7 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.80%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
13 6 (3.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (94.30%) Terraform
2 12 (7.59%) Node.js
3 11 (6.96%) AWS CDK
3 11 (6.96%) Kafka
3 11 (6.96%) REST
4 7 (4.43%) RESTful
5 6 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.80%) Great Expectations
5 6 (3.80%) PySpark
6 5 (3.16%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.16%) Pandas
6 5 (3.16%) React
6 5 (3.16%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.53%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.53%) Jest
7 4 (2.53%) Spring
8 3 (1.90%) .NET
8 3 (1.90%) OAuth
8 3 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 55 (34.81%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.70%) Replication
4 6 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.16%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.16%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (3.16%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.90%) Autonomous Agent
7 3 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.27%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.49%) Linux
2 8 (5.06%) Windows
3 6 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.27%) Unix
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (93.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 137 (86.71%) CI/CD
3 106 (67.09%) DevOps
4 53 (33.54%) Containerisation
5 40 (25.32%) Observability
6 39 (24.68%) Agile
7 35 (22.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (17.09%) Microservices
9 26 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (15.82%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (15.19%) AI
11 24 (15.19%) Test Automation
12 22 (13.92%) High Availability
13 21 (13.29%) Cloud Security
14 20 (12.66%) Data Modelling
14 20 (12.66%) Migration
15 19 (12.03%) Mentoring
16 18 (11.39%) Root Cause Analysis
16 18 (11.39%) Secrets Management
16 18 (11.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (46.20%) Python
2 30 (18.99%) Bash
3 27 (17.09%) SQL
4 25 (15.82%) PowerShell
5 18 (11.39%) Java
6 11 (6.96%) Bicep
6 11 (6.96%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.06%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.53%) C#
9 3 (1.90%) Go
10 2 (1.27%) Groovy
10 2 (1.27%) R
10 2 (1.27%) Scala
11 1 (0.63%) C
11 1 (0.63%) C++
11 1 (0.63%) Korn
11 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.63%) Ruby
11 1 (0.63%) SAS Macro
11 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (37.34%) Security Cleared
2 57 (36.08%) SC Cleared
3 28 (17.72%) AWS Certification
4 20 (12.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (5.70%) Degree
7 6 (3.80%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.90%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.39%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.06%) QA
3 5 (3.16%) GDPR
4 4 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.53%) NIST
4 4 (2.53%) SLA
5 3 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.63%) GRC
7 1 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 59 (37.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Squid
Systems Management
1 65 (41.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (15.19%) Grafana
2 24 (15.19%) Prometheus
3 17 (10.76%) Ansible
4 8 (5.06%) Puppet
5 5 (3.16%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.90%) Packer
7 2 (1.27%) Argo
7 2 (1.27%) Istio
7 2 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.63%) CloudForms
8 1 (0.63%) Control-M
8 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.63%) systemd
Vendors
1 10 (6.33%) Google
2 9 (5.70%) Databricks
3 7 (4.43%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.80%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.80%) Splunk
5 4 (2.53%) Oracle
5 4 (2.53%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.53%) Teradata
5 4 (2.53%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.90%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.27%) Informatica
7 2 (1.27%) New Relic
7 2 (1.27%) Sybase
8 1 (0.63%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.63%) Citrix
8 1 (0.63%) Dell
8 1 (0.63%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.63%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.63%) Trend Micro