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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 264 284
Rank change year-on-year +65 +20 -38
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 177 114 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 0.74% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 1.80% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 75 104
10th Percentile £413 £375 £413
25th Percentile £473 £516 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £661
90th Percentile £716 £795 £738
England median daily rate £525 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £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 6,188 6,341 7,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 40.90% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,188 4,306 5,697
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 34 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -8.79% +51.98%
75th Percentile £42.44 £55.25 £60.94
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.33 £85.47
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +30.05%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 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 +1 12 £550 +3.77% 63
South London - 8 £530 - 4
West London - 4 £548 - 5
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 26 (14.69%) Confluence
2 25 (14.12%) nginx
3 13 (7.34%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (5.08%) Apache Spark
5 8 (4.52%) Apache
6 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 161 (90.96%) AWS
2 58 (32.77%) Serverless
3 57 (32.20%) Amazon S3
4 54 (30.51%) AWS Lambda
5 45 (25.42%) Amazon ECS
5 45 (25.42%) GitHub
6 40 (22.60%) Azure
7 37 (20.90%) Amazon EC2
8 35 (19.77%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (16.38%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (12.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (11.86%) GCP
12 17 (9.60%) Amazon Kinesis
12 17 (9.60%) AWS Fargate
13 15 (8.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (7.91%) Datadog
15 13 (7.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 13 (7.34%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (7.34%) Snowflake
16 10 (5.65%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.65%) VPN
2 8 (4.52%) Network Security
3 7 (3.95%) Firewall
4 6 (3.39%) DNS
5 4 (2.26%) SSL
6 3 (1.69%) DHCP
7 1 (0.56%) HTTP
7 1 (0.56%) Internet
7 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.82%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (10.17%) DynamoDB
2 18 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (9.60%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (7.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.21%) Data Lake
6 9 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (4.52%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.95%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.82%) DB2
9 5 (2.82%) Power BI
9 5 (2.82%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.82%) Redshift Spectrum
9 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.26%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.69%) MySQL
11 3 (1.69%) Tableau
12 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (30.51%) Git
2 40 (22.60%) Jenkins
3 29 (16.38%) JIRA
4 18 (10.17%) GitLab
5 10 (5.65%) JUnit
6 8 (4.52%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.82%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.82%) Maven
8 4 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.56%) Snyk
10 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 39 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.69%) Public Sector
3 21 (11.86%) Finance
4 16 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.39%) Banking
6 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.13%) Aviation
8 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.56%) Games
8 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Marketing
8 1 (0.56%) Military
8 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (23.73%) AWS Engineer
2 26 (14.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (14.69%) Senior
3 22 (12.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (10.17%) Developer
5 16 (9.04%) Architect
5 16 (9.04%) Lead
6 15 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (7.91%) Data Engineer
8 13 (7.34%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (6.78%) AWS Developer
9 12 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (6.78%) Site Engineer
10 11 (6.21%) Security Engineer
10 11 (6.21%) Technical Leader
11 10 (5.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) Consultant
13 7 (3.95%) Java Developer
13 7 (3.95%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.17%) Kafka
2 14 (7.91%) Spring
3 13 (7.34%) AWS CDK
4 9 (5.08%) Node.js
4 9 (5.08%) Spring Boot
5 7 (3.95%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.95%) RESTful
6 6 (3.39%) React
7 5 (2.82%) Jest
8 4 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.69%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.69%) JSON
9 3 (1.69%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.69%) REST
9 3 (1.69%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (1.13%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.13%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (1.13%) SailPoint
10 2 (1.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.69%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.13%) NHS
5 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.56%) IoT
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (25.42%) Linux
2 7 (3.95%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) VMS
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (63.84%) CI/CD
2 112 (63.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 89 (50.28%) DevOps
4 69 (38.98%) Agile
5 58 (32.77%) Containerisation
6 27 (15.25%) Observability
6 27 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (11.86%) Microservices
8 20 (11.30%) ETL
9 19 (10.73%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (10.17%) Analytics
10 18 (10.17%) Configuration Management
10 18 (10.17%) DevSecOps
10 18 (10.17%) Migration
11 17 (9.60%) Cloud Security
11 17 (9.60%) Data Modelling
11 17 (9.60%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (9.60%) Software Engineering
12 16 (9.04%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (9.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (45.20%) Python
2 30 (16.95%) SQL
3 20 (11.30%) Bash
3 20 (11.30%) Java
3 20 (11.30%) PowerShell
4 16 (9.04%) Go
5 11 (6.21%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.21%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.95%) Ruby
7 6 (3.39%) C#
7 6 (3.39%) Groovy
8 5 (2.82%) Scala
9 4 (2.26%) C++
10 3 (1.69%) PromQL
11 2 (1.13%) Bicep
11 2 (1.13%) CodeQL
11 2 (1.13%) Perl
11 2 (1.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (36.72%) Security Cleared
2 56 (31.64%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.69%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.82%) Degree
7 4 (2.26%) CISSP
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.13%) CCSP
9 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.56%) CISM
10 1 (0.56%) MCP
10 1 (0.56%) OSCP
10 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.73%) GDPR
2 10 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.65%) QA
3 6 (3.39%) HIPAA
3 6 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.39%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.82%) NIST
5 2 (1.13%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) GRC
System Software
1 85 (48.02%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.56%) iptables
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 151 (85.31%) Terraform
2 76 (42.94%) Kubernetes
3 28 (15.82%) Ansible
4 24 (13.56%) Packer
5 23 (12.99%) Consul
6 20 (11.30%) Grafana
7 16 (9.04%) Puppet
8 9 (5.08%) Prometheus
9 6 (3.39%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.13%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.13%) Istio
10 2 (1.13%) Nessus
10 2 (1.13%) SELinux
11 1 (0.56%) Argo
11 1 (0.56%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.56%) linkerd
11 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (5.65%) ServiceNow
2 8 (4.52%) CA Agile Central
2 8 (4.52%) Databricks
2 8 (4.52%) Google
2 8 (4.52%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.39%) Splunk
4 5 (2.82%) Sybase
5 4 (2.26%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.69%) IBM
7 2 (1.13%) Cisco
7 2 (1.13%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle
7 2 (1.13%) Pega
7 2 (1.13%) Qualys
7 2 (1.13%) Teradata
8 1 (0.56%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.56%) Informatica
8 1 (0.56%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.56%) SaltStack