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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 216 301
Rank change year-on-year -79 +85 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 160 163 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.21% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.93% 2.79% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 122 49
10th Percentile £400 £451 £366
25th Percentile £440 £501 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £723 £776
England median daily rate £539 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.62% - -6.67%
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 8,287 5,846 6,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.94% 43.44% 41.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,690 3,987 4,681
10th Percentile £360 £343 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 45
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £31.00 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.34% -24.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.10
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 20 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 20 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 +3 13 £550 - 2
Central London -25 11 £600 -11.11% 14
West London -20 4 £725 +47.21% 6
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 7 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.50%) Apache
2 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) nginx
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.63%) PowerExchange
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
3 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.63%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 157 (98.13%) AWS
2 61 (38.13%) Serverless
3 54 (33.75%) Amazon S3
3 54 (33.75%) Azure
4 51 (31.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 49 (30.63%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (28.75%) GitHub
7 40 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
8 38 (23.75%) GCP
9 37 (23.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 33 (20.63%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (17.50%) Amazon ECS
12 26 (16.25%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (10.63%) AWS KMS
14 17 (10.63%) Datadog
15 16 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
16 11 (6.88%) AWS CloudTrail
17 10 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
18 8 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.25%) Firewall
2 9 (5.63%) DNS
3 7 (4.38%) WAN
4 6 (3.75%) Network Security
5 4 (2.50%) HTTP
6 3 (1.88%) VPN
7 2 (1.25%) Internet
7 2 (1.25%) SSL
8 1 (0.63%) BGP
8 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.13%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.13%) SQL Server
4 12 (7.50%) DynamoDB
5 11 (6.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (6.88%) MongoDB
5 11 (6.88%) MySQL
6 8 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.00%) Redis
7 6 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.13%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.50%) Metadata
10 3 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.88%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.88%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.25%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (1.25%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (26.88%) Jenkins
2 34 (21.25%) GitLab
3 23 (14.38%) Git
4 15 (9.38%) JIRA
5 6 (3.75%) CircleCI
5 6 (3.75%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.13%) Snyk
7 3 (1.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.88%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.88%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.25%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.25%) JUnit
8 2 (1.25%) Maven
8 2 (1.25%) MLflow
9 1 (0.63%) Flyway
9 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.63%) Selenium
9 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.63%) Spinnaker
General
1 46 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.13%) Public Sector
3 21 (13.13%) Finance
4 8 (5.00%) Banking
5 7 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.13%) Law
7 4 (2.50%) Military
8 3 (1.88%) Games
8 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Automotive
10 1 (0.63%) Aviation
10 1 (0.63%) Front Office
10 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Local Government
10 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (15.00%) Architect
3 24 (15.00%) Senior
4 20 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
5 19 (11.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 19 (11.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (11.88%) Lead
6 15 (9.38%) AWS Architect
7 11 (6.88%) Platform Architect
8 10 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (6.25%) Data Engineer
8 10 (6.25%) DBA
9 9 (5.63%) Administrator
9 9 (5.63%) Developer
9 9 (5.63%) Lead DevOps
9 9 (5.63%) Network Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (93.75%) Terraform
2 15 (9.38%) AWS CDK
3 10 (6.25%) REST
4 9 (5.63%) Node.js
5 8 (5.00%) Kafka
6 7 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.75%) PySpark
7 6 (3.75%) pytest
8 5 (3.13%) Pandas
8 5 (3.13%) RESTful
9 4 (2.50%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.50%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.50%) Jest
9 4 (2.50%) OAuth
9 4 (2.50%) Pulumi
9 4 (2.50%) React
9 4 (2.50%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.88%) Great Expectations
10 3 (1.88%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 53 (33.13%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.63%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.63%) Replication
4 5 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.88%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (1.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.25%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.00%) Linux
2 8 (5.00%) Windows
3 6 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.88%) Unix
5 3 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (92.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 137 (85.63%) CI/CD
3 102 (63.75%) DevOps
4 52 (32.50%) Containerisation
5 41 (25.63%) Observability
6 39 (24.38%) Agile
7 37 (23.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 30 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (17.50%) Cloud Security
10 28 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (16.88%) Microservices
12 23 (14.38%) AI
13 21 (13.13%) High Availability
14 19 (11.88%) Data Modelling
14 19 (11.88%) Mentoring
14 19 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (11.88%) Secrets Management
14 19 (11.88%) Validation
15 18 (11.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (46.25%) Python
2 29 (18.13%) Bash
3 24 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 24 (15.00%) SQL
4 19 (11.88%) Java
5 14 (8.75%) Bicep
6 11 (6.88%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.63%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.75%) Go
9 3 (1.88%) C
9 3 (1.88%) Scala
10 2 (1.25%) Groovy
10 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.25%) R
11 1 (0.63%) C#
11 1 (0.63%) C++
11 1 (0.63%) Korn
11 1 (0.63%) Ruby
11 1 (0.63%) SAS Macro
11 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (35.63%) Security Cleared
2 55 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 33 (20.63%) AWS Certification
4 22 (13.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) Degree
7 7 (4.38%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (3.13%) CISSP
10 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.88%) CISM
11 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.63%) CCSP
13 1 (0.63%) CISA
13 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.63%) PMP
13 1 (0.63%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.38%) QA
4 5 (3.13%) NIST
5 4 (2.50%) SLA
6 3 (1.88%) GDPR
6 3 (1.88%) NCSC
6 3 (1.88%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.63%) GRC
System Software
1 57 (35.63%) Docker
2 2 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Squid
Systems Management
1 68 (42.50%) Kubernetes
2 27 (16.88%) Grafana
3 26 (16.25%) Prometheus
4 19 (11.88%) Ansible
5 12 (7.50%) Puppet
6 8 (5.00%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.88%) Argo
7 3 (1.88%) Packer
8 2 (1.25%) Istio
8 2 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.63%) CloudForms
9 1 (0.63%) Control-M
9 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.63%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (7.50%) Google
2 11 (6.88%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.25%) Databricks
4 6 (3.75%) Oracle
4 6 (3.75%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.13%) Splunk
6 4 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.50%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.50%) Teradata
6 4 (2.50%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.88%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.88%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.88%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.88%) VMware
8 2 (1.25%) Informatica
8 2 (1.25%) New Relic
8 2 (1.25%) Sybase
9 1 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.63%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.63%) Sonatype