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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 210 300
Rank change year-on-year -82 +90 -15
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 156 169 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 1.26% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 2.92% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 125 59
10th Percentile £400 £455 £408
25th Percentile £450 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £694
90th Percentile £678 £733 £780
England median daily rate £550 £550 £544
% change year-on-year - +1.15% -5.43%
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 8,320 5,792 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.21% 43.27% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,695 3,952 4,712
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £649 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 51
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +3.33% -36.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.56
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -9.09%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 +4 13 £550 - 3
Central London -20 11 £650 -3.70% 7
West London -12 6 £725 +47.21% 7
East London - 1 £432 - 2
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 6 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.21%) Apache
2 5 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.21%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) nginx
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.64%) PowerExchange
3 1 (0.64%) SAS
3 1 (0.64%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.64%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 154 (98.72%) AWS
2 60 (38.46%) Serverless
3 54 (34.62%) Azure
4 53 (33.97%) Amazon S3
5 49 (31.41%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (30.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 45 (28.85%) GitHub
8 41 (26.28%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (19.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 30 (19.23%) GCP
11 25 (16.03%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (16.03%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (14.74%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (12.18%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (10.90%) AWS KMS
15 16 (10.26%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (8.97%) Datadog
17 13 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
18 11 (7.05%) AWS CloudTrail
19 8 (5.13%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.41%) Firewall
2 8 (5.13%) DNS
3 7 (4.49%) WAN
4 5 (3.21%) Network Security
5 4 (2.56%) HTTP
6 3 (1.92%) VPN
7 2 (1.28%) Internet
7 2 (1.28%) SSL
8 1 (0.64%) BGP
8 1 (0.64%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.10%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 12 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.05%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (7.05%) MongoDB
4 11 (7.05%) MySQL
5 8 (5.13%) Redis
6 7 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (4.49%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.21%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.21%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.56%) Metadata
8 4 (2.56%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.92%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.92%) Power BI
9 3 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.28%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 42 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 32 (20.51%) GitLab
3 26 (16.67%) Git
4 14 (8.97%) JIRA
5 6 (3.85%) CircleCI
5 6 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.21%) Snyk
7 3 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.28%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.28%) Maven
8 2 (1.28%) MLflow
8 2 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.64%) Flyway
9 1 (0.64%) JUnit
9 1 (0.64%) Mockito
9 1 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.64%) Spinnaker
General
1 41 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 20 (12.82%) Finance
4 8 (5.13%) Banking
5 5 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.56%) Law
7 3 (1.92%) Games
7 3 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.92%) Military
7 3 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.28%) Front Office
8 2 (1.28%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Aviation
9 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.64%) Local Government
9 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%) Lead
5 21 (13.46%) AWS DevOps
6 20 (12.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (12.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (11.54%) Architect
9 14 (8.97%) AWS Architect
10 12 (7.69%) Data Engineer
10 12 (7.69%) Developer
11 10 (6.41%) DBA
11 10 (6.41%) Lead DevOps
12 9 (5.77%) Administrator
12 9 (5.77%) Network Engineer
13 8 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (4.49%) Platform Architect
15 6 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
16 5 (3.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 5 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (93.59%) Terraform
2 13 (8.33%) AWS CDK
3 12 (7.69%) Node.js
4 11 (7.05%) REST
5 10 (6.41%) Kafka
6 8 (5.13%) RESTful
7 6 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.85%) PySpark
7 6 (3.85%) React
8 5 (3.21%) ARM Templates
8 5 (3.21%) Great Expectations
8 5 (3.21%) Pandas
8 5 (3.21%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.56%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.56%) Jest
9 4 (2.56%) OAuth
9 4 (2.56%) Spring
10 3 (1.92%) .NET
10 3 (1.92%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 56 (35.90%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.77%) Replication
4 6 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.21%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.21%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.92%) Autonomous Agent
7 3 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.28%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.28%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.28%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.26%) Linux
2 8 (5.13%) Windows
3 6 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.56%) 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
3 105 (67.31%) DevOps
4 53 (33.97%) Containerisation
5 41 (26.28%) Agile
6 38 (24.36%) Observability
7 34 (21.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (17.95%) Microservices
9 27 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 25 (16.03%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (15.38%) AI
13 22 (14.10%) High Availability
14 21 (13.46%) Cloud Security
14 21 (13.46%) Data Modelling
15 19 (12.18%) Mentoring
15 19 (12.18%) Secrets Management
15 19 (12.18%) Software Engineering
16 18 (11.54%) Migration
16 18 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (47.44%) Python
2 30 (19.23%) Bash
3 27 (17.31%) SQL
4 25 (16.03%) PowerShell
5 18 (11.54%) Java
6 11 (7.05%) Bicep
6 11 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.92%) C#
8 3 (1.92%) Go
9 2 (1.28%) Groovy
9 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.28%) R
9 2 (1.28%) Scala
10 1 (0.64%) C
10 1 (0.64%) C++
10 1 (0.64%) Korn
10 1 (0.64%) Ruby
10 1 (0.64%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 58 (37.18%) SC Cleared
3 27 (17.31%) AWS Certification
4 19 (12.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (5.77%) Degree
7 6 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.92%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.64%) PMP
10 1 (0.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.49%) QA
3 4 (2.56%) GDPR
3 4 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.56%) SLA
4 3 (1.92%) NIST
4 3 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.64%) GRC
6 1 (0.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 59 (37.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 64 (41.03%) Kubernetes
2 22 (14.10%) Grafana
2 22 (14.10%) Prometheus
3 17 (10.90%) Ansible
4 8 (5.13%) Puppet
5 5 (3.21%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.92%) Argo
6 3 (1.92%) Packer
7 2 (1.28%) Istio
7 2 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.64%) CloudForms
8 1 (0.64%) Control-M
8 1 (0.64%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.64%) systemd
Vendors
1 9 (5.77%) Databricks
1 9 (5.77%) Google
2 7 (4.49%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.85%) Splunk
4 5 (3.21%) Oracle
5 4 (2.56%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.56%) Teradata
5 4 (2.56%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.92%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.92%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.28%) Informatica
7 2 (1.28%) New Relic
7 2 (1.28%) Sybase
8 1 (0.64%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.64%) Citrix
8 1 (0.64%) Dell
8 1 (0.64%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.64%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.64%) Trend Micro