Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS CloudFormation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 354 277
Rank change year-on-year -214 -77 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 364 913 2,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.94% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 2.17% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 274 582 1,015
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS CloudFormation is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -180 335 £75,000 -6.25% 95
UK excluding London -179 184 £67,500 -10.00% 57
London -70 157 £95,000 +11.76% 44
Work from Home -122 149 £75,000 - 61
North of England -27 66 £62,783 -20.28% 18
Midlands +4 37 £67,500 - 11
North West -40 35 £67,500 -15.63% 8
South East -100 30 £70,000 +7.69% 5
South West -51 28 £56,250 -15.09% 11
West Midlands +2 19 £72,500 +7.41% 7
East Midlands +2 18 £67,500 -3.57% 4
Yorkshire +39 16 £52,500 -30.00% 8
North East +3 15 £65,000 -7.14% 2
East of England +3 10 £70,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +24 5 £70,000 -6.67%
Wales +5 4 £65,000 +2.52%
Scotland -94 4 £87,500 +16.67% 10

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 43 (11.81%) Apache Spark
2 34 (9.34%) Apache
3 24 (6.59%) Confluence
4 3 (0.82%) nginx
5 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.55%) Drupal
5 2 (0.55%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.55%) WordPress
6 1 (0.27%) Jetty
6 1 (0.27%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 348 (95.60%) AWS
2 184 (50.55%) Serverless
3 166 (45.60%) AWS Lambda
4 161 (44.23%) Azure
5 138 (37.91%) Amazon S3
6 113 (31.04%) Amazon EC2
7 102 (28.02%) GCP
8 79 (21.70%) Amazon EKS
9 73 (20.05%) Amazon ECS
10 67 (18.41%) GitHub
11 61 (16.76%) OpenShift
12 58 (15.93%) Amazon SQS
13 57 (15.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 52 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 42 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
16 36 (9.89%) SaaS
17 33 (9.07%) CloudFront
18 30 (8.24%) Route 53
19 27 (7.42%) Cloud Computing
20 26 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.69%) AMQP
2 23 (6.32%) Firewall
3 10 (2.75%) DNS
3 10 (2.75%) VPN
4 3 (0.82%) HTTP
4 3 (0.82%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.82%) Network Security
4 3 (0.82%) SSL
5 2 (0.55%) DKIM
5 2 (0.55%) DMARC
5 2 (0.55%) Internet
5 2 (0.55%) IPv4
5 2 (0.55%) OSPF
5 2 (0.55%) SMTP
5 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (24.45%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (11.54%) DynamoDB
3 40 (10.99%) Amazon Redshift
4 33 (9.07%) Big Data
5 28 (7.69%) Cloudera CDH
5 28 (7.69%) Hadoop
6 22 (6.04%) NoSQL
7 21 (5.77%) MySQL
8 12 (3.30%) Redis
9 10 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.47%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.20%) Couchbase
11 8 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.92%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.65%) Neo4j
13 6 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (1.65%) Relational Database
14 5 (1.37%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 105 (28.85%) Jenkins
2 55 (15.11%) Git
3 38 (10.44%) JIRA
4 31 (8.52%) GitLab
5 27 (7.42%) Artifactory
6 20 (5.49%) Bitbucket
7 15 (4.12%) SonarQube
7 15 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (3.57%) Terragrunt
9 9 (2.47%) TeamCity
10 8 (2.20%) Subversion
11 7 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (1.65%) Spinnaker
13 4 (1.10%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.82%) Burp Suite
14 3 (0.82%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.82%) JMeter
14 3 (0.82%) Maven
14 3 (0.82%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.82%) sqlmap
General
1 84 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 57 (15.66%) Finance
3 31 (8.52%) Aerospace
4 26 (7.14%) Front Office
5 18 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.40%) Automotive
7 12 (3.30%) Banking
7 12 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.75%) Law
8 10 (2.75%) Retail
9 9 (2.47%) Games
10 7 (1.92%) Health Technology
10 7 (1.92%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.37%) Marketing
12 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.10%) Publishing
13 3 (0.82%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (31.59%) AWS Engineer
2 111 (30.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 82 (22.53%) Senior
4 71 (19.51%) AWS DevOps
5 60 (16.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 53 (14.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 43 (11.81%) Architect
