AWS CloudFormation Contracts in London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 280 263
Rank change year-on-year +86 -17 -34
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 163 111 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.30% 0.62% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 1.65% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 89 194
10th Percentile £400 £446 £452
25th Percentile £525 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £672 £738 £675
90th Percentile £788 £780 £700
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 - -

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 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in London.

Daily rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in London

AWS CloudFormation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CloudFormation in London

AWS CloudFormation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS CloudFormation in London

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 1 May 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 +4 11 £650 +0.78% 12
South London +4 2 £685 +34.31%
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 14 (8.59%) Apache Spark
2 12 (7.36%) nginx
3 8 (4.91%) Confluence
4 5 (3.07%) Traefik
5 3 (1.84%) Apache
5 3 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.61%) JBoss
7 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 159 (97.55%) AWS
2 81 (49.69%) Serverless
3 73 (44.79%) AWS Lambda
4 63 (38.65%) Amazon S3
5 38 (23.31%) Amazon EC2
6 37 (22.70%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (18.40%) Amazon ECS
8 29 (17.79%) GitHub
9 26 (15.95%) Amazon SQS
9 26 (15.95%) PaaS
10 25 (15.34%) IaaS
11 22 (13.50%) Azure
12 21 (12.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (12.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (9.82%) Snowflake
14 14 (8.59%) GCP
15 13 (7.98%) AWS CodePipeline
15 13 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (7.98%) SaaS
16 11 (6.75%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.72%) Firewall
2 21 (12.88%) DNS
3 19 (11.66%) TCP/IP
4 15 (9.20%) HTTP
4 15 (9.20%) VPN
5 7 (4.29%) Internet
6 5 (3.07%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.23%) DHCP
7 2 (1.23%) Network Security
8 1 (0.61%) BGP
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.61%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.61%) WAN
8 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (33.13%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (23.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (11.66%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (9.20%) DynamoDB
5 14 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (6.13%) Data Lake
7 9 (5.52%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (4.91%) Hadoop
9 7 (4.29%) MongoDB
10 6 (3.68%) Apache Hive
10 6 (3.68%) NoSQL
10 6 (3.68%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (3.07%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (3.07%) Parquet
11 5 (3.07%) Presto
12 4 (2.45%) Big Data
13 3 (1.84%) MySQL
14 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 44 (26.99%) Jenkins
2 25 (15.34%) GitLab
3 16 (9.82%) Git
4 9 (5.52%) Artifactory
4 9 (5.52%) JIRA
5 7 (4.29%) CircleCI
6 6 (3.68%) git-flow
7 5 (3.07%) Poetry
8 3 (1.84%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.84%) Gradle
9 2 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.61%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.18%) Finance
3 27 (16.56%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.43%) Banking
6 15 (9.20%) Front Office
7 6 (3.68%) Marketing
8 4 (2.45%) Military
9 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.84%) Retail
10 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Back Office
11 1 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.61%) Legal
11 1 (0.61%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.61%) Police
11 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (38.04%) AWS Engineer
2 50 (30.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (22.09%) Senior
4 35 (21.47%) Architect
5 34 (20.86%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (19.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 26 (15.95%) AWS Architect
8 22 (13.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (12.88%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (12.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 14 (8.59%) Lead
11 14 (8.59%) Python Engineer
12 13 (7.98%) Developer
13 12 (7.36%) Data Engineer
14 9 (5.52%) DevOps Manager
14 9 (5.52%) Finance Manager
14 9 (5.52%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
15 8 (4.91%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (4.91%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 8 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.82%) AWS CDK
2 15 (9.20%) Kafka
3 10 (6.13%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (6.13%) React
4 8 (4.91%) Node.js
5 5 (3.07%) cloud-init
5 5 (3.07%) Dask
5 5 (3.07%) J2EE
5 5 (3.07%) Keycloak
5 5 (3.07%) LAPP Stack
5 5 (3.07%) WebSockets
6 4 (2.45%) JSON
6 4 (2.45%) Redux
6 4 (2.45%) REST
6 4 (2.45%) RESTful
6 4 (2.45%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.45%) Web Services
7 3 (1.84%) LESS
7 3 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.84%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.68%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.07%) PKI
4 5 (3.07%) Tandem
5 3 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.84%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.61%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.70%) Linux
2 10 (6.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (5.52%) Unix
3 9 (5.52%) Windows
4 7 (4.29%) CentOS
5 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (57.06%) CI/CD
1 93 (57.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 87 (53.37%) DevOps
3 58 (35.58%) Containerisation
4 47 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (22.70%) Agile
6 31 (19.02%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (18.40%) High Availability
8 28 (17.18%) Cloud Security
9 24 (14.72%) Open Source
10 23 (14.11%) Software Engineering
11 22 (13.50%) Deployment Automation
11 22 (13.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (10.43%) Migration
12 17 (10.43%) Observability
12 17 (10.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 16 (9.82%) Asset Management
14 15 (9.20%) Analytics
14 15 (9.20%) Configuration Management
14 15 (9.20%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (54.60%) Python
2 24 (14.72%) Java
3 23 (14.11%) SQL
4 22 (13.50%) TypeScript
5 21 (12.88%) JavaScript
6 18 (11.04%) Bash
7 15 (9.20%) Go
8 11 (6.75%) Bicep
9 9 (5.52%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.45%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.45%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.84%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.23%) Scala
13 1 (0.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (35.58%) Security Cleared
2 56 (34.36%) SC Cleared
3 38 (23.31%) AWS Certification
4 27 (16.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (4.29%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.29%) Degree
6 5 (3.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.84%) OCP
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.61%) CCNP
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.61%) RHCA
9 1 (0.61%) RHCE
9 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.68%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.68%) NCSC
2 4 (2.45%) GDPR
3 3 (1.84%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.23%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 55 (33.74%) Docker
2 7 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.61%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (74.23%) Terraform
2 71 (43.56%) Kubernetes
3 28 (17.18%) Ansible
4 25 (15.34%) Prometheus
5 22 (13.50%) Grafana
6 15 (9.20%) Progress Chef
6 15 (9.20%) Puppet
7 8 (4.91%) Packer
8 7 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (3.68%) Consul
9 6 (3.68%) HAProxy
10 5 (3.07%) Istio
10 5 (3.07%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (3.07%) linkerd
10 5 (3.07%) Rancher
10 5 (3.07%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.84%) Argo
12 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.61%) Cilium
12 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (6.13%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.52%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.68%) Splunk
4 5 (3.07%) Apple
4 5 (3.07%) ESET
4 5 (3.07%) Google
4 5 (3.07%) Okta
5 4 (2.45%) Oracle
6 3 (1.84%) Cisco
6 3 (1.84%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.23%) Citrix
7 2 (1.23%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.23%) Databricks
7 2 (1.23%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.23%) SAP
8 1 (0.61%) Dell KACE
8 1 (0.61%) Meraki
8 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.61%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (0.61%) Virgin Media