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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 225 266
Rank change year-on-year +35 +41 -27
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 229 130 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 0.97% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.29% 2.34% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 101 92
10th Percentile £400 £380 £425
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £557
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +9.16% -7.25%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £663
90th Percentile £700 £800 £749
England median daily rate £530 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -12.76% +10.45% -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 6,953 5,559 6,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.00% 41.58% 37.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,776 3,759 4,999
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 52 80
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.54 £21.81
Median hourly rate £33.75 £32.75 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% +8.77% -6.64%
75th Percentile £51.81 £56.50 £53.31
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.13 £62.63
England median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.48
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.03% -14.08%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +6 20 £575 +7.48% 12
West London - 19 £603 -
South London -1 15 £525 -23.36% 3
East London - 1 £449 - 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 24 (10.48%) Apache Spark
2 22 (9.61%) Apache
3 14 (6.11%) Confluence
4 13 (5.68%) nginx
5 12 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (2.18%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.87%) SAS
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 222 (96.94%) AWS
2 95 (41.48%) Amazon S3
3 84 (36.68%) Serverless
4 79 (34.50%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (33.19%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (27.07%) GitHub
7 59 (25.76%) Azure
8 53 (23.14%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (22.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (20.52%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (18.78%) GCP
12 41 (17.90%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (15.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (12.23%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (12.23%) AWS CodePipeline
15 20 (8.73%) Route 53
16 18 (7.86%) Power Platform
17 17 (7.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 16 (6.99%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 16 (6.99%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.73%) DNS
2 9 (3.93%) Network Security
2 9 (3.93%) VPN
3 6 (2.62%) Firewall
4 3 (1.31%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.87%) BGP
5 2 (0.87%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.87%) OSPF
5 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.87%) WAN
6 1 (0.44%) 4G
6 1 (0.44%) 5G
6 1 (0.44%) HTTP
6 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.41%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (12.66%) Data Lake
3 27 (11.79%) Amazon Athena
4 25 (10.92%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (9.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (7.86%) Power BI
7 17 (7.42%) DynamoDB
8 15 (6.55%) BigQuery
8 15 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (6.55%) Mixpanel
8 15 (6.55%) SQL Server
9 14 (6.11%) OLAP
9 14 (6.11%) OLTP
10 10 (4.37%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.49%) Redshift Spectrum
12 7 (3.06%) MySQL
12 7 (3.06%) Redis
13 6 (2.62%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.62%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.18%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 47 (20.52%) Git
2 41 (17.90%) Jenkins
3 37 (16.16%) GitLab
4 17 (7.42%) JIRA
5 9 (3.93%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.18%) JUnit
7 4 (1.75%) Snyk
7 4 (1.75%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.31%) Vite
9 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.44%) MLflow
10 1 (0.44%) Mocha
General
1 55 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.85%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.54%) Finance
4 16 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.93%) Banking
5 9 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.87%) Marketing
8 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Aviation
9 1 (0.44%) Billing
9 1 (0.44%) Games
9 1 (0.44%) Military
9 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (18.34%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (17.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (15.72%) Architect
4 31 (13.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (11.35%) Data Engineer
5 26 (11.35%) Lead
6 25 (10.92%) Senior
7 19 (8.30%) Security Engineer
8 18 (7.86%) AWS Architect
8 18 (7.86%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (7.42%) Software Engineer
10 16 (6.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 16 (6.99%) Developer
11 15 (6.55%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (6.11%) Site Engineer
13 13 (5.68%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (5.24%) Principal Data Engineer
15 9 (3.93%) Java Engineer
16 8 (3.49%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (20.09%) Kafka
2 23 (10.04%) RESTful
3 18 (7.86%) Spring
4 17 (7.42%) Node.js
4 17 (7.42%) Spring Boot
5 16 (6.99%) AWS CDK
6 15 (6.55%) Great Expectations
7 13 (5.68%) React
8 10 (4.37%) OAuth
9 9 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.93%) PySpark
9 9 (3.93%) REST
10 8 (3.49%) .NET
10 8 (3.49%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (3.06%) boto
12 6 (2.62%) LangGraph
13 5 (2.18%) OAuth2
14 4 (1.75%) HTML
14 4 (1.75%) JSON
14 4 (1.75%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 75 (32.75%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.62%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.75%) Replication
5 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.31%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.87%) Equities
7 2 (0.87%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.87%) NHS
7 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.87%) SCADA
8 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.44%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.78%) Linux
2 12 (5.24%) Windows
3 6 (2.62%) Unix
4 3 (1.31%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (80.35%) CI/CD
2 168 (73.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 123 (53.71%) DevOps
4 63 (27.51%) Containerisation
5 59 (25.76%) Agile
6 58 (25.33%) Observability
7 41 (17.90%) AI
7 41 (17.90%) Analytics
7 41 (17.90%) Microservices
8 37 (16.16%) Data Modelling
9 36 (15.72%) ETL
10 35 (15.28%) Data Engineering
11 30 (13.10%) Software Engineering
12 29 (12.66%) Machine Learning
13 27 (11.79%) Cloud Security
13 27 (11.79%) Technical Leadership
14 26 (11.35%) Data Governance
14 26 (11.35%) Migration
14 26 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (10.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 116 (50.66%) Python
2 51 (22.27%) SQL
3 43 (18.78%) Java
4 22 (9.61%) Bash
5 18 (7.86%) C#
6 14 (6.11%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.24%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.24%) Ruby
8 10 (4.37%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.62%) Bicep
9 6 (2.62%) Go
10 4 (1.75%) Scala
11 3 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.87%) Perl
12 2 (0.87%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 68 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.07%) SC Cleared
3 43 (18.78%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.80%) Degree
5 8 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (3.06%) CISSP
7 5 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.75%) CCSP
8 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.31%) OSCP
9 3 (1.31%) SANS
10 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.41%) GDPR
2 22 (9.61%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.99%) NIST
4 15 (6.55%) QA
5 12 (5.24%) PCI DSS
6 11 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (2.18%) NCSC
8 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 94 (41.05%) Docker
2 3 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 196 (85.59%) Terraform
2 80 (34.93%) Kubernetes
3 25 (10.92%) Ansible
4 16 (6.99%) Grafana
5 12 (5.24%) Packer
5 12 (5.24%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.80%) Consul
7 10 (4.37%) Puppet
8 7 (3.06%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.18%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.75%) Kibana
11 2 (0.87%) Argo
11 2 (0.87%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 25 (10.92%) Databricks
2 24 (10.48%) Google
3 20 (8.73%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.93%) Splunk
5 6 (2.62%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.62%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.62%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.18%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.18%) New Relic
6 5 (2.18%) Oracle
6 5 (2.18%) Sybase
7 4 (1.75%) Qualys
7 4 (1.75%) Tenable
8 3 (1.31%) Citrix
8 3 (1.31%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.31%) IBM
9 2 (0.87%) Cisco
9 2 (0.87%) SAP
9 2 (0.87%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.87%) Vermilion