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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 192 280
Rank change year-on-year +7 +88 -18
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 239 163 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.30% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 3.07% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 131 89
10th Percentile £400 £400 £446
25th Percentile £453 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £638 £672 £738
90th Percentile £680 £788 £780
England median daily rate £530 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £79.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +127.14% - -

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 7,601 5,314 6,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.88% 42.36% 37.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,243 3,693 4,977
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 52 71
10th Percentile £19.21 £22.40 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £38.44
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.13 £58.75
England median hourly rate £46.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +80.39% +22.77% -35.70%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 - 20 £603 - 2
Central London -4 19 £630 -3.08% 7
South London -6 12 £528 -22.99%
East London - 2 £441 - 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 26 (10.88%) Apache Spark
2 22 (9.21%) Apache
3 8 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.51%) Confluence
5 5 (2.09%) nginx
5 5 (2.09%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Actimize
1 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 234 (97.91%) AWS
2 98 (41.00%) Amazon S3
3 85 (35.56%) Serverless
4 79 (33.05%) AWS Lambda
5 77 (32.22%) Azure
6 74 (30.96%) GitHub
7 73 (30.54%) Amazon ECS
8 59 (24.69%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (22.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 49 (20.50%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (19.25%) GCP
12 37 (15.48%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (15.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (12.13%) AWS CodePipeline
15 28 (11.72%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (7.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 19 (7.95%) Power Platform
16 19 (7.95%) Route 53
17 16 (6.69%) Collibra
18 14 (5.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.79%) DNS
2 9 (3.77%) Network Security
3 8 (3.35%) VPN
4 6 (2.51%) Firewall
5 3 (1.26%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.84%) BGP
6 2 (0.84%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.84%) OSPF
6 2 (0.84%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.84%) WAN
7 1 (0.42%) 4G
7 1 (0.42%) 5G
7 1 (0.42%) HTTP
7 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.81%) Data Lake
2 29 (12.13%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (11.30%) Amazon Athena
4 25 (10.46%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (7.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (7.95%) Power BI
6 16 (6.69%) BigQuery
6 16 (6.69%) Mixpanel
7 15 (6.28%) DynamoDB
7 15 (6.28%) OLAP
7 15 (6.28%) OLTP
8 14 (5.86%) SQL Server
9 12 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (4.18%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.35%) Redshift Spectrum
12 7 (2.93%) Redis
13 6 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.51%) MongoDB
14 5 (2.09%) Big Data
14 5 (2.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (20.92%) Jenkins
2 46 (19.25%) GitLab
3 45 (18.83%) Git
4 9 (3.77%) Snyk
5 8 (3.35%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.35%) JIRA
6 6 (2.51%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.09%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.67%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.26%) JUnit
9 3 (1.26%) MLflow
9 3 (1.26%) Vite
10 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.42%) Mocha
11 1 (0.42%) Mockito
11 1 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 53 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.74%) Public Sector
3 34 (14.23%) Finance
4 12 (5.02%) Banking
5 10 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.26%) Games
8 3 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.84%) Front Office
9 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Marketing
9 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Billing
10 1 (0.42%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (18.41%) AWS Engineer
2 42 (17.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (16.74%) Lead
4 37 (15.48%) Architect
5 29 (12.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 29 (12.13%) Data Engineer
6 26 (10.88%) Senior
7 22 (9.21%) AWS DevOps
8 21 (8.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 20 (8.37%) AWS Architect
10 17 (7.11%) Cloud Architect
10 17 (7.11%) Developer
11 16 (6.69%) Site Engineer
11 16 (6.69%) Software Engineer
12 15 (6.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (5.86%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (5.86%) Security Engineer
14 13 (5.44%) Principal Data Engineer
15 10 (4.18%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (3.35%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (19.25%) Kafka
2 28 (11.72%) RESTful
3 22 (9.21%) Node.js
4 18 (7.53%) Great Expectations
5 17 (7.11%) Spring
6 16 (6.69%) Spring Boot
7 15 (6.28%) AWS CDK
8 14 (5.86%) React
9 13 (5.44%) PySpark
10 12 (5.02%) REST
11 11 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (4.60%) OAuth
12 10 (4.18%) .NET
13 8 (3.35%) boto
13 8 (3.35%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (2.51%) LangGraph
14 6 (2.51%) OAuth2
15 5 (2.09%) AngularJS
15 5 (2.09%) Pandas
15 5 (2.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 81 (33.89%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.51%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.67%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.67%) Replication
7 3 (1.26%) Equities
7 3 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.26%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.84%) SCADA
8 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.06%) Linux
2 9 (3.77%) Windows
3 3 (1.26%) VMS
4 2 (0.84%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (86.19%) CI/CD
2 186 (77.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 140 (58.58%) DevOps
4 76 (31.80%) Containerisation
5 64 (26.78%) Observability
6 58 (24.27%) Agile
7 45 (18.83%) AI
8 43 (17.99%) Analytics
9 41 (17.15%) Microservices
10 39 (16.32%) Data Engineering
11 37 (15.48%) ETL
12 36 (15.06%) Data Modelling
13 32 (13.39%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (12.55%) Event-Driven
14 30 (12.55%) High Availability
14 30 (12.55%) Machine Learning
14 30 (12.55%) Software Engineering
15 29 (12.13%) Migration
16 28 (11.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 27 (11.30%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 117 (48.95%) Python
2 50 (20.92%) SQL
3 44 (18.41%) Java
4 23 (9.62%) Bash
5 19 (7.95%) C#
6 16 (6.69%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.02%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.02%) Ruby
8 11 (4.60%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.18%) Bicep
10 5 (2.09%) Go
11 3 (1.26%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.26%) Scala
11 3 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.42%) C
12 1 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (29.71%) Security Cleared
2 65 (27.20%) SC Cleared
3 43 (17.99%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.69%) Degree
5 14 (5.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.51%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (2.09%) CISSP
9 4 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.67%) CCSP
9 4 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.26%) OSCP
10 3 (1.26%) SANS
11 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.23%) GDPR
2 25 (10.46%) Data Quality
3 18 (7.53%) NIST
4 17 (7.11%) QA
5 12 (5.02%) PCI DSS
6 9 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.67%) NCSC
8 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.84%) GRC
8 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.42%) MiFID
9 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 95 (39.75%) Docker
2 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.42%) HDFS
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 211 (88.28%) Terraform
2 86 (35.98%) Kubernetes
3 31 (12.97%) Ansible
4 23 (9.62%) Grafana
4 23 (9.62%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.18%) Puppet
6 7 (2.93%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.09%) Consul
7 5 (2.09%) Packer
8 4 (1.67%) Karpenter
8 4 (1.67%) Kibana
9 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.84%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.42%) Argo
11 1 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.42%) Nessus
Vendors
1 29 (12.13%) Databricks
2 23 (9.62%) Google
3 16 (6.69%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.77%) Splunk
5 6 (2.51%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.51%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.09%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.09%) New Relic
6 5 (2.09%) Oracle
7 4 (1.67%) Qualys
7 4 (1.67%) Tenable
8 3 (1.26%) Citrix
8 3 (1.26%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.84%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.84%) IBM
9 2 (0.84%) SAP
9 2 (0.84%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.84%) Solace
9 2 (0.84%) Sybase
9 2 (0.84%) Vermilion