AWS CloudFormation Job Trends in Edinburgh

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 94 103
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +19
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 6 6 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.57% 0.54% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.24% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile £55,425 £50,985 £41,335
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £53,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £78,536 £73,600
90th Percentile - £80,000 £80,440
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.48% -4.40% +31.82%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Edinburgh

AWS CloudFormation falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 483 482 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 45.61% 43.27% 47.67%
Number of salaries quoted 150 211 415
10th Percentile £25,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,231 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% -7.69% +9.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £92,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in Edinburgh

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon ECR
3 4 (66.67%) dbt
3 4 (66.67%) Pulumi
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (50.00%) PaaS
4 3 (50.00%) Sentry
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (66.67%) Redis
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (16.67%) NestJS
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Observability
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Open Source
3 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Google