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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 252 270
Rank change year-on-year +39 +18 -43
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 177 123 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 0.81% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 1.96% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 94 98
10th Percentile £410 £377 £413
25th Percentile £463 £527 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.13% -11.96%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £675
90th Percentile £724 £796 £750
England median daily rate £530 £621 £560
% change year-on-year -14.69% +10.94% -6.67%

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 6,325 6,261 7,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.96% 41.17% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,318 4,235 5,307
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 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 43 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -4.28% +19.89%
75th Percentile £47.50 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.09 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.88 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.17% +32.85% +3.29%

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 17 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 17 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 +17 18 £569 +7.31% 10
West London - 10 £601 - 2
South London - 9 £530 - 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 13 (7.34%) Apache Spark
1 13 (7.34%) Confluence
2 12 (6.78%) Apache
2 12 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (6.78%) nginx
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 165 (93.22%) AWS
2 64 (36.16%) Amazon S3
3 63 (35.59%) Serverless
4 59 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 56 (31.64%) Amazon ECS
6 49 (27.68%) GitHub
7 44 (24.86%) Azure
8 41 (23.16%) GitHub Actions
9 39 (22.03%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (19.21%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (15.82%) GCP
12 26 (14.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (12.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (9.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 15 (8.47%) Amazon Kinesis
15 15 (8.47%) AWS Fargate
15 15 (8.47%) Datadog
16 14 (7.91%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (7.91%) AWS KMS
17 12 (6.78%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.21%) DNS
2 8 (4.52%) VPN
3 7 (3.95%) Network Security
4 4 (2.26%) Firewall
5 3 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.13%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.13%) SSL
7 1 (0.56%) HTTP
7 1 (0.56%) Internet
7 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.82%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (9.60%) Data Lake
3 17 (9.60%) DynamoDB
4 15 (8.47%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (7.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.08%) Power BI
6 9 (5.08%) Relational Database
6 9 (5.08%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.95%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.39%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.39%) Mixpanel
8 6 (3.39%) OLAP
8 6 (3.39%) OLTP
9 5 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.82%) Data Hub
9 5 (2.82%) DB2
9 5 (2.82%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.26%) GIS
Development Applications
1 38 (21.47%) Git
2 36 (20.34%) Jenkins
3 25 (14.12%) GitLab
4 16 (9.04%) JIRA
5 7 (3.95%) JUnit
6 4 (2.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.26%) Terragrunt
7 3 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.13%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.13%) Maven
8 2 (1.13%) Snyk
8 2 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.56%) MLflow
9 1 (0.56%) Mocha
9 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.08%) Public Sector
3 26 (14.69%) Finance
4 15 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.95%) Banking
6 4 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.56%) Aviation
7 1 (0.56%) Games
7 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Military
7 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (20.34%) AWS Engineer
2 29 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (16.38%) Senior
3 24 (13.56%) Architect
4 19 (10.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (9.04%) Site Engineer
6 15 (8.47%) Developer
7 14 (7.91%) AWS DevOps
7 14 (7.91%) Data Engineer
7 14 (7.91%) Lead
7 14 (7.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 13 (7.34%) Security Engineer
9 12 (6.78%) AWS Architect
9 12 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (6.21%) Software Engineer
11 10 (5.65%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (5.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) AWS Developer
13 7 (3.95%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.25%) Kafka
2 13 (7.34%) AWS CDK
2 13 (7.34%) Node.js
2 13 (7.34%) Spring
3 11 (6.21%) RESTful
3 11 (6.21%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (3.95%) React
6 6 (3.39%) Great Expectations
7 5 (2.82%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.26%) .NET
8 4 (2.26%) JSON
8 4 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.69%) Jest
9 3 (1.69%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.69%) REST
9 3 (1.69%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (1.13%) AWS SAM
10 2 (1.13%) boto
10 2 (1.13%) Sidekiq
Miscellaneous
1 44 (24.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.82%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.69%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.13%) NHS
5 2 (1.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.56%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.56%) IoT
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.56%) Ray Tracing
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.90%) Linux
2 7 (3.95%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) Unix
4 3 (1.69%) VMS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (72.32%) CI/CD
2 125 (70.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 95 (53.67%) DevOps
4 61 (34.46%) Containerisation
5 46 (25.99%) Agile
6 41 (23.16%) Observability
7 26 (14.69%) Microservices
7 26 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (12.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 23 (12.99%) Software Engineering
9 21 (11.86%) Analytics
9 21 (11.86%) ETL
9 21 (11.86%) Migration
10 20 (11.30%) Cloud Security
11 19 (10.73%) AI
11 19 (10.73%) Data Modelling
11 19 (10.73%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (10.17%) Data Governance
13 17 (9.60%) DevSecOps
13 17 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 81 (45.76%) Python
2 32 (18.08%) SQL
3 24 (13.56%) Java
4 19 (10.73%) Bash
5 13 (7.34%) Go
5 13 (7.34%) Ruby
6 12 (6.78%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.65%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.08%) C#
8 9 (5.08%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.26%) Scala
10 3 (1.69%) Bicep
10 3 (1.69%) PromQL
11 2 (1.13%) Perl
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) C++
12 1 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 56 (31.64%) Security Cleared
2 47 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 28 (15.82%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.39%) Degree
7 4 (2.26%) CISSP
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.13%) CCSP
9 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) CISM
10 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.56%) MCP
10 1 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.43%) GDPR
2 12 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.52%) QA
4 7 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.39%) NIST
6 5 (2.82%) NCSC
6 5 (2.82%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.26%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 72 (40.68%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 152 (85.88%) Terraform
2 66 (37.29%) Kubernetes
3 28 (15.82%) Ansible
4 25 (14.12%) Grafana
5 12 (6.78%) Puppet
6 11 (6.21%) Packer
6 11 (6.21%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.65%) Consul
8 6 (3.39%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.82%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.26%) Kibana
11 2 (1.13%) Argo
11 2 (1.13%) Istio
11 2 (1.13%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.56%) linkerd
Vendors
1 13 (7.34%) Databricks
1 13 (7.34%) Google
1 13 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.08%) Splunk
3 8 (4.52%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.39%) PagerDuty
5 5 (2.82%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (2.82%) Sybase
6 4 (2.26%) Oracle
7 3 (1.69%) Cisco
7 3 (1.69%) Citrix
7 3 (1.69%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.69%) IBM
8 2 (1.13%) CloudEndure
8 2 (1.13%) Tenable
9 1 (0.56%) Confluent
9 1 (0.56%) New Relic
9 1 (0.56%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.56%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.56%) Refinitiv