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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 394 319 256
Rank change year-on-year -75 -63 +22
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 377 1,385 1,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 1.13% 1.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 2.63% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 293 861 1,373
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,200 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £111,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% +9.09%

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 22,612 52,646 59,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.68% 42.86% 46.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,789 35,410 42,532
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.64% +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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 -66 322 £75,000 -6.25% 136
UK excluding London -36 182 £67,500 -10.00% 87
Work from Home -15 171 £70,000 -6.67% 89
London -37 140 £82,500 -5.71% 67
North of England -39 62 £65,000 -18.75% 30
South West +67 45 £67,500 +17.39% 12
North West -12 34 £66,250 -17.19% 14
South East +81 33 £72,500 +3.57% 23
Yorkshire +32 22 £62,500 -21.88% 11
Scotland +7 15 £75,000 +20.00% 8
Midlands +72 14 £70,000 +3.70% 7
Wales +5 9 £65,000 +13.04% 3
West Midlands +85 7 £82,500 +22.22% 4
East Midlands +35 7 £70,000 - 3
North East +28 6 £65,000 -13.33% 6
East of England +110 3 £55,000 -29.03% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £65,000 -

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 9 (2.39%) Confluence
2 8 (2.12%) Apache
3 6 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.33%) CMS
5 4 (1.06%) nginx
6 3 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Drupal
8 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 345 (91.51%) AWS
2 142 (37.67%) Azure
3 141 (37.40%) Serverless
4 122 (32.36%) AWS Lambda
5 104 (27.59%) GCP
6 103 (27.32%) Amazon EC2
7 87 (23.08%) Amazon S3
8 79 (20.95%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (13.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 48 (12.73%) GitHub
11 42 (11.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 40 (10.61%) OpenShift
13 37 (9.81%) Cloud Computing
14 34 (9.02%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (8.75%) AWS CodeBuild
16 32 (8.49%) dbt
17 31 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
18 27 (7.16%) Route 53
19 23 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
20 20 (5.31%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 58 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 41 (10.88%) DNS
3 30 (7.96%) HTTP
4 29 (7.69%) DHCP
5 7 (1.86%) Firewall
6 6 (1.59%) Network Security
6 6 (1.59%) VPN
7 5 (1.33%) AMQP
8 4 (1.06%) Internet
9 3 (0.80%) IPv6
9 3 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.27%) IPv4
10 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.27%) OSPF
10 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (19.89%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (14.06%) DynamoDB
3 40 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (9.28%) Redis
5 33 (8.75%) Elasticsearch
6 23 (6.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (5.04%) MySQL
8 17 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (3.71%) InfluxDB
10 12 (3.18%) Big Data
10 12 (3.18%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.39%) MongoDB
12 8 (2.12%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.59%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.33%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.33%) SQL Server
15 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 182 (48.28%) Jenkins
2 83 (22.02%) GitLab
3 58 (15.38%) Git
4 31 (8.22%) CircleCI
5 20 (5.31%) Bitbucket
5 20 (5.31%) JIRA
6 18 (4.77%) SonarQube
7 16 (4.24%) Cucumber
8 15 (3.98%) JUnit
9 14 (3.71%) Artifactory
10 13 (3.45%) Maven
11 12 (3.18%) git-flow
12 9 (2.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 9 (2.39%) Travis CI
13 7 (1.86%) Postman
13 7 (1.86%) Selenium
14 4 (1.06%) GoCD
14 4 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (1.06%) Subversion
14 4 (1.06%) TeamCity
General
1 102 (27.06%) Finance
2 81 (21.49%) Social Skills
3 71 (18.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (8.22%) Banking
5 30 (7.96%) Front Office
6 18 (4.77%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.18%) Tech for Good
8 8 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.59%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.59%) Retail
10 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.33%) Games
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
11 3 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.53%) Billing
12 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Marketing
12 2 (0.53%) Public Speaking
13 1 (0.27%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.27%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 160 (42.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 90 (23.87%) Senior
3 75 (19.89%) AWS Engineer
4 62 (16.45%) AWS DevOps
