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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 197 278
Rank change year-on-year -38 +81 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 203 170 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.33% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 3.10% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 120 83
10th Percentile £400 £462 £431
25th Percentile £450 £503 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £699
90th Percentile £681 £703 £780
England median daily rate £525 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -7.69% +3.41% -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 8,045 5,478 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.98% 43.02% 39.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,527 3,713 5,110
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £518 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 73 67
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.60 £19.11
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.04
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +18.65% -47.38%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.35% +14.32% -31.89%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -20 15 £650 +4.00% 4
West London -11 12 £625 +26.90% 5
South London +1 9 £500 -
East London - 2 £441 -
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 (7.88%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.90%) Apache
3 5 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.97%) Confluence
4 4 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.48%) SAS
6 2 (0.99%) nginx
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 200 (98.52%) AWS
2 80 (39.41%) Amazon S3
3 77 (37.93%) Serverless
4 66 (32.51%) AWS Lambda
5 65 (32.02%) Azure
6 63 (31.03%) GitHub
7 58 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 55 (27.09%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (25.62%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (17.73%) GCP
12 30 (14.78%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (11.82%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (10.34%) AWS CodePipeline
16 14 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (6.40%) Route 53
18 12 (5.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 11 (5.42%) Amazon Kinesis
19 11 (5.42%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.88%) DNS
2 12 (5.91%) Firewall
3 9 (4.43%) Network Security
3 9 (4.43%) WAN
4 5 (2.46%) VPN
5 4 (1.97%) HTTP
6 3 (1.48%) BGP
7 2 (0.99%) Internet
7 2 (0.99%) OSPF
7 2 (0.99%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.49%) 4G
8 1 (0.49%) 5G
8 1 (0.49%) SSL
8 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (9.36%) Amazon Athena
2 19 (9.36%) Data Lake
3 16 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (7.39%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.42%) BigQuery
6 10 (4.93%) Mixpanel
6 10 (4.93%) Power BI
7 9 (4.43%) OLAP
7 9 (4.43%) OLTP
8 8 (3.94%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.94%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (3.45%) Redis
10 6 (2.96%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.46%) Redshift Spectrum
12 4 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.97%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.97%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 54 (26.60%) Jenkins
2 41 (20.20%) GitLab
3 32 (15.76%) Git
4 13 (6.40%) JIRA
5 9 (4.43%) Snyk
6 7 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.45%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.96%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.48%) JUnit
8 3 (1.48%) Vite
9 2 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.99%) MLflow
10 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.49%) Mockito
10 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.49%) Selenium
10 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.29%) Finance
2 29 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.42%) Banking
4 8 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.97%) Law
7 3 (1.48%) Games
7 3 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.99%) Front Office
8 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.99%) Marketing
8 2 (0.99%) Military
8 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Billing
9 1 (0.49%) Local Government
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (23.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (22.66%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (18.72%) Lead
4 31 (15.27%) Architect
5 29 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (13.30%) AWS DevOps
6 27 (13.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 21 (10.34%) Senior
8 20 (9.85%) Data Engineer
9 19 (9.36%) AWS Architect
10 14 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (6.40%) Developer
12 10 (4.93%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (4.93%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (4.93%) Security Engineer
13 9 (4.43%) Network Engineer
13 9 (4.43%) Principal Data Engineer
13 9 (4.43%) Software Engineer
14 7 (3.45%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.27%) Kafka
2 19 (9.36%) AWS CDK
2 19 (9.36%) RESTful
3 15 (7.39%) Node.js
4 13 (6.40%) REST
5 12 (5.91%) Great Expectations
5 12 (5.91%) PySpark
6 11 (5.42%) OAuth
6 11 (5.42%) React
6 11 (5.42%) Spring
6 11 (5.42%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.43%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (3.45%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.96%) .NET
9 6 (2.96%) boto
10 4 (1.97%) gRPC
10 4 (1.97%) JWT
10 4 (1.97%) Pandas
10 4 (1.97%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 77 (37.93%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.43%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.97%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.97%) Replication
6 4 (1.97%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.48%) Equities
7 3 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.99%) SCADA
8 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.32%) Linux
2 15 (7.39%) Windows
3 5 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.48%) Unix
4 3 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (86.21%) CI/CD
2 171 (84.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 131 (64.53%) DevOps
4 69 (33.99%) Containerisation
5 50 (24.63%) Observability
6 48 (23.65%) Agile
7 34 (16.75%) AI
7 34 (16.75%) Microservices
8 32 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (14.78%) Analytics
9 30 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (14.78%) Data Engineering
10 26 (12.81%) Cloud Security
10 26 (12.81%) High Availability
11 25 (12.32%) Data Modelling
11 25 (12.32%) Event-Driven
12 24 (11.82%) Infrastructure Automation
12 24 (11.82%) Mentoring
12 24 (11.82%) Migration
13 23 (11.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 91 (44.83%) Python
2 37 (18.23%) SQL
3 30 (14.78%) Java
4 26 (12.81%) Bash
5 21 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 11 (5.42%) C#
7 9 (4.43%) Bicep
8 8 (3.94%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.96%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.46%) Go
11 3 (1.48%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.99%) Ruby
13 1 (0.49%) C
13 1 (0.49%) Groovy
13 1 (0.49%) Korn
13 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (31.53%) Security Cleared
2 61 (30.05%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (6.90%) Degree
5 13 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.97%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.48%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.99%) CCSP
9 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.99%) CISSP
9 2 (0.99%) OSCP
9 2 (0.99%) SANS
9 2 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.36%) GDPR
2 17 (8.37%) Data Quality
3 15 (7.39%) NIST
4 13 (6.40%) QA
5 11 (5.42%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.49%) NCSC
8 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (39.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) Squid
Systems Management
1 185 (91.13%) Terraform
2 81 (39.90%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.30%) Prometheus
4 22 (10.84%) Ansible
5 21 (10.34%) Grafana
6 8 (3.94%) Puppet
7 7 (3.45%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.46%) Packer
9 2 (0.99%) Consul
9 2 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.49%) CloudForms
10 1 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.49%) Nessus
Vendors
1 16 (7.88%) Databricks
1 16 (7.88%) Google
2 8 (3.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.94%) Splunk
3 5 (2.46%) AVEVA
3 5 (2.46%) New Relic
3 5 (2.46%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.97%) Palo Alto
4 4 (1.97%) Rapid7
4 4 (1.97%) Sybase
5 3 (1.48%) Oracle
5 3 (1.48%) PagerDuty
5 3 (1.48%) Zscaler
6 2 (0.99%) Globalscape
6 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.99%) Qualys
6 2 (0.99%) SAP
6 2 (0.99%) Solace
6 2 (0.99%) Tenable
6 2 (0.99%) Vermilion