8 41 (11.26%) Software Engineer
9 37 (10.16%) Developer
9 37 (10.16%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (9.89%) Lead
11 32 (8.79%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 30 (8.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 28 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 27 (7.42%) Cloud Architect
15 23 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 22 (6.04%) Cloud Solutions Architect
17 20 (5.49%) Data Engineer
17 20 (5.49%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (5.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (17.31%) Node.js
2 43 (11.81%) React
3 37 (10.16%) .NET
4 35 (9.62%) OpenAPI
4 35 (9.62%) Swagger
5 34 (9.34%) AWS CDK
6 33 (9.07%) REST
7 31 (8.52%) AngularJS
7 31 (8.52%) Spring
7 31 (8.52%) Spring Boot
8 30 (8.24%) RabbitMQ
9 28 (7.69%) gRPC
9 28 (7.69%) Material-UI
10 26 (7.14%) J2EE
11 19 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (3.85%) ARM Templates
13 10 (2.75%) PySpark
14 9 (2.47%) JSON
15 8 (2.20%) .NET Core
16 7 (1.92%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.14%) Tandem
3 22 (6.04%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.22%) IoT
5 18 (4.95%) Mobile App
6 16 (4.40%) Client/Server
7 12 (3.30%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.75%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.47%) PropTech
10 8 (2.20%) Blog
10 8 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.65%) Hedge funds
12 5 (1.37%) PKI
12 5 (1.37%) Social Media
13 4 (1.10%) Graphic Design
13 4 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (23.35%) Linux
2 31 (8.52%) Ubuntu
3 30 (8.24%) Debian
4 29 (7.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (7.69%) CentOS
6 25 (6.87%) Windows
7 6 (1.65%) Unix
8 5 (1.37%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 238 (65.38%) DevOps
3 188 (51.65%) CI/CD
4 163 (44.78%) Agile
5 108 (29.67%) Containerisation
6 96 (26.37%) Software Engineering
7 87 (23.90%) Microservices
8 66 (18.13%) Open Source
9 54 (14.84%) Scrum
10 53 (14.56%) Configuration Management
11 51 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 43 (11.81%) Deployment Automation
14 41 (11.26%) Mentoring
15 39 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
15 39 (10.71%) Decision-Making
16 38 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (9.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 35 (9.62%) Continuous Integration
18 35 (9.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 198 (54.40%) Python
2 119 (32.69%) Java
3 75 (20.60%) JavaScript
4 52 (14.29%) Bash
5 42 (11.54%) Go
6 41 (11.26%) C#
7 36 (9.89%) PowerShell
8 31 (8.52%) SQL
9 19 (5.22%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.57%) PHP
10 13 (3.57%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.47%) Ruby
12 8 (2.20%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.92%) Scala
14 5 (1.37%) R
15 4 (1.10%) C
15 4 (1.10%) C++
15 4 (1.10%) Groovy
16 2 (0.55%) Perl
17 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 81 (22.25%) Security Cleared
2 80 (21.98%) AWS Certification
3 79 (21.70%) SC Cleared
4 40 (10.99%) Degree
5 36 (9.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (8.24%) DV Cleared
7 29 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (7.42%) Azure Certification
9 17 (4.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.12%) NIST
2 12 (3.30%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) QA
System Software
1 156 (42.86%) Docker
2 16 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.20%) KVM
5 2 (0.55%) Firmware
6 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 289 (79.40%) Terraform
2 200 (54.95%) Kubernetes
3 98 (26.92%) Ansible
4 47 (12.91%) Puppet
5 29 (7.97%) Grafana
6 26 (7.14%) Prometheus
7 17 (4.67%) Progress Chef
8 12 (3.30%) Packer
9 5 (1.37%) Rancher
10 4 (1.10%) Consul
10 4 (1.10%) Salt
11 3 (0.82%) Argo
12 2 (0.55%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.27%) Istio
13 1 (0.27%) Kibana
13 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 65 (17.86%) Google
2 30 (8.24%) Red Hat
3 28 (7.69%) SaltStack
4 18 (4.95%) VMware
5 17 (4.67%) Microsoft
6 16 (4.40%) ForgeRock
6 16 (4.40%) Sitecore
7 14 (3.85%) Atlassian
7 14 (3.85%) Splunk
8 12 (3.30%) Black Duck
8 12 (3.30%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.20%) Cisco
10 6 (1.65%) Databricks
11 5 (1.37%) New Relic
12 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.82%) Oracle
12 3 (0.82%) Rackspace
12 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.55%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.55%) Hortonworks