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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 293 285
Rank change year-on-year +68 -8 -30
Contract jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 145 89 154
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 0.55% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.48% 1.35% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 52 119
10th Percentile £418 £379 £423
25th Percentile £492 £488 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year - +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £760 £650
90th Percentile £738 £788 £710
England median daily rate £525 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 - £50.00

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 5,854 6,596 8,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.76% 41.03% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,977 4,535 5,986
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -2.22% -3.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 40 60
10th Percentile £21.10 £23.62 £17.90
25th Percentile £24.77 £24.06 £22.38
Median hourly rate £26.40 £31.25 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% -28.98% +25.71%
75th Percentile £47.31 £50.00 £65.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £67.03 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +9 11 £648 +34.37% 6
South London -4 2 £500 -1.96%
West London - 1 £493 - 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 15 (10.34%) Confluence
2 14 (9.66%) nginx
3 6 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.76%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.07%) Apache
6 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.69%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 130 (89.66%) AWS
2 52 (35.86%) Serverless
3 49 (33.79%) GitHub
4 47 (32.41%) AWS Lambda
5 42 (28.97%) Amazon S3
6 39 (26.90%) Azure
7 36 (24.83%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (22.76%) Amazon ECS
9 32 (22.07%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (15.86%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (15.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (14.48%) GCP
13 16 (11.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (9.66%) Datadog
15 13 (8.97%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (8.97%) AWS Fargate
16 12 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (7.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 11 (7.59%) AWS CloudTrail
18 8 (5.52%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.59%) Firewall
1 11 (7.59%) VPN
2 10 (6.90%) DNS
3 7 (4.83%) Network Security
4 4 (2.76%) SSL
5 3 (2.07%) DHCP
5 3 (2.07%) HTTP
5 3 (2.07%) Internet
5 3 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.17%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (13.79%) DynamoDB
3 12 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.83%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.14%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.07%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.38%) Airbyte
8 2 (1.38%) DB2
8 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.38%) MySQL
8 2 (1.38%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.38%) Redis
8 2 (1.38%) Redshift Spectrum
9 1 (0.69%) Metadata
9 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 49 (33.79%) Jenkins
2 37 (25.52%) Git
3 16 (11.03%) GitLab
3 16 (11.03%) JIRA
4 12 (8.28%) Artifactory
5 7 (4.83%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.83%) JUnit
6 6 (4.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (3.45%) Maven
8 4 (2.76%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.38%) git-flow
9 2 (1.38%) Gradle
10 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.69%) Snyk
10 1 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 25 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.03%) Finance
3 15 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.07%) Banking
5 3 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.07%) Marketing
6 2 (1.38%) Aviation
7 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.69%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.69%) Games
7 1 (0.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (20.69%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (17.24%) Senior
3 19 (13.10%) Architect
4 18 (12.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (11.72%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (11.03%) Lead
7 15 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (9.66%) Developer
9 13 (8.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (7.59%) Technical Leader
11 9 (6.21%) Consultant
11 9 (6.21%) Security Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (5.52%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (4.83%) AWS Developer
13 7 (4.83%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) Data Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) DevOps Consultant
13 7 (4.83%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.03%) AWS CDK
2 10 (6.90%) Kafka
3 9 (6.21%) Spring
4 8 (5.52%) ARM Templates
5 6 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (4.14%) Node.js
5 6 (4.14%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.45%) GraphQL
6 5 (3.45%) Jest
6 5 (3.45%) React
7 4 (2.76%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (2.07%) WebSockets
9 2 (1.38%) JSON
9 2 (1.38%) Keycloak
9 2 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.38%) RESTful
9 2 (1.38%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (1.38%) SailPoint
9 2 (1.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (22.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.07%) NHS
4 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.38%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.38%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.38%) Linux
2 7 (4.83%) Unix
2 7 (4.83%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (66.90%) CI/CD
1 97 (66.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 80 (55.17%) DevOps
3 55 (37.93%) Containerisation
4 47 (32.41%) Agile
5 25 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (15.17%) Observability
7 21 (14.48%) Configuration Management
8 20 (13.79%) Migration
9 19 (13.10%) DevSecOps
10 18 (12.41%) Mentoring
10 18 (12.41%) Microservices
10 18 (12.41%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (11.72%) Deployment Automation
12 15 (10.34%) High Availability
12 15 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (9.66%) Cloud Security
13 14 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (9.66%) Scrum
14 12 (8.28%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (46.21%) Python
2 20 (13.79%) PowerShell
3 19 (13.10%) Go
4 17 (11.72%) Bash
4 17 (11.72%) Java
5 15 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 14 (9.66%) SQL
7 11 (7.59%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.21%) Groovy
9 6 (4.14%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.76%) Bicep
10 4 (2.76%) C#
10 4 (2.76%) C++
11 3 (2.07%) CodeQL
11 3 (2.07%) PromQL
12 2 (1.38%) Ruby
12 2 (1.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 42 (28.97%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.48%) AWS Certification
4 10 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.14%) Degree
6 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.69%) CISM
9 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.97%) GDPR
2 9 (6.21%) QA
3 6 (4.14%) HIPAA
3 6 (4.14%) NIST
3 6 (4.14%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.76%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (48.28%) Docker
2 5 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) iptables
Systems Management
1 126 (86.90%) Terraform
2 71 (48.97%) Kubernetes
3 28 (19.31%) Ansible
4 19 (13.10%) Puppet
5 17 (11.72%) Grafana
6 14 (9.66%) Consul
6 14 (9.66%) Packer
7 12 (8.28%) Prometheus
8 11 (7.59%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.07%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.07%) Nessus
9 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.38%) Istio
10 2 (1.38%) SELinux
11 1 (0.69%) Argo
11 1 (0.69%) linkerd
11 1 (0.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (6.21%) ServiceNow
2 8 (5.52%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.14%) CA Agile Central
4 4 (2.76%) Google
5 3 (2.07%) Qualys
5 3 (2.07%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.07%) Splunk
6 2 (1.38%) Cisco
6 2 (1.38%) IBM
6 2 (1.38%) Pega
6 2 (1.38%) Sybase
6 2 (1.38%) Teradata
7 1 (0.69%) Informatica
7 1 (0.69%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.69%) Tenable