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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 199 283
Rank change year-on-year +22 +84 -16
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 254 163 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 1.28% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.35% 3.01% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 129 88
10th Percentile £400 £400 £431
25th Percentile £456 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £699
90th Percentile £688 £788 £777
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 7,572 5,407 6,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.33% 42.53% 37.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,217 3,756 4,907
10th Percentile £350 £357 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £502 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 53 74
10th Percentile £18.98 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -28.77%
75th Percentile £52.56 £53.75 £40.72
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £61.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +69.81% +27.59% -30.77%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 - 22 £603 - 2
Central London -3 20 £625 - 9
South London -5 14 £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 30 (11.81%) Apache Spark
2 27 (10.63%) Apache
3 14 (5.51%) Confluence
4 13 (5.12%) nginx
5 12 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.97%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.18%) SAS
8 1 (0.39%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Actimize
1 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 249 (98.03%) AWS
2 102 (40.16%) Amazon S3
3 88 (34.65%) Serverless
4 82 (32.28%) AWS Lambda
5 79 (31.10%) Azure
6 73 (28.74%) Amazon ECS
7 72 (28.35%) GitHub
8 57 (22.44%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (20.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 49 (19.29%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (18.50%) GCP
12 37 (14.57%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (14.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (11.81%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (11.42%) AWS CodePipeline
15 22 (8.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 21 (8.27%) Power Platform
17 19 (7.48%) Route 53
18 18 (7.09%) Collibra
19 14 (5.51%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.27%) DNS
2 9 (3.54%) Network Security
3 8 (3.15%) VPN
4 7 (2.76%) Firewall
5 3 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.79%) BGP
6 2 (0.79%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.79%) OSPF
6 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.79%) WAN
7 1 (0.39%) 4G
7 1 (0.39%) 5G
7 1 (0.39%) HTTP
7 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.17%) Data Lake
2 32 (12.60%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (11.81%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (9.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (8.27%) Power BI
7 18 (7.09%) BigQuery
7 18 (7.09%) Mixpanel
8 17 (6.69%) OLAP
8 17 (6.69%) OLTP
9 16 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (5.91%) DynamoDB
11 14 (5.51%) SQL Server
12 11 (4.33%) NoSQL
13 8 (3.15%) Redshift Spectrum
14 7 (2.76%) Redis
15 6 (2.36%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (2.36%) Metadata
15 6 (2.36%) MongoDB
16 5 (1.97%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 56 (22.05%) Git
2 49 (19.29%) Jenkins
3 45 (17.72%) GitLab
4 18 (7.09%) JIRA
5 9 (3.54%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.15%) Snyk
7 5 (1.97%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.57%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.57%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.18%) JUnit
9 3 (1.18%) MLflow
9 3 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.18%) Vite
10 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.39%) Mocha
10 1 (0.39%) Mockito
10 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 58 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.32%) Public Sector
3 35 (13.78%) Finance
4 13 (5.12%) Banking
5 11 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.18%) Games
8 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.79%) Front Office
9 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.79%) Marketing
9 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Billing
10 1 (0.39%) Military
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (18.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (18.11%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (15.35%) Lead
4 38 (14.96%) Architect
5 32 (12.60%) Data Engineer
6 30 (11.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (10.63%) Senior
8 25 (9.84%) AWS DevOps
9 23 (9.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 20 (7.87%) AWS Architect
11 18 (7.09%) Developer
11 18 (7.09%) Software Engineer
12 17 (6.69%) Cloud Architect
13 16 (6.30%) Principal Engineer
13 16 (6.30%) Site Engineer
14 15 (5.91%) Principal Data Engineer
14 15 (5.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 14 (5.51%) Security Engineer
16 10 (3.94%) Lead Data Engineer
17 8 (3.15%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (18.50%) Kafka
2 28 (11.02%) RESTful
3 23 (9.06%) Node.js
4 20 (7.87%) Great Expectations
5 17 (6.69%) Spring
6 16 (6.30%) AWS CDK
6 16 (6.30%) Spring Boot
7 14 (5.51%) React
8 13 (5.12%) PySpark
9 12 (4.72%) REST
10 11 (4.33%) OAuth
11 10 (3.94%) .NET
11 10 (3.94%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (3.15%) boto
12 8 (3.15%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.36%) LangGraph
13 6 (2.36%) OAuth2
14 5 (1.97%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.97%) Pandas
14 5 (1.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 87 (34.25%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.94%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.36%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.57%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.57%) Replication
7 3 (1.18%) Equities
7 3 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.79%) SCADA
8 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.32%) Linux
2 9 (3.54%) Windows
3 3 (1.18%) VMS
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (83.46%) CI/CD
2 193 (75.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 150 (59.06%) DevOps
4 78 (30.71%) Containerisation
5 70 (27.56%) Agile
6 66 (25.98%) Observability
7 47 (18.50%) AI
7 47 (18.50%) Analytics
8 43 (16.93%) Data Engineering
8 43 (16.93%) ETL
8 43 (16.93%) Microservices
9 41 (16.14%) Data Modelling
10 33 (12.99%) Machine Learning
11 32 (12.60%) Event-Driven
11 32 (12.60%) Software Engineering
12 31 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (11.81%) Migration
14 29 (11.42%) High Availability
14 29 (11.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 28 (11.02%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 124 (48.82%) Python
2 56 (22.05%) SQL
3 45 (17.72%) Java
4 22 (8.66%) Bash
5 21 (8.27%) C#
6 16 (6.30%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.12%) Ruby
8 12 (4.72%) JavaScript
9 11 (4.33%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.94%) Bicep
11 5 (1.97%) Go
11 5 (1.97%) Scala
12 3 (1.18%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.79%) Perl
14 1 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 80 (31.50%) Security Cleared
2 74 (29.13%) SC Cleared
3 45 (17.72%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.30%) Degree
5 14 (5.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.36%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.97%) CISSP
10 4 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.57%) CCSP
10 4 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.18%) OSCP
11 3 (1.18%) SANS
12 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.17%) GDPR
2 28 (11.02%) Data Quality
3 18 (7.09%) NIST
4 17 (6.69%) QA
5 12 (4.72%) PCI DSS
6 9 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.57%) NCSC
8 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.79%) GRC
8 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.39%) MiFID
9 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 104 (40.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.39%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 225 (88.58%) Terraform
2 93 (36.61%) Kubernetes
3 30 (11.81%) Ansible
4 22 (8.66%) Grafana
4 22 (8.66%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.72%) Packer
6 11 (4.33%) Consul
7 10 (3.94%) Puppet
8 7 (2.76%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.57%) Karpenter
9 4 (1.57%) Kibana
10 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.79%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.39%) Argo
12 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.39%) Nessus
Vendors
1 32 (12.60%) Databricks
2 25 (9.84%) Google
3 16 (6.30%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.54%) Splunk
5 6 (2.36%) Oracle
5 6 (2.36%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.36%) Rapid7
6 5 (1.97%) AVEVA
6 5 (1.97%) New Relic
7 4 (1.57%) Qualys
7 4 (1.57%) Tenable
8 3 (1.18%) Citrix
8 3 (1.18%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.79%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.79%) IBM
9 2 (0.79%) SAP
9 2 (0.79%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.79%) Solace
9 2 (0.79%) Sybase
9 2 (0.79%) Vermilion