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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 202 277
Rank change year-on-year -21 +75 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 207 156 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.27% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.61% 2.95% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 114 87
10th Percentile £400 £457 £443
25th Percentile £450 £513 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £713
90th Percentile £695 £731 £780
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 7,932 5,284 6,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.09% 43.04% 39.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,446 3,584 5,084
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 63 68
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.60 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +23.08% -51.63%
75th Percentile £56.00 £48.13 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £72.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +54.90% +18.60% -38.57%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -9 16 £603 +22.34% 6
Central London -14 16 £650 +4.00% 5
South London -4 6 £500 -27.01%
East London - 2 £441 -
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 18 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 16 (7.73%) Apache
3 4 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.45%) Confluence
4 3 (1.45%) SAS
5 2 (0.97%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 203 (98.07%) AWS
2 83 (40.10%) Amazon S3
3 74 (35.75%) Serverless
4 67 (32.37%) Azure
5 65 (31.40%) AWS Lambda
6 64 (30.92%) GitHub
7 57 (27.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 54 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (25.12%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (21.26%) Amazon EKS
11 39 (18.84%) GCP
12 31 (14.98%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (14.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (12.56%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (10.14%) AWS CodePipeline
16 14 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (6.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 14 (6.76%) Route 53
17 12 (5.80%) Collibra
17 12 (5.80%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.21%) DNS
2 10 (4.83%) Firewall
3 8 (3.86%) Network Security
4 7 (3.38%) WAN
5 4 (1.93%) HTTP
5 4 (1.93%) VPN
6 2 (0.97%) BGP
6 2 (0.97%) Internet
6 2 (0.97%) OSPF
6 2 (0.97%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.48%) 4G
7 1 (0.48%) 5G
7 1 (0.48%) SSL
7 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.14%) Amazon Athena
1 21 (10.14%) Data Lake
2 20 (9.66%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.25%) DynamoDB
5 14 (6.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (5.80%) BigQuery
6 12 (5.80%) Mixpanel
6 12 (5.80%) Power BI
7 11 (5.31%) OLAP
7 11 (5.31%) OLTP
8 10 (4.83%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.86%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (3.38%) Redis
11 6 (2.90%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.42%) Redshift Spectrum
13 4 (1.93%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.93%) GIS
13 4 (1.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (24.15%) Jenkins
2 40 (19.32%) GitLab
3 31 (14.98%) Git
4 10 (4.83%) JIRA
5 9 (4.35%) Snyk
6 7 (3.38%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.90%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.90%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.45%) JUnit
8 3 (1.45%) Vite
9 2 (0.97%) MLflow
10 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.48%) Mockito
10 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.48%) Selenium
10 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.48%) Terragrunt
General
1 45 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.53%) Finance
3 27 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.80%) Banking
5 8 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.93%) Law
9 3 (1.45%) Games
9 3 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.97%) Front Office
10 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Marketing
10 2 (0.97%) Military
10 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
11 1 (0.48%) Local Government
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (20.77%) AWS Engineer
3 37 (17.87%) Lead
4 32 (15.46%) Architect
5 30 (14.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (12.08%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (12.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 22 (10.63%) Data Engineer
8 21 (10.14%) Senior
9 18 (8.70%) AWS Architect
10 15 (7.25%) Developer
11 14 (6.76%) Cloud Architect
12 12 (5.80%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (5.31%) Principal Data Engineer
13 11 (5.31%) Software Engineer
14 10 (4.83%) Lead Data Engineer
14 10 (4.83%) Lead DevOps
14 10 (4.83%) Security Engineer
15 7 (3.38%) Network Engineer
16 6 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.94%) Kafka
2 20 (9.66%) RESTful
3 19 (9.18%) AWS CDK
4 17 (8.21%) Node.js
5 14 (6.76%) Great Expectations
6 13 (6.28%) React
6 13 (6.28%) REST
7 12 (5.80%) OAuth
7 12 (5.80%) PySpark
8 11 (5.31%) Spring
8 11 (5.31%) Spring Boot
9 9 (4.35%) .NET
9 9 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (3.86%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (3.38%) OAuth2
12 6 (2.90%) boto
13 5 (2.42%) AngularJS
14 4 (1.93%) gRPC
14 4 (1.93%) Pandas
14 4 (1.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 79 (38.16%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.83%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.93%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.93%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.93%) Replication
7 3 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.45%) Equities
7 3 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.45%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.63%) Linux
2 13 (6.28%) Windows
3 4 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.97%) Unix
4 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (87.44%) CI/CD
2 174 (84.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 132 (63.77%) DevOps
4 64 (30.92%) Containerisation
5 53 (25.60%) Observability
6 45 (21.74%) Agile
7 37 (17.87%) AI
8 34 (16.43%) Microservices
9 32 (15.46%) Analytics
9 32 (15.46%) Data Engineering
10 29 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (13.53%) High Availability
12 27 (13.04%) Data Modelling
13 26 (12.56%) ETL
14 25 (12.08%) Cloud Security
14 25 (12.08%) Machine Learning
14 25 (12.08%) Migration
15 24 (11.59%) Event-Driven
15 24 (11.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 89 (43.00%) Python
2 38 (18.36%) SQL
3 34 (16.43%) Java
4 21 (10.14%) Bash
5 20 (9.66%) PowerShell
6 15 (7.25%) C#
7 10 (4.83%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.86%) Bicep
9 7 (3.38%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.93%) Go
11 3 (1.45%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.45%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.97%) Ruby
12 2 (0.97%) Scala
13 1 (0.48%) C
13 1 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 60 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 57 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 31 (14.98%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (6.76%) Degree
5 13 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.45%) CISSP
8 3 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.97%) CCSP
9 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.97%) OSCP
9 2 (0.97%) SANS
9 2 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.14%) GDPR
2 18 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 16 (7.73%) NIST
4 13 (6.28%) QA
5 10 (4.83%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.48%) GRC
8 1 (0.48%) NCSC
8 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (36.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 188 (90.82%) Terraform
2 77 (37.20%) Kubernetes
3 25 (12.08%) Prometheus
4 21 (10.14%) Ansible
5 20 (9.66%) Grafana
6 6 (2.90%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.90%) Puppet
7 4 (1.93%) Packer
8 3 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.97%) Consul
9 2 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.97%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.48%) Argo
10 1 (0.48%) CloudForms
10 1 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.48%) Kibana
10 1 (0.48%) Nessus
Vendors
1 19 (9.18%) Databricks
2 18 (8.70%) Google
3 8 (3.86%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.38%) Splunk
5 5 (2.42%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.42%) New Relic
5 5 (2.42%) Oracle
5 5 (2.42%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.93%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.93%) Sybase
7 3 (1.45%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.45%) Qualys
7 3 (1.45%) Tenable
7 3 (1.45%) Zscaler
8 2 (0.97%) Globalscape
8 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.97%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.97%) SAP
8 2 (0.97%) Solace
8 2 (0.97%) Vermilion