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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 266 287
Rank change year-on-year +54 +21 -40
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 176 113 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 0.72% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 1.76% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 74 103
10th Percentile £413 £375 £413
25th Percentile £475 £514 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £653
90th Percentile £718 - £735
England median daily rate £525 £618 £550
% change year-on-year -14.98% +12.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Cloud 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 6,237 6,434 7,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.46% 40.91% 38.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,222 4,383 5,741
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 34 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -7.89% +50.50%
75th Percentile £41.25 £55.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £65.33 £85.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.86
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.42% +40.27%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 +13 11 £545 +2.83% 60
South London - 8 £530 - 4
West London - 3 £603 - 6
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 26 (14.77%) Confluence
2 25 (14.20%) nginx
3 13 (7.39%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (5.68%) Apache Spark
5 8 (4.55%) Apache
6 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 161 (91.48%) AWS
2 58 (32.95%) Serverless
3 56 (31.82%) Amazon S3
4 54 (30.68%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (26.14%) GitHub
6 43 (24.43%) Amazon ECS
7 40 (22.73%) Azure
8 38 (21.59%) Amazon EC2
9 36 (20.45%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (15.91%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (13.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (11.93%) GCP
13 18 (10.23%) Amazon Kinesis
14 16 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
15 15 (8.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (7.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 13 (7.39%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (7.39%) Datadog
16 13 (7.39%) Snowflake
17 10 (5.68%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.68%) VPN
2 8 (4.55%) Network Security
3 7 (3.98%) Firewall
4 6 (3.41%) DNS
5 4 (2.27%) SSL
6 3 (1.70%) DHCP
7 1 (0.57%) HTTP
7 1 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.48%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (10.23%) DynamoDB
2 18 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (9.66%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (7.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 9 (5.11%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (5.11%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.55%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.84%) DB2
8 5 (2.84%) Power BI
8 5 (2.84%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.84%) Redshift Spectrum
8 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.70%) MySQL
10 3 (1.70%) Tableau
11 2 (1.14%) OLAP
11 2 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (30.68%) Git
2 42 (23.86%) Jenkins
3 29 (16.48%) JIRA
4 19 (10.80%) GitLab
5 10 (5.68%) Artifactory
5 10 (5.68%) JUnit
6 6 (3.41%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.84%) Maven
8 4 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.70%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.57%) git-flow
10 1 (0.57%) Gradle
10 1 (0.57%) Snyk
10 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 37 (21.02%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.77%) Public Sector
3 22 (12.50%) Finance
4 16 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.41%) Banking
6 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Aviation
8 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.57%) Games
8 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Marketing
8 1 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (24.43%) AWS Engineer
2 27 (15.34%) Senior
3 26 (14.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (11.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (10.80%) Developer
6 17 (9.66%) Architect
7 16 (9.09%) Lead
8 15 (8.52%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (7.95%) Data Engineer
10 13 (7.39%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (6.82%) AWS Developer
11 12 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (6.82%) Site Engineer
12 11 (6.25%) Technical Leader
13 10 (5.68%) Security Engineer
13 10 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (5.11%) Consultant
15 8 (4.55%) Java Developer
16 7 (3.98%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.80%) Kafka
2 13 (7.39%) AWS CDK
3 12 (6.82%) Spring
4 9 (5.11%) Node.js
5 8 (4.55%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.98%) ARM Templates
7 6 (3.41%) React
8 5 (2.84%) Jest
8 5 (2.84%) RESTful
9 4 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.70%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.70%) JSON
10 3 (1.70%) LangGraph
10 3 (1.70%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.70%) Spark Streaming
11 2 (1.14%) FastAPI
11 2 (1.14%) Flask
11 2 (1.14%) Great Expectations
11 2 (1.14%) Keycloak
11 2 (1.14%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.89%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.70%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.14%) NHS
5 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.57%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.57%) IoT
6 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (25.57%) Linux
2 7 (3.98%) Windows
3 4 (2.27%) Unix
4 1 (0.57%) VMS
4 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 112 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 87 (49.43%) DevOps
3 68 (38.64%) Agile
4 57 (32.39%) Containerisation
5 28 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (15.34%) Observability
7 20 (11.36%) ETL
8 19 (10.80%) Configuration Management
8 19 (10.80%) Microservices
8 19 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
9 18 (10.23%) Migration
10 17 (9.66%) Analytics
10 17 (9.66%) Cloud Security
10 17 (9.66%) Data Modelling
10 17 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (9.66%) Software Engineering
11 16 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (9.09%) DevSecOps
11 16 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 82 (46.59%) Python
2 30 (17.05%) SQL
3 21 (11.93%) Bash
3 21 (11.93%) PowerShell
4 18 (10.23%) Java
5 17 (9.66%) Go
6 12 (6.82%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.98%) Groovy
8 7 (3.98%) Ruby
9 6 (3.41%) C#
10 5 (2.84%) Scala
11 4 (2.27%) C++
12 3 (1.70%) PromQL
13 2 (1.14%) Bicep
13 2 (1.14%) CodeQL
13 2 (1.14%) Perl
13 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (36.93%) Security Cleared
2 56 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.77%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.41%) Degree
6 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.70%) CISSP
7 3 (1.70%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.57%) CCSP
8 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CISM
8 1 (0.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.23%) GDPR
2 10 (5.68%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.55%) QA
4 6 (3.41%) HIPAA
4 6 (3.41%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.27%) NIST
7 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (48.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.57%) iptables
4 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (86.36%) Terraform
2 76 (43.18%) Kubernetes
3 31 (17.61%) Ansible
4 24 (13.64%) Packer
5 23 (13.07%) Consul
6 21 (11.93%) Grafana
7 17 (9.66%) Puppet
8 9 (5.11%) Prometheus
9 6 (3.41%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.14%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.14%) Istio
10 2 (1.14%) Nessus
10 2 (1.14%) SELinux
11 1 (0.57%) Argo
11 1 (0.57%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.57%) linkerd
11 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (5.68%) ServiceNow
2 8 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
2 8 (4.55%) Databricks
2 8 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.98%) Google
4 5 (2.84%) Splunk
4 5 (2.84%) Sybase
5 4 (2.27%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.70%) IBM
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco
7 2 (1.14%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle
7 2 (1.14%) Pega
7 2 (1.14%) Qualys
7 2 (1.14%) Teradata
8 1 (0.57%) Confluent
8 1 (0.57%) Informatica
8 1 (0.57%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.57%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.57%) Tenable