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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 218 309
Rank change year-on-year -76 +91 -21
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 156 147 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 1.09% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 2.50% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 105 48
10th Percentile £400 £428 £362
25th Percentile £440 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £690
90th Percentile £715 £738 £782
England median daily rate £547 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.19% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £68.22 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.90% - -

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 8,276 5,882 6,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.85% 43.57% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,705 3,990 4,567
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 97 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -8.80% -22.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £81.60 £65.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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
South London +5 14 £550 +10.00% 2
Central London -22 10 £600 -11.11% 16
West London -19 4 £725 +47.21% 6
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 7 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.21%) Apache
3 4 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.56%) Confluence
4 2 (1.28%) nginx
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.64%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.64%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.64%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 152 (97.44%) AWS
2 61 (39.10%) Serverless
3 54 (34.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 50 (32.05%) Amazon S3
5 49 (31.41%) Azure
6 47 (30.13%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (30.13%) GitHub
7 40 (25.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 39 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
9 38 (24.36%) GCP
10 35 (22.44%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (17.95%) Amazon ECS
12 26 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (12.18%) AWS KMS
15 15 (9.62%) Datadog
16 14 (8.97%) AWS Step Functions
17 11 (7.05%) Amazon SQS
18 10 (6.41%) AWS CloudTrail
19 9 (5.77%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.05%) Firewall
2 10 (6.41%) DNS
3 8 (5.13%) Network Security
3 8 (5.13%) WAN
4 4 (2.56%) HTTP
4 4 (2.56%) VPN
5 3 (1.92%) Internet
6 2 (1.28%) BGP
6 2 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.28%) SSL
7 1 (0.64%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.10%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (10.90%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (8.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (8.97%) SQL Server
4 13 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.69%) MySQL
6 10 (6.41%) DynamoDB
7 9 (5.77%) Redis
8 7 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.21%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.92%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.92%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.92%) Metadata
11 3 (1.92%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.28%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (1.28%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.28%) Power BI
13 1 (0.64%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 44 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 33 (21.15%) GitLab
3 19 (12.18%) Git
4 16 (10.26%) JIRA
5 4 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.92%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.92%) JUnit
6 3 (1.92%) Snyk
7 2 (1.28%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.28%) Maven
7 2 (1.28%) MLflow
8 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.64%) Flyway
8 1 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.64%) Spinnaker
General
1 47 (30.13%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 24 (15.38%) Finance
4 8 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.21%) Banking
6 5 (3.21%) Law
7 3 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.92%) Military
7 3 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.64%) Automotive
8 1 (0.64%) Aviation
8 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Games
8 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.64%) Local Government
8 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (19.87%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (15.38%) Senior
4 23 (14.74%) Architect
5 20 (12.82%) AWS DevOps
6 19 (12.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 18 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (9.62%) AWS Architect
9 13 (8.33%) DBA
9 13 (8.33%) Lead
10 12 (7.69%) Administrator
11 10 (6.41%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (6.41%) Network Engineer
11 10 (6.41%) Platform Architect
11 10 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.77%) Data Engineer
13 8 (5.13%) Lead DevOps
14 7 (4.49%) Developer
15 6 (3.85%) Senior DBA
15 6 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (94.23%) Terraform
2 19 (12.18%) AWS CDK
3 13 (8.33%) REST
4 9 (5.77%) Kafka
5 8 (5.13%) pytest
6 7 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.49%) FastAPI
7 6 (3.85%) Node.js
8 4 (2.56%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.56%) Flask
8 4 (2.56%) Pandas
8 4 (2.56%) Pulumi
8 4 (2.56%) PySpark
9 3 (1.92%) Jest
9 3 (1.92%) OAuth
9 3 (1.92%) React
9 3 (1.92%) RESTful
9 3 (1.92%) SOAP
9 3 (1.92%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (32.69%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (7.69%) Replication
3 9 (5.77%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.21%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.21%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.21%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.92%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.28%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.28%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.18%) Linux
2 9 (5.77%) Windows
3 6 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.21%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.92%) Unix
5 3 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (92.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 135 (86.54%) CI/CD
3 101 (64.74%) DevOps
4 48 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 41 (26.28%) Observability
6 40 (25.64%) Agile
7 37 (23.72%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (23.08%) Cloud Security
9 33 (21.15%) Platform Engineering
10 31 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (19.87%) Test Automation
11 26 (16.67%) Microservices
12 23 (14.74%) AI
12 23 (14.74%) Validation
13 22 (14.10%) High Availability
13 22 (14.10%) Secrets Management
14 21 (13.46%) Data Modelling
15 20 (12.82%) Root Cause Analysis
16 19 (12.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 19 (12.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (48.08%) Python
2 32 (20.51%) Bash
3 26 (16.67%) SQL
4 25 (16.03%) PowerShell
5 18 (11.54%) Java
6 12 (7.69%) Bicep
7 9 (5.77%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.13%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.49%) Go
10 3 (1.92%) C
10 3 (1.92%) Scala
11 2 (1.28%) C#
11 2 (1.28%) Groovy
11 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.28%) R
12 1 (0.64%) C++
12 1 (0.64%) Korn
12 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 59 (37.82%) SC Cleared
3 36 (23.08%) AWS Certification
4 23 (14.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.13%) Degree
7 6 (3.85%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.21%) CISSP
8 5 (3.21%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.92%) CISM
9 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.64%) CCSP
11 1 (0.64%) CISA
11 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.64%) PMP
11 1 (0.64%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.49%) QA
4 6 (3.85%) NIST
5 4 (2.56%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.56%) SLA
6 3 (1.92%) GDPR
6 3 (1.92%) NCSC
7 1 (0.64%) GLBA
7 1 (0.64%) GRC
System Software
1 57 (36.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 68 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 24 (15.38%) Grafana
3 23 (14.74%) Prometheus
4 17 (10.90%) Ansible
5 11 (7.05%) Puppet
6 8 (5.13%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.92%) Argo
7 3 (1.92%) Packer
8 2 (1.28%) Istio
8 2 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.64%) CloudForms
9 1 (0.64%) Control-M
9 1 (0.64%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.64%) systemd
Vendors
1 14 (8.97%) Google
2 11 (7.05%) Databricks
2 11 (7.05%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.49%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.21%) Oracle
4 5 (3.21%) Splunk
5 4 (2.56%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.56%) Teradata
5 4 (2.56%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.92%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.92%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.92%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.92%) VMware
7 2 (1.28%) Informatica
7 2 (1.28%) New Relic
7 2 (1.28%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.28%) Sybase
8 1 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.64%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.64%) Sonatype