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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 240 267
Rank change year-on-year +47 +27 -34
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 205 123 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 0.88% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.16% 2.13% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 95 94
10th Percentile £400 £380 £416
25th Percentile £463 £534 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £648 £788 £675
90th Percentile £710 £821 £750
England median daily rate £545 £608 £563
% change year-on-year -10.29% +8.00% -6.25%

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 6,485 5,767 6,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.40% 41.25% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,459 3,862 4,988
10th Percentile £350 £351 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £780 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 48 69
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.61 £30.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% -5.25% +25.75%
75th Percentile £56.38 £45.65 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.46 £23.22
% change year-on-year +5.43% +22.57% +0.28%

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 22 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 22 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 +16 20 £569 +7.31% 12
West London - 15 £603 - 3
South London +3 11 £528 -22.99% 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 16 (7.80%) Apache Spark
2 15 (7.32%) Apache
3 14 (6.83%) Confluence
4 13 (6.34%) nginx
5 12 (5.85%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 195 (95.12%) AWS
2 81 (39.51%) Amazon S3
3 75 (36.59%) Serverless
4 72 (35.12%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (33.66%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (29.76%) GitHub
7 51 (24.88%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (23.41%) Azure
9 47 (22.93%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (18.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (16.59%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (16.59%) GCP
12 32 (15.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 20 (9.76%) AWS CodePipeline
14 19 (9.27%) Amazon SQS
15 17 (8.29%) Route 53
16 16 (7.80%) Amazon Kinesis
17 15 (7.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 15 (7.32%) Datadog
18 13 (6.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.80%) DNS
2 10 (4.88%) VPN
3 7 (3.41%) Network Security
4 6 (2.93%) Firewall
5 3 (1.46%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.98%) BGP
6 2 (0.98%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.98%) OSPF
6 2 (0.98%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.98%) SSL
6 2 (0.98%) WAN
7 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.10%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (10.24%) Data Lake
4 18 (8.78%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (8.29%) DynamoDB
6 16 (7.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (6.34%) Power BI
9 12 (5.85%) NoSQL
10 11 (5.37%) SQL Server
11 10 (4.88%) BigQuery
11 10 (4.88%) Mixpanel
11 10 (4.88%) OLAP
11 10 (4.88%) OLTP
12 7 (3.41%) MySQL
13 6 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.93%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.44%) Data Hub
14 5 (2.44%) DocumentDB
14 5 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (20.98%) Git
2 40 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 34 (16.59%) GitLab
4 17 (8.29%) JIRA
5 4 (1.95%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.95%) JUnit
5 4 (1.95%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.46%) Snyk
7 2 (0.98%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.49%) MLflow
8 1 (0.49%) Mocha
8 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.49%) Vite
General
1 49 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.63%) Finance
3 29 (14.15%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.41%) Banking
5 7 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.98%) Marketing
9 1 (0.49%) Aviation
9 1 (0.49%) Games
9 1 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (19.51%) AWS Engineer
2 38 (18.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (14.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (14.15%) Architect
5 23 (11.22%) Senior
6 22 (10.73%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.29%) AWS Architect
7 17 (8.29%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (8.29%) Security Engineer
8 15 (7.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 15 (7.32%) Developer
8 15 (7.32%) Lead
9 14 (6.83%) Cloud Architect
9 14 (6.83%) Site Engineer
10 13 (6.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 13 (6.34%) Software Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Java Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (3.90%) Principal Data Engineer
13 7 (3.41%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.54%) Kafka
2 20 (9.76%) RESTful
3 17 (8.29%) Spring
4 16 (7.80%) Spring Boot
5 15 (7.32%) Node.js
6 14 (6.83%) AWS CDK
7 10 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (4.88%) Great Expectations
7 10 (4.88%) React
8 8 (3.90%) REST
9 7 (3.41%) .NET
9 7 (3.41%) OAuth
9 7 (3.41%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.93%) LangGraph
11 5 (2.44%) boto
12 4 (1.95%) gRPC
12 4 (1.95%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.95%) PySpark
12 4 (1.95%) Spring Cloud
12 4 (1.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 64 (31.22%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.41%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.46%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.46%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.98%) Equities
6 2 (0.98%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.98%) NHS
6 2 (0.98%) SCADA
7 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (21.46%) Linux
2 11 (5.37%) Windows
3 6 (2.93%) Unix
4 3 (1.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (78.05%) CI/CD
2 151 (73.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 110 (53.66%) DevOps
4 66 (32.20%) Containerisation
5 51 (24.88%) Observability
6 50 (24.39%) Agile
7 34 (16.59%) Microservices
8 33 (16.10%) AI
9 30 (14.63%) Analytics
10 27 (13.17%) Data Modelling
10 27 (13.17%) ETL
10 27 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (12.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (12.20%) Data Engineering
12 25 (12.20%) Software Engineering
13 23 (11.22%) Cloud Security
14 22 (10.73%) DevSecOps
14 22 (10.73%) High Availability
15 21 (10.24%) Data Governance
15 21 (10.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 99 (48.29%) Python
2 41 (20.00%) SQL
3 37 (18.05%) Java
4 22 (10.73%) Bash
5 12 (5.85%) C#
5 12 (5.85%) PowerShell
6 11 (5.37%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.37%) Ruby
6 11 (5.37%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.41%) Go
8 4 (1.95%) Bicep
8 4 (1.95%) Scala
9 2 (0.98%) Perl
10 1 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 60 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 37 (18.05%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.39%) Degree
6 8 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.41%) CISSP
8 5 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.95%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.95%) CCSP
9 4 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.95%) MCP
10 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.46%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.46%) OSCP
10 3 (1.46%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.66%) GDPR
2 15 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.32%) QA
3 13 (6.34%) NIST
4 12 (5.85%) PCI DSS
5 11 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.44%) NCSC
7 3 (1.46%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.49%) GRC
9 1 (0.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 90 (43.90%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 174 (84.88%) Terraform
2 79 (38.54%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.63%) Ansible
4 19 (9.27%) Grafana
5 13 (6.34%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.85%) Packer
6 12 (5.85%) Puppet
7 11 (5.37%) Consul
8 8 (3.90%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.44%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.95%) Kibana
11 2 (0.98%) Argo
11 2 (0.98%) Istio
11 2 (0.98%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.49%) linkerd
Vendors
1 20 (9.76%) Databricks
2 19 (9.27%) Google
3 16 (7.80%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.90%) Splunk
5 6 (2.93%) PagerDuty
6 5 (2.44%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.44%) New Relic
6 5 (2.44%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.95%) Oracle
7 4 (1.95%) Sybase
7 4 (1.95%) Tenable
8 3 (1.46%) Cisco
8 3 (1.46%) Citrix
8 3 (1.46%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.46%) IBM
8 3 (1.46%) Qualys
9 2 (0.98%) SAP
9 2 (0.98%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.98%) Vermilion