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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 249 264
Rank change year-on-year +39 +15 -39
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 177 122 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 0.83% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.77% 2.02% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 94 99
10th Percentile £408 £377 £413
25th Percentile £463 £527 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +15.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £689
90th Percentile £724 £825 £750
England median daily rate £530 £614 £571
% change year-on-year -13.65% +7.44% -4.79%

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 6,385 6,052 6,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.35% 41.06% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,361 4,097 5,100
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £643 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 44 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.56 £17.40
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.17 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -12.51% +30.75%
75th Percentile £52.19 £54.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.54 £65.00 £71.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £23.61
% change year-on-year -3.36% +20.52% +3.48%

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 31 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 31 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 +11 16 £569 +7.31% 34
West London - 13 £603 - 2
South London 0 10 £530 -22.63% 6
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 14 (7.91%) Apache Spark
2 13 (7.34%) Apache
3 12 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (6.78%) Confluence
4 11 (6.21%) nginx
5 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 166 (93.79%) AWS
2 69 (38.98%) Amazon S3
3 65 (36.72%) Serverless
4 61 (34.46%) AWS Lambda
5 55 (31.07%) Amazon ECS
6 51 (28.81%) GitHub
7 44 (24.86%) Azure
8 43 (24.29%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (23.73%) GitHub Actions
10 33 (18.64%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (16.38%) GCP
12 27 (15.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (14.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (9.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 15 (8.47%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (8.47%) Datadog
16 14 (7.91%) Amazon Kinesis
16 14 (7.91%) AWS KMS
17 11 (6.21%) AWS Fargate
17 11 (6.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.91%) DNS
2 8 (4.52%) VPN
3 6 (3.39%) Network Security
4 4 (2.26%) Firewall
5 3 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.13%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.13%) SSL
7 1 (0.56%) HTTP
7 1 (0.56%) Internet
7 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.95%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (10.73%) Data Lake
4 17 (9.60%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (9.04%) DynamoDB
6 15 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (7.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (6.21%) Power BI
9 10 (5.65%) NoSQL
10 9 (5.08%) SQL Server
11 8 (4.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (4.52%) BigQuery
11 8 (4.52%) Mixpanel
11 8 (4.52%) OLAP
11 8 (4.52%) OLTP
12 6 (3.39%) MySQL
12 6 (3.39%) Relational Database
13 5 (2.82%) Data Hub
13 5 (2.82%) Redis
14 4 (2.26%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 36 (20.34%) Jenkins
2 34 (19.21%) Git
3 27 (15.25%) GitLab
4 15 (8.47%) JIRA
5 4 (2.26%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.26%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.69%) JUnit
7 2 (1.13%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.13%) Snyk
7 2 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.56%) MLflow
8 1 (0.56%) Mocha
8 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.95%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.25%) Finance
4 9 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.95%) Banking
6 4 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.56%) Aviation
7 1 (0.56%) Games
7 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Military
7 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (20.34%) AWS Engineer
2 29 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (15.25%) Architect
4 25 (14.12%) Senior
5 21 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (9.60%) Data Engineer
7 15 (8.47%) AWS Architect
8 14 (7.91%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.34%) Cloud Architect
9 13 (7.34%) Developer
9 13 (7.34%) Security Engineer
9 13 (7.34%) Site Engineer
9 13 (7.34%) Software Engineer
10 12 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.21%) Lead
11 11 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (6.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.52%) Principal Engineer
14 6 (3.39%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.95%) Kafka
2 14 (7.91%) Node.js
2 14 (7.91%) RESTful
3 13 (7.34%) AWS CDK
4 12 (6.78%) Spring
5 11 (6.21%) React
5 11 (6.21%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (4.52%) Great Expectations
8 7 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (3.39%) REST
10 5 (2.82%) ARM Templates
10 5 (2.82%) LangGraph
10 5 (2.82%) OAuth
11 4 (2.26%) .NET
11 4 (2.26%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.26%) boto
11 4 (2.26%) HTML
11 4 (2.26%) JSON
11 4 (2.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (27.68%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.82%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.69%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.13%) NHS
5 2 (1.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.56%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.56%) IoT
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) Ray Tracing
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.90%) Linux
2 7 (3.95%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) Unix
4 3 (1.69%) VMS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (74.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 131 (74.01%) CI/CD
3 96 (54.24%) DevOps
4 53 (29.94%) Containerisation
5 43 (24.29%) Observability
6 39 (22.03%) Agile
7 25 (14.12%) Microservices
7 25 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (14.12%) Software Engineering
8 24 (13.56%) ETL
9 23 (12.99%) AI
9 23 (12.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 22 (12.43%) Analytics
10 22 (12.43%) Data Modelling
11 21 (11.86%) Cloud Security
12 20 (11.30%) Data Engineering
13 19 (10.73%) Data Governance
13 19 (10.73%) Migration
14 18 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (9.60%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 84 (47.46%) Python
2 32 (18.08%) SQL
3 23 (12.99%) Java
4 16 (9.04%) Bash
5 13 (7.34%) Ruby
6 12 (6.78%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.65%) C#
7 10 (5.65%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.65%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.08%) Go
9 4 (2.26%) Scala
10 3 (1.69%) Bicep
11 2 (1.13%) Perl
12 1 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 46 (25.99%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.38%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.39%) Degree
7 5 (2.82%) CISSP
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.69%) MCP
9 2 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.13%) CCSP
9 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) CEH
10 1 (0.56%) CISM
10 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.99%) GDPR
2 13 (7.34%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.65%) QA
4 9 (5.08%) NIST
5 8 (4.52%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.82%) NCSC
7 4 (2.26%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 69 (38.98%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 154 (87.01%) Terraform
2 63 (35.59%) Kubernetes
3 27 (15.25%) Ansible
4 22 (12.43%) Grafana
5 11 (6.21%) Puppet
6 10 (5.65%) Packer
7 9 (5.08%) Consul
8 8 (4.52%) Prometheus
9 6 (3.39%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.82%) Karpenter
11 4 (2.26%) Kibana
12 2 (1.13%) Argo
12 2 (1.13%) Istio
12 2 (1.13%) Opsgenie
12 2 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.56%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (9.04%) Databricks
2 15 (8.47%) Google
3 14 (7.91%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.39%) PagerDuty
4 6 (3.39%) Splunk
5 5 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.26%) IBM
6 4 (2.26%) Oracle
7 3 (1.69%) Cisco
7 3 (1.69%) Citrix
7 3 (1.69%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.69%) Sybase
7 3 (1.69%) Tenable
8 2 (1.13%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.13%) CloudEndure
8 2 (1.13%) Qualys
8 2 (1.13%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.56%) New Relic
9 1 (0.56%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.56%) Veritas