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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 363 280
Rank change year-on-year -205 -83 -10
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 365 900 2,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.93% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 2.14% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 275 571 1,009
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £54,250
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 £110,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £73,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.47% +22.92% +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 35,937 42,041 80,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.80% 43.27% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,911 27,490 41,315
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 £96,000 £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 29 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 29 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 -181 337 £75,000 -6.25% 96
UK excluding London -173 186 £67,500 -8.47% 58
London -92 157 £95,000 +11.76% 46
Work from Home -128 149 £75,000 - 62
North of England -41 66 £62,783 -16.29% 17
Midlands -6 37 £67,500 - 11
North West -46 35 £67,500 -15.63% 7
South West -41 30 £56,250 -15.09% 11
South East -101 30 £70,000 +3.70% 5
West Midlands -8 19 £72,500 +7.41% 7
East Midlands -8 18 £67,500 -3.57% 4
Yorkshire +41 16 £52,500 -30.00% 8
North East +7 15 £65,000 -7.14% 2
East of England +6 10 £70,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +29 5 £70,000 -6.67%
Wales +8 4 £65,000 +2.52%
Scotland -98 4 £87,500 +16.67% 12

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 (11.78%) Apache Spark
2 34 (9.32%) Apache
3 24 (6.58%) 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
1 349 (95.62%) AWS
2 185 (50.68%) Serverless
3 167 (45.75%) AWS Lambda
4 160 (43.84%) Azure
5 137 (37.53%) Amazon S3
6 114 (31.23%) Amazon EC2
7 102 (27.95%) GCP
8 79 (21.64%) Amazon EKS
9 73 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
10 68 (18.63%) GitHub
11 61 (16.71%) OpenShift
12 58 (15.89%) Amazon SQS
13 57 (15.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 51 (13.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 42 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
16 36 (9.86%) SaaS
17 32 (8.77%) CloudFront
18 30 (8.22%) Route 53
19 27 (7.40%) Cloud Computing
20 26 (7.12%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.67%) AMQP
2 23 (6.30%) Firewall
3 10 (2.74%) DNS
3 10 (2.74%) 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 (24.38%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (11.51%) DynamoDB
3 40 (10.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 33 (9.04%) Big Data
5 28 (7.67%) Cloudera CDH
5 28 (7.67%) Hadoop
6 22 (6.03%) NoSQL
7 20 (5.48%) MySQL
8 12 (3.29%) Redis
9 10 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.47%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.19%) Couchbase
11 8 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.92%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.64%) Neo4j
13 6 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (1.37%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.37%) Relational Database
15 4 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 106 (29.04%) Jenkins
2 55 (15.07%) Git
3 38 (10.41%) JIRA
4 31 (8.49%) GitLab
5 27 (7.40%) Artifactory
6 20 (5.48%) Bitbucket
7 15 (4.11%) SonarQube
7 15 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (3.56%) Terragrunt
9 9 (2.47%) TeamCity
10 8 (2.19%) Subversion
11 7 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (1.64%) Spinnaker
13 4 (1.10%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.82%) Burp Suite
14 3 (0.82%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.82%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.82%) Maven
14 3 (0.82%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.82%) sqlmap
General
1 84 (23.01%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.89%) Finance
3 31 (8.49%) Aerospace
4 26 (7.12%) Front Office
5 19 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.38%) Automotive
7 13 (3.56%) Banking
8 12 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.74%) Law
9 10 (2.74%) Retail
10 9 (2.47%) Games
11 7 (1.92%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.92%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.37%) Marketing
13 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.10%) Publishing
14 3 (0.82%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (31.51%) AWS Engineer
