AWS CloudFormation Job Trends in South Wales

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 63 64
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +22
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 3 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.36% 0.75% 1.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 2.02% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile - £62,763 £60,100
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +15.56%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - £92,808 £71,150
Wales median annual salary £68,958 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.50% +6.63% +13.04%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 190 247 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 22.86% 37.03% 37.34%
Number of salaries quoted 109 163 182
10th Percentile £28,200 £30,100 £37,390
25th Percentile £37,250 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £82,792 £77,000 £74,992
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in South Wales

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 30 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
Cardiff +12 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
AWS CloudFormation
Wales

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google