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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 193 276
Rank change year-on-year -84 +83 +15
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 168 182 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.34% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 3.11% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 137 67
10th Percentile £400 £450 £420
25th Percentile £450 £506 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £632 £650 £760
90th Percentile £675 £730 £780
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.90% - -

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 8,372 5,846 6,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 43.10% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,700 4,002 4,772
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -2.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 50
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.95 £20.45
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -49.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £76.93 £72.68 £58.35
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £23.98
% change year-on-year +35.76% +9.07% -25.80%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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
South London +8 14 £543 - 3
Central London -13 12 £638 -1.92% 6
West London -10 8 £675 +37.06% 8
East London - 2 £441 -
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 11 (6.55%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.76%) Apache
3 5 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.79%) Confluence
5 3 (1.79%) SAS
6 1 (0.60%) nginx
6 1 (0.60%) PowerExchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 165 (98.21%) AWS
2 64 (38.10%) Azure
3 62 (36.90%) Serverless
4 56 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 52 (30.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 50 (29.76%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (27.38%) GitHub
8 43 (25.60%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (19.64%) GCP
10 29 (17.26%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (17.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 27 (16.07%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (14.88%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (9.52%) AWS KMS
15 14 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (7.74%) Datadog
17 12 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
17 12 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
18 8 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.14%) DNS
2 10 (5.95%) Firewall
3 7 (4.17%) WAN
4 5 (2.98%) Network Security
5 4 (2.38%) HTTP
6 3 (1.79%) VPN
7 2 (1.19%) Internet
7 2 (1.19%) SSL
8 1 (0.60%) 4G
8 1 (0.60%) 5G
8 1 (0.60%) BGP
8 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.10%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.93%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.74%) DynamoDB
4 12 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 10 (5.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (5.95%) MySQL
6 9 (5.36%) Data Lake
7 8 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.76%) Redis
8 6 (3.57%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.98%) Metadata
9 5 (2.98%) Power BI
10 4 (2.38%) Mixpanel
10 4 (2.38%) OLAP
10 4 (2.38%) OLTP
11 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.79%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 45 (26.79%) Jenkins
2 33 (19.64%) GitLab
3 27 (16.07%) Git
4 12 (7.14%) JIRA
5 7 (4.17%) CircleCI
5 7 (4.17%) Snyk
5 7 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.98%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.19%) JUnit
8 2 (1.19%) Maven
8 2 (1.19%) MLflow
8 2 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.60%) Mockito
9 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 36 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.45%) Public Sector
3 22 (13.10%) Finance
4 10 (5.95%) Banking
5 4 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.38%) Law
6 3 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.79%) Games
6 3 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.19%) Front Office
7 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.19%) Military
8 1 (0.60%) Aviation
8 1 (0.60%) Billing
8 1 (0.60%) Local Government
8 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Publishing
8 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (20.24%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (17.26%) Lead
4 24 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (13.69%) Architect
5 23 (13.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 23 (13.69%) Senior
6 20 (11.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (8.33%) AWS Architect
8 13 (7.74%) Developer
9 11 (6.55%) Data Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Lead DevOps
10 9 (5.36%) Administrator
10 9 (5.36%) DBA
10 9 (5.36%) Network Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (4.17%) Platform Architect
11 7 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.93%) Kafka
2 11 (6.55%) AWS CDK
2 11 (6.55%) REST
3 10 (5.95%) Node.js
4 9 (5.36%) RESTful
5 7 (4.17%) PySpark
6 6 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.57%) Great Expectations
6 6 (3.57%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.98%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.98%) React
7 5 (2.98%) Spring
8 4 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.38%) boto
8 4 (2.38%) Pandas
9 3 (1.79%) Jest
9 3 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.19%) Flask
10 2 (1.19%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 56 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (7.74%) Replication
3 7 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.98%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.79%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.19%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.19%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.93%) Linux
2 11 (6.55%) Windows
3 6 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.19%) Unix
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (89.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 144 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 109 (64.88%) DevOps
4 54 (32.14%) Containerisation
5 39 (23.21%) Agile
6 36 (21.43%) Observability
6 36 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 27 (16.07%) Microservices
7 27 (16.07%) Migration
8 25 (14.88%) AI
9 24 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 23 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (13.10%) Cloud Security
11 22 (13.10%) Data Modelling
11 22 (13.10%) High Availability
12 20 (11.90%) Mentoring
12 20 (11.90%) Test Automation
12 20 (11.90%) Validation
13 19 (11.31%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (10.71%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 79 (47.02%) Python
2 31 (18.45%) Bash
3 30 (17.86%) SQL
4 29 (17.26%) PowerShell
5 19 (11.31%) Java
6 13 (7.74%) Bicep
7 10 (5.95%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.98%) C#
10 3 (1.79%) Go
10 3 (1.79%) SAS Macro
11 2 (1.19%) Groovy
11 2 (1.19%) R
11 2 (1.19%) Scala
11 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.60%) C
12 1 (0.60%) C++
12 1 (0.60%) Korn
12 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 62 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 61 (36.31%) SC Cleared
3 31 (18.45%) AWS Certification
4 20 (11.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (4.76%) Degree
7 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.12%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.76%) QA
3 7 (4.17%) GDPR
4 5 (2.98%) NIST
5 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.79%) SLA
6 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.60%) GRC
7 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 59 (35.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 157 (93.45%) Terraform
2 67 (39.88%) Kubernetes
3 25 (14.88%) Grafana
3 25 (14.88%) Prometheus
4 18 (10.71%) Ansible
5 8 (4.76%) Puppet
6 5 (2.98%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.79%) Packer
8 2 (1.19%) Argo
8 2 (1.19%) Istio
8 2 (1.19%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.60%) CloudForms
9 1 (0.60%) Control-M
9 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 11 (6.55%) Google
2 10 (5.95%) Databricks
2 10 (5.95%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.98%) Oracle
4 5 (2.98%) Splunk
5 4 (2.38%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.79%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.79%) Sybase
6 3 (1.79%) Teradata
6 3 (1.79%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.19%) Informatica
7 2 (1.19%) New Relic
8 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.60%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.60%) Sonatype
8 1 (0.60%) Tenable