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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 214 266
Rank change year-on-year +2 +52 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 221 142 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.15% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.89% 2.70% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 112 93
10th Percentile £400 £401 £431
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £643 £653 £700
90th Percentile £697 £749 £780
England median daily rate £550 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% -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 7,634 5,263 6,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.40% 42.44% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,275 3,635 4,954
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% +21.43% -34.98%

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 16 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 16 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 - 22 £603 - 3
Central London +1 20 £625 -3.85% 13
South London -7 8 £500 -27.01%
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 23 (10.41%) Apache Spark
2 21 (9.50%) Apache
3 5 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.36%) Confluence
5 3 (1.36%) SAS
6 2 (0.90%) nginx
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Actimize
1 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 216 (97.74%) AWS
2 92 (41.63%) Amazon S3
3 81 (36.65%) Serverless
4 74 (33.48%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (33.48%) Azure
5 72 (32.58%) GitHub
6 67 (30.32%) Amazon ECS
7 58 (26.24%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (25.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 46 (20.81%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (19.91%) GCP
11 35 (15.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 33 (14.93%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (12.67%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (12.22%) AWS CodePipeline
15 18 (8.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (7.24%) Collibra
16 16 (7.24%) Power Platform
17 15 (6.79%) Route 53
18 14 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.95%) DNS
2 7 (3.17%) Network Security
3 6 (2.71%) Firewall
4 5 (2.26%) VPN
5 4 (1.81%) WAN
6 2 (0.90%) BGP
6 2 (0.90%) OSPF
6 2 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.45%) 4G
7 1 (0.45%) 5G
7 1 (0.45%) HTTP
7 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.22%) Amazon Athena
1 27 (12.22%) Data Lake
2 23 (10.41%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (7.24%) BigQuery
4 16 (7.24%) Mixpanel
4 16 (7.24%) Power BI
5 15 (6.79%) DynamoDB
5 15 (6.79%) OLAP
5 15 (6.79%) OLTP
6 14 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (4.52%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.62%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.17%) Redis
10 6 (2.71%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.71%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.26%) Metadata
11 5 (2.26%) Redshift Spectrum
12 4 (1.81%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 49 (22.17%) Jenkins
2 46 (20.81%) GitLab
3 37 (16.74%) Git
4 9 (4.07%) Snyk
5 7 (3.17%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.71%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.71%) JIRA
7 5 (2.26%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.81%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.36%) JUnit
9 3 (1.36%) MLflow
9 3 (1.36%) Vite
10 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.45%) Mocha
10 1 (0.45%) Mockito
10 1 (0.45%) Selenium
10 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (21.27%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 29 (13.12%) Finance
4 11 (4.98%) Banking
5 9 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Games
8 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.90%) Front Office
9 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.90%) Marketing
9 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.45%) Billing
10 1 (0.45%) Military
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (19.91%) Lead
2 40 (18.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (16.29%) Architect
4 35 (15.84%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (12.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (11.31%) Data Engineer
7 23 (10.41%) Senior
8 20 (9.05%) AWS Architect
9 19 (8.60%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (8.60%) Cloud Architect
10 18 (8.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (6.79%) Developer
12 14 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
12 14 (6.33%) Security Engineer
12 14 (6.33%) Software Engineer
13 13 (5.88%) Principal Data Engineer
14 10 (4.52%) Lead Data Engineer
14 10 (4.52%) Lead DevOps
14 10 (4.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 9 (4.07%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (18.55%) Kafka
2 25 (11.31%) RESTful
3 19 (8.60%) Node.js
4 18 (8.14%) Great Expectations
5 16 (7.24%) AWS CDK
5 16 (7.24%) Spring
6 15 (6.79%) Spring Boot
7 13 (5.88%) PySpark
7 13 (5.88%) React
8 11 (4.98%) OAuth
8 11 (4.98%) REST
9 10 (4.52%) .NET
9 10 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (3.62%) boto
11 7 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.71%) OAuth2
13 5 (2.26%) AngularJS
13 5 (2.26%) Pandas
14 4 (1.81%) Hibernate
14 4 (1.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 83 (37.56%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.52%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.81%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.81%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.81%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.81%) Replication
6 4 (1.81%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.36%) Equities
7 3 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.90%) SCADA
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.45%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.76%) Linux
2 9 (4.07%) Windows
3 2 (0.90%) Unix
3 2 (0.90%) VMS
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 176 (79.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 135 (61.09%) DevOps
4 68 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 61 (27.60%) Observability
6 48 (21.72%) Agile
7 43 (19.46%) AI
8 39 (17.65%) Microservices
9 37 (16.74%) Analytics
10 36 (16.29%) Data Engineering
11 31 (14.03%) Data Modelling
11 31 (14.03%) ETL
11 31 (14.03%) High Availability
12 29 (13.12%) Event-Driven
13 28 (12.67%) Migration
14 27 (12.22%) DevSecOps
14 27 (12.22%) Machine Learning
14 27 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
15 26 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 101 (45.70%) Python
2 43 (19.46%) SQL
3 41 (18.55%) Java
4 21 (9.50%) Bash
5 19 (8.60%) C#
6 17 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.98%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.52%) Bicep
8 10 (4.52%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.62%) Ruby
10 5 (2.26%) Go
11 3 (1.36%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.90%) Scala
13 1 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 63 (28.51%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.24%) SC Cleared
3 34 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.79%) Degree
5 14 (6.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.81%) CISSP
8 4 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.36%) CCSP
9 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.36%) OSCP
9 3 (1.36%) SANS
10 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.22%) GDPR
2 22 (9.95%) Data Quality
3 18 (8.14%) NIST
4 16 (7.24%) QA
5 11 (4.98%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (2.26%) NCSC
8 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.90%) GRC
10 1 (0.45%) MiFID
10 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (37.10%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 197 (89.14%) Terraform
2 82 (37.10%) Kubernetes
3 24 (10.86%) Ansible
4 23 (10.41%) Prometheus
5 19 (8.60%) Grafana
6 7 (3.17%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.71%) Puppet
8 4 (1.81%) Karpenter
8 4 (1.81%) Kibana
9 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.90%) Consul
10 2 (0.90%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.90%) Packer
11 1 (0.45%) Argo
11 1 (0.45%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 24 (10.86%) Databricks
2 22 (9.95%) Google
3 14 (6.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.62%) Splunk
5 6 (2.71%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.26%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.26%) New Relic
6 5 (2.26%) Oracle
7 4 (1.81%) Citrix
7 4 (1.81%) Qualys
7 4 (1.81%) Tenable
8 2 (0.90%) Globalscape
8 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.90%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.90%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.90%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.90%) Solace
8 2 (0.90%) Sybase
8 2 (0.90%) Vermilion
8 2 (0.90%) Zscaler