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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 288 292
Rank change year-on-year +82 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 166 92 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.25% 0.57% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 1.38% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 51 139
10th Percentile £453 £375 £425
25th Percentile £503 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £687 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £700
England median daily rate £528 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +1.44% -9.57% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 - £50.00

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 5,728 6,643 8,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.26% 41.30% 39.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,897 4,659 6,548
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -1.54%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £786
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 65
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.40
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.98 £22.75
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -35.60% +35.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £90.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.16% -6.06% +53.49%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +6 12 £675 +35.00% 13
South London -10 1 - -
West London - 1 £493 -
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (10.24%) Confluence
2 14 (8.43%) nginx
3 6 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.81%) Apache
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (92.77%) AWS
2 71 (42.77%) Serverless
3 64 (38.55%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (34.34%) Amazon S3
5 47 (28.31%) GitHub
6 41 (24.70%) Azure
7 40 (24.10%) Amazon EKS
8 34 (20.48%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (19.88%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (18.67%) Amazon ECS
11 23 (13.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (13.86%) GCP
12 17 (10.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (7.83%) AWS Fargate
13 13 (7.83%) Datadog
14 11 (6.63%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (6.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (6.02%) AWS CloudTrail
16 9 (5.42%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.24%) Firewall
2 16 (9.64%) VPN
3 14 (8.43%) DNS
4 8 (4.82%) Network Security
5 7 (4.22%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.61%) HTTP
6 6 (3.61%) Internet
7 4 (2.41%) SSL
8 3 (1.81%) DHCP
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.60%) SMS
9 1 (0.60%) WAN
9 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (24.10%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (12.05%) DynamoDB
3 11 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (6.02%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.22%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.01%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.01%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.20%) Airbyte
9 2 (1.20%) DB2
9 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.20%) Redis
9 2 (1.20%) Redshift Spectrum
10 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.60%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.60%) MySQL
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 52 (31.33%) Jenkins
2 37 (22.29%) Git
3 18 (10.84%) JIRA
4 14 (8.43%) GitLab
5 12 (7.23%) Artifactory
6 7 (4.22%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.22%) JUnit
7 6 (3.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (3.01%) Maven
9 4 (2.41%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.20%) git-flow
10 2 (1.20%) Gradle
11 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.60%) Snyk
11 1 (0.60%) Subversion
11 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (23.49%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.67%) Public Sector
3 23 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.43%) Finance
5 5 (3.01%) Marketing
6 2 (1.20%) Banking
7 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.60%) Aviation
7 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 34 (20.48%) Architect
2 30 (18.07%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (16.87%) Senior
4 22 (13.25%) AWS Architect
5 19 (11.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (10.84%) Lead
7 17 (10.24%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (9.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (9.64%) Developer
9 13 (7.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (6.63%) Technical Leader
11 10 (6.02%) Consultant
12 9 (5.42%) AWS DevOps
13 8 (4.82%) Cloud Architect
14 7 (4.22%) AWS Developer
14 7 (4.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 7 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
14 7 (4.22%) Data Engineer
14 7 (4.22%) DevOps Consultant
14 7 (4.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.04%) AWS CDK
2 10 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (5.42%) Kafka
3 9 (5.42%) Spring
4 8 (4.82%) ARM Templates
4 8 (4.82%) Node.js
5 6 (3.61%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.01%) GraphQL
6 5 (3.01%) Jest
7 4 (2.41%) React
8 3 (1.81%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.81%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.81%) WebSockets
9 2 (1.20%) JSON
9 2 (1.20%) Middleware
9 2 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.20%) RESTful
9 2 (1.20%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (1.20%) SailPoint
9 2 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.87%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.61%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (3.01%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.81%) NHS
6 3 (1.81%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.69%) Linux
2 5 (3.01%) Windows
3 3 (1.81%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (59.04%) CI/CD
2 93 (56.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (50.60%) DevOps
4 72 (43.37%) Containerisation
5 50 (30.12%) Agile
6 42 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (19.88%) High Availability
8 24 (14.46%) Configuration Management
8 24 (14.46%) Migration
8 24 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (13.86%) Observability
10 21 (12.65%) Deployment Automation
11 20 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (11.45%) Mentoring
13 18 (10.84%) DevSecOps
14 17 (10.24%) Open Source
14 17 (10.24%) Scrum
15 16 (9.64%) Microservices
16 15 (9.04%) Cloud Security
16 15 (9.04%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 63 (37.95%) Python
2 21 (12.65%) PowerShell
3 18 (10.84%) Go
4 17 (10.24%) Java
4 17 (10.24%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.64%) Bash
6 15 (9.04%) SQL
6 15 (9.04%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.42%) Groovy
8 7 (4.22%) Bicep
8 7 (4.22%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.41%) C#
9 4 (2.41%) C++
10 3 (1.81%) CodeQL
10 3 (1.81%) PromQL
11 2 (1.20%) Ruby
11 2 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (43.37%) Security Cleared
2 65 (39.16%) SC Cleared
3 36 (21.69%) AWS Certification
4 25 (15.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.61%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.61%) Degree
6 4 (2.41%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) CISM
8 1 (0.60%) CISSP
8 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.43%) GDPR
2 9 (5.42%) QA
3 7 (4.22%) NIST
4 6 (3.61%) HIPAA
4 6 (3.61%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.01%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (41.57%) Docker
2 6 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) iptables
Systems Management
1 127 (76.51%) Terraform
2 75 (45.18%) Kubernetes
3 33 (19.88%) Ansible
4 22 (13.25%) Puppet
5 20 (12.05%) Grafana
6 15 (9.04%) Prometheus
7 14 (8.43%) Consul
7 14 (8.43%) Packer
7 14 (8.43%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.81%) HP Fortify
9 3 (1.81%) Nessus
10 2 (1.20%) Argo
10 2 (1.20%) Istio
10 2 (1.20%) SELinux
11 1 (0.60%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.60%) linkerd
11 1 (0.60%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (3.61%) CA Agile Central
1 6 (3.61%) Google
1 6 (3.61%) Red Hat
2 5 (3.01%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.01%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.41%) Splunk
4 3 (1.81%) Cisco
4 3 (1.81%) Qualys
5 2 (1.20%) IBM
5 2 (1.20%) Pega
5 2 (1.20%) Sybase
5 2 (1.20%) Teradata
6 1 (0.60%) Dell KACE
6 1 (0.60%) Informatica
6 1 (0.60%) Meraki
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle
6 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.60%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.60%) SolarWinds