AWS CloudFormation Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 44 46
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 5 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.97% 1.38% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.21% 4.84% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.07% +6.63% -
75th Percentile - £80,822 £69,800
90th Percentile - £84,829 -
UK median annual salary £73,801 £78,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.99% +8.28% -9.38%

All Cloud Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 156 124 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 30.35% 28.57% 39.15%
Number of salaries quoted 58 44 93
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,375 £46,285 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,430 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.79% +18.86% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,780 £75,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £86,500 £97,750 £78,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -3.85%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in Northern Ireland

AWS CloudFormation
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
County Antrim +3 5 £95,000 +37.07% 2
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Functions
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) dbt
3 2 (40.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) Next.js
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Vue
2 2 (40.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) LLM
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (60.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google