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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 190 244
Rank change year-on-year +4 +54 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 252 164 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 1.30% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.36% 3.05% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 131 105
10th Percentile £400 £400 £431
25th Percentile £463 £519 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £638 £713 £690
90th Percentile £690 £788 £768
England median daily rate £530 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -8.33%

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 7,492 5,374 6,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.33% 42.51% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,152 3,739 4,948
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 51 76
10th Percentile £18.30 £22.27 £17.39
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.50 £41.19
90th Percentile £69.87 £73.75 £61.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -23.78%

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 April 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 April 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
West London - 22 £603 - 3
Central London -3 20 £600 - 11
South London -2 14 £528 -22.99%
East London - 2 £441 - 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 29 (11.51%) Apache Spark
2 26 (10.32%) Apache
3 14 (5.56%) Confluence
4 13 (5.16%) nginx
5 11 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.98%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.19%) SAS
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Actimize
1 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 246 (97.62%) AWS
2 104 (41.27%) Amazon S3
3 89 (35.32%) Serverless
4 83 (32.94%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (30.16%) Amazon ECS
5 76 (30.16%) Azure
6 71 (28.17%) GitHub
7 56 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
8 55 (21.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 50 (19.84%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (18.25%) GCP
11 41 (16.27%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (15.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 33 (13.10%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (11.51%) AWS CodePipeline
15 21 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 21 (8.33%) Power Platform
16 20 (7.94%) Route 53
17 18 (7.14%) Collibra
18 16 (6.35%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.33%) DNS
2 9 (3.57%) Network Security
3 8 (3.17%) VPN
4 7 (2.78%) Firewall
5 3 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.79%) BGP
6 2 (0.79%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.79%) OSPF
6 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.79%) WAN
7 1 (0.40%) 4G
7 1 (0.40%) 5G
7 1 (0.40%) HTTP
7 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.10%) Amazon RDS
1 33 (13.10%) Data Lake
2 31 (12.30%) Amazon Athena
3 26 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 21 (8.33%) Power BI
5 18 (7.14%) BigQuery
5 18 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 18 (7.14%) Mixpanel
6 17 (6.75%) OLAP
6 17 (6.75%) OLTP
7 15 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (5.56%) SQL Server
9 11 (4.37%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.17%) Redshift Spectrum
11 7 (2.78%) Redis
12 6 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (2.38%) MongoDB
12 6 (2.38%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.98%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 55 (21.83%) Git
2 48 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 45 (17.86%) GitLab
4 18 (7.14%) JIRA
5 9 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.78%) Snyk
7 6 (2.38%) JUnit
8 4 (1.59%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.59%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.19%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.19%) Vite
10 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.40%) MLflow
10 1 (0.40%) Mocha
10 1 (0.40%) Mockito
10 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 59 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.06%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.10%) Finance
4 15 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.76%) Banking
6 9 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.19%) Games
8 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.79%) Front Office
9 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.79%) Marketing
9 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Billing
10 1 (0.40%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (18.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (17.46%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (15.48%) Lead
4 35 (13.89%) Architect
5 30 (11.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (11.90%) Data Engineer
6 29 (11.51%) Senior
7 23 (9.13%) AWS DevOps
8 21 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 21 (8.33%) Developer
9 19 (7.54%) AWS Architect
10 18 (7.14%) Software Engineer
11 16 (6.35%) Principal Engineer
11 16 (6.35%) Site Engineer
12 15 (5.95%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (5.95%) Principal Data Engineer
12 15 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (5.56%) Security Engineer
14 10 (3.97%) Lead Data Engineer
15 8 (3.17%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (19.84%) Kafka
2 28 (11.11%) RESTful
3 23 (9.13%) Node.js
4 20 (7.94%) Spring
5 19 (7.54%) Great Expectations
5 19 (7.54%) Spring Boot
6 16 (6.35%) AWS CDK
7 14 (5.56%) React
8 12 (4.76%) PySpark
8 12 (4.76%) REST
9 11 (4.37%) OAuth
10 10 (3.97%) .NET
10 10 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (3.17%) boto
13 6 (2.38%) LangGraph
13 6 (2.38%) OAuth2
14 5 (1.98%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.98%) Vue
15 4 (1.59%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 83 (32.94%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (1.59%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.59%) Replication
6 3 (1.19%) Equities
6 3 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.19%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.79%) SCADA
7 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.46%) Linux
2 9 (3.57%) Windows
3 3 (1.19%) VMS
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (82.94%) CI/CD
2 188 (74.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 146 (57.94%) DevOps
4 76 (30.16%) Containerisation
5 70 (27.78%) Agile
6 67 (26.59%) Observability
7 46 (18.25%) AI
7 46 (18.25%) Analytics
7 46 (18.25%) Microservices
8 40 (15.87%) Data Engineering
8 40 (15.87%) Data Modelling
8 40 (15.87%) ETL
9 32 (12.70%) Machine Learning
9 32 (12.70%) Software Engineering
10 31 (12.30%) Event-Driven
11 30 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
12 29 (11.51%) High Availability
13 28 (11.11%) Data Governance
13 28 (11.11%) Migration
13 28 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 124 (49.21%) Python
2 57 (22.62%) SQL
3 48 (19.05%) Java
4 24 (9.52%) Bash
5 21 (8.33%) C#
6 17 (6.75%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.16%) Ruby
8 12 (4.76%) JavaScript
9 11 (4.37%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.57%) Bicep
11 5 (1.98%) Go
12 4 (1.59%) Scala
13 3 (1.19%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.79%) Perl
15 1 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 78 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 71 (28.17%) SC Cleared
3 43 (17.06%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.95%) Degree
5 12 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.98%) CISSP
10 4 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.59%) CCSP
10 4 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.19%) OSCP
11 3 (1.19%) SANS
12 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.29%) GDPR
2 27 (10.71%) Data Quality
3 18 (7.14%) NIST
4 17 (6.75%) QA
5 12 (4.76%) PCI DSS
6 9 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.59%) NCSC
8 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.79%) GRC
8 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.40%) MiFID
9 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 103 (40.87%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 220 (87.30%) Terraform
2 93 (36.90%) Kubernetes
3 30 (11.90%) Ansible
4 22 (8.73%) Grafana
5 21 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.76%) Packer
7 11 (4.37%) Consul
8 10 (3.97%) Puppet
9 7 (2.78%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.98%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.59%) Kibana
12 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.79%) Argo
13 2 (0.79%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 29 (11.51%) Databricks
2 26 (10.32%) Google
3 16 (6.35%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.97%) Splunk
5 6 (2.38%) Oracle
5 6 (2.38%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.38%) Rapid7
6 5 (1.98%) AVEVA
6 5 (1.98%) New Relic
6 5 (1.98%) Sybase
7 4 (1.59%) Qualys
7 4 (1.59%) Tenable
8 3 (1.19%) Citrix
8 3 (1.19%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.79%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.79%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.79%) IBM
9 2 (0.79%) SAP
9 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.79%) Solace