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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 195 277
Rank change year-on-year -45 +82 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 196 180 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.32% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.36% 3.08% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 127 78
10th Percentile £403 £440 £429
25th Percentile £450 £500 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £634 £644 £718
90th Percentile £665 £710 £780
England median daily rate £527 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.14% - -4.35%
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 8,297 5,838 7,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.75% 42.90% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,695 3,972 5,146
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 80 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.92 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.54 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +20.20% +9.51% -52.05%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.23 £67.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 14 £650 +4.00% 8
West London -3 13 £625 +26.90% 6
South London -3 8 £500 - 1
East London - 2 £441 - 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 16 (8.16%) Apache Spark
2 14 (7.14%) Apache
3 4 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.04%) Confluence
3 4 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.53%) SAS
5 2 (1.02%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 193 (98.47%) AWS
2 74 (37.76%) Amazon S3
3 71 (36.22%) Serverless
4 65 (33.16%) Azure
5 60 (30.61%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (29.08%) GitHub
7 55 (28.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 54 (27.55%) Amazon ECS
9 47 (23.98%) GitHub Actions
10 39 (19.90%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (18.88%) GCP
12 30 (15.31%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (12.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (10.71%) AWS CodePipeline
15 20 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
17 12 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (6.12%) Datadog
18 11 (5.61%) AWS Step Functions
19 10 (5.10%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.12%) DNS
1 12 (6.12%) Firewall
2 9 (4.59%) Network Security
2 9 (4.59%) WAN
3 5 (2.55%) VPN
4 4 (2.04%) HTTP
5 3 (1.53%) BGP
6 2 (1.02%) Internet
6 2 (1.02%) OSPF
6 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.51%) 4G
7 1 (0.51%) 5G
7 1 (0.51%) SSL
7 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.69%) Amazon Athena
1 19 (9.69%) Data Lake
2 17 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.61%) BigQuery
5 11 (5.61%) DynamoDB
6 10 (5.10%) Mixpanel
6 10 (5.10%) Power BI
7 9 (4.59%) OLAP
7 9 (4.59%) OLTP
8 8 (4.08%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.55%) Redshift Spectrum
11 4 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.04%) Metadata
11 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.53%) Data Mart
12 3 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (26.53%) Jenkins
2 38 (19.39%) GitLab
3 31 (15.82%) Git
4 13 (6.63%) JIRA
5 9 (4.59%) Snyk
6 7 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.57%) CircleCI
7 6 (3.06%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.53%) JUnit
8 3 (1.53%) Vite
9 2 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.02%) MLflow
10 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.51%) Mockito
10 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.51%) Selenium
10 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.80%) Public Sector
3 27 (13.78%) Finance
4 11 (5.61%) Banking
5 8 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.04%) Law
9 3 (1.53%) Games
9 3 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.02%) Front Office
10 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Military
10 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Local Government
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (24.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (23.47%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (20.41%) Lead
4 28 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 27 (13.78%) Architect
5 27 (13.78%) AWS DevOps
5 27 (13.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 22 (11.22%) Senior
7 19 (9.69%) Data Engineer
8 15 (7.65%) AWS Architect
9 12 (6.12%) Developer
9 12 (6.12%) Lead DevOps
10 10 (5.10%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (5.10%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (5.10%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (5.10%) Security Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Principal Data Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.57%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.78%) Kafka
2 19 (9.69%) AWS CDK
3 15 (7.65%) RESTful
4 14 (7.14%) Node.js
5 12 (6.12%) Great Expectations
6 11 (5.61%) PySpark
7 9 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (4.59%) React
7 9 (4.59%) REST
8 7 (3.57%) Spring
8 7 (3.57%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.06%) .NET
9 6 (3.06%) OAuth
10 5 (2.55%) boto
11 4 (2.04%) JWT
11 4 (2.04%) Pandas
12 3 (1.53%) ARM Templates
12 3 (1.53%) NestJS
12 3 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
12 3 (1.53%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 74 (37.76%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.04%) Replication
6 4 (2.04%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.53%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.02%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.02%) Equities
8 2 (1.02%) SCADA
8 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.76%) Linux
2 15 (7.65%) Windows
3 5 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.53%) Unix
4 3 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 166 (84.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 130 (66.33%) DevOps
4 71 (36.22%) Containerisation
5 48 (24.49%) Agile
5 48 (24.49%) Observability
6 31 (15.82%) AI
7 30 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (15.31%) Microservices
7 30 (15.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (14.80%) Analytics
9 28 (14.29%) Data Engineering
10 27 (13.78%) Cloud Security
11 26 (13.27%) Mentoring
12 24 (12.24%) High Availability
12 24 (12.24%) Migration
12 24 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (11.73%) Data Modelling
14 22 (11.22%) DevSecOps
14 22 (11.22%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 89 (45.41%) Python
2 32 (16.33%) SQL
3 28 (14.29%) Java
4 26 (13.27%) Bash
5 21 (10.71%) PowerShell
6 11 (5.61%) C#
7 10 (5.10%) Bicep
8 7 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.06%) Go
10 3 (1.53%) SAS Macro
10 3 (1.53%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.02%) Ruby
11 2 (1.02%) Scala
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Groovy
12 1 (0.51%) Korn
Qualifications
1 64 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 61 (31.12%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.80%) AWS Certification
4 14 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (7.14%) Degree
5 13 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.53%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.02%) CCSP
10 2 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.02%) CISSP
10 2 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.02%) OSCP
10 2 (1.02%) SANS
10 2 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.18%) GDPR
2 17 (8.67%) Data Quality
3 11 (5.61%) NIST
4 9 (4.59%) QA
5 7 (3.57%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.51%) GRC
8 1 (0.51%) NCSC
8 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (38.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Squid
Systems Management
1 180 (91.84%) Terraform
2 78 (39.80%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.78%) Prometheus
4 22 (11.22%) Ansible
5 20 (10.20%) Grafana
6 8 (4.08%) Puppet
7 7 (3.57%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.55%) Packer
9 2 (1.02%) Consul
9 2 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.51%) CloudForms
10 1 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.51%) Nessus
10 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (8.16%) Databricks
1 16 (8.16%) Google
2 8 (4.08%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.08%) Splunk
3 5 (2.55%) AVEVA
3 5 (2.55%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.04%) New Relic
4 4 (2.04%) Palo Alto
4 4 (2.04%) Rapid7
4 4 (2.04%) Sybase
5 3 (1.53%) Oracle
5 3 (1.53%) PagerDuty
5 3 (1.53%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.02%) Globalscape
6 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.02%) Qualys
6 2 (1.02%) SAP
6 2 (1.02%) Solace
6 2 (1.02%) Tenable
7 1 (0.51%) SaltStack