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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 271 287
Rank change year-on-year +77 +16 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 176 118 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.32% 0.67% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.08% 1.68% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 80 174
10th Percentile £434 £431 £427
25th Percentile £500 £506 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £641 £706 £650
90th Percentile £696 £780 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -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 5,712 7,032 10,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.95% 40.02% 39.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,866 5,158 7,526
10th Percentile £350 £350 £365
25th Percentile £425 £450 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 62 76
10th Percentile £22.85 £18.00 £17.77
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.08 £24.63
Median hourly rate £30.75 £26.49 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% -52.92% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.44 £38.75 £76.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £62.00 £89.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +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
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 7 July 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 7 July 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 13 £625 -3.10% 35
South London -7 1 - -
West London - 1 £493 - 3
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 20 (11.36%) Confluence
2 14 (7.95%) nginx
3 9 (5.11%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.84%) Apache
6 2 (1.14%) JBoss
7 1 (0.57%) IIS
7 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 168 (95.45%) AWS
2 86 (48.86%) Serverless
3 76 (43.18%) AWS Lambda
4 61 (34.66%) Amazon S3
5 53 (30.11%) GitHub
6 43 (24.43%) Azure
7 40 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (22.16%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (15.34%) GCP
11 24 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (13.07%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (11.36%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (7.95%) AWS CodePipeline
16 13 (7.39%) AWS Fargate
16 13 (7.39%) SaaS
17 12 (6.82%) Amazon Kinesis
18 10 (5.68%) AWS Step Functions
18 10 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.50%) Firewall
2 20 (11.36%) DNS
2 20 (11.36%) VPN
3 11 (6.25%) HTTP
4 10 (5.68%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.55%) Internet
6 7 (3.98%) Network Security
7 4 (2.27%) DHCP
8 2 (1.14%) SSL
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.57%) SMS
9 1 (0.57%) WAN
9 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (26.70%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (13.07%) DynamoDB
3 13 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (5.68%) Relational Database
6 9 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (3.98%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.27%) Big Data
10 3 (1.70%) DB2
10 3 (1.70%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.14%) Airbyte
11 2 (1.14%) MySQL
11 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.14%) Power BI
11 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.14%) Redshift Spectrum
12 1 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 58 (32.95%) Jenkins
2 42 (23.86%) Git
3 21 (11.93%) JIRA
4 19 (10.80%) GitLab
5 12 (6.82%) Artifactory
6 9 (5.11%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.98%) git-flow
7 7 (3.98%) JUnit
8 6 (3.41%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.84%) Maven
10 4 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (2.27%) Gradle
10 4 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.57%) IBM UrbanCode
12 1 (0.57%) Subversion
12 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 26 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.52%) Finance
5 8 (4.55%) Banking
6 7 (3.98%) Marketing
7 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.14%) Retail
8 1 (0.57%) Aviation
8 1 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Military
8 1 (0.57%) Police
8 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (22.73%) Architect
2 37 (21.02%) Senior
3 33 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
4 28 (15.91%) AWS Architect
5 26 (14.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (11.93%) Developer
7 17 (9.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (9.66%) Lead
8 14 (7.95%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.39%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.25%) Technical Leader
11 10 (5.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.68%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (5.11%) Data Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) AWS Developer
13 8 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.95%) AWS CDK
2 12 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (6.25%) Spring
4 10 (5.68%) Kafka
5 9 (5.11%) Node.js
6 8 (4.55%) Jest
6 8 (4.55%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.41%) JSON
8 5 (2.84%) ARM Templates
8 5 (2.84%) React
8 5 (2.84%) WebSockets
9 4 (2.27%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.27%) Redux
9 4 (2.27%) REST
9 4 (2.27%) RESTful
9 4 (2.27%) Web Services
10 3 (1.70%) CSS
10 3 (1.70%) HTML
10 3 (1.70%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.68%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.57%) NHS
8 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (23.86%) Linux
2 7 (3.98%) Windows
3 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.27%) Unix
4 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.57%) CentOS
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 92 (52.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 88 (50.00%) DevOps
4 68 (38.64%) Containerisation
5 54 (30.68%) Agile
6 43 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (22.16%) High Availability
8 26 (14.77%) Deployment Automation
9 25 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (13.64%) Configuration Management
10 24 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (13.07%) Mentoring
12 22 (12.50%) Migration
13 20 (11.36%) Observability
14 19 (10.80%) ETL
14 19 (10.80%) Scrum
15 18 (10.23%) Analytics
15 18 (10.23%) Microservices
15 18 (10.23%) Open Source
16 17 (9.66%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (42.61%) Python
2 24 (13.64%) Java
3 22 (12.50%) Bash
3 22 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 20 (11.36%) JavaScript
4 20 (11.36%) SQL
5 19 (10.80%) TypeScript
6 14 (7.95%) Go
7 11 (6.25%) Bicep
8 9 (5.11%) Groovy
9 8 (4.55%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.27%) C#
10 4 (2.27%) C++
10 4 (2.27%) Scala
10 4 (2.27%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.70%) CodeQL
12 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 78 (44.32%) Security Cleared
2 72 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 39 (22.16%) AWS Certification
4 27 (15.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.98%) Degree
7 4 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.70%) OCP
8 3 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) GDPR
2 8 (4.55%) QA
3 7 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.98%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.84%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (42.05%) Docker
2 6 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) iptables
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.57%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 129 (73.30%) Terraform
2 82 (46.59%) Kubernetes
3 42 (23.86%) Ansible
4 24 (13.64%) Puppet
5 20 (11.36%) Grafana
6 19 (10.80%) Prometheus
7 17 (9.66%) Progress Chef
8 15 (8.52%) Packer
9 14 (7.95%) Consul
10 7 (3.98%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.70%) Argo
11 3 (1.70%) HP Fortify
11 3 (1.70%) Nessus
12 2 (1.14%) SELinux
13 1 (0.57%) Cilium
13 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.57%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.57%) Podman
13 1 (0.57%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (5.11%) Red Hat
2 8 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.41%) CA Agile Central
3 6 (3.41%) Google
4 5 (2.84%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.27%) Splunk
6 3 (1.70%) Oracle
6 3 (1.70%) Qualys
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco
7 2 (1.14%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.14%) Databricks
7 2 (1.14%) Pega
7 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.14%) Sybase
7 2 (1.14%) Teradata
8 1 (0.57%) Dell KACE
8 1 (0.57%) Meraki
8 1 (0.57%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.57%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (0.57%) Virgin Media