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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 189 286
Rank change year-on-year -71 +97 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 183 185 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 1.36% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 3.16% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 132 79
10th Percentile £400 £413 £423
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £743
90th Percentile £684 £699 £780
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 8,268 5,852 6,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.52% 42.91% 40.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,655 3,998 5,080
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 81 61
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -52.05%
75th Percentile £54.75 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £67.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £39.02 £25.15 £21.75
% change year-on-year +55.15% +15.63% -37.67%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -1 12 £625 +26.90% 4
Central London -9 11 £675 +8.00% 3
South London -5 9 £518 - 1
East London - 2 £441 - 3
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 15 (8.20%) Apache Spark
2 13 (7.10%) Apache
3 5 (2.73%) Confluence
4 4 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.64%) SAS
6 2 (1.09%) nginx
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 180 (98.36%) AWS
2 72 (39.34%) Amazon S3
3 69 (37.70%) Serverless
4 66 (36.07%) Azure
5 57 (31.15%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (28.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 49 (26.78%) GitHub
8 45 (24.59%) GitHub Actions
9 42 (22.95%) Amazon ECS
10 38 (20.77%) GCP
11 33 (18.03%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (16.39%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (13.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (10.93%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (8.20%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (7.65%) AWS CodePipeline
18 12 (6.56%) Datadog
19 11 (6.01%) AWS CloudTrail
19 11 (6.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.10%) DNS
1 13 (7.10%) Firewall
2 9 (4.92%) Network Security
2 9 (4.92%) WAN
3 5 (2.73%) VPN
4 4 (2.19%) HTTP
5 3 (1.64%) BGP
6 2 (1.09%) Internet
6 2 (1.09%) OSPF
6 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.55%) 4G
7 1 (0.55%) 5G
7 1 (0.55%) SSL
7 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.84%) Data Lake
2 17 (9.29%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (8.20%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (7.65%) DynamoDB
5 12 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (5.46%) BigQuery
7 9 (4.92%) Mixpanel
7 9 (4.92%) Power BI
8 8 (4.37%) OLAP
8 8 (4.37%) OLTP
8 8 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (3.28%) MongoDB
9 6 (3.28%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.73%) Redshift Spectrum
11 4 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.19%) Metadata
12 3 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.64%) Base SAS
12 3 (1.64%) Data Mart
12 3 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (28.42%) Jenkins
2 37 (20.22%) GitLab
3 29 (15.85%) Git
4 14 (7.65%) JIRA
5 8 (4.37%) Snyk
6 7 (3.83%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.83%) CircleCI
6 7 (3.83%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.64%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.64%) Vite
8 2 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.09%) JUnit
8 2 (1.09%) MLflow
9 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.55%) Maven
9 1 (0.55%) Mockito
9 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.55%) Selenium
9 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (19.13%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.30%) Public Sector
3 22 (12.02%) Finance
4 11 (6.01%) Banking
5 6 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.19%) Law
8 3 (1.64%) Games
8 3 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.09%) Front Office
9 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.09%) Military
9 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Billing
10 1 (0.55%) Local Government
10 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (23.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (22.95%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (20.77%) Lead
4 27 (14.75%) Architect
5 25 (13.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (13.11%) AWS DevOps
6 24 (13.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 21 (11.48%) Senior
8 16 (8.74%) Data Engineer
9 15 (8.20%) AWS Architect
10 14 (7.65%) Developer
11 11 (6.01%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (5.46%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (5.46%) Lead Data Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Network Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
14 8 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (4.37%) Principal Data Engineer
15 7 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
15 7 (3.83%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.48%) Kafka
2 17 (9.29%) AWS CDK
3 14 (7.65%) Node.js
4 12 (6.56%) RESTful
5 11 (6.01%) Great Expectations
5 11 (6.01%) PySpark
6 10 (5.46%) React
6 10 (5.46%) REST
7 6 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.28%) OAuth
8 5 (2.73%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.19%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.19%) boto
9 4 (2.19%) JWT
9 4 (2.19%) Pandas
9 4 (2.19%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.64%) Jest
10 3 (1.64%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.64%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 68 (37.16%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.19%) Replication
6 4 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.09%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.09%) SCADA
8 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.84%) Linux
2 11 (6.01%) Windows
3 5 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (86.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 155 (84.70%) CI/CD
3 122 (66.67%) DevOps
4 61 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 46 (25.14%) Agile
6 42 (22.95%) Observability
7 32 (17.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (15.85%) AI
9 28 (15.30%) Mentoring
10 27 (14.75%) Migration
11 26 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (14.21%) Microservices
12 25 (13.66%) Data Engineering
13 24 (13.11%) Analytics
13 24 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (12.57%) Cloud Security
14 23 (12.57%) Machine Learning
15 21 (11.48%) Software Engineering
16 20 (10.93%) Data Modelling
16 20 (10.93%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 88 (48.09%) Python
2 27 (14.75%) Bash
3 26 (14.21%) SQL
4 23 (12.57%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.74%) Java
6 10 (5.46%) Bicep
6 10 (5.46%) C#
7 9 (4.92%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.83%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.28%) Go
10 3 (1.64%) SAS Macro
10 3 (1.64%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.09%) Groovy
11 2 (1.09%) Ruby
11 2 (1.09%) Scala
12 1 (0.55%) C
12 1 (0.55%) C++
12 1 (0.55%) Korn
12 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (32.79%) Security Cleared
2 58 (31.69%) SC Cleared
3 29 (15.85%) AWS Certification
4 13 (7.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (7.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.01%) Degree
6 9 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.83%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.19%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.10%) GDPR
3 9 (4.92%) QA
4 7 (3.83%) NIST
5 4 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.55%) GRC
7 1 (0.55%) NCSC
7 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (37.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.55%) Squid
Systems Management
1 171 (93.44%) Terraform
2 67 (36.61%) Kubernetes
3 26 (14.21%) Prometheus
4 23 (12.57%) Grafana
5 18 (9.84%) Ansible
6 8 (4.37%) Puppet
7 5 (2.73%) Packer
7 5 (2.73%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.09%) Consul
8 2 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.55%) CloudForms
9 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.55%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.55%) Nessus
9 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (8.74%) Google
2 15 (8.20%) Databricks
3 11 (6.01%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.28%) Splunk
5 5 (2.73%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.73%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.19%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.64%) Oracle
7 3 (1.64%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.64%) Sybase
7 3 (1.64%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.09%) Globalscape
8 2 (1.09%) New Relic
8 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.09%) SAP
8 2 (1.09%) Solace
9 1 (0.55%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.55%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.55%) Tenable
9 1 (0.55%) Virgin Media