5 58 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 49 (13.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 46 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 43 (11.41%) Developer
9 42 (11.14%) Architect
10 33 (8.75%) Senior DevOps
11 32 (8.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 23 (6.10%) Python Engineer
12 23 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (5.57%) Cloud Architect
14 20 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (4.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 18 (4.77%) Software Engineer
16 16 (4.24%) Kubernetes Engineer
17 14 (3.71%) DevOps Manager
17 14 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.88%) SAML
2 33 (8.75%) HTML
3 32 (8.49%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (8.22%) Django
4 31 (8.22%) REST
5 29 (7.69%) Node.js
5 29 (7.69%) OpenID
6 20 (5.31%) AWS SAM
6 20 (5.31%) React
6 20 (5.31%) Spring
7 18 (4.77%) GraphQL
8 17 (4.51%) YAML
9 14 (3.71%) Lambda Expressions
10 13 (3.45%) J2EE
10 13 (3.45%) Kafka
11 12 (3.18%) AngularJS
11 12 (3.18%) AWS CDK
12 11 (2.92%) .NET
12 11 (2.92%) RESTful
13 10 (2.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 46 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.69%) Cyberattack
4 27 (7.16%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.24%) Private Cloud
6 15 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (3.18%) Tandem
8 9 (2.39%) Blog
9 6 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.33%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.06%) PKI
12 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.53%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.53%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.53%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.53%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.53%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 129 (34.22%) Linux
2 38 (10.08%) Windows
3 37 (9.81%) Unix
4 26 (6.90%) Ubuntu
5 19 (5.04%) Debian
6 16 (4.24%) Windows Server
7 8 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.59%) CentOS
9 5 (1.33%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.53%) Solaris
10 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (69.23%) DevOps
2 260 (68.97%) CI/CD
3 243 (64.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 190 (50.40%) Agile
5 101 (26.79%) Containerisation
6 85 (22.55%) Software Engineering
7 76 (20.16%) Configuration Management
8 74 (19.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 66 (17.51%) Microservices
10 60 (15.92%) DevSecOps
11 59 (15.65%) Continuous Integration
12 57 (15.12%) Open Source
13 53 (14.06%) Scrum
14 49 (13.00%) SDLC
15 41 (10.88%) Identity Management
16 40 (10.61%) Cloud Security
17 39 (10.34%) Observability
18 38 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
19 37 (9.81%) Kanban
20 35 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 208 (55.17%) Python
2 84 (22.28%) Java
3 73 (19.36%) Bash
4 50 (13.26%) Go
5 44 (11.67%) PowerShell
6 30 (7.96%) Shell Script
7 28 (7.43%) SQL
8 21 (5.57%) Ruby
9 20 (5.31%) JavaScript
10 17 (4.51%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.92%) C#
12 8 (2.12%) Groovy
13 4 (1.06%) PHP
14 3 (0.80%) C
15 1 (0.27%) Bicep
15 1 (0.27%) Bourne shell
15 1 (0.27%) C++
15 1 (0.27%) Korn
15 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 89 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 74 (19.63%) AWS Certification
3 47 (12.47%) SC Cleared
4 41 (10.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (8.75%) DV Cleared
6 25 (6.63%) Degree
7 22 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (5.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.53%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.27%) OCP
13 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.86%) QA
2 6 (1.59%) GDPR
3 5 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.33%) NIST
4 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.27%) NCSC
5 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 187 (49.60%) Docker
2 14 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.27%) Shibboleth
6 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 327 (86.74%) Terraform
2 216 (57.29%) Kubernetes
3 101 (26.79%) Ansible
4 51 (13.53%) Grafana
5 46 (12.20%) Prometheus
6 33 (8.75%) Puppet
7 30 (7.96%) Progress Chef
8 19 (5.04%) Argo
8 19 (5.04%) Rancher
9 8 (2.12%) Packer
10 7 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.33%) Istio
11 5 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (1.33%) Salt
12 4 (1.06%) Fortio
12 4 (1.06%) Kiali
13 3 (0.80%) Cacti
13 3 (0.80%) Nagios
13 3 (0.80%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 43 (11.41%) Google
2 26 (6.90%) Splunk
3 15 (3.98%) Atlassian
4 13 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.39%) VMware
6 6 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.33%) New Relic
7 5 (1.33%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.33%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.06%) Veracode
9 3 (0.80%) Citrix
10 2 (0.53%) IBM
10 2 (0.53%) Oracle
11 1 (0.27%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.27%) Confluent
11 1 (0.27%) Darktrace
11 1 (0.27%) Databricks
11 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.27%) SAP