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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 201 273
Rank change year-on-year +9 +72 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 232 160 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 1.27% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 3.00% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 130 93
10th Percentile £402 £400 £450
25th Percentile £456 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £638 £667 £700
90th Percentile £688 £788 £780
England median daily rate £530 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +127.14% - -

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 7,552 5,326 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.74% 42.37% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,201 3,706 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
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 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 68
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.42 £17.32
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -40.21%
75th Percentile £53.35 £50.00 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £73.13 £59.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 - 2
Central London -8 19 £630 -3.08% 10
South London -3 12 £528 -22.99%
East London - 2 £441 - 2
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 24 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 22 (9.48%) Apache
3 6 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.59%) Confluence
4 5 (2.16%) nginx
4 5 (2.16%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.29%) SAS
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Actimize
1 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 227 (97.84%) AWS
2 95 (40.95%) Amazon S3
3 79 (34.05%) Serverless
4 76 (32.76%) Azure
5 74 (31.90%) AWS Lambda
6 71 (30.60%) Amazon ECS
6 71 (30.60%) GitHub
7 57 (24.57%) GitHub Actions
8 54 (23.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 47 (20.26%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (19.40%) GCP
11 34 (14.66%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (14.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 28 (12.07%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (12.07%) AWS CodePipeline
14 19 (8.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 17 (7.33%) Power Platform
16 16 (6.90%) Collibra
16 16 (6.90%) Route 53
17 14 (6.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.19%) DNS
2 9 (3.88%) Network Security
3 5 (2.16%) Firewall
3 5 (2.16%) VPN
4 2 (0.86%) BGP
4 2 (0.86%) OSPF
4 2 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.86%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.86%) WAN
5 1 (0.43%) 4G
5 1 (0.43%) 5G
5 1 (0.43%) HTTP
5 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.93%) Data Lake
2 27 (11.64%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (11.64%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (7.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (7.33%) Power BI
5 16 (6.90%) BigQuery
5 16 (6.90%) Mixpanel
6 15 (6.47%) DynamoDB
6 15 (6.47%) OLAP
6 15 (6.47%) OLTP
7 14 (6.03%) SQL Server
8 10 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (4.31%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.02%) Redis
10 6 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.59%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.59%) Redshift Spectrum
11 5 (2.16%) Metadata
12 4 (1.72%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 47 (20.26%) Jenkins
2 45 (19.40%) GitLab
3 42 (18.10%) Git
4 9 (3.88%) Snyk
5 7 (3.02%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.02%) JIRA
6 6 (2.59%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.72%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.29%) JUnit
9 3 (1.29%) MLflow
9 3 (1.29%) Vite
10 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.43%) Mocha
10 1 (0.43%) Mockito
10 1 (0.43%) Selenium
10 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (21.98%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.38%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.36%) Finance
4 11 (4.74%) Banking
5 9 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Games
9 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.86%) Front Office
10 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.86%) Marketing
10 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
11 1 (0.43%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (18.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (17.67%) Lead
3 40 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
4 37 (15.95%) Architect
5 28 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (11.64%) Data Engineer
7 26 (11.21%) Senior
8 22 (9.48%) AWS DevOps
9 21 (9.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 20 (8.62%) AWS Architect
11 17 (7.33%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (7.33%) Developer
12 16 (6.90%) Software Engineer
13 14 (6.03%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (6.03%) Security Engineer
14 13 (5.60%) Principal Data Engineer
14 13 (5.60%) Site Engineer
15 12 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 10 (4.31%) Lead Data Engineer
17 8 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (18.97%) Kafka
2 28 (12.07%) RESTful
3 21 (9.05%) Node.js
4 18 (7.76%) Great Expectations
5 17 (7.33%) Spring
6 16 (6.90%) Spring Boot
7 15 (6.47%) AWS CDK
8 14 (6.03%) React
9 13 (5.60%) PySpark
10 11 (4.74%) OAuth
10 11 (4.74%) REST
11 10 (4.31%) .NET
11 10 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (3.45%) boto
12 8 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.59%) LangGraph
13 6 (2.59%) OAuth2
14 5 (2.16%) AngularJS
14 5 (2.16%) Pandas
14 5 (2.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 82 (35.34%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.72%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.72%) Replication
7 3 (1.29%) Equities
7 3 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.29%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.86%) SCADA
8 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.43%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.79%) Linux
2 9 (3.88%) Windows
3 2 (0.86%) Unix
3 2 (0.86%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (86.64%) CI/CD
2 183 (78.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 137 (59.05%) DevOps
4 73 (31.47%) Containerisation
5 63 (27.16%) Observability
6 58 (25.00%) Agile
7 45 (19.40%) AI
8 41 (17.67%) Analytics
9 40 (17.24%) Microservices
10 38 (16.38%) Data Engineering
11 35 (15.09%) ETL
12 34 (14.66%) Data Modelling
13 31 (13.36%) High Availability
14 30 (12.93%) Event-Driven
14 30 (12.93%) Machine Learning
15 29 (12.50%) Migration
16 28 (12.07%) Software Engineering
16 28 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (11.64%) DevSecOps
18 26 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (46.98%) Python
2 48 (20.69%) SQL
3 43 (18.53%) Java
4 23 (9.91%) Bash
5 19 (8.19%) C#
6 15 (6.47%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.17%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.74%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.31%) Bicep
10 8 (3.45%) Ruby
11 5 (2.16%) Go
12 3 (1.29%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.29%) Scala
12 3 (1.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 69 (29.74%) Security Cleared
2 63 (27.16%) SC Cleared
3 40 (17.24%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.90%) Degree
5 14 (6.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.59%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (2.16%) CISSP
10 4 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.72%) CCSP
10 4 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.29%) OSCP
11 3 (1.29%) SANS
12 2 (0.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.36%) GDPR
2 23 (9.91%) Data Quality
3 18 (7.76%) NIST
4 17 (7.33%) QA
5 12 (5.17%) PCI DSS
6 9 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.72%) NCSC
8 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.86%) GRC
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) MiFID
9 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (39.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 206 (88.79%) Terraform
2 83 (35.78%) Kubernetes
3 31 (13.36%) Ansible
4 23 (9.91%) Grafana
4 23 (9.91%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.31%) Puppet
6 7 (3.02%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.16%) Consul
7 5 (2.16%) Packer
8 4 (1.72%) Karpenter
8 4 (1.72%) Kibana
9 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.86%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.43%) Argo
11 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.43%) Nessus
Vendors
1 27 (11.64%) Databricks
2 23 (9.91%) Google
3 16 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.88%) Splunk
5 6 (2.59%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.59%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.16%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.16%) New Relic
7 4 (1.72%) Oracle
7 4 (1.72%) Qualys
7 4 (1.72%) Tenable
8 3 (1.29%) Citrix
9 2 (0.86%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.86%) IBM
9 2 (0.86%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.86%) SAP
9 2 (0.86%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.86%) Solace
9 2 (0.86%) Sybase
9 2 (0.86%) Vermilion