AWS CloudFormation Job Trends in London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 254 342
Rank change year-on-year -13 +88 -75
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 142 149 154
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 1.15% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.60% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 98 110 138
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £71,344 £70,625 £75,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £138,750 £138,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -6.25%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,083 5,720 10,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.39% 44.27% 43.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,553 4,146 8,128
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,625 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.84% +8.70% -11.54%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in London

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in London over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in London

AWS CloudFormation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the London region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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
Central London -18 10 £100,000 +2.56% 7
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 7 (4.93%) Apache
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 138 (97.18%) AWS
2 60 (42.25%) Serverless
3 49 (34.51%) Azure
4 46 (32.39%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (26.06%) Datadog
6 34 (23.94%) GCP
7 28 (19.72%) GitHub
8 27 (19.01%) Amazon S3
9 25 (17.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (16.90%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (13.38%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (11.27%) AWS Step Functions
12 16 (11.27%) Pulumi
13 15 (10.56%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (7.75%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (6.34%) OpenShift
17 5 (3.52%) Google Workspace
17 5 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
17 5 (3.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.15%) DSL
1 13 (9.15%) Firewall
2 9 (6.34%) VPN
3 6 (4.23%) Network Security
4 5 (3.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (2.82%) DNS
5 4 (2.82%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.11%) SCCP
7 1 (0.70%) 4G
7 1 (0.70%) 5G
7 1 (0.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.35%) NoSQL
2 21 (14.79%) DynamoDB
3 19 (13.38%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.82%) MySQL
7 3 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.11%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.11%) Metadata
7 3 (2.11%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.11%) Redis
8 2 (1.41%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.70%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.70%) Flink
9 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.70%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 66 (46.48%) GitLab
2 54 (38.03%) Jenkins
3 24 (16.90%) CircleCI
4 16 (11.27%) Git
5 9 (6.34%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.63%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.23%) Maven
8 4 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.82%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.11%) Eclipse
9 3 (2.11%) Gradle
9 3 (2.11%) JMeter
9 3 (2.11%) Robot Framework
9 3 (2.11%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.70%) git-flow
10 1 (0.70%) JIRA
10 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 40 (28.17%) Finance
3 24 (16.90%) Banking
4 7 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.23%) Retail
6 5 (3.52%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.82%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.11%) Advertising
8 3 (2.11%) Aviation
8 3 (2.11%) Back Office
8 3 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.11%) Law
9 2 (1.41%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.70%) Games
10 1 (0.70%) iGaming
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (28.17%) Cloud Engineer
2 32 (22.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (20.42%) Senior
4 23 (16.20%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (15.49%) Developer
6 18 (12.68%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 18 (12.68%) Security Engineer
7 15 (10.56%) Architect
7 15 (10.56%) AWS Architect
8 13 (9.15%) AWS Security Architect
8 13 (9.15%) Security Architect
8 13 (9.15%) Senior Developer
9 12 (8.45%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (7.75%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (7.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (7.75%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (6.34%) Java Engineer
12 8 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (5.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (24.65%) Kafka
2 19 (13.38%) AWS CDK
2 19 (13.38%) RESTful
3 18 (12.68%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (12.68%) web3js
4 15 (10.56%) RabbitMQ
5 14 (9.86%) gRPC
6 12 (8.45%) Spring Boot
7 11 (7.75%) Spring
8 9 (6.34%) Node.js
9 6 (4.23%) REST
10 4 (2.82%) NestJS
10 4 (2.82%) PySpark
10 4 (2.82%) React
11 3 (2.11%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.11%) Django
11 3 (2.11%) JSON
11 3 (2.11%) YAML
12 2 (1.41%) CSS
12 2 (1.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 54 (38.03%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.38%) Security Posture
3 18 (12.68%) Blockchain
3 18 (12.68%) Web3
4 13 (9.15%) Cloud Security Posture
5 10 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (7.04%) Public Cloud
6 8 (5.63%) e-Learning
7 7 (4.93%) PKI
8 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.11%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.11%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 35 (24.65%) Linux
2 20 (14.08%) Windows
3 9 (6.34%) Ubuntu
4 8 (5.63%) Unix
5 5 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.52%) VMS
6 4 (2.82%) CentOS
6 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.11%) Android
7 3 (2.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (90.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 111 (78.17%) CI/CD
3 91 (64.08%) DevOps
4 57 (40.14%) Containerisation
5 44 (30.99%) Cloud Security
5 44 (30.99%) DevSecOps
6 42 (29.58%) Agile
7 40 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (26.76%) Microservices
9 34 (23.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (23.94%) High Availability
10 32 (22.54%) Continuous Integration
11 29 (20.42%) Software Engineering
12 28 (19.72%) Continuous Delivery
12 28 (19.72%) Observability
13 27 (19.01%) Test Automation
14 26 (18.31%) Incident Response
14 26 (18.31%) Mentoring
15 24 (16.90%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (16.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 83 (58.45%) Python
2 41 (28.87%) Go
3 32 (22.54%) Bash
4 31 (21.83%) Java
5 29 (20.42%) SQL
6 13 (9.15%) PowerShell
6 13 (9.15%) Rust
7 11 (7.75%) JavaScript
8 9 (6.34%) C#
9 8 (5.63%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.23%) Kotlin
11 5 (3.52%) C++
12 3 (2.11%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (1.41%) Groovy
14 1 (0.70%) Bicep
14 1 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.31%) Degree
3 24 (16.90%) AWS Certification
4 16 (11.27%) OSCP
5 15 (10.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (9.86%) DV Cleared
7 12 (8.45%) SC Cleared
8 7 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (3.52%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (2.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (2.82%) Postgraduate
11 3 (2.11%) Azure Certification
11 3 (2.11%) CREST Certified
12 2 (1.41%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.97%) NIST
2 13 (9.15%) GDPR
3 12 (8.45%) PCI DSS
4 9 (6.34%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.70%) Basel III
6 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.70%) MiFID
6 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 65 (45.77%) Docker
2 5 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.11%) KVM
3 3 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 124 (87.32%) Terraform
2 76 (53.52%) Kubernetes
3 41 (28.87%) Ansible
4 33 (23.24%) Prometheus
5 27 (19.01%) Grafana
6 10 (7.04%) Argo
7 6 (4.23%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (3.52%) Istio
8 5 (3.52%) linkerd
8 5 (3.52%) Mesos
8 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.41%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.70%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (8.45%) Google
2 6 (4.23%) Splunk
3 4 (2.82%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.82%) Oracle
4 3 (2.11%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.11%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.11%) VMware
5 2 (1.41%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.70%) Refinitiv