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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 279 285
Rank change year-on-year +67 +6 -43
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 163 102 145
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 0.65% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.64% 1.59% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 61 105
10th Percentile £413 £375 £413
25th Percentile £481 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £650 £551
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +18.07% -11.92%
75th Percentile £645 £788 £656
90th Percentile £731 - £738
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.50% -8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Cloud 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 6,165 6,417 7,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.96% 38.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,168 4,355 5,805
10th Percentile £350 £350 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 36 70
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.19 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £33.75 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% -12.05% +39.55%
75th Percentile £41.25 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.13 £85.16
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 +5 10 £550 +3.77% 105
South London - 4 £515 - 9
West London - 3 £603 - 4
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 25 (15.34%) Confluence
2 24 (14.72%) nginx
3 12 (7.36%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (6.13%) Apache Spark
5 8 (4.91%) Apache
6 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.61%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 148 (90.80%) AWS
2 57 (34.97%) Serverless
3 53 (32.52%) AWS Lambda
4 51 (31.29%) Amazon S3
5 45 (27.61%) GitHub
6 38 (23.31%) Amazon ECS
7 37 (22.70%) Azure
8 35 (21.47%) Amazon EC2
8 35 (21.47%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (14.72%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (13.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (12.88%) GCP
12 18 (11.04%) Amazon Kinesis
13 16 (9.82%) AWS Fargate
14 14 (8.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (7.98%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (6.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 11 (6.75%) Datadog
17 10 (6.13%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (6.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.52%) VPN
2 7 (4.29%) Firewall
3 6 (3.68%) DNS
3 6 (3.68%) Network Security
4 4 (2.45%) SSL
5 3 (1.84%) DHCP
6 1 (0.61%) HTTP
6 1 (0.61%) Internet
6 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.72%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (11.04%) DynamoDB
3 14 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (7.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.52%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (5.52%) Data Lake
6 9 (5.52%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.68%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (3.07%) DB2
8 5 (3.07%) Power BI
8 5 (3.07%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.07%) Redshift Spectrum
9 4 (2.45%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.84%) MySQL
10 3 (1.84%) Tableau
11 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (31.29%) Git
2 42 (25.77%) Jenkins
3 29 (17.79%) JIRA
4 18 (11.04%) GitLab
5 10 (6.13%) Artifactory
5 10 (6.13%) JUnit
6 6 (3.68%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.07%) Maven
7 5 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.84%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.84%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.61%) git-flow
9 1 (0.61%) Gradle
9 1 (0.61%) Snyk
9 1 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 34 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.72%) Public Sector
3 20 (12.27%) Finance
4 16 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.68%) Banking
6 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.23%) Aviation
8 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.61%) Games
8 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Marketing
8 1 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (23.93%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (15.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (15.34%) Senior
3 19 (11.66%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (11.04%) Developer
5 16 (9.82%) Lead
5 16 (9.82%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (9.20%) Architect
7 13 (7.98%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (7.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 13 (7.98%) Data Engineer
8 11 (6.75%) AWS Developer
8 11 (6.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.75%) Technical Leader
9 9 (5.52%) Consultant
9 9 (5.52%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.91%) Site Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.82%) Kafka
2 13 (7.98%) AWS CDK
3 12 (7.36%) Spring
4 8 (4.91%) Node.js
4 8 (4.91%) Spring Boot
5 7 (4.29%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.68%) React
7 5 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.07%) Jest
8 4 (2.45%) RESTful
9 3 (1.84%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.84%) JSON
9 3 (1.84%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.84%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (1.23%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.23%) Great Expectations
10 2 (1.23%) Next.js
10 2 (1.23%) Serverless Framework
10 2 (1.23%) Sidekiq
10 2 (1.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (2.45%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.45%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.23%) NHS
4 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.61%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.61%) IoT
5 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (25.15%) Linux
2 7 (4.29%) Windows
3 4 (2.45%) Unix
4 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.61%) VMS
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (62.58%) CI/CD
2 101 (61.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 87 (53.37%) DevOps
4 60 (36.81%) Agile
5 52 (31.90%) Containerisation
6 26 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (15.34%) Observability
8 18 (11.04%) Microservices
8 18 (11.04%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (10.43%) ETL
9 17 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (9.82%) Migration
10 16 (9.82%) Scrum
11 15 (9.20%) Configuration Management
11 15 (9.20%) Data Modelling
11 15 (9.20%) DevSecOps
11 15 (9.20%) Mentoring
12 14 (8.59%) Analytics
12 14 (8.59%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (8.59%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 74 (45.40%) Python
2 26 (15.95%) SQL
3 21 (12.88%) PowerShell
4 18 (11.04%) Bash
5 17 (10.43%) Go
5 17 (10.43%) Java
6 12 (7.36%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.75%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.91%) Groovy
9 7 (4.29%) Ruby
10 6 (3.68%) C#
11 4 (2.45%) C++
11 4 (2.45%) Scala
12 3 (1.84%) PromQL
13 2 (1.23%) CodeQL
13 2 (1.23%) Perl
13 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 61 (37.42%) Security Cleared
2 53 (32.52%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.50%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.45%) Degree
7 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.23%) CISSP
9 1 (0.61%) CISM
9 1 (0.61%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.82%) GDPR
2 10 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.91%) QA
4 5 (3.07%) HIPAA
4 5 (3.07%) NIST
5 4 (2.45%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 77 (47.24%) Docker
2 3 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.61%) iptables
4 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 140 (85.89%) Terraform
2 76 (46.63%) Kubernetes
3 28 (17.18%) Ansible
4 23 (14.11%) Packer
5 22 (13.50%) Consul
6 16 (9.82%) Grafana
7 13 (7.98%) Puppet
8 8 (4.91%) Prometheus
9 6 (3.68%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.23%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.23%) Istio
10 2 (1.23%) Nessus
10 2 (1.23%) SELinux
11 1 (0.61%) Argo
11 1 (0.61%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.61%) linkerd
11 1 (0.61%) Podman
11 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (6.13%) ServiceNow
2 8 (4.91%) CA Agile Central
3 7 (4.29%) Google
4 6 (3.68%) Databricks
5 5 (3.07%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.07%) Sybase
6 4 (2.45%) Splunk
7 2 (1.23%) Cisco
7 2 (1.23%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.23%) IBM
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle
7 2 (1.23%) Pega
7 2 (1.23%) Qualys
7 2 (1.23%) Teradata
8 1 (0.61%) Informatica
8 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.61%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.61%) Tenable