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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 194 279
Rank change year-on-year 0 +85 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 227 158 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.27% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 2.99% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 126 95
10th Percentile £401 £400 £439
25th Percentile £452 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £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 7,570 5,284 6,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.57% 42.41% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,227 3,666 4,994
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 53 69
10th Percentile £20.04 £22.58 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -42.94%
75th Percentile £54.81 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £72.50 £57.75
England median hourly rate £46.80 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +80.17% +23.69% -34.98%

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 8 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 8 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 -5 19 £630 -3.08% 8
South London -8 12 £528 -22.99%
East London - 2 £441 - 1
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 23 (10.13%) Apache Spark
2 22 (9.69%) Apache
3 5 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.76%) Confluence
5 3 (1.32%) nginx
5 3 (1.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Actimize
1 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 222 (97.80%) AWS
2 94 (41.41%) Amazon S3
3 79 (34.80%) Serverless
4 76 (33.48%) Azure
5 73 (32.16%) AWS Lambda
6 70 (30.84%) Amazon ECS
6 70 (30.84%) GitHub
7 56 (24.67%) GitHub Actions
8 54 (23.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 47 (20.70%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (19.38%) GCP
11 35 (15.42%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (14.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 28 (12.33%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (12.33%) AWS CodePipeline
14 19 (8.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (7.05%) Collibra
15 16 (7.05%) Power Platform
15 16 (7.05%) Route 53
16 15 (6.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.81%) DNS
2 9 (3.96%) Network Security
3 5 (2.20%) Firewall
3 5 (2.20%) VPN
4 2 (0.88%) BGP
4 2 (0.88%) OSPF
4 2 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.88%) WAN
5 1 (0.44%) 4G
5 1 (0.44%) 5G
5 1 (0.44%) HTTP
5 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.78%) Data Lake
2 27 (11.89%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (11.89%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (7.05%) BigQuery
4 16 (7.05%) Mixpanel
4 16 (7.05%) Power BI
5 15 (6.61%) DynamoDB
5 15 (6.61%) OLAP
5 15 (6.61%) OLTP
6 14 (6.17%) SQL Server
7 10 (4.41%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.08%) Redis
10 6 (2.64%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.64%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.20%) Metadata
11 5 (2.20%) Redshift Spectrum
12 4 (1.76%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 47 (20.70%) Jenkins
2 45 (19.82%) GitLab
3 41 (18.06%) Git
4 9 (3.96%) Snyk
5 7 (3.08%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.64%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.20%) JIRA
7 5 (2.20%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.76%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.32%) JUnit
9 3 (1.32%) MLflow
9 3 (1.32%) Vite
10 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.44%) Mocha
10 1 (0.44%) Mockito
10 1 (0.44%) Selenium
10 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.86%) Public Sector
3 29 (12.78%) Finance
4 11 (4.85%) Banking
5 9 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.32%) Games
8 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.88%) Front Office
9 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.88%) Marketing
9 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Billing
10 1 (0.44%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (18.06%) Lead
2 40 (17.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (16.74%) AWS Engineer
4 37 (16.30%) Architect
5 28 (12.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (11.45%) Data Engineer
6 26 (11.45%) Senior
7 20 (8.81%) AWS Architect
7 20 (8.81%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (8.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 17 (7.49%) Cloud Architect
10 16 (7.05%) Developer
10 16 (7.05%) Software Engineer
11 15 (6.61%) Security Engineer
12 14 (6.17%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (5.73%) Principal Data Engineer
13 13 (5.73%) Site Engineer
14 12 (5.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 10 (4.41%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (3.52%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (18.94%) Kafka
2 26 (11.45%) RESTful
3 20 (8.81%) Node.js
4 18 (7.93%) Great Expectations
5 16 (7.05%) Spring
6 15 (6.61%) AWS CDK
6 15 (6.61%) Spring Boot
7 13 (5.73%) PySpark
7 13 (5.73%) React
8 12 (5.29%) REST
9 11 (4.85%) OAuth
10 10 (4.41%) .NET
10 10 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (3.52%) boto
12 7 (3.08%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.64%) OAuth2
14 5 (2.20%) AngularJS
14 5 (2.20%) LangGraph
14 5 (2.20%) Pandas
15 4 (1.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 83 (36.56%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.64%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.76%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.76%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.76%) Replication
6 4 (1.76%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.32%) Equities
7 3 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.88%) SCADA
8 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.44%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.22%) Linux
2 9 (3.96%) Windows
3 2 (0.88%) Unix
3 2 (0.88%) VMS
4 1 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (88.11%) CI/CD
2 181 (79.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 133 (58.59%) DevOps
4 72 (31.72%) Containerisation
5 62 (27.31%) Observability
6 55 (24.23%) Agile
7 45 (19.82%) AI
8 40 (17.62%) Analytics
8 40 (17.62%) Microservices
9 38 (16.74%) Data Engineering
10 34 (14.98%) ETL
11 33 (14.54%) Data Modelling
12 31 (13.66%) High Availability
13 29 (12.78%) Event-Driven
13 29 (12.78%) Machine Learning
13 29 (12.78%) Migration
14 28 (12.33%) DevSecOps
14 28 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
15 27 (11.89%) Cloud Security
15 27 (11.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (47.58%) Python
2 47 (20.70%) SQL
3 42 (18.50%) Java
4 23 (10.13%) Bash
5 19 (8.37%) C#
6 16 (7.05%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.85%) Bicep
7 11 (4.85%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.41%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.52%) Ruby
10 5 (2.20%) Go
11 3 (1.32%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.32%) Scala
11 3 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 68 (29.96%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 36 (15.86%) AWS Certification
4 17 (7.49%) Degree
5 16 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.20%) CISSP
9 4 (1.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.76%) CCSP
9 4 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.76%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.32%) OSCP
10 3 (1.32%) SANS
11 2 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.22%) GDPR
2 22 (9.69%) Data Quality
3 18 (7.93%) NIST
4 16 (7.05%) QA
5 12 (5.29%) PCI DSS
6 9 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.76%) NCSC
8 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.88%) GRC
10 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.44%) MiFID
10 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 89 (39.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 202 (88.99%) Terraform
2 80 (35.24%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.33%) Ansible
4 23 (10.13%) Grafana
4 23 (10.13%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.41%) Puppet
6 7 (3.08%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.76%) Karpenter
7 4 (1.76%) Kibana
8 3 (1.32%) Consul
8 3 (1.32%) Packer
8 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.88%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.44%) Argo
10 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 26 (11.45%) Databricks
2 22 (9.69%) Google
3 17 (7.49%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.96%) Splunk
5 6 (2.64%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.64%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.20%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.20%) New Relic
6 5 (2.20%) Oracle
7 4 (1.76%) Qualys
7 4 (1.76%) Tenable
8 3 (1.32%) Citrix
9 2 (0.88%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.88%) IBM
9 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.88%) SAP
9 2 (0.88%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.88%) Solace
9 2 (0.88%) Sybase
9 2 (0.88%) Vermilion