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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 255 281
Rank change year-on-year +41 +26 -57
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 175 123 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 0.82% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.75% 2.00% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 95 99
10th Percentile £411 £377 £413
25th Percentile £463 £528 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +15.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £689
90th Percentile £724 £821 £750
England median daily rate £530 £616 £563
% change year-on-year -14.00% +9.56% -6.25%

All Cloud 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 6,357 6,138 7,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.12% 41.11% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,349 4,148 5,222
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 43 62
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.09
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -16.56% +23.77%
75th Percentile £52.19 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.00 £73.63
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.62% +16.00% +11.11%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 +11 18 £569 +7.31% 18
West London - 13 £603 - 2
South London 0 9 £530 -22.63% 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 15 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 14 (8.00%) Apache
3 12 (6.86%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (6.86%) Confluence
4 11 (6.29%) nginx
5 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 163 (93.14%) AWS
2 64 (36.57%) Amazon S3
3 60 (34.29%) Serverless
4 56 (32.00%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (29.71%) Amazon ECS
6 49 (28.00%) GitHub
7 47 (26.86%) Azure
8 41 (23.43%) GitHub Actions
9 40 (22.86%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (18.86%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (17.14%) GCP
12 24 (13.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (13.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (9.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 15 (8.57%) Datadog
16 14 (8.00%) AWS KMS
17 12 (6.86%) Amazon SQS
17 12 (6.86%) AWS CodePipeline
18 11 (6.29%) AWS Fargate
18 11 (6.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.29%) DNS
2 8 (4.57%) VPN
3 6 (3.43%) Network Security
4 4 (2.29%) Firewall
5 3 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.14%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.14%) SSL
7 1 (0.57%) HTTP
7 1 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.43%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (10.86%) Data Lake
3 18 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (9.71%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (7.43%) DynamoDB
8 11 (6.29%) Power BI
9 9 (5.14%) SQL Server
10 8 (4.57%) BigQuery
10 8 (4.57%) Mixpanel
10 8 (4.57%) OLAP
10 8 (4.57%) OLTP
11 7 (4.00%) NoSQL
12 6 (3.43%) Relational Database
13 5 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (2.86%) Data Hub
14 4 (2.29%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (2.29%) GIS
14 4 (2.29%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 37 (21.14%) Git
2 36 (20.57%) Jenkins
3 25 (14.29%) GitLab
4 15 (8.57%) JIRA
5 4 (2.29%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.29%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.71%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.71%) JUnit
7 2 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.14%) Snyk
7 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.57%) MLflow
8 1 (0.57%) Mocha
8 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.71%) Public Sector
3 26 (14.86%) Finance
4 13 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.00%) Banking
6 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.57%) Aviation
7 1 (0.57%) Games
7 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Military
7 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (20.57%) AWS Engineer
2 29 (16.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (14.86%) Senior
4 24 (13.71%) Architect
5 19 (10.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (9.71%) Data Engineer
7 16 (9.14%) Site Engineer
8 14 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
8 14 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (7.43%) Security Engineer
9 13 (7.43%) Software Engineer
10 12 (6.86%) AWS Architect
10 12 (6.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (6.29%) Developer
11 11 (6.29%) Lead
12 10 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) Principal Engineer
14 6 (3.43%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.43%) Kafka
2 13 (7.43%) AWS CDK
3 12 (6.86%) Node.js
4 11 (6.29%) RESTful
5 9 (5.14%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (5.14%) Spring
6 8 (4.57%) Great Expectations
6 8 (4.57%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.00%) React
8 5 (2.86%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.29%) .NET
9 4 (2.29%) JSON
9 4 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.71%) LangGraph
10 3 (1.71%) REST
10 3 (1.71%) Spark Streaming
11 2 (1.14%) AWS SAM
11 2 (1.14%) boto
11 2 (1.14%) Sidekiq
11 2 (1.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (26.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.86%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.71%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.14%) NHS
5 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.57%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.57%) IoT
6 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.57%) Ray Tracing
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.14%) Linux
2 7 (4.00%) Windows
3 4 (2.29%) Unix
4 3 (1.71%) VMS
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (73.71%) CI/CD
2 128 (73.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 98 (56.00%) DevOps
4 59 (33.71%) Containerisation
5 43 (24.57%) Observability
6 41 (23.43%) Agile
7 25 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 24 (13.71%) ETL
8 24 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (13.14%) Analytics
9 23 (13.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 22 (12.57%) Data Modelling
10 22 (12.57%) Microservices
11 21 (12.00%) AI
11 21 (12.00%) Cloud Security
11 21 (12.00%) Migration
12 20 (11.43%) Data Governance
13 19 (10.86%) Data Engineering
13 19 (10.86%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (9.71%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 85 (48.57%) Python
2 32 (18.29%) SQL
3 21 (12.00%) Java
4 20 (11.43%) Bash
5 13 (7.43%) Go
5 13 (7.43%) Ruby
6 11 (6.29%) C#
6 11 (6.29%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.14%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.86%) Scala
10 3 (1.71%) Bicep
10 3 (1.71%) PromQL
11 2 (1.14%) Perl
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) C++
12 1 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 55 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 47 (26.86%) SC Cleared
3 30 (17.14%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.43%) Degree
7 5 (2.86%) CISSP
8 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.14%) CCSP
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.57%) CISM
10 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.57%) MCP
10 1 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.71%) GDPR
2 14 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.00%) NIST
3 7 (4.00%) QA
4 5 (2.86%) NCSC
4 5 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.29%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.57%) GRC
7 1 (0.57%) MiFID
System Software
1 69 (39.43%) Docker
2 3 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 154 (88.00%) Terraform
2 66 (37.71%) Kubernetes
3 28 (16.00%) Ansible
4 25 (14.29%) Grafana
5 12 (6.86%) Puppet
6 11 (6.29%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.71%) Packer
8 9 (5.14%) Consul
9 6 (3.43%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.86%) Karpenter
11 4 (2.29%) Kibana
12 2 (1.14%) Argo
12 2 (1.14%) Istio
12 2 (1.14%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.57%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (9.14%) Databricks
2 15 (8.57%) Google
3 14 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.14%) Splunk
5 6 (3.43%) PagerDuty
6 5 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.29%) IBM
7 4 (2.29%) Oracle
8 3 (1.71%) Cisco
8 3 (1.71%) Citrix
8 3 (1.71%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.71%) Sybase
8 3 (1.71%) Tenable
9 2 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.14%) CloudEndure
9 2 (1.14%) Qualys
9 2 (1.14%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.57%) Confluent
10 1 (0.57%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.57%) Refinitiv