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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 230 264
Rank change year-on-year +35 +34 -32
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 214 129 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.41% 0.95% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.19% 2.27% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 101 92
10th Percentile £400 £380 £425
25th Percentile £463 £525 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £565
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +8.41% -5.83%
75th Percentile £639 £788 £661
90th Percentile £716 £800 £749
England median daily rate £530 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -12.76% +10.45% -8.33%

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 6,712 5,675 6,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.24% 41.74% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,591 3,787 5,042
10th Percentile £350 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 49 76
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.07 £17.39
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +4.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £55.75 £55.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £73.50 £68.75 £61.25
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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
Central London +8 19 £575 +7.48% 8
West London - 18 £603 - 1
South London 0 11 £528 -22.99% 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 20 (9.35%) Apache
1 20 (9.35%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.54%) Confluence
3 13 (6.07%) nginx
4 11 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 203 (94.86%) AWS
2 87 (40.65%) Amazon S3
3 75 (35.05%) Serverless
4 72 (33.64%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (32.71%) Amazon ECS
6 63 (29.44%) GitHub
7 51 (23.83%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (23.83%) Azure
8 46 (21.50%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (19.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 40 (18.69%) GCP
11 34 (15.89%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (14.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (12.15%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (10.28%) AWS CodePipeline
15 17 (7.94%) Power Platform
15 17 (7.94%) Route 53
16 16 (7.48%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (7.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.48%) DNS
2 10 (4.67%) VPN
3 8 (3.74%) Network Security
4 5 (2.34%) Firewall
5 3 (1.40%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.93%) BGP
6 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.93%) OSPF
6 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.93%) SSL
6 2 (0.93%) WAN
7 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.42%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (12.62%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (12.15%) Data Lake
4 22 (10.28%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (8.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (7.94%) Power BI
7 16 (7.48%) DynamoDB
8 14 (6.54%) BigQuery
8 14 (6.54%) Mixpanel
9 13 (6.07%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (6.07%) OLAP
9 13 (6.07%) OLTP
10 11 (5.14%) NoSQL
10 11 (5.14%) SQL Server
11 8 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (3.27%) MySQL
12 7 (3.27%) Redis
13 6 (2.80%) Redshift Spectrum
13 6 (2.80%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.34%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 45 (21.03%) Git
2 41 (19.16%) Jenkins
3 35 (16.36%) GitLab
4 17 (7.94%) JIRA
5 4 (1.87%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.87%) JUnit
5 4 (1.87%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.40%) Snyk
6 3 (1.40%) Vite
7 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.47%) MLflow
8 1 (0.47%) Mocha
General
1 50 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.49%) Public Sector
3 29 (13.55%) Finance
4 15 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.27%) Banking
7 4 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Marketing
9 1 (0.47%) Aviation
9 1 (0.47%) Games
9 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (19.16%) AWS Engineer
2 39 (18.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (14.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (13.55%) Architect
5 26 (12.15%) Data Engineer
6 25 (11.68%) Senior
7 21 (9.81%) Lead
8 19 (8.88%) Security Engineer
9 18 (8.41%) AWS Architect
10 17 (7.94%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (7.48%) Developer
11 16 (7.48%) Software Engineer
12 15 (7.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (6.54%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (6.54%) Site Engineer
14 13 (6.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 12 (5.61%) Principal Engineer
16 11 (5.14%) Principal Data Engineer
17 9 (4.21%) Java Engineer
18 8 (3.74%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.09%) Kafka
2 22 (10.28%) RESTful
3 17 (7.94%) Node.js
3 17 (7.94%) Spring
4 16 (7.48%) Spring Boot
5 14 (6.54%) AWS CDK
5 14 (6.54%) Great Expectations
6 12 (5.61%) React
7 10 (4.67%) OAuth
8 9 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (4.21%) REST
9 8 (3.74%) .NET
9 8 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.80%) LangGraph
10 6 (2.80%) PySpark
11 5 (2.34%) boto
11 5 (2.34%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.87%) gRPC
12 4 (1.87%) Spring Cloud
12 4 (1.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 68 (31.78%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.80%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.40%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.93%) Equities
5 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
5 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.93%) NHS
5 2 (0.93%) SCADA
6 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.47%) IoT
6 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.09%) Linux
2 9 (4.21%) Windows
3 6 (2.80%) Unix
4 3 (1.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (78.50%) CI/CD
2 159 (74.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 117 (54.67%) DevOps
4 62 (28.97%) Containerisation
5 55 (25.70%) Observability
6 51 (23.83%) Agile
7 38 (17.76%) AI
7 38 (17.76%) Microservices
8 36 (16.82%) Analytics
9 32 (14.95%) Data Modelling
10 31 (14.49%) ETL
11 30 (14.02%) Data Engineering
12 28 (13.08%) Software Engineering
13 25 (11.68%) Machine Learning
13 25 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (11.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 25 (11.68%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (11.21%) Cloud Security
14 24 (11.21%) Data Governance
15 23 (10.75%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 106 (49.53%) Python
2 46 (21.50%) SQL
3 39 (18.22%) Java
4 21 (9.81%) Bash
5 16 (7.48%) C#
6 13 (6.07%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.61%) Ruby
8 11 (5.14%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.14%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.74%) Go
10 4 (1.87%) Bicep
10 4 (1.87%) Scala
11 2 (0.93%) Perl
12 1 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 63 (29.44%) Security Cleared
2 58 (27.10%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.29%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.67%) Degree
5 8 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.27%) CISSP
7 5 (2.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.87%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.87%) CCSP
8 4 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.40%) OSCP
9 3 (1.40%) SANS
10 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.49%) GDPR
2 20 (9.35%) Data Quality
3 15 (7.01%) QA
4 14 (6.54%) NIST
5 12 (5.61%) PCI DSS
6 11 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (2.34%) NCSC
8 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.47%) GRC
9 1 (0.47%) MiFID
System Software
1 90 (42.06%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 182 (85.05%) Terraform
2 79 (36.92%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.08%) Ansible
4 16 (7.48%) Grafana
5 12 (5.61%) Packer
5 12 (5.61%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.14%) Consul
7 10 (4.67%) Puppet
8 8 (3.74%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.34%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.87%) Kibana
11 2 (0.93%) Argo
11 2 (0.93%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.47%) Nessus
Vendors
1 24 (11.21%) Databricks
1 24 (11.21%) Google
2 16 (7.48%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.21%) Splunk
4 6 (2.80%) PagerDuty
4 6 (2.80%) Rapid7
5 5 (2.34%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.34%) New Relic
5 5 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.87%) Oracle
6 4 (1.87%) Sybase
7 3 (1.40%) Cisco
7 3 (1.40%) Citrix
7 3 (1.40%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.40%) IBM
7 3 (1.40%) Qualys
7 3 (1.40%) Tenable
8 2 (0.93%) Globalscape
8 2 (0.93%) SAP
8 2 (0.93%) Vermilion