2 112 (30.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 82 (22.47%) Senior
4 71 (19.45%) AWS DevOps
5 60 (16.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 53 (14.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 44 (12.05%) Architect
8 41 (11.23%) Software Engineer
9 38 (10.41%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (10.14%) Developer
11 36 (9.86%) Lead
12 32 (8.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 30 (8.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 28 (7.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 27 (7.40%) Cloud Architect
16 23 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (6.03%) Cloud Solutions Architect
18 20 (5.48%) Data Engineer
18 20 (5.48%) Senior DevOps
18 20 (5.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (17.26%) Node.js
2 43 (11.78%) React
3 37 (10.14%) .NET
4 35 (9.59%) OpenAPI
4 35 (9.59%) Swagger
5 34 (9.32%) AWS CDK
6 33 (9.04%) REST
7 31 (8.49%) AngularJS
7 31 (8.49%) Spring
7 31 (8.49%) Spring Boot
8 30 (8.22%) RabbitMQ
9 28 (7.67%) gRPC
9 28 (7.67%) Material-UI
10 26 (7.12%) J2EE
11 19 (5.21%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (3.84%) ARM Templates
13 10 (2.74%) PySpark
14 9 (2.47%) JSON
15 8 (2.19%) .NET Core
16 7 (1.92%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.71%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.12%) Tandem
3 22 (6.03%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.21%) IoT
5 18 (4.93%) Mobile App
6 16 (4.38%) Client/Server
7 12 (3.29%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.47%) PropTech
10 8 (2.19%) Blog
10 8 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.64%) 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 84 (23.01%) Linux
2 30 (8.22%) Ubuntu
3 29 (7.95%) Debian
3 29 (7.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (7.67%) CentOS
5 24 (6.58%) Windows
6 5 (1.37%) Unix
6 5 (1.37%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (69.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 240 (65.75%) DevOps
3 190 (52.05%) CI/CD
4 163 (44.66%) Agile
5 109 (29.86%) Containerisation
6 96 (26.30%) Software Engineering
7 88 (24.11%) Microservices
8 65 (17.81%) Open Source
9 54 (14.79%) Configuration Management
9 54 (14.79%) Scrum
10 52 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (13.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 45 (12.33%) Deployment Automation
13 41 (11.23%) Mentoring
14 39 (10.68%) Collaborative Working
14 39 (10.68%) Decision-Making
15 38 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (9.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 35 (9.59%) Continuous Integration
17 35 (9.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 199 (54.52%) Python
2 120 (32.88%) Java
3 75 (20.55%) JavaScript
4 51 (13.97%) Bash
5 42 (11.51%) Go
6 41 (11.23%) C#
7 36 (9.86%) PowerShell
8 30 (8.22%) SQL
9 19 (5.21%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.56%) PHP
11 12 (3.29%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.47%) Ruby
13 8 (2.19%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.92%) Scala
15 5 (1.37%) R
16 4 (1.10%) C
16 4 (1.10%) C++
16 4 (1.10%) Groovy
17 2 (0.55%) Perl
18 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 81 (22.19%) Security Cleared
2 80 (21.92%) AWS Certification
3 79 (21.64%) SC Cleared
4 40 (10.96%) Degree
5 36 (9.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (8.22%) DV Cleared
7 29 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (7.40%) Azure Certification
9 17 (4.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.38%) 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 (4.11%) NIST
2 12 (3.29%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) QA
System Software
1 157 (43.01%) Docker
2 16 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.19%) KVM
5 2 (0.55%) Firmware
6 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 289 (79.18%) Terraform
2 201 (55.07%) Kubernetes
3 99 (27.12%) Ansible
4 48 (13.15%) Puppet
5 29 (7.95%) Grafana
6 26 (7.12%) Prometheus
7 18 (4.93%) Progress Chef
8 12 (3.29%) 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 (17.81%) Google
2 30 (8.22%) Red Hat
3 28 (7.67%) SaltStack
4 17 (4.66%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.66%) VMware
5 16 (4.38%) ForgeRock
5 16 (4.38%) Sitecore
6 14 (3.84%) Atlassian
6 14 (3.84%) Splunk
7 12 (3.29%) Black Duck
7 12 (3.29%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.19%) Cisco
9 6 (1.64%) Databricks
10 5 (1.37%) New Relic
11 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.82%) Oracle
11 3 (0.82%) Rackspace
11 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.55%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.55%) Hortonworks