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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 246 258
Rank change year-on-year +27 +12 -25
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 173 122 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 0.86% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.72% 2.09% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 94 101
10th Percentile £410 £377 £413
25th Percentile £463 £527 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £678
90th Percentile £725 £825 £750
England median daily rate £530 £614 £575
% change year-on-year -13.65% +6.74% -4.17%

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 6,367 5,840 6,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.24% 40.99% 37.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 3,944 5,031
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 43 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% -12.99% +34.85%
75th Percentile £54.31 £49.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -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 7 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 7 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 +5 16 £569 +7.31% 14
West London - 13 £603 - 2
South London +3 10 £530 -22.63% 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 14 (8.09%) Apache Spark
2 13 (7.51%) Apache
3 12 (6.94%) Confluence
4 11 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (6.36%) nginx
5 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 162 (93.64%) AWS
2 67 (38.73%) Amazon S3
3 63 (36.42%) Serverless
4 60 (34.68%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (30.06%) Amazon ECS
6 51 (29.48%) GitHub
7 42 (24.28%) Azure
7 42 (24.28%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (23.70%) Amazon EKS
9 31 (17.92%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (16.18%) GCP
11 26 (15.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (14.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (8.67%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (8.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 14 (8.09%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (8.09%) Datadog
15 13 (7.51%) AWS KMS
16 11 (6.36%) Power Platform
16 11 (6.36%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.09%) DNS
2 8 (4.62%) VPN
3 5 (2.89%) Network Security
4 4 (2.31%) Firewall
5 3 (1.73%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.16%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.16%) SSL
7 1 (0.58%) HTTP
7 1 (0.58%) Internet
7 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.76%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.40%) Data Lake
4 16 (9.25%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (8.67%) DynamoDB
6 14 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (7.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (6.36%) Power BI
9 10 (5.78%) NoSQL
10 9 (5.20%) SQL Server
11 8 (4.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (4.62%) BigQuery
11 8 (4.62%) Mixpanel
11 8 (4.62%) OLAP
11 8 (4.62%) OLTP
12 6 (3.47%) MySQL
12 6 (3.47%) Relational Database
13 5 (2.89%) Data Hub
13 5 (2.89%) Redis
14 4 (2.31%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 34 (19.65%) Git
2 33 (19.08%) Jenkins
3 27 (15.61%) GitLab
4 15 (8.67%) JIRA
5 4 (2.31%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.31%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.73%) JUnit
7 2 (1.16%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.16%) Snyk
7 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.58%) MLflow
8 1 (0.58%) Mocha
8 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.61%) Finance
4 9 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.05%) Banking
6 4 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.58%) Aviation
7 1 (0.58%) Games
7 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Military
7 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (19.65%) AWS Engineer
2 29 (16.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (14.45%) Architect
4 23 (13.29%) Senior
5 22 (12.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (9.83%) Data Engineer
7 14 (8.09%) AWS Architect
8 13 (7.51%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (7.51%) Developer
8 13 (7.51%) Site Engineer
8 13 (7.51%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.94%) Security Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) Cloud Architect
10 11 (6.36%) Lead
10 11 (6.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
13 6 (3.47%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.76%) Kafka
2 14 (8.09%) Node.js
2 14 (8.09%) RESTful
3 12 (6.94%) Spring
4 11 (6.36%) AWS CDK
4 11 (6.36%) React
4 11 (6.36%) Spring Boot
5 9 (5.20%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (4.62%) Great Expectations
7 7 (4.05%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (3.47%) REST
9 5 (2.89%) LangGraph
9 5 (2.89%) OAuth
10 4 (2.31%) .NET
10 4 (2.31%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.31%) ARM Templates
10 4 (2.31%) boto
10 4 (2.31%) HTML
10 4 (2.31%) JSON
10 4 (2.31%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 47 (27.17%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.89%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.73%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.73%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.73%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.16%) NHS
5 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.58%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.58%) IoT
6 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.58%) Ray Tracing
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.81%) Linux
2 7 (4.05%) Windows
3 4 (2.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.73%) VMS
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (74.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 128 (73.99%) CI/CD
3 93 (53.76%) DevOps
4 50 (28.90%) Containerisation
5 42 (24.28%) Observability
6 39 (22.54%) Agile
7 26 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (14.45%) Microservices
8 25 (14.45%) Software Engineering
9 23 (13.29%) AI
9 23 (13.29%) ETL
9 23 (13.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (12.14%) Analytics
10 21 (12.14%) Data Modelling
11 19 (10.98%) Cloud Security
11 19 (10.98%) Data Engineering
12 18 (10.40%) Migration
13 17 (9.83%) Data Governance
13 17 (9.83%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (9.83%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (47.98%) Python
2 32 (18.50%) SQL
3 23 (13.29%) Java
4 16 (9.25%) Bash
5 13 (7.51%) Ruby
6 12 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.78%) C#
7 10 (5.78%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.78%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.62%) Go
9 4 (2.31%) Scala
10 3 (1.73%) Bicep
11 2 (1.16%) Perl
12 1 (0.58%) C
Qualifications
1 51 (29.48%) Security Cleared
2 44 (25.43%) SC Cleared
3 28 (16.18%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.89%) CISSP
5 5 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.89%) Degree
6 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (1.73%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.73%) MCP
7 2 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.16%) CCSP
7 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.58%) OSCP
8 1 (0.58%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.72%) GDPR
2 13 (7.51%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.78%) QA
4 9 (5.20%) NIST
5 8 (4.62%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.89%) NCSC
7 3 (1.73%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.58%) GRC
9 1 (0.58%) MiFID
System Software
1 66 (38.15%) Docker
2 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 148 (85.55%) Terraform
2 61 (35.26%) Kubernetes
3 25 (14.45%) Ansible
4 21 (12.14%) Grafana
5 11 (6.36%) Puppet
6 10 (5.78%) Packer
7 9 (5.20%) Consul
8 8 (4.62%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.89%) Karpenter
9 5 (2.89%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.31%) Kibana
11 2 (1.16%) Argo
11 2 (1.16%) Istio
11 2 (1.16%) Opsgenie
11 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.58%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (9.25%) Databricks
2 14 (8.09%) Google
2 14 (8.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.47%) PagerDuty
3 6 (3.47%) Splunk
4 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.31%) IBM
5 4 (2.31%) Oracle
6 3 (1.73%) Cisco
6 3 (1.73%) Citrix
6 3 (1.73%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.73%) Sybase
6 3 (1.73%) Tenable
7 2 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.16%) CloudEndure
7 2 (1.16%) Qualys
7 2 (1.16%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.58%) Confluent
8 1 (0.58%) New Relic
8 1 (0.58%) Ping Identity