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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 239 268
Rank change year-on-year +43 +29 -40
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 173 120 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 0.85% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.77% 2.08% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 94 101
10th Percentile £410 £377 £413
25th Percentile £463 £527 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £678
90th Percentile £725 £825 £750
England median daily rate £550 £615 £575
% change year-on-year -10.57% +6.96% -4.17%

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 6,248 5,761 6,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 41.02% 37.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,270 3,871 5,068
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 44 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.56 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £23.80 £20.69
Median hourly rate £26.40 £30.80 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -12.80% +36.64%
75th Percentile £55.44 £46.90 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.63 £71.25
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +3 17 £569 +7.31% 11
West London - 13 £603 - 3
South London +2 10 £530 -22.63% 1
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 14 (8.09%) Apache Spark
2 13 (7.51%) Apache
3 12 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (6.94%) Confluence
4 11 (6.36%) nginx
5 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 163 (94.22%) AWS
2 67 (38.73%) Amazon S3
3 64 (36.99%) Serverless
4 61 (35.26%) AWS Lambda
5 53 (30.64%) Amazon ECS
5 53 (30.64%) GitHub
6 45 (26.01%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (24.86%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (24.86%) Azure
8 32 (18.50%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (16.18%) GCP
10 27 (15.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 26 (15.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (8.67%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (8.67%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (8.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 13 (7.51%) AWS KMS
14 13 (7.51%) Datadog
15 12 (6.94%) Route 53
16 11 (6.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.67%) DNS
2 8 (4.62%) VPN
3 5 (2.89%) Network Security
4 4 (2.31%) Firewall
5 3 (1.73%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.16%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.16%) SSL
7 1 (0.58%) HTTP
7 1 (0.58%) Internet
7 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.76%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.40%) Data Lake
4 15 (8.67%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (8.67%) DynamoDB
5 14 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (7.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (6.36%) NoSQL
7 11 (6.36%) Power BI
8 9 (5.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (5.20%) SQL Server
9 8 (4.62%) BigQuery
9 8 (4.62%) Mixpanel
9 8 (4.62%) OLAP
9 8 (4.62%) OLTP
10 7 (4.05%) MySQL
11 6 (3.47%) Redis
11 6 (3.47%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.89%) Data Hub
12 5 (2.89%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 35 (20.23%) Jenkins
2 34 (19.65%) Git
3 28 (16.18%) GitLab
4 15 (8.67%) JIRA
5 4 (2.31%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.31%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.73%) JUnit
7 2 (1.16%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.16%) Snyk
7 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.58%) MLflow
8 1 (0.58%) Mocha
8 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.61%) Finance
4 9 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.05%) Banking
6 5 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Aviation
8 1 (0.58%) Games
8 1 (0.58%) Marketing
8 1 (0.58%) Military
8 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (18.50%) AWS Engineer
2 29 (16.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (15.03%) Architect
4 22 (12.72%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (12.72%) Senior
5 17 (9.83%) Data Engineer
6 15 (8.67%) AWS Architect
7 13 (7.51%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (7.51%) Developer
7 13 (7.51%) Site Engineer
8 12 (6.94%) Cloud Architect
8 12 (6.94%) Security Engineer
9 11 (6.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.36%) Lead
9 11 (6.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (6.36%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.20%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (3.47%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.92%) Kafka
2 15 (8.67%) RESTful
3 14 (8.09%) Node.js
4 13 (7.51%) Spring
5 12 (6.94%) Spring Boot
6 11 (6.36%) React
7 10 (5.78%) AWS CDK
8 9 (5.20%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (4.62%) Great Expectations
10 7 (4.05%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (4.05%) REST
11 6 (3.47%) OAuth
12 5 (2.89%) LangGraph
13 4 (2.31%) boto
13 4 (2.31%) gRPC
13 4 (2.31%) JPA
13 4 (2.31%) OAuth2
13 4 (2.31%) OpenID
13 4 (2.31%) Spring Cloud
13 4 (2.31%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (27.75%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.89%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.73%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.73%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.73%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.16%) NHS
5 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.58%) Equities
6 1 (0.58%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.58%) IoT
6 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.39%) Linux
2 7 (4.05%) Windows
3 4 (2.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.73%) VMS
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (74.57%) CI/CD
1 129 (74.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 92 (53.18%) DevOps
3 50 (28.90%) Containerisation
4 43 (24.86%) Observability
5 39 (22.54%) Agile
6 25 (14.45%) AI
6 25 (14.45%) Microservices
7 24 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (13.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 23 (13.29%) ETL
8 23 (13.29%) Software Engineering
9 22 (12.72%) Analytics
9 22 (12.72%) Data Modelling
10 20 (11.56%) Data Engineering
11 19 (10.98%) Cloud Security
12 18 (10.40%) Data Governance
13 17 (9.83%) Machine Learning
13 17 (9.83%) Migration
13 17 (9.83%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (47.98%) Python
2 33 (19.08%) SQL
3 24 (13.87%) Java
4 17 (9.83%) Bash
5 13 (7.51%) Ruby
6 12 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.36%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.78%) C#
8 10 (5.78%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.05%) Go
10 4 (2.31%) Scala
11 3 (1.73%) Bicep
12 2 (1.16%) Perl
13 1 (0.58%) C
Qualifications
1 51 (29.48%) Security Cleared
2 44 (25.43%) SC Cleared
3 27 (15.61%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.89%) CISSP
7 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.31%) Degree
8 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.73%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.73%) MCP
9 2 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.16%) CCSP
9 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.58%) OSCP
10 1 (0.58%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.29%) GDPR
2 13 (7.51%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (6.36%) QA
4 10 (5.78%) NIST
5 9 (5.20%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.89%) NCSC
7 3 (1.73%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.58%) GRC
9 1 (0.58%) MiFID
System Software
1 69 (39.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 149 (86.13%) Terraform
2 62 (35.84%) Kubernetes
3 25 (14.45%) Ansible
4 22 (12.72%) Grafana
5 11 (6.36%) Puppet
6 10 (5.78%) Packer
7 9 (5.20%) Consul
8 7 (4.05%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.89%) Karpenter
9 5 (2.89%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.31%) Kibana
11 2 (1.16%) Argo
11 2 (1.16%) Istio
11 2 (1.16%) Opsgenie
11 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.58%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (9.25%) Databricks
2 14 (8.09%) Google
2 14 (8.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.47%) PagerDuty
3 6 (3.47%) Splunk
4 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.31%) Oracle
6 3 (1.73%) Cisco
6 3 (1.73%) Citrix
6 3 (1.73%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.73%) IBM
6 3 (1.73%) Sybase
6 3 (1.73%) Tenable
7 2 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.16%) CloudEndure
7 2 (1.16%) New Relic
7 2 (1.16%) Qualys
7 2 (1.16%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.58%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.58%) Vermilion