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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 351 290
Rank change year-on-year -184 -61 -15
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 397 1,027 2,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.98% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 2.26% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 284 653 1,046
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
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 35,322 45,386 74,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.98% 43.16% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 26,781 29,602 41,844
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -153 367 £75,000 -6.25% 78
UK excluding London -155 209 £67,500 -10.00% 56
London -84 164 £95,000 +11.76% 31
Work from Home -128 145 £75,000 -3.23% 66
North of England -53 70 £62,783 -21.52% 17
South West -26 52 £55,000 -16.98% 8
North West -45 34 £67,500 -16.92% 9
South East -81 34 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Midlands -2 29 £67,500 - 8
Yorkshire +37 20 £52,500 -30.00% 3
East Midlands - 17 £61,250 - 3
North East +8 16 £65,000 -7.14% 5
West Midlands -8 12 £70,000 +3.70% 5
East of England +34 11 £70,000 -9.68% 1
Northern Ireland +25 5 £70,000 -6.67% 6
Wales +6 4 £65,000 +2.12% 1
Scotland -91 4 £87,500 +16.67% 11

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 37 (9.32%) Apache Spark
2 31 (7.81%) Apache
3 26 (6.55%) Confluence
4 3 (0.76%) Drupal
4 3 (0.76%) nginx
4 3 (0.76%) WordPress
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) Jetty
5 1 (0.25%) Moodle
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Magento
1 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 370 (93.20%) AWS
2 187 (47.10%) Serverless
3 169 (42.57%) AWS Lambda
4 152 (38.29%) Azure
5 146 (36.78%) Amazon S3
6 125 (31.49%) Amazon EC2
7 83 (20.91%) Amazon ECS
8 81 (20.40%) GCP
9 76 (19.14%) Amazon EKS
10 67 (16.88%) GitHub
11 65 (16.37%) Amazon SQS
11 65 (16.37%) OpenShift
12 55 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (13.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 53 (13.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 37 (9.32%) Route 53
16 32 (8.06%) CloudFront
16 32 (8.06%) SaaS
17 24 (6.05%) AWS Fargate
18 21 (5.29%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.58%) DNS
2 32 (8.06%) HTTP
2 32 (8.06%) TCP/IP
3 29 (7.30%) DHCP
4 24 (6.05%) AMQP
5 23 (5.79%) Firewall
6 10 (2.52%) VPN
7 4 (1.01%) Network Security
8 3 (0.76%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.76%) Internet
8 3 (0.76%) SSL
9 2 (0.50%) DKIM
9 2 (0.50%) DMARC
9 2 (0.50%) IPv4
9 2 (0.50%) OSPF
9 2 (0.50%) SMTP
9 2 (0.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (24.69%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (12.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 41 (10.33%) DynamoDB
4 28 (7.05%) Big Data
5 24 (6.05%) Cloudera CDH
5 24 (6.05%) Hadoop
6 20 (5.04%) MySQL
7 19 (4.79%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.27%) InfluxDB
9 12 (3.02%) Redis
10 11 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.52%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.02%) Couchbase
14 6 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (1.51%) Relational Database
15 4 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.01%) MongoDB
15 4 (1.01%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 121 (30.48%) Jenkins
2 49 (12.34%) Git
3 46 (11.59%) GitLab
4 37 (9.32%) Artifactory
5 27 (6.80%) JIRA
6 20 (5.04%) Bitbucket
7 17 (4.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (3.27%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.52%) Subversion
10 9 (2.27%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.76%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.76%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (1.01%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.76%) git-flow
14 2 (0.50%) Burp Suite
14 2 (0.50%) JMeter
14 2 (0.50%) Maven
14 2 (0.50%) Metasploit
14 2 (0.50%) Travis CI
General
1 100 (25.19%) Finance
2 97 (24.43%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (9.07%) Front Office
5 24 (6.05%) Aerospace
6 16 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.53%) Automotive
8 11 (2.77%) Banking
9 10 (2.52%) Law
10 9 (2.27%) Retail
11 8 (2.02%) Games
11 8 (2.02%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.76%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.51%) Health Technology
14 5 (1.26%) Marketing
15 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.01%) Publishing
16 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (34.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 122 (30.73%) AWS Engineer
3 96 (24.18%) Senior
4 80 (20.15%) AWS DevOps
5 70 (17.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 56 (14.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 55 (13.85%) Architect
