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 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	292	233	292
Rank change year-on-year	-59	+59	-14
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation	174	142	97
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.85%	1.06%	0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category	2.08%	2.43%	1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted	130	101	58
10^th Percentile	£400	£413	£362
25^th Percentile	£450	£484	£489
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£538	£563	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-4.36%	-2.17%	+2.22%
75^th Percentile	£625	£650	£760
90^th Percentile	£725	£738	£788
England median daily rate	£538	£525	£544
% change year-on-year	+2.48%	-3.45%	-1.85%

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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	8,361	5,855	6,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	41.02%	43.78%	41.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	5,785	3,969	4,492
10^th Percentile	£363	£350	£350
25^th Percentile	£450	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£525	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+4.76%	-4.55%	-2.22%
75^th Percentile	£650	£650	£675
90^th Percentile	£750	£775	£800
England median daily rate	£525	£501	£530
% change year-on-year	+4.90%	-5.57%	-1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted	93	102	39
10^th Percentile	£17.60	£21.00	£23.44
25^th Percentile	£21.33	£24.57	£23.80
Median hourly rate	£28.40	£26.30	£32.50
Median % change year-on-year	+7.97%	-19.08%	-19.75%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£47.31	£51.25
90^th Percentile	£78.75	£79.88	£68.05
England median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+8.36%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 18 October 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.

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 18 October 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	-23	15	£522	-10.77%	15
South London	+2	14	£550	+10.00%	2
West London	-16	4	£725	+47.21%	3
AWS CloudFormation England

AWS CloudFormation Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing AWS CloudFormation also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for AWS CloudFormation.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	95.4%	166
2	Terraform	93.7%	163
3	Infrastructure as Code	90.8%	158
4	CI/CD	86.2%	150
5	DevOps	62.1%	108
6	Python	47.7%	83
7	Kubernetes	43.7%	76
8	Serverless	40.8%	71
9	Docker	37.4%	65
10	Amazon CloudWatch	36.2%	63
11	Security Cleared	35.6%	62
12	SC Cleared	35.1%	61
13	AWS Lambda	31.6%	55
14	Containerisation	29.9%	52
14	GitHub	29.9%	52
16	Amazon S3	29.3%	51
16	Observability	29.3%	51
18	Azure	28.7%	50
19	Agile	27.6%	48
20	Jenkins	27.0%	47
21	Virtual Private Cloud	25.9%	45
22	Amazon EKS	25.3%	44
23	AWS Certification	24.7%	43
24	Cloud Security	24.1%	42
24	GCP	24.1%	42
26	Stakeholder Management	23.6%	41
27	GitHub Actions	23.0%	40
28	Amazon ECS	22.4%	39
29	Platform Engineering	21.8%	38
30	Continuous Improvement	20.7%	36

AWS CloudFormation Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	95.4%	166
2	Serverless	40.8%	71
3	Amazon CloudWatch	36.2%	63
4	AWS Lambda	31.6%	55
5	GitHub	29.9%	52
6	Amazon S3	29.3%	51
7	Azure	28.7%	50
8	Virtual Private Cloud	25.9%	45
9	Amazon EKS	25.3%	44
10	GCP	24.1%	42
11	GitHub Actions	23.0%	40
12	Amazon ECS	22.4%	39
13	Amazon EC2	18.4%	32
14	Azure DevOps	12.1%	21
15	AWS KMS	10.9%	19
16	Datadog	10.3%	18
17	Amazon SQS	9.8%	17
18	Amazon EventBridge	7.5%	13
18	AWS Step Functions	7.5%	13
20	AWS CloudTrail	6.3%	11