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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 195 285
Rank change year-on-year +14 +90 -23
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 250 159 109
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.42% 1.26% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.29% 2.96% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 128 88
10th Percentile £400 £400 £444
25th Percentile £455 £525 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £741
90th Percentile £691 £788 £780
England median daily rate £530 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +127.14% - -

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 7,595 5,373 6,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.08% 42.42% 37.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,233 3,733 4,924
10th Percentile £350 £356 £341
25th Percentile £425 £440 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 54 72
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%
75th Percentile £51.10 £53.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £70.75 £71.88 £62.13
England median hourly rate £43.15 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +63.13% +27.35% -35.70%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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
West London - 20 £603 - 2
Central London -4 19 £630 -3.08% 10
South London -3 13 £530 -22.63%
East London - 2 £441 - 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 27 (10.80%) Apache Spark
2 23 (9.20%) Apache
3 14 (5.60%) Confluence
4 13 (5.20%) nginx
5 9 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (2.00%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Actimize
1 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 245 (98.00%) AWS
2 98 (39.20%) Amazon S3
3 86 (34.40%) Serverless
4 80 (32.00%) AWS Lambda
5 78 (31.20%) Azure
6 73 (29.20%) Amazon ECS
6 73 (29.20%) GitHub
7 58 (23.20%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (20.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 49 (19.60%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (18.40%) GCP
11 37 (14.80%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (14.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 29 (11.60%) AWS CodePipeline
13 28 (11.20%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 19 (7.60%) Power Platform
15 19 (7.60%) Route 53
16 16 (6.40%) Collibra
17 14 (5.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.40%) DNS
2 9 (3.60%) Network Security
3 8 (3.20%) VPN
4 7 (2.80%) Firewall
5 3 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.80%) BGP
6 2 (0.80%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.80%) OSPF
6 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.80%) WAN
7 1 (0.40%) 4G
7 1 (0.40%) 5G
7 1 (0.40%) HTTP
7 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.20%) Data Lake
2 30 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (11.20%) Amazon Athena
4 25 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (8.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (7.60%) Power BI
7 16 (6.40%) BigQuery
7 16 (6.40%) Mixpanel
8 15 (6.00%) DynamoDB
8 15 (6.00%) OLAP
8 15 (6.00%) OLTP
9 14 (5.60%) SQL Server
10 13 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (4.40%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.20%) Redshift Spectrum
13 7 (2.80%) Redis
14 6 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (2.40%) Metadata
14 6 (2.40%) MongoDB
15 5 (2.00%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 55 (22.00%) Git
2 50 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 46 (18.40%) GitLab
4 17 (6.80%) JIRA
5 9 (3.60%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.60%) Snyk
6 6 (2.40%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.00%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.60%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.20%) JUnit
9 3 (1.20%) MLflow
9 3 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.20%) Vite
10 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.40%) Mocha
10 1 (0.40%) Mockito
10 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 57 (22.80%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.00%) Public Sector
3 35 (14.00%) Finance
4 13 (5.20%) Banking
5 11 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.20%) Games
8 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.80%) Front Office
9 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.80%) Marketing
9 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Billing
10 1 (0.40%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (19.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (18.80%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (15.60%) Lead
4 38 (15.20%) Architect
5 30 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 29 (11.60%) Data Engineer
7 26 (10.40%) AWS DevOps
7 26 (10.40%) Senior
8 24 (9.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 20 (8.00%) AWS Architect
10 17 (6.80%) Cloud Architect
10 17 (6.80%) Developer
11 16 (6.40%) Site Engineer
11 16 (6.40%) Software Engineer
12 15 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (5.60%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (5.60%) Security Engineer
14 13 (5.20%) Principal Data Engineer
15 10 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (3.20%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.00%) Kafka
2 28 (11.20%) RESTful
3 23 (9.20%) Node.js
4 18 (7.20%) Great Expectations
5 17 (6.80%) Spring
6 16 (6.40%) Spring Boot
7 15 (6.00%) AWS CDK
8 14 (5.60%) React
9 13 (5.20%) PySpark
10 12 (4.80%) REST
11 11 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (4.40%) OAuth
12 10 (4.00%) .NET
13 8 (3.20%) boto
13 8 (3.20%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (2.40%) LangGraph
14 6 (2.40%) OAuth2
15 5 (2.00%) AngularJS
15 5 (2.00%) Pandas
15 5 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 85 (34.00%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.60%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.60%) Replication
7 3 (1.20%) Equities
7 3 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.80%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.80%) SCADA
8 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.60%) Linux
2 9 (3.60%) Windows
3 3 (1.20%) VMS
4 2 (0.80%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (83.60%) CI/CD
2 189 (75.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 147 (58.80%) DevOps
4 77 (30.80%) Containerisation
5 67 (26.80%) Agile
6 64 (25.60%) Observability
7 45 (18.00%) AI
8 44 (17.60%) Analytics
9 43 (17.20%) Microservices
10 41 (16.40%) Data Engineering
11 39 (15.60%) ETL
12 37 (14.80%) Data Modelling
13 31 (12.40%) Event-Driven
13 31 (12.40%) Machine Learning
13 31 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (12.00%) High Availability
14 30 (12.00%) Migration
14 30 (12.00%) Software Engineering
15 28 (11.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 27 (10.80%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 119 (47.60%) Python
2 52 (20.80%) SQL
3 45 (18.00%) Java
4 22 (8.80%) Bash
5 19 (7.60%) C#
6 16 (6.40%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.20%) Ruby
8 12 (4.80%) JavaScript
9 11 (4.40%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.00%) Bicep
11 5 (2.00%) Go
12 4 (1.60%) Scala
13 3 (1.20%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.80%) Perl
15 1 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 81 (32.40%) Security Cleared
2 75 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 45 (18.00%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.40%) Degree
5 14 (5.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.40%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.00%) CISSP
10 4 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.60%) CCSP
10 4 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.60%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.20%) OSCP
11 3 (1.20%) SANS
12 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.60%) GDPR
2 25 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 18 (7.20%) NIST
4 17 (6.80%) QA
5 12 (4.80%) PCI DSS
6 9 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.60%) NCSC
8 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.80%) GRC
8 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.40%) MiFID
9 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 103 (41.20%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 221 (88.40%) Terraform
2 93 (37.20%) Kubernetes
3 31 (12.40%) Ansible
4 23 (9.20%) Grafana
4 23 (9.20%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.80%) Packer
6 11 (4.40%) Consul
7 10 (4.00%) Puppet
8 7 (2.80%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.60%) Karpenter
9 4 (1.60%) Kibana
10 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.80%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.40%) Argo
12 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 30 (12.00%) Databricks
2 23 (9.20%) Google
3 16 (6.40%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.60%) Splunk
5 6 (2.40%) Oracle
5 6 (2.40%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.40%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.00%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.00%) New Relic
7 4 (1.60%) Qualys
7 4 (1.60%) Tenable
8 3 (1.20%) Citrix
8 3 (1.20%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.80%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.80%) IBM
9 2 (0.80%) SAP
9 2 (0.80%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.80%) Solace
9 2 (0.80%) Sybase
9 2 (0.80%) Vermilion