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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 259 280
Rank change year-on-year +50 +21 -46
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 185 131 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 0.83% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.94% 2.03% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 95 99
10th Percentile £410 £377 £413
25th Percentile £463 £528 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +15.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £689
90th Percentile £716 £795 £750
England median daily rate £525 £621 £563
% change year-on-year -15.49% +10.44% -6.25%

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 6,289 6,467 7,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.77% 40.95% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,290 4,410 5,466
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £424 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 38 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +23.77%
75th Percentile £46.56 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.63
England median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% +26.00% +11.11%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 +6 16 £550 +2.80% 8
South London - 10 £530 - 2
West London - 9 £603 - 3
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 20 (10.81%) Confluence
2 19 (10.27%) nginx
3 14 (7.57%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (7.03%) Apache Spark
5 12 (6.49%) Apache
6 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 172 (92.97%) AWS
2 66 (35.68%) Amazon S3
3 65 (35.14%) Serverless
4 61 (32.97%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (29.19%) Amazon ECS
6 46 (24.86%) GitHub
7 39 (21.08%) Azure
8 38 (20.54%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (19.46%) Amazon EC2
10 34 (18.38%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (12.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (10.81%) GCP
13 18 (9.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (8.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 15 (8.11%) Amazon Kinesis
16 14 (7.57%) AWS Fargate
16 14 (7.57%) Datadog
17 13 (7.03%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (7.03%) AWS KMS
17 13 (7.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.41%) VPN
2 9 (4.86%) DNS
3 8 (4.32%) Network Security
4 6 (3.24%) Firewall
5 4 (2.16%) SSL
6 3 (1.62%) DHCP
7 2 (1.08%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.54%) HTTP
8 1 (0.54%) Internet
8 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.68%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (9.73%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (9.19%) DynamoDB
5 16 (8.65%) Data Lake
6 14 (7.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (7.03%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (4.86%) Relational Database
9 8 (4.32%) Power BI
10 7 (3.78%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (2.70%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.70%) Data Hub
11 5 (2.70%) DB2
11 5 (2.70%) Mixpanel
11 5 (2.70%) OLAP
11 5 (2.70%) OLTP
11 5 (2.70%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.70%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 48 (25.95%) Git
2 37 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 23 (12.43%) JIRA
4 21 (11.35%) GitLab
5 7 (3.78%) JUnit
6 5 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.16%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.08%) Maven
9 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.54%) MLflow
10 1 (0.54%) Mocha
10 1 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 43 (23.24%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 23 (12.43%) Finance
4 16 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.24%) Banking
6 3 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.54%) Aviation
7 1 (0.54%) Games
7 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Military
7 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (23.24%) AWS Engineer
2 31 (16.76%) Senior
3 28 (15.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (11.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (10.27%) Lead
6 18 (9.73%) Architect
7 17 (9.19%) Data Engineer
8 16 (8.65%) Developer
8 16 (8.65%) Site Engineer
9 14 (7.57%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (7.57%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (7.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 12 (6.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.49%) Security Engineer
11 11 (5.95%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.41%) Technical Leader
13 9 (4.86%) AWS Developer
14 8 (4.32%) AWS Architect
15 7 (3.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.97%) Kafka
2 13 (7.03%) AWS CDK
2 13 (7.03%) Spring
3 12 (6.49%) Node.js
4 11 (5.95%) Spring Boot
5 10 (5.41%) RESTful
6 7 (3.78%) React
7 5 (2.70%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.70%) Great Expectations
7 5 (2.70%) JSON
8 3 (1.62%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.62%) Jest
8 3 (1.62%) LangGraph
8 3 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.62%) REST
8 3 (1.62%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (1.62%) YAML
9 2 (1.08%) Sidekiq
9 2 (1.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 44 (23.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.16%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.62%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.08%) NHS
6 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.54%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.54%) IoT
6 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.54%) Ray Tracing
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (24.86%) Linux
2 7 (3.78%) Windows
3 4 (2.16%) Unix
4 3 (1.62%) VMS
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (69.19%) CI/CD
2 123 (66.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 98 (52.97%) DevOps
4 62 (33.51%) Containerisation
5 58 (31.35%) Agile
6 33 (17.84%) Observability
7 29 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (14.05%) Microservices
9 23 (12.43%) ETL
10 22 (11.89%) Software Engineering
10 22 (11.89%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (11.35%) Analytics
11 21 (11.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 20 (10.81%) Data Modelling
12 20 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (10.27%) AI
13 19 (10.27%) Data Governance
13 19 (10.27%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (9.73%) Migration
15 17 (9.19%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (46.49%) Python
2 34 (18.38%) SQL
3 21 (11.35%) Bash
4 20 (10.81%) Java
5 14 (7.57%) Go
6 12 (6.49%) Ruby
6 12 (6.49%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.95%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.86%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.78%) C#
10 5 (2.70%) Scala
11 3 (1.62%) Bicep
11 3 (1.62%) PromQL
12 2 (1.08%) C++
12 2 (1.08%) Groovy
12 2 (1.08%) Perl
13 1 (0.54%) C
Qualifications
1 66 (35.68%) Security Cleared
2 55 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 29 (15.68%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.24%) Degree
6 4 (2.16%) CISSP
7 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.08%) CCSP
8 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CISM
9 1 (0.54%) MCP
9 1 (0.54%) OSCP
9 1 (0.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.89%) GDPR
2 14 (7.57%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.32%) QA
4 7 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.24%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.70%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.70%) NIST
7 4 (2.16%) NCSC
8 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.54%) GRC
9 1 (0.54%) MiFID
System Software
1 79 (42.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.54%) HDFS
3 1 (0.54%) iptables
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 157 (84.86%) Terraform
2 73 (39.46%) Kubernetes
3 25 (13.51%) Ansible
4 23 (12.43%) Grafana
5 18 (9.73%) Packer
6 17 (9.19%) Consul
7 14 (7.57%) Puppet
8 10 (5.41%) Prometheus
9 7 (3.78%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.08%) Istio
10 2 (1.08%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.08%) SELinux
11 1 (0.54%) Argo
11 1 (0.54%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.54%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.54%) linkerd
11 1 (0.54%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (6.49%) Databricks
1 12 (6.49%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.95%) Google
3 8 (4.32%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.78%) Splunk
5 6 (3.24%) PagerDuty
6 5 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (2.70%) Sybase
7 3 (1.62%) Cisco
7 3 (1.62%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.62%) IBM
8 2 (1.08%) Citrix
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle
8 2 (1.08%) Pega
8 2 (1.08%) Teradata
9 1 (0.54%) New Relic
9 1 (0.54%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.54%) Qualys
9 1 (0.54%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.54%) SaltStack