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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 221 266
Rank change year-on-year +39 +45 -23
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 234 145 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 1.12% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.32% 2.66% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 115 101
10th Percentile £400 £400 £431
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +5.65% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £678
90th Percentile £700 £795 £760
England median daily rate £540 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +10.45% -8.33%

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 7,051 5,445 6,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.77% 41.98% 37.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,843 3,755 4,985
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 43 78
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%
75th Percentile £51.81 £55.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £62.88
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 - 21 £603 - 3
Central London -2 20 £598 +7.17% 5
South London 0 15 £525 -23.36% 1
East London - 1 £449 - 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 (11.54%) Apache Spark
2 25 (10.68%) Apache
3 13 (5.56%) Confluence
3 13 (5.56%) nginx
4 12 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.14%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.85%) SAS
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 226 (96.58%) AWS
2 97 (41.45%) Amazon S3
3 85 (36.32%) Serverless
4 79 (33.76%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (32.05%) Amazon ECS
6 65 (27.78%) GitHub
7 63 (26.92%) Azure
8 52 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (21.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 50 (21.37%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (18.80%) GCP
12 41 (17.52%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (15.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 30 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
15 28 (11.97%) AWS CodePipeline
16 20 (8.55%) Power Platform
16 20 (8.55%) Route 53
17 19 (8.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 17 (7.26%) Collibra
19 16 (6.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.55%) DNS
2 8 (3.42%) Network Security
2 8 (3.42%) VPN
3 6 (2.56%) Firewall
4 3 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.85%) BGP
5 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.85%) OSPF
5 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.85%) WAN
6 1 (0.43%) 4G
6 1 (0.43%) 5G
6 1 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.10%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (13.25%) Data Lake
3 30 (12.82%) Amazon Athena
4 26 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (8.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (8.55%) Power BI
7 17 (7.26%) BigQuery
7 17 (7.26%) DynamoDB
7 17 (7.26%) Mixpanel
8 16 (6.84%) OLAP
8 16 (6.84%) OLTP
9 15 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (6.41%) SQL Server
10 10 (4.27%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.42%) Redshift Spectrum
12 7 (2.99%) MySQL
12 7 (2.99%) Redis
13 6 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.56%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.14%) DB2
Development Applications
1 47 (20.09%) Git
2 44 (18.80%) Jenkins
3 39 (16.67%) GitLab
4 16 (6.84%) JIRA
5 9 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.14%) JUnit
6 5 (2.14%) Snyk
7 4 (1.71%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.28%) Vite
9 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.43%) MLflow
10 1 (0.43%) Mocha
10 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 32 (13.68%) Finance
4 16 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.85%) Banking
5 9 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.85%) Marketing
9 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Aviation
10 1 (0.43%) Billing
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (19.66%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (18.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (14.96%) Architect
4 31 (13.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 29 (12.39%) Lead
6 28 (11.97%) Data Engineer
7 26 (11.11%) Senior
8 21 (8.97%) AWS DevOps
9 20 (8.55%) Security Engineer
10 19 (8.12%) AWS Architect
10 19 (8.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (6.84%) Developer
11 16 (6.84%) Software Engineer
12 15 (6.41%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (6.41%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (5.98%) Principal Data Engineer
13 14 (5.98%) Site Engineer
14 13 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 9 (3.85%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (3.42%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (20.51%) Kafka
2 24 (10.26%) RESTful
3 18 (7.69%) Spring
4 17 (7.26%) Great Expectations
4 17 (7.26%) Spring Boot
5 16 (6.84%) AWS CDK
5 16 (6.84%) Node.js
6 12 (5.13%) React
7 10 (4.27%) OAuth
8 9 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.85%) PySpark
8 9 (3.85%) REST
9 8 (3.42%) .NET
9 8 (3.42%) boto
9 8 (3.42%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.56%) LangGraph
11 5 (2.14%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.71%) gRPC
12 4 (1.71%) Spring Cloud
12 4 (1.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 74 (31.62%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.71%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.71%) Replication
7 3 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.28%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.85%) Equities
8 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) SCADA
9 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.38%) Linux
2 12 (5.13%) Windows
3 6 (2.56%) Unix
4 3 (1.28%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (80.77%) CI/CD
2 174 (74.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 128 (54.70%) DevOps
4 67 (28.63%) Containerisation
5 61 (26.07%) Agile
5 61 (26.07%) Observability
6 44 (18.80%) Analytics
7 42 (17.95%) AI
8 40 (17.09%) Microservices
9 39 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 39 (16.67%) ETL
10 38 (16.24%) Data Engineering
11 31 (13.25%) Machine Learning
12 29 (12.39%) Software Engineering
13 28 (11.97%) Data Governance
14 27 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
15 26 (11.11%) Migration
15 26 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (10.68%) Cloud Security
16 25 (10.68%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 120 (51.28%) Python
2 54 (23.08%) SQL
3 42 (17.95%) Java
4 23 (9.83%) Bash
5 20 (8.55%) C#
6 14 (5.98%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.13%) Ruby
8 10 (4.27%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.85%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.56%) Bicep
10 6 (2.56%) Go
11 4 (1.71%) Scala
12 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.85%) Perl
13 2 (0.85%) SAS Macro
14 1 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 70 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 64 (27.35%) SC Cleared
3 43 (18.38%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.70%) Degree
6 8 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.56%) CISSP
9 5 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.71%) CCSP
10 4 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.71%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.28%) OSCP
11 3 (1.28%) SANS
12 2 (0.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.53%) GDPR
2 25 (10.68%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.84%) NIST
3 16 (6.84%) QA
4 12 (5.13%) PCI DSS
5 9 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.71%) NCSC
7 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.43%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 98 (41.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 203 (86.75%) Terraform
2 83 (35.47%) Kubernetes
3 26 (11.11%) Ansible
4 18 (7.69%) Grafana
5 16 (6.84%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.13%) Packer
7 11 (4.70%) Consul
8 10 (4.27%) Puppet
9 7 (2.99%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.14%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.71%) Kibana
12 2 (0.85%) Argo
12 2 (0.85%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.43%) Nessus
Vendors
1 27 (11.54%) Databricks
2 25 (10.68%) Google
3 20 (8.55%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.85%) Splunk
5 6 (2.56%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.56%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.14%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.14%) New Relic
6 5 (2.14%) Oracle
6 5 (2.14%) Sybase
7 4 (1.71%) Qualys
7 4 (1.71%) Tenable
8 3 (1.28%) Citrix
8 3 (1.28%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.85%) IBM
9 2 (0.85%) SAP
9 2 (0.85%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.85%) Solace
9 2 (0.85%) Vermilion