8 43 (10.83%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 42 (10.58%) Solutions Architect
10 40 (10.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 39 (9.82%) Cloud Architect
12 38 (9.57%) Lead
13 36 (9.07%) Software Engineer
14 35 (8.82%) Developer
15 27 (6.80%) Cloud Solutions Architect
15 27 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (6.30%) Senior Architect
17 24 (6.05%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
18 22 (5.54%) Senior DevOps
18 22 (5.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.34%) Node.js
2 39 (9.82%) React
3 36 (9.07%) .NET
3 36 (9.07%) J2EE
4 35 (8.82%) AWS CDK
4 35 (8.82%) SAML
5 34 (8.56%) HTML
6 31 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
7 29 (7.30%) OpenAPI
7 29 (7.30%) OpenID
7 29 (7.30%) REST
7 29 (7.30%) Swagger
8 28 (7.05%) AngularJS
9 26 (6.55%) Spring
9 26 (6.55%) Spring Boot
10 25 (6.30%) RabbitMQ
11 24 (6.05%) gRPC
11 24 (6.05%) Material-UI
12 11 (2.77%) PySpark
13 8 (2.02%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 73 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.07%) Tandem
3 34 (8.56%) Public Cloud
4 29 (7.30%) Cyberattack
5 23 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.28%) IoT
7 16 (4.03%) Client/Server
7 16 (4.03%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.77%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.02%) Blog
12 7 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.51%) Hedge funds
14 5 (1.26%) PKI
14 5 (1.26%) Social Media
15 4 (1.01%) Blockchain
15 4 (1.01%) Graphic Design
15 4 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 100 (25.19%) Linux
2 35 (8.82%) Windows
3 29 (7.30%) Ubuntu
4 28 (7.05%) Debian
5 25 (6.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (6.05%) CentOS
7 6 (1.51%) Unix
7 6 (1.51%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (71.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 254 (63.98%) DevOps
3 208 (52.39%) CI/CD
4 197 (49.62%) Agile
5 121 (30.48%) Containerisation
6 113 (28.46%) Software Engineering
7 90 (22.67%) Microservices
8 71 (17.88%) Open Source
9 58 (14.61%) Configuration Management
10 57 (14.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 54 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (12.85%) Deployment Automation
13 49 (12.34%) DevSecOps
13 49 (12.34%) Scrum
14 48 (12.09%) Cloud Security
14 48 (12.09%) Decision-Making
15 45 (11.34%) SDLC
16 44 (11.08%) Continuous Integration
16 44 (11.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 43 (10.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 197 (49.62%) Python
2 122 (30.73%) Java
3 65 (16.37%) Bash
4 59 (14.86%) JavaScript
5 54 (13.60%) Go
6 45 (11.34%) PowerShell
7 38 (9.57%) C#
8 29 (7.30%) SQL
9 18 (4.53%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.53%) PHP
11 11 (2.77%) Ruby
11 11 (2.77%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.02%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.51%) R
14 5 (1.26%) Scala
15 4 (1.01%) C
15 4 (1.01%) C++
15 4 (1.01%) Groovy
16 2 (0.50%) Perl
17 1 (0.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 97 (24.43%) Security Cleared
2 94 (23.68%) AWS Certification
3 65 (16.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 64 (16.12%) SC Cleared
5 55 (13.85%) DV Cleared
6 39 (9.82%) Degree
7 28 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.03%) AWS Certified Developer
10 14 (3.53%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.02%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.76%) NIST
3 5 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.76%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.76%) QA
4 3 (0.76%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 176 (44.33%) Docker
2 15 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.02%) KVM
5 2 (0.50%) Firmware
6 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 336 (84.63%) Terraform
2 214 (53.90%) Kubernetes
3 98 (24.69%) Ansible
4 46 (11.59%) Puppet
5 45 (11.34%) Grafana
6 40 (10.08%) Prometheus
7 20 (5.04%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.53%) Packer
9 8 (2.02%) Salt
10 4 (1.01%) Consul
10 4 (1.01%) Rancher
11 3 (0.76%) Argo
12 2 (0.50%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.25%) Cacti
13 1 (0.25%) Istio
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) Nagios
13 1 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (14.61%) Google
2 26 (6.55%) Red Hat
3 24 (6.05%) SaltStack
4 17 (4.28%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.28%) VMware
5 14 (3.53%) Atlassian
5 14 (3.53%) ForgeRock
5 14 (3.53%) Sitecore
5 14 (3.53%) Splunk
6 8 (2.02%) Cisco
7 7 (1.76%) Databricks
8 4 (1.01%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.01%) New Relic
9 3 (0.76%) Rackspace
9 3 (0.76%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.25%) Citrix
10 1 (0.25%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle
10 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.25%) SAP