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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 223 276
Rank change year-on-year +35 +53 -42
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 209 126 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 0.92% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 2.21% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 97 91
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £463 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £568
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +14.54% -5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £666
90th Percentile £710 £814 £750
England median daily rate £530 £610 £550
% change year-on-year -13.11% +10.91% -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 6,591 5,693 6,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.20% 41.53% 37.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,517 3,775 5,073
10th Percentile £349 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 48 77
10th Percentile £18.09 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £21.23 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £31.42 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +3.02% +3.39%
75th Percentile £52.96 £54.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.63 £61.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -8.16%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +8 18 £569 +7.31% 13
West London - 17 £603 - 2
South London -2 11 £528 -22.99% 3
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 19 (9.09%) Apache
1 19 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.70%) Confluence
3 13 (6.22%) nginx
4 12 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 198 (94.74%) AWS
2 86 (41.15%) Amazon S3
3 75 (35.89%) Serverless
4 72 (34.45%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (33.49%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (29.67%) GitHub
7 52 (24.88%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (23.44%) Azure
9 46 (22.01%) GitHub Actions
10 40 (19.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (18.18%) GCP
12 35 (16.75%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (11.48%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (10.53%) AWS CodePipeline
16 17 (8.13%) Route 53
17 16 (7.66%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (7.66%) Power Platform
18 15 (7.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 15 (7.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.66%) DNS
2 10 (4.78%) VPN
3 7 (3.35%) Network Security
4 5 (2.39%) Firewall
5 3 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.96%) BGP
6 2 (0.96%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.96%) OSPF
6 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.96%) SSL
6 2 (0.96%) WAN
7 1 (0.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.27%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (12.44%) Data Lake
2 26 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (8.13%) DynamoDB
6 16 (7.66%) Power BI
7 14 (6.70%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (6.22%) BigQuery
8 13 (6.22%) Mixpanel
9 12 (5.74%) OLAP
9 12 (5.74%) OLTP
10 11 (5.26%) NoSQL
10 11 (5.26%) SQL Server
11 8 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (3.35%) MySQL
13 6 (2.87%) Redis
13 6 (2.87%) Redshift Spectrum
13 6 (2.87%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.39%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 44 (21.05%) Git
2 39 (18.66%) Jenkins
3 33 (15.79%) GitLab
4 17 (8.13%) JIRA
5 4 (1.91%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.91%) JUnit
5 4 (1.91%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.44%) Snyk
7 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.96%) Vite
8 1 (0.48%) MLflow
8 1 (0.48%) Mocha
General
1 48 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.83%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.40%) Finance
4 15 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.87%) Banking
6 6 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Aviation
9 1 (0.48%) Games
9 1 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (19.62%) AWS Engineer
2 38 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (14.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (13.88%) Architect
5 25 (11.96%) Data Engineer
6 23 (11.00%) Senior
7 19 (9.09%) AWS Architect
7 19 (9.09%) Lead
7 19 (9.09%) Security Engineer
8 17 (8.13%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (7.66%) Developer
10 15 (7.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (7.18%) Cloud Architect
11 14 (6.70%) Site Engineer
11 14 (6.70%) Software Engineer
12 13 (6.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (4.78%) Principal Data Engineer
15 9 (4.31%) Java Engineer
16 8 (3.83%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.57%) Kafka
2 20 (9.57%) RESTful
3 17 (8.13%) Spring
4 16 (7.66%) Spring Boot
5 15 (7.18%) Node.js
6 14 (6.70%) AWS CDK
7 13 (6.22%) Great Expectations
8 10 (4.78%) React
9 9 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (3.83%) .NET
10 8 (3.83%) OAuth
10 8 (3.83%) REST
11 7 (3.35%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.87%) LangGraph
12 6 (2.87%) PySpark
13 5 (2.39%) boto
14 4 (1.91%) gRPC
14 4 (1.91%) OAuth2
14 4 (1.91%) Spring Cloud
14 4 (1.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 67 (32.06%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.87%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.39%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.96%) Equities
6 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.96%) NHS
6 2 (0.96%) SCADA
7 1 (0.48%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.48%) IoT
7 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.57%) Linux
2 9 (4.31%) Windows
3 6 (2.87%) Unix
4 3 (1.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (77.99%) CI/CD
2 154 (73.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 114 (54.55%) DevOps
4 63 (30.14%) Containerisation
5 51 (24.40%) Observability
6 49 (23.44%) Agile
7 37 (17.70%) AI
8 36 (17.22%) Analytics
9 35 (16.75%) Microservices
10 32 (15.31%) Data Modelling
11 31 (14.83%) ETL
12 30 (14.35%) Data Engineering
13 26 (12.44%) Software Engineering
14 25 (11.96%) Machine Learning
14 25 (11.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 25 (11.96%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (11.48%) Data Governance
15 24 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (11.00%) Cloud Security
17 22 (10.53%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 102 (48.80%) Python
2 45 (21.53%) SQL
3 38 (18.18%) Java
4 21 (10.05%) Bash
5 15 (7.18%) C#
6 12 (5.74%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.74%) Ruby
7 11 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.78%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.35%) Go
10 4 (1.91%) Bicep
10 4 (1.91%) Scala
11 2 (0.96%) Perl
12 1 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 62 (29.67%) Security Cleared
2 57 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.70%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.31%) Degree
6 8 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.35%) CISSP
8 5 (2.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.91%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.91%) CCSP
9 4 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.44%) OSCP
10 3 (1.44%) SANS
11 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.83%) GDPR
2 19 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 15 (7.18%) QA
4 14 (6.70%) NIST
5 12 (5.74%) PCI DSS
6 11 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (2.39%) NCSC
8 3 (1.44%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.48%) GRC
10 1 (0.48%) MiFID
System Software
1 88 (42.11%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 177 (84.69%) Terraform
2 77 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.40%) Ansible
4 15 (7.18%) Grafana
5 12 (5.74%) Packer
6 11 (5.26%) Consul
6 11 (5.26%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.78%) Puppet
8 8 (3.83%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.39%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.91%) Kibana
11 2 (0.96%) Argo
11 2 (0.96%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.48%) Nessus
Vendors
1 23 (11.00%) Databricks
1 23 (11.00%) Google
2 16 (7.66%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.31%) Splunk
4 6 (2.87%) PagerDuty
4 6 (2.87%) Rapid7
5 5 (2.39%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.39%) New Relic
5 5 (2.39%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.91%) Oracle
6 4 (1.91%) Sybase
7 3 (1.44%) Cisco
7 3 (1.44%) Citrix
7 3 (1.44%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.44%) IBM
7 3 (1.44%) Qualys
7 3 (1.44%) Tenable
8 2 (0.96%) Globalscape
8 2 (0.96%) SAP
8 2 (0.96%) Vermilion